We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Tie a Ribbon

from The Carousel Stray by ILDIKO

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

Tie a ribbon round your heart, the other end to your sleeve and make sure you don’t fall apart in shopping mall car parks
Self help seminars, singing songs in your car, whistle whispered secrets, while we wait with our withered wills
All of the keepers can’t keep you down come around, all I hear is white noise clowns, amalgamated white boy sounds

Knock the sand from your shoes, shake away the gritty blues, Why do you think life is cruel whenever you see the ocean’s blue?
water bottles on the road, labels washed off long ago, I wonder what they will do, when they’re depressed and 22
I can’t keep my head above the water line, I’m not fine, These intentions are all mine to nullify my stupid spine

I wanna be like you, tall and thin with a reckless grin
I wanna river to follow me, wherever I choose to be
I wanna see the failed folk, choking on their hydro dope
I wanna be the new big hope for synthetic pylon rope
The dark dogs coming bladed up with a paper cup
To catch the drips and feed them back through a funnelled ripped rib sack
The blind are staring eyes beckoning to the other side
To see my end is one thing, to be a messenger who sends
His own letter is the win, you were once my good friend

Take what you want, you low life big strife
King of the scum, you teeth breaking rattle shaking
Dealer by the drum, you hopeless mess of ghostly flesh
bleaching in the sun, I can hear you come death
give me three more weeks before I come undone
I have seen your face, behind me as you hunt
take what you want just let my girl run

Cannonballs and cannibals
Preservatives and Homemade pills
Nerve gas, service tax
Superbugs and kids on crack
Radiation, depressed nations
Online dates and race hate
Tinned dog food and we’re all screwed
'cos battery hens ain’t the end
Collect it all paper cups, and hang me up

credits

from The Carousel Stray, released November 2, 2012

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

ILDIKO image

ILDIKO Melbourne, Australia

contact / help

Contact ILDIKO

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like ILDIKO, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now