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"The Shark"

by Empty Moon

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1.
"I would if I couldn't" by: Empty Moon such a long never-ending train running through my head it’s all the same just another day there’s pouring rain running through my veins so I’ll sit back watch it fade to black with will all the things that I’ll never have from a plane it looks like nothings left just an empty bed and black cement and dead leaves on the fallen trees all we are is scattered seeds inside the hives with the dying bees she’ll say “please believe me!” well I would if I couldn’t ever love again I miss the ocean my oldest friend now you can’t remember anything you did or everything you said what does forever mean who cares when you’re falling down the stairs thought I was dead you said I woke up scared in a hall of mirrors with a hollow stare I can hardly tell that I’m hardly here can you hear these bells ringing in my ears she’ll say “please answer me!” everyone was invited but nobody came she has this problem with lying about everything now we’re down on the carpet looking for her ring she said that she dropped it with a smile and a wink we can tell she's been crying which isn’t surprising said it was her great great grandfathers from 1863 and that he died in the raid that brought our town to it’s knees and she whispered so softly “these dreams must mean something” you mean the one where I’m falling from the sky to the sea or the one where I’m floating over my own body our eyes never stop growing so whys it so hard to see exactly where we are going stop falling asleep hey priest, man you're cut deep what do we do now the others went for help I wish that I knew how
2.
75 Degrees 03:20
"75 degrees" by: Empty Moon I think I see some light at the end of the tunnel alive at least sliding around this funnel please baby please say that you’ll always love me sand under our feet the suns just a spotlight for your body where do you think we go when we leave start all over again rows of sharks teeth it’s been 75 degrees every day now for weeks it puts my mind at ease replanted palm trees please baby please say that you’ll always need me we’re almost on our feet the sun loves to kiss your body where do you think we go when we leave and all our memories rows of sharks teeth who do you miss the most I guess it’s hard to say I guess it’s hard to know who you miss the most I guess it’s cruel to say I guess it’s hard to know well alright we’ll be ok I thought I heard you say alright we’ll be ok such a slow parade alright we’ll be ok in the pouring rain alright we’ll be ok
3.
Dear Life 03:40
"Dear Life" by: Empty Moon save your breath cause it’s all you really have ever wonder why things changed over night smokey lungs never needed any love from anyone just a bum needing a ride brace yourself cause it’s a long tunnel slide hold on to the sides for dear life mr. know it all I bet you know which way you fall down in the gutter you think that’s cool? surrounded by fools not fooling anyone but you strangers eyes blank sad and angry pass me by try to hide whatever is in mine she said “keep in mind that you’re not from this place everything changed when they drained the trash out of the lake” well that’s a old mistake history is not some friend you made playing charades in you crazy college days it’s a razor blade and all the cuts it made they fade still ghosts chase you around the graveyard in yourself and what do you say now about your home town raised in the suburbs where all the lovers become worried mothers and bored to death fathers but the trees still turn colors, baby bright orange and yellow fading a million reasons you wanted to move said you wouldn't miss the seasons but now you do
4.
Maureen 03:31
"Maureen" by: Empty Moon Maureen she knows when it’s time to go home she said “we’re not alone anymore” and I truly believe that she’s right part of the time through my blurry stormy eyes and my cloudy mind Maureen she breathes soft and slowly she whispers in her sleep about her dreams and it takes me back to the fact that we’re floating in dark blue and black and red and green Maureen she dreams that it’s snowing as the winds release the dandelion seeds I dream of seas of wheat and the golden waves I look back to see I’m still who I will always be Maureen believes that we’re changing she looks at me like she’s never seen a ghost I guess it goes to show shadows slowly rearranging the people and the places that we know Maureen reads to me while I’m driving through the desert down in nowhere New Mexico only one way to go we both know without talking and the cats finally fell all the way to sleep Maureen is awake daydreaming as the evening creeps in before our eyes the roads a straight line until the mountain range a ghost plane hangs high in the grey blue sky stop for the night Maureen I think you’re right to laugh about our past Maureen and I laugh at whatever crosses our path
5.
Golden Mean 04:05
"Golden Mean" by: Empty Moon There’s no streetlights on this stretch of road from the side it looks like her eyes are closed and I don’t know about this anymore crawling toward a dark green forest it’s hard to see what’s inside of me forcing apologies well I’m sorry about New Years Eve I’m sorry about so many other things I pull her heart strings like her bikini top she walks away she lets it drop but she won't say stop she falls into my arms she only covers up cause her hair is so long but it feels like the first time I’ve ever opened my eyes they say love is blind and I said no it’s not if there is no time then why won’t it stop or at least slow down until the end when it folds water laced with pills to fill our empty molds straight razor blade shave off the lion’s mane you think that’d keep him tame? she’s only seen in the golden mean you’d think that'd make her want to stay whatever we do i’ll wait for you
6.
The Shark 03:57
"The Shark" by: Empty Moon You kiss with your eyes open, love turn away from my touch from the street she’s watching we’re hoping that she’s in love with both of us well things go unspoken like her skin looks so soft the light blue of the ocean washed out golden of the sun wish I could watch her in slow motion wash the salt from my tongue god you love commotion I bet you were lying about the shark he wished he would have died there to save his broken heart to save us all you sleep with your eyes open, love I haven’t slept for days and I know your dad said something I can see it in your face did he say that I was selfish with my womanizing ways? did he say that I was nothing just a rocky island maze? and your mom said your only faithful cause you’re too lazy to change remember when you told me everyday felt the same? and you wish that you would have died there in that rocky island grave to save yourself now you swim with your eyes open, love she thinks you’re still alive at the bottom of the ocean in the middle of the night I watch her sleeping wishing she was mine and I ask her how she’s feeling and she starts to cry she looks up at the ceiling and I undress her with my eyes see I’m only good at stealing and wasting your time I know that she blames me and you know why you know why Now my eyes are wide open but I can’t see it yet that we’ll all end up broken and deserve what we get such deep devotion of such shallow concepts such crazy emotion is what we’ve come to expect you yell “let’s drink the ocean I heard it’s good for your soul” I’ve seen so many sunsets starts to make me feel old in the middle of my life at the end of the world
7.
"Picking Apples" by: Empty Moon The undertow swept me away and I’ll wait forever forevers too late and I’m a tornado from the Great Plains where mosquitoes drown in pesticide rain what do you want from me? I’ll ask myself in the mirror that hangs over the sink just to think that we’re here where there isn’t a there a couple years, dear the wind through your hair I don’t want to let you down say that love me one more time baby, say that you love me one more time and I know sometimes it’s so hard to find and they’re picking apples on the bay point line and she’s picking flowers that match the color of her eyes in the shadows of statues that are frozen inside I’m in the shadows of buildings turn the day into night in the shadow of my mind watching clips of my life I don’t want to let you down you go to sleep knowing the morning won’t come the morning won’t come how do you go to sleep knowing the morning won’t come the morning won’t come? and I picture you waving goodbye and I know what you wanted to say I picture you waving goodbye and I know what you were trying to say
8.
High Hopes 05:10
"High Hopes" by: Empty Moon I was born in California with a fire in my heart they told me it would burn everything I’d ever love Atlanta Georgia made a man out of me watching a kid kill a snake under the dogwood tree I heard some years later that he died in his sleep I thought that was pretty lucky considering everything I loved his younger sister she was older then me a kind of trouble that I’d never seen we got married in the summer falling asleep she was pregnant by the winter we got divorced in the spring so let go, let it go, you’d never know if I let go so I moved to Kansas City before it rose from the dead swept up the ashes of my heart burned the sheets of my bed but I knew she’d come and find me and that’s exactly what she did she said that she still loved me but she was still with him and I wish that I felt nothing or at least put up a fight I’m that snake’s severed head eyes cubes of ice and I let her touch me it’s disgusting I know and I let her kiss me her lips soft as smoke I felt like I was doing something bitter to him a man I hardly knew the father of my kid but I knew that’s what she wanted it wasn't hard to tell she hated everyone but no one as much as herself I heard she got remarried she found jesus and had more kids none of them will ever know how insane she really is I guess it’s kind of funny in the darkest parts that kid with a shovel born without a heart so let go, let it go, we had such high hopes, such high hopes driving through the desert back to the coast I saw a skeleton of a wolf on the side of the road and a couple miles later I saw a pack around a ghost they looked at me like they loved me and said “welcome home” well it’s not too much further across the mountain range of teeth from the top we could watch the ocean breathe underneath the desert begs for water and the sunsets dripping blood our past trails behind us in a golden cloud of dust
9.
Far Away 02:55
"Far Away" by: Empty Moon Can your heart take the weight of this heart that will never break it just keeps filling up, baby sometimes with love sometimes with lust sometimes so full that it could crush or get anything it wants I’m not saying I don’t miss you I’m not saying I don’t care but sometimes I am careless sometimes I’m scared what would you do if my heart blew up in your face or if it poured out my eyes, darling would you be surprised would you say “the truth” would you say “I already knew cause I’m just like you” would you say that you’re sorry that you kissed me the first night that we met would you say you were looking for something that you didn’t get well don’t forget how we took off our clothes don’t forget how we slept so close promises are only as strong as our bones they break helplessly but they heal on they’re own you’re so far away when I need you the most and I’m so far away

