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How It Ends
01:40
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+++HOW IT ENDS+++
hey
look who’s the king of them now
they’re all spineless creatures
dug from the depths of the ground
they are no one
they want to know faith
they want to know trust
they want to know god
say they want to know us
but they don’t want to know us
and it’ll be be be be
be until it won’t be
we’ll take the cheap cheap cheap
cheap seats to our own lives
i’m not scared of their ambitions
they create destroyed inventions
they want to know faith
they want to know trust
well it’s burning down with us
it’ll be be be be
be ’till it won’t be
we’ll take the cheap cheap cheap
cheap seats to our own lives.
nothing perfect
nothing infinite
nothing sacred
nothing simple
i don’t want to know how it ends
i just want to know how it is
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2. |
Red Hotel
03:19
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+++RED HOTEL+++
they killed the scene and built a hotel
(what happened? what happened)
another dead youth center
(what happened? what happened)
maybe it’s not important enough to believe in
the city builds it’s coffins for us
we dig deeper
they harvest all the things we’ve grown
we’re not leaving
until we’re fucking coughing up blood
it isn’t right what happened
it isn’t right what happened
and you’ll die before you’re paid back
it’s the only thing that’s constant
before you go believing every word they say
ignoring everything that you stand for just to beg
headstone condos
another frequency dead
this city is a coffin
and i will step right over it
we’ll make this right
we’ll build it again
we’ll make this right
if you wait for it to happen
you’ll wait for it forever
they built a chain to be broken
like it was made out of nothing
worthless and i am reminded
every fucking day
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Dead Dumb Eyes
02:09
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+++DUMB DEAD EYES+++
i’m the saddest sadist
i’m the llama
llama lamest
in the world
i spend my days damning daemons
and my nights shaman shaming
in my bed building bedlam
but why do we sleep
why do we sleep
what do we need
we can’t get when we’re awake
why can’t i sleep
why can’t i sleep
what’s different in me?
i condemn contentment
create my own containment
quarantined. cremated.
salt the earth beneath me
i’ve been hailing halos
to hang over my head
but this one’s caught my neck
like words that i can’t understand
why do we speak
why do we speak
there’s nothing to say
no meaning to it all
why can’t i speak
why can’t i speak
what’s fucked up in me?
why can’t i breathe
why can’t i breathe
why can’t i breathe?
i’ve got dead dumb eyes
dead dumb eyes
backwards mouth
crooked spine
dead dumb eyes
dead dumb eyes
bear in mind
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4. |
Glow
06:34
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+++GLOW+++
i’ve been working hard for nothing at all
a meaning that was so soft spoken
like heat leaving me
never to return to the world
like a body
a curse
lives buried in the dirt
it’s burning but it doesn’t glow
a fire in a pitch black room
as i breathe in the smoke
nothing escapes me
i feel it still
no one
no one sees us burning alive
we are deeper than we ever will know
the sun is still and i’m still moving
front row center of the universe’s collapse
a mind is a black hole
nothing escapes it
you burn it but it doesn’t glow
a fire in a pitch black room
as i breathe in the smoke
nothing escapes me
i feel it still
no one
no one sees us burning alive
i was glowing bright inside
i don’t know what i became
my body casts a shadow on my insides
a curse that will never be broken
all the world’s on a tilt
and i feel it slide
dark heart
heat death
nowhere to hide
and i wait around
like a broken house
to be torn down
i did my best. well,
i almost believed it myself
i was in awe of all we’ve done
and what it all became
when all i’ve done
was all in vain
i’m not who i was
and i’m not who i am
and all i’ve done
was all on a stage
i’m not who i was
i don’t know what i became
i want a re-do
i want to meet you
all over again
just start over again
i hate what i am
just a sketch to erase
i just want it all to end
so i can be complete
i was in awe of all we’ve done
and what it all became
i’m not who i was
i don’t know what i became
i just want it all to end
so i can be complete
i’m not who i was
i don’t know what i became
i just want it all to end so i can be complete.
it’s not who i was
and it’s not what i am
i just want it all to end so i can be complete.
it’s not who i was
and i’m not like i came
i just want it all to end so i can be complete.
i’m not who i was
i don’t know what i became
just want it all to end so i can be complete.
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Kitchen
02:00
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+++KITCHEN+++
short temper
long night
double vision
and one eye
i punch holes in the walls in winter
and smoke in my kitchen
cops called for a noise complaint
busted on a friday night
just me myself and i
ran off the rails tonight
like a freight
freight train
weigh a feather
against my heart
don’t care if i’m dead or not
don’t know if i’m too fucked up
so what so what
so what
i don’t care
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6. |
Prizefighter
03:44
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+++PRIZEFIGHTER+++
they cut your tongue
broke your legs
you bared your teeth with no bite left
chained like dogs
kicked and pulled
prizefighters
with no fight left in us
given the option
yeah i should have turned and ran
but you lead me here
dead on arrival
arrival
are we too good for
for this world
are you watching me release the heat that i have
in the darkest days we can’t outrun
i’m still waiting
yeah i’m still there
turned to salt
turned to sand
endless days and no time left
lowered head
open hands
billionaires and not a dime to spare us
given the outcome yeah,
i shoulda turned and ran
but you lead me here
dead on arrival
arrival
are we too good for
for this world
are you watching me release the heat that i have
in the darkest days we can’t outrun
i’m still waiting
yeah, i’m still there
always there
i was there
always there
ways there
bear your teeth with no bite left
prizefighter with no fight left in us
when you leave there’s no world for me
and you leave me here
no heat no sun no life left
and the things we’ve seen mean the world to me
but the darkness you left
is still there
always there
i was there
always there
prize fighter with no fight left
endless days and no time left
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7. |
Grow
05:28
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+++GROW+++
i burnt down
overthinking
then i spaced out
every night
and i worked through
the days after the funeral
freaking out
counting time down
as i broke down in the bathroom
and it makes you who you are
not what you wanted to be
every night i see someone
that looks just like you to me
i can’t take the way i make
a mess out of everything
i’ve lost and i’ve grown
better but i don’t forget
i don’t forget what we’ve lost
and i dropped out
before it killed me
yeah i scraped by
i sold my blood
and i scraped dishes
for next to nothing
it’s a violent scheme of living
they’re trying to collect
my breath
for their debt
they’re never tired
they’re never bored
because they’re never awake
i stay up nights
days and nights
trying to get back to sleep
it makes us who we are
but it’s not how i want it to be
we lose and we grow
better but we don’t forget
everything
i can see
exploding
right in front of me
everything
i can see
exploding
back into me
everything
i see
everything i
see
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