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Endearance

by Simon Comber

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1.
I read your letter again today still trying to read between the lines ‘cos I just don’t know what else to do with myself but walk around the house searching for the warning signs I thought I was turning to kiss you but I was only turning in my sleep and the world is turning away away and all the people at the bottom of the ocean with their lockets and their pockets full of stones they’re gonna open up their eyes under the water in synchronicity and see whatever they will see I thought I was turning to kiss you but I was only turning in my sleep and the world is turning away away from me
2.
Emptiness 05:55
I was feeling empty despite trophies and treasures aplenty I went looking for something to fill me to feel less hollow it’s all in your mind it’s been said so I started my search in my head I found a memory I thought was long dead she told me to follow she led me outta the house and down through the town to an oceanside bar we both knew and when she said if you walk through that door I’m gonna haunt you forever more I had to wonder who was following who who was following who well I had my fill but I was still feeling empty so I let the bartender tempt me into another whiskey cheers and here’s to tomorrow now I could no longer feel if I was feeling empty but in the mirror behind the bar I still looked empty so I let a stranger fill me in on her sorrow she told me about a boy who had served and not returned she told me he was one of a kind she told me how it feels to trade places with your shadow and see the shadow falling behind falling behind conversations like all things must end and I saw no space for me in her head so I bid farwell to my fairweather friend and I stepped out and I hit the ground reeling under the sun I no longer felt empty no I felt the darkness of another world within me I went searching for something to empty me to set me free from this feeling
3.
daddy finally beat the bottle jesus saved him from addiction but the man my mother married he got lost somewhere in the transition the jaws of life will come to cut me out my brother’s eyes are fixed upon the pixels my sister she just shaved off all her hair and daddy waits for orders from the heavens while mother she cries underwater tears the jaws of life will come to cut me out I finally met the girl that I’d been dreaming of she taught me you lose everything you steal so I’ve been speeding with all my new friends and crashing out at dawn I’ve been letting go of the wheel the jaws of life will come to cut me out but not this time no not this time ‘cos I will laugh at the dripping teeth pull faces at the bleeding gums till the jaws of life turn and run
4.
on a night like any other night feeding joy and despair the bedtime prayers of little children added to the air and somewhere out there billy t. lit up a cigarette deep down he knew this should really be the last one but he didn’t want to face it it is so hard to give up something you love sleeping dogs are starting to stir cat’s eyes all aglow now the bedtime prayers of the sick and the hungry going somewhere nobody knows now and billy t. had a joke on the tip of his tongue and a saxaphone solo in his head and smoke filling up his lungs and a very tired heart in his chest it is so hard to give up something you love and I wish that I’d never met you that I’d never let you see me cry you tell me you can live without me well I’d like to see you make me try
5.
Nobility 04:51
pour the water over the chamomile leaves warm your hands on the cup inhale the steam raise it up to your lips and drink the infusion down and feel it and follow it flowing inside you learning how to live learning how to live in the lonely moment let whatever thoughts come knocking at your brain stay as long as they will and leave the way that they came and wish them luck in finding another vessel to fill and feel it and follow the emptiness flowing inside you learning how to give learning how to give in to the lonely moment
6.
Please Elvis 03:41
oh please elvis don’t make my mamma cry she just blew all the dust off that old scratchy 45′ she won’t say when she first heard it never tells me what it means but I’ve seen what it does to her and I know what that does to me so please elvis don’t make my mamma sad don’t remind her of what’s gone for good of what I never had she won’t show me any photos never tells me how they met she just drops the needle down and then the dust gets in her eyes again and she’s swirling a brandy balloon and she’s twirling under the gaudy light in the living room but the liqour always overblows all the things that’ll never blow over and I’m sick of picking her pieces up and I’m tired of staying sober so please elvis a family will drive you wild she’s just a fading satellite and I’m a grown up only child and if you make her cry away another anniversay you’ll be nothing but a hound dog nothing but a hound dog to me
7.
first you will forget how it feels to be chosen then you will forget how it feels to forgive then you will forget how it feels to feel then you forget what it is you’re forgetting and then you’re at the crossroads where anything could happen twist of fate take a bow and then you’re at the crossroads the two headed crossroads where anything could happen hear heaven avow as often as I push you to the bottom of my mind you find a way to rise up to the surface graceful as a shark fin outta the blue graceful as a shark fin circling and they’re circling the crossroads where anything could happen twist of fate take a bow then you’re back at the crossroads the cryptic crossroads where anything could happen hear heaven avow as often as I try to get out of my mind you find a way to drag me down under the surface effortless as undertow back into the black effortless as undertow swirling down to the crossroads where anything could happen twist of fate take a bow then you’re back at the crossroads the insatiable crossroads where anything could happen and it could be right now first you will forget how it feels to be chosen then you will forget how it feels to forgive then you will forget how it feels to feel then you’ll forget what it is you’re forgetting
8.
a crazy sorrow gathered in the sky and the thunder shook itself and everything flared up i went out to the ocean to clear my mind people come and go feelings drag along behind i wanted this to be my prison song but i’ve had the keys to leave i’ve had the keys to leave i’ve had the keys to leave for so long feelings come and go feelings come and go
9.
Endearance 05:17
10.
My Pearl 02:07
sun hangs low in a sky orange and blue blink of an eye for a dream to die or come true you’re my pearl you’re not my pearl ain’t that the way of the world god still shines god still shines holograms on this shattered landscape of mine stars burn holes in the curtains of a cardboard box discounted ocean view down by the docks hope you find what you’re looking for polishing his golden floors dead of night the city bells chime always seems to sound like the final time

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"Comber is shaping up to join that rare and environmentally endangered, esoteric, unpredictabloe and literate Kiwi breed known as 'Billis Direenis'." Gary Steel, Real Groove Magazine


"The almost forensic precision of the lyrics to 'Me and Billy T', 'Nobility' or 'Jaws of Life' recalls the more sombre suburban narratives of Bill Callahan or Joni Mitchell." Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times

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released July 22, 2009

Produced by Simon Comber and Dale Cotton at The Masonic Lodge, Port Chalmers and Audioworkshop, Saint Leonards
with: Thomas Healy, Darren Stedman
Engineered by Dale Cotton

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Simon Comber Auckland, New Zealand

Simon Comber is an Auckland-based singer/songwriter. Having released the 2 L.P's and an E.P available here, he now records and performs under the moniker Herriot Row.

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