Name: Polka King of the Midwest by vampireslumberparty in Full Inbox: Batch 555
Duration: 3 min 3 s
Description: latest single from new VSP album HOLES, which is out in April 2025

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Destined for the Outside

Astbury

written // mixed by lounar
produced by sApo (Bad Mood Crew)

ig:
@bad_mood_sapo
@lounarrrr

أعوذبلله من الشيطان الرجيم
I lost so much time,
chasing faux dreams.
found myself in a scene, 
detached from me, 
culture and my deen.
lost sight, went blind,
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh,
I had no idea, no idea.
who I was meant to be, meant to be,
did the most to fit in, most to fit in,
and I never did, never did. 

طول حياتك راح يحكو ضلك زلمه
بس اوعك تكبر وتعامل الناس زيإزباله
double standards,
fucking rampant,
I saw my sisters, 
they were oppressed,
where was I?
I was outside,
doing madness.
never done road,
but I've been on street.
never done coke,
but I been a fiend.
I lost a bag,
maybe two or three?
when I make it all back,
imma stay lowkey.

السمعة راح يقتلنا
العين راح يجلطنة
كس أخت العالم كلها
فش اشي فش اشي
فش اشي بهم بدنية
فش حدا بفوز بدنية
and no one's perfect either.
just a bunch of smoke n mirrors,
so who the f*ck are you to judge?
no man can ever touch us,
inshallah we'll see progress,
for every lost kid,
at a crossroad of cultures.

FAUX (prod. by sApo)

Pathology or Pantomime?

She Left Me (For The Sunshine)

Buy From FAT!

Lagwagon - The Cog In The Machine

Lawn Song

So I Heard

SO MANY DAYS HAVE GONE
(words and music by The Ox Prison)

So many days have gone
with sunshine and with rain.
So many friends have died alone.
So many broken hearts
have sung the same old song
of loneliness and tears and pain.

But when I see you smile,
I know you smile at me.
I long for your embrace.
That’s where I wanna be.

I love you night and day.
I love your sparkling eyes.
You fill my life with rays of light.

I never knew how much
my soul cried for your love.
And when I touch your hand,
there’s nothing I’m frightened of.

And when I see you smile,
I know you smile at me.
I long for your embrace,
That’s where I wanna be.

So many days have gone
with sunshine and with rain.
So many friends have said goodbye.
So many places have been
run into the sand
of distant dreams of broken minds.

Mikey P – guitars, vocal
Tora – bass guitar

Special warm thanks to John Simm - drums
Please visit TheDrumTamer.co.uk

So Many Days Have Gone

An ambient re-working of an old trad folk song written in 1864. Solo electric bass artist OUTRI is joined by Imogen Bose-Ward on vocals and fiddle to create an ambient landscape around this haunting melody. 

Her Bright Smile (live at Blank Studios)

OUTRI feat Imogen Bose-Ward - Her Bright Smile (live at Blank Studios)

latest single from new VSP album HOLES, which is out in April 2025

Polka King of the Midwest

Before bands like Fokofpolisiekar there was a Capetown Punkrock band called New World Inside, consisting of Hunter Kennedy (v.g), Francois Badenhorst(VAN COKE) (v.b), Raffael Rueckert (v.g), and Gerald van Wyk (d). This is what they sounded like...

New World Inside - 07 - Song in A (2002)

quick quarantine mess about // stay safe <3

-+ shortcake freestyle +- [prod. by Eem Triplin]

All my failures, irredeemable flaws
Should I have listened to the word of Gods?
Convey your disbelief free-thinking world
A dose of heresy is here

Wars and violence
All in thy name
Fate decided
With someone else to blame

Convey your disbelief free-thinking world
A dose of heresy is here

Wretched silence
Kept in blind faith
|ndoctrinated,
Reality betrayed

I wish the clouds would disappear
Open the minds, delusions clear
Unjustified beliefs
Silenced, silenced, silenced by science

Preaching to crowds misguiding masses into divide
Staining their minds with fabrications of the divine

Omnipresence

Estranger - Omnipresence

The same old shade of blue:

Laziness my old friend 
Productivity these days
It’s not in, my vocabulary 
I’m trying to be better 
But it’s so easy to just be worse 
Lightning and rain 
May it bring in something new? 
I’m tired of using the same adjective 
To describe this feeling 

The same old shade of blue 
I’m so sick of missing you 
But I do 

Faces on the TV show 
Providing me with company 
Always in a state of suspension 
My mind an evil scientist 
My body a cruel invention 

Snacks and porn help numb these thoughts 
About the current state of the world 
Hypochondriac 
Conditioned to be psychosomatic
Consistently in panic 

The same old shade of blue 
I’m so sick of missing you 
But I do

The same old shade of blue

pop punk with fangs | south london | new single "HOLES" out now!

"Vampire Slumber Party’s brand of pop-punk follows the playbook of its predecessors but brings in emotional complexity and nuance in a fresh and evocative way" - Texx and the City.

"Funeral Pop is an album that defiantly through a style that can only be described as conversational storytelling, nuances the modern perceptions of Pop-Punk" Ear Nutrition.

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