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All is Fair

2012-01-24T23:41:00.001+02:00

All is fair

In love & war

I was waiting for the night to disappear

All is gone

Rabbits outrun us

Still waiting for the night to disappear

I got tired of the midnight choir

Keeping me up underneath your shirt

Singing sad songs at the end of the world

Come down to me let’s unravel this hurt

At modest times

I pick you up perfectly

Everything sweet and complete

In my time

I fall at your feet

Like some desperate last sip of wine

When I sing do you listen?

Do your teeth sharpen & glisten?

Do you the count the days away like there were none?

All is fair

In love & war

So they say when they don't have their way

I'm so bored of this still life sketch

My heart is a bomb, my appetite's whet

Counting the breaths from your last set of steps

Come down to me
Let’s unravel this ache
Tonight

Bare Minimum

2012-01-06T01:47:00.002+02:00

You live a little

Then you get high

The bare minimum gets you by

You drink a little

Then you get dry

The bare minimum gets you by

Had some drinks

A smoke

Let myself go

Tried to hit the bottom

The bottom was too low

You give a little

Then you get broke

The bare minimum lets you choke

On the death of another daydream

You shake the night but you can’t shake the scream

You make plans

For the quiet life

You make plans

For a better life

You drink a little
Then you get high

We wave flags of distress

Blame the winter

Blame our mothers

Find another same road

Take another same road

We wave our hands in the air

Blame our fathers
Blame the others

We don't care

Bare Minimum

11

2011-12-31T02:04:00.000+02:00

He waited for her his whole damn life

Thought safety in numbers was three is a crowd

No woman’s a witch

But smoke is a motherfucker

And fire’s no joke when it’s crawling up your throat

They got married in a fever

In a port during a storm

A seven month winter

Lifetime of old jokes

Never free to go wild

Never young enough or old

They kept to bed with their debts

And the shovels and the coal

Wrapped up in Winter

With no place to go

No language to speak

No new seeds to sow

Walking through the motions

At the end of the world

The radio hums

An impossible whir

The body is broken

The heart is a stone

The spirit is frozen

It wants to go home

Caught up in Winter’s grey ribbon parade

They waited for sorrow to curl up and fade

Found something in nothing

Too much to ask

Ambition fighting an impossible task

And fighting is everything when nothing else is

The point they were making

Was the point that they missed

The winter will strangle the flesh from the bone

The spirit is frozen

It wants to go home

Nothing About The Weather

2011-12-17T00:09:00.002+02:00

We say words we can’t take back

We know nothing about forever

In my mind’s a perfect storm

We know nothing about the weather

It wasn’t right to see you go

I was fighting against whatever

In my mind’s a fucking flood

I can’t stop this new disaster

You let go of my old skin

I go crawling through another

Time stands still while I just fade

Into someone else’s picture

We say words we can’t attach

Now they’re meant for something other

I go fighting with my thoughts

Till we’ve broken all the mirrors

Nothing About The Weather

Head In The Sand

2011-11-06T20:54:00.004+02:00

If up to you

you'd have your head in the sand

Your body on the fault lines

If up to you
You'd have no reason to doubt
Your head in the clouds

Why don't you just live and let me dream about it

I got old
Waiting around
I got old
Waiting around
I got older
Tonight
I'm going to set it alight
I'm going to make it right

You better shut your eyes

Still seeing things I guess

I saw you slipping to the other side

... then we spilled into the streets

like a riot

You better shut your mouth,

You're digging holes again

I heard you calling from the other side...

Why i never got hold

of those old ideas

I'll never know...

A thousand points of light

What makes you think you’re the one

I saw swimming to the other side?

This is no chemical dream...

Isolate Their Heads

2011-09-19T15:35:00.000+03:00

When I sit with it

I stay with it

When I stay with it

I want to abandon it

If I abandon it

I won’t have it

If I don’t have it

I won’t miss it

I will learn to live without it

I will sit with nothing

Until nothing becomes something

Am & Am Not

2011-09-14T14:43:00.002+03:00

Under a spell

Of some time

And heart ache

Blues wrapped around my throat

Words lost

Eyes lost

A fire to take a month away

I am

And am not the man

I said and thought

I was

Two Wrecks (Don't Make a Right)

2011-07-16T00:54:00.000+03:00

I want to run from your modern age.

All your friends are gone,

& my habits are too.

Don’t you tell me who or what to believe in!

I know it all,

but all I want is some truth…

There’s no point of view I missed:
I saw the spoils,

I saw the mess,
I was born to live in bliss.

If there’s a point to all of this,
please tell me what the hell it is!
I was born into ignorance.

Keep your hands off my golden age!
All your words are lazy,

& your body is too.
Never met a man more blind

(to history)
I’ve known it all along…
so just give me some truth!

I live in color,
& dream of you in black and white.
I lost an hour to watch you waste your whole life.
I am an artist,
you don't have a fucking clue!
It doesn't take a prophet
to see there's no future in you.

Two Wrecks (Don't Make A Right)

You Shattered Mirrors In Italy

2011-07-15T00:53:00.005+03:00

I dreamt of your scent

as the ocean gave way

A thousand moons ago

When the borders crossed the shore

I dreamt of your body

Breathing soft against the night

A thousand moons ago

When my eyes were made of light

I dreamt of your voice

I heard it everywhere I went

A thousand moons ago

When our latitudes met

I dreamt of a secret

Kept far behind the tongue

A thousand moons ago

When our love had just begun

I dreamt of your pulse

And the blood that fills your veins

A thosand moons ago

When the honeymoon unwed

I dreamt you were a lover

And I fought to keep you near

A thousand moons ago

Before I let you disappear

You shattered mirrors in Italy

And I wasn't there

A thousand moons ago

A thousand moons yet to repair

And in my heart

A beating starts

06/13/2007

Sore In Love

2011-07-12T18:25:00.000+03:00

I watch myself

Unravel

Slowly, like some doomsday clock

Helpless and hopeless

Betraying my love

For a few tiny words

So low,

I crawl at the feet of a Queen

Who is neither a Queen

Nor fit to be one

I am small and insignificant

Looking for love

Always and ever

Until all the cracks

Have formed

And the new Ice Age is upon us

Songs From The Top

2011-07-09T21:35:00.004+03:00

Songs from the top
Don't tell me to stop
Pushing & pulling
The hours from a clock...
It goes tick,
It goes tock...
Ten years of "good luck"
Waiting for the other shoe to go drop!

Songs from the top
Stop running in place...
Change back my body,
Rearrange my face!

I'm not in love with my life
Enough!
To make it go...
(Stop)

Were you looking for me?
I went looking for you!

Songs From The Top

Untitled (again)

2011-07-01T01:45:00.010+03:00

I watch you bruise fruit...

Your hair,

Long,

Falls into place. I

Quietly plant seeds,

A desire

For the whole damn nation

To go down at the knees…

Yet you are untouchable.

Like A Virgin

2011-06-12T16:08:00.001+03:00

Windshield Demo

2011-05-06T14:31:00.002+03:00

...

These songs were written and recorded on 4-Track in 1996.

The Fires They Are A-Blazin'

2011-04-21T15:34:00.005+03:00

This is a poem

Long overdue

Like those library books you stole

Those warped blues records you buried

Just to prove that cancer is a killer

I am a death threat

Baby

You live like a storm

Fading to frames of a disaster film

Buried so deep into the wet sand

I miss you more every day

Even if my hands are tied to debts

Electrical fires of accidental love

The winds of changing guard

Bitter Half (Raritan Version)

2011-03-04T13:22:00.009+02:00

If love is the blues

My better half

Come home to me

As the moon to the tide

I’ll open wild

If you come home to me

You left when you held a breath

Cheated the blues to death

Now I wait on wasted breaths

I don’t know why

My life is at sea

Carried far from me

By the moon’s bitter tide

I know that you wanted more

But this is hell, nothing more

I know that you couldn't stay

The blues just carried you away

Bitter Half (Raritan Version)

Songs in the Key of Hubbard

2011-02-20T10:44:00.005+02:00

Yup, that sure is L. Ron Hubbard,
and he sure did make that record.

