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Bleed Our Hearts Out
03:44
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Bleed Our Hearts Out
On the river’s bank
dwell the crowds that we’re bound to betray
On the red sand
they’ll be soon facing their final day
So fearshaken
’cause they know when we come to invade
We will slaughter
anyone who may stand in our way
We’re ready to bleed our hearts out
for women & wine & gold
Insane we might please the devil
no reason to grow too old
What I learned was
with the knives at their necks they’d agree
Never thought that
terror could be directed at me
While realising
I’ve unleashed the worst fears in my life
Those who taught me
they might never be facing their trials
We were ready to rip their hearts out
for diamonds & oil & gold
My brothers said we were rebels
our cause I barely recall
I stole killed & raped & torched
for women & wine & gold
My gun made me my own god
with powers beyond control
I was ready to drive my soul out
for dollars & power & food
In turn I became this devil
now facing you smeared with blood.
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Cross The Sea
03:58
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Cross the Sea
It may all look straight but sincerely
I don’t care anymore - or let’s say I’m not so sure
Is it ever too late? To fail this may mean victory
Is this what I must do or is the opposite true?
A matter of days and I’m closer to being free
or is it a one-way street? What are you thinking, please?
I’m in a daze and I am afraid to believe
That all this could soon be reality
It never seemed to work - pray to my demiurgs
I won’t get sold as a slave on barren earth
My fate was delayed but now I shall nevermore stall
It may seem strange to you all but then you did not fall
In those dreaded days I could not find a second
to breathe
Seems you would never have dreamed I was ready
to leave
From up & far away - finally here to stay
never dared to dream of being repaid
Behind the mudstreet’s turn -sweet things to be earned
can finally rest my bones in promised land
You act like I’m insane - but it’s fresh blood to my brain
Now everything I do is mine again.
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Surface Of The Sun
03:06
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Surface of the Sun
Running out on empty lung
crave the surface of the sun – it’s in our blood
Watch this pale crowd as it grows
hear its hope decay so slow – it’s in our blood
Please don’t stutter speak right out
keep talking & talking, ward off all doubts – it’s in our blood
It’s in our blood in our blood
It’s in our blood in our blood
I got lost so far from home
tiptoed down on slippery stones – it’s in my bones
Then I got caught in a spiderweb
eyes to the sky, then one wrong step – it’s in my bones
It’s in my bones in my bones
It’s in my bones in my bones.
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Gold Park
03:13
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Gold Park
Burn all the stolen
dimes of the gold park
Rob some more riches
the flames crawling over
Drink out the wine
then send out your soldiers
It’s been too many times the weak got run over
I get tired of asking why
Oil stains on our conscience
breathe air filled with coal dust
Shiploads of reminders
dumped in the sea to rust
Antennas keep buzzing
The cold neon lights
Why won’t we loosen our ties on lands and on oceans? We’re running out of time
From your lips I can read
you’ve sent your ships back to sea.
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Insomniac
01:16
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Insomniac
Never sleep till the time feels right
Rarely seep what I see inside
Balls of dust I can feel alright
All I do is laze
All else seems a waste
Longing for my luck
in the winter sun
Pets to feed so get up in time
Work & eat & stay up at night
Crave your warmth lying by my side
In a hole so deep
Too numb to even weep
One day we will meet
I’ll be with who I need
And by your warming glow
I will fall asleep.
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Wake Me Up
04:38
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Wake Me Up
Fail and hide I can’t work it out on my own
Cast aside circling round in turning storms
Still you’re out of my reach and my days are spent
by stealth
Needing you here so that I can be myself
Come wake me up
All on my own when so suddenly in grief
Moaning to silently to be perceived
Here I still lie where I fought and where I fell
Do they deserve I would hide it all too well?
Come wake me up
It caught me while I lazed - now everything’s displaced
I seem to need a lot of sleep -
falling so deep
A life-line that was torn - me facing it alone
How could I be so slow to see? –
refusing to feed
I’ve been believing (for so long)
Only deceiving (it’s all wrong)
Read the look on his face - just a fraction too late
All the pain felt while digging out this grave
Any more loss I know I could never face
Alone in a maze where I neither wake nor dream
A life so fragile I never did believe
Come wake me up
Now I fought in your place - for no more life to waste
Come round and see my message please -
it’s open to read
Lead me to the sun - there and back again
Release me from this torment please -
bring back my peace
You’ve been believing (for so long)
I’ve been deceiving (it’s all wrong)
Truly all I now need are few words so hard to speak
So please show you’re with me -
and with you I will weep.
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Lost
02:02
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Lost
Tell me who can I believe
in times of lies & deceipt?
I cannot figure out who aims to rescue me
From all the smoke & the waste
the different poisons I taste
For how long can I be sure there’ll be air to breathe?
and every now & then I feel so lost
and every now & then I feel so lost
New troubles turn up like waves
I keep on counting the days
In fear there might be no way to cure this disease
and every now & then I feel so lost
and every now & then I feel so lost.
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A Break
04:24
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A Break
May I take a break from leading a perfect life
and surrender to last hope for soul’s downslide?
The strengh that it takes to maintain my place in line
it slits my guts and it crushes my spine
What did Columbus feel steering by the stars at night
sailing in search for the isles of spice?
(Was he thinking)
I started far from here
My aims and plans constructed so full of fear -
make them disappear
It took a fair share of luck
now I feel so wary old & stuck –
I’ve run out of luck
My smiles they were fake my words they concealed despair
Frightened for the worst gasping for air
Cause sometimes this life feels so cruel and so unfair
crying out that I wish I had a spare
(That’s why I’m singing)
I travelled time and space
hunting down emotions to erase -
would I ever face
A life in ecstasy
gambling the tiniest chance I’d meet -
searching frantically
There’s still much more to learn
run run run then take another turn -
counting what I’d earn
now that’s none of my concern
and now I feel too weak to open my mouth to speak
May I take a break to breathe and let out a sigh
and find out what I truly need in life?
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Bloodshed
05:56
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Bloodshed
Tell me to stand up tell me to lie down in the sand
I’ll do anything decide to take or leave me
You and I both know now that this war will never end
there’s nothing left for us to think or say
I am not the one to make this world a better place
so you might as well take this poor life away
Tear my heart to pieces I won’t cheat on you my friend
I’ve been here for much too long anyway
There are no bad intents come on and aim at me
my friend
I did live long enough to see the beauty
Penetrate my brain onto the wall behind my back
spill my guts no one will call it cruelty
Don’t you feel afraid now to shed blood in foreign land
it’s only mine you came here to defeat me
Please blow me away with that gun you hold
in your hand
shoot so I can leave this world behind me.
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Bateau Ivre Berlin, Germany
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and embark on a journey to the highest joy and deepest sorrow, beautiful,
mesmerizing, and disturbing all at once!
BATEAU IVRE's Post Folk sound is created and expressed by Paul Kuchenbuch and Nick Whitaker.
Both are multi-instrumentalists with an interest in many styles of music - hence the diversity of BATEAU IVRE's sounds and arrangements.
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