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Of Time & Tides

by North of Kismet

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1.
oh, I try so very hard but the pieces, they're too tight I can't put together what won't ever fit right my fingernails break and my knuckles bleed trying to get you all the things that you need oh I try and I try and I try and then I fail and I fail it seems time again just to get up to get up and go again but by then my knees buckle and my back, it aches I don't know how much more of your love I can take there's so much darkness and not enough light as I push and I push and you don't even fight oh I cry and I cry and I cry and then I forgive you forgive you time again just to get up to get up and go again maybe I gotta start over again to clear my head of your influence all of those good memories of you just make me want to give in but I know that my time is worth much more than this I can't give it all away for your measly kiss my momma taught me about love and life and I'm gonna work now just to make myself right oh I'm leaving this time for good I know don't even bother lookin' back cause I’m out the door I'm ‘bout to start over again and I won't miss your back-pedaling trust stealing, no
2.
Younger Ways 05:10
After you’re gone in a day or so and I’ll know for sure Exactly how much cold I will endure A tide picked me up where I first met you Then it carried us off with currents of youth Oh, to oceans of truth An anchor you became, steadied harsh waves As I balanced on toes through cartwheels and games Oh, childish games oh, childish games oh, childish games In circles we traveled, spinning round and round oh we Climbed to the tops, not scared no ground Oh, joy with no bounds All these memories that only we share we will hold tight and handle with care to be conjured up in times of despair the power to save the power to reclaim our young, young, younger ways Bright sun came one day and scorched up our sea All the water was gone, forced us to leave, oh we hated to leave A green land then appeared, farther than near So we quietly walked, timid with fear Oh, childish fear And on that dry land, we built us a home with sweat and tears, out of yarn and stone Oh cold stone, oh cold stone, oh cold stone We survived many years, remembered to play We had to work hard, keep hunger at bay Oh, but still we played All these memories that only we share we will hold tight and handle with care to be conjured up in times of despair the power to save the power to reclaim our young, young, younger ways then one morning came you had slipped away And my world turned to cool, rotten decay Oh, true loves decay I gathered twigs and old drift wood To build a fire like only you could But the wind it blew, restless and cruel It took all my light in the dead of night I huddled down and closed my eyes Thought only of you to realize All those memories that only we shared I cling to them in my despair And they hold me tight, treat me with care the power to save the power to reclaim our young, young, younger ways Now that you're gone in a day or so and I'll know for sure Exactly how much cold I will endure
3.
Perhaps 03:34
when the night is late and quiet we are sneaking past the stream I would reach out, touch your hand and know what love could mean for an ache had flashed right through me one I've never felt before But, I knew it was because of you and oh, I wanted more perhaps I have real happiness now that I've found you I hope I can keep it something close and true for the young they can be foolish they try to grow up fast While the old are wise to remember make each moment last now the stars are shining brighter And the moon makes your face glow I don't think I've seen such beauty in someone that I know there's really no way of telling what may come to be But I'm filled with strength, this feeling I'm ready for anything for our hearts are built to break there's no escaping it with time I will burn this in my thoughts, reflect how great it feels you are mine walking slowly back towards home it seems the world doesn't exist this life has much to offer But love's its greatest gift the days they pass so quickly before you know it years are gone hold tight to opportunity work to be where you belong as I tip toe to my bedroom picking leaves out of my hair I still smell the grass around me pulling magic from the air Now I lay my head to pillow my heart still beating fast I can't wait for all my days to come but I'm gonna make my moments last perhaps I have real happiness now that I've found you I'm gonna work to keep it something honest, close, and true perhaps I have real happiness now that I've found you I'm gonna work to keep it something honest, close, and true
4.
He’s taking the river home He’s going to share all his dreams With those wispy water waves In sunlit hidden caves He loves these new spring days Oh the, water gets so high From all the melting snow Soaking the ground below He slips and slides along Humming nature's songs With sweetly stated words And newly wakened birds Yes imagination soars When you search for more It’s not from TV screens But where things are unseen Oh o when boundaries slip away And normal's led astray When you can lose all sense of time Sing your own new rhyme He used to play with friends But they left one by one To find more grown up thrills And seek out silly girls He climbs that highest tree Can’t wait for all he'll see For the land it stretches far No matter which way you are He fears the day will come When all these trees are gone And children stay inside From all this beauty they'd hide For imagination grows When you don't even know It’s not from TV screens But where things are unseen Oh o when boundaries slip away And normal's lead astray When you can set your mind free Climb that highest tree He knows the day will come He’ll have to leave this town No matter where he goes He vows to always know The smell of wild flowers And all the sacred powers That nature's secrets give And what it means to him That nature's secrets give And what it means to him That nature's secrets give And what it means to him
