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Produced and Recorded By DEXTER TORTORIELLO
Engineering and Mixed by EVAN PETERS
Mastered By DAVE COOLEY at ELYSIAN MASTERS
Recorded and Mixed at SONIC RANCH, TORNILLO, TX

HOUSES is:
DEXTER TORTORIELLO and MEGAN MESSINA

All Songs Written by

DEXTER TORTORIELLO / MAVIS BANK MUSIC (SESAC)

DEXTER TORTORIELLO –
Vocals, Guitar, Programming, Drums (Track 4)
MEGAN MESSINA – Vocals
EVAN PETERS – Drums (Track 1, 5)
DANIEL SAHAGUN – Bass (Track 1)

Management: EVAN PETERS

Legal: DAVID JACOBS, MARK MEDIA AND LAW
Art Direction: DEXTER TORTORIELLO
Design: SEAN MOSHER-SMITH

Houses would like to thank their friends and family for their
unwavering love and support through the making of this record.
There is nothing more important.
BEGINNINGS
I watched the house
As it fell right to the ground.
I was away from you.
And I watched the birds
As they fell out from the sky.
Into the hands of decay
I wish there was a way for you.
And I felt your voice
As it carried with the wind.
Like a fire in my ears.
Like the darkness of fear.
Like the voice of God.
And now I’ll turn to dust
And the ground will shake for you.
Like a song in your heels
Like a ghost in the field.
And I would bathe in ash
As it rained down from above.
And it would cast me out now
Into the fields of love.
And I watched the birds
As they fell out from the sky.
Into the hands of decay
I wish there was a way for you.
And I felt your voice
As it carried with the wind.
Like a fire in my ears.
Like the darkness of fear.
Like the voice of God.
THE BEAUTY SURROUNDS BIG LIGHT
There’s some gold Big Light I’ve been digging up the bones
In my bones I was stuck in the ground And your body is a dirty ant hill on the lawn.
That I told you about. Trying to cover my eyes. And I swear to God
Trying to move all this light. You are my iron light
So I’m pulling out my teeth and I spent all night And I am your dark tonight.
Burying them deep under ground. Trying to remember your face.
Like trying to get blood from a stone. As I watch the stars align
There’s some lights But there was nothing to save. And I keep the moon by my side
In your eyes And no one to lie to.
That I follow about. And I watched as the bone dust hung in the sky. And as the fever starts to break
But they’re dimming quick, Like a dim flock of endless prayers. I’ll dig a hole for you.
and you’re getting sick, so now I wander out alone. And I spent my days out chasing the wind. And it would bury us
Trying to turn gold from your hair. And we’ll turn into dust.
All my love But there was nothing to save
Is circling the drain now. In the flux and decay On the white wings of God.
All my love Of the changing winds.
Won’t bring you back to me. CARRION
Oh my God THE TIRED MOON
I’m wasting away. (Instrumental) And once
Pulled flowers at my feet Inside your home
Lost in the wind. PEASANTS We moved through the glass
Like it was all we’d ever known.
There’s a ghost I’ve been praying on my knees
In the sky and in And my eyes are dirty pages on the street. And once
All my fields of stars. And that bee sting on your heart Inside your heart
Won’t stop the rain from coming down. I moved through you
So I’m following the wind and Tonight in this house we drown. As it shook the lights in the corners of the
Singing all my hymns in the dark. room.
And when I shake your shadow from the trees. As I watch the stars align
Theres a color in your eyes that And I keep the moon by my side And once
Nobody knows but me. And as the fever starts to break In a paling light
I’ll dig a hole for you. We spun circles in the yard
All my love And it would bury us Like it was all we’d ever known.
Is circling the drain now. While we turn into dust.
All my love And once
Won’t bring you back to me. On the white wings of God. Inside your palm
Oh my God I shook through you
I’m wasting away. As the moonlight pulled out roses from my mouth.
Pulled flowers at my feet
Lost in the wind.
WHAT WE LOST
Well I was born of the Earth
With my hands to the sky.
And I’ll die in the dirt
On the fourth of July.
And my body will burst
Into millions of sparks.
And I’ll hang like a ghost
In the trailer park until I’m gone.
And I can hear the wind blow.
It sounds like angels and babies breath.
So leave some dirt in my hands
Lay my body in the street.
And I’ll be searching out God
To lay my stones at her feet.
And when the winds lay waste
To the fields and the stars
I’ll be spinning my home
In the back of your car
Until its done.
And I can hear the wind blow.
It sounds like angels and babies breath.
And I can see my mothers praying hands.
Like petals in the wind
Sweeping across my yard.
SMOKE SIGNALS
The birds
Are struggling to prepare
For this weak and tumbling air.
I dreamt I found your body.
And love
It fills the space for us.
A tired cloud of dust
As we sleep in different places.
TENDERLY
Well I want Only yesterday
Somebody to hold me while I die. I built you a shrine
A prayer to keep the peace I hold inside. On the side of the road.
A potters field with rose petals strewn at our feet. And I shut my eyes
and to beat the blessed earth with our heart beats. And laid my hands to rest.
So be still when the darkness closes in. In dreams
And tremble when the winds lay waste again. There’s a way
Clinging to the dust that stalks the wind. To die.
And laying in the dark with our eyes open.
Well I towed you from the wreck
And we’ll go to sleep again. Of dimming shadows in my head
And our hearts will collide. Only yesterday.
Well I want Only yesterday
To be there when the shadow bares its skin. I laid you to rest.
To hold you in the Earth’s unholy din.
While thunder crash and lighting cross the night. Only yesterday
And bathe our hallowed eyes in the I wept for your shape
moonlight. In it’s endless decay.
And I raised your voice from a stone
So be still when the silence passes through. With the song of the dead.
And tremble when it pulls me far from you.
I’m clinging to your breath that touched the wind. In dreams
Naked in the dark with our eyes open. There’s a way
To die.
And we’ll go to sleep again.
And our hearts will collide.
THE BLOOM
(Instrumental)
A QUIET DARKNESS
Well Heaven rode my back
And the angels dragged my throne.
Only yesterday.
Only yesterday
I carved out your name.