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A View That Won't Change

by Andrew V Phillips

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1.
Honey trap 03:36
I was longing to drift away, I could leave without a single doubt. In your eye's my sun's set, my doubts held no regret. Testing patience, holding nerve, take the risk of speaking first. I played my part, blindly, treading with care is not enough to avoid a silence where.. You talk, you say, long to move away. Couldn't wait to turn away, to leave without, a parting doubt. With closed eye's, and half breath, feel lost in your suggestion. If I could loose this longing to move away, I would live without any doubt.
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It feels time to, look for a less obvious way, to express my desire to leave again. Pick up and go wherever hope takes. To find it in any place. Let you down gently, catch your breath in arms thrown wide. Make just one sound, enough to recognise, a call of separation. Waiting patiently for, just one thing to change. To count up all of my luck, and place it in someone else's hand's. Hope they use it well, instead of waiting. Just go and write, or stare for ages. If you knew the truth you'd say "help won't make a difference." Altruism's good but my efforts might add to another's plight. Whilst looking to find a niche, to best serve my desire, found what I did least expect to find; you care more than I thought. If you turned to walk away, I know it as expression of your wish to stay. I won't turn away. Move closer, and say...How it hurts, and why do so few care to listen? I'll take a fall for you, something wants me to.
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Become quiet 01:53
Become quiet, fall some more, know life through a book You settle down, get to know your ground Bathing in dust sets you apart You settle down, now you’re tounge tied Life becomes atrophied. Think about, lack of faith Talking goes in circles Life as dust unsettled. But just for now You become quiet, you settle down and Get hung up on everything I don’t know where you are If you’re down then then you’re down
4.
Like a King 06:42
I thought I knew which direction life was taking The last one showed me that But it didn’t take long to forget my ideal Once I knew the sweet taste of revenge I second guess how much need is in you To see what lies beyond each vale I feel it too, this sand must be drunk on The blood spilled at my command It can’t wait until you see another face and shadow to me One that’s gaunt and bloodthursty In the next life, a thousand years I can conceal from outside Nevr too late to choose Where horizon kisses the ground When to taste, when to listen Give up all to When to lavish him like a king It seems that he see’s everything Place your faith in divine rule For a leader with grace you’ll Lavish him, like a king Bestow upon him everything All the dream appear to you Now its clear Do what you have to Never too late to choose where horizon kisses ground Now I know when to taste, when not to listen I see how I could’ve made it right Each life lost takes away from me Revenge has no honour anyway I can’t hold each love for you I can’t tell how much time I have until I’m through
5.
If you lived here you’d be home already Wouldn’t need to reach out anymore it’s alright right to hold on but I wish to be empty after many years in one place what has changed? What can I carry? Walked every mile kicking up dust Only patience knows Wanders back and forth Never to be still One breath and I’m gone Settled like dust Wonderfully restless If you lived here you’d be home already Won’t need to reach out to anyone It’s alright, you never wanted anything Should’ve just held my breath If you felt safe to be by my side And were moved just enough to keep yourself alive To reach out was all I could do To try to be empty for you Many times not just this time I feel a chance to make a break To move far away, never be afraid It always seems that life’s about to start Until then I need to find something to keep you off my mind
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If there’s one thing I know from here, it’s hard to be close When we’re both standing on a line Just the touch of our toes It wavers and moves with each twist we make Where there’s an edge on both sides we try to share our lives Climbing in a new line, no one mentioned to me That it’s not my place to be the first to this peak Tried to inspire you with something too delicate Leaning beyond my edge would make us meet A misguided gesture, it turned and cut me down If I speak up, I’m frozen Up against an edge where I can almost feel the air Now I’ve suppressed any doubt, I know this is about The clarity I feel for the things closest to me When I’m finely balanced When I know you’re there Where we fail to climb Cut through our own line Real life lies outside Safer not to face the light
8.
Hearing stories of dreams outside Watching films that are still Like a wandering man in a vivid plan As the curtains close I take a bow Where to next? Why do my thoughts always flow to foreign lands… I know I’m right, to hold a dream in sight Take a chance in time, and live everywhere Hearing stories of dream outside Watching films that are still Like a wandering man with a vivid plan I know I’m right to hold a dream in sight Take a chance in time and live
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Absence 07:41
Time asks; where did you go? And why should I leave your memory far away? I should keep it close The only trace left, lies beneath a blanket of white With city lights that only burn the night endlessly This red heat invokes your memory I came here to try to find the fatal place Where our friendship was torn to dust by a twist of fate I can’t recall the moment Too late Everywhere I go will never be far enough away As I long to live someone else’s life To recreate from this death the last of your life Time can’t tell me where you’ve gone Or why I should let another thing slip away from me So I try to hold on to your memory See through the fine lights, a faint outline Your body floats You’re distant but you breath right Still alive for me Don’t need to look anymore I know wherever I go there’s no choice to be without you I wouldn’t want to be away from… I can’t describe it. Don’t know why I even try to talk Can’t let this chance slip away..

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released December 10, 2012

Written, performed and recorded by Andrew Phillips
Mike Havies – Vocals
Ross Absell Maurice – Additional vocals on Somewhere other than here
Mixed and mastered by James Plotkin

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Andrew V Phillips Newport, UK

Andrew is a musician and visual artist living in Edinburgh.

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