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Stop
04:02
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Stop
You fidget and crack
You go on the attack
While you promise and trick
Fingers crossed behind your back
Like a black dog with a bone
You push and you pull
And won’t leave it alone
Oh, you’d better stop
You kick it again
While you sing the refrain
You refuse and reuse
And conceal and disdain
You circle the wagons
Compare and complain
And dream of the view from the mountain top
Oh, you’d better stop
You press record again
You press play
You sing the same sad song from yesterday
We will looked younger then
We all looked away
The bus drove past
While we smiled at the bus stop
And oh, you’d better stop
You say it again
Your eyes closed tight
While you’re crouching in the corner
While you’re hiding in plain sight
You wander the woods
In the dark of the night
Do you retrace your steps in the hope that you might
Find the spark or desire to erase or ignite
Climbing the trees for a view from the treetops
But how much wood can a woodchop chop?
And oh, you better stop
Stop, before you break my heart
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2. |
Sepia Tone
05:00
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Sepia tone
I didn’t know what I wanted to be
I didn’t know what I wanted to do
I didn’t know what I wanted to say
I didn’t know if what I said was true
I didn’t know if I understood
I didn’t know if I could see it clear
I didn’t know if I could leave it behind
I didn’t know how to get from there to here
Epigrams and parables, mountains of stones
You coloured my world in sepia tone
I knew it then, I know it’s true
So many things I could’ve told you
You wouldn’t believe it
I didn’t know what you wanted from me
I didn’t know the boy in the frame
I didn’t know the revisions and re-imaginings
I didn’t know the rules of the game
I didn’t know how to begin to change
I didn’t know how to stay the same
Dark rooms and stage lights, I’m standing alone
Colouring my world in sepia tone
I knew it then, I still know it’s true
So many things I could’ve told you
You wouldn’t believe it
Who’s that boy in that car - the gear box, the wheels squealing
How fast will he go, and how far ‘til he stops speeding?
Who’s the boy with that guitar? Where’d he get it? What was he thinking?
How fast will he drift and how far ‘til he stops dreaming?
Sunday after church, she was in the car with me alone
Colouring my world in sepia tone
You were tapping on the window, I was driving away
Thinking of all the words I should say
I knew it then and I still know it’s true
So many things I should’ve told you
You wouldn’t believe it, you wouldn’t believe
I knew it then it still strikes me as true
So many things I could’ve told you
You wouldn’t believe, you wouldn’t believe it
You wouldn’t believe, you wouldn’t believe it
You wouldn’t believe
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3. |
The Silence
01:48
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The Silence
I don’t want to think about it
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4. |
The Noise
05:05
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The Noise
Bring the noise bring the anger
Bring the towel bring the rake
Bring the baby in the manger
Bring the Picasso bring the fake
Bring the noise
Bring the goose bring the eggs
Bring the golden-haired girl with the lovely long legs
Bring the sinner bring the saint
Bring a new coat of paint
Bring the circus bring the smile
Bring your chance to sit around and wait a while
Bring the noise
Bring the red door bring the gate
Sit on the front fence and wait
Bring the boat bring the steam
Bring a flying machine
Bring your excuses and your fears
Bring your wasted tears
Bring your sense of loss bring your sacrifice
Put yourself up on the cross when you pray at night
Bring your good vibrations your intransigence
Bring your loudest voice your primal scream
your new year’s confessions your teenage dreams
Bring the noise
Bring the call bring the voice
Bring the unkind choice
Bring the regret bring the blame
Bring your brand-new name
Bring the place you left off
Bring the place from which you came
Bring the noise
Bring your excuses bring your chic
Bring your snare bring your kick
Bring your nerves bring your hips
Bring the cards bring the chips
Bring your red rosey lips her red rosey lips
Bring the cow bring the moon
Bring the rain too soon
Bring the king bring the fool
Bring the carpenter’s tools
Bring the angst and despair bring the wolf in his lair
Bring the mercy seat bring the silver chair
Forget about who you are and forget about what you knew
And forget about the uncertainty of always knowing what to do
Forget the suffering, forget the cup
Forget the fact that you never really gave it up
And lay it down And lay it down
There’s nothing you can do about it anyhow
Lay it down, lay it down
There’s nothing you can do about it now
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Sunshine on the avenue
06:15
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Sunshine on the avenue
I remember, I remember
Dancing on the harbour
You in a new blue dress
Me, happy and lucky and careless
Looking out across the sea
Reminding me, reminding me
Sunshine on the avenue, reminds me of a girl I knew
Reminds me of a girl I knew
I remember, I remember, a room behind palm trees, in Waverley
I remember your eyes flashed angrily, palm trees, in Waverley
I echo and change, rearrange past plans
I re-state and delay
I race past my past self on the way
Red clouds, grey skies, beautiful dark brown eyes
Hey baby - I’m not the kind of guy to let somebody down
I’m gonna stick around
Hey baby - I’m not the kind of guy to let somebody down
I’m gonna stick around
I said, what about the things we lose?
