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The Dream of You & Me

by Ark Life

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1.
Let Your Heart Break if you don't think about the things you love you’re gonna lose them, some day if you think too much about the things you love you’re gonna lose them in another way so you must think just enough about the things you love though I think you know what I might say it's so tough to judge what is just enough you’re gonna have to let your heart have to let your heart let your heart break   now me, I didn't care enough for the things I loved then I was sad to see them drift away though I can picture this all in a new light now that I couldn't have if they would’ve stayed so you must think just enough about the things that you love or at least try to shift the light, tide on the lake but I know it's tough to judge what is just enough you’re gonna have to let your heart have to let your heart let your heart break   knowing that this world just might take a very strange turn - or even explode - tonight, Miramar, she just smiled, set her palm on your thigh - she tried: "May you live," she cried, "with your insides…” she laughed… "with your insides out, through these interesting times! go on, let your heart fly let your heart try let it get shifted by the light on the lake!” go ahead, now - let your heart break let your heart break
2.
Proud of Me Out There, Mama you'd be proud of me out there, mama you’d picture me holding my own as the shadows creep, the sidewalks break trees, and we all learn to go off alone you'd be proud of me out there, mama you would sigh at me wandering so free as the water extends where the edge of land ends and the moon laps the fall of the leaves I can see now the smile in your eyes - mama, you'd be proud of me and I need your love to make my way through this door oh I need your love to make me up another home well you'd be proud of me out there, mama breathe in time with me making my way through the joshua trees, with their sweat on the breeze, and then climbing the old castle's bay you'd be proud of me out there, mama you would throw your arms open again whether I was the king or the kill that he brings, you'd receive me, a rotten old friend you would know just the right thing to say at the journey's sweet end so I need your love to make my way through this door oh I need your love to make me up another home if it means going down and moving all the ocean it it means calling all the city to the street if it means over mountains dragging deserts to the river then I am moving again, calling again as if nothing we know could complete you'd be proud of me out there, mama you would picture me holding my own whether I was the wind or the branches that bend knowing none of us go out alone you'd be so proud, and I thank you, mama - I guess you know? oh mama, you always know
3.
What You Want To I know that I should be narrow I know that I should be true I should shoot straight as an arrow I should come always to you I should not love with abandon I should aim, fire, and fly but the hardest thing still to decide is not what you should do, but what you want to well, I know that I should be happy I know that I should be home I should’ve folded that letter I should’ve looked for a phone I should not smile at these strangers I should pack up and depart but the heaviest weight on my heart is not what I should do, but what I want to don’t know who – don’t know how dead of the night when the lights come crashing down can’t say why – won’t say when dead of the dawn and the lights rise up again rise up again and I know that I should remember I know that I should commit I should get back to the basics I should come down from the cliff I should not run to my own death I should beg mercy and bow but the thing that keeps me alive somehow is not what I should do – but what I want to yeah the thing that gets you breathing, trust me the thing that keeps you alive, roughly the hardest to pinpoint or just be not what you should do it’s not what you should do   not what you should do – but what you want to
4.
You're with Me I don't know – I don't care we're all here, and that is all there is, baby I won't leave you – we’re gonna find we're all here, and that is all there is, baby and if they ask you who snuck you in – just say me if they wanna know who took you in – just say me if they keep you at the borders if you ever have to wonder you're with me – don’t you worry now you're with me you don't know just how good just us here, and that is all there is, baby we won't run – we're gonna fight we're all here, and that is all there is, baby and I always will be by your side – just call to me if they ever get you caught up in lies – just say me if I can move any distance or ever make up any difference you're with me – don’t you worry now – you're with me you're with me – don’t you worry now – you're with me
5.
Molly Brown 03:24
Molly Brown "I wanted a rich man, but I loved Jim Brown.” the damnedest man in that whole dumb town. and I was out there on the ocean when the stars spun around but I was carrying our name, and so I didn't slip down I'm the unbeatable – maybe untreatable surely unsinkable – simply unthinkable Molly Brown on the mighty Mississippi, back in Hannibal, MO, there's a voice inside that river when the water gets low calling “mark twain” in the twilight, and your feet they let go I guess I coulda stopped drifting, but I just had to know I'm the undrenchable – ever unquenchable yet the undrinkable – I said, unthinkable Molly Brown maybe I'll invent the wheel again, cut through the land – call it a knife maybe I'll build up a dream of an ark, invite a few friends – call it a life some years later, Leadville, same old story again: I loved the frontier, but I couldn't find my Jim I was out there with the west winds that no roads might reach I was roaring down the Arkansas to that old valley's beach all the unclaimable – somehow untamable where would your dead men go, just to some foreign shore? how would your cracked ships lie under the iceberg sky? not so unsinkable, say I – I, the unthinkable Molly Brown I'd always wanted a rich man, but I only loved Jim I carried our name so far away from him unthinkable – yes, I am, Molly Brown unsinkable, baby – here I stand now here I stand now – here I stand now here I stand now – here I stand now unsinkable in the twilight, still – I stand now
6.
The Dream of You & Me we were swallowed suddenly the teeth a taxicab backseat the throat the night of New Orleans would wretch us to the beach to leave us on the morning sand two diamonds of the delta rain and four enfolding hands to name the dream of you & me the dream of you & me has come again it always laughs to wake us wondering the second night suspended us stealing every breath of lung we felt the fear for air of one who climbs the oldest tree of life and limb, a tale and tongue, some other land and a wilder sun whispered we hadn't forgotten the dream of you & me the dream of you & me has come again it always leads us back out to the wind because not every night can love some will flame and others flood you said you saw me from above, but unable to scream you felt me move from far away a Hudson River valley scape with us so small inside that paint, the dream of you & me the dream of you & me has come again it always leaves us distant, shivering a hundred other angels flocked that night around the tower clock we all were wrapped one color cloth I lost you in that sea read aloud remaining rights sent to fight for fading lines beat to blissful dust inside the dream of you & me the dream of you & me has come again it always gives us up to reckoning has it been a thousand days since that diamond delta rain? did we drift these worlds away to see what grew between? to stretch the dawn across your waist to see you as my eyelids break there's not a rest I wouldn't trade the dream of you & me the dream of you & me will come again   it always saw us two its one vision the dream of you & me will come again
7.
She 02:51
She I try to give it my best Whitman tilt, but she can see right past my hat she knows who does the looking – that's me – and who of the two of us is getting looked at: she. she'll either be the life or the death of me and I swear the very next thought is "O. My. God. is it possible I have never been with a dancer?" I shake myself with the answer as I gasp into some master mirror: "man, you haven't even ever been with a monster!" not like she. she'll either be the life or the death of me so please - oh, please scrape me off of this bathroom floor get me back on to my knees, at least I try to live it my most Cageian life but she will move right past my time she knows who does the catching up now – that's me – and who escapes that path or dies: she. i thought she could’ve seen what we could’ve been but it's nice sometimes to know you've missed the train there may not be one back this way again it's nice sometimes to know you've missed the train to think to yourself there may not come a train again you stand there at the station, your face up to the rain and you’re just thinking to yourself, over & over & over again but it's nice sometimes to know you missed that train there may well be one back this way again, but not like she.
8.
