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Devastating Ways

by Kaplin

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1.
There was such a sweet smile on my face I lay in my bed there and dreamt I was dreaming of someone and into my room she crept she was just pushing a stare that woke me up with such a fright she started singing to me and she could sing it the whole fucking night while I bled like........... I'm falling down I'm falling down your stairs I was sliding down her legs they were long and all milky white just as i realized they were standing above my wife she said "darling don't you know that I don't even care" she stood their laughing at me at the top of the fucking stairs while I bled like....... I'm falling down I'm falling down your stairs all things must have an end and mine was too close to reach I looking for someone or something that I could teach she said "Darling don't you know I'm always gonna be there" she stood there laughing at me from the top of the fucking stairs while I bled like....... I'm falling down I'm falling down your stairs
2.
Easy Lover 02:47
Don't know myself lately darling or these pale shaking hands I'm curled up like a mess on the floor but I still feel like a man reaching out for my easy lover she's my very best friend but now she's gone I find now that when my pulse aches I take all trivial things yes I try to chase them right out in hope you walk back in but I'm pointing a finger at myself and a gun where you don't stand reaching our for my easy lover she's my very best friend but now she's gone well I'll be better soon then I won't need you
3.
Frozen Sand 03:47
The graffiti'd harbour walls wait for water to flow through to wash off the words I wrote there for you My bones as dry as the sand teased by these ocean waves kicking over castles I was building for days. Don't wait til the summer's gone and the sky's a darker blue tears will freeze on my face as I wait for you. As sure as night the waves rose up as the sun broke through I was looking for a sign that was you. I gave in like a drunken whore and prayed to get washed away I woke up without you in the very same place. Don't wail till the summer's gone and the sky's a darker blue tears will freezed on my face as I wait for you. My baby shed her skin it lays there on the ground still she makes not a sound my brain's been crumblin' and it's shouting at me now still I laugh like a clown Don't wail till the summer's gone and the sky's a darker blue tears will freezed on my face as I wait for you. The tears will freeze on my face as I wait for you
4.
I'm gonna steal the angels from under your nose the shoulders they look over won't be like what they have known where once they floated down through your garden in the spring now they can't stay beautiful, the blackness swallows everything so I'm gonna steal the angels from under your nose pack them in a 40 foot and send them all back down that road where every worn out mother with a belly full of hunger should know that all the good and bad in the earth where we will one day follow They're all heading south now while we float up away I'm going to the promised land darling it's written on your face oh sisters please don't hold me I'm a proud and solemn man I'll turn your day to night time and burn your little house til it's sand where every worn out mother with a belly full of hunger should know that all the good and bad in the earth where we will one day follow where every worn out mother with a belly full of hunger should know that all the good and bad in the earth where we will one day follow where every worn out mother with a belly full of hunger should know that all the good and bad in the earth where we will one day follow
5.
Falling asleep on my stool drooling and wasted waiting up all night for you I won't let this light burn blue the way that it shines can bring out the worst in you so I'll beat out the same tired tune the neighbours will complain but I'm not really sure about who. Oh my devastating ways I have overstated my case that I speak the truth when I have only shaken it loose Come back I have no excuse you can take all the credit cos I've used up any that I was due down tools and bring on that curse that holds out it's arms to protect me from something much worse and the sunsets were always in view on the bed where we lay while I fed off what was left of you. Oh my devastating ways I have overstated my case that I speak the truth when I have only shaken it loose Oh my devastating ways I have overstated my case that I speak the truth when I have only shaken it loose shaken it loose shaken it loose shaken you loose
6.
I was drifting through, it was no concern to you , I felt the rumble of a rosary. My father knealt there weekping while I just took a beating at the bottom of the family tree. There was too much thinking and I could not help for drinking so I swalloed up a gin colour see. I took too big a biter from my last Dublin night and now's all repeating on me. If I know where I was going then I might not make it through sat here facing the wall in a room with a view I got such a fright I was blinded by the the light that the pills were helping me see. No people wait in line while I'm covered in pine stealing all ther light on my. I was sucess I was in my favourite dress and I was clean from head to toe for my family and my friends well all that now depends cos half of them I don't even know. If I know where I was going then I might not make it through sat here facing the wall in a room with a view
7.
So many beautiful women in this town til I come around Their kids jump on the trampoline falling through a summer breeze as it holds 'em down Well I'm telling you the last piece of truth You'll never grow up just enough to understand The pylons, purples and pinks are disappearing behind the clouds. It leaves this town in silence, the sound effects of violence can still be heard. I think there's gonna be a scene. When I break it won't be clean shall I eave Well I'm telling you the last piece of truth You'll never grow up just enough to understand You'll never grow up just enough to be a man So many beautiful women leave this town when I come around....
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9.
I woke up to look like a wreck Fingernails were stuck in my neck I came home and how my wife wept When I said “I’ll leave now in search of a crisis” Fell in love with somebody’s vices I don’t know why I shouted her down And dragged her out here, Somewhere far from this town But there’s no such place as the graveyard lounge I let go of my mother’s hand when the last thing I was was a man Watch me now I’ll move the truth around I’ll drag it out here somewhere far from this town But there’s no such place as the graveyard lounge If you decide I’m not worth the trouble I’ll come back more alive than before I’ll drag you out here somewhere far from this town But there’s no such place as the graveyard lounge No there’s no such place as the graveyard lounge……………….
10.
When it's 4 in the morning and it's midnight in Brazil The warm air round her body is what holds her there still while I lie awake on a bed, I would otherwise just freeze if not for the warm embrace that I know never leaves I could be your bad seed, the worst thing you could know let me be your misery put me out now when you go I could be your bad seed baby She will never get through that door she's tapping at I could be her coward baby's not so certain of that while I've got some secrets to keep baby you don't wanna know put your fingers in your ears now darling 1,2,3, here I go I could be your bad seed, the worst thing you could know let me be your misery put me out now when you go I could be your bad seed, the worst thing you could know let me be your misery put me out now when you go
11.
oh mother please fill my cup in the morning I feel I'm the leak in your water tank though the things that you do keep my blood still flowing yeah it flows and it flows but gives you no thanks and why should I think of the bad times we're having there was a time when I thought, there's not much at all and it hurts me to see you out there wingwalking cos I'm stuck here at home and I can barely even crawl for the moonlight on a winter's morning brightens up even my, my most darkened times and through muddied windows and windscreen wipers that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs this fever I got feels like murder tonight I will tighten my belt sir though I'll almost choke and I must try not to think that I've seen the light I'd only use all it's power to light my last smoke for the moonlight on a winter's morning brightens up even my, my most darkened times and through muddied windows and windscreen wipers that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs for the moonlight on a winter's morning brightens up even my, my most darkened times and through muddied windows and windscreen wipers that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs that road it rarely runs out of signs

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Kaplin's debut full length album.

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released October 12, 2012

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Kaplin Dublin, Ireland

Kaplin are a Dublin/Donegal band whose first release since a long hiatus is the wonderful In Your Shoes ep out November 2019. Their debut single “Papa Don’t Preach No More/Your Lover’s Bed” was described by Hot Press as a cross between Mark Lanegan and Calexico. They went on to release their debut full length "Devastating Ways" to much acclaim. They have supported Howe Gelb and American Music Club ... more

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