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Exit Interview
02:50
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I don’t think I’ll ever understand
Just what happened to us
The water started to boil
Before I ever noticed
I never wanted to be a line cliche
But I never had a say
I don’t want to hear any more sad songs
I just want to be hinged by spine
Learned by now that nothing stays the same
Wounds heal, scars remain
I don’t think I’ll ever be the same
But I’m quite alright with that
Us and me, and you and us
A two-part ouroboros
We never wanted to take a look inside
Now there’s no place left to hide
Watching the sky turn into broken lines
I guess some things are meant to be left behind
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2. |
Down the Stairs
02:18
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I’ll follow you down the stairs
Towards a certain doom that I’ve been waiting for
It’s preset
A longing urge, a scourge gone long
A longing urge, a longing gone
Fill yourself on me
I’ll take what’s left
Fill yourself on me
I’ll take the rest
Ouroboros
I’m anxious all the time
Holding tight to a cold and ancient tome
But it’s no help
A longing urge, a scourge gone long
I watch you fade until you're gone
I’m following you down the stairs
I’m following you downstairs
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Sliding Doors
02:55
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Summertime was here again
I waited in the rain
My hair was long, your eyes were wild
I play it back again
Do you ever wonder what it might have been?
Our bus was late, our patience worn
The day felt like a year
You whispered something in my ear
My stomach slipped a gear
I play it backwards just to hear
We're always walking into sliding doors
That were open just one minute before
The path before you splits and snakes
A five-pointed approach you take
Winding patterns, sliding doors
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4. |
Nothing is Simple
02:36
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The door opens up to show
a beautiful landscape, bright and temperate
framed in a painting on a dull grey wall
crooked in a freezing room
but each step takes days and miles
wracked and hungry, fucked and tired
and on a closer look the frame is cracked and warped
and image of illusion ready to fall
Nothing is simple, nothing is easy
Even in a search for nothing
You’ll reach to find that there’s always something
Out the corner of your eye
you see a tiny little dot
pulls your focus, kills your instincts, a living buzzing hive
still each step takes days and miles
wearing downward, an aching fracture
until you finally arrive
to the edge of a precipice
crumbling, plunging, broken, ready to fall
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BFD
02:31
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I woke up early just to watch you sleep all day
Bided my time hoping that it wasn't a waste
But you never opened your eyes
and I gave up on suicide time
Placed on a pedestal with reasoning illogical
Until the day faded away
I wonder why can't you just go along for the ride sometimes?
Why's it always gotta be a big deal?
Why have I always gotta be playing the heel?
I had such high hopes stepping softly into the night
I thought this one time everything would work out alright
But I never say what I feel
and you're always stealing the deal
But everything's impossible with never ending obstacles
Watch the night turn to light
A replacement for a conversation in disgust
You find out hell is other people
Pacing back and forth in front of everyone that you know
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All I ever wanted was a seat in front of the hi-fi
Guitars panned wide and those harmonies gliding right by
You can say it’s a waste of time
But I’ve gotta live inside of this mind
So I’ll sit right here with my feet up in front of the hi-fi
All I ever wanted was to sing along from that back seat
Hotboxed out, Krispee Chris holding down the backbeat
We drive along these same old streets
To the unknown ends that we all meet
But there’s nothing wrong with singing along from the back seat
And there’s nothing like that sound
To turn you right around
And there’s nothing like that sound
To flip you upside down
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Lens
03:25
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I wish I could take off this lens
See the world for what it really is
I wish I could take off this lens
When I was twelve I saw the world
In broken patterns of black and white
Afraid of nothing but those disapproving looks
When you turned 25 I thought
That you’d given into selfish gains
But I saw you shift and rise above the frame
Shifting tides turned down
When I moved out and took that trip
Headed east with all my things
I couldn’t see ahead but knew no other way
When you closed your eyes and took off
Into that fateful plunge
You told me, friend, just wait and see
How it might be
Shifting tides, black hole
Every doubt is a threat
Every thread gets pulled
Every step you take alone
Is a step that leads back home
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8. |
Wish I Didn't
03:48
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Every single day it's been
since you showed your teeth
pearled white pointed daggers
bearing down on top of me
but if I turn my back to you
you'll start to disappear
but the sudden horror holds my gaze
I fall into nadir
this all will pass
I wish I didn't know you
I wish you didn't know my name
I wish I didn't know you
I can feel it gaining
slowly making ground on me
I can feel it gaining
Every single word that reels
from your wretched mouth
pointed daggers exploding shrapnel
gurgling in a vomit shout
with no purpose but to spread
a virus of blind intent
a worldview shit without reason
wretched and worn out
this all will pass
You keep me thinking the worst thoughts
stoic like a nail in the eye
I keep thinking the worst thoughts
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9. |
Other Places
01:59
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(instrumental)
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Watching yourself from above stumbling through an alley
Leaning wide and mentally thin, the drunkest you have ever been
Watching the screen from the side, you talked all through the movie
Pick the scab til you spill the blood of the only one you ever loved
And you can blame your friends for the shots they slipped
but you put it to your own lips
Are you really alone?
Are you ever really on your own?
Are you really alone?
Just save it til you're home
Waking up late with a nail in your head, pounding through your temple
Never repeat, a promise unsaid, then that night you're there again
Making your way to the front of the crowd, but looking for an exit
Say the worse thing that comes to mind, even as you fall behind
And you can blame those words for the wounds they hit
but they fell out of your own lips
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11. |
Coming True
03:34
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When I close off from the outside
Shut the doors of my mind so tight
Lock the door and bolt the windows
Block out the light
Then I can hear a train that’s running
Hauling by at unreal speeds
But when you’re on it
Then the pace feels like
Just like nothing at all, nothing at all
The tracks run out my mouth
And onto my hands
What’s a boy to do?
The spikes keep us safe
Still I’m coming true
Straight through to you
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I thought I could handle whatever came my way
But you found out the hard way
I thought I could be a pillar for you to lean on
But you ended up on the concrete
Now I’m floating with no direction
You know it’s true
The only way out is through
I thought I could handle the icebergs in my way
But I crashed hard turning sideways
I wanted to be a beacon for all to see
But I tripped over a sunbeam
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Other People Columbus, Ohio
Loud and infectious punk and 90s buzz bin bangers.
Chris Kestner, Scott Brown, Corey Sabo
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