Have to Leave You Now I don't know how many words I gave you or whether you ever heard a one can't say who to put the blame to or whether I even mind that much but I won't be waiting when you wake up I'll have taken my silent bow I gave you so much time to love me gonna have to leave you now   and I won't speak a word against you I couldn't do it if I tried when they ask just who was untrue I won't know, so I won't lie instead I'll thank you for the crows' feet marching valleys to my brow but I gave you so much time to love me gonna have to leave you now half of this dream we were given half, we wrestled from the sea and if I ever take that for granted, baby, like you I hope you take this tune from me but I can't be carrying on to the blue dawn repeating the same sad sounds I gave you so much time to love me so much time to love me so much time to love me I'm gonna have to leave you now so much time to love me so much time to love me so much time to love me I'm gonna have to leave you now
9.
Some Unheroic Hill there as the wind breathed in holding my spirit still there in the thick trees upon some unheroic hill Little Big Man, my old friend, is gone today I have lost a puzzle piece - I don't pretend i knew him well but I do like a man who's the smallest bit false at times means he cares about some soul outside of himself there with the tide stretched thin trying some foreign shore there in the trembling waves outside some old unimpressed port you’ve seen distant mountains grow even as your cities crumble lived among the inventions of man, worked at getting humbled but the world is unfair to all of us, each in a special way some find the weakness to go with the wind – others, as strong, only stay sometimes you're gonna get off scot free sometimes you're gonna pay with your teeth sometimes the magic works - sometimes it just bleeds you but “My heart soars like a hawk.” - that's Little Big Man not a man who needed to talk a lot who waits in the wings for Lady Murasaki? who cowers? who all day long run here & there through the city of 100 towers: bold kings of those buildings, changing money so fast & simple reborn become a bird passing over the tops of all the temples don't you think that's always how it's been? don't you think that's always how it is? and your spirit was still in the thick trees on some unheroic hill
10.
(Rock & Roll Got) The Best of Me now, there was a time when we rocked quite a lot shoop shoop – the best of me a few liked it cool, but many liked it hot oo-wah oo-wah – the best of me I can't recall what we won, or if we just fought shoop shoop – conquered or lost but I can say exactly what rock & roll got rock & roll got the best of me rock & roll got the best of me rock & roll got the best of me so if you don't mind too much tonight I'm just gonna take it easy take it easy, now, baby but there comes a time in every man's life shoop shoop – the best of me when he can't dance anymore up on the blade of that knife oo-wah oo-wah – the best of me has to settle down, find himself a good lute, maybe a fife shoop shoop – he tries and he tries perhaps the ancient saxophone will get him back right you know we stormed all the castles we ran with the likes of handy dandy – yes we did you saw we hatched the best hustles, until the night we got caught swapping hadacol for cotton candy though it's true what they say, at the end of the day shoop shoop – the best of you when you love something right you're gonna wear it away oo-wah oo-wah – the best of you I just hope the record reflects that we played & we played shoop shoop – to all the best of you well, we played & played & we played & we played - we played & we played & we played & we played played & we played & we played - we still play and if rock & roll got the best of me then rock & roll made the best of me I guess like rock & roll just took back the best of me? well, I was happy to have it so long, so gone as it may be take it easy – I can't take it easy take it easy now, baby – I just can't take it easy! take it easy – go sit back up the mountain take it easy – maybe eat up all the dandelions take it easy – rest a while with the river take it easy – find the inside of silence take it easy – the best of me

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released August 19, 2014

Jesse Elliott - vocals & guitars
Lindsay Giles - keys & vocals
Anna Morsett - bass & vocals
Natalie Tate - guitars & vocals
Ben Desoto - drums & percussion
with special guests
Eric D. Johnson - guitars, vocals & keys
Rebecca Marie Miller - vocals

Produced by Eric D. Johnson & Jesse Elliott
at Valiant Effort Labs, Portland, OR
& co-produced by Marc Benning
at Hideaway Studios, Sedalia, CO

Mixed by Eric D. Johnson & Graeme Gibson
Mastered by Graeme Gibson
at Walker Studios, Portland, OR

Layout & design by Lindsay Giles
Photographs by Linda Beedy
Starring Annie Beedy & Lainie Castle

Songs & Lyrics by Jesse Elliott
Music & Arrangements by Ark Life
Additional Lyrics & Music by Lindsay Giles on “You’re with Me”
& Adam Arcuragi on “Proud of Me Out There, Mama”
All Songs (C) & (P) Music Made of Oceans (BMI)

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