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Never is a long time

by IKARII

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    The album comes in a lovely double gatefold card case (true IKARII style), with artwork by Sean Marsh & photography by Emily Loughnan.

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1.
what would ya say to me, if i said “sorry, i can’t agree”? with all the bullshit things you’ve fed to me. i’m figuring out this the hard way. so tie me down, well outta reach from that rusted crown & the size of that waist, it ain’t enough to make it ok. so where, oh where are we going? why, oh why am i losing my mind? so what did you say to me? are you sorry? i disagree... fundamentally flawed from beginning to end but i have found a way to mend a heart attack, was all i needed to bring me back and my love will swell. i feel new with every single cell! where, oh where are we going? why, oh why am i losing my mind?
2.
live long, strong and free! love and memories… make better company! voyeuristic jealousy - none of that means shit to me! i’d rather live for me! i believe it’s true, we’ve only got the one, but how can we expect to see, when we’re always on the run.. well i believe it’s true, we breathe until we’re done, a beating heart, a mind apart, and our own setting sun.. if i were damned of body and soul, i’d turned this shit around - i’d swallow it whole! opportunity never knocks twice, this dog’ll have his day try, try until ya bleed, while the years fall away. i believe it’s true, we’ve only got the one, but how can we expect to see, when we’re always on the run.. well i believe it’s true, we breathe until we’re done, a beating heart, a mind apart, and our own setting sun...
3.
3rd Avenue 03:30
i gotta see it from another point of view or i’m not getting out. another day, another souvenir. oh it seems so very unclear. i got away, with murder today. i left my heart, by the bay. if you could stand another broken heart, let your love carry you back to the start. i wanna see it from another point of view ‘cause i’m now stuck on third avenue. a foggy window on the seven eighty-eight, well i’ll be home way too late. down portsea way, still underage. we sneak on in, i remember thinking this is where it begins! if you could stand another broken heart, let your love carry you back to the start. i’m not looking for the answers here, ‘cause i’m not stickin’ around… if you could stand another broken heart, let your love carry you back to the start.
4.
today, a retrospect on what we say, count the cracks in young naiveté. so blaze away little digital display there will be hell to pay… ‘cause you left us out here to rust, it wasn’t sugar coated enough! and we’re getting out, this is a one-way town and i will never stick around and some will say that this is real, well how should i know when i cannot feel?! take off that mask, give us the run-around. full speed ahead, that awkward frown. so obviously you have had some work done, oh it ain’t hard to tell, it looks to weigh a tonne …it wasn’t sugar coated enough! and we’re getting out, this is a one-way town and i will never stick around and some will say that this is real, well how should i know when i cannot feel?! some will say “should we sleep together?” and some will say “did you like the weather?” and some will say that they “refuse to listen” and some will say, yeah some will say… that you left us out here to rust, it wasn’t sugar coated enough… it wasn’t sugar coated enough! and we’re getting out! yeah we’re getting out! yeah we’re getting out!
5.
cut into my veins, it won’t hurt i won’t show any pain. like a rabbit in headlights, it’s the darkness we all know but don’t show. cut into me and i’ll sink into the deepest ocean, the darkest blue. you may not know me, but i know you... i know you! i’m not making excuses my friend, but this ain’t how it should be.. another day spent in bed, a heavy weight on your head, a vice-like grip that won’t let go. a rubber room with a view, i don’t see colour like you! cut into me and i’ll sink into the deepest ocean, the darkest blue. you may not know me, but i know you... i know you!
6.
Minute Man 03:39
count down minute man, you are the second hand. tick-tock, a better man - you are not. sell me another line, cop out one more time, i bet that when it gets tough you run and hide. slow to feel a thing, stubbornly right wing it matters not to me that you’re falling apart … ‘cause we will figure out, we are reckless in love. we won’t hold it out for you to take! of fortune’s favoured sons, you mate are not one. a wife and kids you can’t control, a profit share is all you hold. steal yourself another’s wage, lie about your cheating ways. lies, deceit will only end up alone …we will figure out, we are reckless in love. we won’t hold it out for you to take! we will figure out, we are reckless in love. we won’t hold it out for you to take! so, we see it clear, a tough exterior and spineless fear. it’s all been used, the good abused and you’ll be hung out to dry. we will figure out, we are reckless in love. we won’t hold it out for you take! we won’t hold it out for you take!
7.
head over heels, waiting in line, you’ll never know what is yours’ or is mine. stand still and tall, don’t move an inch. safe as can be with no need to flinch. the heart may decide, all on its own, it needs protection from all the unknown. controlling the voice, the head and the feet, despite yourself feeling so incomplete! the more you have to bleed, the less you feel hollow, hollow, hollow yeah... the more you have for grief, the less you feel sorrow, sorrow, sorrow yeah… welcoming warmth, lies and all truth, robbing us all of our life and our youth. bottle it up - ship it all south. stifle those thoughts before they reach your mouth.. lie, lie awake. do or dare. will it break? forced inward again. sow the seed so that it cannot mend! the more you have to bleed, the less you feel hollow, hollow, hollow yeah... the more you have for grief, the less you feel sorrow, sorrow, sorrow yeah… lie, lie awake. do or dare. will it break? forced inward again. sow the seed so it cannot mend and i love seasons change and on a whim it’ll make you insane! the more you have to bleed, the less you feel hollow, hollow, hollow yeah... the more you have for grief, the less you feel sorrow, sorrow, sorrow yeah…
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the more you have to bleed, the less you feel hollow. the more you have for grief, the less you feel sorrow.
9.
The Refuser 03:52
why, why you rip me up and cut me down? oh why, why we chew it up but not spit it out... oh why? is this what i’m waiting for, the pieces picked up for me off the floor? when i want to scream but I never can! trapped in a shell like a deaf and blind man! i have become the great refuser! i have become a typical lie! so why, why you rip me up and cut me down? oh why, why we chew it up but not spit it out... oh why? so is this what we’ve been waiting for? tongue in cheek with my jaw on the floor. suffering some dead air! aphasia, discrete and sudden defeat! comin’ to grip with words unsaid, buzzing around inside my head, they stab and they stab, ya gifted gab. seven hundred ‘n’ eighty three. learning again just how to speak my mind every time again... so why, why you rip me up and cut me down? oh why, why we chew it up but not spit it out... oh why?
10.
783 03:34
ya got that disease. you do anything you can to please and we think it’s sickening… that your head it is slipping down around the four corners where you were found. ya made up your bed, we never slept in it. i’m calling you up again. for fifteen hundred days you were underwater when all you ever saw was chaos and disorder. there are seven hundred and eighty three reasons why i’m losing my mind! and you rip flesh from bone, picking the pieces out one by one. stoned to death. we left you in the mess you made. you’re so far, so far apart. I gotta pick up my face off the floor when all that surrounds me keeps my head in check. fifteen hundred days, you were underwater when all you ever saw was chaos and disorder. there are seven hundred and eighty three reasons why i’m losing my mind! seven days, you assured me i’d be fine, you’d applaud me. plot a course with my heart, the barricades that kept us apart! take me away, far removed from here. so very far away. so rip flesh from bone and all of this is mine, none of this is your own.
11.
it ain’t exactly as it seems, our lives were never made the same and i’ll admit that it can get a little rough at times, but this ship ain’t gonna sail away… you gotta to see it for yourself, the view is beautiful and clear.. but you concern yourself with the worry, trouble, stress and neglect. we wonder how it took so long for all the parts to connect... when all i know is challenged everyday by what you see become a better me. i’ll float up stream to make amends! stay with me, like the river to the sea, well i might not mind, if it turns out just to be you & i... stay with me, fall to pieces, you will see that i believe, in the river… the river and the sea. i couldn’t listen to a word, a single fucking word you’d say. a problematic disposition that i’m sure you’ll agree, it makes us stronger and for longer we can finally see... that all i know is challenged everyday by what you see become a better me. float up stream and make amends! stay with me, like the river to the sea and i might not mind, if it turns out just to be you & i... stay with me, fall to pieces, you’ll believe, that i believe in the river, the river and the sea. stay with me! we’re all that we need! and time will tell! under your spell. so stay with me like the river to the sea, and i’ve made up my mind, it’ll turn out to be you & i. stay with me like the river to the sea, well i’ve made up my mind, it’ll turn out to be you & i...
12.
give it all i got and then some. holding my breath too long... i’m done with all these fears, i’ve lost a thousand years. proof i never had it at all. i’m living for the sun. i waited too long. utter one more word that stings true. collapse upon myself, you’ll see. i act the fool and run amuck, contrary to the rest. i need some air, i need to know you think of me the best. i’m living for the sun. i waited too long. deaf ears won’t listen when you say: “babe, this is killin’ the foreplay” mr refuser ya can’t stay, breakaway. i’m living for the sun. i waited too long.
13.
i gotta give it what it wants, i gotta take back what i learned once, i never seem to see it through, but maybe there’s some hope for me and... moved by the waves, floating on what i’ve been told. adrift and ablaze, i never take control. to win, to lose! i gotta pick n choose! tenfold, my soul, i gotta give it all! i hear your words, let me write ‘em down... i wanna see a smile - not a frown. seven ways i could ignore, a million times you moved towards the... faced with a choice, this story may never get told. i long for the dawn, i gotta take control! to win, to lose! i gotta pick n choose! tenfold, my soul, i gotta give it all! wait now, force it somehow… desperate, i vow... wait now, force it somehow… desperate now! to win, to lose! i gotta pick n choose! tenfold, my soul, i gotta give it all!

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It's been 3 long years since our last release and we feel the wait has been worth it.

This album was originally designed to be a staggered, chronologically ordered online release - 2 songs every 2 months (ie: Never is a long time Pt 1.) However, we all felt it needed to be much more than that.

We ventured out into the world of new studios, new places and new perspectives (having previously only ever worked with Matt Darcy @ Basin Productions).

We learned a lot... the good and the bad, who we are individually and collectively and have ended up with a product we couldn't be more proud of.

We are proud to present our first and last full length album: Never is a long time.

We hope you enjoy it,
IKARII

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released October 3, 2014

Sean Marsh, Mike Power, Riki Platt, Tim Haberfield

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IKARII Melbourne, Australia

We don't need red carpets, MTV, diamontees or band-aids on our faces. We just play the music that we love.

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