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Going To The Sun

by Going To The Sun

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1.
New Year 03:50
i made it out, i made it here to rip the last page from the year off the grid and off the map so i can get my bearings back giving up my alibis giving birth and giving rise to all the things i've left for dead the holding on, the letting go, making angels in the snow stoke the fire and stir the pot, throw in everything we've got all the stories yet to tell, all the life to live so well how much is left is hard to tell so we just live it life is steep babe, don't look down, everything we've got is NOW no time like when you're around, everything we've got is NOW i woke up high above the earth to see the day for all its worth giving birth and giving rise, water falling from my eyes what a thing to be so blessed fullness rising in my chest, i can't hold it all inside all the knots twisted in my tongue and all the things i haven't done ghosts of men that i could be rising up and haunting me echoes ringing in the night say: "only you could give us life. only YOU could give us life!" so let's just give it
2.
here we are alone in the same room me and my shadow, my loneliness, grief, and my gloom what am i to believe when the lights go out dancing in the dark with my faith and my doubt here i am, i've pushed you away again when i'm aching for communion instead i just take it on the chin have i turned a blind eye, maybe a deaf ear to the beauty, the music, the love all surrounding me here i've got a cock fightin’, bull runnin’ son of a gun inside my head and he's talking over every word you've said keep that fading fire light from burning out dancing in the dark with faith and doubt burning the road, i've been on the chase or running away from the things that i'm too scared to face and i want to believe that love wins out dancing in the dark with my faith and my doubt here we are alone in the same room altogether alone with our grief and our gloom can we tell the truth when the lights are all out dancing in the dark with faith and doubt
3.
my love jumped on a boat that crossed the sea halfway around the world she waits for me i thought we'd go together, but this was just her time who knows how long i'll be stuck in line we promised we would read what the other wrote i've been looking for a bottle with a note the currents have been funny, and i do believe you've tried but all along the shore nothing but tide on a distant shore, wait for me i've got some things to do, things to see i'll be coming home, wait for me wait for me i was next in line, but i got turned away said my shots are due, my passport's out of date i guess i've got some time here before i'm getting through explore these shores before i get to you now a summer's passed and we're a world apart but you're just as close as ever to my heart throw a bottle to the ocean, godspeed my love to you may the wind and waves carry my song through my love jumped on a boat that crossed the sea halfway around the world she waits for me until i get a ticket on that fabulous great ride i'll be here with an eye cast on the tide
4.
sometimes i feel like i'll never get over you sometimes i feel like i just don't want to we had the beat, the beat on a sweet song til the party was over, and i'm still holding on how long can you carry a broken heart? sometimes i feel like i might be losing you like time is moving on and i just don't want it to we got what we got, and that's all she wrote but i've got a way of dragging out that final note how long can you carry a broken heart before you feel ready for some new start how long can you carry a broken heart how long can you carry a broken heart before it weighs you down and breaks your arms how long can you carry a broken heart all the king's horses, all the king's men couldn't put the kingdom together again their hands couldn't fix what time will mend hands can't fix what time will mend how wide is the river, frozen cold how long until these are the days of old how long can you carry what you just can't hold you just can't hold how long can you carry a broken heart before you feel ready for some new start how long can you carry a broken heart
5.
So Separate 04:15
where have you been, my son, my friend, my love do you know that you've been running away feeling separated, so isolated you're getting dark, darker by the day how long has it been since you've really told the truth looking in the mirror when lights are all out feeling so separate, so isolated surrounded by your darkness and your doubt have you not felt the buzz when i've been calling or have you ignored the ringing in your ear feeling separated by a canyon's great divide but i'm right beside you, always near the weight of guilt and time keeps you from calling but i'm here with you, even as you run away feeling so separate, but i'm here waiting for the night to run its course and turn to day you can call me you can call me you can call me you can call me HOME
6.
