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The Medium The Message & Myself

by The Medium The Message & Myself

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1.
Resonance 01:45
2.
Fear 03:20
You feel that? It's the air touching the water then reaching for your skin It's getting dark outside it's getting cold again You are seattle's color palette and the kiss I wish I was breathing in With the same lips I use to pray Reference children's books and beg you to stay Please stitch up my emptiness Cause I'm okay with let downs but not like this I bring up emptiness like we could ever forget Confessions in the rain prayers so desperate Behind dashboard piercing scenery Nakedness leads to fear, fear to making leaves Cover up who we are from God and us But The way you reached across yourself will always beat you dress Would you be so kind to cover up my loneliness With so many doubts tell me I'm not alone in this and I'll show what no one else has seen I love the way that you arrange those leaves Would you be the one? Would you be the one? Would you be the one to Hide from God with me The question that takes a moment to ask and a lifetime to answer "Where are you?" We don't speak in English we speak in fear And worship a God that's up there all the way down here I don't sing from forgiveness I sing for it Cause I have so many ugly things that I can't forget Ironic to think I've let go of these old debts Like the great divorce, our shoulders need their pets If she can't tell the ground from the sky I will confess "me too" I just want to be found then get lost in you I just want to know your plans fears and doubts Show me your tender heart as you spill it out Just Know I'm not embarrassed by you not even close In fact when Monday hits you're the one I miss the most Cause I'm still in love with my missed connection My lost reception to the object of my affection I'll show what no one else has seen I love the way that you arrange those leaves Would you be the one? Would you be the one? Would you be the one to Hide from God with me You will find me out You will find everything
3.
Waves 02:53
When these pillow forts finally cave and the December cold drowns us in it's waves I want to be overwhelmed with you You won't drown alone cause I will too next time lets meet under mistletoe And Driveways that are filled with snow. Nights that end with me begging please go Ill eat you up, I love you so And I'm still moving cause I've got problems with my sleep You're still why Christmas came early for me next time lets meet under mistletoe And Driveways that are filled with snow. Nights that end with me begging please go Ill eat you up, I love you so I just wanna close my eyes and hear you speak Give up on thoughts And feel you fall asleep Eat you up, I love you so Did you know the world isn't as static as we think And snow envelopes roads In between cities Did you know there's places where you can actually see stars And you don't care that your phones not charged
4.
Plans 03:00
I drove hours in mountain roads through frost I swam Just to get caught in your flawless skin Just to tell the world I got lost again Not in scenery but in an honest grin The city ain't as scary when it's empty at night And we're fading like memories, like the ends of these lights I've been waiting for autum so things will resume moving slow Or I'm waiting for fall so ill begin to feel home While thinking its hard to Find someone as old as me Who's got a heart that's equally as cold yet sweet It's funny how you run away from all your mistakes Just to find them waiting for you inside bluer states So before I get to the point of saying things I need to take back I need to get to the point of the right questions to ask If you think nothing is wrong then I'm a need you to scratch I want to paint it paint it paint it black Chorus: Do you wanna dance? Why I know you do Do you wanna dance? WHAO me too This is all that we want This is all that we want And it's all Black as night I think I need to end this drive So disconnected And so alive Your vulnerability looks so Good next to mine We'll Find our burning bush moments inside 'welcome home again's in our Wonderlust tonight with our big-city friends I hate the pictures that you take when you walk down town I hate the way your enthusiasm sounds But still write poems about you cause how could I not And constantly think about her because how could I stop Forget metaphors I want wood apartment floor Make out sessions and don't leave yet's when I make it to your door And I'm not exaggerating when I say you make my lips quake And just the thought of you makes my fingertips shake every time I see you you get prettier I don't know what it is I wait for more The day when it's my songs you sing Or when you finally ask what the ought to mean Do you wanna dance why I know you do Do you wanna dance whao me too This is all that we want This is all that we want
