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Songs for Viktor

by Balto

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1.
Oh Amy, I’m surrendering at last I’m giving up on the dreams that kept me tied down in the past I’m going out where the river meets the sea Can an anchor like love pull me deep? Oh Lately, I’ve been tame beneath your hand I’ve been changing into something I can barely understand I was wild and hungry, and scared of the passing time Consumed by implications all the bullshit explanations why I can’t see it, but I feel it in my bones Something simple, something soft and warm, and slow No one told me it would feel like coming home But I could stay here Oh Baby, where I struggled now I rest With the sun behind my eyelids, dancing slowly across your bed And I turned and saw you shining by my side like the light at the end of the road to the bye and bye… I’m saying – I want to be your only friend This world keeps getting uglier but I want to hold you till the end Could I love you now could I swear that I always will? Could you believe in what I’m saying – In spite of all I’ve done, I swear it… I can’t see it, but I feel it in my bones Something simple, something soft and warm, and slow No one told me it would feel like coming home But I could stay here
2.
It’s the end of the season And I’m dreaming of April In a porcelain dream The rain coming down again And my lover is calling I can’t answer the call The empty apartment The powdered amphetamine stashed in the wall You know I’ve been hiding Being judge being jury being in the wrong I married a painter We were forces of nature We were bright years in love But I felt myself changing Callous and sharpened Increasingly numb Then I met April I got trapped in the memory Of a future I lost So I let her down And she keeps reaching out Knowing all I need is a little help I wish I were sleeping But I’m feeling the warning It’s a cellophane dawn April’s performing Spinning old records While I lean on the wall But she doesn’t want me And If I can’t have April, don’t think I can watch Tracing cracks in the ceiling Man I wish I could slip out into some other song Yeah, I’ve been out drinking I just talk past my friends Trying to talk to myself I wish I could see you Just for a moment thought the fever had passed My lover is calling But my porcelain dream I can never take back So I let her down And she keeps reaching out Knowing all I need is a little help Just a little help

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released July 27, 2018

Daniel Sheron – Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Piano
Luke Beckel – Guitars, Vocals
Seth Mower – Drums
Ben Mower – Bass

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Philippe Bronchtein – Wurlitzer, Farfisa
Emmanuel Henreid - Vocals
Moorea Masa - Vocals

Produced by Balto & Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Engineered & Mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Mastered by Dave McNair

Recorded October 2017 at Dead Aunt Thelma's in Portland, OR
Additional recording December 2017 at Jeff's in Portland.

Cover Photo by Seth Ian Mower
Cover Illustration by Tiffany Patterson

Arranged by Balto
Vocal Arrangement on Pt. 2 by Emmanuel Henreid
Songs by Daniel Sheron (SESAC)
All Songs © On the Rails Music (SESAC)
©℗ 2018 Total Reality Meltdown
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