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Ghost of the Great Lakes

by Alex Mason

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1.
The Window 02:41
Open the window To see If the sea was all you ever Thought it would be Close the shutters, I can't see the blinds As for me from time to time Well I can't see the light at all The wind it is howling The room disappears How strange how our hopes Come to look like our fears And the waves make me nervous The way they can change Light to dark in an instant The way it all goes away The way it all goes away
2.
Enemy- remember me As the man that I was Not what I've become Is such a sad shallow sight to see An entity, an elegy Is all I've got left The skull on the desk Is a momento memory And it calls my name from the darkest space I can't think of it now, I think I lost my place And when I look back to see what could be chasing me It turns around and reveals its face It's just a ghost of the old great lakes That carries me back this way With the wind in my ears I can barely even hear Any word that the waves might say Any word that the waves might say An effigy pretends to be All that once was, The relief in the cut Is an intaglio printing And the wind rolls up and the clouds cave in It wasn't much of a fall from such a heavenly sin And when I waited it out for the voice to begin I think it sounds like I'm screaming It's just a ghost of the old great lakes That carries me back this way With the wind in my ears I can barely even hear Any word that the waves might say Any word that the waves might say I've become what I feared I've become what I feared One day that I'd become I've become what I feared I'd become that I feared I'd become I've become What I It's just a ghost of the old great lakes That carries me back this way With the wind in my ears I can barely even hear Any word that the waves might say Any word that the waves might
3.
Dark Days 03:57
I was floating In the middle of the ocean Couldn't find no port, no I was captured Overseas All my guardians Had abandoned me They said, "Son you don't leave it behind, Your destiny's the length of twine The harder you struggle to get out The more you're entwined" Well, The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone Gone What was I after, Up in the rafters? Can't find no peace For no one but me So I said to the Master What're you after? He said, "Nobody sees 'Til its Time, you can see" Well, The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone And I know when we go You can't hold onto the undertow And I see parts of me Return like rivers into the sea And I know when we go There's a little bit of you You'll find in me The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone The dark days, the dark days are gone
4.
You said the waves are part of me The way they part the seas Pumping vessels to the heart Of the inlet If love was just some current I've felt it pull me in But I've also Felt it let me out again Again But I'm the salt and you're the sea Dissolving into everything Cut from stone to coat What makes me clean And I've felt you underneath Rising up to meet me Will we break before we ever truly see Or are we just part of everything You said then time will show the way The cracking in his hands Shows the future When they're held up to his face But somehow either way There's a space that holds a distance So close But still so far away Away But I'm the salt and you're the sea Dissolving into everything Cut from stone to coat What makes me clean And I've felt you underneath Rising up to meet me Will we break before we ever truly see Or are we just part of everything I'm the salt and you're the sea Dissolving into everything Cut from stone to coat What makes me clean And I've felt you underneath Rising up to claim me Like some treasure long forgotten in the deep Or are we just part of everything
5.
They say the cure For anything Is the sea, salt water, or tears But I've only felt the sting They say that time Heals anything But it always leaves a scar Like a cold cup coffee ring, ring So I set Out on the lake Tried to cast out My past mistakes But they'll come back Just you wait Oh you're all washed up Thought I heard 'em say And if I ever make it out of this country's interior I guess I'll still be working on the Lake Superior blues So I made That journey back Took that map, Folded in half And all those outlines Traced in black Well they looked like lungs In a photograph And if I ever make it out of this country's interior I guess I'll still be working on the Lake Superior blues Don't try to walk on Water babe, You've gotta swim Just move those legs I won't be no Shipwrecked bay I'm just the wind Getting carried away And if I ever make it out of this country's interior I guess I'll still be working on the Lake Superior blues
6.
Me and my brothers Went down to the lake To throw out our stones At the waves Stood there so still From that high on the hill The water looked Just like a grave Water will fill any space It contains It seems life and death Act the same And things that need anchor Will always weigh down The weightless will just Float away On the shores of the bay Maybe we'll come back someday On the storms of Georgian Bay Maybe we're just like the waves Fear is a phantom No eyes can see That watches each move That you make The closer you get The more it recedes And the more that you give It just takes Like the shores of the bay Maybe we'll come back someday On the storms of Georgian Bay Maybe we're just like the waves On the shores of the bay Maybe we'll come back someday On the storms of Georgian Bay Maybe we're just like the waves Now that I'm older Those stones became boulders That block everything In their way Now I can see With the waves over me The smallest of stones Still has weight
7.
(Streams) 02:39
8.
River 04:48
When I knelt beside the stream It reflected back at me For a moment there I swore that I saw you But the image it gets caught Between what's real and what is not Like a sailor's tale and What we hold as true When I started looking back I only saw my tracks The way I think I thought I always knew But the trees they drink the lakes The air evaporates It's a cycle, all in all Becomes renewed And I looked out for you then In the trees above the wind I waited for your form To come in view But the past it has no shape Some ghost of the great lakes In time we all return To what we knew And my veins became a river In my blood I felt the stream Pouring from my eyes And falling to my feet Oh i know this is not the answer I know that there'll never be All there is is ever was And all that's supposed to be But somewhere I swear Like a river I'll be running back to you Through the air and the clouds Somehow everything it leads me back to you Somewhere I swear Like a river I'll be running back to you Through the air and the clouds Somehow everything it leads me back to you Somewhere Somewhere I knelt beside the stream It reflected back at me For a moment there I swore That I saw you
9.
St. John 04:05
When I saw mama being baptized I thought at first she drowned In that chapel Outside my hometown At times I feel the same Trying to keep my head above The ocean And the endless marching rain And I thought of St. John With the radio on And I thought to myself I don't have long They say a man can lose his life In a pool just inches deep And sometimes I can feel the rain In sheets on me while I sleep And lie awake If only but to dream I am covered in my sweat And I can't breathe And I thought of St. John With the radio on And I thought to myself I don't have long And I thought of St. John With the radio on And I thought to myself I don't have long Remember the time I almost drowned In that river By my house For reasons why I can't remember now But something in there Must have pulled me out And I thought of St. John With the radio on And I thought to myself I could be wrong And I thought of St. John Sing that song The old man and the river Just roll along And maybe that river Ain't as deep as it seems I walk home Muddy shoes and muddy feet
10.
Nova Scotia 04:32
Set out alone Head for the coast Keep going east 'Til you find Peggy's Cove Don't forget your coat In case it gets cold 'Cause the further you get The sooner you're home And just so you know I tried to find your ghost I searched every river And each open road Didn't see you though The trail just got cold Even Nova Scotia Didn't know which way to go And I held onto hope Like some kind of rope 'Til it twisted and burned me And I had to let go And I've seen the light Since I left you that night You said that leaving's the first part Of meeting, it's alright So I set to find Some kind of sign To let me know that You're doing alright Now I can see What always was It has to have been there To know when it's gone Set out alone Head for the coast Just let me know when You're coming back home

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released January 12, 2023

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