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Flowers and Cats

by Ben McCormick

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1.
light intro 02:06
you are on my mind but only for half the time that you should be because we've gotta sleep for we are only human beings the breathe and fuck and love and dream of being loved you are in the light but only such that I can only see you one part at a time and I'm afraid that I can't see all or even half of you before this light goes out
2.
shining eyes 03:03
your eyes are opening and closing like the light that I can just barely see within and I wish that I could make them smile and shine like they did when you were just a little kid even though it was just a few short months ago that you helped lay to rest that part that we cast out in the snow my midwife and I'll cry for you like the ravens do for the ones that they've known for their whole lives and I hope that I'll know you for my whole life your body is across this country though I know I'll be seeing you soon again you'll be wearing that green dress and those beautiful blue eyes and that weight that you'll still carry deep within your chest even though it was just a few short months ago that you helped me erase that old part that I'd hated for so long my midwife and lover amongst the reeds and I'll sing to you like some parents do and I'll help you find and hold and love your new self like you did mine
3.
many flowers 03:00
smiling is only for the weak hearted people who don't know that there's anything in this world that's sacred that anything means anything beyond the blood and bones wedding rings hidden happy things below the stairs as we stared for hours and everything became everything again so you don't smile at the people who come by your house each hour to check that you're okay so you don't smile so you won't lose this feeling too deep the wound to be healed just by moonlight and everything went dead and dry no signs of life where you reside in your tinder box like a firefly some faraway children have caught they forgot about it and it died so you don't smile at the people who drop by like once a week with kids and act so happy so you don't smile so you won't lose this feeling but you won't tell them that in the morning over tea when you were born everything was a dream before it went numb it was everything you thought it should be til that sunday morning you missed the warning signs now your house is overrun with weeds
4.
color song 02:20
come the morning time before the light has come a car rolls by our window I'm no longer numb i feel everything I think I wanna cry I think I wanna die right here but I don't wanna die at all and you give the color to all things I think my cheeks were red and I think loves that pale blue of your eyes that first night when you cried in my arms on the floor of this room and I wish I were you or that I could be a little more like that wanna live with you wanna get a cat it's morning again and there's no light yet think I wanna die right here but don't wanna die I've got so much left and you give the color to all things
5.
untitled--> 02:33
you don't even know what to do with the sun coming on so don't cry over what you thought was yours and don't tell me you've been here before you were hanging on the moon til tomorrow with the sun shining through your window onto your empty bed you smiled at me looked right back and said don't you ever lie don't you ever lie to yourself ever again the moon he forgot his place as he stole the dream from right in front of my face and he won't no he won't ever surmise that I may know more than his disguise don't you ever lie don't you ever lie to yourself ever again you can't know what you'd do if you were in that place or what you'd say if you could be everything you'd wanted to
6.
4 00:44
7.
one flower 03:12
you and I we're sitting at the top of the hill and I found hope as I looked up through the cracks in the roof where we can see I focused on your hand sprinkling blades of grass on me and I saw the way to freedom some other place show you some other face let's get out to some other place show you some other face you and I were dancing with the wind and the leaves and I found help help in forgetting everything that I didn't want to know i loved everything about you but I couldn't let it show on my face and this all can be erased some other place show you some other face let's get out to some other place show you some other face and he is nothing to this earth but he will forever be preserved in the blood and bones of you and I will love you here on earth
8.
mother 03:12
words don't hold you the way you think they should you just barely remember a time when you though that they could with your mother standing there at the top of the stairs in her blue and white floral print dress as you hung on her every word trees they don't love me with each hollow in hand you were just a child with balloons when you first put mankind before man with your brother in the field at the top of the hill in that red shirt you now wear but you don't know where it came from you don't love me the way you think you should you can't even remember a time when you thought that you could with your mother standing there she looked down and told you she loved you
9.
you are nothing but a breeze touching the leaf of the tree that loves me but not enough I guess for me to say fuck it I'm going home I don't know where I'll be in six months if I'm even lucky enough to be alive cause some of us aren't and I thank god each day that that's not yet too many of you what'd I do to deserve this did I do enough for you and can I see you again in heavens I don't believe in we are nothing but love and I hope that's enough for you to be happy or at least kinda okay what'd I do to deserve this you are nothing but a tree in the breeze to my east
10.
I don't understand what the things we say really mean if we don't believe in them like I believe in you but I do I don't know what I could ever be if you were gone I envision the pain peeling off of our apartment walls now I'm taking down the pictures in your bedroom and I can't stop this is my dream and I live it every night even if i don't remember I couldn't understand what you told me on tuesday night but if I did I'd probably scream and cry but that's alright I think your cheeks are cold and I think fear's that broken glass in your eyes so unlike that first night when you cried

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thanks to my family and to everyone who's made me feel like part of their family

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released January 11, 2019

production- ben mccormick and charles dahlke
engineering- charles dahlke
will orchard- guitar, bass, vox, probably gonna drink a beer after this
charlie dahlke- keys, vocals, synths, keys etc. (making dreams come true)
matt zucconi- percussion
sam bonney- guitar, percussion
maria donato- vox
nick lussier- vox
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Ben McCormick Barrington, Rhode Island

mushroom hunting is 80% of my life, so that's fun (:

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