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Sometimes a Stranger

by Proud Simon

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bag on the doorstep blown from he southwest drunks curse careless my broken canopy silence rag doll burial covered in oil angels staring i read the obituary listen for footsteps your swishing black fishnets i traced patterns on your back while you slept tot he left pumpkins sold for carving painted signs are so charming i see the fast food lights my mountain of hope arrives chorus small town blues read city news stay with me forgotten nothing matters in a town with no shadow walking out of stride wasting my time i cast you in a well grabbed your hand and fell bottles on the sidewalk let our damp jackets dry off smirking billboard lawyers my awful paranoia stand in a hospital frozen paths already chosen i’m so sorry it’s my life story your face upside down as the slamming door sounds understand this face is just a passing phase or a lovers phrase unspoken today
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Exit 04:59
ghost of divinity in a castle on the hill took the wrong directions almost got us killed the key on my arm never faded away soaked into my bloodstream in my heart it stays the snow turned black tonight i left my conscious behind followed your timid trail our knotted stomachs intertwined once the drinks start sinking in i know just what i’ll find a language pure and focused a dotted scissor line chorus and backwards signs so sorry guys in the corner, safety hides designed pall bearers carry corpses in the cold all around siren sounds diner signs in gold caught in neon undertow crooked ceiling flailing in the undertow and slowly sinking in you’re wearing different shoes who are you tonight? a sidewalk gutterpunk or an angel in disguise? we wait an emergency or just to save your life tattoos, my drunken friends a bashful lullaby
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the blinds fold one over the other tis what’s inside is all that’s left the blindfold left my ears marked walked in your hand all these months bend these hands paper swans in a stream of broken chords fractured pattern i keep in the palm of my hand trace the lifelines until I’m dead at the end i live in a field of denim with rows of my friends i understand my position is easy to forget in your cozy apartment you keep the ghost of my heart in a box of cigars options are for those who aren’t lost
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lonely life leaves for sitting starving waiting beginning arching light shades unopened in months curtains of dust open eyes parade is waiting police block the busy streets pushed up tight against a barricade beauty for all to see not just me i know a girl who knows the weather and never opens the door poisoned air while she’s paiting on her bedroom floor read the lines the story holds escape from doors too close sleep here tonight or around the corner he’ll quietly accept both
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Vote 4 Matt 04:21
heart of steel where the rivers meet blacked bridge cold railing torn and shipwrecked albums sat faces that spoke of a time that passed broken limbs kitchen gloom reclining while tv blares the news get out while you still can boarded up laundromats alley cats red light blinks in secret code it’s name through sky once filled with smoke fire spread across the earth polluted wells factories burned saddest cast on a yellow church jealous of backs that stand turned left its soul on the mountainside stained glass broken down the picket line they had their time chorus blue collar blood and a missing thumb spelled names up and down hard to find your grandmas house kettle black soup cold family froze while the children boiled mourning a family name workers worked died just the same disaster dark poison lead kids that left an empty bunk bed new york instead
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waiting for breathing for quiet mouths to form meaning growing old in yesterday’s cloths tight jeans left on head full of christmas lights blinking off and on until you’re gone and you won’t see me anymore just a ride home from the bar saturday spent shoe gazing spinning ceiling fan hanging circles remain with a missing face stay unchanged missing my chance to belong to anything maples sing so sweetly in the spring locusts sing their sympathy hide under winter coats with words i should never have spoke you went outside with friends in the cold to have a smoke storytelling is for those who miss things when they happen i’m inside you’re out dead leaves on the ground
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mother mary stands as i drive by maybe someone sleeps by her side rusted grass sky scraping pines scorched with cigarettes and too much sunlight ooh you’re a part of me we taste copper blood from the street man sits propped against his bike thoughts choke the time that wasn’t right highlighter marks the weekly classified you can see the pain under his eyes ooh you spoke to me with his dirty hands and dirty jeans chorus stranger sing along on the strangest sidewalk bumper sticker read make love not war on a station wagon with rust under the doors kids sit backwards in the car borrow their life so i can play guitar ooh i’ll write the sweetest line for the city that saved my sight you’re on life last second turn at the traffic light walk by live life i only know mine i only know mine
8.
Mouse 03:49
i lit up like a music box kept you up all night projecting my intentions in galaxies of light we were two skipping stones sitting on the coast centuries ago poisoned arrows flown perfect throws nights swimming alone speeding city bus punched me in the gut as it’s back end swung fishtails in the alleyway please don’t stray day jobs can wait forget about your spoiled heart and missing drugs those days are gone i’ll pay for everything this month this year my love your blue shoes and your cowboy boots tied my arms behind my back with the telephone cord broken rosary sleeps on the kitchen floor pictures that i keep of the faces i used to see they all hate me now i missed every party so happy birthday dearest sorry i just wanted one more try and then stitched your wing with that wire so now pigeon honey you can fly cubist characters in a book i never read just a bridge i burned on a road in my spinning head torn papers touched with lipstick smudged red as blood watched blonde hair sway to the key of A in a symphony of dust
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Providence 05:08
guiding light hands 9 and 5 my life your spinning wheel tonight finger pricked sleeping while you sing trusting in your spin our open wings ocean turned iodine tied our legs with anchor lines lonely hearts long for a sign sidewalk legs crossed empty mile said a word i truly meant rang forever in your head save my place with deep regret or witness the death of a friend chorus you swept the coastline guarded our sight found dimes and copper wire you swept the coastline guarded our sight you can’t change my mind steep slope dead new england road streetlights speak hope alleys rip our cloths drink with friends barroom silent our tender plans all start broken the married couples say you’re young we’ll stay that way because a life in love is our living room covered in dust all the bachelors say you’re in love stay that way a life alone is my beautiful broken home
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golden straw hat behind silver fence woman sweeps low waters sprawling plants roots so long they’re wrapped around the house seeds into trees 21 years in this town guarded gardens the rain slowly fills the pail car packed with clothes daughter’s escape mother held her stomach hours spent awake framed face stencil on the stairs in a perfect world no one would leave her care waiting, waning water boiled over as she stared haunted house dolls and memories buildings walls from phone calls crossing words steadily perfect bed no clothes on the floor no noisy friend boyfriend at the door opportunity is temporary stalks grow so tall wind scatters leaves i know it mades you sad to watch beginnings end

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released September 1, 2004

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Proud Simon New York

Proud Simon was an Americana band from Rochester, New York, who formed in 2003. The band consisted of cousins Brian Keenan and Charlie Monte Verde. Over the course of the next 8 years, the band relocated to Brooklyn, went through countless lineup changes and recorded 3 LPs and 3 EPs. Their final EP was "Anchors Aweigh" in 2009. Songwriter Brian Keenan now performs under his own name. ... more

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