1. |
Sank
03:40
|
|||
I fold the last of your clothes and go
A new fool dropping the last of her roses
And my heart skipped like a stone
And it sank to the deep, a signal
Something’s happening, something has changed
But has it changed me?
Sitting in the taxi listening to Lexie
Took your plants home
Feels weird because you’re not done living
And my heart sank like a stone
And it sank to the deep, a signal
Something’s happening, something has changed
But has it changed
When my French friend made the point
Weird and wrong and strange and disjointed
Are my own vocabulary heavy rotation
The American mind will always find it
Every time the mold's not being fit
And my heart sank like a stone
And it sank to the deep, a signal
Something’s happening, something has changed
But has it changed me
|
||||
2. |
Closing Door
03:24
|
|||
I’m just that dumb kid
I want all that I see
Excellent, another oedipal victory
Hold on
Hold on
Can I be shy and be imposing in one swing
Be honest with me
Am I gonna find out that the closing door has
Always been me
I suck your lip
Wondering what this will become
That look of longing
Forming a pearl upon my tongue
Just caught again
Slipping mercurially
Between the gaze of men
And my map of Brooklyn body
Hold on
I'm not what
What I thought
Hold on
Can I be shy and be imposing in one swing
Be honest with me
Am I gonna find out that the closing door
Has always been me
Can I be shy and imposing in one swing
Am I gonna find that I’m the closing door
Can I be shy and be imposing in one swing
Am I gonna find out that the closing door
Has always been me
Can I be shy and be imposing in one swing
Be honest with me
Am I gonna find out that the closing door
Has always been me
|
||||
3. |
Corrina
04:45
|
|||
You appeared solid through the mist
Arms outstretching
You pulled me in
And I can’t believe I have never
Stepped into the rolling current
Washed over and let my body go
Tumbling
Doesn’t matter what we find
Doesn’t matter what we find
If finding’s what keeps our eyes
Open wide
Stumbling, I was fumbling around
Bumping into everything
Discovering
And discovering and discovering just how we
Are turn taking
Being baby and acting responsibly
Perpetually unprepared
To step into the rolling current
Just letting go and letting our bodies feel
Amazing
Doesn’t matter what we find
Doesn’t matter what we find
If finding’s what keeps our eyes
Open wide
Doesn’t matter what we find
Doesn’t matter what we find
Doesn’t matter what we find
Doesn’t matter what we find
Doesn’t matter what we find
If finding’s what keeps our eyes
Open wide
Open wide
|
||||
4. |
33
04:30
|
|||
Buggy summer afternoon
I’m tugging at her pant leg
Got it down round halfway
With a half smile I look to you
For the blue ribbons I’m craving
You pin them on lovingly
And kiss my mind
I’ll swear I’m fine
And smile
I wanna spin you by the fridge
Kitchen twirling
Infinity in the guitar line
Only grounded by our being
Different beings
Separate
Not the same
Come on, try me
33
Still getting lost on subways
Turning blue on airplanes
I’m so surprised
I just learned it’s simple
Nothing is a symbol
In real life
I swear I’m fine
And smile
I wanna spin you by the fridge
Kitchen twirling
Infinity in the guitar line
And we are grounded by our being
Different beings
Separate
Not the same
I wanna spin you by the fridge
Kitchen twirling
Infinity in the guitar line
And we are grounded by our being
Different beings
Separate
Not the same
|
||||
5. |
Fabby
03:39
|
|||
From another rut
I was striking out
Searching for you
And I was tired
I'd been striking out many times before you
How tree-like I'm standing here
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
All root-bound are my tears
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
In the tour van
All I did was dream of being
Right up close to your body
Can you believe
Believe we made it, honey
Now I see
There's nowhere else to be
How tree-like I'm standing here
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
All root-bound are my tears
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
Keep growing
Toward each
Other's reach
How tree-like I'm standing here
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
All root-bound are my tears
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
How tree-like I'm standing here
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
All root-bound are my tears
You wanna water me
No, I can do it for me
|
||||
6. |
Restore
02:14
|
|||
Spurred on by anger I
Ruffle and strut like
A turkey, I am dancing
Into my own death
I am laughing
And clutching my
Independence
Thursday, Friday
Through the weekend
I am sewing new seams into every
Thing I find that needed mending
The patterns once concealed
Are beginning to be revealed
As I restore you disappear
As I restore you disappear
|
||||
7. |
Mussel
03:16
|
|||
Head on my chest
I drifted through her talking
Wilt mid-caress
I swear, I felt four hours passing
She whispers under breath
Some inaudible thing
Fold the left lock over lock in the center
You were too polite to tell me to be gentler
Pulling on it tight I was lost in the pleasure
A mussel in the tides of your weather
Afternoon
In the dunes with my honey
We fought the whole time
Our egos getting bloody
Snarling
Wild
Hair
Rounds
My fingers
Pull
Slow
Part
From our anger
Fold the left lock over lock in the center
You were too polite to tell me to be gentler
Pulling on it tight I was lost in the pleasure
A mussel in the tides of your weather
|
||||
8. |
Just for You to Hear
02:04
|
|||
Weird, empty bed awaits
Big, as big as outer space
I make a painting of a painting
I'm sorry about what I said
Two wounds bruise
In the shape of you
I rage and recoil
I make a painting of a painting
And search our story's soil
I dig through black and blue
Red and green and gold
And I find love
But no foot hold
Is it weird to have friend after friend
Try to get your ear
As song after song is written
Just for you to hear
|
||||
9. |
Powerful
02:44
|
|||
10. |
Open the Door
03:59
|
|||
The end of the week approaching
I crave the kind of din from outside
The black versus white
The taking of sides
So I sit just outside the threshold and I
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
Your acid tone
I bite my tongue
This is the most sunken way you’ve acted
And the onus is on me to see beyond
The golden textures you’ve drawn
Across my vision
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
A braid forms
Encircles
Protects the world
Elemental
In our hurt we unlearn
A severed love
A wounded form
But what does outlast us
The tether through the
Brick wall we built up
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
I wait for
You to
Open the door
To open the door
|
||||
11. |
Face
02:45
|
|||
I felt my face
Make the wrong—
Make a long face
But hey, you were walking away
You are a recurring dream
Am I calling to stranger
Hey, what was your name
You say
But I'm always reaching forward
To bring you in too close
And I'm always reaching toward
Some wool that I can pull
I'm not okay
I laugh into your arms
We sway
And together fall apart
Hey, what was your name
You say
|
||||
12. |
Magnify
03:12
|
|||
That I feel small and dejected
Is as real as the snow reflected
In the coffee table
Feeling unstable
And I'm slipping like a landslide
I writhe against my hands tied
To making money
All skinned and bloody
And with my hands tied
I can't help you, honey
The crux of what we believe in
Is the stuff that started leaking
When I let my heart get
Roughed up and upset
Now I'm cowering and recovering
As my power seeps into something
I don't understand it
But I have to chase it
Will you stick with me
Until I can face it
Until I can face it
The world watches us
Copies our love
A thousand times
Does it magnify
We watch the world
Its back turns
Can we copy it too
Fuck them
I love you
|
||||
13. |
Theme from Gabby’s World
02:41
|
Gabby's World New York, New York
Gabby's World is the songwriting and production project of Gabby Smith.
If you want
merch, go to gabbysworld.lol and click SHOP!
photo by Gabby Smith
artwork by Kirini O.K.
... more
Streaming and Download help
Gabby's World recommends:
If you like Gabby's World, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp