Much Ado (About Nothing) Album

KEITH | Much Ado (About Nothing)

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Much Ado (About Nothing)

delikately (KEI♱H VER.)

“explores restraint, control, and the quiet justifications men use to turn wanting into nothing.”

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The Explorer

04:37

The Explorer

i watch you burn through every room like it’s a trail of sparks archer with your bow slung over your shoulder, aiming for nothing and everything you speak in gestures, in half smiles and i calculate trajectories, how close i can get before you leave i want to touch the fire in your hand but i’m steady water, and you’ll spill me if i try it’s unfair your gravity pulls me in and i can’t decide if i want to drift or drown (ahhh) i’m spilling into my own cup, trying not to overflow you’re the explorer, blazing trails i can’t follow i’m the river running quiet beside your wildfire i can’t be yours, you belong to no map and maybe no one’s at all you’re the restless girl with fire in your chest i’m the tide that keeps trying to meet the shore say it again say my name once more make my stomach drop like a stone into a well i follow your steps, feeling a pull in my chest every laugh, every careless glance and i know i’ll never keep up you’re a comet, bright, urgent, untouchable i’m the water bearer a vessel leaking patience and thought watching your flame cut through the night it’s unfair your gravity pulls me in and i can’t decide if i want to drift or drown (ahhh) i’m spilling into my own cup, trying not to overflow you’re the explorer, blazing trails i can’t follow i’m the river running quiet beside your wildfire i can’t be yours, you belong to no map and maybe no one’s at all you’re the restless girl with fire in your chest i’m the tide that keeps trying to meet the shore the moon is full the stars are far you’re running toward them, but my hands are tied every step you take leaves sparks i can’t reach it’s torture being this close to the source knowing i can’t touch the fire i started (ahhh) i’m spilling into my own cup, trying not to overflow you’re the explorer, blazing trails i can’t follow i’m the river running quiet beside your wildfire i can’t be yours, you belong to no map and maybe no one’s at all you’re the restless girl with fire in your chest i’m the tide that still hopes someday to reach the shore say it again say my name once more make my stomach drop like a stone into a well

Sonnet Pilgrim

04:10

Sonnet Pilgrim

if music and sweet poetry agree then let the strings tell what the heart can’t see i stumble through the lines i never say an unperfect actor on the stage today every laugh, every tear, every fight feels like it’s gone before i can hold it tight look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest do you see the love you’ve lost, the nights you knew best unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend every hour burned down to smoke in the air those hours, that with gentle work did frame can’t hold a memory, can’t hold your name that stretch of highway still knows my name rust on the signs, but the memory’s the same i drive past the diner where you used to sit talk to the wind, swear i can feel you with it hands too full to catch what falls life won’t wait while i stall look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest do you see the love you’ve lost, the nights you knew best unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend every hour burned down to smoke in the air those hours, that with gentle work did frame can’t hold a memory, can’t hold your name the diner’s neon still burns where we swore we’d stay i hear the words we never said, the nights that slipped away they spin like tires on this endless road, no matter the cost the songs we played, the fights we had — they’re all i’ve got look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest do you see the love you’ve lost, the nights you knew best unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend every hour burned down to smoke in the air those hours, that with gentle work did frame can’t hold a memory, can’t hold your name can’t hold you now can’t hold you now

Let the Record Show

04:01

Let the Record Show

(lyrics)

Drama Club Dropout

04:01

Drama Club Dropout

you had that list of rules stuck to the fridge door said we needed "clarity," but i don’t know what for i felt like a secret you were trying to keep while you were busy acting like your thoughts were too deep we didn’t talk for months because you wanted to "grow" well, you grew distant. that’s all i know we’re speaking in circles, we’re dodging the hit just waiting for one of us to finally quit it’s a long road to nowhere, a hard hand to hold the story’s been written, the ending’s been told we’re digging the ditch just to fill it with dirt trying to find where the love doesn't hurt but the work is all wasted, the fire is frost just another day of love’s labour’s lost you used to look at me, light in your eyes now it’s just calculations and tired goodbyes i’m doing the time for a crime i didn't commit i’m over the games and the plans that we made we’ve built something meant to fail, not to last we’re speaking in circles, we’re dodging the hit just waiting for one of us to finally quit it’s a long road to nowhere, a hard hand to hold the story’s been written, the ending’s been told we’re digging the ditch just to fill it with dirt trying to find where the love doesn't hurt but the work is all wasted, the fire is frost just another day of love’s labour’s lost it’s a heavy lift for a light return watching the bridges while they slowly burn they say it’s a virtue to stay till the end but i’m losing a lover and i’m losing a friend and the harder i pull, the more the rope frays i’ve run out of ways to justify the stays it’s a long road to nowhere, a hard hand to hold the story’s been written, the ending’s been told three hundred sixty-five days in the dirt to see if the healing is worse than the hurt yeah, the work is all done but the cost is the cost this is love’s labour’s lost yeah, the work is all done this is love’s labour’s lost

To Be Noticed, Briefly

03:49

To Be Noticed, Briefly

i said i liked your taste in movies you said you liked the way i think we both know that’s not what this is playing in slow motion scored to something atmospheric and devastating i’m bracing for the moment the real stuff begins but for now, it’s just this read at your own risk like we don’t know exactly what we’re doing when i text “are you up” and you say “yeah” and isn’t this enough, a secret tryst where nobody’s the villain and nothing has to mean anything to be noticed, briefly all i ever wanted was to be noticed, briefly just enough to feel like something without having to admit i ask what you’re doing friday in a way that sounds like friends you answer like it’s casual we both know how this ends you stayed where standing looked permitted and learned how far that could go read at your own risk like we don’t know exactly what we’re doing when i text “are you up” and you say “yeah” and isn’t this enough, a secret tryst where nobody’s the villain and nothing has to mean anything to be noticed, briefly all i ever wanted was to be noticed, briefly just enough to feel like something without having to admit i could leave her you wouldn’t ask me to we could make this real instead of something we do in pieces but wanting’s easier than having and having means i have to choose so we stay in each other’s lives close enough to feel it far enough to survive read at your own risk but we’re already past risk, we’re in the territory of my hand on your throat in the bathroom at that party and isn’t this enough, to keep playing our sick little game where the stakes keep rising to be noticed, briefly all i ever wanted was to be noticed, briefly just enough to feel like something before the guilt sets in read at your own risk read at your own risk it’s always you read at your own risk…

Persuasion

04:17

Persuasion

guitar in the corner strings buzzed from last night every joke we made landed wrong i’m tangled up half somewhere else, half on top of you too many drinks chasing what i shouldn’t (i shouldn’t) your hand tracing the edge of my shoulder like you owned the space (like you owned me) the press of your hand on my chest how i said we shouldn’t with your lips right there, tempting fate but you you (you knew i didn’t mean it) did you and i (i didn’t stop myself) did i it’s just persuasion just a little persuasion there’s a corner in my mind where you still linger grinning, saying ‘go on.” your shadow in the doorway worth the trouble i wanted the night to freeze so i grabbed you, held you close but what would i say (what would i say) i wanted nothing, i wanted everything pinned you to the wall in the narrow hall the press of your hand on my chest how i said we shouldn’t with your lips right there, tempting fate but you you (you knew i didn’t mean it) did you and i (i didn’t stop myself) did i it’s just persuasion just a little i catch your reflection in the mirror smaller, hungrier, teeth clenched too tight it’s fucked up how much i’m willing to overlook just to keep from feeling like i’m losing myself to the quiet and you, you make it worth staying even when every part of me wants to run the press of your hand on my chest how i said we shouldn’t with your lips right there, tempting fate but you you (you knew i didn’t mean it) did you and i (i didn’t stop myself) did i it’s just persuasion just a little persuasion and i’m still weak for your persuasion

Love’s Labour’s Lost

3:49

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Much Ado (About Nothing)

04:16

Much Ado (About Nothing

much ado much ado i’ve got this shakespearean knot tightening in my gut benedick's pride but my damn mouth is shut they’d say i’m a mentor a pillar a friend but i’m just a man watching his guard descend as i see how you hold yourself apart the way you never complain a pattern of favors i know you can’t refuse because i’m the one with nothing to lose if this reads like excess that’s fair i suppose because catastrophe doesn’t require a visible close it only needs time and a man who’ll choose to make a world out of what never refused much ado about nothing at all much ado much ado i taught you restraint by keeping my lead they’d call it mentorship if asked at the table just a glance that lingered just two people capable of standing too close without touching the claim of anything worth correcting by name if this looks like mercy it’s just a mask i’m used to because catastrophe doesn’t require a visible close it only needs time and a man who’ll choose to make a world out of what never refused much ado about nothing at all much ado much ado it was never a scandal never a lie just a skirmish i watched from the corner of my eye no line was crossed no challenge was thrown i just let the shadow claim what i shouldn't own i knew the leverage i knew the weight i kept it conversational to seal your fate between the status and thought where nothing is owed and nothing is caught because catastrophe doesn’t require a visible close it only needs time and a man who’ll choose to build his ego out of what never refused much ado about nothing at all much ado much ado much ado much ado

“we’re speaking in circles, we’re dodging the hit
just waiting for one of us to finally quit ”

— track 7, 'Love’s Labour’s Lost'