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Virginia Avenue

by Matt Langley

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kitty cope I love this song, and the whole album, because when I listen I have the sense I'm on a road trip, even when I'm standing at the kitchen sink, like a horse in a field. Favorite track: Never.
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1.
Told you so 02:49
I feel your eyes upon my back Don't tell me why I don't look back If something's got to die, let it die O this load will drag you down A lonesome road to a nowhere town If something's got to die, let it die Life is a bad joke and then you die I'll tell you what I know When you say you say you love me I say I told you so You gave me your heart now you want it back I'm taking you home, let you sleep on that If something got to die, let it die Life is a bad joke and then you die I'll tell you what I know When you say you love me I say I told you so
2.
How many lies have we been living? Do they die or do we want to forget? No time to start a panic search For all the bridges burnt Haven't I said from the beginning I think this is all in my head I don't want to be afraid to say everything anymore Step into the fire This one mistake Is all we make I don't want to be afraid to say everything anymore Step into the fire The true decay of time is love I don't want to be afraid to say everything anymore Step into the fire How many ends to this beginning?
3.
Never 02:42
I'll leave you where you lie Never said goodbye Even though I love you I'll leave you where you lay Some other day Twenty years or more from now Nothing Feels like you Never seems like home I'll write you once or twice If everything's alight Even though you won't care I watch a dead blue sky It never wonders why It just rises up to be Nothing feels like you Never seems like home So far I've learned Not to say Never say Never again
4.
Love Inside 03:36
I been staring at the sun Waiting for the one to come Be my saviour I been spying on the moon A jealous sister soon to savour All my failure There is nothing left There is nothing lost now honey, Only the love inside I never wanted out Let's take another ride now honey, It's only the love inside I been squinting at the stars I wonder if they are for ever O how I miss you I been looking in the wood Wonder if I could remember O how I loved you There is nothing left There is nothing lost now honey, Only the love inside I never wanted out Let's take another ride now honey, It's only the love inside O how to live through all this life O how to give one more time
5.
I keep on waking up into the future Some place that I don't belong Looking for some kind of proof in the morning To get right what I'm doing wrong keep on drifting off all through the day time Just can't seem to keep my mind off The words that were bleeding Through every feeling The first time that I heard your songs Then you made it rain on the bluest of days Just like I knew you would I felt the sting of your suicide logic But you make sad sound good I keep on waking up a new world surrounds me I'm too scared to open my eyes Looks like the future has finally found me I hope I can make it this time When you make it rain on the bluest of days I almost thought I could I felt the sting of your suicide logic You make sad sound good
6.
Ghost Wanted 03:25
Ghost wanted To haunt my mind I'll leave you honey I'm you're wilding pine Most wanted What I could never find The years you took honey I just left behind Ghost wanted A nervous wreck To pass through my life With a rope around my neck Ghost wanted to take my place Sweet drunk and see-through To hang around the place Come back she says I'm lonely as hell I'd love you to stay But I know you to well Ah c'mon I said Don't lie to yourself You don't want me to stay Anymore than I have Ghost wanted Some other time I love you honey I'm your wilding pine
7.
Last Days 03:20
Started a song Wrote it down It was a sweet song But since you weren't around Words turned to blood, Love to graves Did I lie, Did I tell you I love you? Coz I wish I did O it's true Most stars burn unknown To any other You, You my other Are so much lonelier than that Now all of the songs sound the same Only the last days remain
8.
One Day 03:08
9.
Some say you're insane When you drift off in your darkened brain Make no mistake When we're asleep the world is safe Fear of the dark Like love lies to a bitter heart The sun escapes The dreamer to the dream awakes Bearing up the walls in your mind Falling down all the time Breaking down inside of every line I can't be down all the time
10.
So it Seems 03:36
Your dust is gold Every mess you make Is a little more that I can take Warm bodies cold A bloody winter frost Can kill the best of us Falling in and of dreams Is this as bad as it seems? You love is dirt The blood under my nails The way I cling to it Falling in and of dreams Is this as bad as it seems? When I think of what we lost Stoned and sweet Or so it seems Falling overboard in mid-stream This is a mad mans dream Your dust is gold Every mess you make Is a little more that I can take Falling in and of dreams Is this as bad as it seems? When I think of what we lost Stoned and sweet Or so it seems
11.
She was a gravediggers son With the coal-line blood That burned to run Unstrung the star light Broke bread and bones with the lung worm On his starry throne When, when everything that you touch turns away When, when everything that you love starts to fade He was a dead girl named Keith Broke the sun down Buried it beneath Where the worms roll Quietly now In the blood shoals, kissing her crown When, when everything that you touch turns away When, when everything that you love starts to fade
12.
Monday night Dixieland That sounds so far away If only I Could call you and ride That feeling back to you O, o, o o I loved you first and best Dreamed our dream The world it seems Is worn out and don't fit O, o, o o o I loved you first and best O, o, o o o I love you first and best Monday night Dixieland That sounds so far away
13.
Unto the ends of this Earth Everyman walks a mile From his death til his birth He is a slave who must smile Be this heaven or hell He may range far and wide Only to return to his self Unto the ends of this Earth You drag your feet in the sand For whatever its worth In the palm of your hand Is he promise of truth Has it a place in your plans? There's only freedom to choose. Unto the ends of this Earth.
14.
Bitter End 04:35
I have never been lonely God knows I'm alone Ever fallen out of love with a friend Ever fallen far from home Remember promises made Too hard to keep my friend Well I guess this must be the bitter end I know what you hear in the silence Before I can begin I listen to the rain in your garden The fear we're living in Remember promises made Too hard to keep my friend Well I guess this must be the bitter end Night after night Star fire in your head I never dreamed that my love Would burn in your hands Remember promises made Too hard to keep my friend Well I guess this must be the bitter end Remember promises made Too hard to keep my friend Well I guess this must be the bitter end
15.
Nothing belongs to me Nothing but I can see Everything that falls before the storm Everything that I will ever be Nothing belongs to you Everything you thought you ever owned Was a prisoner just dreaming of the day You would love it just enough to let it go Nothing belongs to me Anymore than I could ever say You belong to me and I to you How ever many words I rearrange Here we stand A world apart for all our clever plans Here we are Nothing belongs to me Nothing but I can see The beauty of each moment that you gave The weight of every word I'll never say Nothing belongs to me Anything I thought I'd ever known Was washed away before the morning came Like words writ upon cemetery stone Here we stand A world apart for all our clever plans Here we are Nothing belongs to me Nothing that I can see Nothing Here we stand A world apart for all our clever plans Here we are Alone

