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Igluenza

by Gabby's World

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1.
Broken Necks 02:46
when i had a million arms i would wrap them around all your body parts try to keep away all that could do you harm, try to keep out sickness keep you warm. but every time the going got tough one by one they were falling off  while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you and i know that we'd hang out every day if i wasn't 100 miles away from our tadpoles gathering in the creek and our baby birds learning how to shriek all the eagles i still haven't seen and the trees proudly alive and green i could swear they are there just for you and me whether friends or in love there's an indisputable beauty but you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, and i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you while you were breaking your neck trying to keep your head up, i was breaking my neck just to stick it out for you if the distance between us becomes too strong i will saturate silence with your songs 'cause you'd rub my back 'til my skin smoothed out smoother than the glass that the sea spits out don't forget to take your shirt off, run into the water, the birds are singing louder and the days are getting longer,  open up your hands and accept that this is ending, nothing in this world is holier than friendship
2.
when you were so close your eyes looked like dinner plates blue as the atlantic and harsh as an earthquake and you didn't smell good but you didn't smell bad but boy, did i ever feel like i had to take care of you take care of you when we were so lost the road felt like home to me our souls on the asphalt and feet stretched in front of me and it didn't feel good but it didn't feel bad and boy, did i ever feel like i had to take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you and with my hands dancing on those keys i could feel your beat pulsing right through me and with your hot hands on my red cheeks you would scream and scream saying "you're not free" and it didn't feel good but it didn't feel bad and boy, did i ever feel like i had to take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you take care of you (and my thought stick like dust to you wandering sugar fingers and my thoughts bruise and buckle like a side full of stingers and your song of death is a minuet your lighthearted tone speaks of exposed bone where the skin is peeling and rotted and if we could go home we would know this is dumb and these thoughts would be quickly forgotten)
3.
your little nails, bitten back and snarling speak volumes upon volumes, my little darling out of reach of the light of day in a veil of dirty lace with a heart made of wood and a bruise on your face when you were given a choice between fire and ice i can see you now, clear as a bell with your arms full of thorns and your heart like a well holding your arms steadfast to your chest a song in your throat and a tongue at rest your eyes are searching boldly for a stronger one to hold you for a softer bed to warm you for every man to swarm you but if you could just wait patiently i can see him standing in front of me so hold your arms steadfast to your chest a song in your throat and a tongue at rest but everything you love will leave at best for until you're alone you will know no rest i still see you standing so solemn and cold in a white dress and blindfold, knee-deep in the snow with the birch trees just like swords touching the sky in a silent horde just like an army of your past strifes frozen for a lifetime i can see you now, clear as a bell with your arms full of thorns and your heart like a well holding your hands clenched to your chest everything you love will leave at best everything you love will leave at best for until you're alone you'll know no rest
4.
i admit i'm scared of a warm side of our bed i tremble in the face of your loneliness and everything i think should be buried in the ground should be kept inside my head but it's knit into your brow i live inside your room and if i reach out with my hand the disturbance sends our things crashing down upon my head and everything i think should be buried in the ground should be kept inside my head but it's knit into your brow and everything i said spewed like sparklers from my mouth and everything i said spewed like sparklers from my mouth they looked pretty as they flew but now they're useless and burnt out and everything i think should be buried in the ground should be kept inside my head but it's knit into your brow and if i had a dime for every time i'm freaking out we could fly around the world or just get out of your parents' house
5.
walking toward a sunset the sun walking toward the night and i'm walking toward certain death and a polluted sky full of neon light what an intoxicating pink and i don't even have time to think why don't i want you? and in a day it will be the same thing again and again and again and again and in a year it will be the same thing i will wash again my soiled hands what a ridiculous thing and i don't even have time to think why don't i want you? and the train skipped all its stations said "you've got to get out of this relationship if you're being honest then i must hold you to your biting lip did you think you could say all that and suffer no consequence? now philadelphia is calling is it siren or providence? do you run away to freedom or bind your own hands?
6.
Glory 04:54
