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SaturdayNight Satellite

by Elmer and the Ceramic Trees

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The Fur Trade
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The Fur Trade There is something real vulnerable and very powerful in the resignation. Favorite track: Take Me Drain Me.
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Candace Griffin Elmer songs are always written with such clarity and honesty, and always have a familiarity to them. I wish I could write like this! Favorite track: Virgo.
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1.
Untold Hours 05:15
Valentine This world is bleeding on my magic carpet ride With vague regret I clasp the outstretched hand of time These desperate moments that I can't describe Valentine My lips are twisting in the wind tonight My empty body stands before your light These desperate moments that I can't describe And from your mountain top I leap and pray for flight When we've spent hours and hours untold To free our heads of memories old In the lazy hours our lives unfold With a satellite kiss from my lips to yours Valentine Caught in the violent sea I close my eyes I find my body taken shore-bound by your tide These senseless motions that I can't defy As I bleed my spirit for a home in this design When we've spent hours and hours untold To free our heads of memories old In the lazy hours our lives unfold With a satellite kiss from my lips to yours
2.
If you listen in the distance This boy is calling out your name And though he misses you so clearly He'd hardly recognize your face And as the miles grow between you You'll swear they're only inches deep But if the cause of death is certain Then there's no reason to lose sleep I hope you feel a mile high Because Saturday nights just make me wanna cry And you're a broken college love scene Caught in an unfamiliar bed And they may promise that they love you But you know they're sleeping with your friends If you're a cynic you're a bastard But the young idealist is a fool And so you coat your skin in plastic And hope somebodies notice you What's a man supposed to do When main street's coming down on you I hope you feel a mile high Because Saturday nights just make me wanna cry If you listen in the distance The fair is back in town again The colored lights may make a heart glow But cotton candy won't pay rent And all the summers burn together 'Til winter's all that's left behind And as the moon blooms like a daisy Your fears parade across the skies The circus clowns in suits and ties With painted grins and hollow eyes I hope you feel a mile high Because Saturday nights just make me wanna cry
3.
Virgo 06:01
In the center of the battlefield She sang me off to sleep My wounds were red like roses Her arms a canopy She set my fears upon the clouds And left them to the wind And turned my eyes up to the sun Into her ear I sang Oh my love, my love The ghosts are calling me to sleep Oh my love, my love I've started wars to find my peace So I cried to her for meaning And I cried for all I knew She said, "there's no room for meaning "There's only room for truth" And the sun will rise tomorrow And just as quickly it will fall In the nighttime you'll reach out for me To find that I am gone Oh my love, my love The ghosts are calling me to sleep Oh my love, my love I've started wars to find my peace I'm stranded in the chaos Of the morning that we made Tears cling to my fingers The dawn is cloaked in gray At the will of gravity I let my body fall 'Cause there's nothing here to keep me And I'd sooner die than crawl Oh my love, my love The ghosts are calling me to sleep Oh my love, my love I've started wars to find my peace
4.
Gentle Hands 05:06
Sleeping with my socks and blue jeans on Belly up and wasted The flavor of regret clings to my teeth And the morning light won't chase it On a death march to the drumbeat of my own heart This scene so wonderfully scripted That I almost believed it when I said That I was over the moon when you left We can go up and we go down Turn this shit around and around and around We can go up and we can go down Turn this around and around and around The Sunday morning sun rays scorch my skin As they trickle through the curtains The memories explode inside my chest My body is an ocean I write you a Hallmark symphony And leave it on your nightstand We're dancing around the fall again And then we kiss and we pray we connect We can go up and we go down Turn this shit around and around and around We can go up and we can go down Turn this around and around and around And I won't forget the smile on your face as we drowned As your gentle hands were pulling me down from my cloud No I won't forget the smile on your face as we drowned As your gentle hands were pulling me down from my cloud
5.
Fall On the wings of a whisper asleep As the venom of a vision seeps into my brain My fears set the stage Unchained Fall From the grace of the clouds in her eyes With a slip above the surface Our shapes dissolve into light Swallowed whole by the night Dissolve into light Swallowed whole by the night Hot sleepy nights two worlds stretched apart On the backs of the angels we leap from the stars The voices of the shadows surround us As they echo our fears in the dark Please Because I wanna be clean again And I want what was So let me belong Let me belong again Please I'm in over my head with the scene And this story line is making no sense to me So let me be clean Let me be clean Hot sleepy nights two worlds stretched apart On the backs of the angels we leap from the stars The voices of the shadows surround us As they echo our fears in the dark I wake up paralyzed I feel my heart start to race Let me go I'm so at home inside this paradise these shadows create But I'm so cold
6.
Winterlong 06:05
December wind Fractures the silver sky The snowflakes dot your eyes And through A picture frame With frosted finger tips I trace across your lips And the winter takes so long A dream, a song Collapses with the dawn Cold whispers through the halls Her ghost above my bed She hovers over me And dances through my head And the winter takes so long
7.
I had a thorn in my heart I had an ace on my tongue I never meant for the crash I only meant to be strong I shed my skin and roll over and turn out the light Guess everybody's gonna sleep in their own bed tonight So if you wanna take, take me Take me for what I'm worth And if you wanna save me, save me Pretend this doesn't hurt And if you wanna drain me, drain me Drain me for all I'm worth And if you wanna erase me, erase me Send me to the dirt I cried a staircase Leaned over and looked out below Where you restlessly slept on the arc of the globe And as you sobbed through your sleep I knew that I should have known That every word you had wept Was as pure as the snow So if you wanna take, take me Take me for what I'm worth And if you wanna save me, save me Pretend this doesn't hurt And if you wanna drain me, drain me Drain me for all I'm worth And if you wanna erase me, erase me Send me to the dirt We fall asleep with our hearts in our throats And a planet between what we feel and we hope I wrap you up in the peddles of a rose To keep you clean from the ashes that rain through my soul And when the water's come up to my waist And the cosmos have laughed off the plans that I've made I only ask that you stay So if you wanna take, take me Take me for what I'm worth And if you wanna save me, save me Pretend this doesn't hurt And if you wanna drain me, drain me Drain me for all I'm worth And if you wanna erase me, erase me Send me to the dirt
8.
My friend I need entertaining This place is boring There's not much to see But all the faces replacing The ones I miss that have forgotten me And when I'm backed in a corner Without a voice that I can call me own You know I start to get lonely Still I don't expect that you come running home 'Cause that's the way we fall We spent our spring in October December comes you can't recall my name I've tried to brush off my shoulder All of the wreckage from that time and place And as our roads come unraveled Frayed by these dreams that we could not sustain I long to wilt in your background There's no use trying now anyway 'Cause that's the way we fall I feel the rush of the ocean I feel your smile coming into view But for all the commotion Things aren't the same as what we thought we knew But I still float on your whisper I ride the wave of every hazy word The feeling starts to grow distant But I still need it even though it hurts 'Cause that's the way we fall
9.
I knew I'd find you here in the evening The glow of the halo over town's so deceiving My head is a highway of ghosts And they've come to the surface to coast Thoughts flow from ear-to-ear in the darkness But regardless I'll keep my tongue harnessed 'Cause my memory is a cage And the creature inside it longs for escape In the shadows of our youth our lips depart When you take me then it's understood That in the autumn moon we'll play our parts Then you lift me and you cut me loose Trembling hand draped around your shoulder Now we're older but not an inch bolder And my memory is a cage Then we fall and we laugh like the angels We collapse in the purest of angles I wanna live in the moment for once I wanna make with the cracks in the rust In the shadows of our youth our lips depart When you take me then it's understood That in the autumn moon we'll play our parts Then you lift me and you cut me loose Surrendered to the stars we close our eyes And seal them with a kiss goodbye It's a lifetime It's a lifetime I've waited a lifetime In the shadows of our youth our lips depart When you take me then it's understood That in the autumn moon we'll play our parts Then you lift me and you cut me loose In the shadows of our youth our lips depart When you take me then it's understood That in the autumn moon we'll play our parts That in the autumn moon we'll play our parts
10.
The Letter 06:54
Out of a dream And into the black Fumbling for the words To blunt the attack I'm just a note At the foot of your bed The summer left me burned The fall left me dead I've crawled through the years More secure in my fears So I'll send you the letter From my crystal cocoon Tied to the string of a heart-shaped balloon And if my words should escape me Let them float to the moon And I send all of my love My love to you The sun had arisen behind a mountain of smoke Your eyes were in flames And your hands were cold And like a stream Down every freeway you flow Searching for the stars In the headlights glow And you crawl through the years More secure in your fears So I'll send you the letter From my crystal cocoon Tied to the string of a heart-shaped balloon And if my words should escape me Let them float to the moon And I send all of my love My love to you I lost you back Before we had known That this road we walk Could never lead home And if the wind should carry the songs of our youth The planks in our eyes will remind us the truth And so I retreat into the eye of the storm Still trying to feel like the day I was born But my eyes are dry I swear to you This is not goodbye And there's nothing to prove And we'll crawl through the years More secure in our fears So I'll send you the letter From my crystal cocoon Tied to the string of a heart-shaped balloon And if my words should escape me Let them float to the moon And I send all of my love My love to you

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released December 16, 2014

All songs written, performed, and produced by Robbie Haas
Cover art by Karinna Rangel
Copyright 2014
This album is dedicated to the memory of Shadow.

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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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