The Slideshow Effects

Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effects Lyrics
1.Little Expressionless Animals

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Softly held the light beneath your skin
Never drew a breath between our names
As you come aware that something's left
Everybody knows that you are dead

I can feel this place becoming what it never was
Do we embrace the hours, as if we never lost
One lonely resignation; tethered to your thoughts
I'm dreaming through these motions, in hopes that it will last

And I won't follow you back home


2.The Kids Were Wrong

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Go to sleep, nothing's changing
I'll be right here by your side
Break the teens, colours fading
In the stillness of the night

You're thick-skinned, but it seems
You're hiding in daydreams
Can't find our way to the light
And when this routine ends, through nights and weekends
we'll see daylight through the blinds

Drifting in a cold state, the glowing cracks of old days
Bodies slack and pressed beneath the hour in your eyes
Fingernails and cold skin, your parent's bed we lay in
Arms outstretched to emptiness; the space you've left behind

Go to sleep, nothing's changing
I'll be right here by your side
Tear the seams, we're not aging
Beneath these trembling star-lit skies

You're thick-skinned, but you know
It's beyond our control
Shadows gleaming in our eyes
Been living a past dear, be free from those dull years
And we'll see daylight through the blinds


3.All Our Wonder

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

You were always the good one
And now you are the lonely one, and so am I
You dig your heel
If walls could feel, it'd hit like thunder

You suffered in silence
Two thoughts; it was the sound of one, but not enough
Inside your heart
Can't fake a part

No more silence in me
We're not the lucky ones
We'll never be the lucky ones

What you found was a way out
Not much, but it's the thought that counts, and so I try
To make a start
To fake a part


4.Punctum

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

It's not enough to live your past, through photographs
Uncovered
One falling breath you've held in time, encased in light
Now fading

I can't feel you in these scenes
An absence leaves this incomplete

Kept you alive, but it's unclear, what holds you here
Unaging
Echoes of life embrace these walls, 'til they dissolve
Cascading

I've been searching for you in these frames
By face or name, your eyes...

Where's the fight you are feeling?
When life takes away each fleeting part of what we are inside.


5.Heirloom

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Between a state where years collide
And we can just lie still, waiting for the day to spill
And watch the light slowly arrive, pressed against my eyes
Tracing all your lines, slowly

Lie on the ground before the lightning strikes
Just don't drown in the flood

Been weaving threads between our names
A pact to carry on, in case this all goes wrong
When we were sleeping thorugh the years
The days all seemed far off, until the sky swelled up
Slowly

Can we survive without measured time?


6.Bonfire

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

It's getting late, 'think I'll turn in
The moon is out and it's much too cold to swim
I left your photo in this pool
With all the thoughts I weave, in order to recall you

Out in the pale grey mothlight sky
I see my breath like ghosts too fragile to take flight
I held the photo to the light, and traced the symmetries our
fingerprints divide

And I'll keep moving westward, along these streets at once
ascending
Shift beneath the floorboards of our bed as you lie sleeping
And I will bring you fire to dissolve the memory of
All our wonder, unavenged
In silence, keep repeating
It's the same


7.Pale Blue

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Hold me under
Pull the covers
Lights on water
Reasons falter

We're not alone


8.Walk With Me

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

It started when we were younger
Beneath the lead eyes of the city skyline
We gave ourselves to the current
A surface unswayed in our wake

I rest my head on your shoulder
And dreamt we were gone, but our names remained
Felt the pulse of the water
And left behind all my old ways

This life could be graced with symmetry
Walk with me, do you walk with me?
I can't forget the place this started
Walk with me, will you walk with me?


9.Kinds Of Light

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Our bodies lie on the water
On the water, we drew breath
Before we suffocate, 'felt the glow of better days
Heart is beating, memories creasing

The self revealed in folding paper,
It's just vapour, we're just vapour
The plans we made, the names we'd break
I felt a home there, I hid my own there

I can't see you behind all these waves
The more I look the more you fade
I can't see your face amongst these waves
The more I look the more you fade

And I'd hoped that we could go out and see it
(we'll be in a better place).


10.Old Haunts

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele


11.Sleep Patterns

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Wait indoors, slept to waste the time
Until I hear the sound of your footsteps
Climbing up the porch as it rains

Trembling voices propagate these rooms
I keep my eyes closed and listen to the trains

Pull the sound
What lingers through this space that fills this house around
Was I alone in thinking something good?

Water stains on the pillow where I lay my head
Do they say that I was sleeping
When away do I wait, shadows climb, window fading days
As I trace the light that flickers through the room

Pull the sound
What lingers through this space that fills this house around
Was I alone in thinking something good?


12.Lately

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele

Lately, I'm not sleeping
I'm not breathing
Without machine

Lately, my heart's been breaking
My heart's been breaking
Through the seam
Aah, aah

Shut me off, shut me up
Shut me off, shut me up
Aah, aah


13.Modern, Normal

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele


14.To The Lighthouse

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele


15.Quiet America

Lyricist:Denise NouvionEvan Abeele
Writer(s):Denise NouvionEvan Abeele