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These Four Walls

by Spring Cell

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1.
Linguistics! 05:58
I went to the swimming pool in surroundings so cool. I went to the swimming hole, pulled myself up from the earth. I went to the final rest. Know I'm trying my best. Know I'm trying my best. Know I'm trying my best. And I see... And I see... I get caught in pronouns. Don't know, gotten much ground. I get caught in verbs. I get caught in between words. You're my teacher. I'm being your preacher from my sermon on the mount asserted on the mound. And this is all ballistics. These are all linguistics. These are all ballistics. This is just linguistics! Now... You can be reptilian clouds of vermilion, steady like Sicilians drinking wine. Wine, why? This is all linguistics, simply linguistics. This is all ballistics, simply linguistics. This is all ballistics, simply linguistics. These are all ballistics, simply my linguistics. These are all ballistics, simply my linguistics.
2.
It's Like 04:42
We should sit on the floor. It's a campfire! Please sit down in your seats. We have very important information to disseminate. You should always talk to strangers. There is no danger. How else are you going to get to know the great ghosts of the world? I saw you laying grass down while you see me on the armies, and you made fun of my new haircut. All these things I see swirl around me. And maybe it's like butterflies maybe it's like all these highs maybe it's like purple skies and all the things I thought I knew but couldn't bring to speak about. When I was just a boy you took me to the movies; I saw my star on the big screen. But now I'm tired of what seemed like another Audrey Hepburn like a cigarette burns, oh... Maybe they're like butterflies. Maybe they're like butterflies. Maybe they're like the purple skies and all the things I couldn't bring myself to speak.
3.
(...and maybe what you just don't understand 'cause what I was trying to say is that if even if you are the most cynical person in the world you can't deny what love can bring. The care, even for an animal, even for a pet tortoise, or a pet cat, or a dog....that's love! I don't even know how to describe it. Maybe I can, here....there are volumes and volumes of books.... I don't know how to say....I don't know....I'm really drunk.....but it's there! It's there! There should be love everywhere!.........I'm just trying to say that I love you! I love you! I love you! I want you to know that!) Sudden fissures heal and the one was.... and the one lost hole stretches like cashmere. (Cashmere.) Cashmere. Wobbly mood of his brain, of his brain. Ahh.... ahhh... ahh... Flagrate me, I'll let her. (...don't you go back? why don't you go there? why don't you stay there? why don't you go back?...) Go away.... Don't go away... This is your anthem. This is your anthem. Remember me. See your birds watching me in the lonely night. See your birds watching me in the lonely night. Whisper in the night, in the night. Whisper in the night. Oh oh...oh oh...oh oh... ho oh...ohhh...ohh...ahhhh (When you whispered on that lonely August evening...) See your birds... (...you told me I was something...) watching me in the lonely light. (...you couldn't put your finger upon...) See your birds (...yes, something that you couldn't track down...) watching me in a lonely love. (...yes, something that you couldn't drag down...) Whisper... Ahhh. (On my neck I saw your heart. We're just two hunters lost in the dark. And maybe maybe I could tell you...) Hushing hollow screeches. (..ooooh...) Hushing hollow teaches. (...so simple I love you...) Do you want to teach me? (...so simple I love you...) Love you, why pass up the room? (....so simple I love you. So simple I... So simple I... So simple I...) Simple in dress. Live a simple life, counting all the strife. Tear apart (..so simple I...) my life around (...so simple I...) you. Why? (...so simple I love you...) (...I love you.....to death.) Whisper and ask yourself, "Why?". Oh oh... (I guess what I'm trying to say is that....no matter who you are, you can find that somebody. You can scour the globe for them. And...even if it's not your soulmate, you can pour a little bit of your soul into them, you can partition your heart off, and it will break but it will only break in parts! This is what I wanted to scream....) I left my heart with you I want it back. I left my heart with you I want it back. I left my heart with you I want it back. I left my heart with you I want it back. I left my heart with you I want it back. With you my heart I left you want you back. With you my heart with you I want you back. With you, my heart, with you I want you back. I left my heart with you. I want it back. With you, my heart. I want, I want it back. I want my heart with you. I want you back. With you I left myself. I want it back. With you, my heart. I want you. I want back. With you, my heart. I left my heart and back. I want my back with you. I want my back. With you, my heart I left, and I want it back. With you, my heart. I left you, want you back. I left my heart with you. I want it back.... (I started playing and then...)
4.
...'cause... ...mhm... I found you pressed between the pages of a book I once read, and I found you, and all the things, all the things that we've said. Sitting in a circle, Twilight Zone on repeat in the living room. All the things we've done, oh... And still I don't know how to tell you. I am just a young pup. I am hollow and out of luck, empty of pocket empty of heart. (Listen to everything...) Sometimes I like to give up hard. (..that she found when she said...) And after I've had a bad day (..turn the flashlight on..) all the things that are left to say (...turn the flashlight on under the covers...) they fade away in the haze of apartment buildings (...sniffing spray just to feel...more connected...) they fade away in the haze of apartment buildings. Find footprints in the snow. No I don't know where to go (...I wanted to know why...) Footprints in the snow. (...you never told me how to die...) Footprints in the snow. (...I wanted to know why) Where we gonna go? All the jokes that we have shared All the words we slowly repaired (We have shared a million jokes Shed your skin Shed your skin (and I wanted you to know something so dear to me that you could never even believe the words. Could you even believe the words on the wall ringing in your own local flock?) Footprints in the snow, and I wanted you to know. (...tried to tell you...) but it comes out all wrong (...but you didn't want to ask me...) off key like a song (...wanted you to know...) I sometimes can't believe (...but you didn't trust me...) all the tricks up your sleeve (how to die....) I know.... Don't go.... I know.... Don't go... I know... Don't go.... (...want you to know...) 'Cause I won't hang on I'll just hang on (...I see the script...) Hey do you think you maybe wanna hang out sometime? I mean you know, this is like really embarrassing but you know like I really like you...and I think you know if we tried and if we really took a risk...then....you know then...hell I mean we could....just do something stupid and just just....just be like we're in a movie or something....just go, you know? just go... (put it all on the wayside hang your fears on the bayside put it all on the wayside put your fears on the bayside) and I think that if we really tried and if we really just left then we could really...be something together and....as long as we just you know...trust each other...I guess you know it's sort of cliche but I guess you know just...believe.

