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Let's Don't

by No Moniker

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1.
Let's Don't 03:42
Let’s don’t talk about it Let’s don’t bother each other Let’s don’t embarrass ourselves Let’s don’t fall in love It was just a manner of speech, a matter of mind Both out of time You spent way too much time Checking if I was online You had all of the lies, about all you need Rocky start, afternoon sun, big speech Maybe you watch too many old movies, I’m more like Let’s don’t take a good thing and romanticize it I didn’t want to tell you but I couldn’t hide it I don’t feel that way, no I don’t feel that way at all So that was called love, what is this called? I can’t follow you at all, Saying “Oh I need you, I don’t need you” How can I ever believe you, you said “I’ll keep a place for you, even if you don’t want me to” So now I have to worry about you *With something to call your very own Sparrows still fall when you’re all alone Let’s don’t talk about the way things were We went from inside jokes to slamming doors That’s not what I meant to say, not what I meant to say at all Let’s don’t fixate, I don’t want to talk about it I’m not yours just because you stand and shout it There’s more than one way out of it* Let’s don’t talk about it Let’s don’t bother each other Let’s don’t embarrass ourselves Let’s don’t fall in love Let’s don’t take reality and try to deny it I didn’t want to tell you, but I couldn’t hide it I don’t feel that way, no I don’t feel that way at all Let’s don’t take this thing that means so much to me And turn it into what you thought it should be Don’t you want something you’ve never seen?
2.
Mask Song 03:31
Oh my god What the hell is going on? This isn’t what I signed up for Wasn’t there going to be so much more? You thought I’d Make your dreams come true, you’d feel alive But you don’t listen to a goddamn word You made me up from all the songs you heard Take it off your face and you’ll feel alright Love to tell the world it’s all very fine I put on my mask and I’m hypnotized Who am I when I say no more— You might as well be dead to everyone Would you or I Be better people in some other life? Or would we stay up on the same bullshit, Building walls up bit by bit We don’t have fun, We don’t get drunk, we don’t fall in love I was inside of my memory Before it started even happening Take it off your face and you’ll feel alright Love to tell the world it’s all very fine I put on my mask and I’m hypnotized Who am I when I say no more— You might as well be dead to everyone I woke up to feel the mask fall from my face Left as someone named Jordan, I nearly had a fit But it’s something I wouldn’t admit Take it off your face and you’ll feel alright Love to tell the world it’s all very fine I put on my mask and I’m hypnotized Who am I when I say no more— You might as well be dead to everyone
3.
Swan 04:09
Well love is a bird With a shit attitude If you don’t love me then I’ll love you Say someone falls in love with you, Back when you could still seem removed But now the real you has begun to come through And they start to stop feeling it too How did it end up like this? There’s something I must have missed It’s a charm only I see It’s a curse only for me I bite you and you bite me It’s jealousy, nothing else beneath You said you felt like an American Mark Corrigan Well I always felt like an American Mark Corrigan It never ever ever ends As far as I can tell No matter how close you get You still have to be someone to them The performance never ends Lightning is not permanent It’s a charm only I see It’s a curse only for me I bite you and you bite me I’ll be up for hours dissecting it piece by piece (I dream what your world must be like) I can’t get it out of my mind So I stay a bird all the time So you prick them to see if they bleed, An unwilling giant as far as the eye can see, But could I be The one fucking it up for me You act like the object of your affection They leave and it just turns to depression Do I even like the things I like anymore? This is the This is the wrong genre It’s a charm only I see It’s a curse only for me I bite you and you bite me I swear it must be the swan in me
4.
You’ve got a lot of nerve but you’re missing skin, you’re missing it Won’t you tell me something that you don’t believe, Make it interesting My ideas have been nothing but sayings I’ve received From books we both don’t read And I read something telling me that what you say Doesn’t count for a lot We will never understand each other Through the fear, distress, paradox When it’s Either or either or either or either or either IT’S JUST PURE EXHILARATION it’s just pure exhilaration I don’t want a reconciliation Oh don’t give me your mediation When it’s Either or either or either or either or either Well I’m sick of your shit And I don’t have to be here
5.
Ivan 06:21