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released March 10, 2012

'Baring various bits of his soul he has rarely sounded better' Shane Gilchrist, Otago Daily Times, 2013.

'An early contender for homegrown roots album of the year' Stack magazine, 2013

'There are few better lyricists in the country right now' James Belfield, Stuff.co.nz, 2013

All songs by Matt Langley except 'One Day' (Watson, Gooch, Callwood,Langley). Produced by Riki Gooch and Brett Stanton. Engineered by Brett Stanton. Recorded at the Wright Street Production Village (R.I.P). Mixed at Munki Studios Wellington. Mastered by Mike Gibson at Bonfire Audio. Matt Langley: acoustic guitars, harmonicas, vocals. Riki Gooch: drums, percussion, mellotron, keys, backing vocals, jews harp. Tom Callwood: bass, upright bass, cello, percussion, backing vocals. Tom Watson: electric guitars, acoustic guitar, trumpet, backing vocals, percussion. Alexis French: trumpet. Adam Page: saxophone. Clint Meech: Wurlitzer, casiotone. Brett Stanton: bells toy piano. Stephen Gallagher: piano. Mia Kurghan: backing vocals. Vic Parsons: backing vocals. String arrangements by Riki Gooch. Thanks to Creative New Zealand, Graham Kennedy, Radio New Zealand, Shannon McKenna, Plan9, David Long, Joe Blossom, Luke Buda, Adam Ladley, Regional Wines and Spirits, Aunty, Dylan Galletly, Emma Dougherty, Trevor Reekie, Matt Hay. Great love to all families who tolerated us working so late and to all our friends for your encouragement and support.

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Matt Langley Dunedin, New Zealand

Award winning singer/songsmith from New Zealand.
Lives in Japan.

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