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Oregon & Old Friends

by Mirror Lake

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Bird It's like all the things I like about other artists I like, rolled into one. Every song is polished and engaging and mature. Definitely keen for more like this. Favorite track: Crooked Branches.
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1.
I am firewood The cracking of my bones will sing you to sleep I'll forget and repeat I couldn't build a home from my still grove Surrounded by these structures of sound There's a sickness in the roots I'll never make it on the lake Never drink it's waters I'll never touch the sky I'll never know my sons and daughters I'll be the last one in the ground but I won't grow I won't recover these crooked branches I'll die alone If you lie what you find inside that old circle of stones Then maybe I'll light Maybe I'll breath one last time I can't blame the soil from where we all grew I count can't the rings as proof Or the number of leaves the light shone through There's a sickness in my roots
2.
The sun retreated and I woke up in the west I changed the sheets alone in a place that's not my home Everyone's left and I just needed rest I damned myself for the loss of progress And compared myself against the grain I found that things weren't the same I could tell by sounds they made Four months until port Two-thousand miles from where I grew The friendships I abandoned And the light I once threw It's rough like the sandpaper grain of my face The odd spring inside this thing they'd replaced Back and forth for the better part of a decade Dreams of Oregon to keep me warm in the absence of old friends
3.
I'm staggered like fence posts in Colorado Uprooted and misplaced A sad resemblance of my former shape A month out from home or so I'm told Surrounded by wind farms and roads Surrounded but alone I've had seven states to think and it's safe enough to say That I'm ashamed of my station in the scheme of things I won't change but I still complain I've had seven states to think and it's safe enough to say That I'm ashamed of my station in the scheme of thing Unsatisfied and afraid It's your typical case of woe is me Life was better at eighteen When we're blind and naive to the brevity that is this dream And how damaging comparisons can be A day out from twenty-six (I know I've got a place back home) And I don't feel any different So maybe numbers account for nothing (Regardless of how small) I just thought I'd amount to something

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Three songs, two years, one person. Well, kind of.

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released July 28, 2017

All songs written and performed by Cody Loman

Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Michael Miller at Jump Jet Studios

Produced by Michael Miller and Cody Loman

Inspiration/Wendy's by Brandon Valentine

Additional harmonies on “Crooked Branches” performed by Paul Robinson

Additional vocals on “Crooked Branches” performed by Paul Robinson, Michael Miller, and Jamie Williamson

Additional vocals on “Oregon & Old Friends” performed by Drew Kelley and Michael Miller

Additional vocals on "Uprooted/Misplaced" performed by Michael Miller

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Mirror Lake Mount Vernon, Illinois

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