Name: A SONG LIKE THIS by My Name Is Derek
Duration: 3 min 12 s
Description: Song by Derek. Production Svengali: Darragh Murphy. Additional ears provided by Trevor Francis and Ray Gamortez.

Happy New Year, Derek - this song is great, catchy, dynamic, love the arrangement and your "Yahoo-oo". May 2024 see/hear more of your work! - Nic in Berlin

This is just effervescent and brilliant. I would play "a song like this" on the car radio!

Lyrics: 
My dog just ran away and Im feeling pretty bad
I've been sneaking out at night and my parents are real mad
I've been taking lots of drugs cause they teach me not to care
Yeah I guess that's how you cheat because life doesn't play fair

My brother told me that he's gonna kill himself tonight
With a whole bottle of Prozac
Or a shiny kitchen knife
He said that when he's dead I'll have his Nintendo 64
And I can play it all I want it sitting
On the basement floor

My girlfriend told me that she doesn't love me anymore
And I wish I didn't care but I thought she was really cool
So I drank a ton of liquor then I threw up in her sink
She said next time use the toilet then she offered me a drink

Nintendo 64 (Alex G Cover)

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BBY Love(Love BBY)

Truck shit you either know or you don't

I don't park in no lines
I drive on curbs
Ignore speed signs 
Thru the suburbs
But it's all good
Its just truck shit 
Some feeble minds 
Can't understand it

My truck is old
Gets 10 in town 
Messed up exhaust
Is making sounds
The tach don't read
And the paints messed up 
Transmission leaks
But I love my truck 

I'm on truck shit

Need to find out
How many chicks 
My crew cab
Can fit inside it 
It's so reliable 
Pretty fast 
Always gets me
To the bar and back

I believe in fate 
I believe in luck
I thank the Lord
For granting me a truck
When everyone tells you to car
You know you have to truck
You know its time to truck

I'm on my truck shit

Just beyond the threshold of life 
I see your icon dancing in the night
4 wheels 4 high 4 lo
Then you shift it into drive 
We haul ass we burn gas
We'll see how long the freedom fuckin lasts 
New paint on old truck
Oil pan is full of leaked luck 
I don't know if this is it
But I'm about to do some truck shit

Truck Shit

Biography

In a world full of lies and deception, it’s important to live within the truth when it comes to what we tell ourselves. That’s what Poet Lies, the debut album by San Diego’s moondaddy, is all about.

Multi-instrumentalist and driving force behind the project Cara Potiker wrote the record as a means of grappling with difficulties she’s lived with for most of her life. An escapist at heart, Potiker’s manner of getting away during the early days of the pandemic, when no one could go anywhere, meant diving deep into songwriting as a coping mechanism. Yet in that process of solitude and introspection, Potiker discovered a few aspects of herself that she no longer wanted to keep buried, and it all unfolds within the notes of the tracks. The eleven songs that make up Poet Lies all comment on establishing a balance between working to resolve that which ails and being proud of the person those ailments helped shape—an interesting dichotomy that manifests itself in many ways.

When it comes to the structure and thematic approach on the new record, Potiker fervidly disperses and weaves different subjects throughout. Titles like “Odd Time,” “Angel,” and “Alone Again” may hint at a certain way they’re leaning, but they each manage to be broad in their personal specificity to instances in Potiker’s life and self. She likens the experience of writing and recording the album to that of an exorcism; it’s a release of the vice grip that love, addiction, obsessive tendencies, and self doubt have had on her which allows her to examine how those things have influenced how she has felt about herself while maneuvering through life.

Poet Lies is a reverb soaked, shimmering fever dream of a record that sonically pulls from influences ranging from 1970’s glam rock to 90’s shoegaze and trip hop. Featuring contributions from talented local musicians from Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, it was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas by Manuel Calderon - aka El Cosmophonico - known for his production work on records by Animal Collective and Beach House, as well as his own band, Estereomance.

Poet Lies

LIMITED VINYL

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Song by Derek. Production Svengali: Darragh Murphy. Additional ears provided by Trevor Francis and Ray Gamortez.

A SONG LIKE THIS

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sarah runs to feel the burning in her lungs
and clear her head
do you know what Sarah meant?
when she said, you, be my guest
and keep the pace
to save your face
you'll never make the place
why do you even run the race?
i can't be what you need
i am stuck in a dream
i am stuck in a dream
don't you know
she's been here all along in a dream?
she belongs in a dream
every day
i'll make promises that plague Sarah's heart
so I can watch her fall apart
'cause I know when I break her down
we'll spit on all the happy clowns
that live around this sunny town
she loves me like a dog
and when we mess around
i'll let her know the truth I found
in my own hopeless hate
and every time I wake
i second guess the game I played
did I make a mistake?

sarah - alex g cover

Personnel: Derek, Sean, Ray, Ro, Gar, Ravenholm, Eimear, Johnners. All songs by Derek, except for about 6 bangers co-written with Ray and Sean.

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