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Tables Turn
03:31
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someone to share with
someone to care for
someone whose there for you when you don’t know what you’re here for
is that too much to ask?
too much to need?
am I too much for you like it’s starting to seem?
how the tables turn
how the tables turn
just a month ago you were saying the same words
now I’m on my knees
I got time to beg and plead
and I’m begging you
please please please please
learning to compromise
learning patience
made it almost thirty years without ever really waiting
there are many things I put you through
now all of the chickens are coming back home to roost
how the tables turn
how the tables turn
just a year ago I was watching you burn
every bridge back
to the one you love
now I’m the one who you’re running from
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Idle Hands
03:24
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idle hands doing the devil’s work
and I’ve been twiddling my thumbs
thinking of doing wrong
idle hands are gonna keep me clean
gonna wash me of my sins
with new sins
idle hands doing the devil’s work
and I’ve been waiting outside your door so long
I’ve been moving earth to get down to hell
to find some work to do
cause without you
I’ve gotta give the devil his due
when you’re all alone so long
you can’t tell the difference
between right and wrong
you can’t hardly listen
to a song about a dawn
when all you see are sunsets
and the shadows hanging on
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Icarus
04:22
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somewhere there’s gotta be someone
holding out a line that can pull me in
from the reckless abandon of flying
too close to the sun playing icarus
somewhere there’s gotta be someway
for me to finally give in
and let myself love someone else again
she’d say “come down
you've been up in the clouds flying around
try to figure out
what’s up what’s down
there’s no shame in changing the game
moving pieces that you play around
till you hit the ground
now get lost
cause that’s the only way to get found”
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Bed Downtown
03:32
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I woke up in a bed downtown
two girls stretched out before my eyes
it’s in my head well I’m in my head
but I’m doing alright
never thought I could be an evil man
it took twenty seven years for me to understand
that everyone’s got a good side
everyone’s got a dark side
we could lie and say it never happened
we could lie and say it never happened
but lying wouldn’t make it right
lying wouldn’t make it right
no, lying wouldn’t make it right
closer we got we only got colder
put the time between the time
made me know I was older
than when I had someone
when I had someone to hold
but maybe that’s just it
while I reach with fists
open only to close
I was a lover
what the hell does that make me now?
we could lie and say it never happened
we could lie and say it never happened
but lying wouldn’t make it right
lying wouldn’t make it right
no, lying wouldn’t make it right
we could lie and say it never happened
we could lie pretend it never happened
but lying wouldn’t make it right
lying wouldn’t make it right
no, lying wouldn’t make it right
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there’s a way you let me know
you wanna stay or you wanna go
you don’t say yes or no
and yesterday ain’t no rule for today or tomorrow
my eyes have seen the glory of you walking through the door
different than the way you came before
changing up your stories depending who their for
I saw you through each one a little more
a little more
there’s a place I wanna go
at the end of the day at the end of the road
just you just you and me
where you can be anybody that you wanna be with me
my eyes have seen the glory of you walking through the door
different than the way you came before
changing up your stories depending who their for
I saw you through each one a little more
a little more
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I Could Do Wrong
03:26
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of all the things that I could do wrong
hurting you would be the last one I’d want
so I’m a fool for ever leading you on
making you think that right now I could give you more than I have got
making you think that right now I could give you more than I have
the letter that you wrote me I have thrown away
left me wondering just what I wanted to say
I can’t lie to you and you know that I can’t stay
it makes me think that all I do is take love and give back pain
it makes me think that all I do is take love
as I get older I get skeptical and cynical about
meeting someone falling in love and then falling out
ain’t it natural for a man to start to doubt
that something will ever last
when nothing ever has
of all the things that I could do wrong
hurting you would be the last one
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Road to Jordan
03:41
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on the road to Jordan where I lost my way
I’d have gave anything to have anything
I’d have gave anything to have anything
out there on this endless highway lost from the start
looking for a place to stop and not just to depart
moaning how the road was such a lonesome place to be
when you pulled up there beside me
driving fast well just as fast as me
racing for a place that neither one of us could see
lying on the horn trying to make a pass
it was all squealing tires and broken glass
on the road to Jordan where I lost my way
I’d have gave anything to have anything
I’d have gave anything to have anything
when I came back to I could not believe my eyes
lying on the road and you were stretched out there beside
feeling half dead, feeling good enough to be alive
checking your pulse hoping that you would be alright
opened up your eyes and took a long old look at me
saw in me something that I guess I had failed to see
took me by the hand slowly helped me up
and that’s when we found the place that we could start to stop
and it rained down honey like it would rain down rain
when I gave everything to have everything
I gave everything to have everything
on the road to road to Jordan where I found my way
I gave everything to have everything
I gave everything to have everything
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If I Could Buy You
03:29
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girl, if I could buy you I would buy you so bad
use you for a month and take you back
to the shop you’re from
and get my money back
cause I can not afford you
and that’s why I want you so bad
thing, for a moment I forgot you were there
it’s getting harder to pretend like I care
but the harder I try the more I am becoming aware
that if this curtain were drawn
all you’d find is despair
who owns you?
who - who - who owns - you?
who owns?
sex is just another way of sealing a deal
an hour of your labor I steal
and if it helps you sleep
then fuck it we can call it real
but what difference does it make
if it’s only skin that we feel?
I have got a hole I’ve been trying to fill
as if you couldn’t tell
how I learned it from the best
fulfillment is to buy and to sell
so I pawned off god
but I could never shake the hell
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Long Line
03:35
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looking like Betty Page when I look back
oh how it faded so fast
I bet I’m not the first to think that
and I bet you won’t be the last
in a long line - in a long line
of strangers I have met
in a long line - in a long line
of lovers I’ll forget
felling like a Hemingway when I read it
the honesty in the weakness
of words I wrote and repeated
to make me try to believe it
but don’t we all lie?
don’t we all try
to be better than we are?
don’t we all break?
don’t we all scar?
in a long line - in a long line
running from my door
in a long line - in a long line
that I’ve been down before
in a long line - in a long line
of poses I have struck
in a long line - in a long line
of fights I’ve given up
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Tears in Dust
03:16
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did we move too fast?
did we move too slow?
looking back on all our yesterdays I don’t know
if tomorrow will come or if it won’t
if we’ll sink or if we’ll float
and who would be there to know
if we all go up in smoke
like the dream I had with your long black hair
storming all around me in the hot dry air
your tears in dust making paths so clear
they lead me into acting like I had no fear
of the fate I knew that we’d both soon meet
looking back on all our yesterdays it seems to me
that the truth was there the whole damned time
we just didn’t wanna recognize
the elephant standing in the room
the lid we’d push over our own tomb
we watched the sun slowly fade away
and I held you like an anchor through the clouds and waves
I kissed you hard whispered in your ear
that I loved you but I know you couldn’t hear
over wind and rain and planes and bombs
forgive me love for I’ve done wrong
to think we’d live forever young
but the truth and consequence caught up to us
a generation caught
in the crossfire and shot
but thinking we’re not
falling
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Ian Fisher Vienna, Austria
A modern songwriter born in rural America and living in Europe, making what Rolling Stone calls "Half Americana & Half Abbey Road-Worthy Pop".
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