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Phantom Dad

by Ghost Dads

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1.
Ghost Dadssssssssssssssssss
2.
We could run, but I won't like the feeling. So familiar, just let us be. Dodging thoughts and staring at the ceiling. Staggered sleeping and ruffled sheets. I know you'll count me out. I think I'm better off, cause when your harsh wind hits my face too much it starts to just feel numb. I think I'll keep quiet from now on, for fear of losing touch.
3.
Turn it slow, watch it glow. Warm our hands in the pan. Never boils. Pour the oil. Overflow. Let it go. Breathe in deep. Fall asleep. All decays, anyway. Meet back some day, anyway.
4.
3:32 pm 00:47
One time I opened my window and stuck out my head and waited for the exact moment the almanac said winter would turn on its dim bulb. It was 3:32 pm December 22nd and nothing happened at all. It was like thinking about whether or not I was in love.
5.
Oh, please raise me. I'm kneeling from this winter. Thoughts and feeling reeling with my demands, and hers. But time just keeps persisting, loving, lulling on. A subtle wind could change the course of this song. Space is fading, and straining on the beams of the cabin we built two years ago. And we've been rotting out in this deepening rut. But time just keeps persisting, loving, lulling on. A subtle wind could change the course of this song.
6.
7.
State 03:03
I am staring at a letter from a man I used to know. He is dead now, so he rarely ever calls. And standing here in this location, in the world’s united nations, makes me wonder if he ever did at all. And I am staring at the ceiling searching for words to tell this feeling you're not welcome and, please, leave my friends alone. Cause laying here inside my bedroom, wrapped in blankets, I assume that no one else deserves to feel just quite as low. And I am staring in a mirror, wondering what it is I see there; is it me or just a stranger in disguise? Cause standing in this public bathroom I could have swore I always knew that if I just reached out I’d touch the other side. And I am staring at my mother, hoping someday she’ll recover from our childhoods, the shitty games we played. Cause standing here inside her kitchen makes me realize all I’m missing’s just the guilt from all the debts I never paid. And I am staring at my father trying hard to tell his daughter, "We’re all fucked up, but I love you just the same. And standing here in this location, in the world’s united nations, makes me realize that all else is just a game.” And I am staring at my sister, wondering what she will become, now that she’s older than she’s ever been before. And standing here inside her dorm I am trying hard to warm up to the fact that her promise is more than mine will ever be And I am staring at a lifetime so much longer than I can take, and it is simply waiting for me to begin. But I will live its every moment and I will love as best I can, and they will bury me with flowers with my kin. And I am

about

We made this album over the spring and summer of 2013 because we were bored and like playing music together. Soooooo...

credits

released August 23, 2013

Eddie Maurer - vocals, guitar, bowed guitar
Liam Kingsley - vocals, banjo, bowed banjo

All music and lyrics written and performed by Eddie Maurer & Liam Kingsley.

Eddie is thankless and spites God.

Liam is more grateful and would like to thank our friends and families (including Emma Maurer) and every girl that we wrote songs about. We are so very sorry.

3:32 pm uses Zachary Cox's reading of Christopher Kingsley's poem "Large Occasions" from "What The Truth Can Do." Permission was granted by both parties. Thanks to them for being so dope.

Album art by Hannah Kingsley

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