about

After 10 years and 3 LPs, Fourth Of July singer/songwriter Brendan Hangauer
left his band, brothers and hometown of Lawrence, Kansas for the golden promise of the Golden State. Settling in Oakland, he teamed up with Jason Quever of Papercuts to record his first solo album as Empty Moon, titled “The Shark”.

A carousel of grainy, intimate slides from desert drives, Antonioni films,
clamorous new surroundings and the oh-so-close ocean, “The Shark” finds
a songwriter known for his casual candor watching his past slip away while the present scatters into place.

"I think I see some light at the end of the tunnel," Hangauer begins the Amber-visioned first single, "75 degrees" - a paean to the mystifying tendency of nice weather to turn mundane moments into snapshots of bliss and treasured memories into trailing vapors. Displaced and rediscovered selves continue threading through "The Shark", with their ambient impressions clearly captured: "A million reasons you wanted to move/ said you wouldn't miss the Seasons/ but now you do," he concludes on album highlight "Dear Life".

Produced with an audiophile’s lushness by Quever and featuring the vocals of
former bandmate Adrianne Verhoeven (The Anniversary, Dri, Extra Classic),
Empty Moon’s “The Shark” is the work of a songwriter doubling down on what he does best: turning a personal travelogue into a shared soundtrack.

credits

released November 4, 2014

Brendan Hangauer: Vocals, Guitar
Adrianne Verhoeven DeLanda: Background Vocals, Organ, Percussion
Richard Gintowt: Drums, Percussion
Jason Quever: Guitar, Drums, Bass, Piano, Organ, Percussion

Recorded and Mixed by Jason Quever in San Francisco, CA
Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering in Kansas City, MO

Thanks to all my friends and family.
Special thanks to Adrianne and Richard.
Extra special thanks to Jeff McCoy, Jason Quever, Zach Hangauer and Erica Norris.


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