1 Alex, I’ve been collecting all the evidence For my case against everyone Like so many marks of Cain, these crimes of hate Will outlast all your works of love Is it just the way we were born Is it just the way we were brought up You tell me to be strong, you tell me it won’t be long You tell me to accept the shit I see I never asked to eat the apple All my life I’ve had to permit the infamy Is it just the way we were born Is it just the way we were brought up I want to be reborn, but I’m afraid to die All these horrible things, I can’t leave them behind All the sticky leaves in spring are sticking to me I am so afraid of suffocating As soon as I decide there is no treaty to be signed The endless rebellion comes back on Leading me to tempt the tormentor, and so I return the ticket Even if I must be wrong Is it just the way we were brought up Is it just the way we were born 2 The silent fears of eternal flame, The wild hearts we cannot tame, The wretched beasts who murder and maim, I want them all in heaven The ones who never played the game, The ones who never knew the name, The ones who lived a life in shame, I want them all in heaven Those who saw through the glass, Those who lived in darkness past, Those who fell down and breathed their last, I want them all in heaven Those who cannot help but oppress, Those who choose under duress, Those whose hearts have known no tests, I want them all in heaven The one who drops the bomb and cries, The one who doesn’t have to face his crime, The one who kills, the one who dies, I want them all in heaven Those souls coming apart at the seams, The pure of heart, whatever that means, The ones collecting finer things, the ones who sleep and do not dream, I want them all in heaven I want to see with my own eyes The lion lie next to the hind The victim come up to rise And embrace their murderer in heaven - Still I ask, is there a place for me and you? Among the lies was anything true But what else can we do besides Bow our heads and pray to heaven
6.
Alyosha I 05:25
Who has the right to forgive—not you, not I Who has the right to forgive, who has the right to decide Who has the right to forgive—not you, not I John I told you my heart is as full of hate as anyone The angel on my shoulder is as full of shit as yours I am not so much in the sun I tell you, we all feel it too We’re all in this together I can only sit next to you My answers are no better I see the contempt in your eyes For my smile, for how well I play the part You look to me, maybe you don’t see That devil lying in my heart I can no longer tell Who is sick and who is well You’re obsessed with how the punishment is dealt But it’s not heaven, it’s not hell In the books that we read In canonized memories You’re all that I see If I could change my life Change my body Change into someone you like Could I put up a fight
7.
Alyosha II 02:57
We dress it up new time new place Give it new clothes, new name Through new generations The feeling is still the same Emotion is still the same Same suffocation I saw the world and I set my stance I didn’t mean to, it’s just become who I am *Turn the current around *And maybe I won’t drown I prayed to God not to make me a man But just look at these ugly veins on my hand Give me the strength to not Give a shit Goodbye body Goodbye to all of that All I carry with me Is not what I wanted to be But I just look at this body Maybe I don’t want this body Goodbye body Goodbye to all of that I fell down and wept For what wasn’t yet So I just look at this body Can’t let go of this body
8.
One to One 04:24
Touch my shoulder, shift my gaze Calm me down at the end of days Secrets pass, we don’t move our lips I start to feel the world in my fingertips I think you must live somewhere up above Nothing you do is ever a mistake Nothing you say is unimportant Everything I am just fades away You know the end is coming through the door You try the lock and ask for more With no one to tell us What we came here for It was one to one One to one I sit at your side I come undone How could I read your mind When I don’t know mine? I see the world is falling apart And in my heart I find All I have is one to one Don’t know what I perceive anymore Don’t know if I can make it through my own front door All I want is all I see A moment collapses into infinity You want to connect one to one With love in our hearts we come undone, Spill out into the world and forget who we are Are we still one to one One to one I sit at your side I come undone How could I read your mind When I don’t know mine? I see the world is falling apart And in my heart I find All I have is one to one
9.