5.
Willow Tree 04:54
I’d found you I found you In the shade of My favorite willow tree Oh, I found you And you sang to me You sang to me Under branches of My favorite willow tree Oh, you sang to me Won’t you Come back to me now I’m ready to wait Come back to me now My love is yours yet to take Sing songs for me now Your voice is ages away Sing songs for me now I crave it most every day You'd changed me You changed me In the tangles of My favorite willow tree Oh, you changed me And I’d felt free I felt so free In the tangles of Your pretty melodies Oh, I felt free Won’t you Come back to me now I’m ready to wait Come back to me now My love is yours yet to take Sing songs for me now Your voice is ages away Sing songs for me now I crave it most every day The love you harbor still today Can it come back, will it stay The love you harbor still today Can it come back, will it stay Cause you’d lost me You lost me In the fog of Our secret meeting place Oh, you lost me For I’d ran away I ran far away From the fog of All the promises I had made Oh, I ran away Could you Forgive me somehow I am ready to wait Forgive me somehow My love is yours yet to take Come find me now Your voice is ages away Come find me now I crave it most every day I'll be there I'll be there In the shade of Our secret meeting place Oh, I’ll be there
6.
Waiting 03:36
What do you know of the things they know The world looks different from their eyes All the hurtful things they've been through You’ll continue to deny From forbidden garden you picked off fruit Far too soon, it wasn't ripe So stubborn still you tried to eat it A sour taste was left behind Know your faults as you know your strengths Or drag your heels as a last defense In the periphery all the questions hide Waiting their arise waiting their arise Waiting their arise Waiting their arise Yet you pass through this life with blinders Straight ahead the only view Then you knock down, ignore reminders Of unpleasantries you knew Yes your opinions stay much the same How to change, you couldn't do For you ignore the opposition To reaffirm your point anew Know your faults as you know your strengths Or beat your fists as a last defense In the mirror image desires hide Waiting to be obliged waiting to be obliged Waiting to be obliged Waiting to be obliged Try to invite hard conversations figure out all of the mistakes with our heads down we are strangers Never to know all that's at stake All these possessions cannot guide us Push us farther apart they can't help to mend or find out what is truly in each heart A mind is weak when it can’t wrong Find your errors to become strong In the recent past, do deceptions hide waiting to be made right waiting to be made right waiting to be made right waiting to be made right in the deep long past, do deceptions hide waiting to be made right waiting to be disguised not waiting to be disguised waiting to be made right
7.
Desperately 02:18
How do I get back time that was stolen from me Need it now, so bad, quite desperately All the sudden new energy has met defeat Aspirations shot down, so sorely beat Desperateness forever will seek me out How it tugs on my hair as I punch and shout still it won't steer clear of all I have to do ooo do ooo And the dust that settled all around my face Disappeared, so I can't even track or trace Countless minutes, slowly torn from me Years and years, stripped away, so easily Desperateness forever will seek me out How it tugs on my hair as I punch and shout Still it won't steer clear of all I have to do ooo do ooo I look back and my terror surrounds me again Like a blanket of angry jabbing pins They remind, they rewind past choices made They stab on, on and on, infinitely replayed Desperateness why won't you go away I beg, I plead, I even pray Still, every morning I hope for a wishful start But I only find you, shall we never part
8.
Did he pull the stars down on you Did he make them sparkle the whole time too Till they shot through your eyes and turned so dim, lonely and dark. For they don’t belong, here, so low They yearn for the sky, so high, where they’ve shone All of this time Don’t pull them down there's something stirring in him it's on the edge of where sorrow begins run away now, somehow, before he pulls you down Will he rush the water, cold, to your chest Will he make it rise so fast above the rest Till it pours down your throat, and hits your lungs, shocked so wet For you don’t belong here, so low You yearn for the land, to stand, where you’ve roamed All of this time Don’t pull her down The lightning strikes the earth it quakes The wildlife hides the clouds they shake these warning signs are all around still you only look down Oh he held you tightly, warm, in his arms till you felt so safe and so far from harm now they're chains that make it hard to breath, trapped afar oh the wind it shrieks, but you don't mind to all of this, it seems your blind for all you hear and all you see as little bits of company lie, scattered all on the ground dim, lonely, dark stars dim, lonely, dark stars
