love the song but the guitar treble makes my speakers sound broken

Joy Division - Dead Souls

Gouge Away

It takes time to wait forever
It takes guts to praise bad weather

Fade into you 

I’ve been sitting here waiting for your call forever
I’ve been wondering how you are and if you ever
Think of me from time to time or if you never
Recall all the time we used to spend together

I have seen the light come out of misery
I have seen defeat come out of victory
I have seen some pride come out of modesty
I have seen the lies come out of honesty

Been waiting for the sun like for the moon
For the sun like for the moon

(Excerpt from the film “Misery”)

Cold Case

15 - STAY AWHILE

Recorded in a garage this is raw production, emotional frustration of life in Northern UK, high energy, near the knuckle sentiments, harsh reality of life. 
https://youtu.be/bsEKaoQV2_Q?si=VB2cok5V64dxH1g5

I wanna buy a home,
But I live my life like a garden gnome...
smile like a happy gnome...
uh, uh, uh yeah!

I wanna buy a home,
But I’m still paying off my student loan!
Drowning in a pool of debt,
I see everything I cannot get!
Busting at the seams,
My wallet’s full of empty dreams —
The rich sleep safe in a super home,
I live my life like a garden gnome!

Job says “junior” but I’m thirty-three,
Still flat sharing with anxiety.
Work all week, can’t fill my tank,
Got more minus signs than a pirate bank.
Dreamt of freedom, got payday loans,
New shoes? Nah — just broken bones.
The system’s rigged, it’s plain to see —
But they still blame laziness on me!

Credit check!
Rent’s a wreck!
Fees on fees till my spine goes CRACK!
Said I’d make it if I tried —
Now I’m just trying to survive!

I wanna buy a home,
But I’m still paying off my student loan!
I wanna buy a home,
But I’m still paying off my student loan!

Mortgage dreams are fairy tales,
Told by boomers on clearance sales.
I water plants that aren’t my own —
And smile like a happy gnome...
smile like a happy gnome...
smile like a happy gnome...

Buy a Home

Nothingness

He kept pointing, pointing to the sky. No one ever knew the reason why.
They had him pegged as an ordinary guy.
She drew portraits weekends at the shore. Drawn in sand, so they’re not there anymore.
Waves wiped them out, such a bother, such a bore.

It’s a sign of the times, it’s a drop in the hat,
It’s a hole in the tire, but it never goes flat.
And you’re still unsure what to think about that, you still believe it’s legit.
And the lesson you learn might not be fully known,
But there’s room in the fire, you can rent, you can own.
You just want to know that you truly belong. Do you still know when to quit?

He collected priceless works of art. Never learned to tell them all apart.
Sometimes they questioned if he had a heart.
None of them believed the tales they told. Not too hot, and surely not too cold.
Just one thing mattered, and that’s the quest for gold.

It’s a sign of the times, it’s a drop in the hat,
It’s a hole in the tire, but it never goes flat.
And you’re still unsure what to think about that, you still believe it’s legit.
And the lesson you learn might not be fully known,
But there’s room in the fire, you can rent, you can own.
You just want to know that you truly belong.

So, you’re hedging your bets, consolidate debt, how ‘bout some words to the wise.
Gather the fam’ly around the piano and teach ‘em to sing Edelweiss.

It’s a sign of the times, it’s a drop in the hat,
It’s a hole in the tire, but it never goes flat.
And you’re still unsure what to think about that, you still believe it’s legit.
And the lesson you learn might not be fully known,
But there’s room in the fire, you can rent, you can own.
You just want to know that you truly belong.

Beige

Pavement - Cut Your Hair

3 cover songs I did for Jen as part of a pseudo-proposal to her, and a lazy reentry into recording. It's been >5 years since recording and playing regularly, and the steep atrophy in the duration was painfully apparent. I opted for three, simple/straightforward songs to cover; even then, it was a STRUGGLE. I've never felt particularly lucid with recording previously, but this was a whole new level of incompetence ;) Also, I can barely manage to play the guitar passably nowadays, let alone drum, sing moderately in tune, etc; it is what it is. In any case, I committed to getting these three songs finished quickly without over thinking things, so they're really vanilla and primitive, but it was nice to complete *something* musically -- however slapdash. Not necessarily representative of any direction per se, but at this point I'm just trying to get comfortable with the whole "Perfect is the enemy of good" thing :)

Disorder - Joy Divison

All I Think About Now (Pixies cover)

MNQ 033 Soviet Soviet - Summer, Jesus LP

mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-033-soviet-soviet-summer-jesus-lp

LIMITED EDITION 300 COPIES, SOLID RED COLOUR

CD edition previously on Tannen Records: www.tannenrecords.com/site/cd/firr06--summer-jesus/

Soviet Soviet - Prince, Prostitutes

I'm a one-man project playing all the instruments, singing as well as writing and recording all the songs myself.

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