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Oh Thunder

by eleanor murray

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1.
Come Alive 04:25
The night rains sideways Little darts sting my face The wind leans like a falling wall There is struggle to walk but an ease to stand tall The black sound rushes to rise Catching shadows mad with a violence The rain has set fire to everything What does not rage, rests on the pavement Or sleeps in the leaves like a distant city There is struggle to hide now but an ease to come alive Come Alive, come alive… All the layers and layers Cannot shield from revival Mad with the dancing storm And all the layers and layers Refuse to disguise The birth of the Winter Child Fire tall and body alive The birth of the Winter Child…
2.
The Whale 05:13
From the eyes of the whale that follows me I’m a child of my own And my heart cries out for the miracle Of my constant motion Though I’m stuck on the road crying And there’s no way home From the eyes of the whale following There’s the back of me My child I see Perfectly From here there’s something waking, rising Coming so far up to breathe It could be a swelling wave Or it could be a body surfacing From the eyes of the one that’s struggling I’ve abandoned all hope From the eyes of the one from behind There’s the back of my shoulders And back of my face And I cannot find one thing misplaced Revealed in time so rare and chosen It is, it is, it’s skin I see A world awoke and keeps so much left hidden The rest I imagine From here there’s something waking, rising Coming so far up to breathe It could be a swelling wave Or it could be a body surfacing Revealed in time… From here there’s something waking, rising…
3.
Scream 04:10
Maybe I scared them off… Maybe I scared them all off I found my scream Out in the woods Brutal, sure, and terrifying It roars, it falls, it enters As it reappears Tonight I found my scream It sent the dear running It got the rain hailing Maybe I scared them off Maybe I scared them all off Oh Thunder, Thunder Let me try to rip apart your storm To find the Giant, Giant Tell us what it is that keeps us home Oh Body, Body Let me understand the stray dog song To find the brutal, sure, and – brutal, sure, and – Terrifying I found my scream… Maybe I scared them off…
4.
Trails of star If you’re real You’ll disappear In the second dream You reveal to me From your own memory What the first dream dreamt You stayed in town Didn’t want me to know At the trails of star Can you see it now? Where the words you say Are the things I saw Phone call If you’re real You’ll disappear In the second dream You reveal to me What I’m watching Every trail of star At the trails of star Can you see it now? Where the words you say Are the things I saw…
5.
So he said he’s been Caught in a similar wave He can’t sleep either Even though winter Wears a heavy lid He gets out of bed and can’t see Why here, why this, Why why would I ever? Even though leaves already fell And the sprouts wait And he suddenly Craves to smash something Even when everything sings, Hush, hush, hush We all, we all can’t wait, can’t wait To smash something! We all, we all can’t wait, can’t wait To – to – t o – So she said she’s been Caught in a similar trance She waits until Night to tear off her Clothes and run, run And as the clouds begin to devour She chooses to shriek Even though cold offers her tears It offers her tears And she suddenly Craves to smash something Even when everything sings, Hush, hush, hush We all, we all can’t wait, can’t wait To smash something!
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When I come home all I want Is a quiet house Well I came home, didn’t I? Yea I came home, didn’t I? Well it’s hard to tell And define the smells No longer passing Oh I wish I’d more be the Careful Broken I could make the bed right away I would make it seem like nobody Knew these sheets When I came home I could not see I said, I’ll just touch everything And I’ll make something mine You will have me as yours And I’ll know where I am When I wake up Oh I wish I’d more be the Careful Broken All the glasses would stand in the cupboard But first I’d wash them clean So nobody left a mark See now Now that I’m making the bed Their seat can get cold And time will remove The body it knew And I’m now the Careful Broken I never leave the chair out and open I put it away…
8.
Well if there’s one thing that I know It’s that I love these streets I could walk ‘em, run ‘em, ride ‘em And I don’t think I’d get tired Of all the houses have to say Or all the different ways The sun bleeds through Well if there’s one thing that I’m knowin’ Solitude’s a heavy horse On her back I keep on piling All the different loads of crying On her thigh I slap, with a spur I press Go leave, my loneliness… If there’s one thing that I know It’s that I got a street to ride With an ever-changing light With a constant turning shadow If there’s one thing that I know It all takes a little pain To climb the hill you stagger To work the way desired To live a life of truth To find the one that proves To bleed through
9.
When the heart overfills Then the heart comes a heart Says, “I have nothing to say Because there are too many words There are too many words” Then the body hears And the body says “Well I have so much to say But I have no clue what it is I have no clue what it is” And the body goes, Cry – no, no, no – run No, speak, no, sing No, huddle in the corner Spread out in the grass Or kiss him, or hold her Or thank you, I’m sorry For everything But when the heart runs dry It goes by another name And says, “I have one thing to say Faith is a dead end Faith is a dead end” And the body kind of looks And the body looks away And says, “Was there something I heard? I can’t remember I can’t remember” And the body goes, Sit and stare and cry Please cry, but I can’t cry Please cry, but I can’t cry Then comes the honest minute Of the quiet, dark hour With the naked body Of the shivering winter She cannot find her room In a stranger’s house It leaves me struck In an empty room weeping I’m weeping Well if this is a body We stand with our chest faced towards the sky With arms hanging down, head back And our feet barely grab the ground Our feet barely grab the ground…

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released October 20, 2010

Eleanor Murray - guitar, vocals
Pamela Margon - violin
Austin Cooper - drums
Joe Capoccia - bass
Andrew Dorsett - wurlitzer, organ
Ben Hargett - guitar drones on "careful broken"
Ben Kamen - electric guitar on "careful broken"
Bob Schwenkler - various percussion, bass

Engineered and mastered by Bob Schwenkler. Produced by Bob Schwenkler, Ben Hargett, and Eleanor Murray. Bicycle Records.

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eleanor murray Olympia, Washington

Songwriter, producer, and artist Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music out of the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in a genre all its own. Her songs are often structurally complicated, while also sparse and open, full of warmth and light. Each album’s sonic landscape is completely its own. ... more

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