I was wet cement, but I set up much too quickly
For you to write your name in me
Alongside dirty words and footprints
But if you wonder where I went, I have been all over this city
Inkstained but still doing pretty
Full of five-dollar words and misprints, hey hey
Give it up for the tightrope
For the slight hope of a soft and graceful landing
Understanding that I won’t be there to catch you
When you fall from high above
The cold hard ground that you mistook for love
Or waiting on the other side
I just took the ladder down
The scaffolding that fell apart had been unstable from the start
It sent all my finer feelings running for their lives
Because there couldn’t be a lower art
The arrow points outside the heart
To where the hipster literati
Are getting out their forks and knives already
But get out on the tightrope
On the slight hope of a soft and graceful landing
Understanding that I won’t be there to catch you
When you fall from high above
The cold hard ground that you mistook for love
Or waiting on the other side
I just took the ladder down
Intimate and unique. This album plays well with a bottle of Syrah crunched up in your finest pair of headphones with candles lit in a steamy bubble bath. sig
love it! ditto to everything already said. lots of good melody, a nice pace to it, great songs. a beautiful voice accented nicely by the slide guitar, horns, strings & vocal harmony's. can't stop listening to it.numerous favorite songs. kevinhandran
Philadelphia-based Labrador make unfussy and empathetic alt-country meant to sincerely bolster the downcast in times of strife. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2023
Alvvays has always been great, but with this album they took it to the next level. Every one of these songs is lodged in my brain now, permanently (in a good way). s. moxley