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Little Prince
02:32
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I will stand in your rain if I can stand in your sun
You swing from the stars that I strive for
Once I was tame, he left as he came
And I’m once again just like the others
Now timid at first and dying of thirst
I’m seized with desire to awaken
Lovely indeed what cannot be seen
And also cannot be forsaken
I shall be quiet and I shall be patient
And sit at a distance from you
For I know the gold of the wheat fields now
And I will not forget the truth
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The Starter Wife
04:11
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When you asked me to be your wife
We promised each other the rest of our lives
What nature gives she will reclaim
Now it’s overgrown with vines
A beautiful ruin I visit from time to time
I didn’t ask for much
The first time we touched
Somehow a decade goes by
You check your watch then ask the time
And pour another glass of what gets you by
There are things they never teach you
And there are gifts you cannot buy
There are no atheists in foxholes
And I was not meant to I was not meant to
I was not meant to, I was not meant to
I was not meant to be a starter wife
I just wish that you could say
For every time I’ve held this pain
To buy your freedom
You are truly as happy as you said you’d be
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Enough To Kill
04:41
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Under the blue tv screen light
I argue with the paint under my fingernails
Like a corpse and nobody’s closed its eyes
Your back under my fingernails
In the quiet moments we’ve just stolen
I close my eyes and feel us fall apart
I hear you breathing, so hard not believing
In a lie you’ve never told me
You’ll kiss my throat and run the water warm
And I know you don’t mean me any harm
But you cover me like the water on my shoulders
And tell me you might love me when we’re older
And we can laugh at the parts of me
That are a walking contradiction
What will it be, give up on me
Or count the gifts that we’ve been given
Cast me gently to the breeze
Watch me fall, then watch me spread my wings
I carry my cage in my clutches
So I will never fly too close to the sun
When I said I loved you I meant I loved you
You closed your eyes and tried to fall apart
And we pass through this quiet moment
It’s so damn long for being so damn short
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Something Like Heartache
03:19
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It was something like heartache and something like heaven as well
I borrow my troubles by dreading tomorrow like hell
You sing something about us destroying the things we love most
As I spend these last moments together as pale as a ghost
You say “when will you ever forgive yourself?
I believe that our demons could dance
You could let go a little, I’d take the lead
If you just give me half a chance”
If I could speak openly without fear of driving you off
I’d wonder how could something so hard comes from something so soft
You say “I haven’t been in love with you in years”
And I say “when will you ever forgive yourself?
I believe that our demons could dance
You could let go a little, I’d take the lead
If you just give me half a chance”
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I could never hold it close to my vest
I could never still the storm in my chest
I’ve never loved anything more than regret
But I was never supposed to meet you like this
Leave it to me to imprison myself with my freedom
Leave it to me to drag demons kicking and screaming
To the gates of heaven and expect to be let in
Maybe it’s the way that we’ve never kissed
Maybe I have no right to miss you like this
Maybe it’s the universe taking a piss
Maybe every mile is a blessing and blessings have always been
Easy for me to resist
Romantic and cynic have both had their say
Neither ever really had a surefire way
So we shoot into darkness and hope we don’t miss
And I was never supposed to meet you like this
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Clear Blue
01:46
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Out of the clear blue and into the who knew
This is the time of year
For the wildest of storms and the rushing of warm air
It brings
How can we claim not to expect
What is sure as the sun to follow
Why do you hunch your shoulders as if you could dissuade the rain?
I’d sooner plant myself among the things it feeds
And find myself drenched with the hope of growing
Won’t you come lie down with me?
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Carry My Cage
02:48
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The lines around your eyes cut deep
You know it sets my heart at ease
To see you’ve spent these years
Smiling
Two empty cups of coffee here
A silence tempered by the years
A lifetime in a moment
No words could ever fill
Only in my darkest night
Is is clear as day and sure as night
For all the freedom I was seeking
I’d just carry my cage with me
When I go, when I do
There are things I meant to tell you
Things I’m sure you know
That I’ll carry my cage with me
I will carry my cage with me
When I go, when I go
It is the devil that I know
It is the devil that I know
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Ghosting
02:16
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Darkness on the edge of town
Little flame of sun finally dying down
Here you are again ghosting like a dream
The last thing on my mind as I’m drifting off to sleep
I search for grace and elegance
To hide away my human frailty from you
But you’ll still be regardless
The first thing on my mind as I open up my eyes
To a cold but kind day dawning
Spring is yawning and opening her arms
There is an anger to this river
The current strong enough to steal away my breath
The icy honest shiver
As I lift up my skirts and surrender what is left
To that cold but kind day dawning
You are yawning and opening your arms
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Tomorrow won’t remember what we said or did tonight
The tee shirt on the light to soften all the lines
The great anticipation of ‘I know my time will come’
The timid shadow shortened by the reckless rising sun
You’ll kiss every freckle but you cannot kiss my mouth
My tiny nose will wrinkle, but I’ll swallow every breath
For fear I’ll send a signal that you’re leaving me bereft
Tomorrow won’t remember the fits and starts of time
Like the record with the scratches that skips my favorite line
Desperation left me some years before you came
And I’ve let my knuckles loosen a little on the reins
Yet here I sit inside the gate in stamping steaming sweat
Waiting for the shot to pop to race whomever’s left
As if there were a finish line and after I could rest
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Murderer's Row
04:03
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I have been the poison and I could be the cure
For whatever reason you never asked for any more
Than my unbridled passion, brushbacks and all
A cold rain comes down to wash away the score
I have struck out looking so many times that I’ve lost track
Found out just much it takes to break my back
Nothing ever came so quickly or took so long to go
As my place at your side on Murderer’s Row
Out on the lost highway where the darkness lingers
I found the light of the stars in the band around my finger
I’m a walking contradiction, but as I live and breathe
You were the one who made an honest woman out of me
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Worth the Weight
03:51
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They say that hope is the cruelest drug
And I’m too restless to ever give it up
It hangs like flowers hang their scent in air
It slips through fingers like it was never there
And I’d say it’s high time that I had it out with fate
Baby tell me, baby tell me that you’ll make it worth the wait
I get nervous when they mention g-d
To need forgiveness to cover up your fraud
To walk in grace with what was meant to be
Feels like a punchline and the fool is me
That’s what they tell me, that’s what they say, that I can carry all this weight
But I am tired, and I am praying that you’ll make it worth the wait
They say that someday I’ll look back on this
And laugh like thunder at the hit or miss
I’m going under, try to hold my breath
When every shaking head is like a little death
And I’d say it’s high time that I had it out with fate
Baby tell me, baby tell me that you’ll make it worth the wait
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Daphne Parker Powell New Orleans, Louisiana
For her sixth album, The Starter Wife singer-songwriter Daphne Parker Powell swan dives into a maelstrom of divorce and rises from the wreckage weary, wiser, and ready to take herself a whole lot less seriously. This is cinema verite in song, boldly exploring the disposability of forever after. ... more
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