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Sapling EP

by Emporia

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1.
My Everest 03:23
I’ve said so much I’ve sold my soul Validation holds Me tight and won’t let go Trap my eyes and type A puppets manifesto My blood sold me more Of what I could have been Waste away alongside expectations The screen just glares And says I told you so Never learned to climb Just plugged into a hole Chorus: I’ve said too much But I can’t let go Cable crosses Wired to my throat I’ve said too much I can’t let go They won’t let me go I used to rub dirt on skin Sweat to feel whole again Played and laughed along like you do But we trampled all the green With no concept of mediocrity Snowflakes lead to avalanched society Was told “Son, you can be anything you like” So I built upon the sin Of unholy idealization Stacked my hopes up high Till I couldn’t peak And cowered at my lost motivation underneath Chorus: I’ve said too much But I can’t let go Cable crosses Wired to my throat I’ve said too much I can’t let go They won’t let me go Bridge: There’s nothing crystal at the top There’s nothing crystal at the top No use for tools our parents dropped Never learned to start, why would we learn to stop? Chorus: I’ve said too much But I can’t let go Cable crosses Wired to my throat I’ve said too much I can’t let go They won’t let me go
2.
Linger 03:27
It all just goes to show how It’s just the pressure of lying in this bed I’ve made it all up cause I can’t stand failures, I pretend So I picture perfect lullibies, Look at my life and idealize I do it for fun I love comparing time and medicine My ever-growing lack of hesitance To walk out of a room Voices buzz Patience is thin here When forced smiles tend to linger Just like you do I change my face with ease Just like these clothes, or my disease That I like to say I have Burn one down to keep my head clear Of awkwardness and numb drunk of cheap beer And lack of light So I pitch Her perfect lullibies Look at my life and idealize I do it for fun I love comparing time and medicine My ever-growing lack of hesitance To walk out of a room Voices buzz Patience is thin here When forced smiles tend to linger Just like you do
3.
Colossus 04:20
Oh penitence, wrapped around me like snake Patience, let me bend before I break I saw and loved the earth So I just took, like any creature would Saw your veins that shook Tender tremors below skin and soot But medicine, hammer between my lips Scolding brain cells into metamorphosis Medicine, bug under my skin Eating all my common sense Doctor, Doctor can’t you see this hole that I am in? Give me something sweet so I can begin to dig again Stranger, Stranger, Stranger see my sunken shallow skin Follow me so I’m not alone again Give me some part of the sun Some part you have shed upon The light of your skin and scream Are what I miss I’ve been down here for so long Just like you, craving good intentions Parched, continue to search for poison Doctor, Doctor can’t you see this hole that I am in? Give me something sweet so I can begin to dig again Stranger, Stranger see my sunken shallow skin Follow me so I’m not alone again (Oh you wish you knew how You wish you how) Darling you’ve never lived Never known a breath Til you’ve lived like this It ate you up like a fig Tooth and nail clawing inside Bit by bit
4.
Sapling 03:56
The old man smiled as he struck the match Wrinkled definition in his laugh To match his face and those pages We fed the fire for so long And chopped each other down To reach heaven we’d been relying on So our roots they grew deeper But limbs rarely saw the sun We remained only saplings Wishing for a beauty we thought lay above We used to plead to him for ages But we lost hope when leaves would start to fall Sent a note of formal resignation Tangled roots as abhorrent foundation To ego, we pray, Oh My god When he passed chaos fell on us The oldest young thought they were chosen ones Sap spilt over brotherhood Based on nothing but a book Babylon is just a pedestal And those gates are just a hook Somewhere to hang our hopes upon Drowning sins with telling looks We used to plead to him for ages But we lived like unholy ghosts Sent a note of formal resignation Severed ties with our hallucinations To ego, we pray, Oh My god
5.
Bow to You 03:57
If I was a different man I’d bend over backwards To taste the sweat falling from your hands You’re nervous And I know I don’t mean much You’d laugh the same at me Whether or not I was your crutch Cause when I first saw you I saw myself too Oh tired eyes I can’t shut tight Cause they’re still stuck on you And that mask you wear Some shred of consciousness you bear Darling, I’ll never bow to you You’re the ghost that never changed Dead at the roots, maybe your family’s to blame You fed yourself with smoke Now you’ve turned to ashes What a beautiful joke I caught you staring at my lips Choking all the blood from my limbs I’ve loved you before Left hungry and sordid craving more Oh tired eyes I can’t shut tight Cause they’re still stuck on you And that mask you wear An ethereal conscious you bear Darling, I’ll never bow to you That middle road is my saving grace Avoid decisions so I’m not to blame
6.
High Horses 03:42
I try my best to be productive Intentions lie divided at best Striking flint to curb my urges To backwards walk into bed Noxious ego grabs my ankles Wishing of decadence Drags me to the hard floor Searching souls for a better stance Keep coming up short Seems I keep the best locked in Louder now, let me hear where you’ve been And all those teenage screams about Limp love and high horses Never had the first part So I’ll live just like the horse did So sick of this space I’ve made inside my head Rolling eyes at dramatics And entitlement I watch from a shack that sits upon a hill Scoffing at cities built from others wills How could it be theirs, When they looked to me to piece Together foundations, confidence and revelries? How could it be there? Is whispered by vanity Seduced by need to make myself holy Keep coming up short Seems I keep the best locked in Louder now, let me hear where you’ve been And all those teenage screams about Limp love and high horses Never had the first part Fear I’ll live just like the horse did

about

Drums recorded in the home of Mitch Cairns
Vocals/Guitar/Bass recorded in the dorm of Aram Max Vehuni
Produced by Aram Max Vehuni
Written/Performed by Emporia
Lyrics by Ben Barsocchini

Infinite gratitude toward Max + Mitch, our families, truest of friends and inspirations for these songs.

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released February 2, 2015

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Emporia California

Emporia is:
Ben Barsocchini (guitar/vocals/bass)
Will Hettel (drums)
Connor Burke (guitar)


Recording Engineers:
-Rico Macalma and Bethany Wycoff
-Aram Max Vehuni
Mixing and Mastering:
-Rico Macalma (A Town Called Charybdis/Scatterbrained)
-Aram Max Vehuni (Acoustic EP/Lighthouse EP)
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