1. |
Tidal Wave
04:04
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No one wants to listen to your
Whining or you bleeding all the
Time, you don’t keep your problems to yourself
After sleeping all day
Can’t you find anything better to say
Than “man, don’t I deserve a break?”
If I go over the overpass
It’ll be from bumping Heart of Glass
A little too loud, looked away and then I
Courted death downtown
Find me lost inside
The wreckage that I use to hide my mind
From anyone else who’s been
Putting me down while I’m all by myself
I won’t be told what to do
I won’t take my cues from you
I would fight throughout my life to avoid
Turning into you
You could have a life like this
You could sink into the shit
A little structure keeps the rupture in check
Til you forget that it exists
If I go over the overpass
It’ll be from bumping Heart of Glass
A little too loud, catch me
Flying around and courting death downtown
Find me lost inside the
Wreckage that I use to hide my mind
From anyone else, built my shelter
Let me sleep and dream on a
Tidal wave of seafoam
That brings me home
All things that we own
Let me know
We’re not done
Visions keep on spinning in and
Out of middle class decadence
I’ve got my fence up the world can waste away
Sirens keep on firing warning signs—
All hands on deck—have I lost my mind
To tantalizing forces just out of reach outside
If I go over the overpass
It’ll be from bumping Heart of Glass
A little too loud, looked away and then went
Belly up downtown
Find me lost inside the
Wreckage that I use to hide my mind
From anyone else, built my shelter
But it’s all gone wrong on a
Tidal wave of violence
Full of silent hopes
Can’t read your mind when
You’ve decided
It’s all gone
It lets me know we’re not done
So let me know we’re not
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2. |
Inside Out
03:11
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Time and decay dominate everything—
We strut, we fret, we fade
Structure and story turned out to be boring
You grope, hoping for something to stay
Shaking and stirring, you feel like you’re burning—
Everyone is so full of hate
But that nuclear fire will extinguish desire
And together we’ll disintegrate
But oh, it turns you inside out
Repeating that it’s only skin deep
You’re falling apart and can’t figure out
What happened to the ground beneath your feet
Obliterate me, I can’t tolerate me
I think I’ve learned enough about me
If that ecstasy frees me then death will release me
And I’ll burn as the world turns without me
But oh, it turns you inside out
Repeating that it’s only skin deep
You’re falling apart and can’t figure out
What happened to the ground beneath your feet
(No, no, no)
But oh, it turns you inside out
Repeating that it’s only skin deep
You’re falling apart and can’t figure out
What happened to the ground beneath your feet
It turns you inside out,
I looked but I could not believe
We’re falling apart without a doubt
As we melt into the ground beneath our feet
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3. |
Kicking and Screaming
04:23
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Half the time I feel like an
Automaton moving from one
Sensation down the line
Nothing is too loud, too fast,
Floating by it never lasts
I lost time
If I make myself fall apart
Sift through the wreck and restart my heart
Give everything I have as it drags me down,
Kicking and screaming all the while,
Thinking of leaving for something else this time
But I could not get it out of my mind
I could not escape my mind
There’s always some new advent
The next significant event that will save me
I reach my grand epiphany
When the world reveals itself to me
And slowly, my memory
Starts breaking down
From my bed I look all around
As new faces confer grace and I sink down
Kicking and screaming all the while
Thinking of clawing my way back in this time
From the haze that makes me lose my mind
But I could not escape my mind
From thoughts of the end I always dream of
The only end I’ve ever wanted all this time
When our bodies start to die
Do we ever feel more alive?
Push me mute me punch me hate me shove me shoot me
Anything to let me feel your scorn
Hold me lift me touch me love me fuck me hug me
Anything to let me feel reborn
Years and years go by
All I’ve got is my aging mind
But I snap back to life when I start sinking down
Kicking and screaming all the while
Thinking of leaving for something else this time
From the haze that makes me lose my mind
But I could not escape my mind
From thoughts of the end I always dream of
The only end I’ve ever wanted all this time
When our bodies start to die
Do we ever feel more alive?
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4. |
A Mess at Best
04:50
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“That’s not what a doorbell looks like
You imbecile. You fucking idiot.
Are you sure you’re ready to see the world?”
Living and learning and learning and learning and learning
I’ve had too many lessons lately
There’s no way I’m going to remember any of this
I know I’m gonna forget what you just told me
I’ve met so many goddamn people
And they’re all becoming the same goddamn person
Or am I just seeing them all the same way?
Is it me? Couldn’t be
It’s just a great big ugly mess
At best
Hard to believe that all these fuckups
Are just part of the process
When you’re next
To get depressed
Thought that I knew something better
Turns out we’re just like all the rest
I would like a retreat now
I’m normally a pretty happy person
Oh but the world around me
Is bringing me down
So lift me up from the malaise
Take me away
When the walls start closing in
Show me that it was all fake
As you sway
Through the haze
And when I’ve finally got it figured out
You tell me nothing gold can stay
(Oh no)
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5. |
Turn Out the Lights
04:51
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It used to be my life was set
Everyone I met gave me alcohol and cigarettes
The saving grace of shifting attention
Problems are from other dimensions
Can it wait? Oh, no
I can’t hold on
Another second more
Can it wait? Oh, no
I can’t hold on
Any longer
Turn out the lights
Can’t breathe, can’t fight
It kicks doors down
Wraps itself all around me
No use asking
How this could happen
We’re tied to everything—
It’s suffocating me
At the party, I
At the party, I
At the party I left my body
The center of everything
Everyone looking at me
And suddenly I can’t breathe
Can it wait? Oh, no
I can’t hold on
Another second more
Can it wait? Oh, no
I can’t hold on
Any longer
Turn out the lights
Can’t breathe, can’t fight
It kicks doors down
Wraps itself all around me
No use asking
How this could happen
We’re tied to everything—
It’s suffocating me
(No no no no no)
Spoken: (At the center of the party you can leave and leave your body but it’s coming down it’s coming down it’s knocking on your door)
Turn out the lights
Can’t breathe, can’t fight
It kicks doors down
Wraps itself all around me
No use asking—
How could this happen?
We’re tied to everything—
It’s suffocating me
Oh no, it can’t wait
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