You have no idea what I’m about to say Sometimes it’s oh how I want you— Please just go away And I have no idea what you’re about to do I talk & I talk & I talk & I Don’t get through And I can see You’re not feeling it too The only kind of good language is one made for two Half in references, every word you said felt so new. Now when I reach out to try to talk to you, Like ends of perpendicular rays, I’m moving sideways, We met once and every day we get farther away It’s all out of tune You deny the sun, I deny the moon The world is unreal when you’re not feeling it too That blue light shines so bright I no longer believe my eyes It’s sad to see you there Do we live the same night, same day I know when it’s too good to stay Maybe one day I’ll see you there Do you want something more impressive Do you think that mystics were just depressed Do you think it’s true—but what else can I do When I see those people up on the hill, All in sync with God, all on the same holy pill— I try to say I’ll be waiting for you But I sing swan songs, you hear whistling tunes My world disappears when you’re not feeling it too Do we live the same night, same day I always answer what you might say I always think that you’re there We were so far away from home I never learned how to be on my own I could not hold up my end Now like a flustered swan in love I never know what you’re thinking of It’s just not the same When I’m bored and old Will you leave me all alone Will you hear what I say
10.
Two One Two 05:49
In heaven I gave up my heart It just tore me apart I take it all back to the start In heaven All other lights have faded No more time to be so jaded To all you don’t touch All you don’t see All of the things you won’t ever be You’re waiting on some big party That’s waiting for you to get started Your friends and family For all eternity But what do we do when we’re ready to leave? Forget what you’ve seen, forget what you’ve heard You forget all the words When you’re singing your final song In heaven Annihilated with open hearts I was talking to God until I lost my will In everlasting arms In heaven I split and dissolve back into place How could there be you or me, in eternity I forget your face in heaven Some voice calls you away from here Some voice tells you to have no fear Saying “Don’t be afraid of love or of hate We’re moving past all of that anyway” I prayed to God not to make me a man Just enfold me into your masterplan I cannot stand these veins on my hand I say goodbye to my body, I say goodbye to I am In heaven Annihilated with open hearts I was talking to God until I lost my will In everlasting arms In heaven I split and dissolve back into place How could there be you or me, in eternity I forget my face When I see purple skies, neon doors How could we ever ask for more Can we forget what it meant to get bored So I lose my body, lose my mind I lost myself when I’ll get out of time Everything I learned I’m leaving behind In heaven Annihilated with open hearts I was talking to God until I lost my will In everlasting arms In heaven I split and dissolve back into place How could there be you or me, in eternity I forget our face It tears me apart When I go back to the start
11.
Some Home 04:06
Well it’s coming along We just keep moving on It’s all been said, it’s all been done, Before long it’ll all be gone I don’t want it anymore We’re not like we were before I saw a flood coming on I saw my own swan song I saw flames I saw lights I saw fear in a handful of nights With my eyes open I cannot see Let me hear you listening I heard screams and cries I heard so many lies I heard how, I heard why Why we’ll all perish, why we’ll all survive When I listen to your call I don’t hear anything at all Well it’s coming along We just keep moving on It’s all been said, it’s all been done, Before long it’ll all be gone I don’t want it anymore We’re not like we were before
12.
Slide Away 05:01
I close my eyes and I see you again I close my eyes and the world keeps on spinning I break down piece by piece I dream I don’t fall asleep The ghosts in the next room wail and get on with their lives, saying “Nothing’s gonna fall back into place But you can’t let go When no one really knows How to erase every trace” I don’t want to slide away You said at some point you’ve got to end it all, Saying it’s all so relentless, it’s all so vile I keep the levee in place And I feel every mistake The mask cracks and I can’t remember what you look like Nothing’s gonna fall back into place But you can’t let go When no one really knows How to erase every trace— I don’t want to slide away

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A pop album by No Moniker

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released June 18, 2022

Simone Scott - vocals, guitar, keys, programming
Madison Hinson - drums, percussion, programming, guitar, vocals
Ro-Derrick Branch - bass, vocals, keys

Strings by Klein Gold Duo
Backing vocals by Ria Khandpur
Keyboards on "Either/Or" by Shormey Adumuah
Trumpet on "Either/Or" by Jack Howe
French Horn on "Ivan" and "Some Home" by Rachel Huddleston

Lyrics by Simone Scott
Music by Simone Scott, Madison Hinson, and Ro-Derrick Branch
Produced by Simone Scott, Madison Hinson, and Brian Hinson

Drums and bass recorded by Alan Weatherhead at Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, VA

Tracks 3, 6, 7, and 11 are mixed by Alan Weatherhead
All other tracks are mixed by Jeffro Lackscheide
Mastered by Jeffro Lackscheide

Album art by Ryan McCardle

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