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Nice Kind of Pain

by Kathleen Mary Lee

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1.
my mouth it is heavy our words are low your eyes have gone out of the window to where mine have been watching the wind for longer than you have known and over the rooftops high in the air they'll meet and they'll greet and they'll fall in love there and us with our bodies here in this room beneath all the ceiling and beneath all the gloom and it is a goodbye sort of a day the sun is sinking in its slow way and the night is just waiting for us to say our goodbyes in our own little way and our bodies tried talking but they just can't get by yours is to bold where mine is too shy yours is so honest mine wants to be free and you want the world and I want the sea and it is a nothing sort of a time us on the floor with our eyes in the sky and we're never quite touching never quite not and it's hard to keep warm when that's all that you've got and I've seen the water it's moving on past and it doesn't want you and it doesn't want us it just wants the sea the sound of the birds and all of that stuff that flees from the earth so let's take our eyes back from where they lie high above the rooftops high in the sky you'll need yours to find your way off the floor and I'll need mine to find my way to the door and it is a goodbye sort of a day so take your hands away from your face and give me your eyes one last time I want to see what happens when I tell them goodbye and all the while I was waiting softly for you though I know we're not lonely what good is that to this mood nothing's ever any good for this mood
2.
Fine Times 04:20
if you only hadn't denied that there was anything in your eyes i might not have shamed your ears with all that was in mine i wish i hadn't for a while ah but now i don't mind i may as well let it pass me by i was tired of hoping and pretending we both didn't know and anyway it's alright because time will pass anyway it might not be so bright but it'll move on just the same and there'll be fine time kind times and time will get along without you i started to fall to the fire where you've already burned so much both your hands all your time and the others who got too close where you're not even the god you're just a sacrifice oh i'd like to hold you down make it all come out and pass with you through the halls like you've already done before with the roland of your life and anyway it's alright cos time will pass anyway it might not be so nice but it'll move on just the same and there'll be fine times kind times and time will get along despite you
3.
My Attempt 02:57
do not leave the lights on when you go i will not open my eyes because i don't want to know what's left behind but then the day gets warm the clouds are high makes me want to do something kind like let you pass by stop trying to mark you with my time just let you go unaffected by my attempt at love and if you leave the lights on when you go i may not stay here long this house only shows up all that is gone but then the day gets warm the clouds are high makes me want to do something kind like let you pass by stop trying to mark you with my time just let you go unaffected by my attempt at love
4.
i saw in a photo she'd captured the smile i thought only i could bring to your eyes and moments, minutes, hours gone by all for the sake of that very smile for i was the first to find all your pain pick up your limbs, uncover your face my fingers, my mouth, all of my grace all for the sake of that very pain ah but now when we meet i can't always find our kindest moments in your high blue eyes despite all our words, despite all our time i think you just might have let them pass by but i am not like the world, i mean what i say though others will come and feelings will change i will never let anything come in the way of all of my kindness and all of your pain
5.
I belong to the world But only on very high days Else let me run to your arms Before it swallows me away There is a hollow in me That gets big for things like the sea And it comes up to my eyes Because it longs to be seen But my eyes just make you smile Yeah, you only see what you like And I guess you only like Things that make you smile So let it swell in me It’s a nice kind of pain It stretches out into the sea And it lengthens my days I long to live high And I’ve longed it for a while Up above the sea And this empty weight in me But it never comes And it’s me that keeps it back But I would not long for the sea If it was something I could have So let it swell in me It’s a nice kind of pain It stretches out into the sea And it lengthens my days And I do not think in the world There is anything at all Could take away this mood That holds me down so low But it gives me something to do Whilst the day passes on Yes I long for it to leave And I’ve always liked to long So let it swell in me It’s a nice kind of pain It stretches out into the sea And it lengthens my days Oh let it swell in me It’s a nice kind of pain It stretches out into the sea And it lengthens my days
6.
hey, very good friend I think that I've spoiled the time that i know you wouldn't have given to me if you'd seen what i'd done to our future with my mind but it was just for the sake of dreaming and i knew all the while that every moment i spent that way i deserved you even less but it was so nice at least for a dark mind and for the first time i saw a kind life but hey it's alright because i was getting tired of me too and hey, very good friend it wasn't that i thought i deserved you but i thought what made you so kind might forgive what made me cruel but only because of that time that you looked at my eyes for too long or that time in the street when you looked back as many times as me or because it was so nice at least for a dark mind and for the first time i saw a kind life but hey it's alright cos i was getting tired of me too

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released July 1, 2016

All songs written and performed by Kathleen Mary Lee. All songs produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by Isaac Barter. ‘The Goodbye Song’ features vocals by Christopher Coleman. ‘Hours Gone By’ features vocals by Tom Wright. ‘Hey Very Good Friend’ features trumpet by Jeremiah Rose. All other instrumentation by Isaac Barter and Kathleen Mary Lee.
Cover Art By: Yelena Sayko
Cover Design by: Will Devereux
Special Thanks: Matthew Kenneally, Kate Lee, Jeremiah Rose, Tanya Batt

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Kathleen Mary Lee Melbourne, Australia

Kathleen Mary Lee is an alternative folk artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her 2016 debut EP “Nice Kind of Pain” received attention and airplay on some of Australia’s top radio stations.
Lee is also the songwriter and front man for Melbourne indie band, “The Beautiful Losers”, who are set to release their first single this September. She is also currently working on her second solo record.
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