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We Know The Sky

by Yours Are The Only Ears

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1.
Dreamer 03:13
I fall asleep I live inside my dreams I don’t know what they mean I tell you everything I forget how to fly When you talk I close my eyes Imagine all the ways I lie Just to keep this alive And I wanted to be, like How I thought it was gonna be Like, how I thought it was supposed to be Could you see it how I see? I used to think you’d change for me Now I know better than to Wait for you I’ll be strong tomorrow Tonight I’ll just sing my song There is not more to talk about I said it all along And I wanted to feel, like How I thought it was gonna feel Like, how I thought this time was real
2.
You’ve been going at it all wrong Words missing from the songs And she’s my mom Take your hand off Hold a mirror up To the bathtub Where I’m crying For no reason And you’re screaming For no reason You and I know the sky We wanna fly But just this once I’m holding on Are you holding on?
3.
Horses 04:30
I arise, fire already in my eyes Butterflies, stay with me for a while Not surprised, I’m a horse you never meant to ride Otherwise, I’m fine But I wouldn’t know How slow, how slow The days could go Could go, could go No I wouldn’t know How slow, how slow The days could go Could go, could go All this time, you were a horse I wasn’t meant to ride Close my eyes, I’ll see you on the other side But I wouldn’t know How slow, how slow The days could go Could go, could go No I wouldn’t know How slow, how slow The days could go Could go, could go
4.
Bad Habit 03:57
I guess I couldn’t love you unconditionally Like you thought you loved me And I know it was real as the hands you used to Shove me into the night But I didn’t fall down I will be alright It happened twice Like when your eyes turned from blue and yellow To black in mine And I never meant to love you back It is just a bad habit that I have And you took advantage of it Just to wear me around your neck Lay me down in a bed of yours Where you’ve laid with many before I won’t cry if you won’t cry I’ll survive even if you want me to die You sing, “It’s strange” But you can’t change for me In my mind, I fly But I stayed for quite a while In the furthest recess Of your guilt and secrets I’m realizing how regret Is a holy weakness And our love began as a bet Between your friends And it ended As a breath between my lips
5.
Stained 03:12
That night is stained into my mind I knew better than to waste all this time, right? And I surrender please take this life I’m starting over please keep us in the light And your name is stained into my brain I knew better than to harbor all this shame, right? And I surrender please take this pain I’m starting over please keep us safe And your face is Stained into My Pillow So you’ve gotta go And I knew better than to bury all this pain I surrender please take what remains I surrender please take what remains I surrender please take what remains
6.
Full moon blue Blue moon love Salt bath but, ugh Full moon love I am full of Blue moon, blue moon blood Inside world Little girl Full moon girl Big blue box Full of rocks Memories, I lost Heart of blue Under the moon Wandering through, the blue Inside world Little girl Full moon girl
7.
I am a ghost with new skin I am a close but not kin I was once something you coveted It was a love before we were loving it I brought you close but not in Still scared of the beginning Of being alone and of the fortune you told I am a hole to crawl in A toast without the buttering You are a brain without the suffering An embrace for me to fall in You are my ghost with new skin Now every hill becomes a mountain I wanna run because I’m shivering I wanna fit without the blistering
8.
Swan Song 02:23
I can't relate I don't know why Can't celebrate my body It's too abstract for me So I just lay There bare and soft Let them get off This is my swan song A lifetime of not doing anything wrong Not the right way either Just not my way I'm your roommate And I don't know why I'm this way I'm prying open the jar Spilling the water on your car This is my swan song A lifetime of doing everything wrong And not my way either I'll lay down now
9.
Black Bear 02:25
Do you wanna keep me as your pet Free my mind of opinions? Leave a leash by the door And keep a bowl on the floor I could be so sweet I can’t bite if I’m asleep We could just kiss and reminisce Before the darkness settles in Then throw me out like a piece of trash You forgot to part with Oh what’s more disturbing than this? To be knowingly ominous To be a nightmare promised To be a black bear And violent I come to get my stuff All your lovers give me a hug They wanna comb my hair And help me pack up my underwear I don’t say, “Leave me alone” I don’t ask them to take me home I pick up what you thrown And start to write this poem Oh what’s more disturbing than this? To be knowingly ominous To be a nightmare promised To be a black bear And violent
10.
Love Me Too 03:17
I’m going away For longer than a day I wanted to know Did you know, how it would go? The cold wind is a sharpened feather And I’m farther now Than I was Four months ago But I do know That love is a shadow It’ll follow us everywhere we go The grass is dry and yellow Beneath the snow I’ll dig a hole for us to home But we’re so warm It’s a miracle And loving you Teaches me to Love me too

about

As Yours Are The Only Ears, Susannah Cutler is reaching for a fresh start. For years, the singer-songwriter sauntered through her every day, stretching to please the people in her life and disconnecting as a means of survival. It wasn’t until early 2020 after taking on the tasks set out in The Artist’s Way, that Cutler experienced a reckoning. When was the last time she was truly honest with herself? And what is she so afraid of? Piercing through the gauze of an almost simulated existence, Cutler pieced together a face she could finally recognize in the mirror and began crafting what would become her second album, We Know The Sky. Here, her shadow no longer lags behind, but instead immerses itself to flourish into a beautifully complicated, truthful reality.

Cutler’s debut album Knock Hard (2018) introduced a gentle, lo-fi artist who crafted an intimate experience akin to a whispered discussion between trusted friends. She began crafting a foundation for healing, but it’s on We Know The Sky that Cutler truly builds momentum into a sincere actuality. Breaking through the barriers of trauma doesn’t have to be a jolting experience, and it’s Cutler’s ability to transfer the soft, delicate nature of her arrangements with the pains of growth that We Know The Sky finds its home. Like a blossom sprouting through the cracks in the city’s concrete, Cutler urges optimism through the determined catharsis of introspection.

The artwork painted by Cutler herself, presents an ethereal all-white horse, galloping through a magical moonlit mountainous scene, framed by weaving bluebells. It’s said that if you wear a wreath of bluebells you will only be able to speak the truth, and here the horse points directly towards them, shedding any sense of hesitancy. “I want to be free like that, I want to break free from mental illness,” Cutler says. “It’s definitely an alluring image.” On the album’s title track, finger-picked guitar and elegant strings pushes towards this freedom, as Cutler not only navigates but faces the difficult generational patterns passed down through family, and more specifically, her relationship with her mom. This isn’t a searing, pointed-finger but rather a comfort in holding on despite it all, and the kind of closeness that can formulate through candid conversations.

credits

released March 24, 2023

All songs written by Susannah Cutler
Drums & Percussion on Horses, Bad Habit & Blue Moon Blood Engineered by Jeff Kanan at The Keep in Denver, CO
Drums & Percussion on Dreamer & We Know The Sky engineered by Julian Fader at Honey Jar in Brooklyn, NY
Drums & Percussion on Stained engineered by Ryan Jewell in Highmount, NY
Pedal Steel on Bad Habit engineered by J.R. Bohannon in Brooklyn, NY
Bass on We Know The Sky & Horses engineered by Bernard Casserly
Everything else was recorded by Susannah Cutler
Produced by Susannah Cutler
Mixed by M Deetz
Mastered By Ryan Schwabe
Album Art & Design by Susannah Cutler
Cover Painting Photographed by Sam Williams

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