1. |
Aardvark!
02:30
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I can't keep putting this on
I can't keep talking in circles
I live for half truths
And half baked lies
I mean every word that I say
You can't see past my stone face
You eat it right up
Right out of my hands
Each night as you sleep
I destroy the world
Pray my soul to keep
But it's sick and spoiled
I can't keep leading this on
I can't keep shedding my skin off
I simmer slowly
But sure enough
When my horns grow out of my head
And you see me for my true self
You can't change a heart that's already dead
Try as you might but you know that it's true love
Open your eyes
Open up your fucking eyes
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2. |
Open Season
02:40
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You're pressed for time
And I've got too much
We're living at odds
And each other's throats
Cut at the line
And spill the blood
You're painting a
picture with it now
Crawling
I'm crawling for you barefoot in broken glass
With any luck we will die before it is our time
Insular worlds to ourselves even on the other side
Baby settle down
Hand me the gun
Give up the
fucking screaming fit
Cut at the line
And cut it deep
Arterial spray
Shot on the sheets
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3. |
Damn Jackie
02:02
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Innocence is a fragile shell love
Cracks when you see the true world
People they never look the same
When you know we're vile and depraved
Please let me close to you
I know you're hurting too
Had a friend turn a gun on himself
Another lost to disease they couldn't name
Not everyone you start with makes it
Some stay kids forever I guess
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4. |
Lashing In
02:31
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Pull me close
Aiming to deceive
You’re imitating the things that I need
And you’re so innocent
You’re innocent to me
And I’m so gullible
I can’t breathe
Lashing in again
Your cruel punishment
Meet me halfway there
If you dare
You know I will dare
Age of regret
I finally see
Perceiving truths
That I don't need
I told the truth
As if it really matters
You saw right through
Stone hearts still shatter
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5. |
Veronica
02:21
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Is this real
Or is it fairweather
You and I taking years off eachother's lives
But it hurts just right
Your eyes
Like the pin of a needle
My skin so sick and ashen gray
What a waste, they say
We're wasting
Oh veronica
I'm a nervous wreck
When you say my name
Baby say it
If I was born someone else
And lived somewhere far
l'd still long for you
Still long for you
Dose up
And the dark takes over
Hands lock and the heavens open up
Locked out again
Tied off
Gone stiff and were frozen
Tomorrow they'll scrape us off the pavement love
And we'll rot as one
Baby oh please
Don't leave
Feel myself getting older
Its the feeling
That i can't kick
You know I'm shaking all over
When you're near me
But so far gone
Please don't let me fall under
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6. |
Violent Dreams
03:35
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Making plans
Just to watch them fall through
Feeling out in the dark
In the afternoon
All at once
Bring the house lights down
All alone
Everything in its right place
Washed out
With the spin of the fan blades
Private wind
With my cieling view
Now and then
I chase
Violent dreams
To feel something
Squeezing blood out of a rock
I live my vices down
Living them down
High and low
Somewhere lost in the middle
Sorry face you'll forget
In the human blur
Life moves on
With its one-limbed crawl
Leave my brain
At the door, can't look back
Not the time or the place
For a full collapse
Knuckles white
Burning up inside
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7. |
Zamboni
02:10
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Obligation eats at me
I will crack eventually
Hand to mouth
And check to check
Getting grip around my neck
Folding out the sheets
I've been
Dreading this for weeks
I take
All the time I have
Before
I split myself in half
Questions stay unanswered
In the fetal position
On and on
Salivation, chew and heave
Muscles ache and atrophy
Eye to eye
And shit to ground
Living on a burial mound
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8. |
See No Evil
02:20
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Let my body run
Still barely inch along
Stare into the sun
I'm blind but I belong
Heart and head are estranged
Heart and head are estranged lovers
All in due time
Still can't save face
Stay in the lines
All colors bleed
Let my makeup run
It doesn't matter much
When the storm clouds come
I open up my lungs
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9. |
Sex & Grieving
03:45
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Your house in the night
A blinding light
Your sin of flesh
Keeps even tides
It’s the price i pay
For loving you
If you use me
I’ll use you too
Your sex
My grief
I know the convulsion is deceiving
Sink in those teeth
Go from crying out
To heaving
Are you satisfied
Now my hands are tied
You can claw me up
And black my eyes
It’s the price i pay
For loving you
If you string me up
I’ll kick the stool
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10. |
Over the Hedge
04:05
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I owe you nothing
But you still feed
Falling into a detached state of mind
But it helps to
Cutting the ties
Draining out all the blood that we share
You've spent all your chances
I've run out of patience
I smell the smoke
And the drink lingering
All these years now
Sick to my gut
Retching deep, spill it out
On the carpet
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