Happiness (Without a Catch)

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Steam Powered Giraffe's 6th studio album, 1896!

A two disc album featuring a full studio album on one disc and acoustic versions of the studio tracks on the other disc!

Take a harmony-filled musical journey with the robots Zer0, The Spine, & Rabbit in this album featuring brand new songs from the band!

1896

Eat Your Heart

Rough time of year
Does it get to you too
When it rains and it rains
And your shoes never dry

I stay inside with my
Veins full of glue
And I stick to a screen
Till my battery dies

I don’t need to be rich
Only so wealthy as to pay for my food
I don’t need to be huge
Only so big as to ever be noticed

Rough time of year
Do you sit through it too
With that envy so strong
That you can’t even move

I must confess
An embarrassing truth
Almost nothing can hurt me
Like thinking of you

You’ve got a beautiful home
Bestselling novel and effortless style
You enchant the people around you
They swoon when you show even the hint of a smile

Rough time of year
Does it darken the doors
To the lofty salons
Of the luminaries

I wouldn’t know
I wouldn’t know
I only know
Weeks of godawful overcast days
Abstinence from sun on the skin
Drifting deeper and deeper into quarantine
Until my own company begins to wear thin

Envy

Robbin' a Bank

A Bedtime Story

Shocking Plot Twist

2 Bed, 2 Bath (and a Ghost)

Platonic Best Friend

30 Plan

Not Like That

Lyrics:

I know what you think of me
I know what you say
I know you’re only here
To poke and prod and analyze me

And you’re all wide-eyed and wondering
Why’d I leave, why’d I stay
Why’d I evolve beyond the point
Where you could recognize me

But I’m not so different
And so what if I am
Maybe I’ve changed
But I look at me and I don’t think I’m strange

I saw you from the pebble beach
With your spyglass in your hand
As you cursed into the spray
I am not ashamed to say
I prayed you’d never reach land

But I can’t say I’m astounded
You would track me down and come around
‘Cause it’s you and I always knew
It would never cross your mind
I might not want to be found

I’m not so different
And so what if I am
Maybe I’ve changed
But I look at me and I don’t think I’m strange

You know what I think of you
You know what I keep inside my walls
You know it all
And you know I’ve never been too good at standing tall

So call me inaccessible
And say that I left ‘cause I couldn’t deal
But I feel what I feel
And I had to leave it all behind so I could heal

I’m not so different
And so what if I am
Maybe I’ve changed
But I look at me and I don’t think I’m strange
I look at me and I don’t think I’m strange

credits:

Music and lyrics - Stephan Nance
Piano/vocals/backing vocals - Stephan Nance
Programming/bass guitar/cello/banjo/keys - Josh Frigo
Backing vocals - Annie Elise
Violin/viola - Collins McLaughlin
Drums - Jon Truman
Vocal recording engineer - Zhengxi Zhang
Vocal production - Annie Elise
Mixing - Josh Frigo
Mastering - Alex Dobbert
Artwork - Rebecca DeMoss
Graphic design - Chad Lowe

Atlantisia

Bad Medicine

not my song

original: https://youtu.be/Pb8_uPWhCng

Molly Lewis - Pantsuit Sasquatch

While in the form of the ant
The goose and the wren
Left the shores of Maryland
To find better oxygen
While the outcry of twenty men
Run from the nearby battalion
As if we avoid their light
That we might make it home tonight

And one old crook
Carries a very heavy book
Friends would say 'sir
Are you sure some good
Could come of your learning?'

And he said 'my girl gave it to me
Just before the war
I've never read a book like this before
It's giving me kind of a kind of a binding[?]'

But if it is love then I'm not quite sure if I should keep it
But I've heard it's a part of the whole so I guess I need it
But I'll certainly be sure to stay above the ground
Lately beautiful things got a way of bringing me down

Here lie one hundred men
Fighters every one of them
They went into the light and oh no
They won't be home tonight

And I came upon a kid with a kite
Despite the storms said he's going to fly
So I said 'brother
What would your mother say?'

And he said 'hold your tongue!
It was a present
And god damn I am a man
I ain't afraid of the rain!'

But what can a bystander do?
No more than watch the spidery lights take a hold of you
But you know I warned you boy
You know I told you boy
I'll hold you back boy
But now I don't know but
Cause in a curious kind of way
I want to grow along with you

And morning did come
I was standing struck dumb
By the man in the sun
And the only live one
Held a string from his thumb
That stretched up to the sky
Where the heron flew by
Singing 'oh me and oh my!'

And the goose and the wren
No I have not seen them
But the water looks nice
So I dare not think twice
And I'm sure that they're fine
Very good friends of mine
Cause sometimes I can't tell
When things are unwell
By the look of the sea
Starting straight back at me
And I miss 'em I do
But I think it is true
That when the love go
Its the lovers who show
Just how lonely[?] they are
In a song or a scar
Sincerely your friend
Write back to me, wren
I've been thinking too much
Down here in the sand

The farmer stands and says 'what happened to the land?
It used to be fertile. It used to be good, when I was a lad'

The farmer calls out to this men says
'It's getting late boys, it's best you come back in'

Platonic Best Friend

Bug Hunter

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