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For Your Joy

by Keep

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1.
YHB 04:07
Half expected a surprise But was met with a scare Left for me from another life I’d pretend it was there Nice to know It’ll hurt til it goes Years held back Never let me get close Wear the mask they paid for Gladly hung where they’re hung It was pleasure and then it was pain On the tip of my tongue Nice to know It’ll hurt til it goes Years held back Never let me get close The leaving things that still linger They come out of the blue As little pains I can’t surrender They just keep cutting through Or was it pain before pleasure It’s an easy sleeper A bad one
2.
The words you’ve ignored More like wolves at your door Nothing is sacred Empty as it was You fell by the teeth Tossed in an endless sleep From morning comes the day And night follows, they say The tired sound groan on Never a friend Always an end The gifted one Is cool under the gun Both their eyes held open And blinded in the sun I’ve softened the stares I’ve clung to the angels’ hair They’re drying their faces For each chance I’ve wasted But I can’t share a drop Never a friend Always an end The gifted one Is cool under the gun Both their eyes held open And blinded in the sun Temporal drift Seen as infinite
3.
Welcome To 04:09
A worry of a simple life And the frequent absence of pain Weary of the emptiness Where a lucid veil hangs Find another commonplace To get a little low And keep searching for A new mania I’ve figured it out There’s no easy way in I think of it often I think I’ve figured it out There’s no easy way in Waiting for the final light For the inevitable end I will never see the king Comes by way of sentiment The world is going white again All except for the few A token of a different love Leads to a sacred room I’m on the outskirts of a green heaven And I’m looking for holes in the fence I’ve figured it out There’s no easy way in I think of it often I think I’ve figured it out There’s no easy way in It’s a steady growing misery The halo’s hanging from the tree
4.
Response 02:56
A ten or a one Unsure which is worse Dissolve into nothing No room for a bow Just part of a vision Nothing will work If memory serves It’s only to hurt or cause celebration Either way, my head’s spilling over Just part of a vision Faced flushed red with a feeling Or white, like the one when you die
5.
Heed the thought Hunger’s strong It’s a germ and it’s alive Changed the color of my eyes Red rose walls fold My will is gone Relinquished control Not true to form Found me again The ache that I swim in Mind is tossing absently Often leads to a belief Red rose walls fold My will is gone Relinquished control Not true to form My conviction is seamless And my pretense is pure In perfect order
6.
Potential seen in simple strides Worth defined by what’s acquired Comb over a beaten thought All in a crowd, a like desire The blonde haired provides the life That the brown haired will keep in line An innocent hope is a harmful crime And a selfish need unsatisfied It’s a murder scene Of all things No apology will come And it will never be good Right hand placed over the eyes Feet forward and walking blind Granted opportunity For acts of disparaging It’s a murder scene Of all things No apology will come It happens again A means to feel everything
7.
Testament 04:55
Lost the miracle sleeves Come to find my dreams are fuzzy Soft and lovely And all so funny I want out Want them to pay for me Burn a hole in the right side Put the weight on the left side Acquired taste for a new kind I want out Hold a match under my feet Crucify my desire Lend me to god Only hope to go higher Only sick for a day One-mile walk underwater The petulant choir sings “We know this is better”
8.
My Love 03:08
A smokescreen A parachute This is my admission of guilt It’s too strong It’s coming over me It’s my love To the bottom No pillows, no silk This is my admission of guilt It’s too strong It’s coming over me It’s my love There’s nothing like it
9.
Man Made It 04:58
Man made it hard For man made of ills Savory soul And succubus cells Feet don’t touch the ground Ear don’t like the sound Man made it hard For love to feel true Fed from a field of Funereal blooms Feet don’t touch the ground Ear don’t like the sound Birds strung up above the bed A failed attempt again And forever
10.
7 Days 05:29
A soft hand slaps my wrist Lets my goodness go But I trudge on Every inch, an arm throw 7 days til forgiveness Decorated with sin 7 days I’ll relive it I wear yellowed skin The numbers lose their sound All my birds have turned in And I cower at the sun As the sun sits belt high, it seems I’m dying 7 days til forgiveness Decorated with sin 7 days I’ll relive it I wear yellowed skin Every end comes with a price Wring the neck of the fruitless Resting head from a tight grip Patron saint of the loneliest I play my drum

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released June 19, 2017

Recorded, mixed, and produced by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording in Philadelphia, PA
Mastered by Calvin Lauber at Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN
Art by Michael Bingham

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