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Walking in on Yourself

by Bad Nostalgia

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1.
French New Wave 02:52
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Walk the line Till your legs give out When you find where it hurts You may cross Nerves twisted up Confusing it I can’t tell If it’s a pleasure or pain Pre Chorus: My feeling Stunt my growth Press me in the ground Like a grave marker Bridge: I don’t feel one way or the other I feel gone You’ve got the self control of a vampire In a blood bank Chorus: I sprout (When the moon peeks out) Then I bloom (When the stars fall down) Then I wilt away, I wilt away I sprout (When the moon peeks out) Then I bloom (When the stars fall down) Then I wilt away I wilt away I wilt away
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Sour Milk 02:33
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Verse: When the rubber leaves the road Lover take the wheel now I’m the first to pry myself Pre Chorus: And it seems I’m the only one left Or at least that’s what I tell myself Until the injuries catch up Chorus: Help me Make something of myself I’ve tried and nothing helps I wonder what it’s like to love yourself Help me Verse 2: When the rubber leaves the road Lover take the wheel now And I know that it should’ve been me Chorus: Help me Make something of myself I’ve tried and nothing helps I wonder what it’s like to love yourself Help me
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Piano Wire 02:51
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Verse: Bobbing for cigarettes in a koi pond Hate the taste but they egged me on Turning the screws with a rag to bite Doe eyes locked in a pair of headlights Dreaming of killing you every night From behind with piano wire But just before your eyes roll back My hands let go and my arms go slack Chorus: Ooh ooh When this all ends Ooh ooh When that well dries up I’ll bide my time and wait my turn I’d light you up just to watch you burn Ooh ooh When this all comes to an end Verse 2: You’re hard to hate when I can’t recall Quite what got me there at all Hasn’t stopped me all these years Maybe something’s changing in here Bridge: Ooh ooh When this all ends Ooh ohh When that well dries up Ooh ooh When this all ends Ooh ooh When that well dries up Chorus: I’ll bide my time and wait my turn I’d light you up just to watch you burn Ooh ooh When this all comes to an end
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Kissing Strangers 02:43
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Verse: I don’t mind Pull me limb from limb Throw me to the sharks But don’t come for my My last shred of myself I gave it all for the chance To grab life by the horns But was it worth it? Chorus: When they shower you with praise You’ll bask in that warmth When they finally crack the whip You feel like a fraud Not selling enough To buy their new cars They cut and run It’s a crime Verse 2: I’ve done my time Spilling bitter sweat and tears Take me out back Bring the sight up to your eyes All over now Chorus: When they shower you with praise You’ll bask in that warmth When they finally crack the whip You feel like a fraud Not selling enough To buy their new cars They cut and run And run, and run When they shower you with praise You’ll bask in that warmth When they finally crack the whip You feel like a fraud Not selling enough To buy their new cars They cut and run Outro: Kissing strangers All night Everyone Kissing strangers Everyone Kissing strangers All night Everyone Kissing strangers Had your fun Kissing strangers All night Everyone Kissing strangers Everyone Kissing strangers All night Everyone Kissing strangers Had your fun
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Measure Twice, Cut Once 02:59
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Verse: Saccharine Sickly sweet Overpowered by rain and sleet Just like me To stew on it When you’ve been nothing but human Pre Chorus: Don’t think I can just buck up Thrash around just to get more stuck Lost in thought, thinking nothing Kubrick stare into eternity Verse 2: Smother the dream Before it lives Can’t get too hung up on it Many more Have crashed and burned At my hand, won’t be the last Chorus: Take your aim, blow me away To save some face Measure twice, cut once again Alright, alright, alright Please don’t hesitate I’m yours to mutilate And stitch back together again Baby I’m yours to stitch back together again Verse 2: It’s a bitter pill Spit it out Didn’t seem worth the relief All I can do Is let my stomach churn Until I can finally choke it down Chorus: Take your aim, blow me away To save some face Measure twice, cut once again Alright, alright, alright Take your aim, blow me away To save some face I’m yours to mutilate I’m yours to mutilate
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Elvis Impersonator 02:40
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Verse: Centerfold sugar here On the tip of my tongue Rolled up bills Too high to fuck When the other shoe drops Now the suits don’t fit Wheel me out To sing my greatest hits Chorus: Don’t I look like the real thing Still I am not impervious Corner show, empty guitar case Better find someone else to impersonate Verse 2: Tell all interview With myself all night Darling There’s not much left of me Bridge: I revel in the mindless Cause nobody taught me to do this I wonder where the heartache was born Chorus: Don’t I look like the real thing Still I am not impervious Corner show, empty guitar case Better find someone else to impersonate Don’t I look like the real thing Still I am not impervious (I am not impervious) Corner show, empty guitar case Better find someone else to impersonate
