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I Remember a Girl Named Salem

by Ian Taylor

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creeping in like submarines treat me like you treat your veins. will you still call my name when the fire meets the rain and I thought I knew you well like the drugs on the bottom shelf but baby what'd you sell cause it feels just like Hell. as I wash my skin with paint feel that old familiar pain. standing over the bathroom sink it's 4 AM and I can't sleep. and I thought you knew me well like those other boys who fail. I guess I'm growing pale deathly cold and frail. I'm feeling grey more than blue watch the sky match my mood. and I've been wearing black for days to mourn the sunshine in your face. all this vacancy displays our hearts heavy weight. and I thought I knew you well like the drugs on the bottom shelf but baby what'd you sell cause it feels just like Hell.
2.
Haunted Face 03:00
I'm running on fumes it's two in the morning. I'm glad I've got you but soon you'll be leaving. and I've got enemies who look a lot like friends to me. I'm getting bad again freezing til I see my breath. and I haven't eaten you say I look like death. and all that rain starts to erase that poor clown's haunted face. I've got friends I barely see soon they'll forget me. so please stop staring at my bloody knees and just leave me. and let the piano player's hands grow uneasy, tired, and cramped. and I won't ever leave they'll have to close to get rid of me. I haven't been too well oh, lately can you tell? by the way I anticipate every action and move I make. can you tell by the way I touch my poor haunted face?
3.
Black Cat 01:18
there's a cemetery down the street from my house we can get buried anyway we want. we'll get some new clothes for our funeral a pretty little dress or some nice warm coats cause it's cold down there, underground. we'll feel the veins of this dying town. we'll dream like never before you'll be forever mine as I'm forever yours. a black cat just crossed my path you said it's bad luck and I started to laugh but it's probably true, I guess I'm doomed. oh well, it was nice knowing you.
4.
I'm running out of alcohol need a new place to fall I don't wanna be like you. finding out where I stand ain't as fun as it used to be I don't wanna feel the way I do. I remember everything the bus is late it's on its way now and then you'd cast your eyes on me. you're my favorite witch you see I can hardly stand to breathe I know what it's like to be alone.
5.
red headed lady do you still live there? with your sister's memory haunting the air? do you still paint your walls the color of your despair? red headed lady do you still live there? last time I saw you, you hated my guts brought me in from the cold and filled my broken cup but when I turned to take a sip, I saw it filled with mud. last time I saw you, you hated my guts. red headed lady do you still live there? is that angry small dog still at the bottom of your stairs? do you still make dresses right out of thin air? red headed lady do you still live there? red headed lady we used to be friends but from what I've heard you've grown up since then do you still hang around the hardcore kids? read headed lady we used to be friends. I can still feel your small hands in mine the closeness we shared and the sleepy bus rides now when I hear Bon Iver I only think of the winter time when your small hands were always in mine. do you remember when we first kissed? Halloween night, it was electric. red headed lady am I the one you miss? no I really doubt it cause I'm not shit. red headed lady we used to be friends but from what I've heard you've grown up since then do you still hang around the hardcore kids? read headed lady we used to be friends.
6.
My Lover 04:00
my lover is drowning on the pillow where she lies the morning is coming to brighten our eyes my lover is famous on the stage where she dies midnight is decaying as I hold her tonight. words can't express the way you make me feel but I'll try my best to make things real, dear. my lover is nervous, you can tell by the way she talks but my lover is perfect, even in her faults my lover is ancient, she's a high and mighty queen my lover is patient, the most euphoric dream. and I haven't a clue of where she resides tonight but she still swims through my beating heart of time, and that's fine. my lover is drowning on the pillow where she lies the mourning is coming to blind our eyes my lover is famous on the stage where she dies my lover is decaying as I hold her tonight.
7.
Bo Bo 01:58
