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Rivers and Lakes

by rickolus

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You were stuck in between my eye and the apple it was chewing on I'm sorry if I left you to many times wondering what it felt like to feel close I pushed on your skin to find holes I could bury my eyes in for a while and rest in the dark warm bubble we made from our dust would you hide me in your dresser now I could dream here forever stitch me up with your hair and turn me loose on the ocean I've never seen anyone die like this before up against the hedges on the street with no trace don't tell me to leave while you are breathing don't tell me to leave while you are breathing don't tell me to leave while you are breathing don't tell me to leave while you are breathing don't tell me to leave while you are breathing Well I love to think about you but you never knew who I thought you were and I'm wrapped up in the milk pouring out from the stereo onto your chest and I scratched a long word into your back and I hope you don't forsake me forever I didn't mean to let you fall down and bruise your fruit and I wish that I had saved some cigarettes for you in dirt driveways I love you in parking lots I love you in drunken apartments I love you and I'll always love you in these places I watched while you turned hollow and I wanted to fill your space but whenever I brought you home I could never find my paints I watched while you turned hollow and I wanted to fill your space but whenever I brought you home I could never find my paints
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Would you have time to spend wasting with me on the day that I celebrate birth I crawled into your eye with a picture of sunken hearts that I found And you can tell I'm around by the smell of chloraseptic and the kiss cough syrup we laid on the floor the first time you pushed me down and held me in your breath and burnt down my eye lashes while you lit a cigarette and the moon was all gravy while we painted in your room remember when I drank from the sink until I knew who you were until I knew who you were Theres a place we can make where you drive with me all of the time You went to work while I fell through the cracks of the window I never went to far away on the tapestry I wove I always ended up on your couch in the morning and singing in the shower you built me a house in your teeth well I could stomach the day if it ended up in you Well the baby is born and the things that we believe in start to change all the places that we dreamed in rearrange themselves on the window sil on the window sil on the window sil on the window sil
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Deliver me I would be floating on strings from your lovely piano now black and white wood painted strung up with wire and hanging from the marmalade tree pencils made votes while the afternoon chokes on the dust from our cellular smiles we can wake up on any day thankful for more then we knew we could get but would you believe me if your sister loved me the sounds drive her crazy so we stopped the car parked and got lost in the rain we were invisible until the rain stopped and the music moved over and over your body while I tried to figure out why I was laying on you counting clumsy on fingers that didn't figure out who your were until you left well I do remember drinking but I don't remember feeling like my face was green and you held me at the throat impossible things happen everyday and I guess it was just my turn when we moved from the living room into your bed we fell over our innocence and busted our heads open thick liquid poured out all over the floor and we saw our reflections in it yeah we saw our reflections in it but your hair was a different color and you had found your lord I wrote your name on my wrist and settled for being ignored your hair was a different color and you had found your lord I wrote your name on my wrist and settled for being ignored
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I wonder what we would have done in the backyard if I would have pulled down the dark sky to meet you and cover your lips with reflections of ships in the sky you may have known all the time deep in my walls I kept pictures to live by and I needed you with me but we never met skin to skin you told me I couldn't touch your face and for some reason I believed you I never understood why the flowers bled ink on the carpet in the middle of your room how did you look past the antique eyes and precious obsessions that hung from the ceiling the vacant expression on your unconscious mouth made me forget to remember your voice but I'm not afraid to leave you alone in the attic where no one but I will go and rummage through things that I left here to breathe soft dusty sunlight fills the air and carefully cares for your february locket wrapped in tissue paper and coughing in your pocket all I could think of was you never taking it off
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Set your bells on the table and let me jump off of the roof of your mouth your bright dress was empty and all we could do was tell jokes on the floor but we needed to loose ourselves in the ceiling you remember much more from the pearly warm spring that we hung ourselves over the roof of my car and you drained me with your voice on the way home on the way home there were lamps in the trees where the carefully placed leaves never told anybody our secrets do you know that I lived in your closet with your hours wrapped in old newspaper flowers and over and over I wanted to float through the hallway to pull the candy out from your chest and the sun shines through your window and glows across the room while the dust settles we both decide what kind of world we knew you wrapped your veins around mine while we made a new mess before the days that fell from your mouth and out from your womb we watched the sky as the mountains of clouds passed us by now the telephone magic and vintage parades make me want to stay inside while the cardboard hearts cut up on real time sharing your tongue could be dangerous have you ever felt something endless and cold I'm floating on your rivers and lakes I'm floating on your rivers and lakes I'm floating on your rivers and lakes I'm floating on, floating on So glad you came to meet me an this star its bleeding like a martyr and its always getting better its always getting worse but we must ride it out or we won't see past our eyes we won't see the rivers and lakes we wont't see the rivers and lakes we won't see the rivers and lakes
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about

This record was recorded at my friend Rebecca Zapen's house on a digital four track in the Autumn of 2003. Overdubs were done in the Green Shed and my apartment later on.

The live performance was done in Miami in 2004.

The words for this record were written all at once late one night within a span of thirty minutes and later put into separate songs.

The title of the record came from a video my kid used to watch.

credits

released June 20, 2017

Violin: Rebecca Zapen
Bassoon: Anthony Anurca
Everything else: Rick

all songs written by Rick Colado

arranged by Rick, Rebecca and Anthony

album cover: Sarah B. Colado

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