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Sailed Blanks

by Shy Mirrors

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1.
thought i'd start a power trio band tapes and t-shirts and a Chevy van think of all the things that i had people that care aren't so bad had a job plugging in telephones got a paycheck but i was alone then i met a girl she was true all the stars in the sky were for you i'm not your guy but i really wanted to try something had to give you said track changes show me where i've been you really weren't right for me track changes baby thought i'd buy a hammer and some nails build a big house by the church and the jail couldn't put the tools in my hands bad at math and my eyes are bad wrote a sad song about a girl rode my dirt bike off the edge of the world lit a smoke and passed it to you stared at the stars and the moon i'm not your guy but i really wanted to try something had to give you said track changes show me where i've been you really weren't right for me track changes where I want to be track changes baby
2.
Face Paint 02:12
don't you want to hear this story out don't you want to hear this story how it all goes down starts on a Sunday night you picked me up in your stupid car stopped by the rental place and then we switched on the VCR movie starts it's pretty cool and then we hear a knock at the door your friends had their Pigface tapes and your friend had purple hair girl i want to do this my way you're gonna have to get your head straight girl i want to do this my way we're gonna have to scrape off the face paint now i held you in the living room i had nothing better to do followed you out the door met some hippies and your punk friend too he told me knew a guy who could probably get us a show he pulled you back into the house he needed something to do
3.
Breakout 02:32
someone's not going to the beach today someone's waiting for a bus in the rain someone better take me to the picture show cuz i'll never go alone it's like a book so read it out loud to me when i forget how to be a friend it happens like again, again, again and it's all i know someone saw a show at the Fireside Bowl someone bought a record and took it home headphones plugged into the stereo, it sounds better alone
4.
Argon 02:07
security job you and my mom your motorbike your weirdo life your beer on Friday you're reading my website you should do it the right way me too so let's go it's been so long you've been out of my life it's not what we don't say it's between the lines i'm sure you heard about what I've been through i wanted to write when i missed you we got photo books and kids that look we got passport stamps and trails of paper through it all we dropped the ball people I know say i look just like you
5.
Don't Say 02:09
now i didn't call you out i didn't pick up the phone to let you know that I was in town around, I was hanging out i had some things to do but nothing too important to keep me from seeing you don't say don't say you hated me it's really not that way there i go again i really don't have a clue there i go again screwing up the things i can't afford to lose there i go again i really don't have a clue so here i am again screwing up the things i can't afford to lose like you so why do i abuse the ones i love? i've got your face in a picture frame it feels just like it was yesterday and why do i repeat these things again? if we drift apart it's gonna be my fault better today but probably not
6.
Flashlight 02:20
first one out the door to Baltimore second one to the house in Halifax the third one lights the way oh and your flashlight eyes are like remote control the first one dies in San Francisco and the second one turns to stone third one lights the way oh parachute to East Berlin and you look just like a UFO climb the tower wires and you take control of the radio
7.
wonder where they keep the needles wonder when i get to see you wander round the halls and you just tag the walls where i used to be now when i made my first impression all i got was pills that kicked in something in the way they say "this is best for you, let us fix your problem" i'm not around l'm living in a safe condition taking walks with supervision pacing in the waiting room "this is best for you" got a new prescription sick of all the letters you send they tell me it's best i open them i guess i miss everyone and their shitty grins but you're not my problem
8.
woke up to rainclouds with you oh oh oh i waited forever to be with you girl newspaper boats on the floor i'll be moving my life to the shore filling the new sky with roman candles angels in snowbanks oh oh oh oh oh fireflies seem so long ago and i feel like i've nothing to show i couldn't just talk about it i couldn't be all alone
9.
you know you make me feel alright and i think about you all of the time you're right for me you make me complete oh when i'm stuck on a city bus and the people just want to push you know they do are you lonely too push back and i miss you i used to write you every day and you stepped onto an aeroplane and you came to me to see how it'd be oh we saw the city from the highest floor and took the train to my favorite bar and i kissed you there you were lonely too thank god that i found you we're alright are we all and now i think we made it and now the hard part's over tell me the hard part's over
10.
better than a first name basis paper walls in a beginner's basement you go away talk of how we'd get approval pipe dreams from soap box bar stools we fade away never knock upon my door and it goes on and on and on because i lied why do i have to be the whore red room where i changed my password city blocks where words go unheard i'm day to day you gave me my black heart badge i hoisted up a dirty white flag you go away because i can you know i can
11.
Lose Cool 03:06
i know i'm better than i barely know where i am i meet you by the school you want to talk but i hate the rules and it's a silly way to take it day to day and it's hard to do when i'm losing my cool i know i've been a lead balloon falling through your window i know i've got off track and said some things that were hard to take back

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released November 8, 2011

Big School Records / BSR-003 (clear vinyl)

Mastered by Brian Slusher at Dreamboat Studios Atlanta, GA

Design by Joe Ziemba

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All songs/recordings by Mike Downey. Shy Mirrors was active from 2010-2016.

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