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Ghosting

by Van Walker

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1.
Yellow eye, metal gears A yellow moon of sulphur tears Corrupted flames frame the night Bleeding wounds to parasites  Life slips by on your eye so slow Above as Below The meadow’s green, the meadow’s wild The meadow’s lush, no man in sight Only waves breaking foam, this is where our prayers intone Life slips by on your eye, this is home Above as Below The lookout’s sane, the lookout’s high But lookout, man, there’s no end in sight To all this pain and lunacy  I ain’t you and you ain’t me But you can call on me anytime if I can call on you And we can keep the darkside of the sun from ever coming through You don’t have to think I’m a saint, get it straight before we start I don’t want you to believe that I have only your own intrests at heart So dress it up when you’re feeling down, look for me, I will be around And when there’s walls between us, I will make a sound Life slips by on your eye so slow Above as Below  Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
2.
Spirit World 05:06
I remember every word you said Or I remember what I misinterpreted  But I rememeber, how could I forget Now you’re gone, I think I’ll lose my mind Dead and gone, I study evil all the time I miss you, baby, but I can’t bare saying goodbye So come on in and close the door Don’t stand out in the cold no more I been waiting oh so long To have you back where you belong Close to me, close enough to smell Close to me, and further from this hell I love you, baby.... Baby, can’t you tell She spent a lot of money on me When I had no money And we sat around the table drinking tea That old enormous table Oh and I still miss that girl  And I still wish that we had tried This love has never died She liked to go to barrooms Guaranteed, you’d find her in a barroom And we had a little baby  Oh but she didn’t want no baby Oh and I still miss that girl And I still wish that we had tried This love has never died So come on in and close the door Don’t stand out in the cold no more I been waiting oh so long To have you back where you belong Close to me, close enough to smell Close to me, and the spirit world I love you, baby.... Baby, can’t you tell  Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
3.
Nobody Knows 04:31
In the wilderness disappearing with each tree Now the birds can’t nest in the cemented city I understand we lost our way When our minds replaced our soul And the land destroyed for a petty wage was unsustainable But propaganda’s no surprise, the devil sings Her song so soft and sweet The Government it told us lies, bought and sold the ground under our feet Now here in this town all the jobs have gone The ones that once promised so much They’ve all closed down and now the old foreman’s out to lunch And nobody knows why the river won’t flow through this town Old Man ain’t been kind And nobody cares if the king has no heirs or lost his crown And now we can’t rewind And soon it will all be a memory When I look around I smell trouble on the wind An evil air prevails, servants to the devil’s every whim For we shook his hand and he let us down But tell me, what did we expect? A trustworthy man? Now we’re sorrow bound with an unmarked cheque Back in reality the common man picks up the slack Bowing down to big business with a lawful blade stuck in his back And they’ll never know all we gave away When we all succumbed to greed, the seed has been sown To a much darker day that we did not heed   Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
4.
Long night’s journey to day The price I must pay For loving you, babe  Stumbling around in the dark I’m falling apart Still chained to your heart For you have left me high and dry When you walked out on me But who said love is blind Still I cry Friendship closes its eyes So I go with the flow The bottle runs low Where does the time go? Midday drinking again Hello my old friend Till we meet again Oh and though I pray in vain You’ll return When I think about you Lonely teardrops fall For I know Who’s to blame Long night’s journey to day The price I must pay For loving you, babe And if I should forget I love you to death I’ll run out of breath Oh but how can I go on Without you here Laying down beside me And where did we go wrong Oh, I fear Please forgive me Oh and how can I explain All this pain I can’t explain a thing Baby please believe What you mean to me Everything Long night’s journey to day The price I must pay For loving you, baby Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
5.
Borderline 03:55
Meet me down at the Borderline I’m looking for an old friend of mine Last I heard she was living there Hanging out with her dyed blonde hair Maybe she won’t remember me It’s been so long, I guess I’ll see But I’ll bide my time And I’ll wait at the borderline We had a love many moons ago But she wanted more so I let her go I told myself let that girl run free But it broke my heart and nearly broke me So now I’m going far away God knows what I’m gonna say All in good time When we meet at the borderline I dream of her and her long dark hair I wake and can’t find her anywhere But if she still cares I know she’ll meet me there So meet me down at the Borderline I’m looking for an old friend of mine Last I heard she was living there Hiding out with her dyed blonde hair Maybe she won’t remember me It’s been so long, I guess I’ll see And if she ain’t kind, I’ll cross that borderline Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
6.
Crystal Ball 10:08
Last night as I lay down to sleep An image of you rose up to the surface  And as I passed beyond the gate of dreams  The reverie it gleamed my hidden purpose To leave behind this vale of tears And the bad years when I had stopped believing  That sincere motivation fights These lonely nights of fear and bitter feeling Oh for I have smelt the truth in lies Oh and I have seen the raven fly I rippled like the riders cape  The canoes wake, the glass that breaks and shatters And explodes into butterflies Before your eyes and tears the vale to tatters Like stars that cluster in the sky Like many eyes that cry and cannot forget The lonely fox, the clutch of eggs The rope of onions hanging around your neck Oh and I have fanned these flames of fire Oh and I have seen the raven tonight But standing here we burn daylight The morning bright, black plumes of smoke rings fading  The archer on the mossy stone Animals bones, three naked witches bathing And standing on the bridge of sighs I memorised the moment that I met you But an eagle does not hawk at flies All men must die yet still I can’t forget you Oh and I can’t speak your name tonight Oh and I have seen this raven in flight So light a candle for the one  Who flies on inky wings like a black diamond And open up another vein  It’s all the same, just drink up and keep smiling  For all your dreams so bittersweet Nothing’s quite as unreal as the morning To wake and find you’re still alive But something in your memory is calling For I have smelt the truth in lies And I must bid this raven goodbye Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
7.
