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Elmer and the Ceramic Trees

by Elmer and the Ceramic Trees

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The Fur Trade If God used songwriting to help people get emotions out that they didn't know were buried deep, this is how those songs would sound. And it rocks. Favorite track: Low Light Lit.
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I can't believe all the things that she said With her face flushed red I'm sorry but There were times he never stopped by And it made her cry and she gave up What could she do? That kid She never wanted it But her crucifix wouldn't let it go Jail stints and drama queen fits With the tissue rips and scars to show All that she knows. Nothing ever seems to make her happy Six foot down now babe how bad could that be? She said I'm down And I'm tired of this stupid town Nothing to do but sleep around Get me out of this old town. I can't believe all the things that she said With her face flushed red I'm sorry but There were times he never stopped by And it made her cry and she gave up What could she do? The I.V. needles only get her so far Passed out in the backseat with some poser rock star. She said I'm down And I'm tired of this stupid town Nothing to do but sleep around Get me out of this old town. Gotta get away She don't wanna wait another day She's gotta get outta this place. The I.V. needles only get her so far Passed out in the backseat with some poser rock star. She said I'm down And I'm tired of this stupid town Nothing to do but sleep around Get me out of this old town.
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Hey Marigold 03:49
Marigold, the kids are all in bed And the summer's almost dead You know September's coming soon Take me to the living room I wanna show you something new We'll get it on like back in '82 Lisa Jo walks in at half-past twelve We'll pretend we didn't notice She's a lost cause anyways I'm overweight you drink too much But we'll recreate our summer love By finding something together we can hate Then we try to feel the same As back when we were seventeen But all the thrill is gone and we both know I wrap my arm around your back You duplicate my nervous laugh Well are we going stale or growing old? Then we try to feel the same As back when we were seventeen But all the thrill is gone and we both know Marigold, let's look up at the stars How they used to be burn for us But now they only burn The minutes pass we fall asleep To the sounds of gunshots on TV This life is hell but I guess it could be worse Then you wake up on the couch Complain the TV's way too loud And it's off to bed without another word I crawl beneath the sheets with you Your cheek wet with a residue of tears I dry your face off with my shirt.
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Drive Away 04:12
Turn around she said I've been waiting for years To get this far And the twilight breeze Makes me weak in the knees 'Cause it's changing who we are Softly blowing memories away There's her barefoot in the sand With a fistful of cobwebs in her hand Away... In the space between Her face and the moon I found myself At the water's edge She looked at me and she said Now there's no way out But look who's holding back the tears today Look who's falling way too fast Waiting for her crystal heart to crack Away... You can drive away. So let me in your door It's getting colder here outside And I've got no place to stay And I was hoping that you'd find a way To ease my mind. Then she took my hand At the edge of the earth Where we used to play She said don't look down 'Cause you're falling right now And you're fading away. And now we've no one left to take the blame Now we've nothing left to lose And you're gone now even if you chose To stay. So you can drive away.
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Everything lost in the storm Everything I'd held close And pieces of everything Hang over my head like a ghost And I waited up late With her song in my head by the phone As I tried to remember The words that I'd practiced before And I'm just a boy with a problem I'm just a boy with a problem I'm just a boy with a problem that won't go away And I think that her picture's Still somewhere in the back of my drawer Though I never quite knew her I'd swear she was here once before And I slept with her words in my mouth And it felt good to know That no matter how far I may fall There's no ground left below And I'm just a boy with a problem I'm just a boy with a problem I'm just a boy with a problem that won't go away And I'd wait here for you If there was something left in it for me But a heart that gets broke Is the one thing that you'll guarantee Yeah, I'd wait here for you If you were who I thought you should be But appearances lie And people never quite are what they seem And I'm just a boy with a problem I'm just a boy with a problem I'm just a boy with a problem that won't go away.
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Lifelines 04:39
Well I tried to change her mind but I came up twenty seconds short The rings of smoke she blows around her head I'll inhale, although, I know I'll choke I carved her face into the back of my heart Now it's all I think about 'Cause everytime I feel it beating I get the urge to rip it out She makes me feel I'm at the bottom of the ocean With the weights chained to my feet And I'm looking for a lifeline in every other word she says She makes me feel I'm at the bottom of the ocean With the weights chained to my feet And I'm looking for a lifeline in every other word she says So I looked her in the eyes and I said Never mind I'd rather see just a piece of the puzzle Than a picture I knew couldn't be mine Always tangled in the moment I feel my confidence erased By an aching awkward silence that's like a slap across the face She makes me feel I'm at the bottom of the ocean With the weights chained to my feet And I'm looking for a lifeline in every other word she says She makes me feel I'm at the bottom of the ocean With the weights chained to my feet And I'm looking for a lifeline in every other word she says In the middle of the shakedown Communications break down A simple twist of fate, now Communications break down She makes me feel I'm at the bottom of the ocean With the weights chained to my feet And I'm looking for a lifeline in every other word she says She makes me feel I'm at the bottom of the ocean With the weights chained to my feet And I'm looking for a lifeline in every other word she says Word she says...
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So happy we were face-to-face In a room all by ourselves With empty gestures filled with love And a feeling I couldn't sell We're falling over each other And I'd try to laugh it off But I wouldn't know how to do it We locked the door took off our clothes Prepared to show our scars and scabs Then I wrapped the sheets around myself Until the night had passed A silence harder than pavement And if you felt there was something there Well then why couldn't you just say it? You were never mine to lose As the palace burned our love decayed With its beauty still intact When the smoke had cleared I kissed your face You put your clothes back on and ran And I still breath for your closeness But I'm running out of breath because the situation's hopeless You were never mine to lose.
7.
Shine On You 04:40
Buy a flower Buy a frame For the picture We won't take This tie will choke me Half to death This shirt is soaking In nervous sweat The way the lights They shine on you Shine on everything you do Pulsating backbeat shakes the floor It's got me aching that much more When they shine on you On the outside Looking in The room around me Seems to spin In the corner Face in hands Tears they dry I'm half a man The way the lights They shine on you Shine on everything you do Pulsating backbeat shakes the floor It's got me aching that much more When they shine on you And they shine, shine, shine, shine on you And they shine, shine, shine, shine on you Walk home alone To a bed Empty, cold Dark and dead On the mattress Face in hands Tears they fall I'm half a man The way the lights They shine on you Shine on everything you do Pulsating backbeat shakes the floor It makes me want you that much more The way the lights They shine on you Shine on everything you do Pulsating backbeat shakes the floor I'm hurting so much more When they shine on you.
8.
From her perch upon the barstool She searches for a friendly face As every nightmare plays itself out inside her head And she slouches through the crowd With her hands down in her pockets And she wishes she was home instead An empty corner ain't a bad place to stand When you know there's no room for you In anyone else's plans So she waits for something better But better never comes She tries to think of something clever But clever never comes So she orders a shot 1,2,3,4,5 It was 11 o'clock and she was feeling alive Now she's losing control and she's down on the floor And she's crying like she's never felt this before Let it all out Let it all out they say Then they turn and start walking away And the head that she came in with Is off floating someplace else Oh how she loves this sense of lost control With her apprehension gone There's nothing standing in her way Except the nagging thought that she still isn't whole An empty corner ain't a bad place to be When you're holding onto things that No one else can see So she waits for something better But better never comes She tries to think of something clever But clever never comes So she orders a shot 6,7,8,9 It was ten after one and she was feeling alive Now she's losing control and she's down on the floor And she's crying like she's never felt this before Let it all out Let it all out they say Then they turn and start walking away They're walking away.
9.
Low Light Lit flickers in the distance Waiting for an instant to shine on through the fog And bring me back to home Low light lit Like a star that's dying slowly It was put there only To be just out of reach And to keep me here alone And now I've wasted half my life Shuddered in those rainy nights Watching as the light keeps on dimming Wondering why the vultures keep on winning But I guess I'm not surprised You cry, you cry, you cry You cry, you cry and you cry. Low Light Lit flickers in the distance Waiting for an instant to shine on through the fog And bring me back to home Low Light Lit Leaves me cold and heartless When it exits into the darkness Like everyone I've known And I feel so alone. And now I've wasted all my life Shuddered in those rainy nights Watching as the light keeps on dimming Wondering why the vultures keep on winning But I guess it seems fit Low light lit.
10.
Nightflight 03:33
She zips up her raincoat As she heads out to the airport And she waits to make her way across the sky Inside a yellow taxi I watch her walk out through the exit Without so much as a smile or a wave goodbye And the street light shown down On the bridge burning slowly to the ground The raindrops on the windshield Dance a rythm that's cold and without feel Obscuring the glow of the firey city sky And she boards upon the airplane With a one way ticket away To a place I fear is only real inside her mind And she'll say she's going home But the only way she gets there is alone And she fades into the skyline 'Til she's one with the stars in the night sky And I'm just one of the million faces passing by And I've got nothing to show for the heartache But the words that I know were just mistakes But the rain falls And it hits me like a drug That I know I'm going home And I know that when I get there I'll be alone.

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Elmer and the Ceramic Trees' self-titled debut album is a diverse collection of 10 tracks marked with the influence of artists such as The Cure, REM, The Beatles, Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, and The National. The album features two of Elmer's most popular original compositions, "Drive Away" and "Problem Child".

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released January 2, 2014

All songs written, recorded, performed, mixed, and produced by Robbie Haas.

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Elmer and the Ceramic Trees Janesville, Wisconsin

Conceived in the summer of 2012 by Janesville, Wisconsin singer-songwriter Robbie Haas, Elmer and the Ceramic Trees blend the lush melodies of bands like The Beatles and Big Star with the doom-and-gloom pop of The Cure and Echo and The Bunny Men, the driving rhythms of New Order, and the big choruses of Bowie and Arcade Fire to form a style of indie pop that is at once harrowing and gorgeous. ... more

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