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The Book of Us

by Amelie Prime

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1.
gemini 03:04
drive through the ghosts on the road to get to you faster you bring the big machines and i'll bring the ammunition side by side, you and i with our hands held so hard and our hearts beating with a sound so far air so heavy we can drink it up isn't everyone so pretty getting drained out of the city hey gemini, you and i you and i against the world, here we go hey gemini, you know you were the last one to know am i cashing in one vice for another pill bottle full of pearls, just leave the shame in the sheets every time we try, you and i i say your name and it starts the fight all over morning minds so heavy we can't pick it up didn't we do this before and won't we do it over? hey gemini, you and i you and i against the world, and so much more hey gemini, you know you are the only thing that i'm living for with our hands clasped like this, hair pulled like this back and forth we fight this and you've learned some new tricks hey gemini, you and i you and i against the world
2.
committed 03:48
i want you to forget my fucking name i'm out of here now far, far away this is not a home now, no this house is a graveyard no one has made it out alive whenever it gets too hard i wish i didn't always have to be right and you say i should be committed to getting out, to getting through, oh but what you really mean is i should be committed more committed to you, no why do we tangle everything we love with everything we need its never enough put on the patch and add more glue but nothing could sew me or stick me to you don't i know you from somewhere the bed the hall the bath the kitchen haven't i seen your face before isn't there a piece missing and you say i should be committed to getting out, to getting through, oh but what you really mean is i should be committed locked away that's what you would do and what you always mean is i should be committed more committed to you, no i want you to forget my fucking name i'm out of here now
3.
delirium 03:50
well i don't think we're old but i don't feel young every time i taste you you've got that burn on your tongue baby i've been in the black half my life fuck sanity, i'm soaking every night well i got a little secret i've kept hidden in the corners a tale of long nights and missed mornings over, and over so baby i've been sick, i've been sick this whole time you've been mine delirium i am tryin tremblins tell my hands to stop shaking delirium, delirium well they say we can fake it i think we can take it they tell us we're losers and don't think we'll make it but i know what you don't and you know what i don't and you won't if i won't well i know that i won't if you don't delirium, i am trying tremens tell my hands to stop shaking delirium, delirium and going home seems like such a long walk in a thick fog break me i need this delirium i am trying trembling tell my hands to stop shaking delirium, delirium
4.
strip it away, oh break this whole thing can't live a whole life on scraps any more what will i do when you waste away in front of me? what was this whole thing for? its an ugly mess we made and i think you know bottles and bottles, and battles and battles around in the circle we go so how do i... watching you dry outs like watching you drown when you won't put the weight on your feet when you're tied up in red yellow ribbons skin dried out sweating what does that leave here for me? so tell me, through all of this what did you save to show? bottles and bottles, and battles and battles dear that's all we know so how do i let that go?
5.
don't speak the book, the book of us i know i have to forget, but i am not ready yet haven't written the book of us into my skin i don't know how to begin together together, alone forever together together, and bound forever your picture is on every page of the book of us cluttered ephemera, blur blamed on the camera reflections in the mirror when you were never here together together, buried together together together, forever forever i will finish my role in the book of us i've given you my time then i'll bury where no one will find the book of us in the back of my mind emily, don't come back to me emily, don't come back to me don't come back to me if i let her melt into the ether is it the last time that i'll see her i've spent my whole life waiting writing the book of us with half my heart in your grave now i'm putting down the pen and ripping up the page emily, don't come back to me emily, don't come back to me, don't come back to me no emily, don't come back to me don't come back to me

about

a reflection, an apology, a letting go

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released May 13, 2016

Amelie Prime is:

Ashly Dalene: Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Lyrics
Colin Keating: Drums, bass

Recorded and Mixed by Stan & Derek at Buzz or Howl Studios in Portland, Oregon
Mastered by Adele Nicholas


thank you to all those involved in the old complex and the new prime

contact us at theamelieprime@gmail.com and facebook.com/amelieprime


upcoming shows:
August 6th @ The Shrimp Pawt, Portland OR with Superbrat/Sea Charms
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August 21st @ Eugene, OR (details to come)
August 25th @ Valentines, Portland OR with Val Bauer and The Spoils of War

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Amelie Prime Chicago, Illinois

Amelie Prime is a pop/punk/alternative solo project by Ashly Dalene (formerly of Heroine Complex and One Wing Low)

contact: theamelieprime@gmail.com

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