i met you on a starlit night our first communion looking to the sky you asked me why we've only one heart when there's so much to love in this world when there's so much to love, and lose, we must be strong our hearts keeping on we jumped into the fire, no looking back the flames dancing high above the ash we've known the sweetness, the sweetness through the years tempered and seasoned with the salt from our tears and here i am with all of my heart i give you all my love in this world and there's so much to hold, and lose, but love is strong our hearts keeping on as long as i've got arms i'll hold you near as long as i've got lips, they're yours my dear 'cause here we are, holding one heart and there's so much to love in this world there's so much to love, and that's what keeps us strong our hearts keeping on
7.
you chase me down until you grab me i feel you push, i feel you pull, but you can't have me i'm getting out of this tired grip that's trying to drag me down out of the night, out of the black see the ship on the horizon sailing back i'm getting out, ‘cause i'm sick and tired of bringing myself down i'll travel from pole to pole from the mountaintop to the darkest hole to the quiet place inside my soul to find what i've been missing all along i'm holding on to what i've got and you can't take it from me with my lot i'm getting out of this tired grip that’s trying to drag me down my body bruised, my mind corrupt but something deep inside me pulls me up i'm getting out, ‘cause i'm sick and tired of bringing myself down i'll make friends with jeckyl & hyde too little, too much, tangled up inside let it out, let it in, for a glorious ride find a place where we belong i'll travel from pole to pole from the mountaintop to the darkest hole to the quiet place inside my soul to find what i've been missing all along i'm on fire and i'm shoutin’ you're gonna see me at the top of the mountain looking out on all the gravity that held me down out of the night, out of the black see the ship on the horizon, bringing blue skies back i'm getting out, ‘cause i'm sick and tired of bringing myself down
8.
someday when we're old, and we still have our minds when we've truly loved the world and found all there is to find may we lie down in the grass when our time has finally passed and let the wind carry us away no earthquakes or starvation, no wreckage or devastation no gunshots, no drowning, or long stays in hospital beds just the sweet, sweet caress of a mother's tenderness as we lie down, down with the dead we'll say isn't it amazing the way we rode the edge between love and misery and fear and faith and doubt, life and death what's waiting at the end? i'd love to do it all again we'll see our beloved family pulling us up and out into the tunnel of love at the end of the valley of doubt what's waiting at the end? i'd love to do it all again the joy, the pain, the roller coaster ride you and me, side by side saying isn't it amazing the way we rode the edge between love and misery and fear and faith and doubt, life and death what's waiting at the end? i'd love to do it with you again
9.
there's a smell in the air tonight of autumn turning over something from my past, when I lay dreaming in the clover there's a tingling in my skin tonight that makes me feel alive a river of pins and needles on the rise and the taste that’s in my mouth tonight reminds me of the good times when we sat and watched the sun sink down to meet the endless tide and the beat that's in my heart tonight makes me feel like moving and dancing on the coals through the fire it's the feeling that you get when you feel like you've been there and if you hold your mouth right, you just might get back there it's tricky like a bashful ghost: don't look it in the eye or it fades into the background of the night there's a tingling in my skin tonight that makes me feel alive this river feels familiar, and i know the other side and the beat that's in my heart tonight makes me feel like loving and livin' as long as i'm alive there's a smell in the air tonight of autumn turning over something from my past, when i lay dreaming in the clover it's strong and it's familiar and it makes me feel like home comfort in my blood and in my bones there's a backbeat in my heart tonight that makes me feel like running leaves explode with color when they know the change is coming i'll see you in the river, see you on the other side livin' as long as i'm ALIVE

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released June 12, 2014

Going To The Sun is:
David Young (vocals, guitar, bass, keys, mando, dobro, percussion, programming)
Zach Young (drums, percussion, vocals)

Joined by:
Ian Allison (bass on 2, 4, 5, and 6)
Ken Wilson (dobro on 3)
Amber Young (vocals on 1, 5, and 9)
Dorothy Browder (vocals on 9)
Alec Young (vocals on 9)

All songs written by David Young (SESAC)

Produced by David Young
Additional production by James Harley, Ian Allison, Matt Kirkwold, and Zach Young
Executive production by Amber Young

Recorded at Home Sweet Home and Sacajawea studios (Minneapolis, MN)

Mixed and mastered by Mountainsize Music

Album art & design by Dustin Mulcahy
Cover photo by Steve Haynes
Inside photo by Jason Thompson

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Going To The Sun Minneapolis, Minnesota

Going To The Sun’s mix of earthy-acoustic-playful-electric-pop-rock rings with the earnest storytelling of Willie Nelson, the lush harmonies of “Pet Sounds”-era Beach Boys, and the spirited instrumentation of Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire, the result of small mountain-town upbringing and two decades of being immersed in the rich music culture of the Twin Cities. ... more

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