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Planet Serpo 02:51
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Verse: I’ll stop wasting my breath on you When you stop needing a crutch Pointless excuse, I can see right through All the deceiving you do Time is a scrapped, broken piece of machine There hasn’t been a use in a while Tired of being inconvenience When all you want to do is smile When all you want to do is smile I gain an inch, I lose a mile Verse 2: I’ll stop writing these stupid tunes When you stop saying you like them Fragile objects stick to themselves And I haven’t seen you in a moment Time is the pain, when it sinks in deep No watch has never been my style Tired of being irritation When all I want to do is smile When all you want to do is smile You gain an inch, I lose a mile Chorus: When all I want do is make you smile When all I want do is make you smile When all I want do is make you smile When all I want do is make you smile Smile
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Smug Aura 03:23
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Verse: Now I see it Crystal clear You struggled much the same But you got lucky Or something like it Suffered no consequence Pre Chorus: And you weaponized what you had I would’ve done the same Can’t blame when the claws come out When you’re backed in a corner Chorus: You’re so smug But I know you’re afraid But you can still save yourself from your head Go on, tell yourself what you refuse to hear Verse 2: You never had to Push a broom Or break one bead of sweat It doesn’t matter You’ve got yours And now I have mine too Pre Chorus 2: No use hanging on, balling up my fists Wasting my precious time We’ll both eat shit every once in a while Best to chew with our mouths closed Chorus: You’re so smug But I know you’re afraid But you can still save yourself from your head Go on, tell yourself what you refuse to hear Bridge: Things have changed For the worse, or the better, can’t tell Not much better than the worse that I’ve felt And the years turn to stare me down Things have changed For the worse, or the better, can’t tell Not much better than the worse that I’ve felt And the years turn to stare me down Chorus: You’re so smug But I know you’re afraid But you can still save yourself from your head Go on, tell yourself what you refuse to hear You’re so smug But I know you’re afraid But you can still save yourself from your head Go on, tell yourself what you refuse to hear
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Bag of Balloons 03:28
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Verse: The silence It freaks me out The noise is a different kind of hell A masochist, or sadist Again, I contradict myself Stuck in an unfamiliar place (Watching my life just pass me by) Stuck in an unfamiliar place (Watching my life just pass me) Chorus: You kiss me into coma The kind I’ll never wake from Pleased as piss To fuck myself to death You kiss me into coma The kind I’ll never wake from Pleased as piss To fuck myself to death Verse 2: I have a drink It helps me sleep In the morning, I feel empty Out of time Yet again Ambitions decay, slowly Bridge: Watching my life just pass me by Watching my life just pass me by Watching my life just pass me by Watching my life just pass me by Chorus: You kiss me into coma (coma) The kind I’ll never wake from (wake from) Pleased as piss to fuck myself to death (Fuck myself to death) You kiss me into coma (coma) The kind I’ll never wake from (wake from) Pleased as piss to fuck myself to death (Fuck myself to death) You kiss me into coma (coma) The kind I’ll never wake from (wake from) Pleased as piss to fuck myself to death (Fuck myself to death) You kiss me into coma (coma) The kind I’ll never wake from (wake from) Pleased as piss to fuck myself to death (Fuck myself to death)
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Flushed Away 03:48
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Verse: I watched her flush the Molly down Anxious to get it out Funny how we always numb our senses When we want to feel something real I watched her walk down the stairs But I didn’t want to go This year has been a clusterfuck And I wonder how the hell did I end up here Chorus: I never felt so alone Never felt so drained Never felt like I needed help Always wanted more Never got enough Guess the blame lies within myself Always wanted more Never got enough Guess I always needed your help Always wanted more Never got enough Guess the blame lies within myself Outro: I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help I guess I always needed your help
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Masterclass of Modern Horror 03:26
