Sycophant

Mamma wore blue 
Something from JC Penny’s
Put us in a broken-down trans am 
Brown beater van and I

Pretend to pray among the chosen few
I laughed as Jesus judged me in the pew 
 
God Damn 
What a world we’re living in
Altar boys and sinners
Fist fight for their forgiveness but I
 
But I know you
Baby don’t lose your shit 

Spent a long time
Runnin’ from money
Running from power 
Look mom, I’m a psycophant
I'm a sicker man now 
 
Still don’t fit into the normie crew
I dream about them turning navy blue

God Damn 
What a world we’re living in
Altar boys and sinners
Fist fight for their forgiveness but I

But I know you
Baby don’t lose your shit

Say your prayers
God is watching you
Say your prayers
God is mocking you
Say your prayers
God is laughing out loud

Sycophant

What's Left of My Liver

It was a starless night
I was deep in the leather jacket
You swore you’d never let me wear
I wanna get things right if this isn’t forever

But the good things coming to me 
Are still filling up rooms
So I’m clearin’ out the basement
And all the memories of you
Don’t mean I hate you honey
But I gotta learn to love myself

Hold my drink
Wanna die doing what I love 
If this whole boat sinks
Before I go
Here’s my burner phone number 
If you ever get low
Walking through the looking glass
I’m losing my mind
But I can’t wait to see you smiling
On the other side 
Feeling like I’m on the brink
Baby, hold my drink

Gonna start a bar fight
Skinny dip in the river
Gonna drink all night
Use what’s left of my liver
Gonna live my life
Like you were never in it

Keep on doin’ the same things
Expecting to change
Was never gonna work
Was gonna make me insane
Don’t mean I hate you honey
But I gotta learn to love myself
Singin’

Hold my drink
Wanna die doing what I love 
If this whole boat sinks
Before I go
Here’s my burner phone number 
If you ever get low
Walking through the looking glass
I’m losing my mind
But I can’t wait to see you smiling
On the other side 
Feeling like I’m on the brink
Baby, hold my drink

(gotta learn to love myself)

Hold my drink
Wanna die doing what I love 
If this whole boat sinks
Before I go
Here’s my burner phone number 
If you ever get low
Walking through the looking glass
I’m losing my mind
But I can’t wait to see you smiling
On the other side 

(can’t wait to see you smiling)
(not sleeping through this restless night)

Walking through the looking glass
I’m losing my mind
But I can’t wait to see you smiling
On the other side 

(see you on the other side)
(see you on the other side)

What's Left of My Liver

They say pretty boys
Don’t make it in this town
I made myself so ugly
Turning blues and greens to brown
 
And all my Sunday prayers
Lying on the altar floor
Next to some 1950’s rhetoric
You closed my open door

Oh, the world is cruel
But I made do
With what god gave me
Oh, red, white, and blue
The bruises heal, the words stay with me

That’s how these things go
The stronger you are
The harder the blow
But I don’t blame them
Cause you don’t knoooow
What you don’t really know
No you don’t know
What you don’t really know

Cynisism and alcohol
Kept my ass out of jail
It’s a goddamn miracle
I remember the details 

But there liars
There are cheats
You sat them all right next to me
So What was I supposed to think

Oh, the world is cruel
But I made do
With what god gave me
Oh, red, white, and blue
The bruises heal, the words stay with me

That’s how these things go
The stronger you are
The harder the blow
But I don’t blame them
Cause you don’t knoooow
What you don’t really know
No you don’t know
What you don’t really know

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Nate Daniels crafts cinematic, emotionally-charged indie-pop music that lives in the space between grit and glamour. With influences ranging from Hozier, Lord Huron, Lana Del Rey to Radiohead and Jeff Buckley his sound is brooding, sarcastic, and deeply introspective — a reflection of someone who never quite fit in, and stopped trying to. Raised in a house where folk, country, and '90s alt clashed beautifully, he started writing young, chasing truth over polish. His debut single, “King of the Thrill,” explores a dangerous crush and the infinite wrecklessness of youth, wrapped in old-world class, and emotional excess — Daniels invites listeners into a world that’s raw, reflective, and defiantly real.

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