You said, you can’t go through your life like this
Thinking only of the things you miss
You can’t go through your life like this
You can’t go through your life like this
Hey baby - I’m not the kind of guy to let somebody down
I’m gonna stick around
Hey baby - I’m not the kind of guy to let somebody down
I’m gonna stick around
Sunshine on the avenue - reminds me of a girl I knew
Reminds me of a girl like you
Late at night you were calling
The wolves at the door - I wasn’t around
It was late and I was not thinking straight
I said, hey - wait - what was that sound?
Why were you calling me?
What were you calling for?
And who was the wolf at your door?
Who was the wolf at your door?
The song on the radio reminds me
How quickly we unwind and unfold
I can’t go back, I can’t go forward
I’m never gonna let you down
I’m never gonna forget
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Signs
04:11
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Signs
Like the light of St Paul from the heavens above
Like you’d seen enough to know enough of love
You were waiting on the third sign
Speeding through the stop sign
Braking for a cheeseburger
Explaining to the officer
Lining up your pills for your daily dose
Revising your will and testament
Dreaming of bridges you crossed along the west coast
Drinking coffee like it was sacrament
Like you’d seen enough
Like you’d seen it all
The sun was in the living rom
Flowing through venetians
You sang with her a marching tune
Took a reading from Ephesians
Made a simple meal of butter and toast
Made sure nothing was wasted
Wrote out your daily notes about the Holy Ghost
Folded your hands and said it was
The best meal you’d tasted
Like you’d seen enough
Like you’d seen it all
Like you’d seen enough to know enough of love
Like the light on the road
From the heavens above
Like you’d been given what you owed
Like you knew enough of love
Like the light of St Paul from the heavens above
Like you’d seen enough to know enough of love
Like the light of St Paul from the heavens above
Like you’d seen enough to know enough of love
Like you’d seen enough
Like you’d seen enough to know enough of love
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7. |
Wonders
03:18
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Wonders
We’re standing with the shed door open
Talking about the garden path
Talking about the broken boundaries
Who is it I am, when I’m with me
She smiles sharkish, sheepily
I’m turning over sleeplessly
And pouring coffee in
I’m back to the start and back to you
And I still don’t know what to do
The breeze flows in and the breeze flows through
And I don’t know who I am when I’m with you
I try to explain the long way home
I try to explain the loneliness
I know this story, I’ve heard it a lot
I kept adding to it ‘til it’s all I’ve got
And the river flows by the window
And the river flows on
And who am I now that you are gone?
You said you were my friend
You said friendships never end
You said that’s what friends are for
But who am I now that we’re not friends anymore?
But you looked through the window
You looked out past the pine trees
And there was a change in your eyes that brought back the hope in me
You were smiling like you could recall
All the moments you were caught up in the wonder of it all
You were smiling like you could recall
All the moments you were caught up in the wonder of it all
You were smiling like you could recall
All the moments you were caught up in the wonder of it all
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8. |
Go
04:21
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Go
I didn’t take my time I didn’t make it mine
I didn’t make it rhyme, no
I didn’t turn the bend, I didn’t reach the end
I didn’t make amends, no
I didn’t take the blame I didn’t call her name
I didn’t stay the same, no
I didn’t take it back I didn’t walk it back
I didn’t stay on track, no
I just just just just I just let it go
Go
You can walk away
You can walk slow
I didn’t take a trick I didn’t find a fix
I couldn’t fix the mix, no
I didn’t grace the stage, I didn’t act my age
I didn’t turn the page, no
Didn’t break the mould, didn’t face the cold
Didn’t shake the hold, no
Didn’t cross the line, didn’t read the signs
I didn’t know my mind
Go
You can walk away
You can walk slow
I drove too far to a farm down south
Kangaroos hopping about
Staring out across the valley
Sipping morning coffee
A guitar unwinding lazily
Praise be praise be
No one’s gonna save me
No one’s gonna
I didn’t hold the flame, I didn’t change the game,
I didn’t shift the blame, no
Didn’t make the calls didn’t grow some balls
I didn’t jump the falls, no
Didn’t drop off the key didn’t need to be free
Didn’t go happily, no
No no no no no no
No, I just let it go
Go
You can walk away
You can walk slow
Just let it go, just let it go
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9. |
Coffee on the Stovetop
03:42
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Coffee on the stovetop
On a lazy sunlit Sunday
With the soft clouds slowly falling
It’s easy to believe
We all will be received
Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
We all will be received
On a sober winter morning
Coffee on the stovetop boiling
Windows clicked shut against the cold
The radiator warm, consoling
It’s easy to believe
We all will be received
Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
When I sail away
Will you be there
To wipe the tears away
Will you remember
A song I sang
Some words I wrote
Will you write ‘em out on a three by five note
When I sail away
And I come back some day
Will you still be there, standing
And waiting for me?
