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Be Still

by Dark Satellites

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1.
Listen now children, words can save our lives Now you're forsaken, pray with all your might You're stained, unsightly, wicked, unworthy You need forgiveness or you'll burn forever underground ...the priest, he said to me And in my frail, young mind I visualize Stalagmites rise, impaling through my eyes The landscape catches the glowing ashes of sinners, heretics, and snakes that slither on the ground They kind of look like me...
2.
Flyover 04:12
When we were young, we heard a sound Yeah It spun us around like Earth on its axis It came from the east Cascaded down mountains from the west ends of our fertile imaginations From the middle of nowhere, we pack up, set out to find if we're not alone We'll ask you where we'll take you there we'll ask you where we'll ask you where Up in the air we're always there pick up the phone you're not alone We'll ask you where we'll take you there we'll take you there we'll take you there We're not at home don't call don't phone we're not at home we're not We won't be home, we're on a spaceship Hey man, I tell you, we're not alone Pray as we search for the source of it all The signal's coming from all around Antenna's up So we jump in and we set out hoping to find these purveyors of noise And believing we're not alone As we blast off our rockets Just want to say, "Thanks for not flying over"
3.
What's up's got me down in this tiny town Maybe I'm shrinking Designs on fitting in Or, one day I'll go to a place where I feel safe to think, to say the things I say So hard to define Bounds of this box I can't see from inside, yet feel from outside Closing on me Constrained, contained I'll be forever tethered, but too strange to stay This place will never define my life or change anything I dream, seek, want Say your dry-eyed goodbyes I'm done tripping on these brick streets. I'll pave my own way out of here I'm up I'm now awake enough to see that all of me won't fit in a sealed up box where "The Good Life" sleeps quietly I'll never sleep in here I will find the seams Rip Tear Slash I will get away
4.
If life is all a dream, am I untrue? In my head, I shape a world anew What's real, if not the chemicals inside my mind? Disbelief suspended, I break through My imagination in full view I dream Atoms in an embryonic cloud creating the life I feel like Put away these eyes and look inside I'm never coming back I'm bored in waking life Doesn't make a difference because it's real enough I'm supporting cast in this act You sing your best but I'm so out of tune I sing when noone else is around I'd trade a life of dreams, be dead, for just a thought inside your head But I can't find a way to interest you I seek a heaven only dreams allow and I control Though I seem sick to those in real life, I haven't got the time I've got my real eyes Settled in the dust of an ideal moment Doesn't make a difference, because it's real enough
5.
Real Eyes 02:59
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6.
White Gold 03:48
Think about the people in the street I can save them, I just turned twenty Try to find a place up in the sun--lots and lots of heat for everyone Whitebread optimism ain't for me Ignorance is their philosophy Progress, non-participatory Flee the affluence and make my peace Betcha I can make it in the streets, like The Wire's cast on my TV Cuz I know better, yeah I know better than you all think I can fix this evil place Write a song and save my face Every night and day, eternally, I carry my own weight in gold
7.
Noflakes 03:47
Watch out, snowflakes meander and land on my face sometimes White out, blinding, chemicals binding I wish they'd all just disappear They want to fly and shimmer in the light, making silky, white pillows on the ground Numb and icy, I wonder if I'll ever sublimate and feel free And watch the spring heat evaporate the mess as what was white turns dirty grey and gets churned up with road salt, gravel, and regrets I wanna melt away sometime I know I'd have a good time Flutter softly Burning white calls me Glisten with a tempting sheen Tease of some things, knowing what my stupid heart wants, but confusingly This hex on me--frozen lethargy Still I wanna break these bonds and trickle down Phases of me awaiting energy Crystalline purgatory Or am I safe here, locked up, never seen? So out of focus, playing make believe Chasing snowflakes, what will come of me? My frozen, indecisive life So frigid in an Arctic mire Powder burning my eyes Crystallizing my demise I really don't know at all--am I changing? If life's a risk, I'll pay the price But I'll warm up on my own damn time One day I'll finally realize... I hope I have a good time
8.
Strange Song 04:44
Caught up in a dream of mine--big surprise Love life, live a long time I want to try If it weren't for the landmines exploding in the back of my head Can't argue. I can't fight. I'm never right. After all, maybe he's right: I'm off inside Cruel words of a stranger who's always in the back of my head He doesn't shout, he gently speaks Persuasion comes so cheap when he's been wearing me down so long I wanna scream, "Are you finished yet?" Feel so discarded, I'll go and hide Can't tell if it's real or my worried mind Past enemies of mine are trolling in the back of my head Squirming in the moonlight, another night Another year in the grip of my darker side Stop fidgeting long enough to see it's not so bad, and I'm dead I wanna breathe the air in peace, be present, be now, not dreaming Taking it in, not venting I wanna scream, "I ain't finished yet" Before I self-destruct, the pieces showering in phosphorescence Glowing in rememberance of the things I took for granted All pretenses burning up in outer atmosphere, dazzling in shameful glances Before I'm gone, remind me I'm not dead... just dying
9.
I look back on my life, I sigh, and then I wonder what happened I used to hide in my lonely head, but now it's not very quiet Sometimes I wish I had youth again But nobody's asking Eras of lost time I can't recall What was I doing? Wide awake, my head, it aches with reticence to own the past and take the blame Wide awake, my head, it aches with eagerness to leave the past and take my place People and places that haunt me still My private museum Wish you could see them Inanimate planet inside my head A place to be guarded Forget how it started Because history's fuzzy and prejudiced Preserved but so hazy Torch it and run Make it disappear Created by my hand: a burdensome wasteland Wide awake, my head, it aches with reticence to own the past and take the blame Wide awake, my head, it aches I'm ready to change Can't let go of the dullest pains They've all been wrapped in cellophane Suffocating Just dwelling on it All alone, another day A force of habit, more of the same Silly things are dragging me down Closing in, there's no way to slow it down A tidal wave of old hate Smothered by it I'm burning down the shrine today Torch it all Set ablaze Drive away Forget about it.
10.
A portal opened up through time and space Led us directly to a perfect place Illumination in the light of day And drink up potion in the night until we see that time has stopped, and I'm lost, and losing track of light and time of day The season opens up for idle play These foothills feel like infinite stairs It leaves me burning up, but I don't care I'm happy just to see you smile That's fine Worries won't reach us through light and time Burned out, desperate Just can't take it Need a wormhole just to shake it off And if it's just too much, run away with me sometime Remembering that "normal" is no way to waste life Where sunshine turns to gold, run away with me sometime Loosen up and stretch out your fingers, scrape the sky It meant so much to me The kind of place you want to see The person that you want to be We're lost in time, forever free We'll never lose this perfect memory as time takes us and light takes time

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Dark Satellites
"Be Still"
2016
Recorded at LEGOland Studio (please don't sue me) by Drew Rudebusch
Mastered by Howie Howard for multiple Sierra Nevada six packs
Artwork by Ethan Jones
Cover drawing by Elda Van Slembrouck

Thanks, Kate and Charlie for putting up with this shit.

For Mighty Max!

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released April 9, 2016

Howie Howard: drums on Strange Song, bass on Just Dropped Out
Nate Bicak: drums on Just Dropped Out
Cole Wheeler: bass on Strange Song
Surajit Bhaduri: saxophone on The Landscape of Hell
Drew Rudebusch: everything else

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