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Days Like Razors

by Alex Purser

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1.
Masquerade 05:30
You've won their hearts and their minds, but something isn't right still You find these words in which to hide, all the greats 'Cause they don't love you, like those characters do A taste of glamour in suburban prison, you're living in your own hell Privilege wasn't all you were hoping for, I see it in the white lines What are you hiding from? 'Cause I want you In your room in the cover of moonlight, you can share your words with me All night But with your boys in the glare of sunlight, you can't even give me the time of day no It's a devilish game you play, Masquerade I love you more than you'll ever know, but I guess it's not the real you I live inside my ideals so i guess I'm hiding too But why can't you show me your hand and let me in? 'Cause I want you But I can't keep trying forever, you're fading away No I can't keep trying forever, you're fading to grey Your masquerade is taking it's toll on me
2.
Numbers 03:44
Numbers are the problem, you keep racking up the years Numbers are the problem, I keep feeding off the fear I'm sweet like sugar i'll draw you in But i bite like cyanide 'Come and have a drink with me baby' Only if you call me gorgeous What do you imagine we would be? Think I'd roll over for you? I'm sweet like sugar i'll draw you in But i bite like cyanide Numbers are the problem, you tell me that you like my music Numbers are the problem, I don't think that I can do this Don't need your experience or your influence I don't need it Don't need your money or your fame
3.
Eyes 04:20
Golden globes and golden orbs, your desire and your vice They keep you up at night In the silence of your room, I feel you inside There's no world outside Oh I'm drowning in your eyes So I'll keep telling lies To shield you from their gaze Battlements poised and castle doors stay shut And I get why, you're just getting by But even when you choose to close your eyes You can hear me and I'm near you Oh I'm drowning in your eyes So I'll keep telling lies To shield you from their gaze If a lover's not someone who understands then what is he? Then who is he?
4.
Penitentiary 05:12
Prison bars, control me but they hold me And when it got dark, I had you blue, yeah I had you in some sense Your way your art, is in the silence between us Because really i don't know a thing about you, no I don't know you regrets blossom with the roses, i wish that i had talked to you but time is my enemy and i am too just an orange flash you're gone, a half formed memory red boots leave footprints on the floor averted glances and that sense of sanctuary but you don't walk these halls no more, you escaped the penitentiary All my scars, confine me but don't define me and i know that i'm an idealist but it's different with you i think i really need you
5.
Strange Game 05:20
light a fire, watch it burn but don't get too close to the flame lord i wonder when will it be my turn to finally win at this game? let's talk of souls, let's talk of night, let's talk of love, let's talk of life let's talk of truth, let's talk of lies, let's talk of you, of you and i we don't know what we're here for, but i don't care if i've got you we don't know what we're doing and i don't care if i can do it with you light a match, watch it burn, life is but a strange game the weight of this world is love and i feel it all when i hear your name i saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness and you were among them i don't know what this game is we're playing but i'll play it till the very end
6.
baby's got a way with words each syllable drips from your mouth it's absurd i know that time is fixed not fluid but when i read you it brings me back sometimes when you speak in tongues it's hard to resist you when you speak in tongues i can't get away your words like psalms you're holy scripture but this love just can't be prayed away do you love him just for the pain of it? though you know full well that he won't reciprocate the bay at night cold murder, honour slain there can be no justice for people like us and i will write my thoughts in poetry, that you will never see i just hope you're happy now and i know that you have no love for me but i'm not sorry and i am proud
7.
what if the circle can't be broken what if your heart is intertwined with mine what if i can't forget what's spoken what if these words still keep me up at night but i am torn but not broken i've heard the wolves i've heard them cry but i won't let them in this time cos i am hurt but not helpless, i've faced the eye, the storm goes on but i'm alive, yeah i'm alright what if you can't find your way now what if you are lost and i've been found what if your weary head needs rest now dear traveller the inns have all closed down
8.
i'm looking for worlds that i'll never find i'm searching through people that i'll never know i'm hoping that one day i'll feel fine i'll be golden, not crazy and i'll find home Tell me what is heaven for non believers where will i rest my bones? though i know no-one is coming down to save us i don't want to be alone I'm looking for love i don't know why 'cause i know i'll never find it here i want to believe in the divine but i know it's just based on fear i don't want to be alone
9.
Fatalist 05:02
baby you're red and i am blue and i don't know why i'm in love with you you push all that shit to the back of your mind but i can't help feeling it in my, my heart I love you with all my heart, destroy myself for the sake of art i won't listen to them, i never listened to them you drove me mad but i think i like it, i never really needed the stars aligned, all the time. you're a crook, you're a villain but you look like heaven to me you're bad, you're crazy but you taste like candy fools like me fall for pretty lies and dark eyes how could i not see you were a devil in disguise? and i still wanna help you, but i know you're past saving babe taking all your secrets to the grave as i stood there, smoking in the dark watched you hold her in your arms
10.
Dead Poets 04:36
Do you watch over from the stars at night? Record the senses in the air Can you still hear us from the land of light? Do the pages take you anywhere? I saw you crossing the water, my baby's gone away Oars down in the water, my dove fly fly away 'Cause life is transient, we'll be together again some day Love is transient, that's how i bear the pain I don't wish for death, I wish for freedom I don't want love i just want you I lie here awake, for what reason? I read your words i feel their truth I want you My raven calls for me 'Lenore, I hear you tapping on the glass Can you discern what we're here for? 'Why must we wait so long?' you ask Whitman told me to take each moment of light and dark as a miracle But the dark calls more strongly to me Oh and i don't know why, 'cause you're gone but i feel you here I don't know why, I'm so wrong, why i have this fear
11.
Stockholm 04:05
bitten by fire i have shared in pain i have seen you laugh and i have called your name lured by sorrow to create these games where i pine for your voice and ambiguity reigns oh take me, up in your arms in the shadow of your holy psalms or leave me, to the judge and the jury oh how i resent thee tainted by what they've said i've hidden i've run i've bled buried deep within, i am not one of your kin now you're the jailor and you're the saint oh i wish i could repent, for my sins and win your heart but i can't bitten by the ice and the subtlety in your lack of response and your fallacies the pause in your smile makes it clear to me that the void that exists, is plain to see lay me down, i cry but make no sound
12.
Lazarus 06:16
You got me howling like Ginsberg Feel like i'm a revolutionary, like i could do anything Yeah we could be anything We are damned and we're beautiful But with the eyes of the angels we see We're up on a pedestal, for all the world to see And I don't care, let them watch us, feed their perversions We are alive and we're fucking free No I don't care, let them watch us, feed their perversions But don't tell me that he died for me I've died a million times, resuscitation oh that's my vice 'Cause when I'm gone that's when i'm with you But in life there's nothing true If you could kill me one more time, then i think i could make you mine I'm cursed cause i'm Lazarus, I'm cursed yeah I'm Lazarus And I'll live again I see you when I read Cheever, your confusion and your brilliance You're Plath and Bukowski, every word you speak is poetry But I don't know if I love you, or i love what you represent to me So i'll look through the pages, to realise the person that i need you to be And I don't care, what they think of me I have my own world and its better than my reality No I don't care, what they think of me I have my own world and they were never gonna die for me
13.
Instil 04:18
you turn around like you're doing it doing it again you scratch your neck like you're feeling it feeing it my friend clenched fists go unseen when your hands are small bruised wrists never cared when they hear the fall this is the life this is the dream the kiss of the knife you despise it but you want it, you know you want it your hollow heart it yearns it's a void to fill but my humanity was never yours to instil you're killing time like you're missing him missing him again indulge the seconds as you drown in him why'd you let him in again? it's easy to idealise but not to realise my friend you love the pain but you're feeding it this catalyst for the end

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released September 18, 2015

Produced & Written by Alex Purser
Nomad co-written and performed by Laurel Lewis

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