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untethered (side two)

by Dylan Goff

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1.
I Get Lost 04:57
I called you twice but you didn't quite pick up On my silent screaming mutilated words There are truth and lies in every speech I write And the crumbled dreams that I feed to the birds We find our friends when we're outside looking in Watching window scenes of merriment displays I sold bland facts but I didn't know you then And you smiled benignly asking me to stay I have wounds deep in my eyes And I am asking you for help Fools are wise when wisdom dies And we all run out of time And I am asking you for help Take one look at the prize you won my love There's an honour found in finding throwaways I'm a not quite working fix-up pocket watch But I'm still almost correct two times a day I have wounds deep in my eyes And I am asking you for help Fools are wise when wisdom dies And we all run out of time And I am asking you for help You know the song, you sing along As I'm preaching to the choir And I am asking you for help 'Cause I get lost and found 'Cause I get lost and found 'Cause I get lost and found 'Cause I get lost and found Oh I get... Well you find me here in gratitude And I'm grateful for the things you move As you guide my eyes around the park And I sit here wondering just what people are And I sit here wondering just what people are
2.
Digging 04:54
I've been digging for a long long time And I'll keep going deep until I find what I find My friends are my spade and the fossils I've saved And I sell them for tuppence on grey rainy days When colours of stories bleed out down the drain Out gutters past doorways with crusted off paint Down sewers and waterways into the sea I wear them all on my face with my heart on my sleeve I want to play it cool like I've something to hide I want a duck feather fortress to shelter inside I'm cis and I'm straight and I'm male and I'm white And I don't really know why I'm terrified I don't really know why I'm terrified I used to be able to roll a good cigarette Back when I danced naked to pay off my debt And self flagellated to dampen my dreams They're still saturated and torn at the seams So I pick them up careful and I place them aside I've got to keep digging until I find what I find And I find that just knowing does not make me wise Got dirt on my hands and old pain in my eyes From telephones and mirrors and distant headlights And I don't really know why I'm terrified I don't really know why I'm terrified But I think it was something about you Yeah I think it was something about you Each shovel load turned ends up burned in my mind I can still see the urn from the day that I died We're slaves to the graves that we scrape all our lives And I don't really know why I'm terrified I don't really know why I'm terrified But I think it was something about you Yeah I think it was something about you
3.
We walk the walk here in this town To be cunning you must play kind Cause you're two steps up or you're two steps down Or you get two steps left behind We knock each locked door right on through But always turn off every light We love our guns but we never shoot We just like to hold them high Behold our smiles See how strong and sane we are Behold our smiles See how strong and sane we are The whispers cast behind our backs Tend to get a little strained When I took such advice to heart I lost every cent I ever made See we're not ones for hedging bets We're not ones for playing safe Behold our smiles See how strong and sane we are Behold our smiles See how strong and sane we are Behold our smiles See how strong and sane we are
4.
I went walking in a photograph Side by side with a group of my best regrets And I wandered home Later all alone In a come stained dirty dress And at the side of the canal I sat and watched all the young people hanging out Yeah there was a time When that could have been mine But I guess I just missed my chance Now I listen hard Try to hear what real life is But I can't make it out Over the murmur and shout Of the street scene playing out in front of me All my ravens have come home To roost in the boughs Yeah they are sitting there squalling in the bare crowns I went walking in a photograph Down the fields with the Ghost of Ambitions Past And he had his fun Showed me what I could have won If I got my head out of my ass And on a lonely road In the kind of cold that cuts into the bone I can barely recall What you look like at all See you are playing all coy As I trudge through the mud in my moth eaten coat All my ravens have come home To roost in the boughs And they are sitting there laughing at what I'm reduced to now And I cursed every word I shat out of my mouth Staining rue to the hue of my photographs now Oh I didn't know it all No I didn't know at all Oh I didn't know it all No I didn't know at all Oh I didn't know it all No I didn't know at all Oh I didn't know it all No I didn't know at all Know!
5.
I was adrift at sea Out the back of the Stephansdom Swimming down an old cobbled street Sometimes I just get this urge to float And though I hate getting wet I love the sting of the ocean Washed up on an empty strand between An AA meeting and the university While a red and white tram Rattled on down the road Rattling like a box of my brittle young bones Oh help me help me help me Help me feel the weight of my feet On these streets where I'm going Your dialect makes it quite hard to connect And though I heard the odd word I missed the gist of the story I've come untethered I need to do better Than shrill voice, sad eyes And an old argyle sweater Birds of the air have the freedom to breathe Like voyeurs in vantage points up in the trees Maybe that carpenter had a point Though I don't really want to give up my TV There's a house on the hill where the gaps are filled in And we're each in command of the stories we spin Getting up there is a burden we share Because it moves two miles back each time we stop for air Well I deeply inhale a whole lungful of dust That's been ground from the bones of my wandering lust Because each siren I followed just led me back down To the stooping door where all my journeys began I've come untethered I need to do better Than shrill voice, sad eyes And an old argyle sweater There's a bridge on the ford On each fork in the road And they build them up high To keep horizons low It's there that she dwells Her voice clear as bells Saying I had to leave Because I was no good Removing myself to a whole other place I dream of the sea on a wild windy day Things don't get different When you do things the same But I'm still here at the Bahnhof I'm begging for change Sticky tape wrap me I'm falling apart I tore myself trying to reach up to the mark Well aloof is aloof and replaced is replaced Yeah what would life be if I was a different way? And back in the world and I'm sat by the door Amongst beggars and businessmen on the U4 In the arms of a city that's kept me these years My heart lies with another though my body rests here I've come untethered I need to do better Than shrill voice, sad eyes And an old argyle sweater

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Guitar + Vocals: Dylan Goff
Bass: Emily Smejkal
Piano + Synth: Michael Stark
Drums: Fabian Natter
E-Bow + Electric Guitar: Daniel Fisher

Mixed by Daniel Fisher
Mastered by Alexandr Vatagin

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released January 20, 2023

All songs composed by Dylan Goff

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Dylan Goff Vienna, Austria

Born and raised in Drogheda, Ireland, Dylan Goff is a singer-songwriter who has lived in Vienna, Austria since the early 2000s. Although he has long made his physical home in Central Europe, musically he lives somewhere between the indie and folk worlds, with influences ranging from The National, Phoebe Bridgers and Gregory Alan Isakov to The Pogues, Lankum and Christy Moore. ... more

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