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Black wave, black wave
Comes to break day
Who haunts you?
Who will bring your plague
And ease your pain?
Black Moon, Black Sun
Who’s gotten under your tongue?
Black day, black sheep son,
Now where are ya gonna run?
Well if winter’s truly here
He’s staring you in the mirror
And your best friend's not here
To go with you to the pier
Feels like you can't go anywhere…
In Here! In Here! In Here!
Felt like we’re dear, we were deer, peace-loving deer
Walking free into our clear
Side by side into a garden trap
Look out! The island is a trap!
Dreamhomes for young lovers
Playing and patiently waiting
For the Oak Bay
Deer cull to come
Deer cull to come
Deer cull to come
Deer cull to come
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2. |
Across the Field
05:20
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I never told you anything
About my love I didn't mean
Do you remember our summer dream
Lying on that island beach?
Well it was just you and me
In our new make believe
Now...
Across the field
Do you see me?
Through mourning fog
Can you see me?
Will you ever really see me?
Was there ever really something to see?
Or am I just imaginary?
I never told you anything about my heart
You probably couldn't read
I can still remember all my terrified screams
Those underworld miseries
G-d what a terrible dream
Now I want you to come around
But I know we don't walk the same ground
And i'm too tired to argue anymore
Was it naïve to believe our love could ever end the war
Was it naïve to believe we'd even ever want
To truly end the war?
Across the field
Do you see me?
Through mourning fog
Can you see me?
Will you ever really see me?
Was there even really something to see
Or am I just imaginary?
I mean were we just imaginary?
I mean is all we are just imaginary?
And if so…
In whose dream?
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3. |
Beacon Hill/The Haunt
03:41
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Our summer dream came to this abrupt end
I wanted to meet again around the bend
You had a different feeling on a different time
Now I can't go to bed without seeing you
In my mind
‘Cause when the pressure's on
And what holds old heartbreak back is gone
I feel the pull of so much more road ahead us
If we could just learn to love more, give a bit more trust
Mars in Capricorn girl I wanna do the work
But Venus in Taurus
I know we're guarding so much hurt
Was that pull coming for us
To meet again beneath our earth
‘Cause now the pressure's on
And what holds old heartbreak back is gone
No I don't wanna move on
Girl why can't we just sing another song
Yea this one's been ground to death
But I want to roll out new lawn
Wanna plant new seeds
Ones that give us more of what we want
But sorry it's over love
No matter what we grow
It's in the shadow of the haunt
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4. |
It Wasn't Up to Me
04:41
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When I met you on that summer beach
So beautiful, could love be so outta reach?
And I didn't want us to be
The heartbreaking end of a fool's journey
For some young lover’s dream
Did I want your beauty?
Hell I needed some beauty
Maybe I wanted to find a lost beautiful me
No I wanted higher beauty
I wanted real love's beauty
Wanted to find real love
Through our souls' mirroring
Well I was a nobody
Here in this nowhere land
But you grew up somebody here,
Could I ever be your nowhere man?
Sometimes it was like we were flying
Through a sparkling ocean cloud
While some storming grey shroud
Followed us around
Oh I don't really know
Was that your dad or me
But I feel ok with pretending
We were as real as anything
Oh well fuck is the real anything?
If it had been up to me
We might be sleepless stoned and fucking crazy
And that's why I needed you to leave
Venus spark death's good fear in me
Well if we were 19
Just heading out of our own high school teen dream
Love I'd have been there with you
Just how you’d want me to
Each other shaped in the golden image
Of a young lover’s dream
But now I'm some kind of age
I just can't tell what
Saw “Freedom 85”
Oh so glad to be alive
And still so glad to have spent some time with you
If it was up to me
We might still be sleepless rolling in erotic crazy
And that's why I needed us to be
Venus spark what's still dear in me
Oh it was a summer’s dream
Just one summer’s dream
Lost in our machine
Running on fumes of our star-crossed gasoline
We met in a summer of transformation
I wanted to love you alot
Just could never leave that ghost station
It wasn't up to me
Naw you didn't want anymore
Of our shit, our crazy
Now we don't speak
Every true but failed last word
If you only knew what happened to me
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Black wave, my wave, my breaking day
I needed someone
To come help take my pain away
Black stars, The Wooden Stars played
And Julie Doiron sang
Through my millennial Ottawa night
Though asleep
The Acorn of our town
Was listening
Now at Mt. Eerie's Voice in Headphones
Lost Wisdom alone can't find the clear
Moon, what I think I have
Isn't showing up
In your mirror
My g-d given name
Is now written
In poison blood, fog breath, and tears
Over there
Over there
Over there
Oh still see Bon Iver
In our dark night air
Fall wind blowing our hearts bare
At Ottawa Folk Fest 2012
Love all will be ok?
‘Cause this trip feels a lot like hell!
Young lovers
Rushing in for a dangerous mating
Escaping into fresh winter rain
For a shadow mission's saving
While all around us was set
The tripwire caging
And driving west
The earth beneath us began quaking
For our Big One...
Oak Bay's deer cull to come
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Black wave
Takes me away
To a sharper frame rate of space
Where someone is always passing me by
On their way down to take my place
Oh another me
For another week,
This one for us all to see
Son, you can find your world down here
There's a lot happening
But will my head
Just go it alone along with the sea
Now that there's no one here
To share it with
But the dog and me
Well anyway,
It's all pouring out down here
On Aquarian Beach
At cross-hares, in our cross-hares
While UVic killed off the white hare
I was shaving off my hair
To be reborn with a clear monk's stare
Spiritual summer spent so unaware
Of who it is you were
Hanging in my hot air
Felt both like home and an end of days storm
Young lovers
Running for everything but seeing the failing
Of falling into another fawn’s arms
Still soaking shaking and flailing
From playing too long on the poisoned lawns
The neighbourhood started unveiling
Getting ready
For Oak Bay’s
Deer cull to come
Deer cull to come
Deer cull to come
(Part 4)
Black wave, American wave
Crashes on our Canadian bay
Where the life in me
Was calling out for more rain
By my heart
My heart
My sailing heart
Still trying to hold the family
After all these years apart
Still wants a family
A real love set apart
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7. |
Gold Nothing
05:14
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Oh since I had to choose
Between being your sun and alone with my moon
Well of course babe I chose you
But now I think I should be the two
2 2
Lost signals found after the eclipse
Saying we stayed for the safety of a polar ice rift
Flowing out into our our own arctic
Where nobody but us could ever exist
Nor come pick us up
Or even give us a lift
Up and up and away
From here and from each other
And from each other
So when we said
That nothing really matters
We were missing our god's own truth
While stuck in sidewalk cracks
Was a lot more gold nothing left to use
Alot of gold nothing
Gold nothing
We had gold nothing
Gold nothing
My failed love I thought we were dear
But seems we came and were held together by fear
That our young love was doomed
A pair of polar stars pulling in a shapeshifting room
Oh I thought I could truly love you
Stayed up all night so many times trying to talk things through
But our opposition held true
Was it all for nothing
For you
Were the love my heart let surface
Yeah for a time of self-hate
We held too much life to miss
So no I couldn't escape it
My fate was bound to the death of our scorpio kiss
And more lying beneath the surface
Than I ever thought could coexist
So remember when we said
That nothing really matters
We were missing our god’s own truth
While stuck in sidewalk cracks
Was a lot more gold nothing left to use
A lot of gold nothing
Gold nothing
We had gold nothing
Gold nothing
Oh coming around the bend
Where I hoped for our story to continue as friends
But there was too much left to defend
In our fragile new space to make true amends
And now i'm lost without you
Looking for love to fill the void your departure blew
And I just can't come to a fitting end
So I keep on writing
All these songs desperate to make some sense
Of five years, impossible to pretend
I can imagine my self without you
And the kind of love and life
That we together so fully led
Can't believe we ever said
That nothing really matters
We were missing our own word’s truth
While stuck in sidewalk cracks
Was a lot more gold nothing then we knew
Young lovers stuck in sidewalk cracks
There's enough gold nothing left to move
A lot of gold nothing
Gold nothing
We had gold nothing
Gold nothing
Gold nothing
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Snowblind
04:30
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I came when you were alone
And looking for a better time and place
You know, I went out with you ‘cause I was alone too
We made a house for a while
Til we came to see the crack in our plaster smile
No matter what now, will I come to
In a better time and place
Man made anew?
Oh I’m so tired,
Couldn't find your truth
In broken headlights
Feel I’m going insane
Snowblind
Breaking for you to stay in my life
Skidding in my high school parking lot,
In a dream replaced by your figure 8 ring
My eternity stalled on your finger
Never left you
Because I was so afraid
Of being alone
So ashamed
I needed you
To feel at home
Now that I'm called
To face some facts
Would much rather wait for time
To come and circle back.