Halo round my head I must be dead unless I’m high Smoke rings round my eyes I must be high unless I’m dead Angel when you call and I’m not home I’m on the town Trying to forget or break my neck without a sound Ever since you been gone I live alone among debris Lover you won’t get far in a burnt out car even with the key But do you remember that other life So long ago but the land of shades don’t lie I reached out for something and I lost your hand And I fell down into some dark distant land But you don’t show no pain I do the same or at least I try Hardest thing to do is play it cool and die inside Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
8.
To Be Sure 06:28
I’ve got so much to tell you I don’t know where to start This here life of mild manners ain’t like the reality of my heart But all the things I wanna tell you are all the things you never ask The backyard’s all grown over still I refuse to cut the grass Oh and now it’s growing round my door Guess I just wanted to be sure that you didn’t want me no more   There were tears on my pillow when I woke up from this dream Memories of a life long ago and things I still can’t quite believe Oh but now that I remember Now must I forget? For all the things we discard for all the things we ain’t found yet Take a bow, we must leave them in the past And go and find our new beginnings knowing full well they won’t last  Well, I wrote you a letter I didn’t send it for a year I guess I didn’t want to rush you with things you didn’t want to hear Not that it’s important In fact it’s all quite plain Little Dimi’s getting bigger And old Maz is still the same Anyhow, your silence makes it clear This old world ends with a whimper and we both just disappear  Cos I got so much to tell you I don’t know where to start This here life of mild manners ain’t like the reality of the heart But for every seed that’s planted and for every leaf that falls You know you sure got nothing when you once had it all Oh and how, why did I hold on to it for? Guess I just wanted to be sure that you didn’t want me no more Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
9.
Born to sing, born to roll the dice Born to set sail on an ocean of sacrifice For more sweet life  Sitting in my old bed ruminating but it ain’t a crime Thinking ‘bout the future but I wish I was back in time When you were mine  Oh baby I’m crying And the feeling in my heart is strange Since you went away It don’t feel the same Got a limping gait, got a walking cane Now I’m living in the city like a stranger that no one sees Trying to keep my head above the trouble that comes in three’s Poor, poor pitiful me Do you remember? When everybody played along till the game got done, till the loot was won But it ain’t over till the song is sung So baby let me roll the dice Let me pay the price for this sacrifice And if you won’t play fair girl I won’t play nice When the sun came up the streets were as cold as ice And I filled my cup with a warm tear from my eye As you passed by Just thinking about when you were mine Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
10.
Drifting too far from shore  Well she jumped ship and she left me I never seen her face no more Drifting too far from shore  I’m bored when I’m sober I’m bored when I’m high I’m bored with all this boredom Bored with reasons why Everything lately bores me I guess baby I’m a bore Drifting too far from shore I had myself a lover I loved her thru and thru But I looked that gift horse in the mouth And I turned it all to glue Started seeing shadows Doubting everything I saw Drifting too far from shore I’ve lost that spark of passion I always used to have Don’t know where it’s gone to or if it’s ever coming back Can’t find no direction Tell me what’s the reason for  Drifting too far from shore Everyday it seems like I’m losing ground You know I’m losing touch I tell myself to try to care Maybe I try too much Well she gave me all she had to give Baby everything and more But I was drifting too far from shore Now a fog is rolling in Thicker than the night I’m bobbing on a blackness out of range and out of sight Feel such alienation I’ve never felt before Drifting too far from shore Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
11.
Long Gone 03:29
Now it’s time to say goodbye, why? but it’s time to say goodbye And if we never meet again, my friend, remember the time that we met If we never meet again She’s gone, long gone Get gone, long gone, it’s time for us to leave I’m always walking down this road I suppose it’s the road that we chose So many years ago But I’ll hold dear your memory, please, baby, please remember me in the whispering of the trees Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
12.
Take my hand Be my girl, I’ll be your man And through this world we shall go A happy accident  And you will see There ain’t no one who can dance like me And tho I might dance slightly strange I’ll love you more than they For this world was made for lovers You and me And this world goes on without us Thankfully So raise your glass And while they try to win We’ll finish last Enjoy this life at our own pace While the headless chickens pass Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
13.
Closing Time 05:42
My drink is getting low I believe it’s closing time Too much trouble in my heart Too much worry on my mind Pack your bags and go  Pack your bags and hit the road My baby looked at me and said I just can’t live like this no more Well, it’s a long way down Baby it’s a long way back again Thing that’s hurting me the most  Is losing my best friend Hate to see you go Guess I won’t be trouble to you no more I got lucky for a minute I got lucky, that’s all I know Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
14.
I don’t remember too much these days Too much fire water under the bridge Too many nights out on the tiles Too many to distinguish   But as I farewell these memories that I’m losing Can’t seem to place the very day And I can’t recall what I was doing When you first stole my heart away Maybe there’s clues amid the debris Maybe there’s footprints in the snow Baby there’s so much sunken treasure Buried so deep down below So as I farewell these memories that I’m losing Can’t seem to place the very day No and I can’t recall what I was doing When you first stole my heart away But I remember you Now baby who knows you might remember When we sat holding hands upon the bridge The city skyline and sun a fading ember Each of us making a similar wish I don’t remember too much these days Once it was so hard to forget Too many heads and names I can’t place Baby don’t give up on me yet So as I farewell these memories that I’m losing Can’t seem to place the very day No and I can’t recall what I was doing When you first stole my heart away But I remember you Words and Music © Van Walker 2020
15.
Sometimes I can’t believe that we’ve made it so far Living so easy and drinking so hard I lost everything except this old cheap guitar And you know who you are You came into my life when I was in an awful way You swooped right in and you picked me up and you carried me away You led me through the darkness like a solitary star And you know who you are Well my friend he’s still on the prowl chasing the women To find a little something sweet and take it home with him But nowadays I only think of one while I’m drinking at the bar And you know who you are We drown ourselves in alcohol and music and smoke And we live on the outside cos people just don’t get the joke But I only care if one person’s there at my last hurrah And you know who you are So the world keeps on turning, getting warmer every day Obviously we’ve let her down and gone and lost our way But all in all, you’ve only been so good to me so far And you know who you are Words and Music © Van Walker 2020

credits

released August 28, 2020

Tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 recorded by Dave Walker @ Newtown, Victoria June 14 - 16, Nov 15 - 17, 2019.
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 10, 15 recorded by Jeff Lang @ The Enclave, Melbourne, 2015/2016

Mixed by Jeff Lang
jefflang.com.au
Mastered by Phil Georges
greensouthrecords.com/philgeorges
Cover photo by Hengki Koentjoro
hengki-koentjoro.com
Other black and white photos by Adam Gibson
adamgibson.com.au | instagram.com/adam.gibson.photo
Colour photo by Shannon McDonald
shannonmcdonald.com.au | @shannon_mcdonald
Artwork layout by Dave Walker

Heartfelt thanks to:

Dave Walker & Phil Georges @ Green South Records, Jeff Lang and Alison Ferrier, Dan, Chels, Caz, Nick, Sam, Shane, Bern, Matty, Adam, Shannon & Hengki.
Theo Coves for bass gear, Seamus & Maree, Rory Pitt, Clay and Kristy Cupples, Callan Walker, Rachel Walker, Nicole Combes, Kris Katsanis, Annie Johnsson
and all the venues of Melbourne and beyond.

This album is dedicated to Ruth Walker, who gave me life, and saved it more than a few times.

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Van Walker Melbourne, Australia

Born & raised on the windswept prairies of north-west coast Tasmania, Van first heard the music of Bob Dylan around adolescence & began picking guitar & writing songs. Some hundreds of songs later and a hell-bent pick, he moved to Melbourne to form bands such as The Swedish Magazines, Goatpiss Gasoline and The Livingstone Daisies, and sing his unique hillbilly stuff on the side. ... more

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