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RITUALS

by Kirby Criddle

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1.
wind blows down the river, cedar's limbs lie in the road your lips are pursed in whisper, we dreamed these neon tornadoes when we wake we are in pieces, morning, she has me by the throat oh we can't say we're leaving, you tell me just leave it alone and all the time we fight, all the love we don't give out and all the time you're right, we don't scream and shout it's quiet in this house now we see in colour, this luminescent view and we don't need to fear each other, but i feel the ghost in you when i'm up you're always sleeping, while i'm dreaming you're awake i am biting my tongue as you're leaving, cause i have got too much to say
2.
Fort St. 03:34
now you've said it, the stories are true what am i to do, you're proud now, aren't you i won't forget it, does it make you feel strong does it make you better, do you feel like you belong everybody wants to know what's right we all want somebody to hold us tight how long til you give up the fight tonight truth can be a funny thing, it all depends on who's listening you paid for your pardon so you get to sing but i've been waiting and now it's my turn now you've done it, you've gone ahead collected the rent on my heart, on my head and i should be livin' where i've been occupied but somehow this isn't, this body doesn't feel like mine everybody wants to know what's right we all want somebody to shine a light how long til you give up your lies, decide now we are two people separated by man, heart's contraband
3.
i built myself a desert, wrote you this letter, i dug my own grave so shallow, so you'll never come back i went into hiding, with a picture of you smiling and you never came i can't swallow, don't ever come back oh filthy water under the bridge in my city drown the ocean of tears that falls into you tonight oh filthy water under the bridge wash over me now we know there's no fear when we close our eyes i set myself on fire, torch bridges, burn with desire, you know i won't say i can't follow, don't ever come back i put myself to bed with this aching in my chest and bones and my head so hollow, we'll never go back
4.
and sometimes i get so afraid to try what i think i might like that unjustifiably, arguably, undeniably it's the one thing that i really wouldn't mind and i feel i'd be better off if you weren't really who you seem to be in between the sheets and in the spaces of the things you never say to me london bridge, don't fall and you're so difficult, the way you're always running hot or cold maybe we should take it slow, or maybe i should go cause as lovely as it is to be next to you, oh we both know when we wake up early in the morning, we're so uncomfortable
5.
haunt me in the morning, insight you never left it’s like I never slept at all you’re gone and I’m here wanting, lit wires will your breath still fire for innocence, you call there’s a light, calm down could we ever really belong, unconscious tides insist this hunger’s what we missed before remember when we were young, slip ire for limbic bliss still night for lips like this, I’m yours
6.
Wolf Willow 03:09
you came from a land of snow and ice, of wheat and wonder, prairie skies barren land, heart attack, hold time out of the earth, blistering shoots, fumbling branches, singing roots strong hands, homeland, be mine and our bodies, harvested for firewood i guess that we were only born to burn you grew so fast, stretched so tall, could you retain what it meant to feel small deliverance, inconsequence, we tried and finally the winter won, the seasons changed before we could run, oh silence, stillness knows no sides
7.
Twenty Years 05:35
my mother was a mountain, my father was the sea she split him into fountains, he cleft her into valleys my mother was an icy wind, my father a barren land he wanted a warmer woman, she needed a better man so where do you go, in twenty years you’re gone where do you go when you forgot the sum of your fears is not all you are my mother was a dry year, my father nearly drowned in whiskey, rum and beer, trying to quiet his nomadic heart down cause my mother was a boulder on my father’s desolate plain and their love only grew colder cause she loved him best in chains my mother was cumulonimbus, my father was the sky she thundered him three children with lightning in our eyes i inherited the heart of my father, and I got my mother’s fright i’ll always be a wanderer so I’ll never get left behind
8.
Every Night 02:57
all these questions provided all these feelings gone into all this darkness, divided by the light i see in you i don’t wanna bring you down all this wishing, and all this hope, a little bit of truth all this living with my eyes closed well isn’t it for you and there’s no song for the rest in us all i’ve cherished and all the time i couldn’t set you free all has perished and my insides inside out and to my knees but i’m too young to die awash amidst the waves every night we’re baptized by the fire and every day it rains

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This record is for Micah and Nevaeh - I will never have the words or music to properly convey my love for you. Thank you for making my life so full of beauty and meaning; you have truly saved me.

And thank you to you, for buying this record + listening to Canadian music + supporting independent artists + shining your beautiful unique light + being kind to each other: knowing that all actions, no matter how small, truly make a difference.

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released November 24, 2014

All songs written and performed by Kirby Criddle
Produced by Andy Shauf
Engineered and mixed by Ryan Andersen at Red Door Recording
Mastered by Jonathan Anderson at Basement Vista Audio

Kirby Criddle: vocals, background vocals, guitar, keys
Andy Shauf: background vocals, guitars, bass, banjo, keys, clarinet, cello, percussion
Elias Edlund: background vocals, guitars
Burke Barlow: pedal steel
Claire Anderson: trumpet

All photos by Shannon Healther
Layout and design by Kirby Criddle and Karlie Stewart

A big thank you to Rawlco Radio and SaskMusic for making this creation financially possible.

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Kirby Criddle Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Kirby Criddle would surely steal your heart, if you hadn't already handed it over. This beguiling prairie girl makes music for late nights, for lovers and friends, and for you when you feel alone. You can feel it in your bones; this is music for your whole body. ... more

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