9.
All those lazy men on the lazy beach With their pretty girls and their salty drinks They turn their backs on him But they don’t know why For they know not what they do Their hearts alive like thumping drums Beating loud to sounds of money sums And slick alibis, for all their ivory, yeah ivory white lies Then those pretty girls they just prance on by With their little shorts and their fleshy thighs They turn their backs on him But they don’t know why For they know not what they do Their hearts alive like thumping drums Beating loud to sounds of money sums And slick alibis for all their ivory, yeah ivory white lies And the children play in the sand all day With their free thoughts in their Camelot’s They think of castles and distant fairy lands They look him in the eye With a long sad sigh For they know not what’s to be Their ears perk up with sudden fear To heed the call they soon must hear oh the beating sound of money sums And slick alibis for all their, soon to be yeah ivory white lies
10.
We wander past hillsides of evergreens and tall tall grass the dew glistens rainbows on spider webs that cross our path I'm searching for that place where wonders never cease to inspire deep passions or insights in someone I have come to admire pretty please don't go stay here a little while longer at twilight 'fore midnight the sounds will astound ya the lore laced loon calls will sing out a warning of heartaches, and mistakes, and all of their glories so please don't go stay here a little while longer As I've read past my lifetime of love affairs that never fade for authors make magic enduring many centuries i grasp bits and pieces of everything within my reach then throw out my work to destroy is then to recreate pretty please don't go stay here a little while longer at twilight past midnight the sounds will astound ya the lore laced loon calls will sing out a warning of heartaches, and mistakes, and all they had hoped for so please don't go stay here a little while longer don't confuse the difference of all there is to know out there with things that are worthy and staring at you now right here each day a new canvas can come in many different forms with vibrant paintbrushes dancing in fine lines or storms pretty please don't go stay with me all through the morning see in me the wisdom and spirit I bring love me like a cupids sharp arrow stings in ancient old tales of which wild loons sing so please don't go stay with me all through morning Love me like I'm dipped in the purest of gold Know me like a treasured gift to unfold See in me the glory, your hope and blessings Give me an old tale of which wild loons sing Love me Know me Pretty please, see in me and give me Love me
11.
Sunrise 01:39
when the, sun hints the sky it’s the, end of the night and we've, taken this day for all its worth oh my, place is a mess but I, couldn't care less cause I, feel so happy I could cry oh its time’s like this, i feel so alive I wanna, scream at the top of my lungs but I, shouldn't be loud a crowds sleepin’ all around the house and they've, entered their sweet cryptic dreams now I’ll, pour you a drink lets go, walk down the street and tip our glasses to the sunrise oh it's time’s like this, we feel so alive we wanna, scream at the top of our lungs now we’ll, sit by the shore talk a couple hours more bout everything and nothing at all oh this, world is a mess but we, couldn't care less right now, there is hope in all we speak and its times like this, we can feel alive we're gonna, scream at that top of our lungs now lets, head on back find a cozy spot to crash we've given into to a new day and it's time like this.
12.
recalling some times I danced till dawn feet so sore, my heals all torn I took, I ran, I jumped, I fell still all the stories I lived to tell remember when we lost our way chosen paths led us astray we walked, we talked, we made amends so now our stories have new ends everywhere you go and everyone you meet can come around again if only you could see those things you've left behind forgotten daydreams building blocks of life specks of history travel with me through my mind haunted maze of word and rhyme I search, I hum, I find, I sing so all the stories to life I can bring go back to when they made you doubt scared your fears, flushed them out you bled, you scar, you heal, you yell still all the stories you fight to tell everywhere you go and everyone you meet can come around again if only you could see those things you've left behind forgotten daydreams building blocks of life specks of history everywhere you go and everyone you meet can come around again if only you could see those things you've left behind forgotten daydreams building blocks of life specks of history

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released December 5, 2014

Amanda Mueller – Vocals & Lyrics
Gisela Hansen – Guitar & Backing Vocals
Recorded & Mixed By – Sound Mindset LLC. Madison, WI
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North of Kismet Madison, Wisconsin

North of Kismet is Amanda Mueller and Gisela Hansen. We share a passion for music from different perspectives. Gisela, a German native, is a talented guitarist and trained opera singer. Amanda, born and raised in Wisconsin, is a poet who creates melodies to sing her poems to. Luckily, we met and discovered an ability to create complete songs together, a little differently, just North of Kismet. ... more

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