Hawksley Workman – We’ll Make Time

After a relatively quiet 2009 (It would be nice if my relatively quiet years included an album I produced being shortlisted for the Polaris Prize), Hawksley Workman is poised once again for a big year; the Polaris-shortlisted album Workman produced was Hey Rosetta!’s masterpiece Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood).  Workman’s 11th full-length album “Meat” is scheduled for a January 19th release, which will be followed by Workman’s 12th full-length album “Milk”, which will be released digitally over a 5-month period.  We’ll Make Time was the first preview track released from Meat and is an absolute powerhouse of a song.  Highlight of the song?  ”And the grass is always greener, but you still have to cut it”.  For more from the new albums, a number of songs are streaming on Workman’s website here.

I never cried so much
You’ve been taking me apart
You gonna put me back together
gonna start me from the start

I’ve been wrecking my blood
been wrecking my brain
I’ve been killing my heart
I’ve been living in the face

But when we fight some times
when we’re clawing at each other
gotta think it’s all for something at the end of all the trouble
gonna build something to last

not to let it crumble fast
wanna be the one still standing when all the time has passed
and if i’m feeling unplugged, feeling swept under the rug
need to hold the lantern for me

need to pick me back up
wanna remember all the things that we said we wouldn’t do
don’t wanna start to pull away cause it’s easier to do
when you look at something ugly that you thought you hid away

when it’s coming back to haunt you on an unsuspecting day
we’re gonna be the harbor where we can just tie our little boats
a place to fight off all the lions that keep gnashing at our throats
Everybody that we trust says its harder than it looks

something good can cause some struggle when there’s a tree there to be shook
better believe the window blow, it’ll try to push you down
it’ll try to pull the roots and leave you crying on the ground

Chorus
We’ll make time, though there ain’t….
We’ll make love in the middle of the night
And, We’ll make time, though there ain’t….
And, We’ll make love in the middle of the night

I hope we’re older some day
and we’ve grown so much
i hope at least to feel the warmth in our kiss and in our touch
the world’s out to get when you’re after something true

It ain’t the fashion to be faithful
even though it’s right to do
and if you’re feeling sometimes
even the good ones fall away

You gotta keep the fire burning every night and every day
i know call me old fashioned
that forever’s really true
when we say that you’re for me

baby baby i’m for you
and that the grass is always greener, but you still have to cut it
and the skys that get together, are the skys you really got
and tonight when we are lovers, when we’re mucking up the covers

when it’s all about our eyes, when we’ve forgotten all the others
when we’re laying there in silence and the comfort in the quiet
and you hold me and we fall asleep in the colors of the night
and though we say it on the phone and in public or all alone

Related posts:

• Metric – Sick Muse
• Hey Rosetta! – I’ve Been Asleep for a Long, Long Time
• Joel Plaskett Emergency – Fashionable People
• Stars – Take Me to the Riot
• Plants and Animals – Bye Bye Bye

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