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Questionable Fidelity

by Timothy Patrick Hinkle

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1.
Mistress 03:38
I’ve found my one and only love I just don’t need another And I could use some time alone You stifle me, you smother. I’d rather sleep alone tonight Than have you warm beside me; Your embrace offers no delight Let go and set me free. I’ve found my one and only love But she has found another And she could use some time alone I stifle her, I smother. She’d rather sleep alone tonight Than have me warm beside her So please let’s go and grab a bite And spend tonight together.
2.
I know my love by her way of walking I know my love by her way of talking I know my love can make me so blue but if my love leaves me, what will I do? My love she loves to dance, all right and so she goes out nigh every night she’ll sit upon some strange man’s knee and tell him things that she used to tell me. And so I cry, I love her the best and a troubled mind sure can know no rest and so I cry, bonnie girls are few and if my love leaves me what will I do? I know my love is an errant rover I know she’ll wander the wide world over in America she’ll no longer tarry a Japanese man I'm sure she will marry. And so I cry, I love her the best and a troubled mind can know no rest and so I cry, bonnie girls are few and if my love leaves me what will I do? If my love could hear me play and sing I hope my song joy to her would bring she’d hear the love filling every note but she’s slipped away e’re I open my throat. And so I cry, I love her the best and a troubled mind can know no rest and so I cry, bonnie girls are few and if my love leaves me what will I do?
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Little Steps 02:07
Another note left by the door— I used to get up in the mornings so I could watch you drive away but now you’re very far away because I didn’t see the warnings. Glance at your note, see what you said and then I stumble back to bed; pull the quilt over my aching head, still shivering blue, cold as the dead ‘cause all your warmth’s with him instead. Little steps are little lies and though I like to hear them I think that I should fear them just as much as you and I fear truth. It hardly comes as a surprise that you want to break up although we try to make up little lies to cover up the distance that we’ve built by little steps. You said it’s hard when lovers part; you found a way to make it easy: just love a little less each day until all love has gone away and then you’ll hardly even miss me. Long nights alone when you’re not here another man’s holding you near; he buys your fries, he buys your beer, he buys your whispers in his ear, he buys just what he wants to hear:
4.
With Me 03:04
It’s not too big a lie if I say That all I wanted was for you to be happy Because I really wanted you to be happy But with me, but with me I see you walking home arm in arm And it’s doing me harm Seeing you fall for his charm You don’t want to be with me no more Though on my knees I implore You just walk straight through the door And in your voice I hear the joy whene’er you’re with him And in your eyes I see the light when you stand near him I think you used to glow in just that way When I was first with you, not today, not today
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Sun God 02:57
6.
Ring 09:21
My only love and I went walking in the evening— on a brilliant night with stars all through the air. She looked me in the eye and asked if I truly loved her for if so then she’d a secret that she’d share. I swear I did not lie when I told her that I loved her and her secret she could safe entrust to me. She said, “Then close your eyes— keep them shut until I tell you. When you open them a wonder you will see.” But I didn’t see her face ‘round here this morning I was calling out her name all afternoon Now the pale moon shines down upon her absence And the wind and I cry out a mournful tune. She said “Open your eyes,” and I did so with great wonder for the light to me seemed brighter than the sun; for shining in the sky a band of fire now was floating and I heard my love say, “Yes, he is the one.” She took it from the sky and placed it on my finger said she’d be there when I called her name. “My love for you will buy you the favor of the heavens and this ring will make you master of the same.” “Tomorrow say goodbye to all the others that you care for and when nighttime comes again, this world we’ll leave.” So through the day I tried to put my life so far behind me but I thought of much I’d miss t’would make me grieve. I looked her in the eye and said that I didn’t need her— watched her vanish; sent her back to whence she came. I wonder why I cry and start sucking on my finger— lost her ring, but sometimes I still call her name. No, I won’t see her face ‘round here this morning I’ll be calling out her name all afternoon Then the pale moon will shine down upon my foolish, foolish heart As the wind and I cry out a mournful tune.
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She said she didn’t need me ‘Cause she had a good left hand Now I’m sad and lonely While she’s singing in her band For a while we made sweet music But nothing went as planned And the love songs that I sang for her Were never in demand Somehow I thought we’d always be together And she could lay her music down on me She said we must be hearing different drummers “Why don’t you beat it and just let my rhythm be?” She showed no sign of regret I guess she didn’t understand How much that she had hurt me When she told me I was canned She said she didn’t need me ‘Cause she had a good left hand Now I’m sad and lonely While she’s singing in her band
8.
For Me 04:01
I wrote a song for you You said you liked it Though it was cheesy As love songs often are But you had no faith In me as a lover And you’d get into Anybody’s car I wrote a song Just ‘cause I had to Words and tunes were sweating Out from every pore You seemed so happy In the music And you would always Ask for more I wrote a song for you You said you liked it But you don’t want me Here anymore It makes you jump To hear me humming The music deep Inside my core I wrote this song Just ‘cause I had to I had to let my thoughts Drift free And since I don’t believe You want it I guess I wrote this song For me
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Closing In 03:55
The people down the hall are frightening— one man has a swastika tattoo on his back. They yell day and night to be heard over each other and the television; sometimes it’s hard to sleep through that. This damned apartment’s just too small for us. There are boxes stacked all the way up the wall. They’re full of things we haven’t seen since we packed them up to move here. When I walk past I’m scared some boxes may fall. My wife looks at houses with great longing which she does nothing to conceal. When the bank turned down our loan application they said the reason was so far as they could tell, I wasn’t real. A fantasy man, in a fantasy land No walls contain me No tethers restrain me I could fly away Fly away This tiny space keeps shrinking smaller; my rocking chair’s squeezed in the kitchen now. The walls are closing in on us, soon they’ll press us into red jelly. I’d like to leave this place today, but I don’t know how.

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released November 30, 2004

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Timothy Patrick Hinkle Millcreek, Utah

Lofi DIY psychedelic folk singer. Guitars strummed. Kazoos hummed. General thrumming.

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