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because sometimes we desire terrible things

by Samirity

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1.
I like to read William Faulkner in French And think about friends and blunders and stuff I like to sit and do nothing on a bench And hang a bit to the closest branch Watch the Thai Chi training at length The old ladies and the students Sun over my city I feel bullied by its beams Sun over my city I feel a heal in this gleam A man decides to take his chance But she turns a blind eye to this latest offense I know where my place is so I just glance I enjoy the peace and the breeze of romance I take a quick look over the fence To check out the wolves in their pens I open my book but watch the monkeys dance Rather than read about history of France … I head to the planetarium But hunger and need break my momentum I buy candy and a piece of gum That trigger greed in a local bum To let me know he whistles and hums He’ll take what I give him he won’t turn it down But he'll keep it stored in his strange museum Although it’s not as good as a bottle of rum … I ask him my way to go back home He says: “You know what? All roads lead to Rome” With this precious advice and all certainties gone I follow the tracks, and I follow the foam ... Sand over my city
2.
I can't believe how far you would go with what insane and silly bravado throwing away everything there's been between us for the sake of a little fuss just to prove me wrong just to prove that I'm wrong I'm not sure what you would exactly do, jump off the Eiffel Tower or break up a curfew let the kids dance a crazy foxtrot perched on the guardrail of a boat just to prove me wrong just to prove that I”m wrong just to prove me wrong Would you run some mad chemical experiment Leaving a twenty yard diameter hole in the pavement? Would you heave a Sisyphean rock and roll it over and over along the block? Just to prove me wrong Just to prove that I”m wrong Would you call on the highest authorities on matters of love art science and philosophy and ask the wise, the clever and the mighty their surmise about what can possibly wrong with me? Just to prove me wrong Just to prove that I”m wrong Just to prove me wrong And just when I thought I've greatly improved my songwriting craft You tell me everything I do is crap That I chose a ridiculous name That I'm definitely not cut out for this kind of game With no attempt to hide the extent of your deprecation You engage me in an endless conversation Using debate as a bait for a pointless dispute That leaves all of our guests completely mute In order to prove all the folks in the room what kind of boring bloke I am You make a point not to laugh at the jokes I throw around, they're lost on your deadpan But you keep on talking to me with a foul mouth Even if everybody has left the house And when you're done making fun of my favorite bands You don't mind letting things really get out of hands And If I boast : “don't bother, I'm indestructible, I've got an iron coat” I'll wake up to find you thrusting a knife on my throat Just to prove me wrong Just to prove that I”m wrong Just to prove me wrong
3.
What makes Sophie Sophie is not her face nor her body It's not her fearless mind trapped in the smallest body It's not her eyes, cruel eyes, mischievous eyes It's not her eyes, cruel eyes it's not the lies that she tells sometimes What makes Sophie Sophie ? What makes Sophie Sophie is no ID, no DNA it's not some bright ideas of bright german philosophy It's not the bugs she'd never crush, God's little bugs It's not the names she calls us all, or the scandals she likes to cause sometimes What makes Sophie Sophie ? You say you're stuck in the same routine You say you need Revolution, but Revolution rarely begins at home So lift up your beak little penguin and smile at me 'cos we're a happy menagerie aren't we ?
4.
I saw you there in the middle of the garden It doesn't happen that often but it happened then I saw you there with a body to share It doesn't happen that often but it happened then Just like a ghost with a body to share A beautiful ghost with a body to share with a body to share I saw you there with a body to share It doesn't happen that often but it happened then with a body to share And that I turned down It doesn't happen that often but it happened then Just like a ghost with a body to share A beautiful ghost with a body to share with a body to share
5.
