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Another Castle

by The Fifth Minute

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1.
The Rain 03:09
I didn't know what the rain meant A bad omen for sure I said we're your entertainment And that this one goes out for our hope for an encore And meet me when I hit the bottom Where our potential stands forgotten And in the distance, cross the water Redemption The words were paper and cardboard And they meant nothing at all But this is what we've worked hard for So they've no right to call me a liar They wave us over, discuss in their dulcimer tones All of the dreamers we'll convince are not alone We like your style, too many teeth in their smiles And so the bounty of our youth is turned to fuel for the dial, And the rain
2.
Perfect/Gone 03:54
You think you're so far above me Well I don't think you know yourself I think that you love me You're losing all your traction and I won't hit the breaks I'm gonna hold to this collision course whatever it takes And though we probably won't last Well that won't stop me from denying it and burning the past Cause though our future's looking darker every day Well when's the future ever brighter anyway? You've made your case And I can't face The way your ego feeds This lie it cracks and bleeds Like a heart in some teenage prose But every time you smile you outweigh the lows You're baffling my instincts to distrust the good You rattle my composure like I never would have thought you could And now my heart is breaking The greatest dream is over and I find I'm waking And against all available evidence It wasn't cause I lacked self confidence Yeah it was you and it was me It was my penchant for avoiding it and your tendency To let your anger linger simmering And I can't say if I've learned anything You drain me dry My eyes too cracked to cry And now the strings come in And let act three begin The unraveling, our final decline Where we both admit that you are yours and I'm only mine We thought ourselves so clever so above the game But no matter how unique a love it always ends the same So long I thought you were perfect, so I danced 'round rationality to say you were worth it So long that we never knew, and while our threads became more twisted our distance only grew So long farewell and goodbye, I could maybe live without you but I can't live a lie So long but don't say it now, we could just sit here reminiscing close our eyes and both remember how We were meant for the spotlight, were meant for the stage And how we tipped our scales to happiness from fear, guilt, and rage You lifted me completely, you broke down my guard, And though the hope you left won't leave me well it makes the leaving hard You slew every demon you vanquished my past You scoured every nightmare with a moment to last And although looking back I only notice the lights That's the sadism of memory, the only place this ever was right And every time I look at you I see someone new You wouldn't have believed what my own hopes did to you But nothing's ever better than the moment it ends So I'm happy that you happened though I know we'll never be friends
3.
Shells burn the walls Soot stains the sky Blame rests with me I won’t let you cry Give me a smile Hold me once more I’m broken and spent Not worth fighting for This carcass of steel Shelters our end Eyes closed we can float Time to pretend Shot down from our heights To ancestral home Grip tight till it hurts You won’t pass alone And all that I no longer believe Is a signal to me Of the thousand miles traveled, the thousand miles left to go And all that I no longer recall Doesn’t mean much at all We’ve stripped life of all but dying, it was hard enough to get through once We never thought We’d shoulder this Narratives rot Nothing remiss We brush the sun Spiral to ground Lend me your voice I can’t make a sound You hold me close Whisper goodnight This shell’s a ghost You are my life And everything we can’t recreate We will approximate We will stitch up a tomorrow if it leaves us to the last undone And for our anger the future will be bleed But I’ve got, what I need It’s amazing how stupid, amazing how strong we can be Let them record our every mistake We’ll not waver nor break We will hold ourselves with dignity, will rise above with effortless grace Let the rising sun mark our return Let each verdict I’ve spurned Lend its weight to my conviction when I swear I’ll get you out of this place Let love and anger alone set us free Let what you mean to me Be enough to grant us providence, enough to see us both carried home Don’t let your demons compel you to care Past our seven foot square If there’s any fight left in you I am begging you to hold on to life We aim so high We’ve no restraint In blood we try To wash the taint We’re chained to our Nuclear dove But all I want Is you my love
4.
Suburbicide 02:48
Three kids and the house Two dogs and a mouse I got my book group on the weekends and a husband slash louse Ten grand in reserve Just what we deserve Cause here in nowhere we all spend exactly what we’ve earned Big color TV Channels infinity Having too much quality television’s such a pity Think about the day Then wash it away Start getting drunk enough to think the things I’m too drunk to say We’re gonna be fine We’re gonna be fine I’ll contemplate if this is what I wanted down the line We’re gonna be fine We’re gonna be fine Or better yet I’ll just forget so honey pass me the wine Soccer practice at five The domesticity jive I may be feeling catatonic but I’m fully alive Make it back to the door Dog vomit on the floor Yeah this is what I leave the liquor cabinet unlocked for Goes straight to voicemail His voice running stale And then my message is the thunder just preceding the hail He’s at the motel She won’t kiss and tell But I still love him and everything else is going swell Set fire to the car Then storm in the bar And he can stumble out the back but he will not get far I catch him at last He’s crumbling fast Cause when the truth erupts he knows we’ll both be caught in the blast
5.
