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Only Magic Left is Art
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Only Magic Left is Art I'm starting to wonder if "Dylan Campbell" is Sufjan Stevens under a pseudonym. Either way it doesn't matter because this album is gold. Favorite track: Odd.
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1.
Daylight 03:28
Fade in fade out Here comes the drought How did we fall Why did this stall When we were kids We played and hid So long ago How dim the glow Used to talk and know it inside out What it was that we were all about Sit on porches and wait for dawn Ride the breeze like we belonged Till the day came rushin through Tryin to prove something about you Get you out from all your dreams Ones that I'm stuck in it seems So now you've found More solid ground I'm glad you did Don't mind my bid For you to be As lost as me So joyfully It used to be Used to talk and know it inside out What it was that we were all about Sit on porches and wait for dawn Ride the breeze like we belonged Till the day came rushin through Tryin to prove something about you Get you out from all your dreams Ones that I'm stuck in it seems Wish I could believe you Now but i can see too That your eyes say run now Anywhere, anyhow Used to talk and know it inside out What it was that we were all about Sit on porches and wait for dawn Ride the breeze like we belonged Till the day came rushin through Tryin to prove something about you Get you out from all your dreams Ones that I'm stuck in it seems Now I miss my old friend How you got lost with them Happens every time when Unalone, unalone
2.
Odd 03:58
Can we stay here All night 'til we Start to say odd things I'm so happy When you ask me To play my guitar and sing Burning in your eyes When things are somehow wrong Fighting's a disguise For fear when you are gone Lately have I Told you how when You're near me my body speaks I die when you Perk up your chin The feeling I pull from your cheeks There's so much life left You say we'll drift apart Move on to others It feels a useless art Sometimes I'll hold you and feel like we're good But sometimes I tell you just things that I should Please don't say the words make Everything so scary Twenty years from now we're Happy and unmarried Can we stay here All night 'til we Start to say odd things And then one day We'll be happy To show things our throats cannot sing
3.
I hope you know I don't believe These things I say I do not mean I didn't used to be this way What happened So take my words with grains of salt They'll disappear before us all I didn't mean to hurt no one What happened So please don't leave me please don't run What happened I used to know a little boy Whose mother gave him simple toys She taught him to be good and to love all And when he grew this love he spread Until he found he'd been mislead The emptiness of everyone he found Their hearts didn't know to make a single sound Why has it been so very long Since I sang for you an honest song Please promise me you won't let me Speak all my words conveniently With these naked words we'll make it through All the things I thought I wish you knew
4.
Cascade 03:02
I looked out my window and i saw it on the grass Drifted oh so slowly by the time it came at last You were down in the ground Knew I recognized the face that I had seen before Sunken eyes and smiling mouth I opened up the door My heart may pound, but not a sound Don't worry about me no more I'll be there with you I'm sure Tore open the earth and let me know why I was there Said I'd lived a long life but it was my time to share My body 'round with the ground Called upon the last words that I've spoken to this day Knew I'd been a good man didn't find a need to pray I said 'at last, it's come to pass' Don't spare mind for my mistakes Bear them with me to the grave No reason to still feel afraid All part of a great cascade
5.
Bleed 04:41
Just the sky that's lit up red Signals pounding in my head From so far away And the buzzing in the streets Saying words but they don't speak In my language Fears of never seeing dark Will I ever see the spark How I used to If I need some space to breathe And I need some place to leave For some time now Try and understand the stars Only distant sounds of cars Broke the silence there Laying underneath the trees Hearing everything in leaves That I wanted to As the warmest nights crept on Feelings coming from the lawn When I let them In the echoes of the past Only days that go too fast I remember now Now I know what I need Now I know what I bleed Now I know that this leads Home
6.
Hummingbirds 03:57
Bring your hands outside of the middle Black or white it is just a little Problem that you won't have to settle now All your thoughts watch go with the wind Based only on the place you're in How can I get under your skin to Scope it out then Where you're going Real world life tour Are you so sure now? Slow your pace wait here and consider That the thinkers are just the sitters For the bodies that are so bitter for Want of soul want of simple meaning They won't find til they catch us dreaming Life plans that you still stand there leaning on Scope it out then Where you're going Real world life tour Are you unsure Why you feel bored Museum lives Make kids and die I'm sure I don't know You still think we'll grow Forget all the things That keep us living Hummingbirds speed of flight Won't last into the night Colorful feathering Wearing off and thinning
7.
Promise Me 04:46
Has it really been so long How am I supposed to sing a song I already have One hundred years ago Wrote it for you in the snow it's gone Bled through the layers If I say it all again Promise me it matters in the end Pacing around corner to corner Ride and go around outside of the border Free all my thoughts I don't care I don't care To see you there Confused looks And a stare Plants a flower in the dust I could run away although I trust you Want me to stay Maybe in a perfect place I could read the mind behind your face See through the layers If I say it all again Promise me i mattered in the end Pacing around corner to corner Ride and go around outside of the border Free all my thoughts I don't care I don't care Soon I'll be home Only if Life is fair I hope you fall back into place And you don't think I'm saving face When I tell you you need to find The boy that makes your thoughts all rhyme
8.
Id Kid 04:53
If I become lost in thought Please do not rouse me up Wandering and following The whimsy of my cuff Restless minds can squander with The passing of the day Knowing too which thoughts are best Are sometimes kept at bay This feels like sailing away As I have dreamed before And on a summer evening Our minds tend to explore Warn me of all the dangers I might fall prey to If I get too caught up in things that I grew I will go find some place to lay and feel good now And my body will melt as long as the ground allows If I fly or fall in sleep As my ancestors did It is a wonderful thing To touch ground with the Id Whispers that I've lost my feet They've gone up in the air What I've found I may repeat It's simpler than prayer Please allow me pardon To ease my worried mind For the hearts that harden Just now I will be blind This feels like sailing away As I have dreamed before And on a summer evening Our minds need to explore Warn me of all the dangers I might fall prey to If I get too caught up in things that I grew I will go find some place to lay and feel good now And my body will melt as long as the ground allows
9.
Frau Troffea 03:21
Devil's in the streets Devil's in the feets Of the screaming mass Still 400 last Get us our own space 'Til we break the pace Thrown upon a stage As our bodies' slaves Hearts or heads give in Their best guess is sin And by summer's close We'll all turn to ghosts
10.
Suns 03:28
Let it go you don't need to know how Everything get its place in space now You could find a million little clues about the truth In time the numbers and the figures won't add up Then you see that the reasons are not As should be or at least as you'd thought Still believe there is some kind of answer to this Mystery until you find the question wasn't Why when you see suns do you compare with them All these things so small and reckless then again Is it all some pointless waste of chemicals I'd like to think not although we've not been told When you close your eyes you know the world's still there We have every single moment left to spare
11.
We are of the summer mind You and I All my friends well they are too What is it that moves right through All our bodies then it's gone As it leaves it makes a song You'd only sing when your father's gone And in the meantime we'll march along I hope it's not too late To think about our fate And where the right end up But there's no need to rush We were not built to last The time I cared is past Our eyes look up and roam And know they've found a home

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released December 14, 2010

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