We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

There's a river up high

by Bats

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Limited Edition Cassette (Original)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Bats' first album, "There's a river up high", courtesy of Citrus City Records! run of 80 yellow tapes designed by Alex Futtersak :)

    Includes unlimited streaming of There's a river up high via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
Everyone born in my town has black hair like coal when the windows break in the hurricane we board up the doors ain't no ghost gettin' in ain't no devil interfering everyone born in my town was born with that loyal bone All the cocks crow in tandem, all the train whistles blow when your back breaks trying to get some you still get up and go ain't no roads gonna clear ain't no devil interfering everyone born in my town was born with that loyal bone Come on home, come on home you don't gotta run around come on home, come on home you don't gotta run around (Here's a few things you could think about instead of thinking about your ailment. You could think about kangaroos, you could think about all different kinds and sizes and shapes of (???), you could think about really shiny and gaudy doorknobs. Um, you could think about how cars passing by sometimes sound like famous musicians. You could visualize rain hitting the ground and just listen to that in your head. You could think about Holiday World. Yeah. There's a little list, just some random stuff off the top of my head. It probably won't help very much if at all, but, uh, it's the best I could do.)
2.
Long Sleeves 04:13
Golden sun shines on the neighbors' house cover up the bruises with my blouse one looks like a tattoo of your name how I wish my skin could not be changed By someone like you, the trees gave birth to new leaves pale green grew 'round my arms like long sleeves blue river salt ground into my bedsheets cold as a rock wrapped me up like long sleeves Golden halo on my hangover I wish I could scare you like a bird sitting on the boathouse dock at dawn I would love you more if you moved on Forget me do, the trees gave birth to new leaves pale green grew 'round my arms like long sleeves blue river salt ground into my bedsheets cold as a rock wrapped me up like long sleeves
3.
cats & dogs 03:47
I feel like life's a losing game you try to win from the minute that you wake and if you lose, you lose a night's sleep if you lose, you wind up on 181st street it's not that I don't like your love, it's not that I don't want your drugs, but I was trying to do the right thing some days I do not feel this way some days I like it when you text me on the train tell me what you wanna do to me tell me what I left at your place it's not that I don't like your love, it's not that I don't want your drugs, I know I'll end up with you either way and I know she's comin' back when she comes back I won't have no heart attack! I will give up on your lovin' because I saw in comin' sometimes I get up to no good I'm just a kid and I act the way I should but you don't have a way to explain get in your car and you drive away it's not that I don't like your love, it's not that I don't want your drugs but this will catch up to you someday and I know she's comin' back when she comes back I won't have no heart attack! I will leave out on your lovin' because I saw in comin'
4.
Rode my horse to the record store watched the sparrows land on the front porch tied her up to a gatepost tell me, will you have me yes or no?? yes or no, yes or no when'd you get so cold how'd you lose your tender heart oh, come July I'll be leavin' again and I don't wanna go back to the start
5.
(I got the best deal in the world for you right now. you just gotta trust me baby. Just fucking-- You're stifling my ambition. Benny, baby, listen. You wanna know where the big money is you gotta ask me. I know you got a talent. But I got a talent too and my talent is knowin' where the big money is.) You could absolutely have me if you wanted to I would let myself get all wrapped up in you 'till the sun can't see my face anymore 'cause it's buried in a blanket of your skin like the snow A part of you is cold, baby and I've been trying to change I've been trying to face the fire I didn't want you to know, honey that I'm cursed with this desire Grapefruits and oranges and ripe strawberries will you pick me up when you've got less to carry
6.
crazy joe 03:41
crazy joe always calls me on the phone wants to use my guitar to put music to his poems your landlord is supposed to leave you alone but I can't complain, I don't mind my rooms converge to reveal the shape of my body and the color of my flesh like paint bein' poured on my invisible head the magnets on the fridge and the big brass bed I fall in love with bein' possible to apprehend I would call me a simple man stretch my skin to cover up the pots and pans crazy joe comes knockin', I say I've got plans and I sit in my chair and I hide my rooms converge to reveal the shape of my body and the color of my flesh like paint bein' poured on my invisible head the magnets on the fridge and the big brass bed I fall in love with bein' possible to apprehend when I bring you home to see my furniture you say I've got good bones 'cause you see my worth there's paint stains all on the light fixtures but just look at my beautiful life my rooms converge to reveal the shape of my body and the color of my flesh like paint bein' poured on my invisible head the magnets on the fridge and the big brass bed I fall in love with bein' possible to apprehend
7.
Heaven is where no one can get to me living in a ball of fluff people can try to be doctors but nothing is enough Oh, infinite peace I've seen trouble but I always loved God my fingerless man he never wants to touch me at all I was on fire I was a stone nobody could get close Heaven is where no one can get to me living in a ball of fluff people can try to be doctors but nothing is enough (but by then I'm out of time and you don't even see)
8.
9.
if the devil came to me now he would see that I did all his work I've been reckonin' you down planted your feet deep in the dirt on my lawn please tell me what's going on or I'll have to draw my own conclusion if I had any more you would've gotten it all but I ran out just in time for you to fall if I had any more you know that it would be yours If your skeleton could talk I bet he'd say it's all my fault I've been weatherin' you down drink after drink into the ground in my yard I can't say how but it's hard I'll have to claim blind confusion If I had any more you would've gotten it all but I ran out just in time for you to fall if I had any more you know that it would be yours

about

Bats is a band from Nashville, TN.
This album is dedicated to Isaac Q. Horton.

credits

released March 5, 2020

All songs written and recorded by Jess Awh
Produced by 1999 and Jess Awh
Mastered by Lindsey Williams
Additional performances by:
Kelton Young, Margaret Jane Joffrion, and Warner Brownfield- vocals (1)
1999- programmed instruments, mandolin, vocals, piano (1, 5, 6, 7)
Clem Smith- violin (3)
Chance Riley Kester- vocals (4)
Gavin Cranmer- drums (7)
Olivia Perce- violin (7)
Owen Bernsee- vocals (9)

Thank you to Citrus City Records!

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Bats Nashville, Tennessee

Bats is a band from Nashville, TN. Songs are by Jess Awh, a writer and carpenter who loves oatmeal and other such gruels
pumpkinmaster999@gmail.com

shows

contact / help

Contact Bats

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

Bats recommends:

If you like Bats, you may also like: