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ROUTINE
03:08
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you said routine is the enemy / i don’t believe you anymore / tell me about the past lives that you had before / tell me about the good old days before i was born / tell me in the same old way / tell me once more
for you it’s not a cop out / for me it’s giving in / standing on the same corner and talking the same shit / for you it’s not a cop out / i ain’t been where you’ve been / standing on the same corner and talking the same shit
will i be a person you don’t see anymore / i’ll be just another ghost from ten years before
i guess that’s just the life that we’re living in / if you know the enemy then tell me how to win / i don’t want to run away / i don’t want to quit / i don't want to run away / you don't run from shit
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TRAJECTORIES
02:57
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the world is a web of infinite sides / the lines that we draw are subjective divides / can we add up the good, subtract the bad / a tidy sum on which to decide
do you turn the shit that you hear into the things that you think and then the things you say / do you want to understand or do you want to be right
my grandma was eighty-three when she told my mom / “i hope i live long enough to make it up to everyone” / i saw you taking that trajectory / and i did not decide to say something
i’ve wasted years of my life / thinking i couldn’t trust myself / to make up my own mind / now this is the end / it has come
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these are the things that are lost / after that night the person you knew is gone / it would cost too much to explain / the reasons why it was easier just to fade
there is pain that tears us from ourselves irrevocably / [finally giving way, crawls to the surface] / heard you say you’d lived in that house for three years / and time collapsed in on me / i couldn’t be that kid again if i tried /
/ and i never knew you well enough to tell you that i’d died /
the strangest thing to lose was that circling periphery / [finally giving way, crawls to the surface] / uninvested world that still brings us identity / i wish that i could tell you why i don’t wave when i pass you on the street / but these are the things that are lost / and i’m sorry
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LOW ENOUGH
02:32
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we eat dairy in the sun / hems of my shorts squeezed tight against my thighs / and i’m giving you a look i thought i lost ten years ago / that says
if you’re low enough to want to fuck a girl who’s too sad to say no... / never lose the shit you learned when you were twelve years old / if you’re low enough to want to fuck a girl who’s too sad to say no... / fuck ups who hate our lives and think we’re all alone
i slouch in my folds in constriction / hope you’ll say something nice about me to your friends
cut the shit / our shame’s an act / what do we seek from our roles / use each other to self-destruct / leave behind new wounds and gaping holes
if all you wanted was living death why didn’t you say so / fuck the nice normal ones, we can’t live in their world / if all you wanted was living death why didn’t you say so / what could we have spared each other if we could have known
without a shared language / for sad sick kid solidarity / the more i run
from that girl / the more she stays with me
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WHITE DUDE FANTASY WORLD
02:50
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you said that you think / it’s fucked up the things / kids have to deal with these days / i said remember factories / famine and disease / you said yeah, yeah yeah / but the fifties must have been magical
i’m not so naive to believe things haven’t always been / won’t always be fucked up / your delusion’s too strong / go fucking mow your lawn / you live in a white dude fantasy world
when kids lay in bed or under their desks / waiting for mass destruction that hung over their heads / when their families could be killed by upstanding citizens / and the cops would say / it looks like there’s been an
accident
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STAY THE SAME
04:27
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sulk back in the corner / too many people here right now / you didn’t know last year / too fucking scared to make a sound / nostalgic masturbation / romanticize a time that wasn’t yours / manic frustration / can’t hide from the fact you’re fucking bored
complain... / that you showed up late / complain... / that it all changed / complain... / it’ll stay the same / complain... / it’ll stay the fucking same
as long as you keep waiting / living in a time that wasn’t yours / you’re in the past tense / you’ll never stop wanting more / they said the same fucking thing / that you’re saying, way back when / safe and underwhelming / to deny what could happen
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