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Rose Ink (EP)

by Buick Audra

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1.
I can’t ask for your forgiveness; you’re never gonna see the good in me there’s a filter when you look my way, between who I really am and you what see I’d send bottles to your shore if I thought it would make you laugh and wave the flag but there is something when you look at me, it eclipses all the laughing times we've had you see, my eyes are always open, it’s been brought to my most violent of attentions that our lives can get away from us, and slip out of our very best intentions and so many lives from now, will we remember all the fault and all the blame? or will we fall apart without a cause, when someone speaks somebody else’s name? well, I can’t keep up, and I don’t know if I want to do the pages of your diary reflect the deepest, truest part of you? or do you shy away from all of that, and leave 'em blank as I so often do? hey, I have never found the right approach to document the twisted way I think no, but someday when I’m gone, you’ll find an arsenal of me and my rose ink but, I can’t keep up, and I don’t think that I want to so, in case I never said it right: you mean the world, the stars, and in-between I make an effort to write melodies around all the sides of me that there have been so, please forgive me, if you can, cuz really all we are in life is who we love and know, my words are all I have, and they are all for you, I hope they are enough so, take the worst of me, cuz it’s the best that I can do please take the worst of me, cuz it's the best that I can do
2.
I’m not sure what you see behold: evidence of me hey, Mr. Geology, there’s nothing beneath I don’t know what you hear my own defense, I fear oh, Mr. Astronomy, I’m right here, beneath believe me, I thought that I was above it, but I’m not you know that I can’t take to come face to face with my mistakes I understand that I still exist and live by my own will and if I don't get my own turn, I’ll stay here outside of your world, while: some other girl will be there to take you in, to steal your heart, to make you care some other girl will be the one to beat the moon and cancel out the rising sun some other girl will sing the song you can't forget, not even after she's long gone some other girl will break your heart I sit and strain my eyes to watch minutes pass me by since science is failing me now I’ll put my faith in time sure as the sky will fall will I still surprise them all when it plays out in the end they’ll have wasted their time but believe me, I thought that I was above it, but I’m not you know that I can’t take to come face to face with my mistakes I understand that I still exist and live by my own will and if I don't get my own turn, I’ll be here outside of your world, while: some other girl will be there to take you in, to steal your heart, to make you care some other girl will be the one to beat the moon and cancel out the rising sun some other girl will sing the song you can't forget, not even after she's long gone some other girl will break your heart
3.
walk alone downtown read some minds, never sit down and the world is hardly round just a flat circle, and I’ll see you around when you travel your distance all the bus rides and the thousand coffee shops and, it’s all better the instant you take up third position “check out his guitar” “you know I saw her back when she was poor” and, "hey, I know him too, he’s the guy from ‘see ya later, see ya later, see ya later'” in-between you can listen to the comments and all the made-up facts like, “hey, did you know,” (for instance) “he plays in third position?” in my nights I sleep I dream of Clementine and ladies all in white in my days, so sweet, I sing along in time with my favorites: "needle in the hay" "I wanna give him pain" you took up third position you played in third position you stood in third position
4.
I don’t hear well, did you say “morning”? such belief in your tone, you don’t sound like you run straight through the door, sick with the warning of the afternoon truth, just before noon and the wind that you hear in the night calls to you: make him your own, make him your own the bones in your frame all react and so you love him we might fall through the fall how quickly we know life is just moving some never see, while others can’t move I’d raze the walls, and then I’d be proving I don’t hear well at all when you say “lose” and the water you walk with at dawn calls to you: this can be done, this can be done the bones in your frame all react and you believe we might fall through the fall
5.
it’s not old enough to be a photograph it’s not new enough to be an airplane and as the water never stays warm, you will forget me in this form am I bold enough? does every color have a first time? or do we know them when they meet our eyes? if I have memories in all white, do they mean more or less to my life? am I without on the inside? but, through my fever, cantilevers stand thanks to some mad genius mind it wasn’t mine, it wasn’t mine, it wasn’t mine despite all reason, I still want a chance to be some mad genius’s friend until the end, until the end, until the end when I turn all of the sound down (you can’t believe how much the noise can change the volume of a town) and put my ear to the cold ground (I wait to hear your steps out there between somewhere you lost and found) I can remember how your voice moved I can remember how your voice moved am I alone enough? it’s a valentine’s regret it’s a holiday wish for the best it’s never quite what I expect it’s being at attention always it’s ever loving you in my way it’s wanting to be there for what comes next so what comes next?
6.
hey Emil, I can’t find a way to get back where you used to be beneath my borrowed stars hey Emil, you know that night up in my room, just kids, you sang for me? I still miss who I was and we never phone and you’ll always know him and almost me almost me hey Emil, I could tell you things about my life that you don’t know I wonder about yours hey Emil, did you know that I made music too? yeah, my brother and me hey, I could sing for you, just listen, cuz this one’s for you... hey Emil, you got so quiet hey Emil, you’re so far away hey Emil, do you remember? hey Emil, I can’t find my way
7.
we met up tonight at the record store and I knew when I saw you, that it would be hard we wandered around like we used to and I wondered if people could tell that you were my brother we searched for a while for the perfect tree but, you got sad and had to spend all your money I came home with sunglasses that I didn’t need but, deep down, they’re very important to me and every time I leave you I’m afraid of how long it will be cuz what stability entails for me, is knowing, when I go to sleep, I love you I love you, it's all I know we drove home with our sunglasses on it was dark out, but I knew the tears would come you talked about the trip, and I tried to listen but all I could think was, "today is one less day” and there was so much more that I had to say and every time I leave you I’m afraid of how long it will be what stability entails for me, is knowing, when I go to sleep, I love you I love you, it's all I know you left with your friends and I turned to walk away and it took everything I had in me not to say, “don’t go... hey Bo, don’t go.” because every time I leave you I’m afraid of how long it’ll be cuz what stability entails for me, is knowing, when I go to sleep, I love you I love you, it's all I know I love you with all my soul hey, I love you with all my soul I love you, it’s all I know
8.
Soft As 02:06
and the mind would be clear if the hands could be soft, soft as . . . bruising less by the lightness as opposed to, as opposed to . . . and the less of you is a lesson too drawing down to thin wire what it started as, as you start to go hold it under your fingers follow through with the . . . bring it back with your . . . and the less of you is a lesson too

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released June 26, 2006

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All songs written by Buick Audra, with the exception of "Soft As" which was written by Buick Audra and Mario Quintero

Produced by Buick Audra

Recorded by Matt Squire at SOMD in College Park MD

Mixed by Alex Hartman at Soundtrack in New York NY

Mastered by T.J. Lipple at Silver Sonya in Arlington VA

Buick Audra - guitar and vocals

Front cover art by Scott Campbell
Additional art and graphic layout by Corey Tatarczuk
Interior photo of Buick Audra by Dagan Barrett
Packaging silkscreened by Stumptown Printers, Portland OR

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Buick Audra Nashville, Tennessee

Buick Audra is a Grammy-award-winning musician and writer living in Nashville, TN. She is the guitarist and primary songwriter and vocalist in the melodic heavy duo, Friendship Commanders. Her new album and corresponding memoir, Conversations with My Other Voice, were released on September 23rd, 2022. ... more

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