1. |
Audiobook
02:41
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Well I still care
Despite the wrinkles, extra weight and ever greying hair
I've got most of my own teeth
I guess I'll take distinguished
My flame's not extinguished
I'm there
Crow's feet around my eyes
And I'm buying all my trousers in a larger size
A little Lycra in my jeans
Have I lost the magic
Are my stage jumps tragic
Am I tired
Still got my faded Strung Out t-shirt
Suburban teenage wasteland look
But I guarantee these headphones
Are cranking out an audiobook
If I'm over the hill
And I can't afford the real estate in Mattersville
But I love a lunchtime snooze
Can I smash the system while seated
And in comfortable shoes
But if I never really had it
Then there's nothing really slipping away
And I'm left with all the fallout from those bad decisions
I knew would catch up with me one day
Still got my faded Strung Out t-shirt
Suburban teenage wasteland look
But I guarantee these headphones
Are cranking out an audiobook
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2. |
Keep Distracted
02:57
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Dropped you at the airport
And I'm crawling my way home again
Behind the jubilee floats holding up the motorway
Already I feel empty
There's a hollowness inside me
It's a hole I fill with you
And I'm telling myself once again
I won't take you for granted
Though I don't think I do
You don't think I'll miss you
You think I want to spend this time apart
But I'm saturating silence
Simple chords upon my new guitar
Just trying to keep distracted
Tying to stay focused
Trying to stay afloat
And I'm trying not to worry
About the hire car you're driving
On the wrong side of the road
Cos I know you'll be fine
Cos your driving's not a problem
Unlike mine
And I know you haven't landed yet
But I'm wallowing in some regret
I didn't have the strength to go with you
So I count the minutes till you're home
You haunt this house when I'm alone
Waking up without you's hard to do
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3. |
My Remedy
02:52
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I don't know how it's taken all my strength
To come around here tonight
Or 3 or 4 dry runs past your window
While I'm hiding from the light
I push these headphones into my ears
So nobody will speak to me
There's no music playing sometimes
I just need the anonymity
Every conversation
Is like an exercise in damage limitation
When you try too hard
Like me
Obsessive affirmations halt me
In my tracks near constantly
Invites the worst of my imagination
Unless I say them perfectly
Can't stop ritualising
But I guess that really not surprising
When you tic as hard
As me
Well there's days I'm all about control
Others I'm a mess
When I'm bruising my brain
Twisting my neck
It feels like I've exhausted everything
So how'd I stand so still and sing
Maybe concentration
Or 3 or 4 bars or music medication
I can call my remedy
Maybe concentration
Or 3 or 4 bars or music medication
Cos despite my best will
It's like I'm losing the battle to keep myself still
Won't you be my remedy
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4. |
Reluctant Shut-In
03:15
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Lost count of all the days since I laid eyes on you
It kinda makes me sad to count
I'm pacing like an animal
I'm tearing all my insides out
Your pillow doesn't smell like your shampoo anymore
But I still kept it back from the wash
I'll sleep beside a memory
But I don't want to clean you off
There's dust on all the bottles left on your "girl shelf"
I don't even know what half of them are
I still find your hair everywhere
It still makes me laugh
I've been killing my time
Ordering stuff with my Amazon Prime
I've finished off the sherry and the Christmas wine
I'm becoming a reluctant shut-in, stuck in
Hopeless hoping for the bad times to get much better
As darkness falls I'm staring at these walls
Tonight, I don't think I've been lonlier
Tonight
So I'm counting down the days till I can breathe you in
Stop drowning in our last farewell
You can laugh at my bad DIY
And hair that I've cut myself
Cos I've been killing my time
With all of this shit from my Amazon Prime
I'm writing songs with lyrics like a nursery rhyme
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5. |
Slow Burn
02:50
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If I'm lost how can I still read the signs
If I've peaked why do the days feel like they're such mountains to climb
It's like I'm afraid to just start living while I still have the time
All I want to do is take the slow burn blues out of this life
All I want to do is take the slow burn blues out of this life
Don't think I ever really gave everything
Or had strength of heart to see it all through
I've had too many nightmares for my dreams to ever come true
I used to name my poisons many, now a drink just twists the knife
All I want to do is take the slow burn blues out of this life
All I want to do is take the slow burn blues out of this life
And now I'm sinking in the tedious
The antisocial media
Desensitised and dumbed by my TV
I'm so many things I told myself I never would be
And though my days seem cursed from bad to worse
I'll always be the harshest critic I'm ever going to have in the universe
Every time
I don't want to sleep
Hiding from the days to pass the time
All I want to do is take the slow burn blues out of this life
All I want to do is take the slow burn blues out of this life
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