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Same Pain

by Nonfiction

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1.
Drip 03:40
We’ve got an IV drip We’ve been wearing it since we were kids I’ve been building up my tolerance and I’m stocked for the apocalypse We spend our lives chasing stimulants We all still gotta find a way to absolve our sins so we sing songs of metamorphosis We’re crawling back into the chrysalis There’s a place for everyone even you A kind of grave for you to go to It’s not a space in the yard It’s a life that gets harder Even if you follow the rules promise, they’re coming for you Now I’m alone again The lines on my skin are my only friends I remember when I meant something before the chemicals changed everything Is there a pill for this? I found god inside a bag of some bullshit bliss and she rocks me back to sleep again It never ends
2.
Restart 03:23
We tried to dig up our roots but it’s always the same in the end You bite for the lowest hanging fruit and I break at the bend We’ll always be apart You’d never have me in this hell that we chose for ourselves Heaven is fleeting Find another meaning or a familiar feeling Seeing is believing What do you do in the dark? What do you use when you fall apart? Do you guard your heart, do you press restart? You used to be so smart You sit and get your story straight I said I’d meet you at the gate You’re always leaving and I’m always late So you find another something to hate Another reason why you don’t like to wait You’re biting off your fingers while I’m cleaning the slate
3.
Luxton 03:06
The night we met still comes to me every night That’s why I never dream I can’t remember what we said or what I bragged about or if you let me know you’d leave someday But if we die this time I hope and pray we stay that way You caught me carrying the casket I thought I left it with the last hit You are the only one So I tried to build another you out of everybody that I knew I made a lake of all the locusts and dove in like an olympian It feels like I’m drowning when I’m in the zone I feel you around me when I’m all alone I’ve been making bad deals with your ghost and now it’s living in the spare room in my home We were down on Wolf street where all the wolves meet exchanging a sleeve of tricks for cigarettes and morphine Hallelujah, hallelujah Jesus Christ I swear I wish I never knew you
4.
Get Off 03:37
There’s a devil in my looking glass in a mask I can’t see past He wears the costume of charisma caught by a safety net of intellect Habitually aware Painstakingly prepared We’re on the merry-go-round of eternity We’re digging our heels into the quicksand of everything We all just want to get off, get out Get over that line that the whole world’s been talking about I want to burn my skin until there’s nothing left I want to see how long it takes until they all forget I want to see a beautiful world without my heavy heart holding it down My eyes are wasted, the way I’ve been shaking I think my skeleton’s trying to get out I see it every night The bright, white light That’s hidden beneath the ground We’ll change our names We’ll fry our brains We’ll teach ourselves to assimilate It’s the same pain It’s the same game We’ll change our names We’ll live in shame We’ll train ourselves to disintegrate It’s the same pain It’s the same way we all play the game
5.
Minesweeper 03:52
Take the blindfold off I’m walking either way I’ve been a prisoner long enough to know if I can’t leave, that means you’ll stay So I put my best foot forward said, “You’ve always had a pretty good head on your shoulders” There’s no guilt to a firing squad I think my soul’s already on it’s way out I’m gonna hide it in the woods because I don’t want god to see me now I think my soul’s already on it’s way out We’re not scared of the guns because we know they’re not coming for us now Everything breathes (Please put me through) Everyone leaves (Please put me through) Eventually I’m staring hard at the mirror this time No more looking away “It’s just a shell, okay? You can trade it in when all your debts are paid” And the clock hits and I’m over this but I’m stuck here, undone until my body finally gives I don’t want to be seen like this I am a child my soul, a shaking fist Leap over the line Burn my skin and let me die How many more times do I have to try until I’m alright?
6.
The Lake 07:12
Pull me from my path Bury the body out back Leave the brain intact no feelings, just fact The one you love will not come back Now everybody’s taking naps on the railroad tracks Just learning how to shed your mask and once you’re gone you’ll be right back ‘til you discover what you lack The birds picked me apart (Passing through the horizon) while holy hands made holy art (The perimeter of silence) Transferring your energy a beautiful lobotomy (I’m never going to get it right) You shined with perfect symmetry (I’m never going to see the light) Sleeping in the heat I find a million ways to blame anyone but me But waking in a dream there’s never been anyone but me I see everything feels like we’ve done this before You’re not special anymore Broken time machine, why won’t you let me be? How you always get the best of me when I unpack all of my darker dreams When everything I ever thought I’d be is just mislead self-idolatry I know we can’t visit the past but god damn, these regrets won’t let me sleep If the Lord doesn’t paint with straight lines, then why should we?
7.
One 03:39
There’s comfort in a cage until you grow, until it breaks And then there’s nothing left to do but understand the cage was you The body is a house and I keep moving in and out I keep letting the bugs in They’re getting tangled in my mouth Your love is a room you’ve got decorations on your walls We left our vessels to be new We locked that shit out in the halls On the carpet where we lay observing the elaborate display we watched our shadows form a perfect circle a billion miles away And you said, “We don’t have to get down to the bottom of this right now If for once we just stopped moving we could have it figured out” These rusty doors don’t keep out all the light Just enough to let me go back to living my life I’m back here on the ground Familiar sounds I’m learning how to tell you all about what I found out there We’re still spinning around There’s no reason to be scared I’ll see you in the clouds if we make it there

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Recorded October 2018 in Narrowsburg, New York, USA

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released January 11, 2019

All songs written by Joey Ginaldi, Evan King, Sean McCall, and Connor Rothstein
Recorded and Produced by Evan King
Mixed by Evan King and Jack Meidel
Mastered by Will Yip
Artwork by Phib

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Nonfiction Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Evan King
Joey Ginaldi
Connor Rothstein
Sean McCall
Alex LaVallee

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