Summer Camp

from Good Grief by Bitter Calm

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

You can fall into faith
for a few final weeks.
You can follow your process
and lose all this sleep for good now.

We're stuck to the pages
of a book that you read
when you were young.
It spoke of this too.

Son, don't forget–
your place is right there in the sky now.
Fall down– you couldn't believe if you tried.
To find you,
sift through this pile
of postcards from summer camp,
bearing the weight of the world as we separate
into the parts that never add up.
Now I must recreate who I am.

In search of a lighthouse,
we've run up aground.
And how perfectly fateful–
we've never been found, I guess.
I've been thinking about all the times
you left your own head–
never left mine.
There's room for you too.

Son, don't forget–
you're losing your place in the sky now.
Fall down– you couldn't believe if you tried.
To find you,
sing me the songs
that you learned back in summer camp,
bury the weight of the words as they separate
into the parts we could never add up.
Now I must recreate who I am.

They always told me–
no matter how bad it got–
you were too stubborn to die.
They said we were too stubborn to die.

credits

from Good Grief, released August 16, 2019

license

about

Bitter Calm Birmingham, Alabama

Loud slow songs about love and death.

discography

Salt

Apr 2024
Good Grief

Aug 2019
Don't Look Down

May 2019

contact / help

Contact Bitter Calm

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Bitter Calm, you may also like:

Two Songs
by Poorly Drawn House

As exciting as experimental rock gets, Poorly Drawn House's controlled minimalist chaos is like caffeinated slowcore. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 17, 2024
go to album
I Don't Want to Believe
by Grass Jaw

A concept record taking an existentialist attitude to alienation with lurching, warbly, fried out rock music. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 6, 2024
go to album
Silhouette Machine
by Flooding

Kansas City trio Flooding draw out the more mystical qualities of slowcore and noise rock for a heavy sound that's less stony than doom. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2023
go to album
Drag All the Lights Inside
by Nesting

From Seattle comes this tumultuous art rock record, full of intricate songs that alternately whisper and kick. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 9, 2023
go to album
Turned Away
by Bedroom Eyes

Indie rock with a light shoegaze shimmer that won't blow your ears out. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 20, 2023
go to album
Print Selections
by bondo

From L.A. comes the latest from post-rock outfit bondo, with tendrils of spindly guitar snaking through arid percussion. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 4, 2023
go to album
It's Been a While
by Spiral XP

Euphoric noise pop from Seattle-based Spiral XP puts melodies first, feedback second. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 12, 2023
go to album