I'd give my eyes

Endlessness

Ubiquitous Pseudonyms

Crespi tuning the pianola

use me

Interim

Reno

Such Deep Red

Stereo Terrarium

If It Fits This Rhythm

Hot Shot

**NOTE** These tracks are unmastered, track 3's volume is higher than 1 and 2
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See Through

I keep having dreams I'm see through
Your name's on my mind like a tattoo
You're so long, I'm at a distance
I had a chance but I think I missed it

I wanna roll with you but I can't stand you
Roll with you
I'm just see through

Motherfucker with a mission
You can talk and I'll just listen
I can never think less of you
Does it make me crazy if I say I love you?
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Make Believe

I never know what you want from me
When I just try to do the best I can to be a friend
Making love to you is make believe
I like to think it's just an exercise in how to lie

Throwing back another fireball
But not for fun it's so I kill the pain that eats away
If you're a birthday, I'm a funeral
You raise a glass to life, and I remind us all we'll die

It's not love like it once was
It's just a touch between the knees
That feels like a suicide
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You Tell Me Not To Love You (But I Can't Let Go)

Well you tell me everyday that you and me's just wrong
I'm too far away, my hair's too long
Go to Paris, or Hong Kong, fly back to Maine
You keep your secret boy, I'll keep myself sane
There's a voice in my head, soft and low
And it tells me not to love you, but I can't let go

Loving you is like a close shave with a dull razor
Going down, no returned favors
I'm fed up with your bad behavior
Like Fonz my happy days are over
Like a sinner with no saviour
Like an ice cream future with no flavor
I try to deny it but I know, I know
That you tell me not to love you but I can't let go

I shoulda known better

We all wear masks, but mine's too tight
I don't want to break you, but then again I might
You be the dark, I'll be the light
You be alone and I'll be alright
So I'll play the record louder still
I'll crank the speakers up until
I go deaf and can't hear no more 
When you tell me not to love you and I can't let go
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All parts written and performed by Trey Rosenkampff except where noted

DEMOS

You Tell Me Not To Love You (But I Can't Let Go)

See Through

Yellow Instead Of Black (2014)

I'd shut my eyes to every other woman and give you all my views
I'd sell all I possess and build a house with my hands to live in it with you
I could own the whole world over and still have nothing 
If you're the one thing that I lack
When will it end? When will I see yellow instead of black?

I would change my name to meadows if it meant that someday I might make you mine
I'd stare straight in your sunny sights for hours if you wanted me to go blind
I'd never say another unkind word if it meant I'd get you back
When will it end? When will I see yellow instead of black?

I've listened to your breathing deep and sighed
Knowing your sighs are not for me
I've got a thousand letters all in envelopes
In the cigar box you gave to me
I wish that we could quit all of this talking
And just sit and listen to each other for a while
When will it end? When will I again get to see you smile?

This road that we've been travelling on is weary
It's got me looking at my grave
And I remember when you told me to be a man
I need self control and strength
But my self control is wasted
And my strength is turned to dust
Because I've set my heart upon you
And I can't contain this love
And if after all these crooked words, you don't believe me 
When I say my mind is still intact
When will it end? When will I see yellow instead of black?
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Use Me [demo](2015)
(drums by Jack Blauvelt, bass by John Riccitelli)

I spend all my time and money on you
To help keep your habits alive
Most days you act like you hate me,
But some nights you're fine
You just keep me hanging around
But I enjoy it so I don't mind
You're not fun you're just entertaining
Your words not mine

Beggars choosing
I offer love, you refuse it
I've let you use me
And now I'm all used up

I don't want to move across the country
But maybe then you would start to love me
Because you only seem to want what hurts you the most
And I just want to ease your mind

Did the fun fade away?
Did I pull too hard?
You've been warning me about the day you're gonna break my heart
You say you'd rather be alone?
Well honey I've got something better
Come on over, let's get stoned
And we'll be lonely together

You just used me
And now I'm all used up
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Old Gravity (2013)

When we met we were like two lost souls out of time
Floating through space trying to find
A home, a place we’d both longed to go
But had never been before

Swimming through a sea of black holes
Fueled by the will of purpose and the solitude of hope
That we would find each other
Though we knew not for whom we searched

Like old gravity we were freed from the pull of the source
But it’s hard to find love in a heart that’s been clouded by remorse

Suddenly beneath the flashing lights
The neon constructs of the night
Our bodies collided, misplaced and misguided
And we settled into our bones

We each became the figure of our dreams
A character in some scripted scene
But the parts we played were deeply flawed
And we were both hopelessly miscast

I forfeited the only love that could bind her
You were God, I was Oppenheimer
I played with a power I couldn’t contain
Then watched my world be destroyed

Then like old gravity you could no longer drag me back to the core
It still hurts to be unloved but it don’t hurt so much to love you anymore

If the stars could sing our song
They would whisper words that would serve only to haunt
Me every night as I glaze over the sky
And try to navigate back toward north

I still have faith that I will find you
And if I have to search the universe blind, I will
Just to hear your voice
I need not even see your face

Like old gravity there is no dragging me down to the core
It still hurts to be unloved but it don’t hurt so much to love you anymore
Like old gravity you can no longer pull me back to the start
It still hurts to be unloved but it don’t hurt to love you this far from your heart
---
All parts written and performed by Trey Rosenkampff except where noted

Old Gravity

Use Me [demo]

Yellow Instead Of Black

Talking A Walk (2015)

I was talking a walk
Taking my time
Everything was mighty fine
Fine
I'm feeling mighty fine

I was talking a walk
It's taking it's toll
So pack a bag and hit the road
Get on in I'm ready to go
Let's hit the open road

I'm talking a walk
But I'm losing my mind
There's no sense in crying
Hide behind a smile
I'm feeling mighty fine
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Dead End (2016)
(drums by John Restivo, trumpet by Tyler Jundt)

Barely awake
Barely alive and well
But oh well
Miles away
I pick up your smell
From this hotel
I'm just a coin
That you tossed down a well
Kiss and tell
A wish who missed the mark
And I just fell
But oh well

Now another era's over
Another dead end in my life
And I'm still young enough to make mistakes
But too old to make them twice
It's one for the money, two for the money
The Third is on edge
I'm afraid of everyone
But I'm more afraid of losing them
I'm afraid of everyone in this dead end

Spoiled again
Another wasted trip
Bite your lip
Nickel and dimed
Another wasted rhyme and time
In my prime
If you get a taste
Then you just crave success
I guess
I'll get to heaven if I get through hell
Oh well

I'm afraid of everyone 
But I'm more afraid of losing them
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Seikilos In French (2016)
(drums by John Restivo, bass by John Riccitelli, keys by Jack Blauvelt, trumpet by Tyler Jundt, saxophone by David Iduate)

If I had a little more money, if I lived in LA
Twice the man I am today
Oh well, oh pitiful me
As the french say, se la vie
Cuz you wouldn't know what to do with it
If I did
Yeah the words don't match the lip
I'm torn 'tween the twins in my heart
Though the two couldn't be further apart

Stuck in this moment instead of taking it in
I'm starting to believe in things again

"So while you're still alive, shine
Time necessitates an end"
(Yes it do)
I will never write a line so beautiful
Everything, nothing
(Yes he will)
---
All parts written and performed by Trey Rosenkampff except where noted

Seikilos In French

Dead End

Garageband

Taking A Walk

Conversation Piece (2016)

Internet (2018)

Annie (2014)

Conversation Piece

What Do You Want (2014)
(drums by Jack Blauvelt, bass by John Riccitelli)

Take it out on me
I guess that I deserve this for actin tough
But I can’t take this misery
You take my money but don’t accept my touch

Even though
I try so hard to make amends
I’m chasing you
And leaving behind all of my friends

Cut me off at every turn
But I return
With nothing learned
If you don’t want my love then what do you want?
What do you want
What do you want

Choke it down, easy
The drinks I buy you only make you mean
You can’t say thank you or I’m sorry
You bitch and kick and then would rather say nothing

But we don’t ever have
To talk about it
I keep my cool
And you treat me like shit

Cut me off at every turn
But I return
With nothing learned
If you don’t want my love then what do you want?
What do you want
What do you want

Take it out on me
I guess that I deserve this for acting tough
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Honeypot (2012)

My darling, honeypot
I sure do miss you a lot
My mind’s been playing a cassette
The sound of leaving feet
An echo on repeat
White torture walking through my head

I’m locking every door
I’m leaving town
There’s no reason anymore, for me
To stick around

My darling, honeypot
I sure do miss you a lot
But not as much as I miss me
Strung up in martyrdom
For thirty days I hung
My broken hands are severed free

I’m locking every door
I’m leaving town
There’s no reason anymore, for me
To stick around


I’m locking every door
I’m leaving town
There’s no reason anymore, for me
To stick around

I’m walking out the door
I’ve skipping town
There’s ain’t no feelings here
For me to drown

I’m breaking every bone
I’m breaking down
“Leave message at the tone”
But I heard no sound

I’m finally on my own
What goes around
Came back to bite the tongue
Behind my frown
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Love Is For Losers (2012)

You were beating your breast
Like a proud beast
Taking what you claimed as yours
Stakes in your territory
It’s nothing to me
I still find it hard to
Believe that you’re gone
When I think how I loved 
You for so long
But that don’t mean anything to you anymore, does it?

Trees, the birds and the breeze
Are talking to me
Telling me I’m in the right
But what do they know
They die with the snow
And leave me alone with my
Terrible thoughts
The person you’ve made me just
Cannot move on
Do you think of me as much as I think of you?

Cuz love is for losers
And thanks to you, I’ve got nothing left to lose
Beggars ain’t choosers
But I refuse to choose anyone but you
Maybe I’m selfish
Maybe I’m blind
But babe I can’t walk away
And God knows I’ve tried

String the bow in your mouth
Arrows of nouns
Use my heart for target practice
But I bleed when I’m cut
I feel from my gut
I can recognize when I’m
Played as a fool
I’m more than just
Your stepping stool
You can’t stand on me anymore

Cuz love is for losers
And thanks to you, I’ve got nothing left to lose
Beggars ain’t choosers
But I refuse to choose anyone but you
Maybe I’m selfish
Maybe I’m blind
But babe I can’t walk away
And God knows I’ve tried

Cuz love is for losers
And thanks to you, I’ve got nothing left to lose
Covered in bruises
And the truth is I’ve given some to you  
It’s cuz I’m foolish
It’s cuz I’m trying too hard
You say you’ve stopped loving me
But when did you start?

Love Is For Losers

Honeypot

What Do You Want

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