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1.
I hate to waste a weekend caught between waking and sleep I wanted solitude now I'm in too deep And when my finer urges conspire to finally rouse me I'll float across the floor and glide down your street Well I don't know why I've been waiting here like an unmade bed Safe and sound beneath the covers we will fall apart again So I've been popping aspirin to take the edge from my ennui help sort these tangled clothes tie shoes to my feet If I escape this bedroom who knows what wonders I'll see? Perhaps I'll finally find you waiting for me Well I don't know why I've been waiting here like an unmade bed Safe and sound beneath the covers we will fall apart again
2.
I heard the news somebody new coming to the neighborhood But I was not enthused 'cuz I never thought that she'd ever be this cute And now I'm full of regret 'cuz I haven't asked her out yet Some boy beat me to the punch He took the best girl in the world to lunch Imagine me sitting at home now suddenly lonely I can't believe that I missed this chance at my one and only Now jealousy grows every day 'cuz she's got the sorts of things I crave A warm smile and soft curves A mean streak and eyes to die for I've got to get that girl out of my head There was a time I would have said that love was just another chamber of My heart has taken over Watching her over my shoulder Now I'm hopelessly devoted and alone Alone again Oh no Ain't that the way my awkward luck has always traveled Makes all my dreams real enough to come unraveled I've got the worst of both worlds now The girl I love loves someone else It's hard when you need to be wanted not to spend your whole life haunted I've got to get that girl out of my head There was a time I would have said that love was just another chamber of My heart has taken over Watching her over my shoulder Now I'm hopelessly devoted and alone Alone again Oh no
3.
Pick up the phone when the ringer moans You rattle 'round your empty home 'til angels take an interest and drop by It's in your bones to be on your own and from the edge of this time zone I feel tectonic shifting when you sigh The perfect guests They show up unimpressed but gratified to find you such a mess While stepping lightly through your life's debris Those old cassettes that vintage party dress and all the totems of your happiness aren't quite as charming as they used to be So start making lemonade and build up your barricades I'm the one who always prayed you'd grow up so strange Pack up your car and go Kick on the radio Let the out-of-towners know their ghost has gone solo Uh-huh Don't spill your tea just to read the leaves Don't split the fruit just to count the seeds Don't pry apart your future 'til it breaks For when you breathe your secrets tumble free and snake the circuits 'til they come to me as gaudy as a slice of wedding cake So start making lemonade and build up your barricades I'm the one who always prayed you'd grow up so strange Pack up your car and go Kick on the radio Let the out-of-towners know their ghost has gone solo Uh-huh So start making lemonade and build up your barricades I'm the one who always prayed you'd grow up so strange Pack up your car and go Kick on the radio Let the out-of-towners know their ghost has gone solo Uh-huh
4.
As You Leave 05:26
Little Hunger came to stay boxed and ready on a distant April day Little Hunger knew the way and like an arrow to the heart he found his place Little Howler grew a voice strong enough to make the dead rise and rejoice Little Howler had no choice Those peaceful 3 a.m.'s were made to be destroyed But oh as the clock goes so must we go helplessly As you leave I'll burn all my precious toys I will fill my head with noise and abandon anything that feels like joy There's a hole in me the shape of your body where it lay and that emptiness won't ever be erased Little Majesty reposed and the top of the armoire became his throne Gazing down on all he owned We shared a kingdom We would never be alone But oh as the clock goes so must we go helplessly Our time is short together and when you're gone forever I promise to remember how you made the winters better And I can't face the cold without you Little Wisdom went to sleep He climbed the boxes to the bed though it was steep Of all the memories he keeps I hope there's room for me in his eternal dream And oh as the clock goes so must we go helplessly As you leave I'll burn all my precious toys I will fill my head with noise and abandon anything that feels like joy There's a hole in me the shape of your body where it lay and that emptiness remains As you leave I'll burn all my precious toys I will fill my head with noise and abandon anything that feels like joy There's a hole in me the shape of your body where it lay and that emptiness won't ever be erased
5.
Here We Go 03:39
You make me stumble through the seasons so fast I can never catch my breath I have a thousand different reasons why I cannot rest I balanced all my lonely weekends with weekdays busier than I can stand That's how tranquility and sweetness slipped right through my hands The world is sorrow and nothing more The world is sorrow and here we go No more tomorrows Not any more No more tomorrows So here we go You always interrupt my dreaming cloud-borne castles I can only rent I wave goodbye as they're receding during my descent Synapses firing like bee stings the old impulses leave me short of breath I wish I could remember only these things and forget the rest The world is sorrow and nothing more The world is sorrow and here we go No more tomorrows Not any more No more tomorrows So here we go If I could only get to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep in a little jar beside his bed every nightlight in the world spinning overhead The world is sorrow and nothing more The world is sorrow and here we go No more tomorrows Not any more No more tomorrows So here we go The world is sorrow and nothing more The world is sorrow and here we go No more tomorrows Not any more No more tomorrows So here we go And here we go and here we go and here we go and here we go
6.
