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Friendship on a Train
02:09
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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
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2. |
Come What Mae
02:03
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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
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3. |
RudyWorkInProgress
02:12
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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
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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.
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5. |
IWBT2
03:03
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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
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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
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7. |
ArpArp
01:43
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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
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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
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9. |
NewWaver
03:21
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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
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10. |
Wake the Animal
03:45
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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
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11. |
weight_gained
03:05
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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
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12. |
See You All Again
03:00
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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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