We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

A Brighter Future Underground

by The Juniper Drive

/
  • Streaming + Download

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

      $5 USD  or more

     

1.
Decade 03:54
Trapped in suspended animation Waiting on the bitter end Sunlight lets me know Im still alive Come and take me home again I know I let you down for a while But I think its clear how scared I am Now all that I can ask of you Finding my way out Please don't die on me now Masked behind the eyes Committing silent crimes With smiles on their faces Its me they've come to terrorize We've come to tell you the truth The dream you had is dead And it will always be dead (from here on out) Finding my way out Please don't die on me now The dream you had is dead And it will always be dead.
2.
Bay State 03:55
If I have to make believe This world has something left for me I'll move out east and pray for something new Dressed in next year's bandages I cant afford to cling so tight to you I think its time for me to move Passion in a world so devoid Of reason I try to keep my poise As the ink is drying on This chapter of my life Its black and white And it can never be undone This town's not what it used to be Just memories and loose debris I don't look back Just pack my bags and run Ocean Im drowning in the salt Regret This is all my fucking fault Tide rise Eats away the stone Tide falls These rocks will never grow Run to the Atlantic
3.
Dover 04:59
The ice crystals on my window Look like 100 melting seagulls Evaporate and fly away But I feel frozen here in place Summer's here And I don't feel so free Quiet shores And no one's here with me If I could go back I would change everything We never had a chance Watch the sunset on the river Horizon eats the day alive The sky is full of vivid color And I pretend the stars are mine Its a lie and I cant make it true I tend to dream the world will wake up new If I could be the sky to shelter you I would hold my breath till I turned blue If I could go back I would change everything We never had a chance
4.
Deep orange The sails fly free The sky brings us one day apart There'r stars up high And the earth can breath And the sun falls heavy on our hearts Sun's rays caress me through the atmosphere All is well The winds above me sing I wonder where you are I wonder when I'll see you Will we meet again on the upswing?
5.
Stay Gold 03:36
You said your heart's still beating It just doesn't pump as hard But I cant stay this shape For you memory's sake I've lost my way And I've lost my ability to communicate And nothing is the same This doesn't seem so far away Until I take a closer look The ground is moving under me And as hard as I may try sometimes I cant wake up And I cant hold on for my own life Cause I don't have the trust I will stare at the sunrise I will stare till I go blind To find my own piece of truth Something I can sink my teeth into Show me how to Break down these walls of static that surround you Steady through the noise...
6.
5 AM 05:07
Forever awake This heart, this body aches Cousin of death Deliver me from this place Never again I search just to find a pad and a pen Tell these sleepers where I've been And take my leave Doomed to be awake to see all things to their end Bitter love will haunt the earth until all the life is dead And its 5 AM And I'll never sleep again I try to erase Just to see the empty page But the better words are lost Amongst the mess I made My mind is overrun And I think Im just afraid That the next dawn I see Wont mean a brand new day Awake to see all things to their end Bitter love will haunt the earth until all the life is dead And its 5 AM And I'll never sleep again The ghost of the house turns their lights off for them But they never know he's there And this is how its always been And its 5 AM And I'll never sleep again Its 5 AM and I'll never sleep again It hurts to remember But even worse to forget Where all these countless hours went while I was lying here in bed And I tried not to fail you Yes, I did my very best But all I ever gave back was a cold and empty nest I apologize for that and I'll apologize for this That if I had one wish I would take it all back From where Im standing Even the sun looks black
7.
Cold Toes 07:43
Its like my doubt is out to get me I thought you'd always be here with me But if we've come to a divide I'll see you on the other side I used to feel alive with you But we were in life's waiting room Well things are different than before And Im not waiting anymore I watched the golden sunset And it kissed my frozen cheeks My spirit wilted and weary Like I had been awake for weeks One week the grass was green The next the sun forgot And first I lost my sense of the direction Then I lost my train of thought I tried to take a walk And wound up getting lost... And who can write a love song When all the love is gone If the world is just a wasteland We might as well have dropped a bomb We have always been The means to our own end The fear that holds us tightly Will twist our good intentions Into something we can't recognize That leaves a painful scar behind That may or may not heal with time And can you hear the distant sound Of a lonely rock thats lost in space Where wasted time is never found And is the future brighter underground?
8.
Time 02:41
The time will pass in heartbeats The time will pass in car seats The time will pass on waking dreams That fray and split at every seam It seems to me a piece of this is missing The leaves will fall in autumn We'll sink right to the bottom And on the grass we'll finally stop You'll leave my stomach tied in knots And from up top we'll look like tiny dots We had this dream together But soon you wont remember I'll follow you around with chalk Tracing every step you walk So next time we can start where we left off So long...
9.
Believe I 07:40
Why do your eyes always seem so sad? Have we been getting older Moving way too fast? This life is like a storm This light will keep us warm But memory has lost Just what I came here for This ship is sinking Try to hold on to something And if you cant hold on You have to believe Sunlight on my face I find myself awake With memories of sleep Absent in the day A rainbow for this flood Tell me this will never ever ever Happen again Then put me back together This ship is sinking Try to hold on to something And if you cant hold on You have to believe When will this all make sense? Can we tie loose ends together Die without regrets? Will I ever have the chance To look back on this and laugh? To forgive myself for trying There was nothing there to find This ship is sinking Try to hold on to something And if you cant hold on You have to believe Don't lose your grip We'll sink with the ship and die Someday this will all make sense Hold on to me You have to believe
10.
Believe II 03:06
When you come home to a locked front door And no one wants to hear it anymore There's a light on the east side of the sky And all you want is someone to drive beside And you can run But you can't run it out It's in your bloodstream now
11.
Lovesick 02:57
Our daydreams own our lives We cannot live without When disappointment hangs Its ugly head around And I wish that I could know you You don't know how much this means to me Im cringing through October And I wish today was over Seasons of the heart control the weather No one said it'd be like heaven Our daydreams own our lives And I still get butterflies We live through so much space We live in black and white And Im waiting for a sign And Im gonna be alright But its lonely on this side This season is so haunting And I think the sky is falling But no one seems to care A song plays in my ear And its lovesick on repeat

about

The Juniper Drive is:
Blake Burbach - Guitar
Robert Kramer - Guitar, Vocals
Evan Morgenson - Bass, Vocals
Nora Nygard - Drums, percussion

This was our high school band. These songs were written primarily between 2008 and 2010. The album was recorded in 2011. Soon after tracking concluded, we all went away to school in various parts of the country. Due to this separation and other factors, official mixing on the album did not begin until 2015. We'd like to share it with you now in its completion.

Thank you for your patience, Dylan.

credits

released April 22, 2016

Recorded by David Swenson at Makoche Recording, Bismarck ND

Mixed by Blake Burbach and Robert Kramer

Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Mastering, Portland OR

Cover photo by Charlie Newcomb

Graphic design by Nora Nygard

All songs written and performed by The Juniper Drive.

All lyrics by Robert Kramer except Sun Falls Heavy* and portions of Bay State**

*lyrics by Nora Nygard and Evan Morgenson
**lyrics by Evan Morgenson

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Juniper Drive Bismarck, North Dakota

contact / help

Contact The Juniper Drive

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

The Juniper Drive recommends:

If you like The Juniper Drive, you may also like: