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Coming Back

by lower lights burning

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1.
Samson 04:53
I’ve got to leave even if it takes my life I’d rather bleed than to think I’d thrown this fight and if I should fall beneath this weight would it prove all the things you heard me say? I got drunk, guess I said too much when you were done and the cowards payed you off they took me away and I had no strength to free myself the power that I had to save the weak- I knew then that I’d spent it all on me and even if it takes my life I’ll try.. to do this right so I grow my hair out and I put my head down and I put my hands out on the foundations and I say a prayer as I push my fears back and I hear the post crack as i feel it crumble down.
2.
you’re still here in my arms but you’re not with me anymore. the cost has come too great- i could not see it there before. each morning when we wake it crashes on you like a wave. and it’s all that you can do to keep the tears off of your face, and i cannot tell you how the story’s going to end we only stand and watch as it unravels like a thread I will not lose hope, I’m never letting go. finger tips were made the catch the things we cannot hold. well I have found that I am not the man I wish to be a place for you to go like the animals in our tree so I dig myself a hole and cover myself up and pray that God would send the rain and it would do its job and I would grow tall and I would grow strong and I would stand the years and be some comfort in this storm I will not lose hope, I’m never letting go. finger tips were made the catch the things we cannot hold.
3.
October leaves are changing, I can see them shaking they are barely holding on. One good breeze could send them gently falling to the path where we are walking as we hold onto your hands. My brother and I, wearing matching jackets, my boots are second hand and his are handed down. We walk across the island to the park and your slender legs are kindly keeping step with ours. I recall the only trees for miles, a short walk from our house past the apartments on the rise. And wind would cut the island to the bone, we could watch those trees shake like they're afraid of what's to come. I was so afraid to let go of your hand and I felt like the smallest man when you were not around. The years have not been easy on your hands and as I've grown into a man I've done my best to be around. It breaks my heart you can't play your guitar, can't sign my birthday cards and I can only watch you shake. Your father shook the same way that you do and I'm afraid for the day the winter comes to shake you loose. But there's still time to spend in holding hands and though they don't take your commands so well I can hold them just the same. My brother's boys are wearing matching jackets and they hold onto your hands just like we did back in Alaska.
4.
the weather moves more quickly up here in the hills if we sit for too long we’ll find the weather at our heels and rain will over take us as we travel on our way and we will settle in until the weather finally breaks so find me in the hollow where the creek bed meets the trees find me a bit smaller for the things that I have seen find me in the hollow I’ll be back down on my knees find me in the hollow where the creek bed meets the trees a fly on the wall- the world seems a bit clearer but even with this view it all seems so very unfair and we can move more quickly if we point ourselves downhill but things that trouble here, I know, will trouble us there still so find me in the hollow where the creek bed meets the trees find me a bit smaller for the things that I have seen find me in the hollow I’ll be back down on my knees find me in the hollow where the creek bed meets the trees
5.
It always starts so small but it will take you in the end fight with all you are but it will tear you limb from limb it will always promise peace if we would just lay down our arms but violence has its place and I will not shrink back from harm. I climb back to the bottle but it never drowns my pain sometimes I open up the throttle just to test the devil’s aim and if God is still as big as all these preachers boast will he find me in the dark and make the devil cut me loose? I don’t care how far I fall if you wold only cut these ropes and if freedom’s fall should kill me it’s still more than I had hoped. And I’ve sailed these seas too long to think I’ve done it very well. I’ve seen men dashed on the rock and slowly drifting into hell. all I do is watch, they can’t hear me anymore when every word I scream is swallowed in the storm and all these ships at sea- we’re weighed down and sails are torn I thought they’re coming back for me but each one has its own concern. and if you would find me here, shaking in the sea would you lift me from the dark and set me back up on my feet? ‘cause I took every measure to do what’s right by me but every ship goes down and every sailor’s lost at sea. in the end it’s only love that came to find me where I stand. in the end it’s only love that came to bring me back again. in the end it’s only love that came to face death like a man. in the end it’s only love that came with our name on his hands. in the end it’s only love
6.
a thousand nights and a thousand days I would spend if you would stay all locked up tight in our lovely house so safe now, there’s no way out a love I have felt only in my dreams is what I saw when you looked at me dark eyes. soft lips. a life that would shake me when you left the whole wide world the sky and sea could all be ours if I would leave but it’s so safe in here I can barely breathe we fear the cold so we’re locked inside we stoke the flames till they get too high it’s not alway what we wish for we find to be what we really needed to desperately choking on the heat we’re all trapped inside we pray that love would get to us in time walls on all four sides are crashing down maybe it’s for the best- now we can get out dark smoke on our clothes and in our eyes is traded happily for the sun and sky the difference in the walls of a jail or house is who’s on the inside and who’s on the out heaven would lose its love with out you near and hell would not be hell if you were there
7.
Coming back 04:54
I have been through great wars, I have lost my share of fights. I’ve been left bleeding but I’ve been left alive. I drank from the cup of love- took bread from holy hands. I can’t get us through the gates- I think I know someone who can. if we hold on they cannot break us so darling don’t let go ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh I let this go for too long, knew when i started out I could not walk this line, I could never hold my ground and with one missed step now, they crash in over me and like a drowning man, they roll on me like the sea if we hold on they cannot break us so darling don’t let go and when the darkness comes to take us I’m never letting go ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh and I know you’re cold and you feel alone- you cannot see we’re almost standing in the light your strenth is gone and you can’t go on- dont’ worry, dear the sun is chasing off the night ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh ohoh ‘cause I’m coming back, love. I’m coming back around. I’m coming back, love. they’ll never touch us now.

credits

released October 15, 2011

recorded and engineered by Cameron Nicklaus.
produced by Cameron Nicklaus and Graydon Holden
all songs written by Graydon Holden
©2011 Lower Lights Burning is
www.lowerlightsburning.com
Patrick Toney--Upbeat Child Records
Tommy Panigot--NoTheft album & web design
Bruce Pearson--Web construction & design

Lower Lights Burning is:
Amanda Winterhalter, Graydon Holden, Michael Holden

song credits:
Samson-
•Lower Lights Burning on guitar, vocals, glockenspiel, vibraphone, ukulele, drums
•Breanna Wilson on Cello
•Abby Gundersen on Violin
•Cam Nicklaus on Rhodes/synth

Don’t Lose Hope-
•Lower Lights Burning on vocals, guitar, accordion, drums, glockenspiel, electric guitar

Back in Alaska-
•Lower Lights Burning on vocals, guitar, melodica, shaker

Find Me in the Hollow-
• Lower Lights Burning on vocals, guitar, banjo, drums
•Breanna Wilson on Cello
•Cam Nicklaus on slide guitar

Every Ship Goes Down-
•Lower Lights Burning on vocals, guitar, piano, banjo
•Cam Nicklaus on organ

A Burning House-
•Lower Lights Burning on vocals, guitar, piano, drums, accordion, banjo, glockenspiel
•Cam Nicklaus on bass & tambourine

Coming Back-
•Lower Lights Burning on vocals, mandolin, drums, pump organ, organ, piano

thanks:
Friends & Family who supported us in and out of studio during this dream: Amber Holden, Marilea & Graydon Holden, Whitney VanLierop, Cam & Ruthie Nicklaus, and Erik and Chona for helping get it rolling.

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