I hear rumors from the street the stampede of the feet running Women leaving their kids behind Men being slain trying to hide crying for mercy but they cry in vain People praying by a candle burning their dead on a bundle weeping Others setting their heart at peace getting ready for the Apocalypse dying like the ancients used to die in Greece The end of the world is near People are just too busy to hear its agony But me I have time for this listening to the burning cities' hiss Whatever the final outrage the coming of a new ice age Mankind swept out by some kind of rage It will be a beautiful picture like in a motion picture all that was born from a phrase now gone to the sound of a turning page Two Thousand Twelve or Sixteen the Eiffel Tower fell and so is the Sixtine Chapel nothing is left but me watching the end of the world on a screen a beautiful and terrible scene 'Cause the end of the world is here People are just too busy to hear its agony But me I have time for this listening to the burning cities' hiss And whatever may come in a monstrous creature with a fin, and a sinister grin scampering flesh-eating bugs crawling out from under the rugs... zombies acting like thugs a shapeshifting thing from Antarctic little fellows hidden in the attic All kinds of freaks and lunatics a giant slug cutting its groove a beastly bull stomping its hooves I'm just not willing to move my feet What the new world will be like ? will it be empty and dark will it be an empty Ark drifting over the marsh ? will it be one of anarchy or one of complete comedy or one of pure geometry dots, circles and triangles ? will it be a fashion nightmare ran by people with dyed hair wearing padded-shoulders jackets that'd have taken over the planet ? Will it be a new Eden with men and women created from former presidents semen a simian planet of the apes ? The end of the world is here People were too busy to hear its agony Me I have time for this listening to the burning cities' hiss
6.
Framed in the window high and clear is it you that I saw  just like a hunted deer ? I pictured you there I wanted you there, because sometimes we desire terrible things You walked through the cloister bent down an quilled over I wanted you to kneel more to kneel to the floor I pictured you there I wanted you there, because sometimes we desire terrible things
7.
all over it 03:34
So many books I've read too fast So much time I've spent in bed or in class But now Oh now I'm all over it So many lazy afternoons in the library gathering the best I could from public properties But now Oh now I'm all over it So many trains I took in the wrong directions just to follow a look or an invitation But now Oh now I'm all over it But now Oh now I'm all over it So many friends I met on the platform to share a last cigarettes before going back home But now Oh now I'm all over it So many rugged miles I walked for the sake of it losing time in the shopping malls or in the city streets But now Oh now I'm all over it So many books I've read too fast So much time I've spent in bed or in class But now Oh now I'm all over it Now Oh now I'm all over it
8.
the answer 04:46
When I came to you, late at night with twenty-five candy boxes and a rose in the candy, you didn't bite and in the rose you didn't put your nose, but I knew right off the bat that you cared a little because the answer you gave me was polite but an answer there was Seemingly empty, but I'm sure there's something to see the beast within you tamed easy but I'm sure there's something to see When I climbed up your wall putting my steps in Romeo's I never heard you shout “don't fall” you remained indifferent and perfectly composed but I knew right off the bat that you cared a little because the answer you gave me was polite but an answer there was Seemingly empty, but I'm sure there's something to see the beast within you tamed easy but I'm sure there's something to see And you said : “Not that I care to explain But words are a lost cause on me” You paused and said again : “It would put me in great pain to see you try this on aimlessly” a coma and a sigh, and then you add, quote and unquote: “my love always comes a huge dose, and if I gave you a shot, it might even kill you, I suppose” but I knew right off the bat that you cared a little because the answer you gave me was polite but an answer there was Seemingly empty, but I'm sure there's something to see the beast within you tamed easy but I'm sure there's something to see
9.
the boy 03:15
Sure there’s reasons to worry But this is none of my business And if the boy lives in another house with another me Let it be, let it be blessed Does he call him Daddy Just like he used to call me by mistake? I shouldn’t think of it with envy After all, what difference does it make? But could you please let him know eventually That I loved him more than myself? I hope he’ll grow happy and free ‘cause you know he was my blood and flesh Even though we don’t belong to the same tree And I gave up on him at half race I guess he’ll have reasons to be angry fine by me, as long as he remembers my face There’re millions of other stories I could have told him, but I saved the saddest For the time he wouldn’t find them too scary And understand they’re the best Now I have time to be lazy I don’t have to wait by the swings with an air of fake interest But I miss the sweet pangs in my belly The first time he gave me his kind embrace I don’t have to make him pee To make and remake his shoelace But I also was the first one to see him waking up in a funny disgrace Every time I had this light load to carry When I was begging for a chance to rest Every time he was crying for his mummy His fists banging hard on my chest Every time I thought I’d be better off happy-go-lucky I also wished he hadn’t belonged to someone else it’s not that I miss the responsibility I just miss the boy
10.
the girl 02:51
I liked the girl I liked her face I liked the way she was dressed But I knew all of her ways and I didn't want to go against her ways I want a day a single day that I can remember a day to remember Cause I knew all of the days and I didn't want to live another day to live another day...
