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Promises

by Dave Thomas Junior

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1.
Roof’s on fire walls falling down Take my head out the sand put it in the clouds There ain’t no end I’d fall and fall If I listened to myself at all I’m still in love I’m still in love I can’t give up I’m still in love Naked truth before my eyes Cheap shots I still realize If all else fails deny deny I am wide eyed I am blind I’m still in love I’m still in love I can’t give up I’m still in love
2.
Disquieted 04:39
Take me to the bottom of the ocean Take me where the sun don’t ever see Take me where the view is so beautiful And the air’s too thin to breathe I can do it I’m ready Cause I’m feeling so much better now It hardly hurts at all There’s just one thing I’m disquieted about It seems I can’t feel anything anymore If I keep digging down forever If I stop wanting you to know Guess I’ll find out sooner or later Can you get too good at letting go? Can you do it on your own? Cause I’m feeling so much better now It hardly hurts at all There’s just one thing I’m disquieted about It seems I can’t feel anything anymore Yeah I’m feeling so much better now It hardly hurts at all There’s just one thing I’m disquieted about It seems I can’t feel anything It seems I can’t feel anything It’s like I can’t feel anything anymore
3.
Always You 04:19
Put a paper on the stack Reach it to the sun and back Buy a ticket win the prize A couple hundred billion times Arrange it just so It’s you It’s always been you Before it was possible It was you It’s you Written in the stars Before we were anywhere It was you Somehow when I catch your eye There’s no such thing as time And even though I lie and it’s finite With you as it passes by Take my time It’s you It’s always been you Before it was possible It was you It’s you Written in the stars Before we were anywhere It was you Flatten all the mountains down Empty out the oceans And if our time over comes again Arrange it just so It’s you It’s always been you Before it was possible It was you It’s you Written in the stars Before we were anywhere It was you
4.
Nobody Else 03:14
Maybe you should stay until the morning Maybe you should stay another million years And I know that we talked about it But here in the lowlight my doubts just disappear Yeah I know we said we’d take it slow But I just don’t want to let you go Yeah Nobody else nobody else Gets me like you do yeah Nobody else nobody else Makes forever feel too soon And I can’t unknow what I know and I know I love you Yeah Nobody else Nobody else I don’t want nobody else but you You Maybe you should stay until the world ends Maybe we should put our lives on airplane mode And I know that we talked about it But you got me questioning everything I know And I know we said no strings attached But I think I wanna take it back Yeah Nobody else nobody else Gets me like you do yeah Nobody else nobody else Makes forever feel too soon And I can’t unknow what I know and I know I love you Yeah Nobody else Nobody else I don’t want nobody else but you You Nobody else nobody else I don’t want nobody else but you
5.
Promises 02:36
Under the power lines We talked till the sun began to rise Didn’t know it at the time Guess it happened on my blind side All the promises we never kept Like the atoms in a single breath Long forgotten are they broken yet No one knows Where the promises go I watched as you slipped from view Like there was nothing that I could do Faking like I had control Like I knew then what I now know All the promises we never kept Like the atoms in a single breath Long forgotten are they broken yet No one knows Where the promises go No one knows Where the promises go No one knows
6.
Stay with Me 03:23
Over there is where it all came crashing down But time’s healer you can hardly see it now Cursed to be forever swimming for the edge In the whirlpool of the things I wish I’d said You are everything I ever wanted You are everything I’ll ever need And I feel like I could lay here forever If you stay with me Stay with me Stay with me Looking back I hear the faint alarm bells ring Louder than bombs how come I didn’t hear anything At the white lie told so we could be alone It seems so easy to see from the bottom of the spiral You are everything I ever wanted You are everything I’ll ever need And I feel like I could lay down here forever If you stay with me Stay with me If you stay with me Stay with me
7.
Redshift 04:22
So I had all these plans And here they are still Cause I can’t bring myself To say we never will And I’m fooling myself Thinking you’ll come around Cause it seems impossible To lose this thing that we found And the pieces of me scatter To the corners of the earth Can’t tell what isn’t from what is And it’s getting kinda lonely out here In the redshift Yeah I got all these plans In my heart in my head And i just can’t seem To let go of them yet Sometimes I catch myself And I’m making them still Guess I ain’t ready to say That we never will And the pieces of me scatter To the corners of the earth Can’t tell what isn’t from what is And it’s getting lonely out here In the redshift And I know it doesn’t matter And I know it goes unheard But I just can’t help praying For what it isn’t worth And I know that there’s a limit To what we can observe But out here in the darkness Don’t know which way to turn And the pieces of me scatter To the corners of the earth And I’m praying to get better But I’m trying to get worse And amid the contradictions The ghosts of what we were Can’t tell what isn’t from what is And it’s so so lonely out here Here in the redshift
