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Youth

by New Pope

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to be young, to live by the ocean to be alone, to be no-one out of the city, the disarray endless smoke, endless grey sombre, pallid sorrow streetlamps acid yellow onwards, westwards the setting sun I could be happy there by the fire and by myself out of the wind and the rain’s way the crushing wind, the lashing sea steeply sloping mountain sleepless, boundless ocean onwards, westwards the setting sun I’d get lost
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Amsterdam 03:30
Amsterdam you humid bastard all my clothes are soaked but I bought more in the second hand market on Haarlemmer Road I fell in love with Vincent Van Gogh he was just as fucked up as me and I feel an affinity with anyone on the periphery a wander in Amsterdam me and my mother we went back again with nothing to lose like a child I was just a child then I met my mother, we got on the yellow tram line we were talking about Summer a little girl who was a friend of mine we walked the old streets I played on I was just a child then we ended up at the old apartment it used to be a heroin den a wander in Amsterdam me and my mother we went back again with nothing to lose like a child
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In your garden doing work for your dad I took off my shirt you just sat there with a drink in your hand and the sun would glisten on your skin, we were young young enough to care and I loved you the best and for a while you loved no one else by the pool you swam to my side you swam like a child I couldn’t swim so I just lay there and smiled and the sun would glisten on your skin, we were young young and full of youth in schools and in fields I remember but my lips are still sealed by the river walk hand in hand leave our friends behind always looking for a place to lie down and the sun would glisten on your skin, we were young too young to know better I thought I knew you well you were just waiting on somebody else somebody else
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Christopher 04:58
Of love I have naught except trouble and sad thought even when spring is sweet and the birds repeat oh, morning nothings nothings oh Christopher an idea I have lost an idea of myself now that idea’s dead and it feels I’m left oh, mourning nothing nothing oh Christopher to be somebody else to be left on the shelf to lose one’s sense of self to die an early death and dream of simple things big talk and little use wasted words of youth time goes by, babe, I’ll let it go by I’m alright, today, yeah I’m alright what I’ve found, babe, what I’ve found is things have changed, yeah, now you’re not around oh Christopher
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All My Life 05:26
Sweet adolescence it's all mistakes and embarrassments you're not alive til your twenty-five but if I could turn back time and start again I wouldn't change a thing my mistakes, they've brought me where I've been and I've wasted time getting high I've been wasting time all my life all my life will my heart still? only time will tell I've sold everything I can sell oh well it's my life, it's my life baby now it's my life I'm going crazy I'm going crazy now all my life
6.
There is a place, north Donegal some of my memories are there the blonde and the brunette the girl with the short hair it's the place where I made some of my earliest mistakes the best thing that I ever did was getting out of that place I remember the winter the springtime and the autumn but most of all those summer nights we spent in her garden and I'm going back there no matter what you say I've been invited to her wedding day stones' throw from you it's the lying, it's the wasting it's the cheat, it's the cheating on yourself I'll wait for love it's the drugs, it's the late nights it's the bottle, bottle I love the most I'll wait for love someone to hold, one to care for when I'm old and grey and full of sleep I'll wait for love the autumn, the fading light the darkening day, the compensating night I walked home, left it unsaid with pounding heart I died a distant death the days draw down, dwindle, scatter it all ends and none of it matters I linger on, become undone I learn my fate is to always be in love slip and slow down, square one again I've made mistakes that I deeply regret I've made mistakes again, again, again
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We are ships before the breeze dying of thirst and riddled with disease I thought I could feel a change in the wind I hope you still feel me on your skin the only escape from this ship is sleep the only sleep to be had is through drink so I drink to your health, drink til I'm sore and dream of a drier death on shore last night as I lay sleeping my mind being bent on wandering dreamt we were sitting by the Corrib thought I could smell the perfume in your blood but darling, we're still young and I think we're fine and the lessons of our youth will come back in time and darling, darling you won't forget the lessons of your youth not forgotten oh no no

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"Perfectly balanced between both the tender and more pining realms of nostalgia... offers up a wonderfully re-assuring, immaculately crafted summation of the inner, intersubjective workings of dealing with change and growing up" (Brian Coney, The Thin Air)

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released December 9, 2015

all songs written and recorded by David Boland

featuring Emma Lohan on accordion, Dave Shaughnessy on percussion, Eoin Dolan on synth and backing vocals and G Tobin on backing vocals.

originally mixed and mastered by Eoin Dolan in 2015

remixed and remastered by TUATH in 2019

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New Pope Galway, Ireland

Galway based songwriter New Pope has quietly developed an enduring mystique as a composer of endearingly self-reflective and reassuringly romantic songs.

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