A nice little ballad, lyrics by Matt Royek. 

Sleep In The Stars

A fast little rocker, off of You Should Drink More.

District Line

The Bottom

Another Track off of You Should Drink More

Crack My Head and Let The People Out

Riddance

Another folk thing. This one is full of Irish.

Frank Jaggerty

I wrote this after seeing Steve Martin do his bluegrass show. I love the sound of southern harmony. The extreme nasalization of the voice in order to achieve sublime blend qualities. mmmmm


Guide You Home

This song was written at the end of the summer, and we've been so wrapped up in stuff that we haven't recorded it until now. Enjoy (new watchers get bonus points if they listen and comment :D)

Lyrics:
Lyrics:
Gathered, sorted and dispersed
Lined up in rows to see. Hushed in our conversation
What cause have we to rejoice asks one man.
I say look at your hands your feet and feel your heart
What other reason do we need.

Chorus:
The pipes shine, like liquid metal
Falling from the invisible, infinite well above
the alter that soaks up all of their offerings
Their sacrament, meaning much more than words.
Stops out, the very air exalted
by the ringing golden machine
as it sings it’s praises to the world
to the clouds the sun and me.
And to you hear it say Christine, Gloria.

A great throne before us, or rather the center
of some great nervous system.
An endless field of controls.
Tell me where was the one that turned on the color
Where is the lever to mystify and hypnotize away
All our ever lasting fears and where,
was the stop, that filled me up with warmth

Chorus

did you have the time did you have the strength
The will or the patience to make a little light in this
dark world. A light that shines so much brighter
Than any lamp.
No, no I’ll never go back, I gotta
get up, get up, get up, get, get out of this
kind of mind that said to never believe, never give in,
And never surrender yourself, unto the magic again,
unto the magic again, unto the magic again.

Chorus 

Gloria

it's a return to folk really, but the bridge is pretty soulful and at least a little like "Live"
Trying to use harmonies. Oohs and Ahs. It's an old one, so if you've been listening since, you know that we do that kind of stuff all the time.

Doors

Wrote this over the winter and recorded it just yesterday. Really proud of this. The ammount of nagging and nit picking was astronomical. Hopefully the product was worth it.

Short and sweet. Trying to be less frilly. Not overuse vocal harmonies, not repeat stuff for the simple sake of repeating it.


Lyrics:
Become
Become undone
Reset the world and try to make it what you want
When you come down, when you come down, when you come
re-write your situation

Chorus:
Who has the right to try and tell you what is better
To each his own but what if they can not consent
Your right to life my right to live I’m comin’ down

Become
Become your opinion
Expect the same if you think you know what is wrong
When you come down, when you come down, when you come
Bring your best explanation

Chorus

Solo

Around here you have the choice
to speak in the crowd or get drowned out by the noise
Comin’ down comin’ down it is your flag to hoist
you alone, you alone, it’s your decision alone

Chorus

Down

Surfish sounding song. Enjoy

Lyrics:
Have you ever wondered how you got here.
The corners turned and the bridges burned
That resulted in yourself
Not too long ago I was the master of my domain
But then things don’t always fall into place
the way that you had planned

Chorus:
But then I fell in love
It was an altered state of paradise
I’m always one step too far, behind the game
the one cleaning up
But then I fell in love
And now I cannot bear to move my eyes
I was redefining how my heart should beat
But then I fell in love

It was about a year before “The last one”
Rumors fly there was a voice from the sky
But who listened,
And when the witch hunters gathered for a seance
There I was proclaiming the end of an age that
We had worked so hard to escape

In the middle of the ocean I was stranded
I screamed and I cried until my breath was denied
By the crashing waves
And as I sank to the bottom I saw that I was rocking the boat
so I crossed my arms and waited quietly
As I fell to my watery hell 

But Then I Fell In Love

Here's a song about a man with two heads. We do not actually know this man, but we wrote a song for him anyway. Enjoy the frantic spleandor that is this song.

Lyrics:
One pair of hands, one set of shoulders
a dandy deuce of matching thumbs
he sports a ten pack of perfect fingers
a shiny nail on every one
a forking spine, cleft at the neck
should that be plural? well I see
a set of chins and matching noses
two sets of eyes look back at me

Everywhere he goes you hear dishes crash
and bumpers smashing, people gasping, 
what the hey is it just me or is that a

Chorus:
Woah, two headed man, living with himself and him
usin’ double the shampoo
needs four goggles at the pool
internet says it’s a scam, two headed man

Two headed man bought himself a neck tie
went down to the city to find a job
The cafe’s and the restaurants wouldn’t have him
Doors were locked before he could turn the knob
he wandered the busy streets for hours
until somebody pulled up in a van
they said hey man, we need a roadie
and you look like a guy who could use a hand

Then he spent a year, tuning things and hauling gear
until someone stopped to hear him sing
bass and tenor at the same time because he’s a

Chorus II:
Woah, two headed man, singing background vocals with the band
wish he had another hand
always using two mic stands
can’t get more attention than two headed man

Does he have two hearts, does he have two souls
can he control both brains, does he have two life goals
and if you dated one head, would the other miss you
if one had a cold sore, could the other kiss
or would that be cheating, would the love be fleeting
could you stay and know you’ll make it through being 
two for one and one with two?

