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Sail West To Reach The East

by Couteaux

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1.
Spent Shells 04:39
this body feels just like a walking corpse, blindly groping walls, finding a way. will my eyelids open wide to finally see? stuck inside this emptiness these nights are growing cold, tell me you can reconnect my nerves. follow closely to the coast, the saw-tooth razor’s edge; a ship that carries all my ghosts. Words don’t mean a thing no more, empty shells spent inside this pointless war, that got the best of me. when I tried to find that blissful state, it only seemed to slip further away. then struck something else within my bones. foreign entities embark upon... upon my weary head, untrusting of the past. should hearts open the gates? or trust the mind instead? take my hands, keep them from trembling. take my hands, lead me to open seas. fill all the vacancies. I’ve always thought i’d die holding this hate. but you’ve opened my eyes to live again.
2.
i'm keeping us from being personal can't you tell polarity is keeping us apart it's natural if only trust were so easy to come by the disconnect will remain here to lie so unpredictably impossible this constant weight i'm sentimentally attached to it sever the ties every little thing I feel lacks self-control feels like I will never come out from the cold where is the end? i'm feeling slightly confrontational with my own thoughts burn all the films that spin upon the reel and press record
3.
maybe i should write it on walls so i can see every single time i’ve failed at this desperate times are falling like stars down on my head show me there’s a heart to bind to warm night skies harbor lies tell me its not contrived speak with your eyes like knives why is it every time i bring one in I choke? nothing seems right anymore these hands are stained red from the hearts that i have crushed between my palms these hands are stained red as i’m trying to move on maybe i’m just scared maybe i’m just tired but lately i just lie awake i lie awake at night hoping for us that i’m not right is this contrived? a solitary state for all of my life feels like what it’s led to is this just contrived? is love real or is it just a fiction of a lonely mind? tell me it’s something with no explanation but what we feel warm night skies, don’t leave me out hanging on this hopeless pipe dream give me hope. give me hope for a new beginning
4.
let’s just drop holding onto this by our fingertips letting go is giving into what is right i know its hard, believe me i want nothing more than this i know its hard, softly depart from my eyes to yours, But i know its hard My lips linger with a bitter taste open your arms to this cold embrace eyelids fall to the cease of a beating heart inside me i’ve seen all to see regrets, they keep on spillin’ out your mouth can’t see i’m dead on the inside? they keep on spillin’ out your mouth, regrets regrets, we can’t change the past as easy as the needle in me I.V. flood the soul from my body Tear a hole through the ceiling give feeling to what was once a heart now a machine to keep the dead and the living apart give me mercy (mercy) I heard a voice over the hum of machines She said softly “be at peace” release this body and fall into empty space let go of me
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Cease-Fire 03:55
Is it too late to turn this around and recover left on the ground are the broken pieces of your, your life that you will never regain. I hope I’m wrong. you’re left with only vacancies under eyelids. But I am confident, not all is lost within. I know you are somewhere in there, amongst this twisted shell. take note of the war inside you, the cease-fire is constantly delayed. still got the photographs carried with me, my breath escapes from my chest, time ticks slowly. you’re fleeting ever farther, crush the distance. So fire away
6.
i've always had the hardest time letting go of this these memories are pushed back burned inside my mind for good when you sleep at night do you lie awake wide-eyed do you ever think what we did was right? to save ourselves at times i wish i never invested so much this water over years has made a cavern that's so deep and it just eats away as time goes on these eyes don't see the same no more and i've shut all the doors and i'm still afraid of all the things that will end up hurting what we did was right to save ourselves even though its hard to save ourselves burned in my eyes are all the signs then i tried to find a path around this emptiness with no such luck and i swear all this will heal in time but time kills oh it kills burned in my eyes are all the signs

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our Debut EP!

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released June 30, 2012

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Nick Botelho at NB Recording, Santa Rosa, CA 2012
Artwork by Rachel Sutton

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Couteaux San Francisco, California

Couteaux formed the summer of 2011 after the demise of the post-rock group Atheorem, and as a side-project to the bay area metal band Simoom.
With our genres combined we can play melodic music with a punch...and also summon captain planet.

Our debut EP "Sail West to Reach The East" will be released June 30th, 2012 with all songs fully downloadable from our bandcamp...for a measly sum of $3.
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