in your hospital bed the papery sheets are rustling and maybe until you're dead they won't take you seriously is it for the best? is it for the best? is it for the best? is it for the best? the entire outside world is scratching at your door whistling by your windows blaring through your blinds in glory, glory comes the morning with our love cupped in her palms we praise her fleeting presence with a plethora of psalms we pray she might not squeeze too tight and leave us for the morrow to hold our love limp in our arms then toss it in the barrow is it for the best is it for the best is it for the best yes it is yes it is yes it is yes it is if i could have my way i'd put a bubble around you i hope someone is in your bed with smiling arms around you it is for the best it is for the best it is for the best
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our secret has become a child on halloween costume and a basket full of candy it knows what being scared is but not how to be scary it knows what being scared is but not how to be scary are you the cowardly lion or the little thief? are you the dancing bear or thunder and lightning? you know what being scared is but not how to be scary you know what being scared is but not how to be scary you know what being scared is (do wrappers on the ground lead you right back to me?) but not how to be scary (does the smell of backseats remind you of me?) you know what being scared is (when you changed your clothes did you change out of me?) but not how to be scary (pocket full of posies, fall down next to me)
9.
all in all i've been trying to say i'd do anything to contain you will your body fail today or painstakingly sustain you? i am married to your death so i keep my arms outstretched i am so afraid you'll die it's the thorn that's in my side every day the wind blows, the pollen flies the sunshine tries to sting you soft and gentle are your voice and your eyes and everything that comes from in you i am married to your death so i keep my arms outstretched i am so afraid you'll die it's the thorn that's in my side you cannot kiss it and it's gone
10.
hunter with your open eyes a sheath with no arrows and a bow at your side you would loose them, watch them fly follow their direction with a confident smile what a heart you've turned out to be a little glow in the room at the party it's summer in the city you chose so don't go living in the shadows if you just chip at the bark patience brings a point that is so fatal and so sharp you could close your eyes and shoot in the dark if you could trust the wind to bring a steady arc what a fiery heart you've turned out to be a little glow in the room at the party it's summer in the city you chose so don't go living in the shadows hush now, little archer, you can quit your worrying a bow without an arrow can be such a pretty thing such a simple object, a curved stick and a string but how it fills a man with such potential energy you could close your eyes and shoot across the dark if you could trust the wind to bring a steady arc
11.
Frostration 03:55
the moment we came back home again was when you became mad again all the trust we came into blossomed like an early bloom opened up its eyes and then succumbed to a frosty death for me, a home is relative it is just the place where my body is what i find to be sacred is the place where my heart rests if i could peel back my skin and let you crawl in that's where your home could be a safe place you could come and leave you opened up your eyes and then succumbed to the frost just when it was inconvenient (i'd keep your things and secrets safe in me) but summer is coming (we don't have to see eye to eye on everything)
12.
o, how my heart can fly when your smile has good intentions and "hi" can mean the world to me i know singing makes you shy when it's in front of me and my friends but your singing means the world to me how i tried to keep my cool when we disappointed you you waxen wing, you foolish thing and o, how i can still taste your tongue tied stare upon my face you dirty look, you burning bush so here i sit, come to rest some weight upon your little chest you free-for-all, you wrecking ball so here i stand, next to your bed, to lay waste to your healthy head you spiderweb, you dance of death you could even be so cold and leave me wondering where you've gone you prickly frost, you courage lost you could even be so mad you'd shake me by the shoulders screaming you coward, you hummingbird I screamed out how'd it get this bad? And the thunder answered back if you know not what you lack then you must unturn your back Your inside is overcast you are tethered to your past and it must feel like fucking hell to be a patchwork of yourself, a bunch of scraps thrown and sewn around your bones and though you're alone it's holding you too tightly. But Who are you? From where do you come? What do you believe in? Whom do you love?
13.
the words i think are wrenched from me once my mouth is open and though i speak so quietly you take haunted steps away from me so all i can do is stare at you all i can do is stare at my shoes and when i go to a show i expect it to be terrible but when i go to your show i know i'll bob my head alone and though it may be arrogant i like to imagine it laden with strings and all the words you're singing floating above everything and all i can do is listen to you i can't talk to you
14.
Folly 02:22
folly i was falling i was taller than i wanted to be swallowed, hollow i was following you were faster than a gelding in my mind you're a crow, a spirit animal i am wont to know but i don't want to be responsible molding i was folding your clothing in some kind of dream loving i was hovering i was flipping, fleeting, doving in my dreams you're a bathtub running you are warm and tender and bubbling o, you are cold and bristling and struggling

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this is not a real album, but rather a collection of demos from 2013!

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released August 11, 2013

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