1. |
Basement Boy
03:30
|
|||
|
Another night to myself
In a different world it might a big relief
But their voices are so loud
Again they are keeping me down
Just pushing these figures around
Another night in my own world
Creating a fiction that's just for me
The days happenings set off a battle of words
For the ones I'm about to see
We'll share a table while stuffing back down
The truth and our true feelings
Nothing feels like it's growing here at all
No nothing feels quite right to me
Another time, another place in the world
Maybe we could feel some great relief from ourselves
But the words have been, said and you
Can't retract the truth
You just move on, and keep calm and
Never let anyone in
I gotta tell you, building castles out of sand...They may look good but underneathIt's the same materialNothing here is going to change the worldWe all got the baggage but none of the breakthroughsMaybe our children can form a new world
I've had a strong sense of not being wanted
It started back when I was just a child
I was fortunate, but somehow not equipped
With the links and the ties that bind us to our past lives in this world
|
||||
2. |
Beach Combover
03:08
|
|||
|
I threw a rock that day
But I hit the wrong kid, and didn't own it
Never really did find a way
To apologize, and admit what I did
I'm sure no one remembers anything
But it lives in the way back of my head... to this day
I thought we'd take a moment
To call each other out
When we're going too far down
For our mistakes, we'll own them
For those we missed along the way
We can try for atonement
Then there's the time I was locked in the shed
I broke the down door to get out
Got in trouble by the kids' parents
Had to apologize but didn't mean a word of it
Sometimes we're in the wrong
Sometimes we're wronged right back
It's up to you and I to keep ourselves on the right track
What did you call me?
Why did we break down?
Are we the villains...of our own stories?
Or just people surviving?
The straight path to glory
Ain't so straight, it's winding
Around a corner somewhere
|
||||
3. |
Are We Heathens?
03:36
|
|||
|
I hate me
Or do I?
Maybe I'm having a rough go of it
Like daylight
Or sunshine
Is there glory outside my dreary head?
My pride is on the table
I'll love myself another day
Feeling like i'm willing and able
but miles from the best of my days
I'm at the brink
then i'm back in my bed
So hard to escape the vicious thoughts in my head
Block them out
Focus on something else
There has to be something worthwhile in me
I'm not that kind to the one I see
In the mirror, heart ache reflecting
Why's it so strange to be all I can be?
But ignore cliches and mediocrity
What do you think?
Do I like being this way?
It's like having
An enemy inside your head every day
Don't want a pill, no
Don't want my head in a maze
Am I already a lost goal?
My pride is on the table
I'll love myself another day
Feeling like i'm willing and able
and inches from the best of my days
My mind is on the table
To prop myself up another way
Years upon years of unstable life, addicted to feeling pain
Keep me up at night and
Don't offer me the way to go
I see, the worst things,
over and over, they cycle through
The rationale is that it
it doesn't matter anymore
I know I, can break free
with the help of my one and only
|
||||
4. |
Trouble Negative
03:42
|
|||
|
One thing's for sure, i'm
a blatant offense to those I see
A second hand account of
Behavior as poor as poor can be
This book's wearing the wrong cover, you'll have to read
To seek within, enquire with me
But I give no flack
Ain't got no turtleneck
So seat your reservations
This whine's on me
Holy holy speculation
I bet you've seen a lot like me
I don't blame your hesitation
I'm on your side, let's all be free
To conversate and reach a verdict
Or we'll choose to disagree
We're all imperfect, perfect people
Let's blur the lines 'tween you and me
Let's go underground tonight
Uncover their secret agendas
The world pretends, it breaks and bends
Do you see...what I mean?
There's human scum to weed out
There's human cancer to cut out
There's a new mankind to freak out
But no humane way to bleed out
We're all one post away from
An angry mob from either side of the fence
Our mistakes, and tirades
Don't pretend you can control it
(Follow until our end of days)
|
||||
5. |
Heyday
04:14
|
|||
|
You always look the same to me, my love
You live like a walking saint
When you lay your eyes upon me I become winded and weak
It's a pain that goes unlisted
A chance at life that backfired as good notes turned to wrong
Onto the desert floor, I lay upon
A mystic revery in a mind's eye moving doubt and blame along
Til I find life too distracting
Any normal sign of life could give me strength to move...to speak
It's like you said, we'll never know
How things get so insightful
Can't stop the clock from looking to the last time you'll show
Oh up the wall, 10,000 miles away
From dawn until the morning
Til the night rescinds
You always look the same to me, my love
Don't throw your life away
Day after day I designate your past as incomplete
And I feel so damn sorry about it
I know how hard you've been pushing through this gaunlet made of hate that I embrace
We all built up the muscle, now we'll flost it down the drain
We all endure rehearsal while the machine's running again
To the fountain where we'll drink our tears away
We all endure rehearsal while the
Drunk fools are taking the stage
I've got no words left to say
I said your name once in vain
Something I'll never do again
|
||||
6. |
Addendum
03:36
|
|||
|
Got no idea how it started
The explosion or some moldy holy man
If nothing's certain, then i'm certain it's too much for me
Or maybe I could use another drink...
And we carry all the pieces but we dont know what to do
It's like holding all the cards but not playing through
It's like breathing is the mystery we've tried to solve ever since youth
I'm feeling every breath but not coming to
How bout you?
What's best in life? I ask you, brother
To live small or push the boundaries of excess?
One thing is certain, that if you've got more than you could ever need
A little giving back would do some good
Don't hold back from what you're thinking
Lay it on me and let it sink in
Another mental barricade,
and another baroom serenade
|
||||
7. |
Pantera Bread
03:02
|
|||
|
Impossible standard in the beholder's eye
Us poor creatures, so impressionable
Here's little old me, there's little old you
Sitting on a bench, just waiting for some attention
Our vacant stares, Our rolling eyes
Different cases, the same reactions
I guess we got "human condition" in common
But how far does that motivation go?
You see my clothes and my shaven head
But don't assume that I'm just as mad as you
I guess I got no dog in your fight
Don't think about
Asking me about
Your lonely white man blues
You are...free to assume
And I know you do
But don't be surprised when I tell you
You see me living just the way I do
You're making generalizations, some of them true
But i'm just stuck here in the cycle with you
|
||||
Dead in Four Bedford, New Hampshire
New Hampshire, New York, New England, whatever...
If you like Dead in Four, you may also like:
The Los Angeles-based electronic music producer turns to the Middle Eastern and Indian pop of their youth, alongside house, disco, and R&B, and transforms it into four-on-the-floor dance anthems.
go to album
FaltyDL - A Nurse To My Patience
by FaltyDL
The latest from FaltyDL features Mykki Blanco, Julianna Barwick, Paul Banks & more on its psychedelic electronic tracks.
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Feb 15, 2022
go to album
my baby / former self
by Archi Banal
Alessandra Banal (of Blush Juliet), under her solo alias, makes introspective electro-pop able to transform melancholy into dancefloor fuel.
go to album
Formerly known as Kitty Pryde, the onetime rapper returns with a record of delightful, skittering pop music.
go to album
Chrissy & Hawley [DINER 006]
by Chrissy & Hawley
Thumping, grooving, Moroder-like dance music available in a host of formats, including 2xLP and hot-pink cassette.
go to album
The Philadelphia musician’s new EP looks at life as an outsider.
go to album
