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Moving as if Through Water

by Moonshine Kids

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1.
Circadian 05:49
Woke up Fell out of my body Well i’d rather drift out I’d rather scatter The floor fell between me and my ankles I kept up balanced on a table felt fucked up but knew what it would come to Fall out of the sky - day dreamer Days I never end, without a stone in my shoe And I tell myself I won’t dissolve Days like these, I twist and vanish Surfaced There’s not a name for this Body of water You could diffuse and vanish Woke up, missed it when I ran through Water whiskey missed it when I came to Felt fucked up but knew what it would come to So let's end this day like we started it Drowsy and full of dreams Let's end this day like we started it As the sun comes around And I’ll end this day like I started it Drowsy and full of dreams I’ll end this day like I started it Scattered in search of sleep Drowsy and full of dreams
2.
Watercolor 04:40
i read your story today - about how to escape from your body without leaving your apartment i read your story today - you didn't leave a name but you said 'the heart is deceitful above all else' but we are not made of autonomous creatures you aren't the sum of your body's decisions the heart is deceitful there was a boy - i don't know him but i feel like i remember everything and there's a feeling i remember - here and there i just can't name but he said 'the heart is deceitful above all else' but we are not made of autonomous creatures you aren't the sum of your body's decisions the heart is deceitful and i am deceitful above all else i am an ocean of microbes and bile and salt i am a brick wall refusing to change - even as my edges are worn away it's not somatic - but i can feel it like i'd breathe too deep and step beyond my skin and i don't know my name half the time when i wake up i followed your voice, and it told me there's a lens behind my eye and my view is watercolor i heard your voice on the phone, and suddenly, i stepped out of myself
3.
All I got is acorns, in my pocket 
And I can't think
 How they got there
 And I watch them fall apart

 All I got is crumbles, and I just feel 
As they fall away like sand I feel them fall away 

 Look up at the sky
 Have you ever seen
 Such clouds
 Can you see them shifting
 Are they breathing
 If you listen closely you can hear them sigh
 With the trees, with the movement of the air

 Just like that moment when you realize - everything you hear is alive

 Two cups of coffee next morning
 And nothing makes sense on this backdrop of jittery fog

 There’s only a mile between me and the top of this mountain and me

 Just like that moment when you realize - everything you hear is alive


4.
Inertia 03:27
Dyspneic and worn - travelled for miles Though rivers are cold now This world from the sky must look small From here it fills the spaces There’s something still - inertia inhale And the moment is gone And all is thunder and ice and crashing waves of air This world from the sky must look small From here it fills the spaces Forgetting how to breathe Forgetting the world has edges - closer still closer Pounding in my ears - bounding and breaking Losing my footing And at last peace - and in steam, I vanish Seamlessly the snow - and the sky surround me
5.
FMN2AM 04:20
It wasn’t that we drove in silence - we drove in time To thunder and rain And there’s a song thats playing on the radio And I get lost FM into morning There came a point when the road was a river The sun scratched the surface The fields caught on fire The fields were an ocean And there’s a song, that’s playing on the radio And I get lost FMN2AM And there’s a voice, singing on the radio And I get lost, and I get lost, and I get lost
6.
Adalane 03:40
He woke up in a parking lot with no idea of who had left him there She woke up back at home in her apartment Having dreams of walking through meadows Adalane, where is your mind His only thoughts of love were thoughts of alcohol And cigarette butts, stomped out in the pavement Her only thoughts of love were dreams she couldn’t reach Beauty sprawled before her Adalane, where is your mind If love was such a crime, where was the law When mother watched her husband beat him If love was such a crime why did she ache to break The law when no one was looking They said love was not a crime, but the bruises didn’t feel like kisses - love was not a crime, but the handcuffs wouldn’t hold her hand love is not a crime, but they shouted at him till he had to hide O doctor tell them this is not a game, i’m not pretending, Billy was sleeping while Adalane was the prowl doctor tell them how my shattered mind has driven me to hell He woke up in a jail cell She woke up in a jail cell, as well Adalane - could have saved him from this? Adalane - who could blame you for this? Adalane - where is your mind?
7.
Cloudbreak 03:53
Give me a pen to write this down, it slips away Falls between the cracks of my memories Give me a pen, I’ll drain it out across the page It falls away So let me hear from you now and again So let me know I am steady though I’m sinking I am straining to hear you And I’m uneasy in this phosphorescence So black out the light Give me a drink to wash this down, it slips away I don’t even recognize anyone around me And the clouds break Wrap your silence around me So let me me hear from you now and again So let me know I am steady though I’m sinking, I am straining to hear you And I’m uneasy in this phosphorescence So black out the light
8.
Apophenia 03:05
Walked through town, at the moment when the gardeners took their lunch breaks Not a person in this town, gardens ‘less they’re paid for it Walked through some city while the sun, dragged my shadow Down to a puddle at my feet And I lived all summer in a day, And it rained and it washed some thoughts I thought of As a whole, into pieces, never quite the same I tied a string to a photograph, walked forward twenty years Like I could follow it back But memories grow, wild as prairie, tangled and unconcerned With anything but light Summers draw me out like yarn, pulling thin until it fades Into spiderweb which grids, and grows stronger Summers ebb and flow And my thoughts fall fallow in the haze
9.
The moss widowed the roots while insects inspected the lines and they echoed - invasion in the red pines No sound quite like the birds, matched by wind and waves and they echoed A coalition of morels, pregnant in the underground echoed (and they echoed) - invasion in the red pines Ochre stained leaves swallowed the ground your lips whispered, narrowed a bellowed sound and it echoed, as it echoed war between the trees war between us Oxygen spilt and wasted Fallen trees as the floor tasted echoed (and it echoed) Ochre stained leaves swallowed the ground your lips whispered narrowed and bellowed and it echoed as it echoed

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moon•shine•kids are proud to present Moving as if Through Water, a collection of songs that explore human identity through our interactions with nature, each other, and the stories we tell.

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released April 10, 2019

Haley Beeson: Vocals, Mandolin
Josh Beeson: Vocals, Guitar, Violin, Bass, Trumpet
Erik Lobo: Drums, Percussion

All songs written and recorded by moon•shine•kids
Nature on War Between The Trees recorded by Haley Beeson at the Kettle Moraine State Forest.

Album art by Haley and Josh Beeson
Textures by freepik.com
Three eyed deer by Wesley Beeson. Wesley also sings on "Watercolor."

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Moonshine Kids are a progressive folk rock band in Evanston IL.

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