I'm piled up trash to you
But I'm just not healthy enough now to lose
Can't help it
I just can't snap feeling to a grid
Quick as you do
Seven months since our cold heart fall
Dead of winter passed
Still hung up on your last call
You raged to break some sharp space,
You said if we were ever to be in touch at all
Oh I’m so tired,
Couldn't find your truth
In broken headlights
Feel I’m going insane
Snowblind
Breaking for you to stay in my life
Skidding in my high school parking lot,
In a dream replaced by your figure 8 ring
My eternity stalled on your finger
Never left you
Because I was so afraid
Of being alone
So ashamed
I needed you
To feel at home
Now that I'm called
To face some facts
Would much rather wait for time
To come and circle back
Time will circle back
I'll still find the lack
Time will circle back
I know the past is the past
And there is no going back
Yeah the past is the past
And there is no going back
Well yeah, time cycles
Sure, time cycles
I've seen time cycle back
But the past is the past
The present we meet now is slightly altered in fact
Which means we were still being changed
Even while we were chained
To our death wish
Our unlived heart attack
But the past is the past
Thank g-d we're not going back
I came when you were alone
And looking for a better time and place
You know, I went out with you but then was called up to prove
That your jaded mask so over love and romance
Contained a kind beauty and we were entranced
Oh five years now
Did it come to this?
Did I set my fate
By pointing out
Your cloaked clenched fist?
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9. |
Virgo Rising
06:36
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Sunny day
Big mountain, blue sky
Sweet island air
A world of light for the kids you and I
I work with my guitar
Pay the bills and make healthy meals
To the sound of Arthur Russell's
“Love is Overtaking Me”
Well all these things
I associate
With living a clear destiny
Fresh from the break day
Oh the house is haunted
And still there you stand
Love I can be your prism
Standing in as your man
Well I've wanted this
All my life
But were we pre-programmed
To meet on a halloween night
Now I’m a mess
Ash in drink and I know it
Body and voice are sore, tired and hoarse
And my face breaks out
Too open to show it
No I can't go out tonight
That's living at my edge
Guess i'm going down
This fall for some occult knowledge
Rowing back, rowing back
“There's always something going on down here”
In the droning pre-dawn
Scene and figures glowing in a strange sea of black
Shifting back
They're leading back
To another time
Deep in my mind
When you were mine
When you were mine
It was another place
It was another time
Oh when you were mine
It was another kind of place
It was another kind of time
I still see your face
Diving beneath our Earth sign
Still call up for your embrace
But seems you've now cut my line
Still searching through our old home-base
Our shared space in deep mind
In another place
In another time
I was forever yours
Were you forever mine?
Just wanna know
Were we forever tied?
Just want you to know
Oh I still love you
Though you're not inclined
To say I love you
Though you're no longer mine
I believe I love you
Over the end of time
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Black wave, someday
I'll fully embrace your cave
But I'm not ready to let you take my life away
Under the sun, Piscean sun
Reflecting grief of our heart not beating as one
Pressed up against my lungs
Waiting to surrender broken words sung by a loving tongue
Yeah we rushed up our island's mountains too fast
Overwhelmed the Western Wall
To see the Earth from dawn's eastern path
Now if our g-d be wrong
Let him sink back
Into the scorched desert rock from which he was cast
Young lovers
Creating one man meant for our forsaking
To finally break up
With the failed fairy tales
The drugs our parents were taking
Oh making a run
For the love and light
Our eyes kept mistaking
In a mystic illusion
Of the grey west coast sun
Shadows invoking
Oak Bay's deer cull to come
In a pomegranate garden Wisdom waits for us to come down
For young love's death and resurrection
Eternal wedding procession underground
True reunion
By the Oak Bay Deer's rebirth
As a sky of endless suns
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Black wave, black wave
Evaporates into a sunshower
On a James Bay Spring day
Her tearful clouds now quicken away
Dropping over hills of last year's pain
Their hermit shroud
Closed and thickened the walls
Of my heart's blue veins
Blue rain
Washing out failed love
And carrying our dead roots away
Oh when disaster came along
On Alberta roads
We tried but weren't strong
Enough to drive through slaughterhouse air
And bleach out a bloodstained song
Blue wave
Can I feel a good love coming my way?
There’s a grey great Skylark
Flying out from the dark
Into a curvature of space once fit for your star
In my cracked open heart
Our flood clouds begin to lift
As you and I drift apart
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Mystery Lover Toronto, Ontario
Mystery Lover is an indie/emo band formed in 2017 in Victoria, BC, Canada, and now based in Toronto. Their cathartic and
profoundly searching debut LP “The Death Of Young Love” was recorded at Fat Dad Studios with producer Alex Bodman, and mastered by Ryan Schwabe (Hop Along, Modern Baseball, Algernon Cadwallader). Following its release, the band embarked on an extensive Cross-Canada tour.
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