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Wilted Eden

by Jail Weddings

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Wilted Eden 02:57
WILTED EDEN A sign hung on the gate "The zoo is closed today" They came to see the animals Then they became the animals Touche Now nobody knows What side they stand at every cage Cause at your initial glance It appears a large expanse At the expense of the horizons growing grey But no storm could ever give life to This wilted Eden We were warned when it became impossible to move Why do you all want to be part of This wilted Eden? It will never bloom I tried to get down to my roots But I was pulling my leg I ended up on all fours Yes, I ended up on the floor To beg I looked up for acceptance But asked a question instead "Why do the idiots dance On the other side of the fence Who pays their rent and why am I fading away?!?" And the swarm descends to pollinate This wilted Eden But too late to even find blood in any veins Someone struck a match to burn all of This wilted Eden But then the floods came...
2.
The inconsistencies of karma The hippies got it all wrong You do kind things because it feels good Not to get something in return That’s why I dragged you down that dirt road Where many would call a wrong turn “So far out no one could hear you scream…” And that’s funny Because the first thing I did was finally scream Do anything you want to me Now I see the bravery In dropping every fit While our pendulum swings Do anything you want to me I orchestrated every drama So I would emerge the true victor With the deception of the Sisyphean stud But now I see a bigger picture The transparency of the martyr Yet my head remains at your feet So you must try to listen harder As I repeat what Crazy Jackee said It was so sweet Do anything you want to me I’m not here to beg or plead I know love is amoral And it never sleeps Do anything you want to me Submission and surrender They’re two very different things The latter means “forever” The former cuts off your wings Be my forever angel baby Every part intact Relax Convince yourself I’m not some demon from your past Well, golly gee… Do anything you want to me If you’re anything like me I would allow yourself a second puberty Do anything you want to me
3.
(I CAN’T WAIT TO GET TO) NOWHERE Allegiance and ignorance They are such strange bedfellows “But this place would fall apart without me!” Now, repeat that to your own ego As if we could single-handedly stop all of the overflow The weight of millions here Finally suffocating my soul When there is so much wild frontier Beyond That won’t be concrete jungle So where else do you put someone who has almost turned into stone? Well, I can’t wait to get to nowhere They say this city is a state of mind Try telling that to a whole mind that is fried The assassins we endure To be on the front lines of the action Will lose my forfeiture Return it as my rightful ration While the front lines keep on searching for a couch to crash on Well, I can’t wait to get to nowhere They said that I was such a staple here But it was over an open wound, I fear Take a look at all of your peers Think of what you all have I common But don’t drown in your tears When you realize that you really have none Let’s change the plot Let’s act like we are on the run City scenery on a loop Now, what are we trying to protect When the cuckoo flies the coop It’s not a result of neglect I’ve just gone to collect What is left Of all of my intellect And I can’t wait to get to nowhere Somewhere better be standing if I return Or I will continue to wish it burns
4.
When I saw that face of kindness In the middle of a crowded room I forgot that a face of kindness Could temporarily remove my doom My friends and I were dancing to Blue Angel When I felt two eyes staring right at me So I pointed right to her Like some early Nicholas Cage movie Then ran through the crowd like the Devil was parting the sea Then I kissed that face of kindness And I almost knocked her off her stool Ignored the faces of our friends behind us But they all said that it looked so cool And we kissed in a death grip As of we had done this all before Oblivious to all eyes watching Like I was a soldier returning from war And they all stood and cheered as our glasses shattered on the floor I would have missed that face of kindness Knowing I’m a fatalistic fool But something tells me that this face of kindness Just broke every single rule We met under the Blood Moon My heart beat euphoric Rattling my own ribcage She told me she had another heartbeat for me Throbbing hard below her waist Suddenly an empty room We realized everyone had escaped
5.
Blood moon blue Poked a hole in the night Punched the glass through my frame of mind Leaving an image of you Blood moon blue Oh, we traveled through time When our fleshed coalesced And we left all our old skin behind I’m done standing alone Can we remain intertwined? Defying the speed of a planet spinning out of line Blood moon blue Tore a hole in your tights Have I finally found the right way to my own Mrs. Right? Blood moon blue It feels just like a dream Endless as the ocean and just as erratically obscene I don’t want to go home Can’t we just stay outside? I’m wholly convinced We can solely be nourished By the light Of blood moon blue
6.
If you see somebody beautiful Waste no time Pull them close Wipe the tears and saliva from your face Tell them why they’re the one you chose We’re so alone that it’s scary, dear We pass through everyone like ghosts Why can’t we boast of all our flesh and blood Tearing off each other’s clothes? Are you aware of our ability To perform the most amazing stunts With our swollen bayonet cocks And our Venus Flytrap cunts? This is not a prison yard we walk in So let’s put our day dreaming to sleep Oh my God, I’m about to burst And force my faith to take a leap From the palms of our hands To the tips of our tongues I see the athlete of pleasure in everyone You can whore yourself to loneliness A life of abstinence Murdering every arousing thought Demonizing every sense It’s such a shame the way we live, dear But I don’t want to be consoled We’re malnourished of affection, babe So let’s devour each other whole
7.
We found each other Amidst the rubble I took your hand We began spinning Blurring the lines Of triumph and trouble Until our city Was sparkling Those flickering grids Of smoke, mirror and fire Actually, our city looks like Hades Whose streets are the same As anywhere on this Earth Like tight belts on obesity Do you really want the world? I’ll give you anything But the world Can we just go to the moon? I used to wish everyone loved me Until I met you Now I wish they all would go away But the day I finally figured out the world was round Was the day I realized there was no escape We could jump off anything, but we would hit the ground And baby, I want to go to outer space Baby, do you want to go to outer space? Baby, I’m taking us to outer space… You haven’t had isolation Till you’ve had isolation with me If we close our eyes hard enough Their world’s a distant memory And if the journey gets too rough We must promise there’s no peeking What do you think this strange wave is that we’re riding?
8.
Well, I had that tsunami dream again last night I knew what coming when the horizon began to rise Like a cup that's half-full But fatally attainable It was the water that was thirsty I was swallowed by the tide You told them not to tell me anything Yes, I'm brutal when you're risking everything When you lose the ‘ol “trick of truth” It's just like dark sorcery Did you really think that you'd be the one To outrun a bullet from your own gun? When you lose the ‘ol trick of truth You're instant ancient history... Oh, fuck your privacy Now, I find my comfort only in these dreams Where consequence has the quality of mercy These dreams are where we go When we all cease to be I know I'm supposed to be living But I just won't stop sleeping In case you're trying to get a hold of me Or if I could manipulate destiny I'm keeping my eyes closed So the door to your world will keep swinging I didn't think I could get anymore crazy But I'm not the one that died, right baby? So I reserve the right To keep screaming Your name
9.
What did my one eye see out the window as I kissed my girl goodnight? I saw many fires burning Competing with the moonlight There were screams There were police Stampeding on all their bones But all the fires lit up the city Their cover blown Like every conspiracy suddenly took human form Every infinite falsity just became one truth reborn The crescendo of the mob swelling into its own alarm “We’re living science fiction, baby…Hold onto my arm!!!” So we ran into the street Into the stream of the maelstrom Starting many fires burning To keep the whole city warned And I hate this generation This abortion that was spawned So we lit up a cop like a Christmas tree on the front lawn The crackle of the flames sounded like a record playin’ Like the cruel gospel of Hades found us in between the prayin’ I was savin’ all my lovin’ for paranoia’s big reveal So I kissed her under the sparks To finally show her something real
10.
Can I sing you a haunted song? You can’t give it back to me When it’s all done But I think you’ll feel it Has been like this all along Because your spirit still don’t know where it belongs On that night We toasted to my Irish line Her Mexican blood intermingling with mine She put tequila in our potion We had drank all the Jameson And we called our new drink The Cartel Car Bomb While a thousand miles away My man did that thing that cannot be undone Can you believe this haunted song? Who still escapes reality for fun? The older we get, it becomes our medication But some people think they’re some dumb magician Now, every night I try to drive in between the lines My two hands numb from holding the wheel so tight The love of my life, she’s by my side But something is not quite right I feel him In tandem Incessant A thousand Ouija boards couldn’t fix it I will no longer follow him Cause he got off At the wrong way to exit So, what do I do with this haunted song? And this glass grenade in between my two eardrums Though every parasite needs a host There is no such thing as a ghost It’s so much worse It’s just pure emotion
11.
She’s got the perfect vision of Utopia Why would I interfere with her? An auteur of living, so sensible and free of debris She is both it’s keyhole and it’s key And when she swings open that door All of us rats scream and then retreat Though it may be an unpopular belief I must keep my woman happy And if I ever argue with her It’s only to dispute Who is what Natural disaster I claim volcano – my rage stays contained She is the earthquake – she makes the whole damn house shake If anything is not in its place Or chips away at Fung shui She works so hard to maintain But my job is so easy I must keep my woman happy I wiped away every spider web I went ahead and got rid Of my haunted bed Swept up every last cigarette As she cautiously hung Her taxidermy deer head But my head is staying on my neck The object Is to keep her from seeing red Instead I direct Her to our infinite sunset The distance from us to the moon Is assisted from the rushing plume Twisting from the fire in our chests But the moon makes a bet As it slyly winks at me “You must keep your woman happy…” (Her only imperfection? Her intolerance for imperfection)
12.
Impermanence is an unreal thing So unreal that it’s the realest thing of all I invite All spite within me Killing myself to believe everything is acceptable You’re even better than the real thing We share a car, bar receipts, a dog and all the heat To trick ourselves into thinking Gravity is not everything Does Mother Earth spit or swallow every time a good one disappears? What does it take to be a Saint Immaculate The same way I see you, dear? It just goes on and on and on The true delusion That we won’t just get spilled ‘Cross the sky or the lawn But ain’t that love? I said ain’t that love? Our heads in the sand Waiting for the rest of our body To catch up But hey! I was only trying to get gone too! Surrendering to something bigger than me or you Some of us, just can’t help, getting seduced I was looking for truth, now I’m praying for truce Trapped under the same roof Screaming for a sign Alignment Affection Its effect Its holy proof Well I guess it’s a defect I love as hard as I do And hey I admit, I’ve chased an ambulance or two We’re here alive and well, just not the heart or the head Our history unfolded like an unmade bed I spend nights on the couch wishing for mouth to mouth Dreaming the cold wind is your gift of oxygen But ain’t that love – its own inspiration? I guess “vanilla love sex” has an expiration Remember when we were kids and we’d secretly wish we could die for just one day? With the exception that we could somehow bear witness to everything that they might say? Well instead, can I be granted just one tantrum, cause baby, I learn from the best And let’s see how close you listen Let’s see if you can pass this one last test There’s a difference in loving somebody gone and somebody that is still here When you’re here they just pick you apart until you almost disappear Then when you’re gone they go and fall in love with all our parts they used to dread And I think it would just be so cool If you could finally love me Like I am dead