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Verse: It’s starting to look bleak And I’m feeling so weak Guess I’ll go out for a smoke Maybe clear my head Try to make it make sense Wonder what else there is I can do Pre Chorus: My heart is beating faster than it should Room gets smaller Swallows me up My heart is throbbing on the razor’s edge One wrong move to roll the credits Chorus: Crumble at the smallest touch (Another death by a thousand cuts) Could be broken, fully bent (Out of shape and out of step) Verse 2: The darkness follows me Keeps me there on my knees I can feel that the end is near I’m looking like shit now Everything hurts somehow I can’t make it go away Chorus: Crumble at the smallest touch (Another death by a thousand cuts) Could be broken, fully bent (Out of shape and out of step) Crumble at the smallest touch (Another death by a thousand cuts) Could be broken, fully bent (Out of shape and out of step)
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Death Drives a Pale Streetcar Named Desire 02:31
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Verse: Come high noon The pain began to creep up my left back I doubled over then Couldn’t move or speak I threw up three times in the parking lot I thought it was my time Pre Chorus: I can’t drive, will you take me there Chorus: Name and date of birth And a list of symptoms Never thought it would be me Will I ever fucking learn Verse 2: They drew my blood And wheeled me around to different wings For liability We killed the time in that room Lost in rhythm with the vital monitors They never did line up Pre Chorus 2: Checked me in And the pain was gone Hope it meets Our deductible Chorus: Name and date of birth And a list of symptoms Never thought it would be me What will they prescribe Should I just sweat it out Hope to never see you again At least under this circumstance
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Maggie 03:14
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Verse: If you leave me To my own devices You will come to regret it And you will eat your words no longer Please don’t make a mess out of me When you kill me Just spread the parts around And you’ll never be caught, I promise Chorus: It was a ritual A blood sacrifice And it was mutual At least it was in your mind And I will make amends You’ll still nail me To the floorboards Verse 2: And if you send me Plummeting to my death Will you watch when I hit ground Or will you turn your head and shed no tears Bridge: Weave a tourniquet Cause I’m bleeding out Death mask valentine Formaldehyde Homicidal visions of your future And I’m to blame Chorus: It was a ritual A blood sacrifice And it was mutual At least it was in your mind And I will make amends You’ll still nail me To the floorboards It was a ritual A blood sacrifice And it was mutual At least it was in your mind And I will make amends You’ll still nail me To the floorboards
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Stay Foxy, Die Lonely 03:10
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Verse 1: Hopeless Under the spell of the sound Can’t get it out What else is there anyway Blocks out the hum of the pain Pre Chorus: How could I pack it up Hate that I harbored the thought What I thought was a natural end Was more road to ruin Chorus: When I think of the future It makes me sick All I’ve got is time May be hope for me yet Under pressure now So is everyone else Better lift with my knees There’s much more of it Verse 2: Count on Keeping the faith with no thought Fasten my blinders on Walking the tightrope again If I fall, I fall Pre Chorus: How could I pack it up Hate that I harbored the thought What I thought was a natural end Was more road to ruin Chorus: When I think of the future It makes me sick All I’ve got is time May be hope for me yet Under pressure now So is everyone else Better lift with my knees There’s much more of it Outro: There’s much more of it Hope for me yet
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Walking in on Yourself 03:24
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Verse: Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip Pirouette on broken glass Until the record skips Tiny dancer fire from the hip
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Glucose 03:02
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Verse: Holding out For another world Though nothing shows That it’s even real Still I wait with baited breath to see Close my eyes Forget everything Back of my eyelids All I need Lost in trance with visions of what I miss What I miss Chorus: When the glucose kicks in And the shaking finally ends I know the heart wants what it wants Verse 2: Holding out For another world Till I finally learn That there’s nothing there Funny enough, it’s almost a relief Dry my eyes Fill in all the gaps Snap out of this Momentary lapse I hit the lights, as I’m the last to leave Chorus: When the glucose kicks in And the shaking finally ends I know the heart wants what it wants It’s no way to live And I do it to myself Held under till I go limp When the glucose kicks in When the glucose kicks in When the glucose kicks in And the shaking finally ends I know the heart wants what it wants

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Recorded at Steve Studios and Sarlack Studios in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Mixed at the Rubber Factory in Littleton, Colorado.

All songs written and performed by Bad Nostalgia. Produced by Kyle Johnson and Bad Nostalgia. Engineered and mixed by Kyle Johnson. Mastered by Ian Farmer at the Metal Shop in Philadelphia, PA

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released April 14, 2023

Bad Nostalgia is:

Devin Borden - Bass, vocals

Tristan Borden - Drums, keyboards

Kyle Johnson - Guitar, vocals

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