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Cloud to Ground

by The Salt Flats

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1.
In Dreams 04:09
well I never remember falling asleep it's a change of grip ... it's a switch that flips in medias res ... I am throw into some surrealist place ... down the avenues the familiar trace ... comes through nothing means quite what it seems in your dreams in between the pure and obscene coming clean I was running wild ... faster than I can I felt like a child ... who could understand then I'm falling down ... under water now trying to reach the air ... though my body bound I am almost there the fabric comes apart at the seams in the stream just around the corner from everything in my dreams felt more than thought the near to death, the victory the hero and own archenemy the serial trials, the denouement the quintessential come to the front
2.
Tonight 04:14
hold on tight, moonlight bride force my smile open wide in the rush of the night in we breathe all we need we don't need a guarantee out beneath the open sky the stars reflecting back in our eyes set alight ... tonight holding me close to thee we can breed, we can feed and we know we're looking' out below as the morning light fades in slow tryin' our best to freeze time desperate as if by design only to find that sure as the moments will pass here they come again just as fast the best will last all our lives for tonight, all is right we're kept warm by the fire inside Heaven on Earth for all it's worth all the world ours tonight
3.
Us 03:31
at a crossroads spinning circles so we parted then we called us back down the same path where we started back to our old haunts that we didn't want any part of so upsetting so are we getting any smarter? oh, this is such a loss we've given up such a long way down to us and we thought we knew what was goin’ on so we never saw what was goin’ wrong such a hard find you were not fine you could not quite say how I how I broke your heart I could not say why why I never came around to us why you never made a sound for us I could not stay down for us and bear a secret frown I could never read your eyes I could never free your mind I could not be mine
4.
rise it’s that time the fight’s begun, you’re in your prime your first time around, proving ground you take a few but not enough to put you down and soon you hear that bright sound   now cut your eyes back down to size come your second wind 110 percent sweet adrenaline, kicking in again but a slight misstep and a sharp regret hard and fast to your head now cut your eyes back down to size take in the light stay in the fight one more to go heavy and slow had to see how much you’ve got and now you know you’ve got enough to keep it close just stay alive let them decide after all you know the title's not the prize the prize is knowing you survived now cut your eyes back down to size take in the light and again, rise! you won the fight feel the glowing pride give a smile so wide and say goodnight
5.
crossing streams collide positive / negative with the speed of light so pressure-sensitive each year a billion strikes never the same shape twice like charges in our minds reacting all the time forces we can't control, coerce or capture we marvel in the throes a flashing rapture a billion volts take their hold reaching far and bright the lightning strikes miles high down to the core attraction is flickering ceiling to the floor the atmosphere quickening all around sight and sound cloud to cloud cloud to ground
6.
young blood can’t get enough of itself but to keep up you gotta have some help pick-me-ups cup after cup zero to infinity and lo, you look so pretty, jittery the creatures of habit on the prowl they want it all and want it all now comin’ right up you can give em just what they want and while you’re at it you might as well have some fun you won’t deny the invite in your eyes just shy of obscenity and you know you look so pretty, jittery stirrin’ up trouble all the time the eager just waitin’ in line is it getting to your head? or all under control? are you takin’ to your bed a heart or heart-shaped hole? that can all go unsaid til who knows how old? it’s yours to know oh, you look so pretty, jittery young blood’s gotta do whatever it takes starting early and staying out too late crazy in ways that go on for days and off on all your enemies but oh, you look so pretty, jittery
7.
your wide, expectant eyes await my side, but sometimes baby I just don't wanna talk it's not your fault and you start to cry and I sigh cuz baby I don't wanna be bought wait that came out all wrong I didn't mean to be so curt I understand your feelings hurt I wish I'd never said a word I concur everything I say just makes it worse you know I love you true, I can be absentee but we both know how soon you'll have enough of me and all the things I do that drive you crazy indeed and not the way we like it to be and how it comes around now I feel so left out well, maybe you just don't wanna talk tending your own thoughts and it's so hard not to give in to feeling like it's all my fault that something's wrong when all I need is a little time to work out my temperamental mind before I start committing crimes so unkind you know because the way it's been since way back when so many words never make a dent just rubbing raw on thinning skin it's no-win just a record skipping over and over again I know you love me true, you can be hard to read but we both know how first impressions can mislead and how I wish I knew without the waiting to see but in due time I find that's just what I need everything we say uninvited, gone to waste no place to speak but there’s no need to be so distraught it’s okay if sometimes we don’t wanna talk
8.
I'll tell you what happened and try to tell it plain came up out of fashion cut against the grain heard all kinds of history didn't know what to make but I took it with me to sort along the way and the seed it soon took root in me the need to be something more than crossed without a cause to wind up lost with no way back to where I'm from I followed the action and with it, came to find the flaw of attraction the blind leading the blind and what I'm really thinking nobody wants to hear this city is sinking and I am outta here I just speak it like I see it and you're free to deem it solipsistic but you must admit your own shit I'm just being realistic words, for worse, they slur on ad absurdum as the masses sing along I must be on my way to new mistakes and that's why I'm so gone
9.
in the day I had a bright, carefree childhood I had horses under my hood running all day long then one day I hit my head up on the awning when I felt the new day dawning it wasn’t what I wanted is there no way I can get back to the good old days? is there some way I can get back to the good old days? but in the day I’d always fall for all they told me and when anyone would scold me nobody could console me then one day I realized I was so mistaken felt the sting and reawakened and the future started shaping and there's no way I'm falling back by the wayside  and I won’t shy from daylight and come hell I’ll bide the time and there's no way I'll make it back to the good old days there's no way I'm going back to the good old days
10.
I'd been taking what they gave me ever since I was a baby told me it would save me and when I ate it up they praised me so I started wrestlin' with my dark side goin' restless on the inside wide awake each midnight tryin' to get my script right and I found my violent side in time a true danger acted oh so freely from my mind a force of nature and now I'm seeing double a gun for each of ya I’d been losin’ faith in always different churches, different parlays on a road not to be paved seeing visions in the heat waves saw the desert paradise was only illusion prayed I wouldn't die there all alone for my confusion and I'm seeing double a gun for each of ya when I lost my youth, my voice changed when I thought I knew, my choice changed when I couldn't win, defeat changed when it all made sense, my beliefs changed and I didn’t know what time we had in the living what of all the times that we were bad that were forgiven and I'm seeing double a gun for each of ya!
11.
Someday 03:54
oh, been running so long trailing voices saying "you must be strong" same refrain from that same old song "someday..." it feels so far away you don't know where or how to make your own place you can't have theirs no matter the price you pay your place is on your way long down on the times prayin' everyone pays for their crimes but only you can change your own mad mind here, now you have to sort it out turn the mirror see to your darker side and never fear something so sure as night there’s more to life than light love, lyin' awake same old code that you never could break how to live down so many mistakes? someday you pray for what it takes don't lose heart no it's not all in vain I know it's hard but you know you need the pain to have something to gain when nothing else remains you’ll see it’s worth the faith someday

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Produced by Eli Truett
Recorded and Mixed by Eli Truett and Jesse Mangum at The Homestead and The Glow Recording Studio, Athens GA
Mastered by Jason NeSmith at Chase Park Transduction, Athens GA

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released August 15, 2017

Eli Truett: vocals, guitar and keys
Jarred Forrester: bass guitar
Andrew Fialka: drums

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The Salt Flats Athens, Georgia

Eli Truett: Vocals and Guitar

Jarred Forrester: Bass

Nick Sullivan: Drums

Jason Trahan:
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