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Flowering of Youth

by All Hail West Texas

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we found that abandoned hotel off the highway wandered the halls uncovering forgotten trash gathered all dust and debris from the corners, and set fire to it in the lobby sat into the small hours telling ghost stories & you asked me do I know what I forgot I'm not & I told you in the firelight I'm everything I've got weeds pouring up through the cracked concrete like convicts stretching their arms out on work release flickering flames reflecting in your eyes, dancing like shadows in the graveyard images of your past lives & you asked me, do I think that ghosts would steal our breath & I told you it don't matter if we willingly give it to them
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Atom Bombs 03:10
burned out on late nights smoked down like cigarettes surviving on the ash and debris from the cities burning out in the west all of my past lives, they've hollowed out my chest and my regrets have made a home in the hollow of it i have visions brighter than atom bombs behind my eyelids when i dream and i want them to stop and i feel the weight of the world pressing down on my lungs but i will go on, uncomfortably numb it's an odd sharp feeling when we start learning when we stop running transfiguration starts burning i feel growth like a flower drenched in blood and this won't solve all of my problems but it will solve some i have visions brighter than atom bombs behind my eyelids when i dream and i want them to stop and i feel the weight of the world pressing down on my lungs but i will go on, uncomfortably numb we're not sure what should be done howling in the small hours for the prey that we hunt we're not quite sure if we're free or we're not but we will go on until our hearts start to rot i have visions brighter than atom bombs behind my eyelids when i dream and i want them to stop and i feel the weight of the world pressing down on my lungs but i will go on, uncomfortably numb
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i spend more time than is acceptable or healthy trying to connect the dots between the strings that i press with my fingers and the ideas that have successfully tied themselves inside my troubled head like it shouldn't matter if you wear black and bandanas or if you go to work everyday in a suit and tie as long as you are screaming at the top of your lungs as long as you know we all eventually wither and die lets pretend that we've got better things to do than just lay down and ignore the urge to resist please don't go so quietly into that night because the loudest protest we'll ever sing is our own right to exist and are we taking back our freedoms or are we standing around just holding our dicks pissing off our soapboxes about who's the better activist it's distracting and we don't have time for it i don't wanna hear another motherfucker in this scene say that we don't need police if the first words out yr mouth when one of our friends is assaulted is 'why didn't you call the authorities' & i will absolutely snap if one more motherfucker says how we proudly don't need police if the first words out yr mouth when one of our friends is assaulted is 'well why didn't you just call the authorities' and are we taking back our freedom or are we being led by the hand like screaming kids down the path to mediocrity please dont go so quietly into that because the loudest sound in your head will be what will happen if you quit and are we taking back our freedoms or are we standing around just holding our dicks pissing off our soapboxes about who's the better activist it's distracting and we don't have time for it
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do you remember the day all the stars fell down all the animals under the sun ran from the burning in the south and you fell to yr knees and you clawed yr own eyes out at the top of yr lungs you screamed 'hallelujah hail satan praise the lord, our time is now' holy water water won't save yr soul now we are falling, falling down it's as quiet as a whisper, it's as loud as a shout no one goes down that way anymore, the track has been burned out it is full dark up ahead, you will lose yr way there's no doubt oh twisting into the darkness you'll be sure to not come out and oh my god we have seen the end today there is no escaping this way and oh my god we are doomed today there is no escaping this way and oh my god
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Time Capsule 02:50
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indifference isn't bred but i feel it in my bones three decades feels like ninety and this body is an unfamiliar home i laid down my family name, gave its corpse and unmarked grave and i lay under the new one like a snake in the summer sun cause my father's blood is the noose i cannot shake it is toxic like his love and i never had a little brother to pay his debts but i've been one open fields and skies going on for days i will open my mouth wide, and swallow my mistakes and there's no train you can catch to run from this pain some things will find a home within yr bones and that's where they'll stay and my mother's blood is the river i will drown in with cement shoes on and i only know the little brother always runs first cause i was one and i only know the little brother always runs first cause i was one
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god bless all petty thieves god bless all the saints i won't meet god bless all the people lying down in the street like road flares or fluorescent yellow paint for us to see god bless all the sinners who mean everything to me god bless all of the monsters who drink from the night shun the light of day in favor for sleep

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Loss is a funny thing.
The stories we are told and those we tell others stitch together the holes left in our lives by any number of sharp edged situation.
These songs are more or less about things everyone knows, through a hyper personal lens, because ive probably spent more than too much time writing stories about lives that have nothing to do with me.

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released April 5, 2019

All songs recorded at the kaleidoscope by Ben Roth and Kory Gable
All songs written and performed by Tyr Rhodes*

*"after the war" was composed by Ben over a year ago and is seeing the light of day because it's too good not to be heard

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Feral queer kid singin folk tunes

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