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Overcome

by Rain Johannes

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SinkoiSunshine Gut-punching and uplifting. What a great follow-up to Sunshine! Can't get enough of Johannes's work Favorite track: Sleep Forever.
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1.
How to Speak 02:31
Suddenly forgotten how to speak In the middle of a conversation with you You know you breathe The air right into me and my lungs, my love A godly bomb erupting silently in space Passionate waves go running on a million-mile race The lucky ones to reach us fill the sky in loving ways An orange cast upon your face And that’s all it takes Love somebody, burn them in your mind The funeral kind Maybe the fire’s too bright Are your chains on tight Bite the hand that feeds you You've always wanted to try Feed yourself and starve the ones around you Let them die No, who would I be You wanna take the loving right out of me Right out of me, out of me Suddenly forgotten how to speak In the middle of a conversation with you You know you breathe The air right into me and my lungs, my love Suddenly forgotten how to speak
2.
Something here is touching my soul Feel a wave of love beyond your control But it leaves just as it came You couldn’t catch its name Forever running through your mind Spirits undefined Keep your feelings all to yourself In a bottle upon an unreachable shelf Only you see what you see All I can do is believe That we feel it all same Sunshine and the rain No one’s traveling through it alone Everybody’s trying to make it back home They just close their eyes and drive And hope they’re still alive As if their gods are looking down Or up from underground Open up your unbreakable heart Let the world flood in just to tear it apart Now I’m telling all my friends I’m done with my defenses I will let you knock me down As long as you’re around
3.
Overcome 04:24
Who's it gunna be The one to part the sea Shows us all the things we've never done What's it gunna take To dream while I’m awake Look at all the things we've overcome When I go I sit with myself Something brings me down Feel it in the palms of my hands Feel it all around Told me it was too much to take The pressure made your brain go numb Even in impossible trials Conquer as you’ve always done There's no soul in only using your mind There’s no flying without leaving the ground behind Who's it gunna be The one to part the sea Shows us all the things we've never done What's it gunna take To dream while I’m awake Look at all the things we've overcome And what we haven't done Has fallen by the wayside, it's a guessing game I played it yesterday When I gave you one more chance, I’ll give a million more It’s what you used to love me for With the weight upon my chest I should be dead by now I'm still alive somehow With all that's left undone And the songs we've left unsung We've only just begun We're gunna overcome Who's it gunna be The one to part the sea Shows us all the things we've never done What's it gunna take To dream while I’m awake Look at all the things Remember where you’re from Look at all the things we've overcome
4.
If They Say 02:44
If they say that it's sink or swim What does it mean to dive in To hit the bottom then float to the surface If they say that it's all or none What does it mean to have some How does it feel to be stuck in the middle When it hovers over me And it comes from underneath It consumes me, oh If they say that it's good or bad Why does love make us sad Forever and always always seems to turn into a "maybe when I'm feeling lonely again" They say that it's live or die What does it mean to get by To live so long that it starts to kill you And it hovers over you And your calls aren't coming through It consumes me and you, oh If they say that it's start or end
5.
Icon 03:28
A love existing only as an icon She only sees the things she has her eyes on To only feel the things they have a name for The real thing don't feel nothing like the icon Is this what you expected Eternally dependent On something that destroys you On suffering you’re drawn to We're guilty of the same crime Committed at the same time A shallowness of feeling Mistaken for the real thing A love existing only as an icon You're only in control with all the lights on You're sad beyond belief and it's your own fault The real thing don't feel nothing like the icon I've hid you from the real me The version that you can't see We sugarcoat the surface Of things we think are worthless Got a message from above It wasn't hard to comprehend Said the one who's on your mind Hasn't thought of you tonight They seem to be just fine I've always looked to you just like an icon A beautiful relief I could rely on And if something doesn't change how could it go wrong But this pain hasn't changed and it's been so long The real thing just ain't nothing like the icon
6.
For Sophie 04:06
No God of mine, no God I know Would take away the best friend that I've ever had No God of mine, no God I know Would take a soul like that and make it hurt so bad Bring her to the mirror but she turns her head away Lay your head upon my shoulder, tell me it's okay Always listen to you, never had a word to say She was a smiling soul She had a heart of gold More than anyone I've ever known She was a smiling soul Rest your head, rest your heavy head A day feels like a lifetime when you love someone You can rest her head But won't you take me instead While the good die young the rest of us could go the same What's it like to die without you ever knowing why How do you tell the world you’re hurting when they've made you not to cry Couldn't save the one you loved But oh, you tried She was a smiling soul She had a heart of gold More than anyone I've ever known She was a smiling soul She was a smiling soul
7.
Radiation 04:28
And the bully wants to call you names Keep you playing in his nightmare games You have the right to be silent, so you close your mouth Hear them talking 'bout the end of days Hear them say it on the radio waves That kind of thing doesn't faze me if I tune it out But you start feeling the sickness So you start begging forgiveness Radiation in my bones It's a pain I've never known When your life is on the line You'll lie and say you're fine Radiation from the sun Touching down on everyone And my skin is turning gold Radiation And the one you love has fallen out Box of tissues and you're lonely now But you refuse to feel sadness, so you fill yourself with rage Pass the blame on everyone but you It's the only thing you know to do They say that hate is a poison that you drink yourself So you start feeling the sickness And you start begging forgiveness Radiation in my bones It's a pain I’ve never known When your life is on the line You'll lie and say you're fine Radiation from the sun People playing, having fun And the happiness they feel Feeling totally unreal Radiation from the sun Touching down on everyone And my skin is turning gold Radiation
8.
Some other species try to eat their young Primal survival dripping down their tongue Some kind of animal we choose to be With a dark and sickened heart we try to kill the weak I ask you brother do you know what hell is like It’s the fire underneath you and it’s burning for all time Like looking for someone to give all of your love Just to find you don’t have enough Color floods your eyes The deep unclouded skies As if you swim the coast A movie starts to pass Your life in photographs Those you love the most Rock the cradle Kiss an angel Keep yourself composed Forget you’re breathing Pretend you’re sleeping Giving up the ghost Giving up the ghost I felt a peace you can’t imagine to be true But it only stayed a moment, for it’s only passing through Were you to grab it, you would crush it in your hand Wanna hold it to the end but you know you can’t I saw a garden that the earth has never seen Where the river shines like crystal and the field’s forever green I thought I captured it in pixels on the screen But of course, it was all a dream All a dream Color floods your eyes The deep unclouded skies As if you swim the coast A movie starts to pass Your life in photographs Those you love the most Rock the cradle Kiss an angel Keep yourself composed Forget you’re breathing Pretend you’re sleeping Giving up the ghost In a permanent pose Giving up the ghost
9.
I Feel Whole 04:52
It’s nice to see you again And meet you for the first time I didn’t know you then Don’t even know myself sometimes I’m ready to know you, I’m willing to try I’m open to show you the troubles of mine Body’s broken, throat is choking I hang on the words that you don’t often say I try to be open when I feel frozen I’m blessed in the moments you’ve chosen to stay You rode with me as my darkness flooded in And you sang Heard it pushing up from your belly and your soul I held myself from crying now it’s under your control From all these little pieces, I feel whole My fate has cut me from you As if it took a knife out and punctured its way through I feared that this might all go south I wanted to please you, get under the hood But I only gave you the best that I could Your past is present, so unpleasant My thoughts of the future have darkened my days Sun is rising, so surprising It calls you to leave but I wish you would stay You rode with me as my darkness flooded in And you sang Heard it pushing up from your belly and your soul But you don’t sing to me no more I’m not so sure that I could go without it Hoping you’d extend your hesitant hand If you can’t touch me I’m not sure who can You’re not always so complete within yourself But you withheld your problems, took on someone else Someone like me Don’t deserve anyone like you You rode with me as my darkness flooded in And you sang Heard it pushing up from your belly and your soul I held myself from crying now it’s under your control If I return in weakness, if I call and find you speechless on the phone From all these loving messages I wrote From all these little pieces, I feel whole
10.
I'm alright Got some good advice from my friends last night Please don't die We sleep better when we know you're alive You can go to sleep forever If you think you know best But all the pain in your heart Is put on all the rest And you know that, but you're hurting Don't give yourself away I'm okay Someone told me that they loved me today Is it true What's the difference if it's true just to you You can go to sleep forever But you won't get no rest All the pain in your heart Turns to someone else's mess And you know that it would hurt them So you figure you should stay a while It hurts to smile when you laugh The embrace of someone to run to If you need me, I'll be here when you call I know it feels like falling even when you're flying You can go to sleep forever It just might set you free But all the pain in your heart Bleeds out of you and into me You love me, I love you What more is there to say

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This album is a cataloging of pain and grief as I've experienced it over the past three years. I do so not to glorify the dark, but to create room for light and growth. I hope that anyone listening will share in my reflection and find their own paths towards the place inside themselves where they are free from want, need, worry and regret.

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released December 28, 2018

Rain Johannes - Vocals, Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Bass, Piano, Synth
Andres Valbuena - Drums
Siena Sherer - Vocals

Engineered & Mixed by Rain Johannes
Recorded at Rain's Place
Mastered by Zach Weeks

Art by Matt Lamourt

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"With occasional classical / jazz tangents on guitar, Johannes holds up the minimal bedroom song with profound heart stirring soul" - Nadeem Salaam

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