Get all 12 PigPen Theatre Co. releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Live!), It'll Be A While, I Don't Wanna Leave, A quiet Christmas song I would like my friends and family to hear if in the cruelest of circumstances I pass away on or around the Christmas holidays by perishing in the act of saving a burning bus of Dickensian orphans or something equally heroic, Learn To, I'm over here are you there, too?, To The Sea, Whole Sun [Deluxe Edition], and 4 more.
1. |
Choir
04:42
|
|
||
Choir sing like an iris
See what I’m in need of
Sing like I’m crying
Sing like we’re family
When it comes it goes again
When it goes we begin
To wait away until
We fade away and still
We grab ropes that pull up
Shiny things from the mud
We were born to
Choir sing like the sirens
Show me my harbor
Make me row faster
Love me strictly
When it comes it goes again
When it goes we begin
To wait away until
We fade away and still
We grab ropes that pull up
Shiny things from the mud
We were born to
Bad things happen
In St. Louis
If I’d seen ‘em
Boy I’d lose it
Oh I would lose
Oh I would lose
Oh I would lose my mind
Oh I would lose my mind
Choir sing like an iris
See what I’m in need of
Sing like I’m crying
Sing like we’re family
Born in a choir
|
||||
2. |
You Woke, I Waited
05:12
|
|
||
You woke, I waited
You stood, I stood by
You judged the distance
Examined the decline
“But why would you, a diamond” I say,
“Run away from the sun”
Cause we could keep a tally
With each stretch we stretched to reach
The why, the why, the who, the how, the me, the you
Oh I could die some
When we are older, we’ll hear our bodies say
“Oh”
And we’ll find the mountain survived
I could be wiser
If I could speak stranger
This house will crack like
This mountain we reside
“But why would I” in silence I say,
“Run away from the sun”
Cause we could keep a tally
With each stretch we stretched to reach
The why, the why, the who, the how, the me, the you
Oh I could die some
When we are older, we’ll hear our bodies say
“Oh”
And we’ll find the mountain survived
|
||||
3. |
We Won't
03:20
|
|
||
Tied up like a noose we were walking
On the edge of a canyon me and my darling
Who should stand and stare and whistle
The air of a cannon the wind of a pistol
Should they make us fall again
Northern Southern Western
I don’t care
Oh oh, oh no, we won’t, we won’t
All my drawers opposed to closing
Gotta air out their teeth, their tongue, and their clothings
But who could blame them oh in this heatwave
It’ll melt your heart, your skin, make you crazy
Should they make us melt again
Summer Spring or Autumn
I don’t care
Oh oh, oh no, we won’t, we won’t
Oh the martyr inside it comes back and tells me,
Oh the way the mind goes
Oh the way the mind goes
But the wonder inside it comes back and tells me,
Oh the way the mind goes
Oh the way the mind goes
Like a setting sun
But we’ll go home
No we won’t
No we won’t
No we won’t
Tied up like a noose we were walking
All my drawers opposed to closing
Tied up like a noose we were walking
All my drawers opposed to closing
Tied up like a noose we were walking
|
||||
4. |
Sister
04:32
|
|
||
Sister, Sister, quite a child I’m told
Found outside with your bag of bones
In that bag your family
With a note to help and keep you please
Believe our love will new sister grow
We’ll tell each other all
Oh
Oh
Sister, Sister, you smell of fine perfume
Rubbed off letters sent to you
Italian wrote, Italian danced and sung
Sister stole my Italian love
Will our bond now, sister, hold
Til jealous hands throw jealous stones
Oh
Oh
Time goes by, I grow old
You grow up
Wrap black round my hands
Around my tongue
And curse the word, and curse the word, and curse the -
Sister, Sister, soon
We’ll be mothers too
And with each own’s leaf
We will, we will teach
Now sister sister will you tell how we did grow apart
Or rather sister will you tell the truth of our war
That love is gold and you did steal my children will learn
But they won’t be sure of me til you’re dead and gone
|
||||
5. |
Let Me Go
04:12
|
|
||
I don’t know, which hand to hold
Could you keep me in your mind
Would you keep me in your mind
I don’t know, which hand to hold
Could you keep me in your mind
Would you keep me in your mind
And save my dreams like wine
Don’t lose em
Guide my goals like signs
Just let’m go
But don’t let’m go
I don’t know, is it my time to go
Could you help me change its mind
Would you help me change its mind
I don’t know, is it my time to go
Could you help me change its mind
Would you help me change its mind
When I go, I’m gonna miss it so,
Can you help say goodbye
Would you help me say goodbye
I was a hell of a kid
I was a mess of a kid
I was a hell of a kid
I was a mess of a kid
Save my dreams like wine
Don’t lose em
Guide my ghost like a child
Just let’m go
But don’t let’m go
Just let me go
But don’t let me go
|
||||
6. |
The Bear Song
05:03
|
|
||
Well I stared at a bear
Listening close, nose up to the evening
“Won’t you share your thoughts with me
Oh the thoughts you seem to thinking”
He said “I dream I dream I dream
That the leaves the leaves the leaves
They don’t ever stop their changing, no,
Changing for me
But it seems it seems it seems
That the trees the trees the trees
they don’t ever stop their changing, no,
changing their leaves
But when they die
I won’t leave this world unknown
When they die
I won’t leave this world unknown”
“I could teach you” I said
“All the ways to live with them forever”
“Don’t you coddle me boy, oh I know
All too well how to remember”
He said “I dream I dream I dream
That the leaves the leaves the leaves
They don’t ever stop their changing, no,
Changing for me
But it seems it seems it seems
That the trees the trees the trees
they don’t ever stop their changing, no,
changing their leaves
But when they die
I won’t leave this world unknown
When the die
I won’t leave this world unknown”
Tell me, have you seen
Love dry, love cease to grow (X3)
I’ve caught fish so I know
The sound it makes when you let them go
It’s the worst sound that I’ve ever known
Then came the snow
And the ice
Over the water
Over the water
Over my water
|
||||
7. |
Over
02:43
|
|
||
8. |
Teeth
03:55
|
|
||
All my teeth in my mouth
All your tongue can shout
Give us a bite of that whole sun
Give us the pulp and the peel
Give us a bite of that whole sun
Give us the light in the wheel
Straighten out your spine
And I’ll straighten out mine
Give us a bite of that whole sun
Give us the pulp and the peel
Give us a bite of that whole sun
Give us the light in the wheel
Cuz the signs they were aligned
Just like our eyes
And they told us look up
Yes they told us look up
Oh they told us look up
All the while a sigh from your mind says stick it out
Hard to say, hard to do, harder now in the moonlight
Picture yourself as a child in the love of the morning light
Make a cup of your own, that's a cup that will stick around
Stick it out
All my teeth in my mouth
All your tongue can shout
Give us a bite of that whole sun
Give us the pulp and the peel
|
||||
9. |
All's Well (With José)
04:17
|
|
||
All’s well with José
No need to worry his mind
No need to phone
Although his mother’s dying slow
All her lessons they
Went in one ear
And then they ran astray
In his brain
Until they all became
Something he believed in
Carla and Charro
Lying down inside that bed
Surrounding their mother
Older now but babes instead
All her lessons they
Went in their ears
And then they ran astray
In their brains
Until they all became
Something they believed in
They cried
Mother our stone
Mother our stone
In came José
Seas and roads led him home
Rushed to her side now
Brother sister brother close
All your lessons they
Went in one ear
And then they ran astray
In our brains
Until they all became
Something we believed in
They cried
Mother our stone
Mother our stone
|
||||
10. |
Weathervane
05:07
|
|
||
I am the weathervane
I never said anything strange
But those in storms who lost their way
Seem to give me all their blame
Oh well
Like the gallows
Or the weapons
Or the red nose
Or the rose with the thorn
How I lost those days
So I started pointing my own way
Not the way the wind came
I brought a spring without rain
But unlike blame received no praise
Oh well
Like the teacher
The good mother
Or the writer
Or the bough for the bird
How I made those days
Oh I won’t lie
I’d take my word for it now
Oh I won’t like
I’d take my word for it
I’d take my word for it now
So look up to me before the sun
If you dare to know what’s to come
I’ll give you what’s given me
Of news from far and in between
Clouds that hear the unheard
Storms with face, arms, and words
It’s enough to make you say
Oh my god
|
PigPen Theatre Co. New York, New York
PigPen Theatre Co. met as freshman at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 2007. Their debut LP, “Bremen”, was named #10 album of the year in The Huffington Post’s 2012 Grammy preview. Their follow up EP, “The Way I’m Running”, was premiered by American Songwriter and released on Oct. 8th, 2013. Their sophomore album. "Whole Sun", was released July 7th, 2015. They're cool. Pinky promise. ... more
Streaming and Download help
If you like PigPen Theatre Co., you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp