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Drip
03:40
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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
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Restart
03:23
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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
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3. |
Luxton
03:06
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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
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4. |
Get Off
03:37
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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
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5. |
Minesweeper
03:52
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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?
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6. |
The Lake
07:12
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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?
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7. |
One
03:39
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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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Nonfiction Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Evan King
Joey Ginaldi
Connor Rothstein
Sean McCall
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