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Exploding Greens

by Kendall Swan

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1.
Dropped Off A Cloud (free) 03:17
I hit the ground, I hit real hard Dropped off a cloud, I fell so far Now I'm laying on the ground With all of my insides scattered around me And I've think we've been fucked with By some kind of mad scientist In his grand experiment Where change is the only constant But now there is one less specimen As you ascend into heaven That's why I'm lying where I am; Your movement I don't understand. I watched the gun it flipped around As the mind was turned upside down Now every time you're safe and sound Ricochet, then smack the ground A lighthouse, maybe a love seat Now bathroom wall philosophy Try to discuss it openly Oh no, but that just couldn't work. Burn candles, hold hands to make sense But I was not convinced The album was that effective Because it had one more song to give So watch me hop this jagged fence Into my state of virulence Because you left me here to live And that I can't forgive.
2.
City Song (free) 03:20
I guess I never got why all of these people seem to run around But I'm drinking coffee on the subway They'll get right back onto this train and it will drive into the ground These hollow rides just overlap with gray. I think the reason I'm so down is because I keep trying to pretend That I'm some guy with an armadillo hide But by locking you all out I think I trapped myself inside So I'm ready for this day to end. I hope these lovers will not see me from a block behind I'd hate to stumble into their peace of mind Because it's getting hard enough to find a reason to stand So how could I hold someone else? But I know one hundred others wrote this song down too Put your hand in mine and I'll stand with you.
3.
Five Lines (free) 04:22
Five lines down on a book I'm about to take a closer look It's like playing cards, well what have I got? I'll use my face to cut up the lot I'll be thin as straw and hay But at least I'll have a name At least I'll have a name Three lines down on a book I don't feel bad about what I took In fact, I don't feel anything at all Give it an hour and it's all going to fall I'll be fine, just one more time I'm chasing what I had One line down Next thing I know, bright lights, white gowns Everything went from white to grey I've been smashing clocks all day.
4.
Dancing in the Snow (free) 03:17
It's two o'clock in the morning This house is warm but the warmth gets boring I sit across the floor from you You're shaking, you said you had the flu This weather has made us go insane So now I put the winter into my brain Now that the shaking's cured Let's take a walk while the snow's still pure This still, white world is bliss to me and the silence says a million things. Then your loaded head Led me down to the pond To do a figure 8 But it's so thin, that ice You said "well so is time." I'll never go near that pond again I say that now like I said it then Because every time my eyes start to glow It's just you dancing in the snow.
5.
This house is quiet in the dead of night The corridor is lit with candle light Walk down and watch these portraits stare. Scarlet sounds slither in my ear And resonate, tragically sincere Hollow and haunting. A child is sitting at the piano bench Ghosts swirl around him with his hands outstretched But his eyes are fixed on the keys And his songs don't ever cease I despise his honesty I even thought of naming him His vortex of ghosts just pulls me in It pulls me in I'm going to burn this house down, I don't care I want to feel these fucking glares The shrieks will sound in euphony And create my symphony.
6.
Hurricane (free) 02:24
7.
Tree On a Hill (free) 04:22
Slowly I approach the tree, the grapes hang low, imploding greens The Serpent will tantalize: "Squeeze the grapes, sip the wine." The mouth will say "No, no," while the ears greet: "Hello" Say on this hill it begins, but the blackness here exudes from within The echo's the only sound, bounce between blue sky, green ground Inform me "This is a dream. You'll wake up sound, so do as you please." Then he slithered down that hole I looked over to watch him go Yea, I licked the fruit, then walked away Pretend it's all okay, but it's not So I'll clench up my fists to hide the fact that I can't wash these answers off.
8.
Filthy Hands (free) 08:15
It's becoming more often now, the thought crawls into my brain Wakes me in the middle of the night and I go walking in the rain The doctor said to stay inside; the rain's going to make you sick But I'm out here every night in my clothes How much worse could it get? Make sure the family's in bed, put on my shoes and slip out the door To look for a place to rest because my legs are getting sore Head through the creaking forest, it's untouched because it's black, it's not green Push through the bushes to a shore that no one's ever seen With purple water and a purple sky The ocean has been crystalized Yea, it looks as thin as ice But I think I'll have to give it a try So I walk for miles and miles, look over my shoulder, make sure I can't see land Out on this crystal, purple water, in the middle there's a man His pupils are too big like mine and they can taste any other's demise But when our eyes connect they start to shrink in size He carries a mirror and uses it to smash clocks that tick inside of chests He looks so beautiful to me, and out of my mind flow the rest Then out of his mouth comes music to me It starts to rock me slowly to sleep "The crystal is just as thin as can be Take my hand, we'll smash and we'll swim under the sea." "No, keep your filthy hands away from me The tears you cry, they're gonna flood this sea I'm going to tag you to these totem poles You're not a part of me A thousand tongues cut out to form my own A thousand hearts cut out when names are carved in stone And they should go in front, but this is what I want Oh, it's just what I want But it's not what you want And you are what I want So it's not what I want."
