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All the smoke is gone

by Dan Martinelli

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1.
Alchemy 03:44
I stopped by your party just to make a show of letting go and give a little comfort to the enemy and that old radio was playing that new song that everybody loves except for me so I slipped out to the balcony to practice a little alchemy and try to turn my heart back into gold. I guess I thought, eventually someone would come outside with me but I'm just blowing smoke and getting cold. I saw a child's drawing in chalk, half-erased on the sidewalk and wondered what it was supposed to be but I wouldn't want to look the artist in the eye or he might start to see the things that I can see I want a formula for saving souls I'll keep on mixing up chemicals and one of these days I'll get it right but in the meantime I don't need the light of heaven shining in my eyes I just need a little halo for the night just a little halo... So until those stars look right to me I'll keep practicing my alchemy and try to turn this heart back into gold. I still hope, eventually, someone will come outside with me but I'm just blowing smoke and getting cold. It's getting cold.
2.
I've been staying up too late trying to right some perceived wrong and now my head feels thick and heavy. It's getting hard to drag these words along. But I need sleep deprivation I need alpha-wave intrusion I need magical thinking because I lost all my old illusions Oh, love is a bad word because we don't all agree on what it means There were rumors of a fire, unsubstantiated claims. Now that all the smoke is gone, only the mirror remains. I keep finding this residue on all of my things no matter how many times I clean. It's masking all familiar scents. It's clogging the works of all my old machines and I still wonder who's at fault. I want to know whom I should blame. I don't know how to keep score but I want to win this game. Light a camera shrink this sunrise down to something you can control. Make a copy of a face, but you still can't keep the soul and I still trip over the strings that I attached to all these things that I once thought would make me whole. Oh, and it's still a mad world 'cause we just can't all agree on what it should be. Yeah, but history, it never changes. It just keeps getting harder to explain and after all the smoke is gone, only the mirror will remain.
3.
Oh, how we long to hear a voice in all the noise and we keep trying to turn the static into words staring out of tinted windows watching patterns in the passing crowd and waiting for a picture to emerge Maybe now the time has come to reform and refine these old, outdated designs. We keep on reaching for the sunset but it fades every time and I'm tired of acting surprised. Now we're a world of broken hearts and no one even tries to stop the bleeding where it starts and then our feelings turn against us and they all keep leading back to the same place until we can't tell them apart.
4.
Long Ride 04:01
We don't like when the stars aren't aligned right where we find them we choose one sun and we stare you were right when you said that I got careless and was blinded for a moment I thought we were almost there but I'd better tell you now, it's gonna be a long ride that star we're chasing is so far away but I'll keep pushing toward the speed of light until I see those colors start to change I won't try to get back anything you might have borrowed I close my eyes and let go When you find that this work won't pay off until tomorrow You'll wish you'd started long ago but I've got to tell you now, it's gonna be a long ride that star you're chasing is so far away but just keep pushing toward the speed of light until you see those colors start to change and aren't we just making this all up as we go? racing to finish a game whose rules we don't know and now I want to believe that somewhere there was a sign that love's not blind but I can tell, it's gonna be a long ride that star I'm chasing still looks so far away I guess I'll just keep pushing toward the speed of light until I see those colors start to change
5.
We keep running back to these lonely places where words exist just to fill up spaces oh well, just put them in a brown manila envelope "To whom it may concern" But where's my heart, if it ain't in this? Sometimes I wonder where it goes but I guess no one ever knows. Oh, when you still believed sometimes your honesty would scare me written in your own hand on custom stationery. So where's your heart, if it ain't in this no more? No one ever wants to let go. Sometimes it's the only way to know. So if you get this note, respond in kind. As long as it is real I will not mind.

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Debut EP released in November 2015.

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released November 21, 2015

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