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Philosophy
02:15
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Left out on the bookshelf
Theories ideologies
Open pages I am lost
Confused at the thought of
How knowledge isn't real
And that the truth isn't ideal
Leaving from the material life
To Take an existential dive
Was the drumming just too fast
Marxist viewpoints you forecast
Jumping down a rabbit hole
I guess you aren't coming back
Metaphysics contradicts the simplicity of ignorance
A dichotomy does not exist although we have split interests
So as they say, “laissez-faire” because it's only realistic
All good times are transient but im glad what's driving you is altruistic
Was the drumming just too fast
Marxist viewpoints you forecast
Jumping down a rabbit hole
I guess you aren't coming back
Is it just too pragmatic
To fade away ecstatic
Punk music is off the line
Now you are thinking full time
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2. |
Take My Name
02:29
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Give me a name
If I behave
Rescue me
From a nonexistence
Blessed with a
Ditzy an empty an airheaded template
Waiting to be written
Dust specks are floating
Behind my eyes
Blitzed remains from an archeological dig
Once was residence
I’ve been shown my place
Take my name and throw it away
And I won’t feed this body anymore
I won’t scream or shake
Take my name and throw it away
Won’t lie to you with a smile anymore
If I was a young and pretty girl
If I added nothing to the world
If I hid what festers deep inside
Would you rewrite these lies?
What once made you cringe
Left an empty corpse
Put me on display
The danger’s burnt into the dirt
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3. |
Hourglass
01:48
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Breathing in an hourglass
And it’s only a matter of time
Before time consumes me
To dust I return and I will remain
Stuck in a cycle
Of exhausting survival
Approaching arrival
I’m gonna catch the bus
I wish I knew another way out
But if I turn pain perpetuates
Preservation is not a solution
I can’t keep this glass enduring volution
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4. |
Fabrications
01:42
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Is it true that you can change the truth?
Or is it another thing I'm making up?
Because that didn’t happen, in fact
I saw what happened and I sat front row while I made your nose bleed
So can we cut to the chase?
And cease the prevarication that I do not need
Either admit it to me
Or omit and outwit this bullshit excuse for some fabrications
I'm an amateur tailor
I’ve sewn a mask, and now I am left with
Ambiguous thoughts and evasive actions
How can I speak if I’m a master of retraction?
How can I function in a world of distraction?
It makes it so easy to eschew
And I can’t stitch my mouth shut
It must be another thing I’m making up
Because I’m a voyeur of disaster and I am
The antithesis of anxiety, climbing the steps on the ladder of deceit
I get chased around and am asked to cut it out
The lies I tell myself
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5. |
A Science Born of Terror
02:02
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You could call it libel
And burn the history book
Forget the words of those who came before you
No need for a second look
A science born of terror
Let’s erase the women scorned
With every name my gut churns further
Minds sentenced to fail at birth
Feynman was a creep
Just another sexist geek
Rethink what you knew
About the men we look up to
Jesus pushed us out
And Newton so devout
Stuck with what he knew
Physics from the church’s pew
Brilliance is tainted with a crazy we can’t shake
Are these your chosen idols?
I bow at the graves of greats
Outcasts who prevailed
And remember those who couldn't
I don't want to forget the twisted structures
I’ll grow the backbone to study who you were
I hate it
And when I hate you I almost hate the science too
Tell me
Is he just a witty charming man?
Well 1.28 GeV is the only charm i need
Never mind a backbone
Never mind a mind of your own
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6. |
Dinosaur
02:46
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I can’t bear to visit knowing what I will not see
Silence speaks the most we’re left with dreams of what won't be
Tenderly I held you when you were very small
And just as carefully I'll tend your memory
Won't let you be forgot
You never knew me
We won't have the chance to meet
How can words convey your life
Words aren't enough to even say goodbye
Just one more toy dinosaur to say goodbye
Close your eyes and hug your mom and you'll be fine
Carefully I tend your memory
Won’t let you be forgot
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7. |
Too Sleepy! (To Skank)
03:09
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Racing to match a joy I just grasp at
Feign a persona not weighed down by dread
Moments of silence they wish I could fill
But I’m sorry I buried my thoughts in my bed
My eyelids are heavy
My bed’s like a cloud
The horns are all fading
I’m sinking deep down
I wish that I wish I didn't stay home
Solace will vacate my heart and my head
Slowly I'm trying to fill what has hollowed
But I'm sorry I buried my thoughts in my bed
Cause I'm too sleepy to skank
And I’m too sad to listen to the songs I used to like
Too sleepy to skank
And I’m drifting through the greatest moments of my life
Pleasantries swapped with a big empty grin
A big show has passed and friends have gone home
My shell liked the music brass passed through my skull
Stopped by no thoughts because those birds have flown
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8. |
On Speed
00:26
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I am on speed
Yes it’s a drug
Two hundred BPM
Coursing through my veins
Play only fast songs
Like no tomorrow
I’ve found religion
My god is called punk rock
Dumb show
Songs are too slow
I go outside
Pray to punk god
Have a breakdown
Go back inside
Fuck up your kit
If I can’t get my fix
I played a slow song
I withered up and died
Rose from the dead with punk
I am on speed
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