Written & recorded by Turtledoves
Mixed by Chad Wahlbrink
Mastered by TW Walsh
Electric Guitar on “Pillars” by Curt Kiser
Pillars of the Earth out on Babe City Records July 10th, 2020.
LYRICS
1. Soft Speaker
I go to sleep
I want to dream of you
like that time that you appeared
as a man in spinning mirrors
All my life
All my aging
And you had been there
You had been there
You had been there right beside me
I close my eyes
I want to see you
The eyes of my spirit open
Like the wall that time I came to
Your hand reached out
And made a tunnel
Turned a wall into a portal
Turned it into something new
Teach, Good Teacher
Teach me in my sleep
Speak, Soft Speaker
Speak, and I will listen
2. Dissolve
It’s too late to escape
The impossible fate of leaving
No longer lucky and innocent
untouched by love
All other lives
That have been left behind
Still bleeding
Just pick up the cross and carry on
My imagined cause
But I would abandon it all
And come back
If you’d call
Yeah, I’d walk away
From all I have made
Let it dissolve
In the dark
When it’s late
And I turn back the page
And read it
Nothing but moth-eaten artifacts
The high doesn’t last
So, I try to get back
Some mysterious path
And seal it
Behind a curtain of insolence
My imagined tower
But I would abandon it all
And come back
If you’d call
Yeah, I’d walk away
From all I have made
Let it dissolve
If I could break down every wall
And go back
I’d call
Yeah, I’d forgive you
You’d forgive me, too
Let it dissolve
And be released
3. Mortal Sorrow
Man
Appointed
Mortal
Sorrow
The blessed God
Shall come down
Teaching
His death shall bring
The despairing
Comfort
4. Pillars
The world upon your shoulders
Pillars of the earth
You can’t think of why you came for
Been so long, you hardly remember
The permanent burden
Hurt is certain, turning and turning
The aroma lingers
A coin through your fingers
Around again
Beginning end and middle
Little bits and pieces
Of a bigger picture reason
You’re leaving all of it behind
The line that you wait in
The part you’re playing
Suddenly you find
The fruit of your labor, the betrayer
Like water moves in circles
You are the movement
You are the wind
That rushes through the room I am in
Can you feel my heart
As I reach out my hand to you
Tried so hard to be here
Tried so hard to feel it
But the Spirit did deal it, reveal it
Caught in between the morning & the night
Dark and light
Fight to define the fire in your mind
The ocean in your eyes
That lie behind rising horizon lines
There’s still time
Still a sign of will to survive
Gotta open up, break up the inside
Time, and time again
There’s no end
Like water moves in circles
You are the movement
You are the wind
That rushes through the room that I am in
5. Motivational Speaker
Work harder
Come on
Get stronger, now
Come on
We were young and unloved
We were loose ends undone
And we told ourselves
It was enough
But we will fight it
And we are willing now
To work harder
Come on
Who’s gonna fight for you now?
Who’s gonna fight for you?
Who’s gonna fight for you now?
Are you gonna fight?
You are closer now
Than you’ve ever been before
You are closer now
Keep kicking in the door
And keep pushing out
The bullshit out
Keep pushing out
The bullshit out
And work harder
Come on
Get stronger
Come on
Look closer
Come on
Dig deeper
Come on, Come on, Come on
6. Don’t Turn the Light On Yet
I’m only trying to do you right
Do you right
But it gets so lonely
Out here at night
Here at night
I want to feel your heart-break
In mine, break in mine
The way I feel your movement
Passing by me
Right behind me
You’re up on a mountain
And I cannot climb it
How can I find you, my love?
You’re out on the water
And I can’t survive it
How can I fight it, my love?
Look very closely now
Into the picture
See how the corner of the bed
Is folded back on itself
And the suitcase is sitting open
All the clothes have been thrown
All around the room
Run your fingers through the dust
on the railing outside
Let it take you back
Back to the other time
You were younger then
With your cat ears on
And old snapshots of your friends
Yellow-taped up to the wall
In the morning calm
In the neon red
You remember it all
It’s stuck in your head
The blinds are drawn
And the concrete wet
Yeah, the day is gone
But don’t turn the light on yet
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