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Halflight

by Joe Day

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1.
Blue Skies 03:15
Dreaming up blue skies again You've been counting up all of the things you can spend The shirt on your back, a notepad and a pen Dreaming up blue skies again Dreaming up blue skies again When the moment has gone and the memory's thin Your thoughts scribbled down in illegible pen Dreaming up blue skies again Oooooooohhh, you imagine it Oooooooohhh, try to capture it You try and, you try it again Oooooooohhh, dreaming up blue skies again (again and again) Dreaming up blue skies again It's been seventeen years in a busy-ness spin But your heart doesn't care if there's dust on the pen Dreaming up blue skies again
2.
Halflight 05:29
In the half-light lies a hidden truth You learn what makes the shadows in the dark You find new words, you find new friends You find the things you never could before You search the shadows further in The darkness always leaves you wanting more Once you see with half-light eyes You wonder how you ever saw before You never felt such power before Hey! We're only seeing in the half-light! Hey! We're only seeing in the half-light! What makes you certain that we're not half blind? Hey! We're only seeing in the half-light! The half-light lies you must beware It only shows the shadows of the truth It masquerades as righteousness Till you believe that nobody is good Friend or foe? The answers blur What once was love the half-light turned to hurt Makes us fear, makes us blind Makes us into shells of who we were You never felt so lonesome before When love is fear and fear is love Best intentions aren't enough Let the light in Let me see who you really are
3.
My Dear, I fear we're lost and we're not what we once were All head, no heart we're biting and sharp, full of answers And we turn inside where we dim the lights We stay out of sight But we're lost Frozen, indecision In fear of what might happen Fear and love why can't I tell you apart? The power's out Feel the darkness Frozen, indecision In fear of what might happen Chosen, this inaction Keep our heart in the ice bin Fear and love why can't I tell? Fear and love why can't I tell you? Fear and love why can't I tell you apart
4.
I'm listening I'm putting my ears to the ground I'm keeping my eyes peeled Gonna stand watch until the dawn Is there something out there for a weary soul waiting for a moment's rest to come? Is there someone out there listening to me? Is there anyone there at all? Hello!? Hello!? Is there anyone there? All I hear is my echo Hello!? Hello!? Is there anyone there? Is there anyone there? What am I supposed to do when the night gets cold and long? What am I supposed to think when I'm left out here all alone? Where am I supposed to go when all I want to go is home? All I want is to go home
5.
Make me a channel of your peace Where there is hatred let me bring your love Where there is injury, your pardon Lord Where this is doubt, true faith in you Make me a channel of your peace Where there's despair in life let me bring hope Where there is darkness, only light And where there's sadness, ever joy O Spirit grant that I may never seek So much to be consoled as to console To be understood, as to understand To be loved, as to love with all my soul Make me a channel of your peace It is pardoning that we are pardoned In giving of ourselves that we receive In dying that we're born to eternal life
6.
Wait and wait and wait and you wait for it Try to be patient you wait and you wait for it Day after day after day after waiting When will my day come? Saving and saving and saving up for it Dreaming of some day you wait and you wait for it Months after month after month after saving When will my day come? When will, when will My day, my day When will my day come? When will, when will My day, my day come? Pray and pray and pray and you pray for it Asking for strength to stay true and you pray for it Year after year after year after praying I hope that the answer comes
7.
Don't let the fear capture your heart Cause when you do it's the start Of what tears us apart I'm feeling lost like I've been carried away And the home that I know is on fire I walk these streets and all the signs are the same But there's a darkness creeping over this town I can't put my finger on it But it's here and it's pressing on me Something is wearing us all down Can't put my finger on it But it's here and it's pressing on me Fear like an invisible cloud Don't let the fear capture your heart Cause when you do it's the start Of what tears us apart The sun it rises then it's over the sea Then the darkness sets in for the night I know it feels like it's been eternity And I agree it's been the darkest of nights I can't put my finger on it But I think I caught a glimpse of something A faint glimpse of distant light I can't put my finger on it But I think I caught a glimpse of something Taking hold of the night sky Hold onto the light It ain't here yet, but the morning is nigh
8.
To choose a road is to choose a destination Hop on the train before the train departs the station And if we lose ourselves in the pressures of the crowd? And if the ones we love aren't able to make it down? I place my bet I double down on a better love To set the eyes upon the lines of the horizon To have the dream before the means, and fight the fear And if the wonders of the world should fill your cup? And if the bastards and the brutes beat you up? I place my bet I double down on a better love I slowly open up my eyes To see a vista once in view Become a blurry outer memory And I am free To speak of what I cannot know And know of what I cannot speak It’s but a sense inside of me I place my bet I double down on a better love
9.
You had a curious look Waiting there in the line Staring off into space Fixed on a distant line Inhaled and held my breath I’m a stranger in this fold You had a curious look And it shook me to the bone Stuck in a maze Forgetting my face If this is the bottom then why am I still falling away? I don’t know which way to turn Where is it safe to learn? My heart is stuck in my head I want it back in my chest My heart is stuck in my head Return my heart to my chest Stuck in a maze Forgetting my face If this is the bottom then why am I still falling away? I don’t know the way I’m leaving today Return my heart to my chest
10.
May your wounds find their mending May Love's hands apply the balm May your hurt meet it's ending Spirit rest renew your soul

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released August 6, 2021

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