Woah, two headed man, living with himself and him
Woah, two headed man, on the evening news again

Woah, two headed man, a miracle where he stands
hard to sneak up on a guy
who is a literal four eyes
can you tell that I’m a fan
got his faces on a stamp
he’s a big star in Japan
Two headed man

Two Headed Man

Here's a song I wrote over the summer.
This is my favorite guitar solo I've ever recorded. MMMM Actually sounds like I know how to hold the instrument.

Tell me what you think.

Lyrics:
Got a steel machine runnin with a man in hand
wheels turn faster than his head can stand
got that rare elixer, got that devil’s eye
drowning ears never heard the other cry,
too old to live and too young to die
too old to live and too young to die

Chorus:
Oh(A) oh(C#) oh(E) oh(D)
You never can give it all
Oh(A) oh(C#) oh(E) oh(D)
The steel machines are there to break your fall (ending on lower A)

Got a steel machine runnin, gonna bear the wait
hours no faster when the pain is great
Can’t leave unless you play the game
clip the fuse and hold back the rain
but the message always reads the same
but the message always reads the same

Chorus

(Solo break)

Been 21 days since I saw the man.
cut him wide open, have to dig again
seeing what he took, and what the other gave
still proud to call himself a slave
you don’t get to buy yourself a grave
you don’t get to buy yourself a grave

Chorus x2

Rhythmic outro:
hold me darlin’, hold me tight. Tell me everything will be alright. (repeated endlessly)

Steel Machines

This one took FOREVER. Got new mics that I recorded the acoustic guitar with. Check out that clarity! Oh and if you can name the aria at the start and end of it, you win a prize <_<

Help Me On My Way

HELLO this is Christmas song. Eat carefully.

I hope that I don't die on Christmas Eve

Here's the folkiest thing we've done in a while. Wanna hear it? It's super chill AND it includes a melodica.

Too Tired To Cry

Things to listen for in this one.
1. Pots and... yeah you get the idea. All were recorded in real time by me, on my family's cookwear. 2 Pans, 3 Pots, and a lid. Regular drum sticks. How's my drummin'?
2. Bass. I'm away for break, so I don't have my Pink friend to play for me. This is me using my angry string punishing finger flogging technique.
3. RAP. Yeah. I totally rap at the end of this thing... What about that?

Leave your comments, and opinion on whether or not this song is dirty... below.

Lyrics:
Add one pound to the list of things that I won’t do
Cook it for an hour and tell it it’s in love with you
Butter up that skillet, turn around and fill it with the
ice, to numb, the way that you have flambe’d me honey

Lock the doors, close the blinds, and take the batteries
out of that smoke detector, yeah
Go ahead and add a pinch of lust, oh no, I think the cap is
broken, oh well, the book said add to taste and this recipe
has gotten me feelin rather creative
if ya know what I’m sayin hahaha

La La La La La
Lovely pots and pans

Why don’t you throw that turkey bacon, right out the window
I don’t want no, light mayo, gimme the good stuff, I’m prepared
You know that I can take it, and we could fry or bake it
wrap it up, and keep, it in the freezer till we need it baby

Won’t you be my kitchen aid, can you mix it up and
all of those other functions, yeah
well, put your apron on and measure me a heaping cup of
sugar, you know that sweetness has effects on me that turns me
into well, ya know just a sweeter kind of guy in general hahaha
Here we go

La La La La La
Lovely pots and pans

Listen now ya talkin’ to the master chef
if you think cookin’ is a game well baby I’m the ref
so, grab a beater, it’s nice to meet ya
I’ll let ya taste the batter if you, can complete her
I got the ingredients, for your experience
talk your talk, I walk, cause this is serious
you can keep actin’ like you know me, man.
I’ma keep playin’ these pots and pans!

Keep playin, keep, keep playin, I’ma keep playin’ these pots and pans
Keep playin, I’ma keep playin, I’ma keep playin’ these pots and pans 

The Pots and Pans Song

Hi! We're Look Left, and we're a band comprised of students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. We play a lot of different kinds of music, but we usually are closest to a rock sound. We currently have 3 albums available on iTunes and CDBaby,"Master of Tiny Shoes", "You Should Drink More", and "The College Years". 

Our current members are:
Jared Clark: Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Derek Wilber: Bass Guitar/Master of Tiny Shoes
Andrew Cotts: Electric Guitar/Back-Up Vocals/Piano
Matt Royek: Drum Box/Minister of Clapping/Oddjobs

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