5.
FILM 03:25
Do not break eye contact when I ask you what it feels like For you to be in such a bad romantic film in real like I'm thinking of you as scream so it will not feel rehearsed I hope it's overcast when you hear this first I hope it's raining to compliment our thirst That That no new city can ever nurse You don't need a prince baby I'm the king Of scolding hot showers cause ill never feel clean Enough There's no moments no monologues No out bursts and nothing changes Lets sit and talk about my shirts and your perfume And how they've become our costumes No body is keeping tabs on how many times you hurt yourself There's no pats on the backs for the times you that you dont ask for help It's funny how things don't change when your ducks line up I still hate myself and sleep too much THIS IS YOUR ROM-COM IN REAL LIFE Like answers and understanding like pictures and words No matter how hard we try we do not go together. The only thing we have in common is our fight for space Our claim to belief and our songs so out of place Our lives coalesced like words in a sentence And spoilers aside our ending didn't Make sense So would you Grab a rope and pull me through All of the nothing that I mean to you The princess doesn't fall in love outside the page She just plays it safe enough to die from old age No right time and no right words No daffodils and no hummingbirds So here's your invitation to risk "Rise up, and come away" to what could be us I don't want you to destroy me but here's your chance I'm just a scared boy asking a girl to dance THIS IS YOUR ROM-COM IN REAL LIFE
6.
Light 02:53
I wanna be the reason why you cant sleep at night In your pitch black room I want to be the piercing light Then I'd mean something to you right? I wanna be the reason why you cant sleep at night In your pitch black room I want to be the piercing light Cause I'm waiting for you like the end of summer cause I'm sick of this burnt skin The same epidermis that we're both uncomfortable in By your lips my sin is purged but you wanna make my world end So could you see why it's so hard to see you again Your the only one who knows the details behind my sleeping with sin The beginning to my walls asking are you listening Blankets aren't made for us they're made for these windows You're the end of pencil tips that catalyst all of my prose Lets have a dinner over self hate And religion to set ourselves strait Talk about A God that is self made That we know damn well don't exist We'll find home on our knees You find her next next to me With a lack of belief the realest fear of honesty I could say I'm sorry all you want but you know that I'm not And Im still recovering from the perfect me that I am not All I want is orange October skies Soberest 'so am I's 'Me too's that lead to 'I know why' Im trying to write a song that sad enough to compare your skin tone to It adequately enough and still have the metaphor Hold true We touch like Sampson's hair making contact to the floor, like Moses' cane to the rocks like peters feet to the shore
7.
Self 01:47
I've spent way too long looking for a burning bush Oh how I still wish you would finally push Me in front of these moving cars as they pass by The starving prophets famous last words one last time Any words I say I'm yelling out internally As if i say it louder it wont be harder To believe Lets crawl across these perfect versions of ourselves As I reach across the miles we disconnect As forgiveness dances with "what you get"s Lets drop our religion by the wayside and see where we're left I'm Sure it's not a surprise but I cannot stop I'm sure it's not a surprise but I'm waiting for rain to drop And when it finally does things won't be the same And when it finally does I might feel the I can feel it in my bones I can feel. . . "This" is less about raindrops and more about. . . "This" is not about raindrops this is more about. . .
8.
Wait 03:27
It's feels like I've waited an eternity for this It's never about meeting lips but the eternity before a kiss There's no flight that we could take no wanderlust we could fake To run from the person behind the mistakes we make Solitary views of planes that I haven't even known yet It doesn't matter were you lay your head cause you'll always be homeless For lack of better terms I feel were both out of touch Love me, coldly hold me or am I asking for too much I don't think I could come up with the lyric half as sweet as you confessing you are as broken as me She said her hopes drop in synch with every piano key Context defines content that's why you sing tragedy You would have never guessed it but its raining again I dont want to ask what's wrong but how could I not say a thing If Its really gonna crash and burn lets share this moment together As I take in the color of your eyes and this world caving in weather I don't