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Prescription Cigarettes
02:57
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They're waging wars
In other countries
And you're powerless to stop it
But you can't help feeling guilty
Blink your eyes
You almost missed it
Subjugation of a group
You didn't even know existed
There's a stack of books you haven't read
On a shelf that sits beside your bed
So you can dream about your ignorance
Tonight
Y-y-you got this song
Stuck in your head
It goes "dada-dada-dada"
"Dada-dada-dada-dada"
Clap your hands
Over your mouth
You've got something to say
And you're afraid to let it out
You wanna scream so loud your brain goes deaf
So you can't hear the voices in your head
Saying "stay on top of everything
At once"
You found a magazine
In which a doctor seemed
To be endorsing Camels
Depending who you read
We may or may not be
Out of space on the planet
(How do you measure it, baby?)
You're on trial in your head
For things you thought and did and said
That you just learned were wildly insensitive
You could keep track of each passing year
By the acronyms and sloganeers
Like a constant ringing in your ears
Enough, enough
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Parachute
02:10
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I wanna be the hole in your parachute
So I can look at you
And see the face you make when you start falling
You're a thumbtack inside my shoe
Toothpaste and orange juice
An 18-wheeler in the passing lane
And things keep getting worse
(Blah blah blah blah)
Just not as bad as I deserve
There's a rug underneath my feet
Right where it oughta be
And I'm still standing but I feel you pulling
Burn the calendar in effigy
This year is through with me
Don't wanna look back on a goddamn thing
Still I can't help but laugh
(Ha ha ha ha)
It doesn't add up when you do the math
I'm pouring gasoline on the bridge
I'm pouring gasoline on the bridge
I got a pack of trick candles and I made my wish
Now I'm tossing every one that stays lit
I'm pouring gasoline on the bridge
I'm pouring gasoline on the bridge
I got a pack of trick candles and I made my wish
Now I'm tossing every one that stays lit
Yeah I'm tossing every one that stays lit
Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha
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Tell me am I thinking too much?
Can't get my brain to shut up
All day it's way too much at once
I even open my eyes
An avalanche in disguise
Is waiting in my mind
Ephemeral and transient
My thoughts are only ambient
My brain's erecting monuments to things I won't get done
I'm not distracted I'm just focusing on everything at once
La la la...
Oh, I think I'm making a mess
The way that I second guess
The things I once was sure of
Now just seem like careless mistakes
It's all transparent and fake
And one day they'll all know
The chrysalis unraveling
Still shattered by the smallest things
Can't stop myself from noticing that I still feel the same
I think I'm stuck this way
La la la...
A hush fell over the crowd
While I was laughing out loud
Good luck not standing out
Of place in every room that I'm in
With a Cheshire Cat grin
These thoughts will hunt me down
My thinking cap is strapped so tight
A blaze just waiting to ignite
Cause when I close my eyes at night
I'm bracing for the worst
Like a pushpin to a water balloon
Step back, I'm about to burst
La la la...
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Sixteen on Center
03:47
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The insulation they blew into the walls that stand between us
Will never be enough to suppress the sound of you singing
Sixteen on center they spaced the studs
Drywall finishers taped the mud
But your voice bleeds through that R15
Like it's gauze on top of surgery
And I'm lonely
Okay, fine, I'm lonely
The neighborhood looked nice from the shots on the street view
But they didn't prepare me for the moment I'd meet you
Decorating the front porch
They changed the name of this street in the First World War
But "the city council don't hate Germans no more"
At least that's how you put it
We both started laughing
In our duplex off Hamburg Street
5 AM I hear the shriek of your alarm app
Then the built-in speakers in your phone start running through podcasts
And I try to imagine what I'd do
If I woke up lying next to you
But the story sounds better if you hum the tune
And let the feeling pass
I've been trying to write a song for you
But lately it's all verses with no hook to hold them together
Based off the records you recommended
You'd probably call this "emo bullshit"
The rhyme scheme's inconsistent
And the plot points disconnected
I wanna solve you like a puzzle
But you're a habit I can't grow out of
(Can't grow out of)
I know it doesn't make sense
But I don't know how else to put this
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