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Turning Sky, What do you See?

by Willie Coyote

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Nothing lost Nothing gained Counting on a hurricane To wash away the blame And keep our hands clean I find it hard To reconcile with you When we've got the same view But I don't feel the sting Numb to everything So go ahead and hit me if it helps you cool your brain Cut me from the photograph Denial ain't known to last There's red wine in the bath again Are you picking up a pattern now? I guess there's not much to say Just leave me by the train But I don't feel the sting Numb to everything So go ahead and hit me if it helps you cool your brain Cut me from the photograph Denial ain't known to last There's red wine in the bath again Are you picking up a pattern now? I guess there's not much to say And I don't feel the sting Numb to everything And if you're gonna hit me well you better make it count Cut me from the photograph The tide ain't known to last I'm sleeping in the bath again Are you picking up a pattern now? I guess there's not much to say Just leave me by the train
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Cold wind canes I stand alone I think I know now Cursed it all again There's smoke around the bend Trace the tracks That lay divide Your way and mine Riches left to rot As we aim the fatal shot Can you remember what we lost? The summer was alive with love The coast it was as good as gold I think it took the both of us Several years to watch it unfold And suddenly the story told Morning star Flickers dim My fickle friend Beacon for the dawn Coward in the sun Let it ride Come on rolling tide, keep rolling Roll me out to sea Send me dark and deep Oh slow Sweet undertow She's coming back up from below The summer was alive with love The coast it was as good as gold It must have took the both of us Several years to watch it unfold The summer was alive with love The life we made was good as gold It must have took the both of us Several years to watch it unfold Several years to watch it unfold Several years to watch it unfold Several years No life without you No life without you No life without you Without you no life I tell you every night So come on write a line
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(Genesis) 01:02
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Holy water is burning my side The more that I pour, the more I'm on fire Seen the shadows dance beneath your red door How he held you with all the poise of a wrecking ball While others mistook all the bruises for frequent falls I wasn't fooled just one I'm gonna kill that miserable c*** Might need a holy lake Now your daughter is coming of age And I am afraid, I am afraid Should the wolves watch the sheep where they lay? Now I know you won't like it But I'm here to say The mans gonna pay We're going deep in the water And it's high time We look the beast in the eye There's an old mine where nobody goes I'll bring the sheers if you bring the rose And I will hide there til the dawn As the air warms The spark of a storm Might need a holy lake And all this will wash away Might need a holy lake And all this will wash away All this will wash away All this will wash away Now I know you won't like it But I'm here to say The man's gotta pay We're going deep in the water now And it's high time We look the beast in the eye Ain't no angel descending for him Said that darkness will drown Beneath the red wake
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Jessie 04:07
Jessie used to live on down my street In the morning after parties She would come and help us clean All the fallout From cigarettes and speed She came with coffee In my hour of need And I can’t recall just how she got a key But Jessie used to live on down my street Jessie’s gonna pull you up to dance Cuttin’ shapes to disco breaks Sashaying to psy-trance And without warning You’re face deep in her arms She radiates A fervent kind of charm And if you’ve got a song I‘ve got a beat Jessie’s dancing up and down the street Now she’s sailing through the astral plane Caught the dreamwinds blowing west Gonna shed her skin and start again I just hope she don’t forget It’s alright I guess it’s only temporary Gotta try to clean up my own mess Realized the girl is nothing ordinary now Jessie come back please Lately I’ve been drifting through a haze When the warmth I seek seems out of reach And nothing comes my way Been a long day When I stumble through the door And I find Jessie She's curled up with the dog And she offers up a drink that came from me And she says “just for the night” but I know three And I still don’t know how she got a key But I guess that’s how we do in this family She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home She came home
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Void Bop 02:49
Keep walking through the world somehow All my screaming doesn't make a sound When I wanna seem socialised Snake boots and a thin black tie And I can't remember how to speak And I can never find relief Keep floating through the void somehow Slow drowning in all my doubts Scary stranger coming in my home Try to tell me how to be alone And I can't remember how to breathe And I can never find relief If I seem intense, unstable Or come across flying off the handle Don't be alarmed Don't be dismayed Can you please unlock this cage? Am I ageing or am I deranged? Keep walking through the world somehow All my screaming doesn't make a sound When I wanna seem socialised Snake boots snake boots and I die I can't remember how to speak And I can never find relief
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Send Me Back 04:28