11.
Lord I don’t know what I am doing here Lord I don’t know what I am doing here Lord I don’t know what I am doing down here Lord I don’t know what I am doing here The priest told me “The answer’s in the sky You’ll be happy When you die You’ll find glee When your hear the angels fly That’s all you need To get by” Lord I don’t know what I am doing here Lord I do know it’s not to wait in fear Lord I don’t know what I am doing down here Lord I don’t know what I am doing here The oracle told me “we’re gonna make a pie To foresee Where your future lies” But the leaves of tea That she scrutinized They said only Tales of petty lies and cries Lord I don’t know what I am doing here Lord I don't know what I am doing here Lord I don’t know what I am doing down here Lord I don’t know what I am doing here My girl told me “You should rest your head a while on my knees on my puny thighs There’s so many Things to trouble a troubled mind But you’ll be free When your hear this lullaby” Lord I don’t know what I am doing here Lord I don’t know what I am doing here Lord I don’t know what I am doing down here Lord I don’t know what I am doing here
12.
You brought back plants and ants in the hem of your pants from your trip to the country to the unfriendly seedy beating heart of the city where you don't want to be Today we'll have lunch on the scaffolding bring the Punch I'l bring the bred and the beans all we need is a good sense of balance and a good appetite we gotta hold on tight you brought back cold and frost in the folds of your coat from your trip to the country to the unfriendly city, the beating heart of the city where you don't want to be There's a book open page 28 I know you'll never skip through it again back to the cave, back to the ice age Sure you got nothing against things of the mind it's just that you don't want give it too much time back to the cave, back to the ice age you're done with the thinking you're done with everything except for the scaffolding we gotta hold on tight
13.
Jessamine 04:04
She stands in there defiantly with a smile like a razor blade Something in the air strikes up my mind and goes straight to my head A sunny day Gives me another reason to stay But she wishes the thought away making it rain to keep all hearts at bay Oh Jessamine raised an eyebrow When I told her I loved her so Oh Jessamine Oh Jessamine I love you though I wasn’t there I wasn’t there by accident I got to give her a present That wouldn’t stir up no excitment Down in her street I was waiting on the pavement waiting for her to hear my screed But she just continued to read Oh Jessamine raised an eyebrow When I told her I loved her so Oh Jessamine Oh Jessamine I love you though An exquisite corpse gives me another reason to die Under the torch, for the first time I saw her cry Down in the grove I’ll bring a shovel and my love Looking above I know you’re somewhere up in the sky Oh Jessamine raised an eyebrow When I told her I loved her so Oh Jessamine Oh Jessamine I love you though
14.
read my lips 06:27
You spend an awful lot of time reading lips will you ever read mine? You've put a thousand lines on peoples's lips what would you put on mine? Choose the words carefully your hair yanked in a ponytail make me say something funny make me say... well you can read lips, can you? So read mine Read my lips I saw you standing there in the door frame I didn't tell the truth I hoped somehow you could read my mind It was like waiting soaked wet under the rain by a phone booth for a call that will never come Choose the words carefully good-hearted words sometimes like fire, sometimes like ice make me say something funny make me say... well I can't read lips, can't I ? So read mine Read my lips I should have told you in the first place what it was all about but I hoped somehow you would read my mind or you pushed you in at a slow pace and shut the door behind and put my lips on yours Choose the words carefully choose the words, make them sound trustworthy Should have said something funny should have said... Well, you can read lips, can you? So read mine Read my lips

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