基本介紹
- 歌曲：Harder Harmonies
- 語言：英語
- 發行日期：2011-10-04
- 歌手：La Dispute
- 所屬專輯：Wildlife
Harder Harmonies - La Dispute
Like a shadow on a shadow
a phantom in a film strip
Faint glimmer of the past
trapped in mother's old slides
Sits still in the apartment
while sifting through some pictures
Of the child that he once was
and the sense of hope they framed
It's a shame
And I fear that fate while the humming
from the street keeps me awake
He says, I let life get twisted
Get worn out, torn up, and late with the rent
And now nothing makes sense
except the bench and that piano
A feeling nearing order
when I'm pressing down the chords
And he plays
And it swells and breaks
but what'll it take to make my life sound like that
And brings a fever, a dream of sweat and ecstasy
A kiss on every hammer hit
that follows as the keys fall down
And bring an order first, then chaos, then a calm
That paints every shift in murals on the wall
And it presses to your neck
It clutches to your hips
Softly sings to you of fireworks
and God and art and sex and it's strange
That it feels so right when nothing else does
But all the while he's playing there's a humming
Coming up and through the window from outside
And even he has to admit a certain melody in it
but then why can't he harmonize?
It's like the city's got it's own song
but he can't play along
He sees the notes as they fly by
but always plays them wrong
And in the bathroom it gets blurry
gets warm and distorted
Like light pushed the orange of the pillbox
he poured in his palm
It falls to the floor, he smiles as it hits
Sounds a little like an instrument
Like a voice in the choir,
that hum and that drumbeat of life as an art-form
And fire through the streets that keep moving us
in silence to phantom baton sweeps
Keep tapping to the tempo of our feet
And all the ones who seem to fit the best into
the chorus never notice there's a song
And the ones who seem to hear it end up
tortured by the chords when they fail to find
A way to sing along.
And when you sing the wrong thing
it all starts collapsing
Starts to ring out and feedback, starts lapsing
and crashing, on notes that don't clash
But that never quite feel like they match
And I never quite feel like mine match
There's a melody in everything
I'm trying to find a harmony
but nothing seems to work
Nothing seems to fit
There's a melody in everything
I'm trying to find a harmony
but nothing seems to work
Nothing seems to fit
There's a melody in everything
I'm trying to find a harmony
but nothing seems to work
Nothing fits
