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Homeward Bound

by Squinch Owl

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_l_uz una energía desgarradora, un abrazo cálido para cuando te duele el mundo. Favorite track: Feel Better.
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solanacea__ In less than a month this recording have become one of my favourites. The music and, above all, the lyrics are too pure and honest. I absolutely love them. Listening to this is like a hug from someone you really love. Favorite track: We Will Do Great Things.
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marj I've been coming back to this album over and over for years and I think I appreciate it more every time as it becomes more and more relatable - I don't think I can listen to it without tearing up - and that is just the best thing. Favorite track: We Will Do Great Things.
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Smugo the older I become the deeper I feel the pain in each song. bless this album. see you down the road.
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finn keaney i've loved this record for a half a decade & will do for many more. one of the most beautifully talented human beings that we got with us right now, far as i heard. please listen to this record & put a coin in the hat if you can. Favorite track: Meet Me There.
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hello The voice of an oracle and an anthem for our times. Favorite track: We Will Do Great Things.
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well i caught a train, didn't know where it was going, but i didn't really care as long as it was far from here well you caught me railing dope through a $5 bill, and a churchman told me i was going to hell, will you meet me there? will you meet me where no good man goes, will you drink with me to wretchedness & woe, will you meet me there? i sold my satisfaction for a sweet sounding song and since i was born i been moving on homeward bound, but you know i'm headed down will you meet me where no good man goes, will you drink with me to wretchedness & woe, will you meet me there? will you save me a seat at the devil's right hand will we talk of how we once were respectable men, oh will you meet me there?
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i've been riding trains that have no station, and i've been leaving everything i know behind i have known a life of meager rations and i have known the desperate fear of losing my mind but i am always coming home, it's just a place that i have not yet know and i hope i remember it when i get there well i have abused my only body, and i have little faith left in my soul and all my hope lies in tomorrow, when all my time will be spent making this world a better world but i am always coming home, it's just a place that i have not yet know but i hope i remember it when i get there
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Bury Me 03:37
oh bury me, i want to die with a ring on my finger and the sun in my eyes i swear i ain't sad, oh lord i'm just tired of dragging 'round this suitcase full of hard times and fire i don't trust myself & i don't trust you, we're just lying to each other & that just won't do there's something wrong, i must be cursed, 'cause i'm trying to get better, but i only get worse when the cold nights come, full of whiskey & somebody trying to take me home so fill up my cup & i'll try not to cry, oh fill up my cup & maybe i'll get by when the cold nights come i'm over and done with going out, i'm staying home
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you've been having dreams of isolation and lord knows, we've all ben changing fast but i still love you forever, and we will do great things together or apart, though i know it feels like we are wild animals, born with broken bones and i don't know what to do any more than you, oh i don't know what to do and it is important to get drunk, fuck everything up and it is important to let everyone down sometimes so that you can realize just how much they mean to you, & it is important to know that we will do great things, together or apart, though i know it feels like we weren't made for this world, like we should never have been born but i am glad that we were born
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Feel Better 04:04
well isn't it nice, today we get to decide who we're going to be for the rest of our lives, or at least for a little while. well i'm trading this bag of gold for sticks and stones, something with which i can build myself a home 'cause my time is worth more than money could afford & my spirit is pure & i am honest & i am sure that the comfort of someone's love is all you need and i want to take you by the hand and show you that the world really ain't that bad and i am so sorry that you are so sad and i know that you've been hurt, but i also know that it is worth it & i know i need to keep you around so if i promise to love you forever, will you promise that you will feel better? will you promise me? i just want you to be okay.
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cut the thread at the frayed end drink from the river be born again and though i try i can't remember what i said or how i came to be here i don't want to die i just want to sleep for a thousand nights more and we are asleep in the back of my car but i'm sure i'll wake by tomorrow My mind has been softened poison sold as medicine the untimely death of everything the sedative of love i can't feel anything now i felt too much once and it all leaked out and i wish i could cry but i got nothing to cry about time is creeping up on me i can't be afraid to sing it loud be it the truth or a lie i can't be afraid to die we might all die before day ends so tell everybody you know that you love them i just hope i live to know another morning
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What It Is 05:09
man this place is fucked seems like everyone i know and loved is dead by rope, or dying from junk. as if we're not all dying fast enough well i'm not quite sure what the problem is but i don't think it's us, i think it's the system and i hope, i hope that in the end i had a reason to keep breathing, no, to keep fighting for air well i'm not quite sure what the problem is but i don't think it's us, i think it's the system and i know, i know that we ain't seen the worst of it yet but if any one of us just forgives or forgets what they done to us then they've won, they've won well i'm not quite sure what the problem is...

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released October 19, 2010

Sofia Pocket Albam - Singings, Banjo, Accordion
Maxwell Pertley Lysobey - Singing Saw, Whistling
Pete Olynciw - Upright Bass
Mike Ditrio - Percussion

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Mike Ditrio in A Secret Place

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