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Destination Yet Unknown

by Yonderbird

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1.
You say trees all look alike That’s not what I have seen In the evening light There are a hundred shades of green I’m not giving up on you I’m not giving up on you I've seen dragons in the deep So I don’t look too far ahead They may stay fast asleep If I keep out of my head I’m not giving up on you I’m not giving up on you But I don’t understand What you’re still doing with that plan You've been living by a plan And you're planning every step But your outline for the age Well, it's missing just a bit I’m not giving up on you I’m not giving up on you But I don’t understand What you’re still doing with that plan What gets you through the night Is not what you need in the light You say trees all look alike But I’m starting to believe When you choose a life You choose a seed
2.
I make my bed, tuck the corners in pull on a quilt from my grandma’s hand colors soft like the sky before dawning She used to run through the rows of corn race her pa to the old red door and she milked under stars every morning All this cloth is made into our patterned days When my mother came along the call of the world was strong so she traded the fields for flying In the Congo’s heavy heat she found cloth like she’d never seen cut squares of the jungle on fire All this cloth is made into our patterned days Through the glass in this new highrise looking down on the East Side I can see the shape of every street and I do my best to see them as patterns of the farmland and the quilts that are a part of me I used to wait at the edge of dawn for the sunsparks coming on till the stars gave way to the morning Now city lights set the night aflame but they fade in the morn the same and the quilts on my bed keep me warmer
3.
It’s been way too long since I hit the streetlights green all the crossroads in this town keep on fighting me office gossip’s getting mean tuesday’s meeting buried me but I could last another year probably I’d rather know what it’s like to crash and burn than to be sold on a future I don’t own it’s time to leave destination yet unknown I’m gonna find a road to make my own a road of my own a road of my own Two lanes no lights in sight fuel is getting low I can’t say where I’ll be tonight but I am glad to go I’d rather know what it’s like to crash and burn than to be sold on a future I don’t own it’s time to leave destination yet unknown I’m gonna find a road to make my own a road of my own a road of my own I’d rather know what it’s like to crash and burn than to be sold on a future I don’t own it’s time to leave destination yet unknown I’m gonna find a road to make my own a road of my own a road of my own a road of my own a road of my own
4.
Ask 02:33
If you want a party I think you should start it, darling I’m pretty happy here on this beach I would be your partner if you got the dancefloor going, darling but this time you better ask me I cast a net for you brought it back light and empty wrote a duet for you it was for one too many I wanted to kissed you in time with the waves when each one rolled in you would only back away If you want a party I think you should start it, darling I’m pretty happy here on this beach I would be your partner if you got the dancefloor going, darling but this time you better ask me Joy comes easy to you that’s a beautiful thing it’s just the way you wait that I find troubling If I’m being honest I’d like to dance with you but while I’m being honest you’d better try it too If you want a party I think you should start it, darling I’m pretty happy here on this beach I would be your partner if you got the dancefloor going, darling but this time you better ask me
5.
Exactly 02:30
The driveways are pulling in apartments, condos, house for rent They seem to be happy I want to be like them But I need the open road silhouettes and silos that’s where I’m happy so I’ll drive until I am If this won’t make me happy nothing can On the mantle holding hands perfect smile was happenstance they look perfectly happy I wonder if I can But I flew on tiny wings above ice blue and crackling couldn’t help but be happy now I remember that I am If this won’t make me happy nothing can If this won’t make me happy nothing can In life I often find I’m lost in pixels, pulled from line how can this be happy the stories say I am Then I go to this creek I know watch the leaves drift sweet and slow takes me home and I’m happy time and time again If this won’t make me happy nothing can If this won’t make me happy nothing can If I’m going to be happy it’ll be exactly where I am If I’m going to be happy it’ll be exactly where I am
6.
I had a boy I loved him and lost him he was my first love and so it goes I had another I loved him and tossed him now that he’s gone there’s something I know Kisses in black and white Kisses in black and white Kisses in black and white Kisses in black and white So here we sit at your grandpa’s folding table in the house that we picked from the flyer in the yard strangely I adore this even with your rusted kettle and the fear of what I’ll miss keeping solitary guard I still need these moon rivers and old gin joints need you breathing in the smoke of my train as it pulls away missing me like I’m never coming home you’d still wait by the rails till the last day soft film and long summer nights rain on the lens make your words feel old like this scene’s been rolling for a long long time But I still need these... Kisses in black and white Kisses in black and white Kisses in black and white Kisses in black and white
7.
Tall woman in a black beret curtain of hair pulled over her face walking down 12th street hiding waterfall eyes Charcoal smudges give her away tell me that she’s had one hell of a day but she still sees straight through waterfall eyes She’s crying in a public place, crying in a public place His suit says he’s got money to burn catch a glimpse of himself and starts to turn but he can’t turn away from his waterfall eyes Three blocks back he was mostly ok two blocks back saw a little girl playing now he’s in the cafe hiding waterfall eyes He’s crying in a public place, crying in a public place Crying in a public place, crying in a public place Today the towers are leaning in the heat and and the crowds are stifling when the tears subside one last shuddering sigh Breath and finally begin again Tall woman in a black beret curtain of hair pulled over her face walking down 12th street hiding waterfall eyes Charcoal smudges give her away tell me that she’s had one hell of a day but she still sees straight through waterfall eyes She’s crying in a public place, crying in a public place Crying in a public place, crying in a public place

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released December 28, 2016

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