We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Comfort

by hansmole

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Given Names 03:15
we are all given names that we tell to earth, earth tells to stone, stone tells to blood, blood tells to bone and by the light of a spark in the dark i'll see - as it's poured over me, in the form of frozen water, by the daughter of my daughter - what that name will be sew me into the seam between where i did lean my left arm against the arm of a friend, in the karaoke bar for when i fall into that thin bit of thinning all around i will see, as it plummets past me, all forms of foreign bodies in frozen water, poured over in naming me: "inchoate and like some heavy thing in deep water"
2.
on a blue summer's day folding up grass boats and sitting in palm-shade: "hold your tongue on those habits of language you formed when you were young" "man, i have looked near and narrow to me, i have thrown in with medicine bowls. And having seen what i have seen, i no longer want to turn the world to stone" "i wish instead to be bearably borne, in a constantly held form and not winged away like i'm sat in a grassboat to be held only in palm-shade i see these constant forms, silver to my sore eyes i see diana, with a golden blanket, and she is sparkling in the sunlight" i am swimming in watermelon sugar
3.
No Devils 02:48
crushed to a pulp ground to nothing, super feeling life is a joke when you're told you're getting what you're needing and it gets revoked with a sharp shock, then undertow in the time it takes a falling body to light and you are asked to witness this i am two houses half buried in sand in the time it takes a falling body to light i would wish to be uncovered, 'neath the morning sky as a sight to guide as a sight to guide as a body taking ritual care to be alright
4.
Heavy Magic 03:08
draw a salted circle three feet around my feet two inches down by tooth and nail, and foot in mouth (endlessly) to bring about the signs and wonders drawn to me or the glowing stone of a gentle home and someone to whisper to me while i sleep a solid body but should there be a decent need of a light in a dark place i'll show the wick at the centre of me and i will plead: "diana golden-blanket, i have seen the sunrise - wrap me up to keep me warm and i'll sparkle in the sunlight or in the shade"
5.
Yeah 01:50
"did you fuck up?" "yeah!" (lol)
6.
Vessel/ Veil 04:29
taking comfort from the one that gives you disquiet now ain't that a serpent with its tail in its mouth through a thin wall, no callous to it at all hear me tossing a turn in my sleep through a bad dream, where you were the one for me now ain't that a serpent with its tail in its mouth falling through a surface that you caused to give out (now ain't that a serpent with its tail in its mouth) or through a thin wall, no callous to it at all inchoate and like some heavy thing in deep water in deep deep water stretching out for a surface that you caused to give out tell me i'm the vessel, and lift the veil
7.
Roslyn 02:58
back in 1999 crashed the car and survived you should have never let me drive "what would you have done if we'd died?" what would i've done if we'd died? well, i could never tell a lie fell through the ice when i was five hit the water and thought i'd died water, tell me a lie "you will live a long life" yeah, we'll all live a long life but is it one that we'll like? i was stung by the jellyfish's son his tentacles got my tongue his breath filled my lungs his voice was beautiful when he sung
8.
while i'm still warm, ring the milk out of me a couple pints to feed the needy softly simmer it into a soothing syrup and apply it when you need a salve oh, use me i would like to dip my feet into those healing waters i would like to lend a hand but i'm not one to be moved by the sadness of an ordinary man who's crying: "oh, soothe me" so sue me
9.
the heavy magic of a delicate balance is what keeps my cant from being heavy to a side
10.
i cannot remember the last time i saw myself don't ask about my main squeeze you know life ain't easy when i feel like i'm healing you know life ain't easy can't stand up to a small breeze can't hold ground, weak kneed
11.
Comfort 04:05
when i am older, when i'm grown up, when i am tall when i have abused this metaphor to the point where it means nothing at all when i have taken on water (a more generous metaphor, a more lenient line) the heavy magic of a delicate balance will keep my cant from being heavy to a side i don't want to be together, i don't want to be apart - i don't want to crumble to comfort keep tending your tender middle with generous shade

credits

released December 13, 2015

written, recorded, and mixed by Hannah van Adrichem
mastered by Jakob Nielsen

thanks justin, thanks jakob, thanks steven

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

hansmole Amsterdam, Netherlands

hi, i'm hannah. thanks for stopping by!

contact / help

Contact hansmole

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like hansmole, you may also like: