Days mask and drink denial
Masks everything for a while
Loyalty like a prisoned gargoyle
In a twisted ruin

My alter ego acts
Chuckles and charms
It summons harm
And it hurts like fuck
My hands decree to dark
My nerves niggle and nark

Put me on a crucifix
Is this my paradise?
I care
I care
I care too much what humans think
Is this my sacrifice?

Last orders rang
As sadness hanged
Cups clanged to the old gang
As the clamour dimmed
A staggered binge
Invites a lairy fist to swing
Invites a lairy fist to swing

Put me on a crucifix
Is this my paradise?
I care
I care
I care too much what humans think
Is this my sacrifice?

A new age rises
A new stage prizes
The fellows of old
They're ridden in cries
Their tongue's distaste to your newborn life
To your newborn life
Their tongue's distaste to your newborn life

Put me on a crucifix
Is this my paradise?
I care
I care
I care too much what humans think
Is this my sacrifice?

Interrobang

I’m on the edge,
The Klaxon of my generation.
I’m on the edge,
The Klaxon of my generation.

A Doorway Conversation’s
Adjacent to foreplays making,
Aching to be set free to a finer destination.

Briefly tangle our troubles,
Nodding our heads but failing to observe,
Apathy, in a storm’s disperse.

Somebody hit the klaxon.
Just another doorway conversation.
Somebody bring a hand gun.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
Somebody hit the klaxon.

Well one night’s scene froze,
When a serene statue of diamond stone,
Pushed life when the curtain closed,
And we’ll embark upon our family’s throne.

I get lost to find myself,
When I find myself I wanna be free.
A sacrificial change.
The paint feels better when the page is stained.

Somebody hit the klaxon.
Just another doorway conversation.
Somebody bring a hand gun.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
Somebody hit the klaxon.

Somebody hit the klaxon.
Just another doorway conversation.
Somebody bring a hand gun.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
Somebody hit the klaxon.
Just another doorway conversation.
Somebody bring a hand gun.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.
All I wanna see is my reflection.

Headshrinkers - Doorway Conversation

Enjoy the monocle from love's giving
We don't need no tropical living
All we need is the house we live in
And to christen every seat that we sit in

A chronicle of you in this first edition
Now every word is yours that I've written
And we're worlds above
To those who claim their faith to love

I'll breath with you to match your rythym
As I lay to gain a glimpse of your giving
And by no means at dopamine's loss
And you will never albatross

And you will never be once alone
So take the rope to the cliffs we cross
Let's keep you and I under this glass
And the sun will burn us to ash

Let's get closer
Can you take me home on your own?
We're alone
'Til the end
We ride like Bonnie and Clyde 'til the end

Let's get closer
Can you take me home on your own?
We're alone
'Til the end
We ride like Bonnie and Clyde 'til the end

Let's get closer
Can you take me home on your own?
We're alone
'Til the end
We ride like Bonnie and Clyde 'til the end

Let's get closer
Can you take me home on your own?
We're alone
'Til the end
We ride like Bonnie and Clyde 'til the end

(We're alone 'til the end)
(We're alone 'til the end)
Enjoy the shift to a closer state (We're alone 'til the end)
Like a thousand shifts in tectonic plates (We're alone 'til the end)
And not once have we paused for thought (We're alone 'til the end)
Or any ride could be cut short (We're alone 'til the end)

Monocle

Doorway Conversations - The debut EP from Headshrinkers.

Did I play up last night be honest
No gospel tongue when the Bathams hops in
I spoke for an age with a naked sharpness
Though I harp on about who I share my heart with

I'll offer you the world now my hands are tarnished
And part with pride to make peace upon us
But one more jar is the usual promise
Please pardon the demands of a piss artist

You've studied me for years
So why does it take one day for you to understand
And rid my fears
For nothing's worth your tears

Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it
Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it
Don't say you're done, don't say you're done
Cause I'm here for it
Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it

You wanna give me the fruit that she gave to Adam
To grasp the place where I pick my passion
I can't bring myself to trade the pattern
To the hands of the man who steers the wagon

And I'll often foresee it happen
The excitement sparks and it blows the cannon
I'll prove to you who you think I am
As I slur to The Broad Majestic Shannon

Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it
Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it
Don't say you're done, don't say you're done
Cause I'm here for it
Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it

My dear today
Don't turn your face away
My dear today
Don't turn your face away
My dear today
Don't turn your face away
My dear today
Don't turn your face away

Cause you've studied me for years it takes one day for you
To understand and rid my fears
Studied me for years it takes one day for you to understand and rid my fears
Studied me for years it takes one day for you to understand and rid my fears
Studied me for years it takes one day for you to understand my dear

Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it
Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it
Don't say you're done, don't say you're done
Cause I'm here for it
Baby we're alone, we're alone and I'm here for it

My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
My dear
I'm here
I'm here
I'm here
I'm here
My dear

Headshrinkers - My Dear

They gnaw away your brain but keep your face surface gold
And expect the course to keep its run
When they understand how they built Rome

Can't come to terms to smile through rain
Why can't I let sadness take its place?
Cause you need to speak to sadness sometimes
Instead of picking up the petals your loved one's made

I was a thousand bottles screwed on the shelf
Dying to be opened to relieve myself
I was nobody's drink
Didn't see how I felt
I was staring at life in the face itself

And how they built Rome
And how they

How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing?
So give, give, give, give, give it the king
You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real
So give, give, give, give, give it them now
And then your heavy head won't fit the crown

A worn racehorse's odds are nothing of two to one
They'll bleed the fun 'til their God no longer appeals to them

Do you wanna front the papers?
Do you wanna be famous?
And they'll remain nameless when my shortcomings are framed as another working-class-jumped-up failure

They'll see a young kid go south
Blame the genius of words on the rocks and brown
Fingers scrape through my gums so they hear it all
Tell stories of me like they've seen it all
But not yet

How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing?
So give, give, give, give, give it the king
You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real
So give, give, give, give, give it them now
And then your heavy head won't fit the crown

I never, never, never wanna feel like this again
Let these lizards leech off my innocence
I never, never, never wanna feel like this again
Let these lizards leech off my innocence
I never, never, never wanna feel like this again
Let these lizards leech off my innocence
I never, never, never wanna feel like this again

How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing?
So give, give, give, give, give it the king
You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real
So give, give, give, give, give it them now
And then your heavy head won't fit the crown
Now

How They Built Rome

Why’s the night never seem so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Light up in song I was born to dance.

Every day do you feel like the world’s astray?
Every day do you feel like the world’s in vain?
So let the starts reprise to the seeker and,
give the gutter something to believe in.

And it takes a lifetime to reconcile stress.
Hold a mirror up to what the Banshee said.
You can tumble dice you can’t make it set,
So lose your mind in the midst of the dancing set.

Why’s the night never seem so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Light up in song I was born to dance.

Why’s the night never seem so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Light up in song I was born to dance.

Each day does a figurine fall away?
Each day does the wind’s sincerity sway?
Let the snowbird sing, dusk ‘til dawn,
And let the soiree fall until a baby’s born.

The ceiling is ripe and it’s ten-pins tall.
Commoners dream to feel the power of it all.
I see those who are thirsty can’t seem to pour.
I want to be something but want to be adored.

Why’s the night never seem so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Light up in song I was born to dance.

Why’s the night never seem so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Light up in song I was born to dance.

Why’s the night never seem so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Light up in song I was born to dance.

Why’s the night never seemed so long?
Where’s y’gone where’s your heart belong?
It was bang bang it was all bang bang.
Black Country slang is where we like to dance.

Bang Bang

Spring in the wind with pennies in my palm
Dogs bark to wailing alarms
Mother dreamt of calm
We weren’t born into art
We were sold for parts and left

Yet we were handsome and we held hope
And ran the street on an empty gloat
Theft means you’re broke
But it’s different strokes
For different folks
I’d do it all again

I’d do it all again

How can I stop myself, from order of artificial intelligence?
And how can I stop myself?
Won’t you throw me a line?
Won’t you throw me a line?

I’m in awe of phase-based news and I know it’s flawed
And I’m bored of the sordid softcore porn
I’ve been placed on this platform
And if you’re inactive for days you’re no longer half-famous

I’ve fallen to craters of dangerous places
Adverts are television and algorithms are like plasticine
Throw me to chastity, happily challenge me or dance with me
Shut down your computer
And shut down the asylum
I said shut down your computer
And shut down the asylum

How can I stop myself, from order of artificial intelligence?
And how can I stop myself?
Won’t you throw me a line?
Won’t you throw me a line?

Black snow falls, it’s received with thank you’s
Chaos is a virtue here
Specular reflection sneers droops your features like
Clay endearing to our fears
You here the pistol squeal
Epileptic drain lids the disruption of schizophrenic hydrants, defies silence
Then a hum in the latter of the tunnel


You spend your days planned
With will to make grands
Stranded in the middle of the wasteland
Wishing to see the pearly gates stand
And there waits your offering from loving grey hands

How can I stop myself, from order of artificial intelligence?
And how can I stop myself?
Won’t you throw me a line?
Won’t you throw me a line?

Plasticine

Oh Lord, save me.
Save me another day maybe.
Oh Lord, grace me,
With space for mine so safely.
 
And bend my plastic mind.
Bend my mind and watch it burn.
Bend my plastic mind.
Bend my mind and watch it burn.
 
We live, so vaguely,
‘til the pastor can prove his daydream.
And sorry Lord why can’t you chase me?
Cause Arcady is still so shaky.
 
And bend my plastic mind.
Bend my mind and watch it burn.
Bend my plastic mind.
Bend my mind and watch it burn.
 
So breathe in, and breathe it out.
We’re forgetting there’s always another day.
And how soon, how soon is now.
We’re forgetting there’s always another day.
 
Another day
Another day
Another day
 
And oh Lord knows you’re creative,
But calamity holds no patients.
And sorry Lord if I seem evasive,
I can’t relate to a thing so ancient.
 
And bend my plastic mind.
Bend my mind and watch it burn.
Bend my plastic mind.
Bend my mind and watch it burn.
 
So breathe in, and breathe it out.
We’re forgetting there’s always another day.
And how soon, how soon is now.
We’re forgetting there’s always another day.
 
Our life is a holiday,
And we’ll probably stay ‘til threadbare’s bay now.
Breathe in, and breathe it out.
We’re forgetting there’s always another day.
 
Another day
Another day
Another day
Another day

Threadbare

6:41 Sapien marks the beginning of an exciting new musical direction for Headshrinkers. Their new single encapsulates the drudgery of modern life, with Garran’s unflinching poetry delivered relentlessly atop a driving, unnearving bassline, coupled with a pounding drum beat and searing guitar lines.

6:41 Sapien

Unflinching poetry set atop confrontational searing lead guitar riffs, thunderous, driving bass-lines and pummelling drums is the unmistakable sound of Headshrinkers. Having formed in 2019 built on a vision of capturing modern life within their music, Headshrinkers have been quick to create a name for themselves in their local music scene and beyond. Headshrinkers were named on This Feeling's 'Big in 2021' list, as well as being Brum Radio's band of the year in 2020.
 
Headshrinkers' sound has been described as ‘incendiary Post-Punk laced with stunning poetic majesty’ by This Feeling. Their frantic, full-force live shows are the best way to experience the band. Frontman Garran Hickman’s captivating, visceral performances take the audience on a journey, as they are simultaneously blasted with Headshrinkers' unrelenting brand of noise.

Following a packed 2021, which included the band recieiving backing from BBC 6 Music and Radio X, as well as performing at Isle of Wight Festival and in The Netherlands, Headshrinkers are working on the release of their debut EP, 'Doorway Conversations', scheduled for 2022.

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