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by Stompcat

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1.
I wish I were the man who doesn't love you The man who doesn't love you gets along all right He isn't thinking of you every day and night Oh how happy he must be I wish I were the man who never met you The man who never met hasn't seen those eyes And he would hardly let you haunt him otherwise Oh how grateful he must be I do the best I can but the man who doesn't love you isn't me Okay your hands are clean Okay you never mean to hurt me Oh, you hurt me though Okay you're not aware But do you even care you hurt me? Oh, you hurt me so You're as bright And as far As a star I wish I were the kid who didn't need you Oh if I didn't need you what a life I'd know I wouldn't breathe and bleed you everywhere I go Oh how lucky I would be I do the best I can but the man who doesn't love you isn't me Okay your hands are clean Okay you never mean to hurt me Oh, you hurt me though Okay you're not aware But do you even care you hurt me? Oh, you hurt me so You're as bright And as far As a summer we'd spend kissing in the car As the lifetimes we've been wasting at the bar But there's a gap between the girls and the guitar There is smoke between the stage and the cigar Don't you go mistaking starlight for a star There is dark between the dream and who we are All the things we'll never be and who we are All the things we'll never be and who we are And I'm trying to be fine with who we are...
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Relentless 05:22
On summer porches the torches are lit But the light's pretty thin and opinion is split So we sit Impatient Little hands tapping out a telegraph of battle plans We get to poking, provoking on cue And I can't even try saying why we all do what we do But we do it No regrets That's just how it goes and goes and gets Relentless... The night's spread out, the light's still thin But the blunt's real thick and it's quicker than gin We want in Impatient Tonight's a thrill Tomorrow...is tomorrow is tomorrow still And she goes loco on SoCo and lime Talking about Psy, or Dubai, or like violent crime Killing time But time ain't dying There's no release And every conversation piece goes on and on increasingly Relentless... And even when I try to catch a minute's rest Count my blessings, hold them tightly to my chest I know each moment has its moment then it's gone And this goes on and on and on and on... Relentless! Relentless! Relentless! Relentless! I went out to the trees where he hung About a hundred degrees and no breeze but he swung And he's young And all I was thinking about are the times within us when we can't take The unremitting cycle of form then forget then forsake And for what? For self-esteem? To talk so there's a little less space to scream? The How is easy Much harder Why Still quiet, let it slip you by The rising echo crying out Relentless! Relentless! Relentless! Relentless! Relentless! You leave for vacation, you're back for the action Vacation, duration, duration, distraction You're out at the taping, you're home in the study There's no one escaping, so dance everybody...
3.
Baby are you feeling upset? Maybe just a little left out? Is it that everybody else seems fine these days? Don't go giving up on me yet! Things are sinking heavy no doubt But if you're cruising for a lift don't worry Honey I got ways There's a slick new twist That the kids all do Once you crack the gist Then you'll dig it too No you can't resist When the beat blows through And the steadies start showing you how Now Everybody's doing the right thing Everybody's doing the right thing The right thing Why you trying to be different? Maybe you should try to be better! The right thing! You can do the right thing. Why you going at it alone? What is it you're having to prove? Is it that everybody always told you you were the special one? Can't you see those speakers are blown? Quit it with the chasing your groove What if you aimed a little lower Tried a little harder To try to work together to get shit done It's a hip new hop That the kids all sweat And they just can't stop The more pissed they get Are you set to drop? Do you like it yet? Won't you start it all over again? Then Everybody's doing the right thing Everybody's doing the right thing The right thing Why you trying to be different? Maybe you should try to be better! The right thing! You can do the right thing...
4.
It's gone now Whatever I had Come on now Your head's just caught It's not so bad But I have just been lying in my room for ages Flipping through a book but I don't see the pages All the ways I used to pass the time before They don't really do it for me Anymore It's shut now The space I used to feel So what now Okay I know it's no big deal Okay I know But it feels like I've been curled up in the dark forever Been asking myself questions when the answer's "Never" All the pretty places I would smile before They don't do it anymore They don't do it for me anymore They don't do it for me anymore They don't do it for me anymore I'm sorry I'd really like to care I'm just in this kind of headspace though And feeling so, I don't know, self-aware I guess I'm desperate for a real sensation But I don't even feel the sense of desperation Somewhere there are people that I adore And they don't do it anymore They don't do it for me anymore They don't do it for me anymore They don't do it for me anymore Am I really trusting what my mind thinks? I should just be trying hard to let go Why am I relying on my instincts? They were gonna fuck me from the get-go...
5.
I used to ache for your attention I'd live or die upon your smile I wasted lonely days Sitting, counting all the ways I'd somehow steal your sunshine for a while I suffered more than I will mention I suffered more than you recall But I got news, My Dear Now I am free and clear Today I woke up knowing I don't need your love at all So you can dance where you like, Honey I don't mind I don't need your love, I don't need your love anymore Go head and lie to my face if you're So inclined I don't need your love, I don't need your love anymore You really put me through the ringer And it was worse when things were good We'd kiss and I'd wonder when You'd shut me out again That hurt more than rejection ever could Now, Babe, you know I'm not a singer But lately I've been singing everywhere Two years of lows and lows But when it goes, it goes I hit our bars and never even notice you aren't there So you can dance where you like, Honey I don't mind I don't need your love, I don't need your love anymore Go head and lie to my face if you're So inclined I don't need your love, I don't need your love anymore

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released March 9, 2014

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