Dirty Dishes

2011-02-20T10:02:00.001+02:00

Country Electric

2011-02-10T14:39:00.007+02:00

Performed & Recorded by David Berkovits and Ben Feuer

July 16th & August 15th, 2010.

Cure For The Curse

Death is Home

Uncertain Weather

End Miles

No Winter To Fall

2011-02-07T13:46:00.012+02:00

Additional vocals by Valentina Berkovits

Cut Throats

Little Joy

Destroyer Goes Kaputt For Kara Walker

2011-01-24T14:22:00.005+02:00

Here is an interview I did with Dan Bejar of

Destroyer/Swan Lake/New Pornographer

for Modern Painters.

check it out.

Full hour-long phone interview to follow...

Little Joy (acoustic version)

2011-01-23T21:08:00.002+02:00

there's no little joy
at the end of it all

just your last call

there's no little joy
no winter to fall
just a slow crawl

so take my hand

never let me go

never let me go

...

someday
we'll be buried
in the back pages
of some torn, bent apocalypse

one day
we'll be carried on our way
to the end of our long, lost apocalypse

someday
we'll be buried
in the back pages of 100 years ago

Little Joy (acoustic)

Vocals by Valentina Berkovits

Modern Man

2010-12-24T01:09:00.040+02:00

Found my calling calling me a bad streak.

Destroyer sang, nostalgia left, I wept for days.

It’s been far too long in New York City,

The times are hard and people change. 

I was never there to mend a flower,

I never gave a damn to your little cause.

Because that song was sung for better reasons,

I didn’t know I was half the man I was. 

I was being real modern (you didn't know??)

I was being real modern (100 years too slow)

I was being a role model (for no working class)

Memories don't last when you're making them alone.

She paid back none of her debts on time.

I was pulled into her dark sway.

Though the winters are all the same...

I still miss them anyway. 

"I wasn't breaking your heart,

I was breaking down."

Found no peace of mine in New York City,

It was 1984 all over again!

I was touched by a woman that struck white lightning:

I’ll never be shocked like that poor me again!

Cut Throats

2010-10-22T02:07:00.027+02:00

Will I always find sorrow at the foot of my bed?

Will I be cursed with nothing, for not knowing what I had?

Well, I wrestled with winter. That cold bitch won,

So I laid down my weapon and headed for the sun.

I was born to disappoint you...

You were born to be free.

I'll never give up.

Tried to make you my own.

If you ask me to, baby

In the winter of the night...

I still won't give up.

I danced like a fever,

While you slow dance with bad luck

You shook like a cold.

Across the nape of the night

Now I wait for no seasons.

I lie still with my demons,

I don't put up a fight.

Some people dying to find Jesus.

Some people drowning in the mud.

I searched for her love everywhere,

Found nothing but bad blood.

I'm done waiting for a reason

To let rain flood my bed.

I'm not sleeping much these days,

Anyway,

They say I'm in over my head.

I wrestled with winter, but that cold bitch won.

So I packed up my body and went on the run.

It's been thirty-one years coming, and even more time gone.

I sing this old, crooked tune

Because I can't find the one.

CUT THROATS

Additional Vocals by Valentina Berkovits

Country Electric 45 rpm Volume 2

2010-08-22T10:17:00.004+03:00

"Cure For The Curse"

b/w

"Death is Home"

Written & Performed by

David Berkovits & Benjamin Feuer

Recorded on August 15th, 2010 at Zeitlin Studios