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Kafuku's Wife
03:56
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It’s not like I don’t know you know
It’s not that I don’t care, I care
To feign would not be fair to you
The thing that I have done
Or unravel my run
Before your eyes
But you see, I do excuse myself
By making sure you know what I have done,
I’m the blind one
I hope you see, I do excuse myself
By making sure you know
It’s a wrong turn, but we are still fine
I do it so you see it’s me
Just playing my part
In re-mending my heart
With a silly vice
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2. |
Nils
04:05
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This is to say
The already said
To the girl who farewells me
With a handkerchief-wave
This you may never receive
And that may well be for the best
This is to say
The already said
But also to add a thing
Now for the first
To you I may never return
But here find my final rest
How is it that I can go
Go to the edge of the world
I know it’s because of you
You have given me all
How is it that I can go
Go to the deep white air
It is because I have
I have had it all
This is to claim
I’m ready to go
Without asking myself
How I ended up here
I know that it makes no sense
To lead you and I through this test
This is to hope
It will all go away
That I’ll open my eyes
To find you on my side
I restlessly state to the air
My deepest and final request
How is it that I can go
Go to the edge of the world
I know it’s because of you
You have given me all
How is it that I can go
Go to the deep white air
It is because I have
I have had it all
If I dare whisper
My final wish
It is to have your heart
To lie next to mine
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3. |
Wendy
03:48
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I was born my mother’s kin
Sweet and kind and gentle
Was all I ever wanted to be
Was all I ever knew to be
Wise and loyal and stable
’Til a shadow was cast on me
And yet I am still waiting after all this time
I hate that I’m still wanting after all this time
And you keep on updating
The ticking of the time
You think you’re updating
But along the while
Each daughter will be wiser
And you say you’re not changing,
You’re never growing up
You may be never changing
But along the while
Each daughter will be wiser
I was kept anticipating
Years and years on end
Spent leaning by the windowsill
Spent gazing up between the clouds
Lone and bored and helpless
’Til from the prison I broke free
And yet I am still waiting after all this time
I hate that I’m still wanting after all this time
And you keep on updating
The ticking of the time
You think you’re updating
But along the while
Each daughter will be wiser
And you say you’re not changing,
You’re never growing up
You may be never changing
But along the while
Each daughter will be wiser
I guess you haven’t noticed how much I have grown
You think you taught us how but we’re flying on our own
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4. |
Laodameia
05:23
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It was the first night that made me mad
It was the rising up to find you gone
So you were took to win the war
Oooo oooo
That night in your arms, you laughed and said
Now that I’ve had you, what more could I need
You said it was part of the deal
Oooo oooo oo
And if you go to the flames I’ll run after you
They gave me two nights with you
One before your fight was due
They gave me two nights with you
The other after you were dead
It was the second night that hurt me bad
You said in time my heart would heal
I swore I’d never let you go
Again I woke up next to you just to find you gone
And if you go to the flames I’ll run after you
Those two nights for you, Laodameia
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5. |
Terry
03:50
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I could be a girl
Who’s in love with a boy
Who’s a doctor who drinks gin
And talks about love
I could be that girl
But I might just as well
Be someone else
I could sit and listen as he
Says we’re just beginning
Now we’re drawn to each other’s being
(But it) may all be over soon
I could say that’s what I wanted
I could have had another
But I chose to love you
Or did I have a choice?
I could be a girl
Who’s in love with a boy
Who’s romantic, who has charms
And talks about love
I could be that girl
But I might just as well
Be someone else
I could sit and listen as he
Says we’re just beginning
Now we’re drawn to each other’s being
(But it) may all be over soon
I could say that’s what I wanted
I could have had another
But I chose to love you
Or did I have a choice?
I could be that girl
But I might just as well
Be someone else.
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6. |
Catherine
04:17
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I’m tired of leaning to your powerful side
I’m anxious to get along with me
But I truly believe that if I have a choice
It’s gonna turn back and make me a fool
They call me marred and wayward too,
But to my nature there is nothing I can do.
The dreams are what they are
Not what I want them to be.
Do what I want to
Be what I want to
Go if I need to
Run to the moors
I’ve spent a lifetime shivered by my own thoughts
At night-time they get away from me
A dreary and queer dream showed me where I should be
But I’m not simple-minded as most
They call me silly and blue-eyed too
But to my nature there is nothing I can do
My dreams are what they are
Not what I want them to be.
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7. |
Lounge Act
02:57
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8. |
Constantia
03:40
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The flutter of my heart
The rattle on the street
The dampness of the room
The coldness of my feet
The flutter of my heart
The narrow of my robe
The sighing on my ears
The rattle on the street
I think it’s too late
From the tunnel
Into the moonlight
From the tunnel
Into the thunderstorm
Or by the sea
To feel like me
Movement of a chair
The tension in the air
My body on the floor
The dead weight of my hair
The cotton of my thoughts
The paleness of the light
The pressing of the roof
The longing in my chest
The stillness of the rest
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9. |
Susie
02:45
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I’m gonna break my former form
It can no longer be unfound
And my body wasn’t mine
My body wasn’t mine
And this movement, this movement’s not my own
I need to get me off the ground
Into the light and above the sound
I bet you thought you knew me, yeah
Better than I do
It was always in me, I just didn’t know it
You were always in me, we just weren’t acquainted
It was always to be, you were always in me
But my body, my body wasn’t mine
And this movement, this movement’s not my own
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10. |
Eleanor
03:14
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The stones that came down on us one day
Were not because of the malicious people
On the block as she said
For three days they fell intermittently to
Sightseers gathered by to see
Rolling loudly down the walls
Pattering maddeningly on the roof
Isn’t it odd?
And I held fast to the belief that someday
Along the way we forgot but I held on
To the belief that someday
Someday something. Anywhere
Falling along, fuelling the feud
Between her cross blindness
And their bitter backbiting
It ended when we went away
And never returned though we did
And along the way we forgot
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RULES are a Helsinki-based synth-pop duo that weave depth into their sweet and shameless pop-tunes. RULES’ layered songs echo with the irresistible sounds of the 80s and early 00s with a new and contemporary perspective. The lyrics of RULES music are based on characters from world literature, filling gaps, offering new perspectives and bringing forth silenced voices through each performance. ... more
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