Ben Levin - The Wave That Got Away (LIVE EP)

Something went missing. And I didn't know I missed it. Until I felt it come back.
Streaming - listen.lt/BenL...
BandCamp - www.BenLevinGro...
Filmed by Liz Maney - @lizsmalls
Mixed/Produced by Bradford Krieger
@bignicestudio
Engineered by Chaimes Parker
@chaimes
Recorded at Big Nice Studio - www.BigNiceStud...
Mastered by Randy Roos at Squam Sound
Color by Chris Desanty - www.desantprodu...
Choir:
Caitlyn O'Brien - @c8music
Luke McGinnis - @apartmentsessions
Tim Doherty - @shibui_ensemble
Kristin Santangelo -@krissrose
Emmanuel Lee - @iamahyell
Sarah Jordan - @esjaythegypsy
Ethan Crystal - @ethancrystal1
Ben Marcus - @starch_boy
Band:
Justice Cow - / bassinthefaceica
Josh Friedman - / thatoneeyedkid
Kyle Harris - bit.ly/37F5xCY
Lyrics:
DEAD SHIPS
Dead ship sinking down tonight
Turning over bottles ‘till our souls sleep tight
You tell me your story in aluminum light
As soon as it’s over you apologize
Put me on the list of people who still love you
I’m so glad the waves didn’t pull you down
Like a dead ship sinking in a bottle
Your message washed up on my empty shore
Glistening aluminum blood and gore
A song to close the wound
And a burn to keep it pure
From fire that we feel when we’re through with words
Through forests charred with memories that flake and disperse
Put me on the list of people who still love you
I’m so glad the waves carried you to me
Your story washed up on my lonely shore
And each time I read it I love you more and more
CANARY BODIES
Our life’s a lie
Our light is made up in mines
We dynamite through time
Beyond our sight tied to a shaking frail cry
Pulled from its mom and thrown down hill
And rolling down
Our life’s a lie
We slip and wonder why
Our suffering is question shaped
And curves up and out beyond
Canary bodies and caged muscles
Dream of flight we never leave behind
Behind
And when we go we listen up
And what we hear doesn’t sound like much
WHY NOT
Why why why why not
It could happen to anyone so why not
It happens all the time
All around
Anywhere you go
Waiting round for something more
But what if this is all there is
Saying that just sounds as wrong
As how things are is how they’ve been
Suffered so much in my life
From simulations in my head
Waiting for the fatal dive
That never happens in the end
So
NO SPARK
I’m not a baby opening and closing
I’m not a bundle pawing and groping
Not a talker walking and running freaking my parents out
In the mall I shouted and demanded
In the classroom caught red handed
I elbowed Alex Cole, Michael something and Zach someone
Well with Zach it was a kick and I thought myself the victim through all of it
Choke hold twist in high school I quit and I haven’t raised a fist since
I’m not in the basement writing songs
Vengeance fantasies and acting strong
A victim all along
In my head and in my head and in my head and in my head and in my head
And only in my head
I thought they didn’t get me but I scared so many
And Osama Ben Levin a nickname well deserved
Because I bailed on the kids who didn’t hurt me
Traded my fat friends for spoiled pieces of shit
And my refuge was on the backs of the broken
Well women didn’t want me women didn’t want me women didn’t want me
At least that was the story
But some felt affection toward me and I just ignored it
No spark
I’m not a baby and I can’t see what’s right in front of me
Well this is when my grandma walked
She called me in to eat and talk
About breaking up and buying clothes
And Bedford Stuy and bloody nose
And now in bliss and so in love
I wish my wife could of met my grandma and tied the circle up
Something went missing
And I didn’t know I missed it
Till I felt it
Come back
FAVORITE SPEECHES
I was naked, taken, foaming, and fakin’
I heard my favorite speeches playing through my head
This one’s from when I was twelve and the second tower hit the earth
My mother helped me feel the hurt that I was too young to grasp
Pebbles fall onto our heads
Cars get into accidents
And trucks of people get left out in the desert sun
We’re meant to live when living isn’t fun
Come back
My grandma said to me there’s not much left to do or see
But consciousness is a rarity so we wade it out
She tells me that she wants to die and it makes me want her to die
But we’ve still got some family so we’ll wait it out
We’re meant to live and that’s what life’s about
Come back
Sweat dries on my king sized bed
My ancient vows are soaked in it
And in my tummy tapping echoes me to sleep
And yesterday is just a blur to me
Memory’s just pictures in a stream
We’re meant to live not knowing what they mean
We’re meant to live not knowing what we’ll be
We’re meant to live and let go of everything
And when we go we listen up
And what we hear doesn’t sound like much
But it’s love.