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Part One: (Pictures of) Shells

by Tobias Sarra

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John Garner Misty’s Big Adventure meets Damien Rice meets Instant Composers Pool. This record has me smiling through the tears. Favorite track: All Good Things.
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Speculation 05:41
Why's it been keeping you up all day, severed in speculation? I said that you shouldn't have run away, now I keep dreaming in amber. Powerful kitty's an awful fright, wish she'd go back in the juice box. I wish I didn't believe in ghosts, how do I know when you are one? Ah ooooh. Silicon villain is dressed in white, get him another burrito. I have to find time to collect my pens and order them to be patient. What do you call a forensic swipe that doesn't give me any ammo? Maybe in time I'll forget my name and have to go back in the ocean. Ah ooooh. I used to think I was a terrible mess until I saw you in the garden. Where was that apron you kept inside? You needed an excuse to be naked. I've got two tickets to Sunday's game, wouldn't you like to come with me? I have to get out of this hiding place before somebody finds me. Ah ooooh. Every morsel of my revenge tastes just like a tornado. You pin me up on an afternoon, I'm going to be somebody's grandma. I found my head while my hands were closed, you found an excuse to be naked. I wish we were all an expensive shade of burgundy or vermillion. Ah ooooh. Denim seems horribly insecure, wouldn't you rather a tulip? I'm throwing my pictures against the wall, hoping to open a portal. Standard selection of cold grey beans, anything warm is a blessing. I wish that I'd have remained a star, then every day I'd be glowing. Ah ooooh. Where did everybody go? I don't like to be made up. I thought I saw you on the corner of every street that I walked on. I went to school on a holiday and it didn't give me any answers. Maybe in time I'll forget my name and have to go back in the ocean. Ah ooooh.
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There is no place I would rather be, There is no ocean I wouldn't cross for thee, There is no river too wide or too deep, If I have your love to guide me.
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Hey how're you doing? Yes I'm fine thanks, I don't know why I'm feeling so tense. I get distracted by the romance, Pulling me in, making my prose dense. There isn't anything I won't say, I'll have to mime it, this is roleplay. Whenever silence lasts a whole day, I break the hologram and fly away. All I am is a great illusion, I don’t care, you can fake it or lose it, All I said is I’m already where I want to be. When I stumble please correct me, And when I crumble please erect me, I am yours but in my own way, I could go on about you all day. I won’t back down until I throw up, The vomit half fills up my own cup
 There’s papier maché in the hallway, Let’s pay to make each other some day. All I am is a great illusion, I don’t care, you can fake it or lose it, All I said is I’m already where I want to be. I know I’ll make it by my own means, I don’t know just what it all means, I get delighted by the small things, I’m delighted by the small things. Your magic tricks cannot control me, I can be anything I want to be, Now you see me I’m a zombie, Next time you see me, hell, I won’t be. All I am is a great illusion, I don’t care if you fake it or lose it, All I said is I’m already where I want to be.
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I can't hide it, What's going on inside? You know it hurts me honey, How many times have we tried? I long for a companion, I long for peace, I long for an ending, Something to bring me release, That's why all good things must have an ending, That's why all good things must have an ending, I know all things are good in the end. I can't always be there for you, You can't always be there for me. I can't always rely on my own two feet, You can't always rely on every stranger that you meet That's why all good things must have an ending, That's why all good things must have an ending, I know all things are good in the end. As long I wake up tomorrow I know, That I will be okay. There's something about you that I will remember Until the end of days A wise man said, 'you can't plant An apple tree in a vase'. So look me dead in the eyes and tell me, Can't live for you and you can't live for me. All good things must have an ending (All that we ever want is to feel better) All good things must have an ending (Nothing ever lasts forever) All good things must have an ending (All that we ever want is to feel better) All good things must have an ending (Nothing ever lasts forever) All good things must have an ending (All that we ever want is to feel better) All good things must have an ending (Nothing ever lasts forever) All good things must have an ending (All that we ever want is to feel better) All good things must have an ending (Nothing ever lasts forever)
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Hold Me 07:24
Take me into your arms hold me tightly, Teach me to be here delight me. I want to know that I’m Safe so that I can unfold. Let’s spend all of our days here together. Whether the forecast looks better, We’ll still escape it by Burrowing into the cold You’re not, you’re not the same person I thought I would become and now I’m caught Handing out postcards to strangers We got closer today, from a handshake, Miles away to an earthquake. Everything’s happening so quickly. Know things will all be okay even though they’re Not good today and we’re all scared, Life’s still unravelling It’s no use pretending that everything’s wonderful. Show me, what life can be and I’ll go see. A pin on a map, that’s what I’ll be, Sailing the oceans, Imagining life on the run. And I don’t care, who leads the way to who knows where. All I can say is I hope there, Everyone’s sharing the same dream. Though there may be some struggle now Don't you dare look behind or below, There’s no use rewinding we’re All moving forwards with every breath we take. So rise from your sleep and Strike while the kettle is steeping, Fight like you know you’ll defeat them Fly til you’re over the sky We can go for an hour or a weekend, Shout til our shoulders are weak and, Know that our soul is alive And I don’t care, who leads the way to who knows where. All I can say is I hope there, Everyone’s living their own dream. Though there may be some struggle now Don’t you dare look behind or below There’s no use rewinding we’re All moving forwards with every breath we take.
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credits

released December 1, 2023

Tobias Sarra - piano, synth, voice, duck whistle, miscellaneous extras,
mixing, mastering

All instruments and recording by Tobias Sarra, with the following additions:

#2) Speculation: Martin Lien - Drums // Jonas Eskeland - Clarinet // Ellery
Daines - Recording/Studio Engineer

#3) Somewhere, Nestled in The Darkness: Martin Lien - Drums // Jonas
Eskeland - Clarinet // Ellery Daines - Recording/Studio Engineer

#4) There Is No Place: Rob Griffiths - Mastering

#5) All I Am Intro: Jonas Eskeland - Saxophone // Ellery Daines - Recording/
Studio Engineer // Rob Griffiths - Mixing & Mastering

#6) All I Am (Is A Great Illusion): Martin Lien - Drums Jonas Eskeland -
Saxophone // Ellery Daines - Recording/Studio Engineer // Rob Griffiths -
Mixing & Mastering

#8) It Looks Cold From Up Here, #9) All Good Things, #10) Hold Me: Rob Griffiths - Mastering

#11) In The End There’s Always Silence: Chris Bartholomew - Recording/
Studio Engineer

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Mult-instrumentalist, creating surreal lo-fi-ish semi-improvisations and songs

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