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Your Body, Up Close​!​/​/​Wake the Animal

by YIKES A BAND

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1.
we need a release from our day to day say whatever you mean mean whatever you say we propose outer-space hey, maybe we'll stay after all we can say we were headed that way anyway after all that we fought for is getting carried away ask me what i would ask for ask me why i would stay i'd say: friendship on a train
2.
who can afford to live who can afford to die with all that we wish we could give although tired all the time what's the use in making anything? i can't tell but come what may oh, mae your family is fine let all the dying wake me up this time
3.
i can't take to hear that you're leaving but you go where your heart needs to go maybe we can talk on a weekend but don't forget you are strong and don't forget where your heart belongs for it belongs where you want it to be when you want it to be don't worry about my ambitions don't worry about what i need and how everyone i've ever loved will move away from me and i will come to grips in time and forget that your heart once was mine and i'm at a loss of words when it comes to this
4.
twenty-five years and my life is still the immovable boy with hands reaching out. i want to be grabbed, i want to succeed. i want to be something that somebody reads. where are all the friends i had as a kid? or were they just me, embodied? employed? deployed with a purpose and tailored to teach? programmed to leave in the failure to reach me here below? and oh my god, now i know. and we watched the body fall apart. and i put the animal down. i put my animal down. and i looked around... i saw tom, i saw ryan there. and we were down and lost in it. and oh my god, what a lose. and it came at such a cost. and we were down, we were lost in it. what a loss it's been for me. and it came at such a cost. we were down and lost in it. we were lost in it.
5.
IWBT2 03:03
tell them what you want to or say nothing at all you got those who will keep you close and i will be there too talk about the systems keeping them in line remember those who need help the most and i'll remember too holding you close never holding you back feeling good about the friends that you have and i will be there too you got a body of women and men family so far away a structure that will never slack and i will be there too
6.
we've got tonight to do what we want despite that tonight is already gone bright lights shining through the rest the weekend comes and it's the best i'm just seeing it for what it is the week comes and undoes the few days of fun spending hours with art house and laughing just because we can take our problems home for they don't have to be our own when we remember how we've grown and hey, let's talk about it amongst all we can fathom parameters set on a straight fact that it's never gonna change the feeling is mutual, i am sure we don't have to worry anymore and tell me i got what it takes to release and press on the brakes re-interrupt all my mistakes and come home aesthetic means sharpened lines the color's all been timed i want it to be like it is in my head the video's great, let's go to bed and hey, let's sing about it and celebrate every moment for i'll be there when you cry: the child's gone and they're never to return and when the house is empty please don't ever let me sing: I ain't got no pride 4 and 3 and still i come to you at will build me up and then build me up again
7.
ArpArp 01:43
i believe out of fear to create an afterlife the mantra seems to be: i don't know i won't know i can't know i want to believe in a god or a goddamn lie i want to recharge and i want a mantra to be: i don't need to know i want to want to die i need to be alive
8.
i keep repeating i keep retreating from letting me out god knows what i'm talking about how it isn't just circumstance that the love of my life wasn't chosen by gender, religion but only because they're the best friend of mine and oh, you'll whine and you'll cry and you'll lie in jesus's name but when your child turns their back you'll know exactly who's to blame and i want to move far away but i'd rather be dead no, i'd rather be giant-man with a giant pacifist smash to the head but maybe the problem lies in there? some fictional version of myself encouraging others to care when it should only be me and the friends that i keep and i promise not to rid so take your hateful, sexist mono-theocracy and keep it away from my kids they'll find peace in their own way be it spiritual or secular but with loving unbound and i figured it out we blame it on what we learn when we're young what lingers on the tip of the tongue and when a hate-filled heart is all that you have it's the hand-me-down bullshit from your mom and your dad so come on
9.
NewWaver 03:21
i'll never shine so bright no matter how hard i try and i will never forget how i shook when she cried and when my child came home everything changed i will never be the same it's like somebody said: hey, where's the fire? i don't have time to change my life i got my own bad haircut i've got my own broken phone i don't have time relax and right the wrongs of all those entitled songs mistaking romance with teenagers coming on strong so please forgive the way it took so long to say: i was wrong and i'll still be if i don't learn to change so listen here pal, there's no need to whine i can't change your mind i'll just keep it in with pride in hopes that someday you will side and do what's right there's no time to lose and no time to rest as we go through the slow progress
10.
i've been asleep too long and if the feeling's gone it's time to wake me up five years have gone so fast and if the feeling's past it's time to make it up make up for tired living and make up for false beginnings and make up for all the time I spent wishing we were in your basement and holding on strong to music long gone over and over again and now we're finally at the end of waiting for me to come through while i was waiting for you trying as hard as we can to wake again but wait i need one moment to stop and hold my breath for the animal has woken to prey upon what's left but hey, let's take one moment to wait on bated breath for the animal has spoken and prayed you never left and i will wake the animal
11.
remember how my name was changed? too scared to talk about the stomach pain? and you’d be so proud of the weight i gained i hope rudelle doesn’t grow up the same and when you tell them that it’s not okay they turn around and do it anyway maybe lessons are better learned that way the hardest part of the fall is remembering all that you gave remember all the dreams we had? never encumbered for the mom and dad and to think that things were never all that bad but now we struggle to hold and unfold all the love that we have and by the way i heard you say: my love for you won’t change and i was overwhelmed by the way the words we say keep circling and never seem to change embracing the embraces pulled away and living for the moment every day remember how you wrote “release” into your skin and in the quiet peace you find yourself no longer begging: please? but can you promise you’ll leave room for me? always remind me what you need from me for i can’t help you when i cannot see i want to hear you when you call for me and so together we’ll and try, and we’ll try, and we’ll try to release
12.
everything that you want everything that you need what matters to you the most is what matters to me so let's forget outer-space and enjoy the train after all we can say we were ready to return anyway let me in my darling though the world is burning i can't wait to see you all again

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Your Body, Up Close!
1. friendship on a train
2. come what mae
3. rudyworkinprogress
4. twenty-fiveworkinprogress
5. iwbt2
6. wyfe&huz//aint got no pride

Wake the Animal
7. arparp
8. i wanna be giant-man
9. newwaver
10. wake the animal
11. weight_gained
12. see you all again

written and performed by YIKES A BAND
produced by Andrew Halsey and YIKES A BAND
mixed and mastered by Andrew Halsey
recorded at Orange Circle

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released March 9, 2022

Caleab Wyant and Erica Rodriguez-Wyant sing all these songs and play all these instruments. Additional programming by Andrew Halsey.

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