Bo Bo won't you be my dark homed valentine Bo Bo you're alright, tonight. won't you darken my doors I'm so paranoid Bo Bo do you think I'm spooky? I don't ever wanna let anyone in I'm alright by myself I don't need no friends but Bo Bo ur an exception to the rule Bo Bo ur looking pretty cool, tonight. and I don't ever wanna let anyone in I'm alright by myself I don't need no friends. but Bo Bo won't you be my dark home valentine Bo Bo you're alright, tonight. won't you darken my doors I'm so paranoid Bo Bo do you think I'm spooky?
8.
you left me on your doorstep, roses and chocolate. that fucking rose is dead, the chocolate's melted now. the witch is crying, her soul is dying. everybody knows it, now's the time to show it, dear. remember in Heaven, the door was broken. the roof was caving in and you and I were laughing, dear. that silly record I bought for a dollar to try and make things better but it didn't even matter at all. my house is burning, I am learning. the world keeps on turning while everyone is dying. you left me on your doorstep, nervous and broken. now I think I'm almost dead and you won't even hear this. you won't even hear this.
9.
my sweetheart the skeleton, my how thin you've gotten. say, when's the last you've eaten? I see you still wear that crown. you fool, you're fooled, you've fooled. my sweetheart the skeleton, will you please show me around? it's been a while since I've been on your soil. I see you still think out loud. how rude, so prude, but it's you. my sweetheart the skeleton, how long has it been? I've grown up so much since then. you're the last thing I think of now. you bore, you whore, you bore. my sweetheart the skeleton, you don't mean a thing. how easy you're forgotten. I've gotten used to being alone. alone. alone. alone. alone. alone.
10.
I live in a haunted house I'm visited by frequent sounds strangely timed creaks and groans and I'm thinking I must be the ghost. each Halloween I find myself beneath another strange woman showing her teeth. I've got friends who ride the parade when the city streets feel like a masquerade but that's fine, I hide my face all the time anyway. I live in a haunted house I'm visited by frequent sounds strangely timed creaks and groans and I'm thinking I must be the ghost.
11.
I don't have time to argue about what's real and what's not. I'm too busy making records about what's real and what's not. and when time transcends, you'll feel it then. go to sleep my friend, I'll see you in the morning. in the mourning. the birds will be singing about what's real and what's not. I'll be drinking coffee and thinking about what's real and what's not. and when time begins, you'll feel the end. so won't you wake up, friend? cause I am leaving. I am leaving.
12.
I 03:00
I, I am a fever. I, I am a liar. I stay up all night walking in circles. I'm surprised I'm still alive, after all the torture. I, I am a story. I, I feel I've grown boring. so just turn the page onto the next chapter. killing time away until I find what I'm after. and I, I am a light. I'll push the dark out of your mind. til all that's left is the shine of the things you couldn't find. so take my hand tonight and turn my circles into lines. I, I am heresy. you, you're miss misery. tomorrow may never come, so give me a call. my mirror's have turned to stone from the alcohol.
13.
Become Me 02:18
I'll call a cab and you'll call your mother we'll both go our separate ways and forget eachother. isn't that right, isn't that right, my dear? tomorrow I'll hide from all your brothers who'd like to kick my ass cause they've got nothing better to do. isn't that true? cause life is so simple when all you wanna do is sleep like you're no one and hide up in your room but sooner or later it catches up with you things you thought you escaped from and nightmares become me. I'll call a cab and you'll call your father and tell him how bad I treated his daughter isn't that right, isn't that right, my dear? and I'll call my friends and tell them to come over though I know they've got plans but that don't really matter cause la ta da da da da
14.
Lott Road 02:38
promises on the trampoline I felt weak to my knees and it won't always be this way searching for a brighter day. my imagination went too far thought I was still in your car stuck out in the parking lot waiting on the last call. waiting on the sun to bust it's already blinded us we've still got some ways to go there's a map in my raincoat I could probably die right here it wouldn't make a difference, dear. laughing on the trampolines hiding dirty magazines this is what you've made me my adolescent beauty queen I could probably die right here would it make a difference, dear? I could probably die right here it wouldn't make a difference, dear.

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