Of Earth and its Timely Delights

By Camp Saint Helene

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001 - Of Earth and its Timely Delights


Sometimes I can 

Hold myself back

Lest I need the space to breathe

Let me drink up 

All the water

Let me drown 

And never seen

You say that you’re heart’s a wanderer

Taking off on lonely roads

Where has all the time gone?

Where has all the fire gone?


Of earth and its timely delights

Isn’t it divine that we’ve made it here

Waiting through a pool of star tears

To embrace, to embrace 

Holy rage
























002 - Mourning Dress


If you could imagine

A castle drenched in sun

A place in which, many hands 

Turn the Wheel of One



Once inside the gates, 

The meadows are aglow

Poppies, sage, peaches and rose; 

Alchemy for a foe


It's morning, she's mourning

She is trying her best to hide

It's morning, she's mourning


“I don't want to go, I don’t want to go

I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go

I don't want to go under the oak tree, through the veil

I can go everywhere, everywhere” 


Hands unbound, through space unrest

But the oak tree wears a mourning dress




















003 - Anniversary


Why don't you look me in the eye? 

There's a candle in the sky 

And we’re all right


Flames out the window but I can't even look outside

Walk me to the gate

Kiss me goodbye 

And everytime you cry? 

Just remember that you're mine


Where do you go when you want to hide?

 Just stay by my side


Why don't you look me in the eye? 

There's a candle in the sky

There’s a candle in the sky 

And we’re all right


It's you, it's me

Baby, it's our anniversary





















004 - Racing


Standing all alone

The forest is vacant 

Only have a matter of time 

Melting desires of the mind


Now the silence

It takes me by the hand

Turns my gaze to the sky

I see you now, you are divine


On the fallen wood it shows

Rings round every year

How long have I been waiting here? 

Hiding in silence now


Are you coming to, revelation? 

Are you missing the sign you invite?

Quiet and slow, time is sacred

Are you looking inside?


When you’re running and running and miserable 

All you need is now

There’s another path here to be found


It’s all for love, I know

Hear me now, there’s nothing that is wrong

You will try, and you’ll fight and there is no one


Are you coming to, revelation? 

Are you missing the sign you invite?

Quiet and slow, time is sacred

Are you looking inside?


Holy Golden, Divination

In my forest of silence and light

In the middle of time escaping 

I’ll be looking inside.




005 - Lavender by Night


Lavender by night

Takes away your pain

Too good to be true

Her mood ring shows blue


Chasing midnight suns

Tell her to be safe

Feel the silver whisper

She is shifting shape, she is shifting shape 

Feel the night embrace 


Existence is a revolution

Rising amidst the circumstance’s gun

Chase the midnight sun 


Don’t you ever lose your edge

Roses on her sweet breath


Lavender by night

God is in the light

Summer storms so wild

Don't let eyes betray, don't let eyes betray

God is in the day


Silence is a sword

Cuts to the heart

Feel the silver whisper

She is shifting shape, she is shifting shape 

Hand upon her fate


Don’t you ever lose your edge

Roses on her sweet breath

Don’t you ever lose your edge

Roses on your breath 


Lavender by night

Takes away your pain





006 - Parallel Lives


Leaving the house

At dusk

December 31st 

I must confess 

I don't know 

Which way I will go

Trading pines, for palms

It is necessary to get lost

In the rush

I can't escape my fate


Big open Texas skies

Big open Texas skies

Shine the light 

Use the stars as your guide


Oh the air .. 


Big open Texas skies

Big open Texas skies

Shine the light 

Use the stars as your guide


Dancing in the dunes, collecting bones

Living parallel lives unbeknownst

In the rush I can't escape my fate

Big open Texas skies

Parallel lives













007 - The Bad Lands


How do I 

Hold space

In my heart 

That stretches

So vastly 

Between grief

And possibility


I ask for stillness

Just let me 

Figure out the answer

Just let me 

Figure it out


Just let, just let

Just let 

Me be 


My only wish 

Never granted

Time keeps 

No prisoners 

Instead we roll along

In perpetuity
















008 - Eyes As Big As Suns


Eyes as big as suns

Pendulum swings 

To the tune

Of the sweet muse

Born backwards in

Seas of green


Western dreams

Take hold of me

Footsteps deep

In crystalline

Firelight seeds reality

Footsteps deep

Crystalline


Eyes as big as suns

Going nowhere, here we are

Eyes as big as suns

Going nowhere, here we are

Eyes as big as suns

Playing inside circle games 

Eyes as big as suns

Playing inside circle games, going nowhere


Lone traveler heed; only take what you need

What is that you really need?


Western dreams

Take hold of me

Footsteps deep

In crystalline

Firelight seeds reality

Footsteps deep

Crystalline


Artifacts of consumption just a series of lost causes watching failures repeat on the screen to/o numb from the depth of the memory the wind of belief you’ll bloom in the light of the unconscious many have been spared if not from uncertainty then glory is the bird is the song now forget to stop forget the illusion will never be in your hand



009 - Grapefruit Dreams, For Now


Holy Mother said,

“Let's go to the edge of the world again,

We can watch the tide and when its in we will begin” 


Charlatan schemes dance atop the excess of things

anarchist teams can't wait a day, we're almost too late


Grapefruit dreams for now, she'll meet you in the ivory tower

Listen as she sings …


Of earth and its timely delights

Isn’t it divine that we’ve made it here

Wading through a pool of star tears

To embrace, to embrace 

Holy rage





010 - Memory Knows


Memory

I want to know you now 

Fears alive

Attention to the mind


Nostalgia runs 

Through me 

Like oil 

In a pipe


Can't wish

Away 

What's been done

So I'll sit 

In memory

Room for one



Nostalgia runs 

Through me 

Like oil 

In a pipe


So I'll sit 

In memory

Room for one
















011- Everybody Wants A Narrative


Everybody wants a narrative

Everybody wants to hear a story

Everybody wants the songs to sound the same


Everybody wants a narrative

Everybody wants to hear a story

Everybody wants the songs to sound the same

I can’t blame them


With all this change

Feels like I’m going insane

And I’ll wait


With all this change

Feels like I’m going insane

And I’ll wait a little longer

Before I come back from hiding


Everybody wants a narrative

Everybody wants to hear a story

And all I want

Is to lay in the grass reading poetry

Instead I’m pushing buttons on a damn machine

Feeding the beast of the american dream


Everybody wants a narrative

Everybody wants to hear a story

and all I want 


Everybody wants a narrative

Everybody wants to hear a story

and all I want 


Is all I could have

1 OF EARTH AND ITS TIMELY DELIGHTS
Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – guitars, organ


2 MOURNING DRESS

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – vocals, guitars, percussion, marxophone 

Wesley Harper – bass, synths, vocals

Alex Wernquest – drums, vocals


3 ANNIVERSARY

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals 

Dylan Nowik – guitars, bass, drums

Wesley Harper – organ, piano

Leon Michels – flute


4 RACING

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – drums, guitar

Wesley Harper – guitars, bass, piano

Maeve Schallert – violin


5 LAVENDER BY NIGHT

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – guitars, percussion

Wesley Harper – bass, organs

Alex Wernquest – drums, percussion


6 PARALLEL LIVES

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – guitars, synths, glockenspiel, banjo 

Wesley Harper – bass, synths, piano

Alex Wernquest – drums, percussion

Maeve Schallert – violin

Alex Daud - additional vocals

Holland Belle - additional vocals


7 THE BAD LANDS

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – guitars

Wesley Harper – bass, organ, mellotron

Alex Wernquest – drums


8 EYES AS BIG AS SUNS

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals

Dylan Nowik – guitars, drums, percussion

Wesley Harper – bass, rhythm guitar, mellotron


9 GRAPEFRUIT DREAMS, FOR NOW

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals, field recordings

Dylan Nowik – guitar, field recordings, tape effects

Alex Daud - additional vocals

Holland Belle - additional vocals


10 MEMORY KNOWS

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals, rhythm guitar  

Dylan Nowik – guitars, vocals

Wesley Harper – bass, synths

Alex Wernquest – drums


11 EVERYBODY WANTS A NARRATIVE

Elizabeth Ibarra – vocals 

Dylan Nowik – guitars, keyboards, drums, synths, mellotron







Album Credits 

All songs written, produced and performed by Camp Saint Helene.

Additional performances by Maeve Shallert (Strings), Holland Belle (Voice), Alex Daud (Voice), Leon Michels (Flute).

Recorded at Basement Floods in Catskill, NY.

Mixed by Dylan Nowik

Mastered by Josh Bonati

Photography by Angela Ricciardi & Silken Weinburg

Album Design by Chase Shewbridge