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Wendy

by Small Wonder

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1.
i'm a weak young thing but it's this song i sing that puts the strength back in my bones puts the feathers on your wings and it sleeps in your soul in your heart of gold it pulls the hymnals out of nowhere crushes diamonds out of coal when all i've known is said or sung no stone unturned no rag unwrung my banner flown my youth returned with our lungs void our voice was heard and when you left home did your friends all go "we were never really here we were never carved in stone" so open your window let your fever grow for the grace of god go i and i am never going home when hands can't hold the light i see the first bird sang this song to me "with my strength spent with my heart cold i put my faith in rock and roll" ...ball lightning ball lightning ball lightning ball lightning
2.
I was bound for east Chicago but changed my warpath let my hair grow don't worry it will reach your shoulders don't worry cause the winds are changing don't worry darling, we'll climb boulders to reach a place that's never aging, like we are and I was stuck in the place that you go but you came through and opened up my windows and suddenly a light filled my bedroom suddenly I was whole again suddenly I had found my shadow and you were ready to let me in to your arms with my hairline receding my heart was still beating my fingernails growing my arms overflowing but then a light lit my back walls the whites filled my eyeballs and o, suddenly i could see clearly again and o suddenly i could see clearly again you were breaking and i was broken scratched my vinyl and said words already spoken like "suddenly my seams are bursting suddenly my soul has escaped suddenly my fingers ungrasping had let loose all my hateful thoughts" with my hairline receding my heart was still beating my fingernails growing my arms overflowing but then a light lit my back walls the whites filled my eyeballs and o, suddenly i could see clearly again and o, suddenly i could see clearly again and o, suddenly i could see clearly again
3.
you are a lighthouse you are what guides my boats to shore and you are a raindrop the water that washes my mind pure and you are a whirlwind you are the light that fills my spaces and i'm a disciple to the patron saint of pretty faces and i know that i can't be the cure to what ails you but know that i stand beneath if that cure should fail you cause in my dreams we're alive in my dreams we don't ever die you are a long road but i was born to return home and you bred a sadness the kind that sleeps inside my bones and i know you can't conceive that someone could love you but thats just cause you can't see the light that hangs above you cause in my dreams we're alive in my dreams we don't ever die...
4.
baby bird fly home the wild wind sleeps in your bones and though your road is long though your wings are weak your heart is strong as hell summer came in on a wind suddenly i'm a kid again but this time i won't hide in whispers this time i won't be scared of cars this time when we're lost at sea or highway i won't ask you where we are cause we're home baby bird please fly home i've chipped teeth but i've never broken bone feeling good, i'm feeling fine feels like i'm living on borrowed time and if it feels like the waters are rising it's just cause the good ones are dying and if it feels like your friends are all leaving it's just cause the kids stopped believing baby bird please fly home i've chipped teeth but i've never broken bone feeling good, i'm feeling fine feels like i'm living on borrowed time and if it feels like the waters are rising it's just cause the good ones are dying and if it feels like your friends are all leaving it's just cause the kids stopped believing and if it feels like the good times are ending it's just cause the kids stopped pretending and if it feels like your friends are all leaving it's just cause the kids stopped believing in...
5.
watching your father die 4.9 on a scale of 5 but you keep it locked inside so when he goes, he goes suddenly, suddenly watching my father cry as my uncle's swallowed by the dark that's when i learned that i would die that's when i prayed to god that i'd go suddenly, suddenly i know i won't go quick and easy i know i'll go down roads long and narrow i know i won't go suddenly, suddenly
6.
each day my heart grows fonder one day i'll be your small wonder each day my heart grows fonder one day i'll be your small wonder i am the moss that grows on stones and i am the rocks that pave your roads and when you inhale i fill your lungs and when you exhale don't let me out into the world each day my heart grows fonder one day i'll be your small wonder each day my heart grows fonder one day i'll be your small wonder and i saw her mouth protecting her pearl putting a scar on the symmetrical and i used to dream of such great things but the moths look like leaves until they open their wings each day my heart grows fonder one day i'll be your small wonder each day my heart grows fonder one day i'll be your small wonder come on henry i'm not- come on henry i'm not wendy i am human only in form and i'll tread lightly on your light beams hide them inside to keep me warm I was the worst of us my arms let loose the one i loved and left me standing there my knuckles raw my ankles bare but lady epiphany whispered a sweetness unto me what i had always known "you'll have to do this on your own" some days my arms can't hold her but one day she'll be my small wonder some days my arms can't hold her but one day she'll be my small wonder
7.
say it once for me say it once for me say "henry i'm so tired come and rock me gently as the wind blows through my window and i slowly fall asleep and you can watch me breathe and you can watch me dream and you can watch my horrors slowly seep out of my seams and when the storm comes back to brooklyn leave the nightlight on for me" cause i'm scared that i'm so boring where's the boy with his heart unscrewed 17 an eyeball sprouted center of my forehead showing me what I now stood to lose it was the wind let loose it was the wind let loose it was the love i ripped from cold dead fingers it was the wind let loose say it once for me say it once for me say "henry we're so proud you're stronger than you've ever been we're so glad to stand behind you we're so proud to be your friends you're gonna have to be more brave you're gonna have to be more tough but you'll never be alone because you're nothing if not loved and when the storm comes back to brooklyn leave the nightlight on for us" cause i'm scared that i'm so boring where's the boy with his heart unscrewed 21 i realized that i no longer was emptied of all the things i thought i'd one day lose like the wind let loose like the wind let loose like the love i ripped from cold dead fingers like the wind let loose when i was young, yeah i dreamed of horses let loose on and open road or plain ran wild with the beasts of burden made use of my mothers maiden name "Henry May Wander but not very far" i'll be the storm coming back to brooklyn carried on the backs of broken stars i'll be the wind let loose i'll be the wind let loose i'll be the love i ripped from cold dead fingers i'll be the wind let loose

about

"It makes me want to sob. It makes me want to hug everyone I’ve ever loved and apologise to all of those that I’ve let down. It makes me want to crawl in to the one I love now and hold her for longer than I ever have before. I feel connected to it. I feel like I grew up with it; like it knows all of my secrets and fears and hidden memories. I feel like it was made only for me. I feel like maybe it was made by me." - Gold Flake Paint

the people and places that i have to thank are countless, but i can try to thank as many as i can
oliver, felix, gabby, emily, hank, james and all my other epoch homies, thanks for the constant inspiration and encouragement. thank you.

thank you to all my chicago friends for nursing me through a harsh winter, and to all the people in the new york underground who took me under their wings. thank you.

thanks to Jack for being the best friend and accomplice that anyone could ask for.


the epoch is now
-SW

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released January 20, 2014

Small Wonder is henry crawford and vice versa


all songs written, performed and arranged by Henry Crawford with help from Susannah Cutler and Jack Greenleaf

Recorded by Jack Greenleaf (music.sharplessmusic.com)

Susannah Cutler sings on Until I Open My Wings and Wind Let Loose
Jack Greenleaf sings on Wind Let Loose.
Drums on Until I Open My Wings by James Wilcox (thejcw.bandcamp.com)
Cover artwork by Susannah Cutler (cargocollective.com/anulee/)

if you want to contact Small Wonder you can reach me at henrycrawford612@gmail.com

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