On a dark Thursday raining
The whole world complaining
The seeds of doubt are sewn
Bereft and alone
It’s easy to believe
You’ve only been deceived
Like Peter by the fireside
Everyone beside you lied
Everyone beside you
And wherever you go
I want you to know
You can call on me
You can call on me
And when the accusations fly
It was always and only you and I
I will testify
I will testify
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Woolpack Hotel
Outside the Woolpack Hotel
I was thinking of you
Your body in the water
The lives we could have led
The things that I wanted to do
I speak a few words of Japanese
Not enough to follow you
But enough to make it clear
Enough to bring you near
And I love the taste of your breath
Warm and bourbon
I remind myself to breathe
And I love the way that you move
Closer to me, closer to me
You take a drag of your cigarette
As if it’s not gonna kill ya
As if it’s something you should do
As if it’s the cigarette that would miss you
If you gave it up
If I could give you up
And I love the taste of your breath
Warm and bourbon
I remind myself to breathe
And I love the way that you move
Closer to me, closer to me
Down at the pool side I’m in the water
Looking over
Looking like your lover
Wanting it not to be over
I was making predictions
Guessing how it would all end
You were seen and content
I wondered what it meant
I wondered
I love the taste of your breath
Warm and bourbon
I remind myself to breathe
I love the way that you move
Closer to me, closer
I love the taste of your breath
Warm and bourbon
I remind myself to breathe
I love the way that you move
Closer to me, closer
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11. |
Paper plane
05:01
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Paper plane
A bookshelf full of stars
And planets in orbit
I try to hold them in my hand, I falter and forfeit
It’s not that there’s no grace from this far away
I’m ok to let things spin, to let things drift
There’s just too much time, too much space
Too much to forgive
But the sun rises and sets, something in me forgets, and lets me breathe
And lets me breathe
And she is standing, by the ocean waving, while the stars drift further away
I read the chapter I read the book
I turn it backwards, I turn and look
I thought that we could work it out
I thought that we could work it out
There’s a darkness that falls forward
There’s a rhythm in the orbit
A beat in the way the days roll on
That reminds you of what is gone
There’s always a new way of knowing
What you got wrong
The sun rises and sets, something in me forgets and lets me breathe
And lets me breathe
I am searching, for some words worth saying, while the stars drift further away
I take a picture, I frame it right
I imagine myself on the back step, drinking coffee in the sunlight
And the sun rises and sets, something in me forgets And lets me breathe
And lets me breathe
A paper plane, An origami swan
I go back over the things I’ve done
Was it the tenth floor window or the subway exit?
Was it shortly before or just after Brexit? Did I fly across the world for you?
Or was I just running too?
In the window, waiting, while the stars drift
I read chapter and verse, I repeat and rehearse
I thought that we could work it out, I thought that we could work it out
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12. |
Salt on the seabreeze
03:44
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Salt on the seabreeze
I see the sunrise
I can’t take it with me
The beach, the beach at night
I can’t take it with me
The breeze in my hair in my eyes
I can’t take it with me
That look of joy and surprise
I can’t take it with me
Hey now, hey now, hey now where’d you go?
I wound down the window, the salt on the seabreeze
Hey now, remind me
Remind me
I see the moon the moon in the sky
I can’t take it with me
That number on the phone in my pocket
Can’t take it with me
I had a solution and an alibi
Can’t take it with me
Solution and an alibi
I can’t take it with me
I turned the key over
I can’t take it with me
We had an understanding,
I can’t take it with me
We had a plan, a plan
I can’t take it with me
All these things
Have nowhere to go
You said I never loved you
You said it was so
But how would you know?
How could you know?
Hey now, hey now, hey now where’d you go?
I wound down the window, the salt on the seabreeze
Hey now, remind me
Remind me
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13. |
East
04:09
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East
My eyes are bleary
From waking up early
You pull on your boots and
I grab the keys to the car
There’s frost on my breath
And ice on the windscreen
We roll down the driveway
And out of the yard
We’ve left behind our phones
We don’t have an internet connection
You’re spinning the dial on the radio
I hear the wise men sing,
Only fools rush in
You’re laughing at the crossword
Four letters
Starts with L
Number three down
What calls you by name
And is hard to explain
When push comes to shove
Of all the things I believe
I know you’ll be there for me
Of all the things I believe
I know you’ll be there for me
And love
And love
And love rides alongside
And love
And love
And love
Rides behind
Of all the things I believe
I know you’ll be there
I know you
And love
And love rides alongside
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14. |
Wild Heart
06:49
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Wild Heart
You were the wild and angry heart
The stuttering waves on the sea
You were the hail on the roadway
You were the love that’s coming back to me
You were the promise of a new dawn
You were the restless gaze
You were the one that I depended on
You were the turning of the page
You were the crisp white summer dress
You were the walk through the forest
You were the winding of the river through the trees
You were the love that was coming back to me
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tjeckleberg Sydney, Australia
TJ Eckleberg is an Australian alternative singer / songwriter, producer and guitar player. 'Black & amber' is his seventh independent album. Originally a regular on the Sydney alternative scene, he lived in Berlin from 2010-13, and currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. ... more
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