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Spirit of Inquiry

by Peter Horton

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1.
Feeling down my heart is blue Never was it better than when talking with you My friends tell me you’re not really all that But I pay ‘em no attention they’re opinions are wack, oh yeah Space and time, they got nothing on you Walking on a cloud like it’s easy to do I don’t want to overreact, But the way you took my heart, it’s like a heart attack, oh yeah “Walking on a cloud?” Gotta get your eyes checked Better yet, maybe you should fix your mindset Not a chance, no, I don’t give a damn I know what I know Here you go, confession of my love Does it show, the message of my love? Do you see what you mean to me? Sure as the beating heart is true A metronome of love for you Gave my all I don’t want it back I think I’m losing my mind as a matter of fact, oh yeah Gone off the deep end I call it believing This way that I’m feeling Thinking to myself Anything is possible Here you go, confession of my love Does it show, the message of my love? Like a dream, a distant memory You should know that I want your love Does it show how bad I want your love? Here you go, confession of my love Does it show, the message of my love? Do you you see what you mean to me?
2.
Faithless, how many times can I take this Face it, you spend your time getting wasted But when I feel that something, I can’t tell you But it feels like going back to where I started Hold me in so I don’t lose my way Holding on to what I’ve got to do Keeping on is easy like this But I just wanna spend some time with you No I can’t get you out of my head And I know, these days it’s almost everything that’s trying to keep you down And I know you’re trying to be the one who’s got it under control But when it feels like going back to nowhere Got a feeling it comes back to my decisions Hold me in so I don’t lose my way Holding on to what I’ve got to do Keeping on is easy like this But I just wanna spend some time with you No I can’t get you out of my head Think about it when you’ve got to choose I’m thinking about the things I’ve got to lose But I just wanna spend some time with you No I can’t get you out of my head You don’t have to worry no more You don’t have to be the one who’s always sleeping alone You don’t have to worry no more You don’t have to be the one who’s always breaking apart We know you’ll always be out here trying To make it right Yeah and we know, it’s not for a lack of trying You’ll make right Yeah and we know, you’ll always be out here trying To make it right Yeah and we know, it’s not for a lack of trying You’ll make it right
3.
When you met me I was seventeen Just graduated, life was still pretty good to me Like when you said we were meant to be Well I’m twenty-eight, see I’m a little bit older now Do you hate me for what I’ve done? Thinking I don’t want to be alone, but singing I don’t need anyone Is it always as it’s told? I’ve been doing some thinking, see I’m a little bit older now So it goes, did I waste my time? Never would have been fine, 20/20 hindsight “I don’t know” is my favorite line Look around I didn’t see it, only wanted to believe it I remember better days I was not yet jaded, living like everything goes my way That’s when you said I was just what you need I was elated, but you know I’m a little older now I don’t care if you regret what we’ve done I have healed and I moved on and now I don’t take shit from anyone People come and people go, others I don’t care to know Or so I’ve noticed, see I’m a little bit older now So it goes, don’t see eye to eye I can’t understand the other side But I don’t know why we’ve got to lie Can I trust what you are saying? I don’t like this game we’re playing So it goes, did I waste my time? Never would have been fine, 20/20 hindsight “I don’t know” is my favorite line Look around I couldn’t see it, only wanted to believe it
4.
Sometimes 03:31
Well I’ve got lots of feelings And once I felt something for you New time, new place, new meaning, I thought that you could feel it too Just one thing left I’m feeling Oh, it’s taking some time getting over you Anyway, honestly, I will try, but I think You keep making it hard to move on Yes you keep making it hard to move on Sometimes, I wanna delete you from my phone Sometimes, I want to be with you alone Sometimes, I wish I’d never met you before Sometimes, I just wish you’d love me more Once again I have to relive talking with you Nice to know what you think, Finally, so thank you And in the end, I just think there’s so much I didn’t say You keep making it hard to move on Yes you keep making it hard to move on Sometimes, I wanna delete you from my phone Sometimes, I want to be with you alone Sometimes, I wish I’d never met you before Sometimes, I just wish you’d love me more
5.
Know that I will never let you go And if you could be there, I’ll be in your heart Tell me what’s on your mind Oh I feel it too, I feel it too Got to know when it’s right Oh I think I do, I think I do Heart is racing, the sun is setting And I have never seen a smile so bright Tell me you want to stay here Oh I could be the one to hold you tight Know that I will never let you go And if you could be there, I’ll be in your heart Feel that, I am always on your side I will be the one with my arms open wide And when you know that, I will never let you go I will be the one who is there in your heart You know I’m gonna be the one who is there in your heart I will be the one who is there in your heart
6.
In my dreams at night, you’re telling lies And I’m working 9 to 5 We should be getting along, I should be falling in love With you babe, with you Come a little closer baby, I’ll be your man x4 And even in my dreams, I’m scared of losing you And then I awake to find We are still falling apart, I should be falling in love With you babe, aishiteru Come a little closer baby, I’ll be your man x9
7.
