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by Countrywide

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1.
I am a liar trying to claim higher ground than the fire that's trying to do the same you are my sister and you're looking sinister as you administer the tobacco to your brain I am the crime scene trying not to be seen by the family of the man who died you are the garden growing two types of onions absorbing the sun and getting hung out to dry your father's an arm twister your mother's a good kisser so he tells me as you squeeze my arm for reassurance I'm told that your parents aren't looking for someone to love I am holding the door to my home in the city where I want to reappear you are alive and you are breathing the air in like everyone here I am covered by your brother's brightly colored sleeping bag you are fine and taking your time to try and find the day's lag while you're laying I am looking at the shape that your legs make while you're taking two aspirin a day to make your legs take shape
2.
if you had one more war-torn brother I'm sure you'd find it just as hard to endure lay awake lying back on your bed with your head on the tracks I think you spent too much time letting calenders slip by with the aches and muscles spent on your friend's bike late at night I am a jealous cat I don't like the way you pet that other cat so I wait until he's on your lap then I scratch at the back until you let me out
3.
you are the river, I am the swimmer always splitting two good things apart hands between water, water between the land they'll both come back together in the end and I am aware that while we're out there crawling through the mountain's great divide that we will have to be still and put our lives on hold for the night but I've stopped looking in your direction so I don't have to watch you change but there's something to seeing happen that makes it seem as though it's okay to be a part of it all to feel apart from it all to be a part of it all to feel part from it all someday in a while I'll look back and smile cause I'll feel that it's always been good and I hope that when you look back you will feel that it's always been good to be a part of it all to feel apart from it all to be a part of it all to feel apart from it all
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5.
sleeper 04:04
I wanna be a sleeper an all day, all night dreamer will you heed my call with vigor will you heed my call at all my heel hovers the pavement toes touching the rubber-covered cement I stood wishing I was without movement I stood, I was intrinsically good and as I watched the sun go down I thought about it coming back up and as I watched you turn around I had the very same thought you put it on the line but I could not untie it in time the emergency of smoke passing by without urgency, I moved earnestly and as the sun rose against the sky I started to chase the dark away running through my town at night I brought the day I will not bring it away I brought the day I will not bring it away
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locations 03:23
the sun is warm against my face the sun and I go separate ways the winter's chill attacks my face the cold and I go separate ways my friend and I we make big plans to cut our teeth on everything and so just like our history tells us the gold we bite builds all our houses and at night I lie awake cause my heart, it heaves with hate but it's still a nice place on it's ugliest days I felt it then like none before on these cold nights it keeps me warm but I know it's just one plan I've got two more to get buried in and at night I lie awake cause my heart, it heaves with hate but it's still a nice place it's been a nice day
7.
>>> I think I felt it back there...but only for a minute. If I even felt it at all... There was a thickness that hung in the air but now its thinning. Everything is opening up. The Wind is willowy and pale as it slides across the buildings; gliding like a hospital ship. Yesterday I saw the nails that hold everything together. They were starting to loosen their grip. And now the air tastes like tar. It lingers on our faces and gathers in our good weather clothes. When I got in the car I thought that we had made it. It thought we were at least getting close. But now I see your uncle and his friends circling the building. They're looking for a way to get in. I called the cops, they're on their way. And I don't want to kill him, but... I won't let him win. <<<
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fox news 05:38
there's a fox buried in my backyard that fox used to fuck with our garden so my mom went out and bought a gun and spilled blood over spilled onions there's a man standing in my driveway taking bottles and cans from my real estate slides on the side while he pulls away say so much trash when I'm trashed I have so much to say summers spent swimming in lakes in michigan, while southwest states bend the union is pulling my face in the union is breaking my legs in there's a clock - tic tock talk to me about what ticks you off I'll talk shit if you talk soft I'll cover the clock with a cloth there's a rifle resting on my shoulder .22 calibers for when I'm one year older the red rings rip right as they splinter that target ain't so hard to hit either

about

written and recorded by Matt May between fall 2009 and july 2013 in montreal, qc

thanks to everyone for all the feedback and support, all the time. especially 6679, ethan, julia, jean, arnold, adam, and my family

out soon on tape, with "Derivatives" via Amiable Hundred (amiablehundred.com)

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released July 23, 2013

album artwork by portia larlee

"cuba gooding jr." originally by long long long (longlonglong.bandcamp.com/album/shorts)

thanks to tim beeler (isleofpine.bandcamp.com) for the use of the 4-track and mic on "you are the river..." and jean's guitar on nearly all of these tracks.

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Countrywide Montreal, Québec

member of Misery Loves Co. miserylovesco.bandcamp.com

also play w/:

Ought ought.bandcamp.com

Welter & Associates welterassoc.bandcamp.com

collab w/ Catherine (aka YlangYlang) supercooling.bandcamp.com

Played keys on both sides of Alcrete & Nennen split miserylovesco.bandcamp.com/album/alcrete-nennen
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