credits

released September 20, 2019

All songs written by Gabriel Hart © & ℗ 2019 Tru-Vow Tunes (SESAC)
Produced by Gabriel Hart and Jail Weddings
Recorded from Winter 2015 - Spring 2018 at The Station House in Echo Park, CA
Engineered and mixed by Mark Rains
Mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Mastering, Nashville, TN


Dedicated to the memories of Matty Rue, Namella Kim, Kate Beesley, Charlie Megira, Sheree Allen... and to anyone lost in the struggle of “settling down” – this album is for you.


Gabriel Hart – vocals, guitars, saxophone, arrangements
Marianne Stewart – vocals
Kristina Benson – vocals, piano, keyboards, theremin
Seth Miller – bass
Anthony Cozzi – guitars, synthesizers
Julie Carpenter – violin, string arrangements
Dave Clifford – lead and rhythm drums, arrangements

Morgan Hart Delaney - bass on "Blood Moon Blue."
Neil Busch - bass on tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9
Christopher Rager - guitar on tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
Marty Sataman – keyboards on tracks 3, 4, 5, 8, 9
Brad Caulkins - flute on "Wilted Eden."
Scott Cornish - engineer on "Blood Moon Blue" demo, built upon for final version

Reuben Kaiban - artwork, layout

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Jail Weddings Los Angeles, California

Wilted Eden, the expansive third album by L.A.'s tarnished romantics Jail Weddings is one of those rare albums recorded in "real time" chronicling the intersection between the whirlwind birth and eventual death of new love, along with the sudden unforeseen deaths of many loved ones. Still standing in their 10th dizzying year, the Wall of Sound provocateurs return anew... ... more

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