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Sleeping (Extended Play)

by Del Water Gap

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1.
And darling won’t you smother all your demons, I’ll wait patiently You ground your little teeth to dust, I held the pieces but you cut my knees I remember sheets of cotton, window panes on sills gone rotten If only I had know that, yeah if only I had known And I am still in love Yeah I am still in love And sleep, I strip the sheets, because you’re more, yeah I smoke you clean And dear, you naked thief, a bigger man would fucking leave Smoking blacks and sleeping past noon, lowly backlit nights in classrooms If only I had known that, yeah if only I had known And I am still in love Yeah I am still in love Do you love me? Have I lost it? I don’t know Would you throw me in the closet? I don’t know Have you found him? I’ve forgotten who’s your man You could throw me all to pieces with your plans Yeah with your plans And I am still in love Yeah I am still in love And I am still in love Yeah I am still in love
2.
Darling don’t you throw me to the wolves She whispered as her voice it shook She’s never seen a good man fall So I tuck my tail and forget it all She’s nappy hair and sunken cheeks Yeah she almost got the best of me She keeps my picture on her shelf Yeah she’s fickle and she hates herself She hates herself She won’t say, she won’t say she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say She won’t say, she won’t say she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say- Her makeup turned her little face all red So I told her not to wear it then She was looking more like beast than girl We found love in this forsaken world She left her heart on Rockman’s Pier On a river far away from here In the mountain air and the whiskey run Yeah she used to cry when she was young When she was young She won’t say, she won’t say she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say She won’t say, she won’t say she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say She won’t say, she won’t say she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say She won’t say, she won’t say she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say Yeah I ask her but it’s one thing she won’t say
3.
I love like a child, laugh when I can And fight like an ignorant man And I smoke, I smoke for the rush To keep my head above all the things that she does In the end, I guess she’ll figure out Until then I’m sleeping in I sold everything I kept in my house And filled it instead with a horrible sound The beat of a drum, a crack and a hiss If I’m not her one than I’m only for kicks But it’s not over now Until then I’m filled with doubt But I’m not innocent I’m livid and bold, well I’m young and sick of it I, I want to live down by the sea Where no one will listen to me and my thoughts Drunk in the brain and hoping my shame Could fill all the cracks in the wall
4.
Homeless 03:52
You’re in bed but I can’t sleep The homeless man out on the street is juiced He’s screaming from the sidewalk cause your windows open I’m not home with you I whisper you awake and I’ll make your body shake Until you’re through Cause I would walk on broken legs To town and back to buy your bread for you And I will wait for you I won’t leave you blue And when the bar is closing Then you start to show the broken side of you Tears all in your eyes Oh yeah you’re crying bout the guys that left you bruised I kiss that look right off your face But you don’t know I’m in a darker place than you I put your little feet right on my somewhat bigger feet And walk the moon And I will wait for you Yeah I wont leave you blue And I will wait for you Yeah I wont leave you blue Help you tie your shoes I’ll take care of you
5.
Well the further I go it’s the older I get And I find I’m alone when I’m drinking Yeah it’s hard to get on when you roll cigarettes From the dreams that you dried up and twisted Naturally, I’ll find my way back to her And naturally she’ll say no Time and again I find liquor and friends Oh the girls, but the headaches get bigger Yeah she’ll say she’s in love but what’s it worth when you’re drunk And she’ll leave for a man who’s much richer And naturally, I’ll find my way back to her And naturally she’ll say no Naturally she'll say no And I don’t miss that anymore
6.
We never sleep at night But we’ll spend the days in bed And you walk down the stairs ever so gingerly Could’ve lived but I chose to love you instead Fix me your poison, gin for your molly Lime for your bruises and chalk for your holly Tell me you’re sleeping I can’t if you won’t Yeah you could be my own The way that you smile when something pleasant is up in your mind And you put your tiny lips to my ear We could break this old routine, this apartment you and me We could leave this town my dear Rats in your armchair, burrs in your cotton Baby turn my engines from polished to rotten Promise you’ll keep me in a box by the phone Yeah you could be my own Would you burn all the crows in my fields? Sing me to sleep You won’t ever have to walk, cause my cars just down the block And Japan’s only two weeks away if you travel by sea Love where you moving? Heart where you going? Your clothes on the floor, yeah your bruises are showing Airplanes can take you to Paris or Rome But you’ll still be my own Bells in the boathouse, champagne and icing It’s just like the movies, yeah your parents are crying Our family’s all gathered but we’re getting stoned Yeah you could be my own I left all her pictures in a box by the road So you could be my own

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released May 2, 2014

© 2014 The Charles Atlas Company

Produced by Del Water Gap in the East Village
Engineered by Tanner Peterson, S. Holden Jaffe and Damian Wiseman
Mixed by Damian Wiseman (1, 2) Jason Moss (3, 4, 5) and S. Holden Jaffe (6)
Mastered by Alan Silverman at Arf! Productions
Recorded at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and Three North Studios
Cover photo by S. Holden Jaffe and Ben Klein
Bummer City logo by Carmen MacDougal

DEL WATER GAP IS:

S. Holden Jaffe // Vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, National, banjo, accordion
Charles Schlinkert // Drums, mixed percussion, background vocals
William Evans // Bass, background vocals, piano
Jared LaCasce // Trumpet

THIS RECORD FEATURES:

Patrick Sargent // Tenor saxophone
Zachary Seman // Organ
Evan Stanley // Electric guitar
Tanner Peterson // Background vocals

WITH GROUP VOCALS BY:

Annie DeFatta, Greg McGuiness, Carmen MacDougal, Zach Ezickson, and Shannon Smith

All songs written by S. Holden Jaffe
S. Holden Jaffe is published by The Charles Atlas Company (BMI)

All horn arrangements composed by Jared LaCasce

THANK YOU Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Diane and Leo Schlinkert, Jesse Bielenberg, Nick Sansano, Annie DeFatta, Ben Lapidus, Sam Rasderecht, Veronica Whyman, Prawit Siriwat, Pat Oppenheim, Baird Parent, Jacob and Jamie Oleshansky, Hugo Vera, Steve Siktberg, and Chris Conway.

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Del Water Gap is the solo project of songwriter & producer S. Holden Jaffe. Jaffe currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and is inspired by “romantic encounters and dimly lit rooms.

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