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[A​-​-​>B] Life

by mewithoutYou

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cascadestyler
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cascadestyler An almost perfect album. Never seems to slow down. The start of almost every track makes me go "Now THIS one is fantastic". Superb lyrics (Aaron only gets better as time goes on and this is already an incredibly high point for the debut) seem to pair phenomenally well with some absolutely incredible post-hardcore that is totally devoid of the cheesiness I generally find offputting about the genre. There's barely a moment on this album that doesn't bring me close to tears. Favorite track: Gentlemen.
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Dookfiend Some of the most brutal mewithoutYou tracks are on this album. Pure post-hardcore with soaring even beautiful guitar licks that mewithoutYou have become known for. Favorite track: Silencer.
mkultron86
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mkultron86 Admittedly the second album I heard, but definitely not the second in my heart.
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1.
Let us die, let us die Dying we reply "don't talk to us about suffering, look in our eyes". Let us be, let us be- Our closeness is such that wherever she rests her head in the softness underneath, she'll feel me - and you will feel me. Je leverai les yeux a toi- J'ai change cent foi de nom Je leverai les yeux a toi- Je n'ai pas d'spoir. When you laugh you'll feel my breath there filling up your lungs. And when you cry, those aren't your tears but I'm there falling down your cheek. and when you say you love him, taste me I'm like poison on your tongue- But when you're tired, if you're quiet, you'll hear me singing you to sleep.
2.
The Ghost 03:13
I'll lie down for the last time and fall well away from her And I insist that I'll be dearly missed (please, say never) I'll pour down like water In between the sky and doubt we talked about 'forever' and all our other useless words. Until I say "in his silent sound was the peace I found" but she hides behind her eyelids. I feel the breath from her nose on my neck as it blows by. the warmth passes me (like her love did) "But a tree once cut down came up new from the ground" she smiles a lie, "that may very well be," she replies "and so it goes, it's the devil, I suppose but it doesn't matter much to me." Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away. From my left eye flow tears of joy, of sorrow from my right. "You might seem too strong to surrender, boy, but you're far too frail to fight." That old dull pain beats in my brain it runs down my back into every limb- And its more of the same as the warmth that I seem to lack, you'll neither find in him.
3.
You were a song that I couldn't sing you were a story I couldn't tell I've only ever loved myself But I've loved myself so well. And how defeated I return! (you're nice and blue, you're nice and blue) I missed what I was supposed to learn as all I learned about was missing you. A life left half behind, though no longer blind I can't yet see. I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be. I've been waiting now, for six years on (and have only just begun) For the day you'll hold her in your arms, oh risen Lord, my precious one. I was once the wine, and you the wineglass. I was once alive, when you held me. God became the glass, all things left were emptiness Oh, my little girl, if you look out andsee a trace of dark red that used to be my face, in the clarity of his grace: remember me.
4.
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. "As we melt let's make no noise oh the profanation of our love to tell the world our passing joys! And we, besides, care less to miss our eyes and lips and hands." (but honey, I'm not who you think I am!) "And so you'll be to me who must obliquely run "thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begun" There's nothing wrong as I'll be somewhere singing all along." (no! tell me, where have you gone, my love.)
5.
(A) 00:54
[Instrumental]
6.
Gentlemen 02:49
7.
I said my goodbyes to the sun my little one, so far away. And how strange, how small we must become yet as familiar as yesterday The bluest iris that I'd ever seen She vanished like a dream, sinking back into the ground Singing, 'Maybe I'm ashamed, and maybe I wept real tears.' But maybe she was hiding because she wanted to be found... You wanted to be found! Don't be afraid of him. Be still.
8.
Save my skin, I need a medic Hold me down, I'm only sewn down. Save my teeth, show me you meant it Catch my death, I'm only sewn together. My eyelids are heavy, and the night's wearing on Your story's familiar, and your innocence is gone We'd burn like the morning then break like your heart Fall in love without warning just to fall back apart All fevered and blistered, with nothing at stake I feel the warmth of her whisper, and the cold of my mistakes Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands I made her a widow, she made me a man.
9.
You might sleep, but you'll never dream Onward! Progress! Or so it seems. You might laugh, but you'll never smile. Come on in and waste away awhile. When dreams of rings of flowers fade and blur Giving way to that familiar ill come over and part your soft white curtains Where I'm waiting for you still If you'd unlatch the window, If you'd let me lay there on your floor If you'd give me another chance, If you'd forget the pain I caused before No use in saying how I'm sorry So I'm trying not to speak I'll sing in silence, lay beside you With my face there on your cheek My stomach swears there's comfort there In the warmth of the blankets on your bed My stomach's always been a liar- I'll believe it's lies again.
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(B) 01:34
[Instrumental]
11.
Silencer 03:49
Don't waste your lips on words I've heard before Kiss my tired head. And each letter written wastes your hand, young man Come and lead me to your bed You gave me hope that I'd not lost her And then thought it rather strange to see me smile- as I don't do too much smiling these days. She put on happiness like a loose dress Over pain I'll never know "So the peace you had," she says, "I must confess, I'm glad to see it go." We're two white roses lying frozen just outside his door I've made you so happy and so sad, But which should I be more sorry for? Come kiss my face goodbye, that space below my eye and above my cheek Cause I'm faint and fading fast, I see a darkness And I shall be released. I'll pass like a fever from this body, And softly slip into his hands I tried to love you and I failed, But I have another plan. My Lord, how long to sing this song? And my Lord, how muchmore of this pretending to be strong? When she stands before your throne Dressed in beauty not her own All soft and small, you'll hear her call "you brought me here, now take me home."
12.
The cure for pain is in the pain, so it's there that you'll find me. Until again I forget, and again he reminds me, "Hear my voice in your head, and think of me kindly." Let me be, let me be.. Lowered down like a casket and buried just below her chest. "Whatever I was searching for, it was never you," she says. The record ended long ago, we go on dancing nonetheless. I opened like a locket, "If you're ever cold," I wrote, "there's warmth inside me. I'm the pocket of an old winter coat." But where she used to say "I need you." Now...."I don't." You'd only make the softest sound, like sugar pouring into tea. Darling let your Self pour down and dissolve into the Love who revealed himself there quietly to me... (Jesus have mercy on us.)

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released June 18, 2002

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