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The Brass Ceiling

by Wolff and Tuba

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Body 04:52
I had all the time I needed to live until I nearly died And now I do not know how to live nor how I will survive Only you can have it all… A world that I did not create A life that I cannot escape A body which no longer is Mine to do with as I please I occupy a vessel that no longer follows my commands A hollow shell I once trusted but now has let me down I have no one who understands no one with whom I can confide No one who can ever know how truly weak I am No one knows how scared I have become since I’ve lost faith in me Without you I do not know if I would sink or swim Without you this mean old world would tear me limb from limb Don’t pretend you do not see All the ways that we are codependent My body has failed me twice Passion cannot reside where lust is ice
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Bury Me 04:15
It’s all coming down find your way to the ground All the signs say it’s all gone to hell All my fears are out of control All my dreams have fled underground Buried beneath this broken earth Why don’t you join me in my sleep Comfort me in my empty grave Bury me deep down in the ground Bury me beneath this broken earth There always comes a time when you think love is gone You must help me to carry on Please help me carry on There is no way out of this crumbling grave Lie back and you will see out to the blue skies above Close your eyes and you will not have to see as the earth covers you up Hold your breath and you will feel nothing as you are buried alive
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Broken Words 04:15
Walk this Talk this Try this and See this Bring this Mean this Drop this and Scream this Give this Serve this Rate this Create this Hate this Break this Mend this and End this I’ve had my fill of these broken words Meet this Greet this Treat this and Beat this Seize this Please this Tease this and Leave this Drink this Eat this Down this compound this Fake this Slake this Make this and Take this I’ve had my fill of these broken words Keep this Cast this Blast this Outlast this Crack this Pack this Stack this Contact this Rest this Address this Send this Defend this Feel this Need this Cease this Police this I’ve had my fill of these broken words Someday I’ll see what they mean to me
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I Believe 04:39
I believe in you You can do anything you put your mind to You’re beautiful Don’t ever let the world convince you otherwise When the world wears you down Remember my faith in you That you will live a life of great renown When the world makes you doubt Who you are and how you see yourself You need someone to say That you light up their day I’ll be the one To say that you shine like the sun Someday you’ll be who you want to be Someday you will never doubt yourself Someday you’ll believe in who you are ‘til then trust in me to see you through the days you cannot see what to do wake up and you will see yourself just the way that I see you When you’re lonely and afraid to see who you’ve become Take heart that what I see in you is not done I believe in you You can do anything you put your mind to You’re beautiful Don’t ever let the world convince you otherwise You’re everything that I could ever want I believe in you
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The Big Lies 02:50
Trying to give up Believing the big lies I’m telling to myself To get me to realize This is the way it is and there’s no- Thing I can do to change the way we are Year after year and miles apart It was over before it could start that much is clear Try and avert the way that I see All of the ways you say that you believe Your words mean so much more than my words Your word is the word that the world lives by
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Combustible 03:08
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What I See 03:32
I’ll never give up and I’ll never give in and I’ll Never let no one know that I have my doubts that One day I’ll be what today I can see Is the person I imagine when I open my eyes I will realize and I will recognize I can see all the lies propin’ up the crumblin’ skies Never give out and never give off Any sign I feel afraid that I will fail myself It’s all over now ‘cause I will Never attain what I still See as the man that I’ll be When I stare down my lingering fears I’ll never grow up and I’ll never grow old and I’ll Never grow in to the man that you Want me to be and need me to see In the mirror is the reflection of a man I can’t recognize I might never get rich and I might never find fame I might never be a man with a pension plan But this is who I am and this is who I’ll be And I will live this way until my dying day I can see clearly through the Lives I have lived in my mind Walls have come down and I am Free to believe that one day I will become what I see
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Silence 04:23
All the ways the silence speaks to me Between the words I see your misery The Silence calls out to me All the sounds of whispered plots I fear Follow the signs and it will be made clear The silence calls out your name I can see the end of all our history From the time we met and I fell in love with you To the time you crashed your heart down to the ground Silence falls and life will never be the same Can’t you let it go The silence breaks my heart Whisper the words the sun shines bright and clear All my life the clouds made hard to hear The silence calls out my name
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All that you know is not all that there is Believe what you must to get you through your days It’s never enough ‘cause it’s always come down To our last mistaken belief in a sound Addition by subtraction is the only way I can create the process by which I compute Addition by subtraction and I’ll finally know The freedom of a life that I would like to live Year after year trapped in the belly of the white whale Trying to imagine what’s going on upstairs In the minds of two people I’ve never understood Their dreams and their fears are no longer my concern
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released January 1, 2008

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