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La Dispute
Panorama
Footsteps at the Pond

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Footsteps at the Pond

Release date: 22nd March 2019

From PanoramaTrack 83:23

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Lyrics

Footsteps at the Pond

You were breaking like the ground beneath me, burn up like a dream
I keep off lightning strikes on summer nights on television
Now I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep
That night I tripped and broke my rib cage on a bar seat drunk for weeks
Chasing ambulances, stumbled to my bedsheets
Softly drift off after peaceful things
I had once a release down in the streets
Now hear it beyond, our footsteps ending at the pond

Don't get why you believed in me so much to follow and retrieve it all
That sanctity I scattered so indifferently
Still you called on me breathe you out, you begged the breeze:
"Relieve me from what settles deep and burns down underneath if you believe"

My love's like a battered dog, wanders under street signs
Subside into nothingness
Burns up like a bad dream gone
I guess I needed you to freeze me out
Those corners of your dreams
I think you needed me to bleed out loud
I guess I needed you to freeze me up
Those corners of your dreams
I guess you needed me to leave

Still you carried me to sleep, living in dream retreats
Grasping for an older me, some faded image
And it carries you to sleep, breathes out in the fog before me
And cat tails hit your knees to sense some soul promise
To scatter all their seeds, to grow before they leave
For life and all its consequential, complicated scenes
They shake you out of sleep
Scrape our knees beneath your feet
I think we bleed because we need to bleed
We bleed because we need

I just wanted you to carry on and carry me
I guess I wanted you to need the things I needed you to be
I just wanted you to carry on and carry for me
I guess I wanted you to leave
I guess you needed me to bleed

Out loud
I guess I needed you to freeze me out
Those corners of your dreams
I guess you needed me bleed out loud
I guess I needed you to freeze me up
Those corners of your dreams
I guess I needed me to leave

Come and shake me from my sleep
Burn up in a bad dream like a belief
Come and shake me from my sleep
Come and hold me for weeks

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Track details

From Panorama

3:232019

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Album

22nd March 2019

Track number

8

Release year

2019

1Rose Quartz
1:05
2Fulton Street I
4:41
3Fulton Street II
4:59
4Rhodonite and Grief
3:37

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La Dispute — Autofiction Detail [4:54]
La Dispute — I Shaved My Head [3:29]
La Dispute — Steve [4:02]
La Dispute — Landlord Calls the Sheriff In [4:41]
La Dispute — Man with Hands and Ankles Bound [3:19]
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La Dispute — I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In [4:15]
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La Dispute — No One Was Driving the Car [3:20]
La Dispute — Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un - Sound [4:01]
La Dispute — The Field [4:00]
La Dispute — Top - Sellers Banquet [8:19]
La Dispute — Saturation Diver [3:37]
La Dispute — End Times Sermon [5:03]
La Dispute — II
La Dispute — Environmental Catastrophe Film (from No One Was Driving the Car) [8:42]
La Dispute — Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un - Sound (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:01]
La Dispute — End Times Sermon (from No One Was Driving the Car) [5:03]
La Dispute — I Shaved My Head (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:29]
La Dispute — Top - Sellers Banquet (from No One Was Driving the Car) [8:19]
La Dispute — No One Was Driving the Car (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:20]
La Dispute — I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:15]
La Dispute — Man with Hands and Ankles Bound (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:19]
La Dispute — Saturation Diver (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:37]
La Dispute — Autofiction Detail (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:54]
La Dispute — Steve (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:02]
La Dispute — Landlord Calls the Sheriff In (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:41]
La Dispute — The Field (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:00]
La Dispute — Self - Portrait Backwards (from No One Was Driving the Car) [2:52]
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La Dispute — Footsteps at the Pond (Zeal & Ardor Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [4:28]
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La Dispute — Then Again, Maybe You Were Right (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [1:36]
La Dispute — Said the King to the River (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [4:01]
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