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.

Pacifica

by Peter Maybarduk

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

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

      $10 USD  or more

     

1.
Meet me in the middle darling, meet me in the cold And let your sadness go. Meet me in the middle darling, play another note We could come on home. No one takes a ride up the Eiffel Tower tonight. No one takes a ride; we will argue all night. No one takes our side At the fault between Your life and mine. So meet me in the middle darling, meet me in the cold Bring your sorrow. We will find a warm place, a pageant of our own With the river Seine below. No one takes a ride in the Eiffel tower tonight. No one takes your side; no one gives up being right. In our sleepless night Still I wait, still I wait I Wait for our life. So meet me in the middle darling, read the lines I wrote I meant every note. Meet me in the middle darling; before we get too old And we could come on home. I dream of a place Where we meet in peace. Still I wait For the person I believe You can be. Still I wait, still I wait.
2.
I’m in our lovely dream where we still relate The quiet comes between and follows day to day. And if there’s nowhere in this waking world to go … I want to meet you in some star field below No one leaves without some cruelty to show I want to meet you in some star field below Will you meet me in the hollow? Will you meet me in the hollow? We’re losing simple dreams, forced from without Like every satellite falls from your awful mouth. There’s nothing for us here, we really must go Now! I want to meet you in some star field below No one leaves without some cruelty to show I want to meet you in some star field below Will you meet me in the hollow? Will you meet me in the hollow? Everybody needs some time; everybody needs a neutral place. Everybody get some time; everybody wants to get away. Star fields colliding, star field below Star fields colliding, star field below. Lashes of our quiet life stalk us as we go Let’s race ahead into some extra-hollow Something’s twisted in you Love I know. So come visit other fields with me where we finally make it whole. Everybody needs some time; everybody needs a neutral place. Everybody get some time; everybody wants to get away. Star fields colliding, star field below Star fields colliding, star field below.
3.
Discontents 05:48
Under the red lights you speak a word for human rights And change cannot prevent our discontent. We flourish, we fail, we fall into the lights, the jails, the channels too. And all along the canal, the lantern lights singled out And though we don’t believe, be with me beautiful, be with me. I hear a voice from the depths ask, “Have you ever been in love?” Oh God, oh yes. And all the years as they pass I love people more and like them less. Van Gogh’s colored nights remind you of Soviet times. Will we ever find? A respite. We flourish, we fail, we fall into the rights, details, the killing room. We’re the discontents of almost all events And though there’s no reprieve, be with me beautiful, be with me. I hear a voice in my head ask “Have you ever been in love?” Oh God, oh yes. And all the years as they pass I love people more and like them less. Has it ever occurred to the men who live on words A suicide is everyone’s fault? We drive the different to the mind of no return And it’s mostly our loss when they fall. We drive the different, hey-ai! We drive the different; you and I. We drive the different, hey-ai! We drive the different; you and I. I love people more and like them less.
4.
Here is the house where we slept, try as I may to forget You are the place I long have come to rest How I live with the regret. One man’s obsession is another’s merely dreaming on the wall I’m the last of the believers falling through it all. With an ease of breath of night, talking to the end of life I need time. To wander losing touch A lovely view of nothing much Learn to live without illusion, or a different kind. Coming out for a refusal in the last days of your life. Turn your eyes up to the rains Something greater there remains Take my hand and twirl with grace If we learn to wait and … All the love that lies beneath Every layer of the sea Everything happens by dreams All the edges crumble… Won’t you come and speak your anger to me? Until love is all that’s left. Won’t you come until you fall right through me? Until love is all that’s left! Won’t you come and speak your anger to me? Until love is all that’s left. So briefly bold, now are we shrinking, darling? Until love is all that’s left! Until love is all that’s left. Until love is all that’s left.
5.
All of the lies that light our world Are yours for the taking In the land where nothing works. Like losing our home At low market worth. Until we accede To the ire of the thieves I may ask you to come over I may ask you not to leave. I may ask you to come over I may ask you not to leave. And the failed states we’re in Leave no means to mend The withered silhouettes Like whispers of dissent For these failed states we’re in. Well I’m older it seems Than yesterday. And it will not feel long ‘til I’m gray and for the grave. So I work to make a mark But I think it’s just a waste I may ask you to come over I may ask you if you’d stay. I may ask you to come over I may ask you if you’d stay. Into the laws of low Hollow events unfold Until the water slows ... And the failed states we’re in Leave no means to end. Our wills bend Like whispers of dissent For these failed states we’re in. Pleasing new shapes of our deceit Take from the commons Save the ire of the thieves. And all is still ‘til we fall to the sea All is still ‘til the quake beneath And all we can do is make meaning. I may ask you to come over I may ask you not to leave. I may ask you to come over I may ask you not to leave.
