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everything green and overgrown

by ness lake

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Alec Waples-Dexter This has personally affected me in a way no other album has. It is ethereal, haunting, and glistening with emotional experiences and honesty. Listening to this album feels like a gut punch delivered through a hazy and melancholic portal to another dimension. Its use of distortion, pitch shifting, and rapidly changing instrumentals conveys feelings of pain and resentment as well as it does ones of longing and nostalgia. Favorite track: morning.
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1.
i never do 02:29
flowers for me keep forgetting when nothing else matters you can be comforting i cling on don't move savored seconds you're gone soon leaves fall through the grates and into pipes and into lakes i feel pale next to you it never works i never do
2.
claw 02:06
somewhere in the harmonies patient pretty things candlewax and comforting a hardwood floor synapse and bend and crank and snap (and grasp and act) troubled breathing, lungs collapse like circus tents, more elephants hold tighter on the reins i'm somewhere in the harmonies blinders off, periphery the guns go off, i bend and buck i try to leave but the door's still stuck on everything you wanted felt so close it always does i claw and claw somewhere in the felt i freeze press dress mess me up im free to hold a pose, a statue of the men i'll never be days of dishes in the sink i don't have time to feed the cat but i can pet and pet and pet i can laugh and laugh and laugh
3.
the leash 01:57
on every street in ypsilanti, someone's smoking weed it's better this than something else, my friends decide to leave and push against the wind, throw their bodies to the wind until the air is still, they flutter down away from me it's all you ever talk about, you strain your neck and thrash around the leash when all you are is what you've done, you and i can sit around and become nothing text you later this time change is messing with my head my bed is emptied of your stories and the spells that you had said it's all you ever talk about, you strain your neck and thrash around the leash when all you are is what you've done, you and i can sit around and become nothing it's all you ever talk about, you strain your neck and thrash around the leash when all you are is what you've done, you and i can sit around, you be the kiss, i'll be the sting, sink in my couch, become nothing nothing nothing
4.
when you think of me, do you do so tenderly? stuck in a dream, can't see, arms outreached, i'm flailing when you think of me, do you do so violently? we both sit up, the lights are off we're wide awake, we're mourning every time you woke me up it was the worst thing every time i've felt enough it's back to nothing
5.
we'll touch until the cameras come on out my hand extends, to touch your mouth your lips peel off, i press them on my skin a temp. tattoo, your resurrection everything's so quiet everything's so pure i held you close you said you're sure we felt the score, our shoulders underneath the wait so far, the taste of our relief i love your love potion, reflexive slow motion, the clip and the band of emotion distortion, contorted then sorted, the pattern discordant we were once friends or at least we were sort of everything's so quiet everything's so pure i held you close you said you're sure
6.
in the dark you flail your arms hoping that you might touch someone no matter how hard or fast you swing everything hurts when you feel nothing when you feel happy feeling fleeting everything seam to seam it seems empty when the only ones left are me everything's so perfect everyone is so pure do you think that it's worth it? did you find the cure?
7.
can we cut the cat in half? she keeps on stepping on my things the siren sings across the street it's loudest when she's facing me i cough up water on concrete 20 pounds of somebody cutting stems, it's roses, hands what if we slept again? i don't know what to do i can't grow with you repot the plants in different homes the roots untangle with our bones
8.
hell isn't a place it is a feeling of not knowing where you are or where you're stepping or how far is too far from my parent's house and tether, tangled in wishing do better sever several seconds from each inhale domesticate suffer suffocate and do it all again again again everything green and overgrown the things you have the things you own everything that's green and overgrown the things you have the things you own
9.
you were high it was like highschool all the time and i forgot about the chemicals in your head like a vat nonstop staring at the sun i never thought i'd be the one to curl up, turn around i never thought i'd be the one to curl up, turn around tear my insides out and you can have whatever you want you just gotta dig it out
10.
stunned 03:08
i don't wanna die i just wanna fast forward you're looking at him like you wanna leave you're so bored everything's so green and overgrown now i think it could stand to be trimmed back some swimming with my friends there's a beer out of your view conversation practiced just always missing my cue rabbit in the clouds it reminds me of you but my perception is bad and often misconstrued now you're there it's what you've become when all you are is what you could have done we sit so stunned we sit so stunned now you're in my car completely messed up your eyes wanna leave they've had enough of the feel numb, heal some, oscillating the real dumb, fearsome feelingfeel numb, heal some, oscillating real dumb, fearsome feeling
11.
keep me on your hip take me all around i won't bark or bite i won't make sound after all i am a holster a place for empty threats to sleep i don't think at first red is all i see i just keep on speaking as the words all come to me the fever is flourishing, the anger in bloom i'm a wilted stem that should be cut soon i never thought i'd be hungover we only went out in my dreams mustard yellow screaming you came back in cursive cold brew pensive virtue black belt black shirt black shoes i want you to want it i want you to show me the way that you're feeling you me and the ceiling after all i am a holster a place for empty threats to sleep i never thought i'd be hungover we only went out in my dreams
12.
magic my head some spell you said i'm my own god pray to myself linoleum mausoleum hard wood beneath i trust can't see much except the ceiling fan hypnotize me i say the same over again "i'm not alone" "i have some friends" indoctrinate myself with me I am my own worst deity glow in the dark fabled space rocks fall to the ground scotch tape's unsound they're not unique items and trophies throw them away, grow up someday in sickness and in hell i isolate i have my shell i have my shelves of worthless things i'm in my womb of memory
13.
morning 03:05
i can't tell what's brighter the sun wakes me up, i lay beside her i can't tell what's harder i get dressed i leave for work my heart's beside her
14.
eaten alive 02:57
trail of black smoke from the highway fire burning oxygen let me in oh let me in i wanna burn like the best of them i was in the treeline eaten alive dead eyed headlights eaten alive
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released March 7, 2020

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track 16 is a collaboration with
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ness lake Ypsilanti, Michigan

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