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So long! (EP)

by Robert Leslie

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1.
So long! 03:44
framed there next to me that's her lookin' like a dead fish budget rooms and molting fur not a story, not a wish washing up an empty dish still it all seems like a blur bye-bye baby, all good times storming like two years before guess I'm makin' my traditions still I'm crying out for more finally finding my religion wet enough I might go fishing drying up I near the door call it casting out a line pressing pins in ancient maps blue for maybe, red for yes slowly filling all the gaps no surprises, never guess, never dream I'm not the best, never miss the hours elapsed hate the days, forget the time I guess that I look older now people smile but people pass but I won't let them bring me down peace of mind or piece of ass, gotta live and make it last gotta get it down somehow pocket all the cents and dimes and if another lecture hall locks me in or tries to teach more flawed ideas or battle calls tell them that I can't be reached tell them they've already leeched my happiness, my wherewithal they must be sick of all my sighin' ah, come on now, everybody stop I'm leaving soon, I've had enough I've jumped the cliff, I've made the drop don't think twice now, call the bluff - yes it's painful, yes it's rough but I'll be gone before the flop so long guys, I'll be all right
2.
I told myself I'd live to gain by thinking on ahead as it turned out I could only last a month 'fore I was dead I didn't have the strength to read the book and take a leaf I just waited for the fall to come and drop one down for me venus, I need a plan take me as I am or let me go time to make a stand to strike the silence down before it grows out of hand I told myself that coming clean would drive my demons out then tell me why the light of truth casts silhouettes of doubt they've killed me with survival speak, they've lured me in with fear and they've led me down their stepping stones and now I'm never here venus, I need a plan take me as I am or let me go time to make a stand to strike the silence down before it grows out of hand I guess my death was merciful 'cause now my skies are plain and still the morning comes to me, it's really all the same and I won't have to think no more 'bout where the sun will stay if you press your eyes up to the edge you'll see me walk away
3.
the reason that I had to be like this was that I hoped that you would tell me that as the days passed into weeks you would return my kiss and that you'd stay here just to hold me oh, but then you left alone and I stood there in the doorway missing you already if all the reasons that I gave were wrong I only gave them not to hurt you every minute you don't want me seems to take too long I guess it's easier to desert you so I still wait for rain and I wait for you to tell me that you never really loved me all this time you were by my side all this time you just let me lay my head down on your shoulder quietly getting colder and now that I'm alone here comes my regret but see the day's too old to call you still I just hope that as you walk away you don't forget that I will never cease to love you oh, and when you left alone I just turned around and closed my eyes missing you already
4.
Must be grey 03:55
I've got some things to do but my eyes turn away, must be grey she'll be returning soon come to tell me if she'll go or she'll stay gotta go away we've ceased to long for much 'cept for sunlight today, must be grey drawn in that homesick clutch I pencil the lines of her face gotta go away I don't mind if all my thoughts are broken to see some truth I might decline the right to all the wishes of which I have spoken just so the day to come is mine I hear her ocean voice slowly turning my way, must be grey stems from the only choice I'll be gone soon I'll leave just the same gotta go away
5.
when were you going to tell me when were you going to say when were you going to let me know that you're going away all these days I have waited for your soft voice calling out to me all the moments have faded but I miss them blame my memory did you intend to hurt me or did you just hope I would go did you believe you were doing wrong I'm not so sure if you know were you really that jaded? I mean I didn't - I didn't think the fault was mine all the moments have faded it was easy all it took was time how did you plan to inform me how did you think it would end how did you tell 'em about me why do you call me a friend? dirt roads smoky and shaded wander on now, don't look back too long all these moments have faded but I won't need them when at last I'm gone.

about

This is an appropriate little collection at an appropriate time - anyone close to me will know the details and anyone else will be able to guess. I wrote the songs between January and June 2011 and recorded them all on one rainy day in July (except for I won't need them which was recorded as a demo a month earlier). The cover was a collaborative effort between me and my sister Louise, who provided some excellent biting and dirt-scraping assistance.

These stark electronic surroundings don't truly fit the mood, though. It's a tender album and it's best delivered live around a makeshift campfire, so try and see through to the more human components of the songs - the morning-after sheets, the crumpled train tickets, the missing mugs. I started recording this as another of my playful explosive-sounding tutti fruttis of overenthusiastic production, but this way is better for now - all songs are acoustic, recorded in one take, accompanying myself with my guitar.

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released August 4, 2011

All songs composed, performed, and recorded by Robert Leslie. Cover art by Robert Leslie and Louise Bicker Caarten. Special thanks to David Luca for his advice and support.

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