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Time and Miles Apart

by Ben Clark

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1.
Gold 03:18
Your old boy hates me Your daddy does too You don't need a replacement And I'll keep breathing if I don't have you But I was just thinking Soon I'll be gone, and you know I've never mistaken a heart meant for breaking But yours is to hold If I crack you open, I see gold And I have watched you growing old So let me grab you by the soul Live above the hatred that's below Wake up and its autumn And you look beautiful Three months from Chicago Didn't call you once But I can't let go And now you look like a woman But you laugh like a girl Sometimes you gotta walk a mile in hell To find that in this world 'Cause there are friends and there are foes And there are secrets no one knows So let me grab you by the soul Live above the hatred that's below I've been living with a ghost in my room every night I'm feeling faces beside me But just what do I remember? Everybody was watching me They were waiting with pointed teeth Baby you're great and I'm crazy So say it You're letting me go Come back down and show me gold Let me see that gold
2.
Thug 05:07
There's a permafrost Twenty four below You're here, and you're rolling me out of bed I'm a southern boy stuck in Illinois November, I'm putting on a coat again There's broken hearts all around He's a thug, I'm a man to be reckoned with You made a choice and I'm on my own I'm not mad But I just keep struggling on Tell me you'll be good in the times where I never would You're rolling through my windows like the wind The secrets all came out And I'm crazy 'bout you But baby I know It's like walking through snow It's thick and its slow And you'll never be a friend of mine And all this time I've been wondering how you made it out When I almost died And you're only more beautiful now So forget what I said, I was only joking I was just playing around Your money's no good with me And I'm no good with money But baby I'd spend a few bucks to get liquored up And get up to no good with you honey I made a joke and it made you laugh And we made a choice And we chose a path Then we fell in love And I broke the trust And we're here just spilling our blood on the ground Tell me where you've been If you ever come near me again I gave you my best But you won't even give me your time The secrets all came out And I'm crazy 'bout you We were taking it slow And I lost all control and you just let me go You'll never be a friend of mine There's still a part of me In love with every part of you I mean it, I swear I know you don't care But I know there's a heart we both share Maybe you're grieving too Baby I love you, I have
3.
Cold Feet 03:34
Call me cold feet Climbin' up over your fence We talk children She ain't one to play pretend One more coffee with your doorman Smokes a cigarette by the wheelchair ramp Twisted way to behave Goes to show, we ain't never safe But doing the right thing is leaving the hard way And I'm leavin' love behind me Ain't got nobody to care for anymore I'm leavin' love behind me And I still feel safe Funny how that season happened so fast First that time change A little snow, 4 pm Gets dark on your ass And I've been askin' other people "How she act? She ask about me?" She told my friend She'd made a bad habit of not calling But doing the right thing is not lookin' your way Give too much Love too much Say too little Careful fuck, don't mean much Say you will Take my hand when I take you dancin' In midtown where the Mexican band is Smile when I give you sideways glances Move like a woman when I pull on your pants By the belt loop, and I give you my list of demands And again you hold a man for ransom Call me cold feet, climbin' up over your fence
4.
Wish I didn't miss you like hell when you're gone I don't know you well Least, not as well as I want Mother Mary leaves America behind for a couple of months She said "You drive me so crazy sometimes The way you speak to impress Puts me out of my mind" If that's really the way you feel, then Dammit, I ain't the marryin' kind I've been holding devestated ladies so long I'm not taken Levitating over me Like curses in the air You wouldn't know a thing if you didn't ask The bomb was busted, and we never heard the blast And your shipwreck will be gone soon We're sinking fast It's a fun twenty-one gun salute She broke my legs, and she shook me with a juke There's relief now You let me know, I'm nothing to you No I don't know her well But I do I know the photos in her room, potential tattoos Messed up hair do and early morning attitude And I know just where she'd rather be With her surf board bands And her schedule written on her hands And the white kids drugs We all do our best to comprehend She said she felt so outrageous For wearing me down Tearing my pages Writing my letters Making me better than I've ever been Oh, I'm better than I've ever been In a way So I'm done complaining for awhile Bitchin' never was my style But sweet Jesus She will make you feel so juvenile Won't somebody around here call the cops? This young man's heart just stopped This is a crime scene Complete with yellow tape and sidewalk chalk Your love is like a fully loaded magazine Stick it in quick, and watch it turn into a bloody scene I'm losing it, but I censor all the agony So go ahead And leave America behind for a couple of months Mother Mary leaves America behind Go ahead And leave America behind for a couple of months And let the door that hits you in the ass Be the first of many other ones
5.
Little Legs 05:09
Make no mistake I saw pain on your face I'm a stranger At the station Waiting on something I'm just so damn difficult, 'cause I'm childish But we've covered all the holes with the mileage There's a machine inside of me You're trying to explain It's your face I always see Inside of my mistakes Your love it beats like tribal drums Even when you are awake I can't deny you And your pretty little legs For goodness sake What a memory to break God I love you But I don't want to end the night this way No one here is a fool, little cousin It was always so cool And then it wasn't, again Firework girl, light her on up It don't take much time anymore to get messed up So 'fess up Don't you think you should have Wrapped your legs a little tighter 'round me? The room's engulfed in fire Every time you're next to me There is smoke inside my mind You're on my tongue like ecstasy Just give me a little bit of that love, I need it so badly I could die Just give me a little bit of that love, you are my mother I am like your child

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The interlude audio samples on this record were captured in the field from taxi cabs and public train systems over the last four years in Chicago and NYC by the composer.

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released September 24, 2015

Music and Lyrics by Ben Clark
Engineered, mixed and recorded by Nick Rapley
Mastering by Nacor Zuluaga Morelo at Engine Room Audio NYC
String arrangements for "Cold Feet" and "Little Legs" by Kristine Kruta
String arrangements for "Mother Mary Leaves America" by Justin Smith
The band is:
Nick Rapley ; drums
JoeYoung ; Mandolin, keys
Lorenzo Wolff ; bass
Kristine Kruta ; cello
Maggie Gould ; violin
Justin Smith ; violin

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