1. |
Fell in
05:03
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It used to feel like drifting through a dream
my hand outstretched pulled gently by a stream
following the flotsam with my eyes
time was soft and subtle it went by
I watched the moss and driftwood all entwined
Til something floating flashed and left me blind
completely overtaken by the glow
hovering until it let me go
I fell in
Spewing all the liquid from my lungs
My fingers dug ten divots in the mud
Breathing heavy, limbs coming undone
Water dripping off me with the sun
Does it seem like the world isn’t a real place?
That’s what I thought until I fell into the river
I was lucky that I only had a brisk taste
I know some people who have stayed in there forever
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2. |
Our Basement Scene
03:34
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Sweat is sitting in the air
Noise is climbing up the stairs
where we lift off in our chairs
smoking to the kick and snare
If you stay I guess I’ll stay
If you stay then I will stay
If you leave then I will leave
And soon enough we’ll leave for good
Real Estate is written on your sign
Titus Andronicus on mine
I slip by you as you glare
As if our spark was never there
I’m out
And now if you stay then I will leave
Now I’m back in our old house to visit our old friends
We watch and reminisce about how everything ends
When I finally call to weep about our basement scene
You point out all the dust I made myself unsee now
If you say that our scene
Was just projected on a one-way screen
If you say that you weren’t seen
Then I’ll see we left for good
It wasn’t all bad
But maybe it’s better remembered
In blurry, disposable photos
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3. |
Pretend
04:52
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Is there something on your mind tonight?
or a monster we could try to fight?
I don’t know the controls well
but I think I’ve been to hell before
And I know it isn’t easy
but could you blow it up to fullscreen
We’re safe in the basement
They can’t hear through the insulation
Is it that nothing seems to matter
Or maybe it matters way too much
Do your nightmares haunt you
While I stare and go “woah, dude”
But I really want to hear you
I make jokes but I don’t mean to
it’s my first line of defending
from pain I don’t know how to comprehend
Do you think about it now and then?
Does it rewind and play all over again
When you’re up late with your friends
Sufferin’
Do you play it like it’s just all pretend?
Minds will bend
When we play pretend
That nights don’t end
But that’s a talk we never really had
Wouldn’t want to let the vibes go bad
Till you told me in the driveway
Turned me a pale shade of guilty
(through the vent in your parents basement)
for being childish and not asking
or just getting to be young at all
Looks like I had everything perfect
Why does that make me feel worthless?
Do you think about it now and then
about the luxury I can’t defend
When you’re up late with your friends
Sufferin
Do you worry that it’s all pretend
So I think about it now and then
Let it rewind and play all over again
When I’m up late with a friend
Wonderin how I can worry if it’s all pretend
Minds will bend
When we play pretend
That nights don’t end
It doesn’t matter if it’s all pretend
when you can be a friend
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4. |
Wasted Steve
04:04
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What are you in for?
Anything hardcore?
Nothing too crazy
Just pretty lazy
Only a true fiend
Could use that rhyme scheme
He was buried in the pouring rain
Photo bleeding through a golden frame
"He was loved but he was sadly lost
To the call of wasted time"
Come on in Stephen
Says here you're a heathen
Why do you say that?
Doesn't seem so bad
You showed up to hell with
Nothing to show for it
Off the coffin sprays the pouring rain
Smothered colors in the golden frame
"But the saddest part of all for him:
They say sloth is a deadly sin"
Aren’t we all
a little Wasted?
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5. |
Looking for Something
03:36
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Here we are
looking for something
Faltering
accepting the cave-in
Showering
Melting the Freeze off
Finally
Addressing a bad cough
Vapor Leaves
and I don’t believe it
Towering
the obvious secret
That was wild
Back to the news now
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6. |
Remain
05:02
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The future’s looking dreary
Today’s already gray
The helicopter’s blow
and the weather’s even worse
ooh
We should’ve seen it coming
I hear they didn’t care
I’m not so sure I that I would
with my ambient despair and all
ooh
ooh
There’s no more opportunity
The malls are endless pits
my family laughs together
by our warming roasting spit
ooh
Silent and Gray
They threw it away
Our time is up
But bugs will remain
I’m easily distracted
By anything that shines
They proved it causes damage
to our growing monkey minds
Doom pulls up in a sprinter van
But at least I’m with my friends
And you probably think it’s corny
but don’t fuckin care!
ooh
Fire and Hell
I can’t even tell
Our bodies are dust
But love will remain
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7. |
Total Classic Icarus
04:43
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I look outside through narrow blinds
My narrow jaw is feeling wide
I wonder what I’ll roll today
Solid waste or a Gilded age
I could ride my bicycle
[They’d shove a stick into my spokes]
A wonder what is possible
[I’ll check the news and make a joke]
A short to-do list, twenty lines
[A list so long, I’m bound to fall]
I ate the frog the day is mine
[Hope is just a chemical]
Is there so much? Or just too much?
Is there too much too much
On top of me
To see that far that far ahead
Flying straight into the sun
[total classic icarus]
I could be the chosen one
[Water glass too far from us]
This might be my masterpiece
[Bourbon Bottle close enough]
This could mean it’s meant to be
Or maybe I’m not good enough
[Or maybe I’m not good enough]
There was so much, now it’s too much
Now there’s too much too much
On top of me
To see that far that far ahead
I wish I could cry
How could I let someone some inhuman
Just convince me that I’m useless
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8. |
Labyrinthitis
05:25
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At my place of work
when I realize something’s off
The marble floors
are familiar but they’re not
I dolly through
and the corners never stop
The growing walls
fertilize as I get lost
This is labyrinthitis
then the dream breaks into consciousness
My spinning room
flips me over like a car
Afraid I’m dead
so I head to the E.R.
Fall up the stairs
“you don’t look well” no shit
I lost myself
and stopped taking care of it
“It’s called Labyrinthitis,
Balance crumbles to detritus”
I got Labyrinthitis
and time to think about the time I have left
Maybe labyrinthitis
woke me up from my ambiguous dream
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