How can I explain? The way she looked just went right through me Here I go again 'cuz desperate men act desperately And I don't want to be a lonely man until I die And I don't want to leave another piece of me behind Hold all my phone calls Cancel my appointments 'til I know every aspect of you Gather up the pieces stars and stones and flowers Name them all only aspects of you I cannot complain It's obvious I've had my chances to get beyond the stage of heavy sighs and fleeting glances Communication is a sleeping limb that's lost all feeling Try to wake it up and all you get are pins and needles Hold all my phone calls Cancel my appointments 'til I know every aspect of you Gather up the pieces stars and stones and flowers Name them all only aspects of you And when the satellites agree to rain their boundless wealth on me from orbits high above The sum of human knowledge like a flood And in that awesome weather I'll finally know you better So take these dreams apart the suburb and the office park Hold all my phone calls Cancel my appointments 'til I know every aspect of you Gather up the pieces stars and stones and flowers Name them all only aspects of you Hold all my phone calls Cancel my appointments 'til I know every aspect of you Gather up the pieces stars and stones and flowers Name them all only aspects of you
7.
Latitude 03:58
Her cigarette sketched the evening air I'm just a stitch in this easy chair and I won't give in to dreams A door held open expectantly She mouthed a thank you before proceeding That's common courtesy In our bed In our heads There are mountains left unsaid It's my spare time and her spare room Now we have so much latitude She pulled a box from the topmost shelf Blew off the dust, said "amuse yourself with this catalog of dreams" The photographs will remain obscure I'd rather guess than to know for sure what it is she really means In our bed In our heads There are mountains left unsaid It's my spare time and her spare room that pins us to this latitude I spread the map across her lap Once we begin there's no turning back Commuter secrets revealed at last at the Park and Ride beside the tracks I felt a breeze as she touched my hand The bedroom had become a foreign land Just as distant as our dreams In our bed In our heads There are mountains left unsaid I can't predict what we're gonna do I was coming home, but I spoke too soon It's my spare time spent in her spare room that gives us all this latitude
8.
Sleepless 04:22
Your work seems endless and you look so very tired So draw those floor-length curtains shut lie back, and close your eyes The kitchen clock was not wrong It was just saying something new The compasses are spinning strange directions just for you All signs are pointing bedward and you cannot go wrong if you hit the pillow and you don't come back 'til dawn Don't let friends persuade you that there is more to do Just sigh a lone, contented sigh and take a little snooze The dreams you've been storing up for years are not gone and you've been sleeples far too long You can excavate the chambers where forgotten royals slept Descend the escalator and prepare for a long trip You can idle on the platform 'til they carry you away The ghosts of all your waking hours will be left behind today The dreams you've been storing up for years are not gone and you've been sleepless far too long
9.
I jet around in the current fashion Speed my car through a glass and stanchion world Ever seeking someone Now isolation sent me on a mission into the stillness of your subdivision streets Hoping we might meet I hear the sound of something breaking through the water's surface Retraced my footsteps but I never did complete the circuit They dug a crater and they filled it with my sense of purpose It's more than I can take I'm losing time and walking Warren Lake. I learned the steps when it was hardly worthwhile I swung my hips until the waiting turnstile clicked Towards a greater shore And now the houses have all crowded closer The lanes have narrowed and I miss you most of all and the things we saw I hear the sound of something breaking through the water's surface Retraced my footsteps but I never did complete the circuit They dug a crater and they filled it with my sense of purpose It's more than I can take I'm losing time and walking Warren Lake. I hear the sound of something breaking through the water's surface Retraced my footsteps but I never did complete the circuit They dug a crater and they filled it with my sense of purpose It's more than I can take I'm losing time and walking Warren Lake.
10.
Engines 04:55
And so here we are nostalgic for a life led years ago Avoiding contact with the very things that we both love the most I'm tired of all the angry little shapes you're making with your mouth I'd like to maybe get a car point it someshere and get out Perhaps I'll make a list a catalog of opportunities that we have missed along the way to this shady dead-end street The walls feel closer than your skin and they are nearly just as thin We've been replaced too easily by the sound of shrill machines The sweetest hum becomes a roar I'll be with you one summer more And though we've tried to find our way we're only lost and lonely I know nothing's right and nothing stays the same We work the engines every night and pray for silence all day Tomorrow is holding you a place if you can catch the right bus Remove that sadness from your face we're leaving sadness behind us With just a rented moving van and some reluctant sleight-of-hand I'll disappear The sweetest hum becomes a roar I'll be with you one summer more And though we've tried to find our way we're only lost and lonely I know nothing's right and nothing stays the same We work the engines every night and pray for silence all day

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Stumble was assembled between 2012—2014 in a carefully controlled bedroom studio environment.

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released November 4, 2014

Stumble was written and performed by Kenneth Radliff and was produced, mixed, and mastered in Somerville, Massachusetts. The vocals were recorded at Palace of Purpose in Malden, Massachusetts, engineered by Peter Moore (petermooreworld.com). Peter also contributed backing vocals to tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9.

Thanks to Peter Moore for his advice and production help.
Thanks to Judith Navoy for her advice and inspiration.

The Daylight Complex can be found at dplex.com.

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The Daylight Complex is an electronic pop project influenced by 80s new wave.

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