- a dedication
I forgot fools run
Between half the time I'm sudden
It's ok it's over
Innocent (in a sense?)
I long for the other
I will alone forget older after
Don't be scared it's over now, I swear
- All I Know
I can see your face on the wall
I hear your voice and I call
I feel the weight of it all
Can't brace myself for the fall
In the silence I hear your fading call
In your eyes I see and feel it all
In my mind I try to let go
- Amor Fati
Amor Fati [2011]
Don't drift too far
It's not your fault
Let go, reach out
The choice is yours
To find
- Belong
Let me see who you are
Let me see who you are
Don't try to hide the world that you belong
Let me see who you are
Let me see who you are
You're better off where you started from
I know it's where you want to go
- Don't Give Up
It's been so long
Since we said goodbye
Too much that went wrong
Has led us far apart
I was still surprised when I caught your eye after all this time
And it took me back to the times we had
- Entrance, It All Feels Right, All Over Now
Leaving heading eastbound
Weekend’s almost here now
It’s getting warmer outside
It all feels right
Call your friends, I’ll call mine
We’ll head out for a long ride
Sun is coming out now
It all feels right
- Eyes Be Closed
Your thoughts realign
Your words recall to mind
Your short sweet life
Hear voices all in time
Hear the words calling (by?)
Feel the wave form now, ride the foam,
See the world clearly now
- Far Away
Молодой Эрнест Грин терпит несколько жизненных неудач и решает отдохнуть от большого города в родительском доме, в глуши, у пустых берегов. Там он находит ворох поистертых воспоминаний о своем пришедшемся на восьмидесятые детстве, пару старых синтезаторов, «портостудию» и вдохновение — так получилась EP «Life of Leisure», которую он записал под псевдонимом Washed Out. На ней было шесть незамысловатых светло-грустных песен: ностальгия, лоу-фай, синтипоп, балеарик и сладостное настроение солнечного дня на пляже. Чуть позже это назовут чиллвейвом, Эрнеста — его пророком, а песни в течение 2009 года разлетятся по всем возможным музыкальным блогам вместе с треками успевших вовремя присоединиться коллег-чиллвейверов.
У этой музыки есть еще и очень откровенный, интимный оттенок — не в смысле сексуальности, как могло бы показаться из-за обложки, а в смысле душевного эксгибиционизма. «Within and Without» такой чистый, выкристаллизованный, такой самодостаточный, такой печально-сладостный и потому на нем звучит та музыка двухлетней давности, которая преобразовалась в такой особенной, совсем не соотносящейся с окружающим миром манере. Можно возразить, что ну как же, он же про любовь поет, какое же там одиночество — но в этом как раз вся соль; если все вышесказанное относилось к слову «without» в названии альбома, то «within» — это как раз про любовь. Только ту любовь, которая внутри и которую надо хранить и лелеять — и по возможности никому не показывать. Именно об этом пытается рассказать Washed Out — чем меньше снаружи, тем больше внутри...
- Feel It All Around
You feel it all around yourself
You know it's yours and no one else
You feel the thought of learning again
It's all around
You're tired of all the things you did
You'll work it out
You feel it all around yourself
- Haunt
Every night
You're right beside me
In my mind
You come and haunt me
I can't get past the
Things I did wrong
Broke your heart now
I can't move on
- Hide
Holding so tight
Think we're too blind to notice
Keep living a lie
We can't hide
Spent five years holding on
Spent five years all alone, alone
Now it's all gone away
If the fire's gone out
- It All Feels Right
Leaving heading eastbound, weekend’s almost here now
It’s getting warmer outside, it all feels right
Call your friends, I’ll call mine, we’ll head out for a long ride
Sun is coming out now, it all feels right
Close my eyes, think about the old times
What’s it all about? The feeling when it all works out
- Soft
(2011)
Inside
You know
It’s not
Your Fault
There comes a time
For all we’ve got inside
- Straight Back
What can I say this time
Which card shall I play
Dream is not over,
Dream is just away
And you will fly
Like some little wing
Straight back to the sun
Dream was not over
- Weightless
Close your eyes, you're weightless now
Floating safe and you'll be gone
Define of though, keep rising up
He'll raise you to the stars
You've waited all of your life to leave it all behind
Rise up, forget about yourself forever
Float up, forget about the pain, leave it all and start again
- You and I
You feel it all around yourself
You know it's yours and no one else
You'd feel the thought of loving again
It's all around
You're tired of all the things you did
You'll work it out
You feel it all around yourself
- You'll See It
fine, we'll try it
don't defy it
so you're frozen
know, you'll see it all the time
you'll see it all the time
and each way now
i feel it darker now