Gimme a drink When I was a kid I didn’t know I was drunk Just falling down stairs Like I couldn’t be fucked with ‘em Take my hand and Take me back to bed again They put in me in school I suspect I was weak Just swinging for fences Without a target to seek Oh mama please Don’t you send me back to hell again I don’t know if I can stand the fire I won’t say I’m well ‘cus they beat you for telling lies Now that I’m a dog I just go where I please Except when that woman Throws a collar round me Oh sugar please Don’t you send me back to bed again (Then again, it sounds pretty nice…) I don’t know if I can stand the fire I won’t say I’m well ‘cus I’m not a liar Ok I concede I’m bending the truth But if nobody cares Nobody asks for proof Send me back to bed again Or send me back to hell again Take me back to bed…
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Photophobia 05:49
Dear Joanna, wandering fire Now heavy with a child Or is it something vile? I rode to The Wall but I turned around Because I know lost souls are bound To The Healer’s power Dark water Been rising Now winter’s Arriving But sleep soundly ‘Cause I’m sure the cure is on it’s way At least the radio say What’s that screaming in the street? And should I be worried When the newsman’s on repeat? Don’t I know that song? If this fear’s a ladder Then we stand on the last rung Photophobia’s in my blood Dearest Daniel, hear my cry I only did what’s right When I left that night You could not deny that something had changed And we knew it when they named The venom in my veins Dark water’s Been flowing My belly It’s been growing But sleep soundly ‘Cause I’m sure The Lord will be my guide To The Healer’s side What’s that screaming in the street? And should I be worried When the newsman’s on repeat? Don’t I know that song? If this fear’s a ladder Then we stand on the last rung Photophobia’s in my blood I throw roses over The Wall Do they float or do they fall? And will you hold on? Keep your body strong ‘Cause they say they’ll have a cure Before the month is done Now I wander through the dark Know you’re carrying my heart As you carry my son My sweet Joanna (My sweetest Daniel) She’s lost beyond (Come find me past) The Wall And now Where’s that screaming in the street? You know it’s grown so quiet I think the newsman lied to me Ain’t that the same old song? So I’ll climb this ladder And I’ll jump into the flood Photophobia’s in my blood
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Silver Age 04:57
Silver Age I was raised with the fear of God To hide away all those sinner’s thoughts But late at night when the door was shut I worshiped the glorious sounds of Rock n’ Roll smut For teenage taste do not be ashamed Sentimental with a dose of rage It got me through hell and it twice got me laid Set the dial for the Silver Age Boogie down to the community radio 45’s on my stereo keep my turned on all night We’re in the Silver Age I’m obsessed, I’m consumed by desire For the one taste I need tonight All my senses are merging as one Sight and sound going over and over and Soon you’ll be stuck in my head Those silvertones send the VU red Dormant beast starts to rattle his cage I’m a slave for the Silver Age Are you down to forego fidelity? 45’s feel so fine they keep me tuned all night We’re in the Silver Age We’re in the Silver Age We’re in the Silver Age Come on down… I am drawn to what I can’t touch ‘Cus diffidence is like the coward’s crutch It takes resolve yeah we all must be brave Against the mindless Fascist Bull-headed Homophobic Patriarchal Bastard cardinal Fundamental Christian zealot Anti-vaxxin’ Over-taxin’ Coal-suckin Peter Dutton-loving motorcade Ya fuckwits! Tax and tithe, tax and tithe, tax and tithe Ain’t nothing we can do about it Just bend over kid No sir! I tell you what I’m gonna do… Boogie down to Smith Street on a Tuesday night Play it loud with my friends until we feel alright We’re in the Silver Age We’re in the Silver Age
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Broken Bell 04:20
Shoved off a northbound moving train The brakeman knew my face, he said “Kid I’ll turn you in just to feed my own Ya better get off.” Muddy banks held a beaten down canoe Float wild and I dream of you Could that current take me to a Time that I once knew Saw peace down the barrel of a gun Let light shine through the Devil’s head I walked a long long road til I got nowhere And I felt it Satisfied by my second state line I hopped a freight, the Pacific Junction Getting high on fumes with the Children of the night And I dream of roses cut from a governor’s grave By men who won’t be saved And in the constant din of a widow’s brain I shine on I shine on Why would I kneel the please the hand That took my love and burned my land From the cinders I pulled an iron brand And I swore it To make good all the debts that I have owed Make due on dollars doled And as my skin burned black I swore the hangman’s oath Now I’m drowned in roses cut from a governor’s grave By men who refuse to be saved And in the constant din of a window’s brain I shine on I shine on I shine on And I’ll freeze on the backstreets For a crooked mind or fiery tongue But I’m still under her spell Brainwaves buzz like a broken bell Turning sky, what do you see? A little life in a rotten tree Can someone look me in the eyes And just convince me I’m alive Pour another glass of wine Drink with me to a new life Honey could you see Who’s knocking at my door?

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Recorded 2018-2020 in Melbourne, Australia and Maldon, Australia

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released May 15, 2020

Written and arranged by Willie Coyote

Drums: Scott Stronach

Bass guitar, lead and rhythm guitars: Tim Baker

Piano, Organs: Tom Pitts

Double Bass (Photophobia): Phoebe Neilson

Vocals, Rhythm and lead guitars, Violins, Shakers, Glockenspiel, Harmonica: Willie Coyote

Vocals (Photophobia): Greta Basham

Pedal Steel Guitar (Jessie): Matt Dixon

Additional Drums (Photophobia): Jack Foy

Engineer: Alex O'Gorman, Willie Coyote

Mixed by Anna Laverty

Cover image: Irene Fernandez Pla

Cover design: Willie Coyote

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Melbourne based, NYC-native songwriter blends psych-folk, post-punk, garage and Americana. Swirling melodies and cinematic arrangements provide bed for the dark comedy of inventive stories and characters, eccentric yet somehow familiar

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