Subscribe
now to receive all the new
music
Brooks Long creates,
including
7 back-catalog releases,
delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android.
Learn more.
I’m never going to finish this new painting.
I’ll never make enough to pay the rent.
The creaking floors are my only music, [Slow down]
Bb Eb D
and the brush and palette are my only friends
I’ve got to get out of this apartment.
The cold light shivers through my bones.
Every Thursday, I walk to the market
and I see an angel heaven cannot hold.
Lorraine, queen of Express-line 4
In ancient times of yore
I’d sing a lovers plea
But Lorraine, my belly is full of rum
I’m a bum and I always will be
Today is the day I’ll find the courage
I’ll find it in the corner liquor store.
But as she does a price check on bananas,
I realize that she deserves much more
The streets are painted with discarded garbage.
The wind blows ghosts of plastic bags.
All my life, I’ve searched this town for beauty.
Is it something I deserve to have?
[Chorus]
I have determined I will have you.
Caress each line of your face.
Finally, someone to behold to
and keep away the temporal world’s decay
I’ll keep you wrapped up, hidden in my closet
whenever someone dropping by might see.
The thought of sharing you makes me nervous.
Lorraine, you know you mean so much to me.
The critics would get lost inside your iris.
They’d say you are my greatest work by far.
They’d put you for auction like a slave,
but they don’t even know who you are.
Everything this brother puts out is classic. Check out the label stuff, check out the independent. Check it all out. A giant you shouldn't sleep on. Brooks Long
Artists and friends across Virginia make up the collective 202; here, they work together to create folk-inflected R&B about love and loss. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 28, 2022