Skylight

Credits

Songs by Evan Stephens Hall

Evan Stephens Hall – vocals, guitar, percussion
Zack Levine – drums, percussion
Adan Carlo – bass
Josh Marré – guitar, dobro, lap steel, vocals
Sam Skinner – guitar
Nick Levine – guitar, pedal steel
Nandi Rose Plunkett – synth, keyboard, vocals
Doug Hall – piano & vocals on Light On

Engineered by Sam Skinner with Pinegrove
Mixed by Sam with Evan & Zack
Produced by Evan & Sam
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
Cover art by Evan

released September 28, 2018

• Rings
  lyricstabs

  i draw a line in my life
  singing this is the new way i behave now
  & actually live by the shape of that sound

  circle in the back of my throat
  spinning in my head & on my pillow
  telling you things you don’t need to know
  letting you know i trust you so much

  then i’m looking at you you through the lights
  a circle blinking in the tungsten
  wondering how i seem to you
  forgetting the words i’m singing for you
  am i forgetting how it felt?
  you were sleeping with your rings on
  cardinal wings in the early morning
  waking up to a metaphor forming

  i draw a line in my skin
  i’m pinning down inchoate meaning
  mark me right below the ampersand
  perforate line dry summer on my own land

  then it circulates around town
  do i double down because i’m stubborn?
  the needle on the phonographic sound
  you’re digging it up as soon as it’s drawn down
  am i forgetting how it felt?
  if you sing along do i remember?
  mark this feeling in the simplest shape
  let me finally let it fall away
  a w a y

• Portal
  lyricstabs

  i got this feeling a
  mile wide
  i look at it a little
  each side
  a portal for to climb inside
  how’s it feel in here?
  is the water fine?
  fine like cloth or like
  turpentine?
  the pattern where our habits hide

  isn’t it lovely
  i’ll never hold you
  to all you held me to

  i wanna talk about
  all the ways
  every example of
  the shapes
  we use to communicate
  for example when you’re
  leaning in
  to my armaggeddon
  & then you stop
  do you also feel the weight of loss?

  isn’t it lonely
  i’ll never hold ya
  the way you held me up

• Intrepid
  lyricstabs

  don’t let it get to you you said
  well i did
  take a rectangle untangle your head
  intrepid

  would you bet your life on it darling
  if i did?
  well the way i spent my winter i wonder
  how could we commit?

  when the long road noise is loud & you can’t hear the song go
  & i’m out here with no real belief & no hand for me to hold
  up in the early morning for no reason again
  relistening to your message & i held it in my head

  through broke signal like what type of world we wanna live in
  do we curl inwards or live long together in forgiveness?
  & you said do we bend our lives to it darling?
  then we did

  if we learn to love ourselves better maybe
  we could commit

• Paterson & Leo
  lyricstabs

  paterson & leo
  are wandering out
  & wandering around
  in brookdale
  at sundown
  they’re looking for…
  well, they’re still looking
  —here’s another
  place in our town
  —here’s a loophole
  —here’s the steeple
  —here’s another
  under water
  —here’s our friendship
  why i oughtta
  why i love you
  enough to say it
  thank you paterson
  thank you leo
  thank you paterson
  thank you leo

• Angelina
  lyricstabs

  washing windows with angelina
  i don’t understand anything
  violent angles from side to side
  how’d you get so tangled up in my life?
  how’d you get so caught?
  how’d you get so tangled up?

  i love you like it’s the old days
  when i could ask you anything
  how’d you get so tangled up in my thinking?
  how’d you get so caught?
  how’d you get so tangled up?

• Thanksgiving
  lyricstabs

  warm night before thanksgiving
  what do i have to be nervous for?
  cuz who am i really beholden to?
  i do
  hope you wait for me
  whoever you are
  cuz i’ve been waiting for you

• Easy Enough
  lyricstabs

  it’s easy enough to lure myself
  out of my house if i don’t think about
  all my limits i’m on my feet
  i’m on my way i’m wandering
  it’s easy enough though to lie myself back down
  it’s simple it’s like i just remember how
  all my limits’ve held me back i hold my head
  & i let it ask

  why
  im altogether down
  & when will it end now?

  it’s easy enough to lie to myself
  my eye, my carnivore
  circling appetite
  all my limits i’m on my feet
  i’m on my way i’m wandering

  why
  i’m altogether down
  & when will it end now?
  i’m wondering why
  i’m altogether down
  & when will it end now??

• Darkness
  lyricstabs

  suddenly i find
  i’ve got darkness on my mind
  it’s the question mark that keeps me looking
  & it’s never satisfied

  & it’s
  never what i thought
  saying i’m happy when i’m not
  no, i got darkness on my mind
  leaning out the frame
  when it’s particulate & grey
  i’m perpendicular to my whole being
  when i lean a certain way

  saying i’m happy when i’m not
  finding roaches in the pot
  o i got darkness on my mind

  some people spend their whole lives looking
  for someone who could understand
  while meanwhile a lilac blooming
  sometimes on the driest land
  & i
  know it’s been a long time coming
  i’m angry & i know that’s weak
  & i’m longing out that open window
  for whatever it is i seek

  some people spend their whole lives looking
  for someone who could understand
  & while meanwhile a lilac blooming
  sometimes on the driest land
  & i
  know it’s been a long time coming
  i’m angry & i know thats weak
  so i’m trying not to be so bitter
  i’m just looking at it honestly

  well i know it’s been a long time coming
  i’m angry & i know that’s weak
  & i’m longing out that open window
  for whatever it is i seek
  some people spend their whole lives looking
  for someone who could understand
  while meanwhile a lilac blooming
  sometimes on the driest land

• Skylight
  lyricstabs

  i move through shadow
  i go they go wherever
  don’t they come in
  whenever i let em

  i climb through
  the skylight
  whatever you’re feeling is alright
  let you
  let go
  whatever you’re feeling is natural

  low light at dawn
  i’ll love that song forever
  it’s a shadow
  let me know me better

  i climb through
  the skylight
  whatever you’re feeling is alright
  let me
  let go
  whatever you’re feeling is natural
  whatever you’re feeling is natural

  let me let go
  let me know me better

  i climb through
  the skylight
  whatever you’re feeling is alright
  let me
  let go
  whatever you’re feeling is natural
  whatever you’re feeling is natural

• Amulets
  lyricstabs

  little amulets
  along the window
  i’ve got this feeling
  like i’ll always love you
  but i know that feeling
  how it moves through
  & through me
  & it’s changing already

  then on the ambulance
  & out the window
  sequence of colors
  blue & red & then blue

• Light On
  lyricstabs

  i wanna be
  better to me
  the better i do i let it
  leave me
  the way that i see it
  everything begins in your light
  your center
  so leave your light on!
  leave your light on
  or leave

  i wanna be
  better to you
  i wanna do much better
  & i wanna read
  your letters again
  i wanna learn you forever
  forever!!
  so leave your light on!
  leave your light on
  or leave
  leave your light on!
  leave your light on
  don’t leave