about

Can you feel the rivers whisper? Taste the howling in the heavens? Smell the cadence of wings flapping? Can you hear our ears tapping? See the jacket (un)strapping? And there's no telling where they're going.

The basic tracks were recorded consecutively in one session on an iPhone in early 2012 between the four walls of Alaric's apartment on Ferry St. in Eugene, OR. Most of this was improvised, being recorded as it was created. Colin is a master at improvising cohesive and highly original lyrics. It just so happens that our innate chemistry is such that we can spontaneously create what we believe is interesting music. Alaric later, using GarageBand in autumn of 2012, made some minor edits in the tracks and added some percussion (the booming drums and bamboo cracks in "Linguistics") along with some general reverb and echo throughout the album, trying overall to preserve the one-off quality of the original recordings.

-SC <3

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released October 16, 2012

All songs (music & lyrics) written, performed, and recorded by Spring Cell in 2012.


Spring Cell is:


Colin Keating (Young Hound) --
lead vocals ("Linguistics!", "It's Like," & "A Going Concern");
classical guitar ("Linguistics!", "It's Like," & "A Going Concern");
monologuing ("Cashmere Sweat, Her");
& typewriter ("Cashmere Sweat, Her / My Heart"); co-vocals ("My Heart")

&

Alaric López (Monarcadia) --
lead vocals ("Cashmere Sweat, Her / My Heart");
background vocals (la-las, oowoos, oh-ohs, ah-ahs, and growling in "Linguistics!"; wah wahs with a plastic bowl and screeches/wails in "It's Like"; whispers, misc. background vocals in "A Going Concern");
classical guitar ("Cashmere Sweat, Her / My Heart");
monologuing ("A Going Concern");
Tupperware container ("Linguistics!");
Norton Anthology of American Literature ("A Going Concern");
shoes ("A Going Concern");
ashiko drum ("Linguistics!");
bamboo ("Linguistics!")

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Spring Cell Eugene, Oregon

Spring Cell is:

Alaric López (a.k.a. Monarcadia)
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Colin Keating (a.k.a. Young Hound)

Two gentlemen who met in Eugene, OR, and began their narrative of brotherhood, art, love, and sincerity. This is a canine and butterfly's synergistic adventure.
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