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Sunburst Chaser

by Marine Anthropology

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1.
A soft knock on the door is the starting line The gun fires off and someone counts the time But it's hard to run when you're dead on the floor If we coulda just danced a little bit more Bullets shoot into the sky Blazing trails all left behind Falling down, down, down To the finish line The sky is streaked with purple red And you swore that it would never end So we sat and watched with the world and we came undone There's an old pale shine from the clouds tonight Broken up by the winter's wind So we and sat and watched with the world as you chased the sun Someday I'll be older see Then my hands won't fail me I'll forget to watch the crowd Then you'll slow down The sky is streaked with purple red And you swore that it would never end So we sat and watched with the world and we came undone There's an old pale shine from the clouds tonight Broken up by the winter's wind So we and sat and watched with the world as you chased the sun I don't wanna go I don't wanna leave If I have to go I won't get to be I don't wanna go home It’s so nice being able to breathe There’s a world outside and home isn’t home anyway The sky is streaked with purple red And you swore that it would never end So we sat and watched with the world and we came undone There's an old pale shine from the clouds tonight Broken up by the winter's wind So we and sat and watched with the world as you chased the sun I don't wanna go home And I don't want you to leave Sit with me and watch with the world Show me how to chase the sun
2.
Wanderlust 03:29
Wanderlust and stone cold gaze Love is but a passing phase Break me in and wear me out Then take my home and lay about instead Scribbling notes down My tongue is tied Another year down Never satisfied Technology breakdown Or so she said Communication It's all in my What if you speak of the devil and he doesn't appear Where do you turn when the times get too weird Write me an alibi and stow me away But get ready a stand-in just in case I'm gone Your eyes are traveled and your heart’s unfurled Hopping fences left your sensibilities curled Your holy teachings can only guide you so far Until somebody’s lover pins you up like a game of darts Corners bend so you can’t hide Was my last comment much too snide Maybe this time I won’t be the one who huddles up by the fireside What if you speak of the devil and he doesn't appear Where do you turn when the times get too weird Write me an alibi and stow me away But get ready a stand-in just in case I'm gone
3.
Lights 05:21
All these girlfriends are looking past our fantasies They’re chilled out in reality Could be I’m just losing touch And their boyfriends are looking past legality Seeing no point in longevity Getting drunk doesn’t solve much At all In theory he’s hers In practice we’re independent I think that I might lose it It’s been said too many times Like recycling worn out rhymes I think that I I think that I might I just might The lights are all too bright I can’t believe you’re already going home Come on stay a while Don’t fear There’s no room here for romance To pass the time we’re standing still The precipice a windowsill With eyes wide open still can’t see The bottom of this endless hill Looking past our fantasies How far to fall we never need To know that just complicates things In practice no hypotheses Turn the lights off turn the lights off turn the lights off What do we deserve what do we deserve what do we deserve
4.
Hey I think That I've got something to say To you About What our friendship Is really All about Cause there seems To be some kind of confusion In the air I I just want I just want to let you know that I'm fine And I'm done With thinking you're the one Is that a crime That I Thought for a moment that I could make You mine So please let me know If there's something I can do If I need to step back Give all my space to you And I'd do it in a heartbeat Or a vicious heart wrench Because I know that I'll be fine I'll be fine So is It alright That I think we could still Be friends I don't want To hurt you and Drag you Till the end End of me Cause I don't know What I'm gonna be So please let me know If there's something I can do If I need to step back Give all my space to you And I'd do it in a heartbeat Or a vicious heart wrench Because whatever I say it's alright I'll be fine I'll be fine Could it Could it be That I'm doing it all Just for me That I'm desperate And afraid Of letting go How did I let it go So So Wrong I need you to see That it's not just for me It's the great pretend we That I've pictured to be So perfect and grand How did I let it go So wrong
5.
53 Weeks 10:21
The sun shined on my face And you saw my absence There could’ve been anyone under those rays My feet ran me away That’s become the new cliché What was meant as an escape in both ways Is now just another trope of the stage I inhabit 52 different characters a year Everyone of them working on a deadline But I’ve never been good with deadlines And I’ve yet to find a persona that is So I’ll keep looking They didn’t play the song that I wanted them To play at the dance it was just the same old trash But somehow it’s popular The people voted and got what they wanted And then complained all through the night About the music from fifth grade But it was all from this year Someone started a conga parade The sun shined on my face And you saw my absence There could’ve been anyone under those rays But this time it was me And you saw your reflection in my eyes I’m urbane; I’m not boorish Debonair; not churlish I’m smooth; not classless I’m suave; not clownish I’m Mark Twain; I’m not Congress My friend’s gone; I didn’t know him I’m witty; I’m not funny I’m together; I’m discarded I’m a brand new book and I’m open But my pages are worn together with age A invalid trapped behind a younger face I knew from the moment I met you But I met you seven years before becoming friends with you And now I don’t remember how we became friends at all Pouring out my secrets is the only thing I can recall You fell hard for a genuine human I don’t know that genuine‘s the right word to use Cause I’m too honest with myself to ever be Truly objective on anything else I couldn’t see but my skin was see through I couldn’t hear but my cries were amplified I couldn’t speak but my cries were amplified I couldn’t feel man what could I do I couldn’t see that your skin was pulsing I couldn’t hear that your cries were for me I couldn’t speak but your words they saved me I couldn’t feel man I shoulda fallen too I should've fallen too It’s too late it’s too late it's too late It’s the perfect time to be in love It’s too late it’s too late it's too late There’s no better time to be in love It’s too late it’s too late it's too late It’s the perfect time to be in love It’s too late it’s too late it's too late There’s no better time to be in love No one ever looks good walking out of the water Says everyone to the mirror And who can pull off that look anyway Says everyone to themselves Things are looking up on the other side Says everyone in front of the mirror I can make it through 53 weeks in a year Says everyone to themselves (It’s too late, it’s too late, it’s too late It’s too late, it’s too late, it’s too late) (Whatever I say it’s not alright Whatever I say we won’t be fine Whatever I say it’s not alright We won’t be fine but we’ll make it this time) I’m gonna get myself down I know it’s not your fault We can take a trip out of town Skin our knees on the worn down asphalt

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Our not-so-long awaited debut EP, as conceptualized in DC and recorded in multiple secret locations in Northern Virginia. It's a concept album. Just take my word for it.

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released October 18, 2019

All songs written by Eli Thayer

Eli Thayer - Guitar, vocals
Kat Liu - Guitar, noise
Joseph Wehmeyer - Drums
John Wehmeyer - Bass, mixing/mastering

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Marine Anthropology Washington, D.C.

Band split between DC, New York, and Scotland. We'd like to be experimental. It's hard.

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