9.
Snowglobe (free) 04:09
Lost in this storm but we are found Like snowflakes falling towards the ground So I'll dissolve to ether as you walk Fading into white Snow wiped the gloss off of our face So I will stay here in this place But don't you linger long No, let your hand leave mine Don't freeze our hands and your mind It's poison. As you choose who will leave a mark They'll light the candle in the dark So we'll stay here forever Suspended in time.
10.
Stellar Sky (free) 04:58
It's like a train of thought on a track that never ends I try to fuck with it's course, but I always end up here again You split your soul up and gave it to your friends But you still take it out on the purple ocean Some girl, a lover to love, or maybe just love the love I watched you kiss her mouth and lick poison off her tongue Who knew that winter could take the shape of a girl so young? Pure snow that melts away and you wish that more would come I spent every night last winter up in my room Staring at nothing but the snow and the moon But then the world exploded and my eyes are brand new I see the hole in her arm, she'll hide the sun from you How did I get down here at the bottom of the Nile? With all these baby boys, they meld with a smile They seem to see the purity preserved inside Like Pharaoh and Jochebed were the ones that really died Snap up, throw off the sheets, I'm just sweating in my bed I've got to find a way to get this shit out of my head Put on my shoes, hop on a train that's headed west I see the sun coming up so maybe I can rest But this train goes in circles, it always ends up back where it was And I never recall the ride, just people getting off and on This train's been thriving so I haven't slept in days And when I think of getting off my body starts to shake It just starts shaking like that night when the house burnt down I sat crying in the ashes of my world burnt on the ground Then Father turned his head towards the Stellar Sky Saw the seasons all at once and just kissed this form goodbye.
11.
Cradle Song (free) 05:11
She put the gown on in the office Her tired eyes could barely open The mob stood outside of the clinic Like fifties tele, black and white I tried to keep up with the Joneses I read my bible every night But then saw Jesus on the cross The race was won, but there's no prize Now they shout Lex Talionis My words meet their's and create hammers To smash the clock and the reason Then dissolve somewhere in the middle It dissolved in the middle But no one wins inside this battle My sword swings right in a circle And it leaves all of us hurt On the ground with our hands in the dirt She put the clothes inside the trash bags With the last few months And with that newfound faith inside her Like God, some face she'd never seen Now she keeps walking on the ocean To meet that man out in the middle And I'm too drunk to go and stop her This leaves no soft spots in the earth And shouldn't we be holding hands She'd make me smile, I'd help her stand I'd take her outside in the springtime Point out exploding greens of life They explode, the greens of this life But wouldn't you like to be in this? To learn to talk and to be honest It was a tripe, physical promise That made the northern star look endless So now I've trapped you in this song My sad, poetic sing-along I'll do my best to create art As you migrate from the belly to the heart.
12.
Thanks (free) 04:42
I keep on finding myself wandering down these roads My body moves with time but my mind won't follow They rebuilt the house, you know? That one on second street It looks just the same but it still feels incomplete I sat on the back porch and it took a couple hours to see I never cared for this place, it was just the company As they traded three words that I never learned to say But now she's in the ground, I can say them now Thanks. So now I've got the seasons all laid out in front of me And I appreciate the snow that brings forth exploding greens Kid, I know you're scared of the winter and the way it sears your mind Like when you said "What if we don't make it through this time?" "Then we'll sit as flowers and watch the sun rise one million times And then we'll do this all again."

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Recorded in Spring and Summer of 2012
Written and recorded by Kendall Swan
Mixed and Mastered by Wes Swan

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released April 28, 2013

Thom Hyde - Drum Set (1, 4, 8) and Bass Guitar (5)
Duncan Maxwell - Bass Guitar (2, 10)
Olivia Klinikowski - Voice (1, 11)
Elliott Pillsbury - Flute (1, 2, 8)
Kendall Swan - The rest

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