wanna sleep I just wanna run, and take the long way home from myself If I let my hands crack and splinter from washing them too much maybe the pain that sinks in can remind me of our lust and call it passion but peel back the layers you'll see folly you'll see foolishness It wrecks us it will crush us I'm sorry but the truth is self evident we can see that through our vices and with vices like this thats why theres notes of sorrow in our melodies contrast that with notes of hope in our epiphanies we can construct and disect and see our lives are full of symphonies pull back our views and its easy to see that in our pain our outlook can get skewed between you and me we're nothing in the larger picture but thats nothing to get hung up on you're a flash, not a fixture you're the vapor not the rain you're neither your problems or your pain You are loved I don't wanna sleep I just wanna run, and take the long way home from myself This is the end of my confession The end of the night This is the end of me wrong the end of your right now turn the lights off try your best to breathe turn the lights off and remember me this is the end of night good morning
9.
Home 01:56
All I know about this life is that it's strange and inviting Overwhelming then idling scary and exciting Even though it hurts There's beauty in the tragic And an old soul told me kindness is magic The world aint black and white and it's a beautiful day To find out what to do with a shit ton of grey Faith is an act of imagination not intellect We're invited every day to join in and resurrect If you're world is caving in then it's probably way too small And love is place where you inhabit not just fall This is my answer to your questions not an answer at all Cause resolution doesn't always come as quick as we'd want I have a question for your question: 'what's it mean to be alive? If there's no meaning under the sun then what do we do with it's light I've spent the last three years putting misunderstood words over patterns If I die today just know that this life matters So I'm okay with pain cause this life matters thankful for the drives and memories cause this life matters would love my lips to touch yours cause this life matters curious about heaven but ecstatic I'm here cause
10.
Doubt 04:11
can i say this is the best evening ever Is it the taste of your lips or this this desert weather Light flickers from a tv that we've long since ignored I am not slipping but long since been overboard So lets drown in the ocean that is our mistakes So lets wallow inside this poetic loss of faith Like its something we could easily change with words Ill confess my sins if you can say yours first It's funny how I could care less about the light in this room When it's the only reason that I can see you Sweet imperfections and all The way you bite your lip and look away as you stall To make sure you remember your story or thought The fact that when you're calm your movements still don't stop So unconsciously grateful for this source of light That lets me see your beauty on this perfect night So take your fingertips and embrace them with mine I think you know me well I think you know me well Swallowed tongues along with doubt Goodbye kiss lets draw it out We're not done not even close Lets see how far this thing can go. Remember when we drove through neighborhoods for the first time All I wanted from you was honesty not forced 'I'm fine's I'm not breaking hard ground or saying anything new When I ask if you would be my lady blue Doubt, fear, and sincerely hopeful smiles We couldn't sing with out these miles The world can be so cold don't you think? Imperfect maybe but a perfect stranger to me So Why look so hard for a burning bush When the world is on fire everywhere you look Let's talk about the connection between skin and sky Let's be less concerned with how and more with why If I told you I love you in April Id never take it back Why are all my songs about broken relationships unpacked Why did jacob stack up rocks where he wrestled at It's not about girls or stone "This" was always about "that"

credits

released April 2, 2014

Tracks 1 and 3 produced by Jose Guillen,
Tracks 2, 7 and 8 produced by Jose Ruiz
Tracks 4 produced by Trey J. McIntire, Check out soundcloud.com/sleepwvlker for more on his great work.
Tracks 5 and 6 produced by Rick Bergman, Check out soundcloud.com/iiamberg to keep up with his dope creations
Track 10 Produced by Grant "Gnasty" Duff

Additional vocals on track 8 provided by Stefan T of Archabald. Check out Archabald.com to find out more and listen to an album that is sure to get you excited about rock music.

Album artwork by Leah Dankertson. To see more of her breathtaking creativity be sure to checkout her blog at ldankertson.com

Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this album!

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