You got a lot of nerve to say Coming around to be just another angry sound Look now, soon I will be too far to say Send me on my way (Wish the best for you) Send me on my way (Hope you see it through) Send me on my way I’d been thinking there was something I was missing Certain now that it’s a better thing I did Long enough so I could feel it sinking in Strong enough so it’s a lesson I won’t forget Woah it’s me, living in fantasy, getting away from me Can’t stop the way I’m feeling Some nights I just can’t figure it out I have seen lonelier eyes (and they were on myself) I carry on with half-believing I carry on with a heaviness of heart Look now, soon I will be too far to say Send me on my way (Wish the best for you) Send me on my way (Hope you see it through) Send me on my way
8.
I missed you in my past life Met you on my cellphone, couldn’t do that forty years ago I missed you in my past life Tried to find you out at the bar, But you lived way too far Well it’s beyond my comprehension How I came to be in a different dimension I had this feeling like, “Had to be a vision right?” But I was staring down looking at my past life Well this brought about so many questions, like Was it a good life, lived with intention? As for my love life, well it was just fine But I had to settle for a friend of a friend of mine And I always believed I never need technology, But it led you to me I missed you in my past life Met you on my cellphone, couldn’t do that forty years ago I missed you in my past life Tried to find you out at the bar, But you lived way too far And no one believes me now I mean, I wouldn’t believe me anyhow I heard you call my name Now I know what it’s going to take As I return to this body that contains me I think back on this rare opportunity You gotta take a chance, you gotta swipe right A couple things I learned looking at my past life You gotta thank the times, with only a landline I wouldn’t know you and you never would have been mine I can’t imagine if we missed connection, Floating through space in the same direction Well I once believed that you were always a part of me But now I see I really missed you in my past life Met you on my cellphone, couldn’t do that forty years ago I missed you in my past life Tried to find you out at the bar, But you lived way too far So glad you’re in my life Spoken from the heart, like I really should have done three beers ago I wanna celebrate tonight Thinking about the ways and the days that it took just to get this far
9.
Coming round to the end and I begin to think when we were new When I can’t wait to be the one you’re telling everyone you’re telling everything too And anywhere you go, take it slow, time will tell if you’re the one that I’ve been dreaming of And don’t you know that baby you got me caught in a dream of everything I’d like to be And when I see you again It won’t feel like so long Yes when I see you again It won’t feel like so long And when I see you again It won’t feel like so long Well we held on all the way Times may change but home is where I’m always going to stay And if you should stay Stay awhile And when I see you again It won’t feel like so long Yes when I see you again It won’t feel like so long And when I see you again It won’t feel like so long When I decide to give my heart When I decide to give my heart When I decide to give my heart It’ll be long It’ll be long It’ll be long
10.
This time when I feel like falling under I’m ready for this time when I feel like falling under Even if I couldn’t be there in the way I’d like to be I’m ready for this time with a smile Breakdown I feel I’m falling under Breakdown I feel like I could use a little Breakdown I feel I’m falling under Breakdown I feel like I could use a little sleep Well her name was Natsumi And she wouldn’t speak to me Everything that I tried, she could not find the time Like, “Hey, how are you?” What can I do when I’m close to you but still so out of reach? Ready for this time when you’re smiling back at me Breakdown I feel I’m falling under Breakdown I feel like I could use a little Breakdown I feel I’m falling under Breakdown I feel like I could use a little sleep Oh Natsumi, why don’t you speak to me? Is it a language thing, Or is it you just don’t like me? Oh Natsumi, why don’t you speak to me? Is it a language thing, Or is it you just don’t like me? Oh Natsumi, why don’t you speak to me? Is it a language thing, Or is it you just don’t like me?
11.
Coming in without a sound I’m slipping away for more time with you I tried to hide the things that you broke me down into But for now, so long my heartbroken friend I loved you too When I see you smiling at me, oh what could I do? Why could I not recognize? And why should I tell a lie, share my mind? But for now, so long my heartbroken friend I loved you too How could I forget the time I first met you?
12.
Comeback 05:21
Hello, is there anybody out there? I’ve been searching for awhile You know and I know, if there’s anybody left here We’ll show them all that we’ve got inside Hello, said I could really use some help here I’ve been searching all my life But when dreams have come and gone, it’s enough to have to carry on We keep giving that something we’ve got inside Ever on your own, never been right Did you know you are my light? Never in the dark, ready for the fight Always in your corner We all get a little bit lonely I promise to be there when you’re down on your luck, you’re going through stuff, yeah that don’t take much We all get a little bit lonely Ready or not I’m coming in when you got it tough, you’re going through hard times, I won’t let you give up Because I know there’s no one as hard as you as yourself Gone away this time We’ll come back next time Don’t regret this time We’ll come back stronger for it I want it all, yeah I want it all What does it take, go out and get your love When I think of you, it’s like I’m hearing my favorite song No time to waste, you gotta go out and get your love

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I started working on this album in 2019 after uprooting my life in NYC and moving to Tokyo, in pursuit of new challenges, opportunities, and perspectives. Inspired by my new environment, I wanted to combine my love of 2000's alt rock and 80's synth-pop to create and exuberant new wave electro-pop experience. Lyrically, the album is a contemplation on the path taken, that paths that lie ahead, and the relationships made and broken along the way.

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released December 4, 2020

Music and Lyrics: Peter Horton
Recording and Mixing: Peter Horton
Mastered by Jonathan Schenke

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