6.
No one ever danced like we did In the days, in the dark No one ever danced like we did in the days In the dark We fell apart, together In each other's arms, and did not wonder whether We went too far Make revolution again at 4am We fell apart, together. We danced as we wanted and where we wanted And to whatever songs we wanted to. We danced how we wanted and dressed as we wanted Or not dressed at all Those rumors are true. We fell apart, together In each other's arms, and did not wonder whether We went too far Make revolution again at 4am We fell apart, together. Eso, swing low, eso The higher notions Perpetual motions Like Emma Goldman knows. No one ever danced like we did And I can't dance like that on my own. One day when we're old & gray And our partners aren't around to complain We'll take each other in these arms And dance like no one ever did again. We fell apart, together We fell apart, together We fell apart.
7.
No one gets free. There's a hollows for each And after I leave I will dream Of our school by the thieves; something of us never leaves. Darling, do you love, do you need? Even the hollows in me. All of our faults lie in these walls; follow and never resolve Harder lives, lasting lies, and truth is the hardest of all. I have been so changed. Darling don't look away Someone to love might remain. We're as dark as the sea, but we'll know what's swimming beneath Darling, do you love, do you need? Even the hardest in me. We belong with a certain élan; secrets that never move on Harder lives, lasting lies, and truth is the hardest of... All of our faults lie in these walls. Follow and never resolve As we stare, there is always more we will bear Like the murder of Lionel St. Hillaire. There is always more we will bear. And it seems, we're as dark as the sea But we'll know what's swimming beneath Darling, do you love, do you need? Even the hardest in me. Darling, are we all of the same? Darling, more pleasure than pain? And it seems, in our school by the thieves Something of us never leaves. No one ever gets free, no one ever gets free But everything’s perfect for me.
8.
In time, if we find some calm Among the kids on their motorbikes in Viet Nam I’ll be searching still for that common life Here where men are all dirt in God’s eyes. A thinker, feeler could make things clearer Makes me feel nearer, like no one I know. All of whom I love, all of whom I love All of whom I love oh God my love. We are older; we’ll find calm in the noise Like these gardens I walk off the streets of Ha Noi. When your soul cries out from across the earth I sing lai di dai, lai di dai; nary a word. Father, mother, every lover Can only be small comfort. Turn inward now again All of whom I love, all of whom I love All of whom I love oh God my love. I’m looking for a silent soul Who comes with me where beauty goes. Looking for that silent soul Who comes with me where beauty goes. Why can’t I? All of whom I love, all of whom I love All of whom I love oh God my love.
9.
All of these days I've believed You'll find a way to be free again In my messages out to the sea We've spoken of everything. Tell me where, where is your heart? Where, where is your heart? Tout la meme chose, right from the start Where, where is your heart? Ashes of the ocean lashing softly at us Somewhere there's a queendom crashing over Ending our dream. Wish I could share what I've seen Wish I could somehow share everything Everyone's worse than they seem Escaping serenity. Tell me where, where is your heart? Where, where is your heart? Tout la meme chose, right from the start Where, where is your heart? We cannot know where we follow Blue into greens, blue into greens Find us a craft we can borrow To the end of the sea, end of the sea The end of the sea. Waking alone in the night And I may be alone ever through this life. Make preparations, make time It's customary it's fine. Tell me where, where is your heart? Where, where is your heart? Tout la meme chose, freedom from harm Where, where is your heart?
10.
I’ve been looking at your light And I’ve been seeing through your eyes I am surrounded by your love Holds me like a ransom for the life we barely missed Pours o’er the transom like heaven’s little kiss. And at the end of all our time I pour another glass of wine So we might celebrate his life That’s given of the richest love we’d ever hope to give That took away a life maybe were we meant to live? Oh our Bohn, oh our Bohn, oh our Bohn. I am so grateful for your love For the life we made through love I miss him every single day Called away by some accident of fate I’m certain it was gentle as his life just slipped away Something wells inside me now with every life we take. Just a little song for Bohn A song for little Bohn Our loved little Bohn.

credits

released November 10, 2019

Written and performed by Peter Maybarduk

Recorded, mixed and produced by J. Robbins and Eamonn Aiken

Arrangements by Peter Maybarduk, J. Robbins, Eamonn Aiken and the musicians represented on each song

Cellos by Gordon Withers and Kate Rears
Drums by Darren Zentek and Sriram Gopal
Wonderful singing by Emily Crockett, Shawna Potter, Melinda St. Louis, Lila Benavente, Kate Rears Burgman and J. Robbins
Lead guitars by Ben O'Donnell and John Balsley
Bass on "Meet Me in the Middle" by Scott Charney
Piano on "Meet Me in the Middle," keys on "Star Field Below" by Emily Crockett

Mastered by Dan Coutant
Art by Daumantas Kazdailis

license

tags

about

Peter Maybarduk Washington, D.C.

Peter Maybarduk is a Washington, D.C.-based songwriter and director of Public Citizen's global access to medicines program.

contact / help

Contact Peter Maybarduk

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Peter Maybarduk recommends:

If you like Peter Maybarduk, you may also like: