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Percy Shelley's Heart (2000)

by owenshire

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1.
From Bermuda 04:45
Along the ground there’s a sad fluid That leaks from the cloud’s starlight Swirling around under red bridges Uniting the towns of our lives. She won’t talk to me I’m withholding objectivity She built a language of snow I don’t want to speak it alone She couldn’t find her way home From Bermuda She wants to be mean But she holds a smile for all who see She loves the world and those who don’t Her company is my only hope But she couldn’t find her way home From Bermuda. It’s my fault she couldn’t find her way home From Bermuda
2.
I got the phonecall and it was just a Saturday and I had to put aside my lukewarm t.v. tray My little sister just had a little incident and it seems to have happened without her consent. Take out that look in your eyes I don’t like what I see I’d rather just be on my own. What I want you cannot provide I said stop scaring me I’d rather you just leave me alone Now I want you to take me home. I learned the details that they just had a little fight and he had failed to respect all her little rights. He had forced himself upon her body hard And as I listened stunned all I could think was oh my God. I’m in the county jail It’s time that I confess But I sit here with a smile not the least depressed For since that man stole the goodness from my sister’s life Well, I cut his hands off with my daddy’s carving knife.
3.
Oscar Wilde 04:09
I heard your heart beat Oscar Wilde In your breastplate deep. You said don’t weep, my child. Just get some sleep, Because in a while The morning sun will rise as the grief leaves your eyes. As fatigue leaves your eyes As the sleep leaves your eyes. I watched all your dreams the admission was free. Turnstile, it struck my knee on the exit. But my voice wouldn’t shriek I wouldn’t let it. My voice couldn’t speak I would not let it. My voice wouldn’t shriek My face dropped down from its smile I feel right now just like Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde. I’ve heard your heart beat Now for miles underneath the sea in your breastplate deep. Just out of sonar reach.
4.
How I spent my summer vacation was a lie Bright white sand We’ll eat meat We’ll have fun We’ll get heat In a month It was fun It was grand I put my hand In your hand My vacation was a lie Bright white sand and clear blue beaches that divide I had a boat And it was large Left to repair But it had a hole And I took care Don’t repeat Boy you should have been there My vacation was a lie Rotting fruit and scenery with little flies Crowded markets and souvenirs that I despise But we can’t wait until next year and that’s a lie (that’s not a lie) We’ll eat meat We’ll have fun You’ll be my Number one good night It’s not bleak For two weeks No deceit
5.
Mountain 02:24
You wait ten minutes but who’s counting? It’s not like you had plans to do Rather than stand straight, I’m crouching Must you take that now too? What I hate I had to wear my jacket tied around my waist I broke the pact Under scrutiny because I got attached And if I jumped off of a mountain Would you jump off of one too? I drank from your estrogen fountain And now you would deny me proof. What I gave? They put their trust in me so I guess I should behave What I thought? Caught me unprepared is exactly what I got What I made? My best caricature is the shell of an egg If I jumped off of a mountain Would you jump off of one too? If you do then who will come to me after? And that seems to be the greatest truth So I am glad That your healthy disposition hardly renders you mad What I’m not Is after your innocence when you tell me to stop You find the images attractive Impressionable so what do you do? I’m blushing now because I’m flattered Is that what you want?
6.
Ghostship 03:53
This sunset dumbs the season’s speech How nice of you to notice It’s not like I hear you when we speak It’s just that I miss the closeness Of a year intoned From the sequenced rows, now overgrown By the weeds of graveyard sonnets What was left is up to me Why would anyone want to see Discouragement shift? Threshing the green waves of your sea I cut through the ice, a ghostship So we collide, I’ll now beseech You to dim your lights in moments So I can sink slow (why would anyone want to see) Far below the cove, I am yours to own In this place no one forgets What was left is up to me Why would anyone want to see Freedom rest on its haunches? In a granite rose (what was left is up to me) I will be enclosed (why would anyone want to see, someone so determined) I will be enclosed, encased.
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8.
Goldmine 03:06
Hey, hey, why so angry? I, I fell in a goldmine You, you covered it up And there was nothing left to know. This, this, this is a sudden Turn, turn, turn of events now I, I struck up a match but There was nothing left to show This time you’ve gone too far My air supply is cut off And there’s no room for talking Well who the fuck do you think you are now? Scream, but screaming is not the answer I’m, I’m feeling so stranded. You, you, opened your hands but There was nothing left to show In here there is no light but There, there, there’s many metals I, I feel sentimental But there was nothing left to take I want nothing from you You meant nothing to me I’ve had enough of this I can’t help but express my distaste now I want nothing from you You’ve taken something from me I can’t replace this Yet you sit at home and polish it I’m not stopping Until you start acknowledging All the heartache that I’m cataloguing. Well how can you ignore this now?
9.
Polite 03:36
Television It eats me raw It wires shut my jaw This butterfly And this summer It makes me aware Of the sandy blonde bangs you brush away From your eyes Now that wasn’t very polite And this wall It puts me off It makes me crawl Straight into a headlock And I saw you absorb The strainings Consume the drops When my mouth froths Now that wasn’t very polite And I miss The autumn, it all The bottom of the beginning Of our fall And comfort Is what I sense A feeling that I receive Through my descent Now that wasn’t very polite
10.
Love Is Dead 02:40
You want some I have lots This makes sense This was sudden I thought that love was dead I heard that love was dead Better not kill off the messenger’s note Things seem fine I think too much When you’re gone I feel so untouched I heard that love was dead I heard that love was dead Moved like red leaves in the autumn’s cold
11.
Serenade 05:58
Serenade me dumb Serenade me numb Ascended every rung Feared no one would come In the morning When the light comes out And darkness, it was torn in two Then you find out That there’s nothing left Nothing, you could ever lose Veered away from Those which made me run Neared the horizon Drank the whole ocean Take your time now Retrace every step When darkness, it comes pouring through Make your mind up That there’s nothing left Nothing, you could ever do Serenade me dumb Serenade me numb Ascended every rung Feared no one would come Take your time now Retrace every step When darkness, it comes pouring through Make your mind up That there’s nothing left Nothing, you could ever do
12.
Cold stares and a nice blue jacket you get me everytime, you get me everytime I don’t know why I’m always the jackass you get me everytime, you get me everytime A frozen thought and a no-slip ratchet you get me everytime, you get me everytime Forget a friend, I am only an attachment you get me everytime, you get me everytime La di da. You get me everytime Do I really need your ambition to make an informed decision? All at once you became so demanding you get me everytime, you get me everytime It’s gotten so I don’t know what I’m defending you get me everytime, you get me everytime I always found your little ways so immaculate you get me everytime, you get me everytime I see them tarnished, reduced to a sack of shit you get me everytime, you get me everytime You get none of it. La di da. You get me everytime You have the right idea but your execution isn’t very effective. And I truly believe all you really need is a little guidance now.

about

percy shelley drowned
his body washed ashore

his wife and others burned the corpse
all was ashes except the heart

eventually disappeared
eventually found between the pages of a book

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released May 5, 2000

rob, greg, dan.
recorded in kitchener, Ontario in 2000.
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owenshire Ontario

Owenshire was born when Robert Muhlbock bought a bass guitar in 1992 and began recording dozens of bass and vocal demos under that name.

Two albums, numerous "live demos," one too-long hiatus and (most importantly) one bass distortion pedal later, Muhlbock continues to release riff-based alt. rock, scattered with lush harmonies and dotted with cryptic and/or disillusioned lyrics.
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