We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Restlessness (EP)

by Elijah Herrell

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $4 USD  or more

     

1.
my love, I passed by those trees and girl, I swore they wept for me ‘cause they remember too my dear, they saw my jeans turn green stained in grass as I held one ring with hopes that you’d say “yes.” The preacher said that ‘fore I’m dead, you’d never be alone so we gathered sticks around us and we prayed it be a home I felt the autumn leaving when a chill blew through the walls the fireplace was goin’ but our flame was mighty small guess I can’t blame the season for changing oh baby, the winter is cruel and every night, I’d curse the fool who couldn’t sleep for restlessness oh Lord, I fought so long in hopes that I could carry on drowning in these woods we argued ‘bout my tormoil and before my newborn’s eyes I saw him growing older as he saw me wean my lies I saw that far horizon and thought to slink off with the moon she stopped me with her begging and the girl still in her womb guess I can’t blame the season for changing. woman, i’ve found that nothing lasts apart from every filthy path I took to run away from you my dears, please don’t chase the sun I’ve found that life’s a loaded gun that never seems to lose it’s bite we’ve given up on pardon being something I deserve without a doubt, I’m bleeding out and every drop’s perverse but if you let me in the back door, I won’t stain your floors for long just let me say “I love you but know hell’s where I belong” and that I can’t blame the season god, I can’t blame the season girl, I can’t blame the season for changing
2.
Stay With Me 04:01
my favorite realization is how long you've known me and, every year, my greatest fear was going astray.
 you know those nights that felt just like the world was sacred; 
it felt alone my skin and bone was in between us. so stay with me; just stay with me. through everything, please, stay with me. like smoke of flame and times of rain, my heart is passing and all the while, your kindest smile will not fade away. and whether i continue trying to embrace you, i know your choice, your steady voice will always answer. looking back on all those times, my single crime was running away
3.
I Can Sleep 02:40
i can sleep till the day i die i know i'm yours and I’m safe inside i feel awake but i know sometimes i’d rather be resting in you i’d rather be resting in you i am happier than my friends on the days that they go and spend all their money on food and rent I know that my heart’s set on you I know that my heart’s set on you i tell myself that you always near i tell myself that you always hear every word that i mumble i know that you hear every word i know that you hear every word i can sleep til the day i die you are my water when flames are high the darkest caves sing your lullaby god, all my rest is in you god, all my rest is in you god, all my rest is in you god, all my rest is in you
4.
my palms coated in dust you painted me a danger there’s reasons for mistrust when a son becomes a stranger condemned before my family at least the ones who understood you said that only god could save me but sometimes you doubt he would but i can sleep and the simplest thing tells me that i’m still worth breathing you are a shield about me a hand to lift my eyes i cry out to the skies and know that you are worth confiding in the deepest of my hearts you’ve sustained me from the start and i heard a voice saying “I will answer” from zion while every voice inside said that there’s no way that all the earth will see your glorious salvation through the lion so I press on to see the things you spoke to me, a king for every nation you are a shield about me a hand to lift my eyes i cry out to the skies and know that you are worth confiding in the deepest of my hearts you’ve sustained me from the start
5.
Hide 04:03
laying here, on my side all the breath kicked from my lungs I should know, every blow feels at home inside my chest in my mind, I see times when I thought I was pretty good but it’s fine, it’s just a sign that I’ve got so much more to go i thought the night could veil the mark of cain yet, all this time, you’ve never looked away help me to hide in you help me confide in you teach me to stay here, inside your heart weakness, become my song singing my whole life long you always lead me back to your arms you caught me playing with fire that seemed to promise me something more than my bleak and lonely prophecies every hope in my self has died ‘cause I can see it’s only by your mercy, it’s only by your mercy

credits

released February 12, 2016

- thanks to my dad for enabling me to use some of his hard-earned recording gear to finish this project. i'm so incredibly thankful.

- thanks to marshall kirkman and my songwriting classmates who helped me craft these songs into something much better than they originally were.

license

tags

about

Elijah Herrell Kansas City, Missouri

contact / help

Contact Elijah Herrell

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Elijah Herrell, you may also like: