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Digging Strawberry Ditches

by Pleasance House

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Off on my way soon To other lands, the fields of fruit I’ll only be gone For a while to where I found the sooner sun In the gardens I’ll toil the ground alone By the ocean’s breeze Back in the mountains The seeds of wants, my dirty hands Dug further into the madness Pining for her spirit to erase my sadness Strawberries, nothingness at rot But in this moment all I want Then on the island Where ocean fell and earth begins Give yourself some room to breathe With Swedish friends and only sand beneath your feet Goodbye to material and snow I’ve all I need
2.
Ain Salah 04:16
Love is a miracle Is a miracle Shame like you couldn’t know In the feelings of ruin Oh my world was on fire From my ragged wooded room And I’ve still not forgotten Your other-favored doom Life is a miracle Is a miracle Shame like you wouldn’t know In the feelings so cruel So I brought the firing fighter From the moments gone away Still keep it in the shadows In case I cannot stay Where is your Ain Salah All you’re looking for Desert bloom Where is your Shambhala All your golden sun Fated fruit Found in you
3.
Keep Dancing 04:35
When I was just four I made friends with the girl next door Played in her backyard Thought I’d marry her someday Funny thought to entertain Then she moved away We did too in 2004 We crossed the river The family was divided Me and my sister The back and forth, so frightened Oh no Finances were tight Backyard football, Friday nights I would care too much I got so afraid Clouds up there, tornado days Where’s the Lord this year Coming back so loud and clear I saw the planes and I thought the bombs were dropping They saw my face and Decided I was nothing Oh no Then in 2012 Just before the end dispelled Our grandfather passed Raised the flag in time Stars and stripes, half-mast, in flight Saw him in your dream Said keep dancing, just for me It’s so hard to keep on dancing Things keep changing, time keeps passing Fearing all the types of loss Feeling all this weight and cost Crossing through the sea of midpoints Infinite and flowing faster We all keep on dancing forward now We all keep on dancing
4.
Wait for the day That’s never coming back again Keep seeing you in my dreams The things you said Drove up to the Basin with you that May Sat with you among the trees that day At night we danced the light away in tune Moved along But why’d you deceive And why wouldn’t you leave Oh why wouldn’t you leave Oh the moment was fleeting And then I conceded I didn’t want you but I loved the feeling The sensual madness Your threats and the sadness of you leaving Oh ho, I couldn’t stop the weeping But then came another Her green eyes, her smile Her basement barcade lips, her wonder Then the winter in Osaka The lights and the vodka I walked away in shame with my coat from the locker Oh ho, I missed you but just for the scheming Oh I wish it was love, the true feeling
5.
Chimborazo 04:01
I was lost in every moment Reservations in displacement I was leaving, stuck in movement Contemplation of destruction But I Saw the light of it Saw the world a bit I’ve seen it all And I Can’t apologize For the mountains climbed Anymore Anymore I was loving every second Motorbiking east of planet Invitation of a new land But invocation into fate’s hand Sealed The whole world shut The panic ate our guts Invisible But I Will find my way again It’s not the final plan Out beyond Out beyond I’m not scared To keep climbing Chimborazo I’ll see you when I can I’m not scared To keep climbing Chimborazo I’ll see you when I can Oh I Will see you when I can On Chimborazo then Someday soon I know I’ll see you when I can On Chimborazo then Someday soon Someday soon
6.
January 10th 04:40
From Dallas rose A little one The tenth day Of that year The shoebox sound When we drove around Had made it So real Oh my best friend You always did Your own thing Your own thing Your mahogany box The photos of Your sweet face So true As you fell down The leaves fell all Around you One last time Your breathing stopped The morning before She came back Back home In ‘21 The first year’s come Without you Without you The permanence Of death can’t best The memory Of you I was so glad That I came back To see you When I did The three plus months Of wanderlust Sudden end Uncertain Oh everything It happens for A reason A reason The eight months spent With you my friend Will always Be proof I know you’re up there I know you’re up there I know you’re up there I know you’re up there
7.
Everyone tells you That you’re alright They can’t see the many things behind the brain, behind the mask That I’ve conveyed That I’ve conveyed I’ve not seen anyone For quite some time Middle of the darkest room Becomes reality for you The focal point The focal point Now I hear the rumble From my windowsill Calling out to everything In forest and the golden dream The sound of flowing water The sound of flowing water
8.
Kalaw 05:48
Last year In the west of Shan A sickness fell upon me before the trek began In the cabin Just tea and bread My world across the world, at home in Kalaw then All beauty ends Behold, the doom Asleep in standard breath Awoke the wounds True sacrifice, bloodshed Why, why? Must the young, for freedom, die You’re dying for your land The bombs come scorching, blood comes pouring through her hands Wishing for a better world The hearts keeping breaking over and over, at the hands of them Behold, the doom Asleep in standard breath Awoke the wounds True sacrifice, bloodshed Why, why? Must the young sacrifice their lives I can see this I can see this happening to us Nations screeching nations screeching please come save us It's happening It's happening to us
9.
Oh I want to write a love song But I want to make it true And I want to see you dance now Everybody loves you And the saying about lifetimes And the lasting of it all I just want it to last all time Till the world it goes Till the world it goes Your eyes I’m helpless now Your smile I’m breathless now Oh I want to piece together Till the day we’ll soon be done Do you want to take a dance then When I finally see you When I finally see you
10.
I am a new-day American I reach for the stars and burn my hands I am a new-day American Digging strawberry ditches in scorched lands I hope I can’t ever afford nice things So I’ll never be who you’ve been I’ll break my back for a half home My sweat and tears roll for the dollars I hold Hope I die without a dime to my name Buskin’ out in the streets, no care for fame Hope I die by a woman I love Some sweet natured girl sent from God on above Till then I hope I learn to live a little more Instead of staring at a screen, every moment a chore Hope I learn to love myself a little more In my old hoodies and the dirty shoes I wore In the box of dusty photos I can’t un-see In the younger evangelical scared me And I hope I learn to give a little more Something greater than the self as the only reward I don’t need a single material thing Just give me love, grace, and somewhere to be Hope I die without a dime to my name Buskin’ out in the streets, no care for fame

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"Digging Strawberry Ditches" is the sixth full-length album by Pleasance House. It is Pleasance House's first acoustic album in over five years, signaling a return to form for the soft, ethereal guitar-based music that Pleasance House originally came to be known for.

It is also an autobiographical expression about family, friends, relationships, thoughts, feelings, life choices, places, life, death, time, and all manner of other things.

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released December 1, 2021

Written, performed, recorded and produced between February 6 and May 29, 2021, in a room in Atlanta, Georgia, by Connor Burnett. The album cover was taken by Connor in the Dâmrei Mountains of Cambodia in January 2020.

© + ℗ 2021 Pleasance House // ZT198 ~ Z Tapes Records ~ 2021

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