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codependence

from [001] by MEROSTOMATA

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    This is the six-song debut Merostomata EP on professionally reproduced and packaged cassette tape, in a large "books-on-tape" format, with an twelve-page B&W zine including original pen-and-ink illustrations and essays about each track, as well as the album in general.

    Includes unlimited streaming of [001] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 100 

      $12 USD or more 

     

lyrics

another locked in weekend
where the calm and the peace end
but the company i'm keepin' all sowing what they're reaping
and they leap into the deep end
who? what? when to be?
no struggle when my only real friend is me
in the dark here endlessly
i'll pay later, but for now i'll pretend it's free
face the news
i'm never really happy when i'm making moves
i'd rather stay making tunes
and just waiting for an earthquake to shake the room
just gotta reach out more
but first i gotta reach that door
and it feels like a mile away
but you fake it til you make it -- big smile today (hey)

this is my happy face
i can feel my jaw slipping, put it back in place
running ten laps at pace
but i gotta stay working, making rapping tapes
cuz this is my posi song
no eeyore in the joint, get my fozzy on
my psyche a falling bomb
hope my self-criticism all probably wrong
my own worst critic
my own worst influence
burnt so many bridges
that i gotta mix metaphors and mend the fence
this is codependent
yeah, i can't defend it
one day i woke up all alone
and forgot what the normal way to make a friend is

i don't think i'm what you think of me, dude
making tracks just an excuse to start drinking at noon
dirty plates and a tarnished spoon
but that world would collapse into carnage soon
cuz it's what happens when you lose yourself
and invest your whole life into someone else (and then)
then you're left with an empty shelf
when they're gone but you're too strong to beg for help
(i'm like) a sadsack fixing a poem
i'm getting better at existing alone
like i do my own dishes and the kitchen is clean
keep the blinds up, sunlight enriching my scene
no more staining old clothes with some new tears
rolled back from a twelve pack to two beers
got a rack of new worries and some new fears
but i'm crawlin' out the dark past few years

this is my happy face
i can feel my jaw slipping, put it back in place
running ten laps at pace
but i gotta stay working, making rapping tapes
cuz this is my posi song
no eeyore in the joint, get my fozzy on
my psyche a falling bomb
hope my self-criticism all probably wrong
my own worst critic
my own worst influence
burnt so many bridges
that i gotta mix metaphors and mend the fence
this is codependent
yeah, i can't defend it
one day i woke up all alone
and forgot what the normal way to make a friend is

credits

from [001], released September 28, 2018
written and produced by j. w. friedman

tools: sequenced synths, a drum machine, electric guitars, cool distorted guitar that sounds like ned's atomic dustbin

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