Ruine, a combination of "ruin" and "rune" is the third full length by The Earthly Frames. It's a broken memory palace with allusions to the genres that were popular when I was a youngster. Subject matter ranges from personal memory to imagined futures.
an overture of sorts. memory, space, and identity are going to be mushed for this one.
What it seems may not be where a hidden beam falls on your hair.
Scrape the waves, and shoot the flare. Moonlight bathes what wasn’t there It wasn’t there.
But we knew then the end was soon. Time don’t bend, so rake the moon.
Years ago, I knew none, except the glow, a braid undone.
Kept away, kept for fun. You did stay. While I did run. I did run.
I knew this road.I knew this room. Well, time don’t slow, so rake the moon.
Vocals by Remez. Ted pulled a gun at Scott's house. Judy judy had to be carried out. Dawn and Gordon break-in for art class. Abbey's smile.
Do I mind if you stop by? Well, damn straight! You’re my alibi. And, not for nothing, see if I care. You know this place is dead and the whole damn town, they already stare.
Can’t you see that tar and feather is meant for me? Don’t you need another friendly face for you to read?
There’s a house by your boyfriend’s stash The glass is broken and TV smashed. There’s a typewriter on the second floor that never wrote “Nothing and nothing no more.” They wrote “Nothing” and nothing no more
Just remember when you stop by I’ll be on the floor pretending I died And, not for nothing, see if I care You know I’m not sticking ‘round, I’m leaving town with my half of the share.
It’s not true - the brutality of youth. A car mirror cracked and a broken front tooth. These reflections weren’t meant to last, the Captain sees land but is tied to the mast
with sincere hope to the people of Tangier Island.
Soft shell in the ghost trap waiting for a pull that never comes
Golf carts float upside down out near where the markers washed away
Rot tide tugs pilings down That dock is buoyed up by prayers alone
The outside men they talk of carbon, they talk of apes They say the waters will rise and that there is no escape Well, the waters killed the Pharaoh’s men Sometimes you have to drown the world to start it back up again
It’s his will, it’s his order One nation cried underwater
This town ain’t built upon stone Settled bones sleep through the airish ‘morn
I’ll stay, I’ll never leave Until the island is swallowed whole
All gone, swept away like a third of the stars in the heavens
coming back to New York in 2005 and being lost.
I forgot I was walking south without the towers in sight I could swear it was right by Ear, but I must not be right
This street? This block? Retreat? Jaywalk? Circles and circles. Keep walking.
Was it across from the park? Where John met his Mark?
Or off Dekalb Ave? Where Nicky the Knife got stabbed?
It’s not there no more.
full-on Sussex County, NJ remorse
We walked the streets of Newton. The year was ninety-three. I asked you what class you cut. You asked me to let you be, “You know, the moon is covering the only thing to see”
Look to the ceiling as it fades away It was just a feeling, another weekday
From his porch, an old man heard us and spilled his herbal tea. He screamed, and rose, and fell, again, and called to us from his knees “If I catch you shits 'round here again, you’ll be hanging from that tree”
And so we carried on in my Shadow, north on Twenty-Three I asked you if you’d seen a ghost. You said you’d seen enough of me.
Look to the ceiling as it fades away Who knows what you’re feeling, it’s hard to say
There’s no more revealing what led us astray It was just a feeling, another weekday
2062 is also a rough year. Vocals by Marvin Muoneké
Back in sixty-two We were losing ground and the rent was due
Took a flyer down Medical study, seen it ‘round town
Change the way you see it’s your opportunity
Change the way you hear it could be the cure
So why not try to help? Plus some pocket coin to help myself
Signed away my rights Filled out the form with my loved one's dislikes
Take it once a day Take it with no food
Call without delay ‘Till the study concludes
Now what you see is what you get, what you get, what you get when you’re barely looking You call and cry, you scream until you forget, you forget, you forget what you were really seeing
Can you remember Those songs you knew before?
Photos and letters Now blank on your living room floor
On the sixteenth day My eyes went dark and I started to sway
Then I tried to scream I felt held down by something unseen
Did I hear my name? It sounded familiar, but not quite the same
Blind or future sight Can’t see now, but I see tomorrow’s light
apologies to Mr. Lydon, Marvel Comics, and divorced dudes everywhere.
Didn’t you tell me that you’d been here before?
You recognized the door?
I know you came here looking to finish off this final chore.
But I thought it was more.
“We’re getting reports of violence interrupting the second shift. Digging to resume.”
We’re getting closer five more meters to breach the veil.
Does she know her moves in this world break up nations?
Does she know her words in this world bring damnation?
I can see from your eyes this won’t go very well.
It’s always been your tell.
You are so lovely even as you turn to leave.
If only you could believe.
“Call back your men the levels are too high.”
“Fall back! Fall back!”
“There’s something coming through”
“There’s something wrong with the sky.”
Did she know her path in this world break up nations?
Did she know her thoughts in this world bring damnation?
made from commercials I was exposed to at a young age.
Keep your mind as busy as your mouth.
Don’t be shy, it’s what it’s all about.
She looks great even this close up
Here she comes, walking down the aisle
All-wheel drive and a bright white smile
She’s here to spray away the stains you fight each day
Champions of love, proceed, proceed,
Valued customers draw near and feed,
We’ve only just begun to bend and bleed
Sink your teeth, this thing could be real,
Pure love in a box of cereal
If you trust your judgment, you could be Dodge material
Here she comes, she’s all bows and curls
Let us thank the heavens for those little girls
Time to obey your thirst betcha you blush first
Champions of love, proceed, proceed,
Valued customers draw near and feed,
We’ve only just begun to proceed to feed
Give in! Give in! Give in to the taste!
over the fortress wall, a minefield.
I’d be lying to you if I said I knew the way
Why didn’t we keep with the group? Why did we have to stray?
Let’s stop here for tonight They won’t get us, the cold just might
Search flares are falling dark the perimeter has been marked
There’s no more room for discovery Gone from rescue to recovery
Do you remember why we came here? You never struck me as a sightseer.
Well strike me down if I lie once more Until I lay on the forest floor
Search flares are falling dark the perimeter has been marked
Call it off, cancel the calvary Gone from rescue to recovery
bodies used in astral projection have rights too, you know.
I used to meet you by the stream Hidden there where my tent would lean I never knew the age that you seemed And your signal flags what did you mean?
Didn’t you mind being taken until I did awaken?
Didn’t you mind being flayed until my role was played?
Nothing to believe Nothing up my sleeve
On your dark side of the river We would set out to deliver A mark against the flow of time Before I heard the third bell chime
Didn’t you mind being used until the stone refused?
Nothing to believe Nothing up my sleeve