8.
And we’re drowning in bullshit They’ve got studies that show It’s an argument You can make if you know And we all get down sometimes All this air we gotta breathe I’m holding on so tight What the hell is wrong with me Can I hold you for a while Can I hold you for a while Can I try to ease your mind Can I hold you for a while Caught in liminality Never quite where you belong You’re losing all your memories In the space that we’re made of And it’s all so slow moving But too fast to catch a hold And I’m so tired of wondering How it’s gonna go wrong Can I hold you for a while Can I hold you for a while Can I try to ease your mind Can I hold you for a while
9.
The Hope 04:10
We’re a car crash Hard time lovers on our last breath It makes no sense That we should be together Cause once upon a time we were good, so good When I was me and you were you Now we’re a car crash But then I see your face And the doubts fall away And maybe we can make it after all And then I touch your hand And I can understand That we might lose but we won’t lose it all Or maybe maybe oh It’s the hope that kills you We’re a cliche Burn so bright then we fade away All the mistakes Are coming back to haunt us Cause once upon a time we were howling at the moon Screaming out forever but it came to soon We’re a cliche But then I see your face And the doubts fall away And maybe we can make it after all And then I touch your hand And I can understand That we might lose but we won’t lose it all Or maybe maybe oh It’s the hope that kills you Then I see your face All the doubts fall away And maybe we can make it after all And then I touch your hand And I can understand That we might lose but we’ll never lose it all Or maybe maybe oh Maybe maybe oh Maybe maybe oh It’s the hope that kills you
10.
Right there On The Water Going under A trick of the light So long Understanding what is happening I tried with all my might And how I feel about you And how can I forget? Tying up in knots And trying to catch my breath And somewhere on the spectrum Is it more or less? Guess I’ll see you around Guess I’ll see you around Wonder what you’re doing now Guess I’ll see you around I know that you remember But from the other side Reflected in the water It might have slipped your mind Funny thing time Guess I’ll see you around Guess I’ll see you around Wonder what you’re doing now Guess I’ll see you around
11.
Fast 04:22
This boy Sitting in outer space Got no time no place Got nothing to say This boy Somehow not the same Nothing seems to make A change The stars don’t make sense tonight The spaces in between us Like through a telescope The further away you get The faster that you go Till all we have is distance And memory and past I never thought I’d lose you So fast This time Is it so different? Cause it’s beginning To feel like it is This time Is there no going back? Is that everything we had? The stars don’t make sense tonight The spaces in between us Like through a telescope The further away you get The faster that you go Till all we have is distance And memory and past I never thought I’d lose you So fast So fast The further away you get The faster that you go Yeah
12.
Now I Know 04:34
I once knew a place Where ignorance was bliss Knew one day I would hurt Never would’ve guessed It would hurt like this And you told me to be careful And you told me take it slow Said I don’t know what I’d do without you I guess now I know If I had’ve known It would come to this Could I have chose to let you go? Or is this what destiny is? Was I meant to feel like this And you told me to be careful And you told me take it slow I said I don’t know what I’d do without you I guess now I know I guess now I know I once knew a place Where ignorance was bliss

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Ever since I had those songs featured on After Life I have had a new perspective on the music I make. I got so many messages from people who had found some sort of breakthrough or release or insight from the music, and that felt like a real purpose, beyond just looking inside myself. I think I was always doing music as a form of self-therapy, but this really gave me the perspective that if I’m feeling something, I can be less afraid of it. Sometimes I might even want to get closer to an unpleasant thought or feeling so I can try to crystalize it. These songs are a result of the path I’ve been on. Trying to step outside and notice and look, which has been so helpful for me and I hope it will be for those who listen.

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released July 14, 2023

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Dave Thomas Junior New York, New York

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Folk roots, mystical qualities, a subtle use of vocal harmony, acoustic rhythm piano and mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation.

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