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Bummertime II

by Agnostic

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1.
Psalm 151 01:09
2.
Bummertime 02:58
A summer storm washed through my hometown And on my porch I only sit and stare What could I do as everything came down I couldn’t even force myself to care. Leafs blew around my face, they were still green, to me And in the distance thunder echoed Loud. Though, in this rain I rust like a machine, I only sit and stare. I am not Proud. The door behind me no keys in my sight. True thick and hard too strong for me to break Try’s all I’ve done given all of my might To get inside and see if it’s not false That maybe it’s not bad when you get wet If you never end up dripping, I bet
3.
once you fall asleep i've been sneaking off downstairs tiptoeing with a flashlight in my hand i've been measuring the inches of the whiskey in the bottle to figure out how much you need to drink the thoughts away i read through all the letters that you sent i flip through the photo albums on the shelf i don't pray to god after i slip back into bed i know that we're already in hell and i've tried so hard to stay the way that i am instead of how you want me to be but your demands just increase, and i keep on losing sleep cause loving you was never free, it was never free i keep trying to write songs about heroin but every line just comes out about you the pain on my arm is your fingers gripping hard telling me you need to leave me soon i fall asleep with your name on my mouth the nausea and the dizziness won't stop my brother says my screaming is too loud i know that i won't ever readjust and i've tried so hard to stay the way that i am instead of how you want me to be but your demands just increase, and i keep on losing sleep cause loving you was never free, it was never free cause when you're near, it's clear i'll never get away you give me such a heart attack but i'd rather die than try to leave ever again you know i'll just come crawling back, you know i'll come right back
4.
Old Postcard 02:21
i think i've become obsessed with your face i keep finding it in places that i go i close my eyes and rub my fingers on my wrists it haunts me like a song i used to know i can't remember the last thing i said to you and i wish i could at least be left with that i don't know if you're happier now but the thought of you with someone makes me sad but the thought of you alone isn't much better i would come upstate and visit but i can't stand the weather and i don't know your address anymore i'd spend all afternoon knocking on your neighbor's doors showing them your picture and asking for the girl who made me die i don't think it would be very a good idea to try
5.
They've closed all the hospitals down They don't want to keep the schools They sold the trains off, one by one, it won't be long til they're all gone While we sit and watch like fools. They've stopped all the service for the buses Don't ask where the factories were The Post Office disappeared, the gas station's looking weird They might as well have never been there People use big words for the smallest of things Since you've come around I can't hold onto anything So make yourself at home in my great big empty head I've lost all of my faculties but you've moved in instead
6.
i lived down the street from an elvis impersonator he taught me how to make friends in my head we walked down the street at night and a little later he had big scary eyes, big scary eyes, big scary eyes, big scary eyes they'll kill me if i tell you what i know it seems much easier to let it all go they'll kill me if i tell you what i know so don't worry, don't worry, take it slow, take it slow and remember that a year goes by like that i lived down the street from a crocodile man he taught me with his crocodile hands he told me not to ever let someone tell me what i was owed you think you're a victim and your only symptom is sympathy (x3) they'll kill me if i tell you what i know the sheet music is falling down on top of me, don't you they'll kill me if i tell you what i know so don't worry, take it slow and remember just how fast a year goes by
7.
i slept in your bed and was cold for the first time i can't say any more i guess we must be not in love this is just the brink here in our empty home we're finally on our own and it's so quiet that we don't know what to say every day we're just wasting away grey evidence we turned into cadavers barely breathing lonely strangers this is just the brink you once told me that nothing bored you but people who were bored by you i can't wait for you not to call this is just the brink
8.
you lost your mind in august and they brought you to a doctor they treated you for nightmares but you only treaded water it's a crime to waste away your time in ones and twos i'd forgotten what your name was til i saw you in the paper they brought you back to haunt me, so i guess sooner or later you'd appear you'll never be at peace until you do i'm twenty and a child i only do what makes me feel at home you won't ever make it on your own your father was a writer and your mother was a shipwreck when everybody asks you where you think you're going next you don't reply just look them in the eye and turn away my friends have turned to shadows and my confidence is growing and i'm becoming certain that the only things worth knowing are the names of flowers that you find deep in the woods we're caught between the lines of where we are and where we want to be you won't ever find the answers that you need in your tv
9.
i feel the devil's breath on the back of my neck i sang you a song for the tremors in your head he only lets go when he gets what he wants you told me you wished the pills had left you dead and when we crash down on dry land we'll have broken legs so i'll hold your hand and we'll walk down the shore to the ice cream stand and you'll smile with your eyes, and i'll know you understand
10.
Wisbig 00:58
11.
You 02:17
you've been in my waking dreams i wonder what your face looks like i feel the sun go down when you frown i feel the sun explode when - you give me tremors i don't know how to fix if i had a kingdom i would surely give it up i wonder what the place looks like where you hide your dreamer's wings and i just want to feel the sun come up i just want to feel - you occupy my prophecies you dig into the tracks i leave you used to live alone i know you used to live alone i know you used to -
12.
i left you alone to find my way home the holes in your face seem so out of place so when you arrive tell me how to live the more that i take the more that you give and i see all the lies you try to tell to me they sink like poison scum the way you fall into my arms say you're the only one didn't they teach me how not to be? and i see the way you laugh in my face you tell me all the truth the way you hide to cede your lies it won't be good for you
13.
i can't even think it all comes too fast i don't want to look at myself i can't even feel the touch of your hand i wish i were somebody else you were one who made me feel tall enough to stand alone now you're gone and this time i know why i can't follow you home i can't even see the sun in the sky i hear them ringing the bells i can't believe that this came to pass i don't want to be by myself your face looks wrong black holes in your eyes instead of the colors i've known i wish i could run but i'm already lost i can't follow you home
14.
snapshot, winter of last year the future didn't seem as clear but you were closer than you are and springtime didn't seem as far even though it's summer now i sleep with all my blankets on the gypsy woman said we'd fall apart but we made a cocoon of lost bodies and found art we harbored no delusions that this game would last forever we know we're not in love, we just destroy ourselves together

about

i lit a large white candle when i started recording the first song i wrote for this album. as i recorded each song, i lit it again, and once i finished the last draft, i extinguished it. i repeated this process until the album was complete and the candle was gone.
summer is too long.
this has been a very transitional time for me. this album is meant to encapsulate the ways things have changed + stayed the same.

written + recorded spring/summer '14
except: "You" was written and recorded in september '13 as part of my 30-day songwriting project with James.
"Staying awake" was written and recorded winter '13 at Chaim's place in Queens, NY
some of the ideas on this album go back years and have only been realized now, particularly "throw your life away" and "your troubles in dust" - songs that wanted me to write them for a long time.

huge + heartfelt thanks to Levi; Tera; Ben; Ben; Chaim and his grandparents for letting me crash on their couch and abiding my unreasonable sleeping habits; Shilo - get out of bed and call me back; Dean for his late-night exposition on "lo-fi" and other imaginary conceptual evils; Lesa and the authorities for showing me not to take a good thing for granted; G for being a role model; nameless interactions that inspired the last track.

this album is for Gloria, who always told me to pursue myself.

credits

released August 1, 2014

all songs written + performed by Asher Meerovich
except:
backing chorus on 3 includes voices of Levi Meerovich
charango and harmony on 5 by Tera Duffer
lyrics to the title track by Ben Kleymeyer

art: Pablo Picasso, commissioned for this record

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