Said I'd spare six days in town Can't say I'd hoped that you'd be around Sugarless coffee, I can recall Six days until the fall Can't tell who I've missed the most You as the girl, the memory or ghost Love's been elusive, fleeting and thing That's me; how've you been? I think I love you more this moment than I ever did then I would do anything to have you, to be sixteen again If I could scream across the ages I would shake myself, I'd get it together The past is only getting brighter as the future extends Just give me one more endless summer before everything ends If I could cut myself out there I'd be content with my lot, for forever And I know you're nothing worth dying over Cause you're just empty memories, empty fears And nothing worthwhile ever, lasts forever At least that's how I justify these years But yeah it brings me to tears I must learn to hold my tongue Cause I'm not all that young And I'm not all that dumb Well maybe I am that dumb Let me walk you to the car Hey, remember the old bar? Well it sounds like you've got quite a day Well then, see you around anyway Now I know everything ends But the polishing of absent friends It seems the best things never last Because they're only the best in the past And now you're daring to send me condolences As if you've got something useful to lend You think poise demonstrates your maturity Higher ground's all you've the strength to defend And now your silence steals my revery, my past is all you'll ever be, to say I've not loved you all along, I don't know who is more wrong I'm gonna crystallize this moment and then tear it apart Not gonna let all your revisions hurt your place in my heart Memories aloft will only leave me so I welcome your smile to the killing jar You led me closer to the water but you're letting me down I hope you know my palace crumbles with you stumbling around So if the only thing you say to me is 'weren't we a time?' that's fine... I agree And yeah I know that it's my fault, in the end We grind the best of regrets from the best of friends So I regret the day I trusted you to never turn your back on me I've hidden myself inside your eyes you fake you frail phylactery And as I walk these streets they all seem shabbier I don't know who I'm supposed to blame And neither they nor you seem worth the barrier So in the end I've nothing to my name... you know that? You know that? You know what? That sounds just fine I'll take the seven ten train, and I'll head for the city Gonna leave your life, it never was mine to tell Gonna shake these streets, leaving four days early I'm leaving this empty well So let my longings only lie with what's in store, let my past be sealed behind these boarded doors Let my memories fade and all my trophies burn, let me learn forgiveness or at least to yearn Let these worthless grudges all be cast aside, let my baseless ego fade to honest pride Let the roof cave in, let the walls fall down, let's emerge from the dust to the sun
6.
Spent 08:26
There’s no way we’re gonna end this With the proper degree of accord There’s no way we might get through this Yeah somebody’s going to get hurt There’s no way we’ll overcome this We’re all just struggling to live There’s no way we might regain this Something is coming yeah something is going to give Why won’t you Believe me Why can’t you see that I’m telling the truth? On my knees Entreat thee Held up to see our diminishing youth Give me one Last chance to Just understand ‘fore the meaning is lost What we had Amounts to Let’s just move on and regretting the cost Don’t make me do this Though we decay every day there’s no reason for this We’re gonna get through this Though we’re scaling the gallows one day we’ll be drowning in bliss Please don’t believe this So I missed every signal you know I can be hit or miss We’re gonna retrieve this You may say that you hate me you still hold my heart in your fist There’s no way we’re gonna save this Not while holding our grudges so close There’s no way we’re gonna brave this Not while loving each other but loving our anger the most There’s no way we could conceive this When we first joined in hands and in love There’s no way they would believe this In the words we’ve both spat and the standards fallen so short of Don’t make me say this I still love you fiercely but love will not cover the gap Don’t make me delay this And saying you need time to think is the worst kind of crap Cause we’ve both survived this And emerged from the river both rancid and covered in blood And we can still drive this Away from the thunder before we’re all lost to the flood When I turned from grasping at straws in the dust I beheld all your beauty and words turned to rust I could just barely conjure the courage to speak But our seventeen words ran through my head for weeks And when we would collide I could hear in your voice All my dreams and my fears, an answer and a choice But I never quite seemed to get all the words right And what seemed clear beside you would fade in the light So I hid all my doubts in a dark tangled mass And would steel myself daily to make it all last But the lies in my eyes and my trembling tone Seemed to already say we’re already alone So we clashed and we busted ourselves in our heat Each remark a riposte each rejoice a retreat And when we finally cast aside all of our fears What remained stood a tower of anger and tears So we’re through, because of you, because of me and all that I believed, and yes we’re done, says everyone, they knew we were finished ‘fore it was conceived, living in the past, we know it won’t last, sustainability is not on our minds, cause between our fights, we both burn most bright, our passion has woven itself in our binds, and we are both Blinded by our light… it tides us through the night… and who knows wrong from right… anymore I’d cede the point Fights without end It just got harder to pretend You must have known That our accord Only emerged when I got bored Takes every ounce Of poise and grace To not spit all it in your face And now at last We can agree That no agreement’s bought for free And if we can’t rise to the beauty befitting our station We shall fall with such terrific violence as we’ve never known And if this won’t end in laughter and reconciliation It’ll see us both squabbling over the one remaining throne And we won’t call it wrong but we know it’s not right and we’re both of us tired and torn from the fight but we still stand and squabble and bicker and bite and redemption it flickers and falls out of sight because There’s no way we’re gonna end this

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The Fifth Minute's debut EP, featuring many varied and awesome noises.

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released June 23, 2011

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