WE WERE WALKING IN BALBOA PARK WITH MY HEADPHONES ON IN THE SUMMER OF 2006 MY BROTHER’S TRIPPING ON THE AGAPANTHUS SURVEYING THE DAMAGE FROM THE SUNBURNS ON HIS SKIN IT WAS HOT SO WE WROTE BAD POETRY THOUGHT WHY HASN’T SHE CALLED ME GOT EVERYONE’S SYMPATHY TURNED IT IN FOR SOME AIRPLANE MILES THEN JACK RUBY CAME IN LIKE A TRAINED ASSASSIN AND HE SAID AT SOME POINT EVERYTHING STOPS BLEEDING YOU GOT NOTHING YOU DON’T WANT.
WE SPENT ALL WINTER HIDING UNDER OUR COVERS LIKE WE WERE BACK IN 1974 WE MADE IT THROUGH YOUR OIL EMBARGO AND YOUR HAZARDOUS CARGO NEVER BLEW UP AT OUR FRONT DOOR MICHAEL LANDON SAID WE SWIM IN OUR UNDERWEAR BUT EVERYONE CAN SEE THE TEAR IN THE PAIR HE’S SPORTING WE’RE LOOKING THROUGH LAUGHING AT HIM NAKED ASHAMED OF HIS SAMENESS HE GOES RIGHT ON BY US SAYING AT SOME POINT EVERYTHING STOPS BLEEDING YOU GOT NOTHING YOU DON’T WANT.
I GOT A HAIRCUT AS AN OLIVE BRANCH TO A CRAWFORD RANCH MAN WHO TOOK ALL OF MY CASH ON HAND THE HEAT DON’T GIVE A DAMN AND SUMMER NEVER ENDS THESE ARE YOUR COLLEGE YEARS AND YOU BEEN ON YOUR OWN ENDLESS BUS RIDES DELAYED BY CELLULAR PHONES I’M STRANDED IN BERDO IN A POLO SHIRT I GOT THREE DOLLARS LEFT BUT A MAN JUST ASKED ME FOR TEN I SAID TO HIM AT SOME POINT EVERYTHING STOPS BLEEDING YOU GOT NOTHING YOU DON’T WANT AT SOME POINT YOU SHOULD JUST THINK ABOUT SLEEPING IN YOU GOT NOTHING YOU DON’T WANT.
credits
from Vertical,
released March 21, 2015
Music and lyrics Niantic w Mark Charles Smith (Zen Zesty Music ASCAP)
Cermony's Ross John Farrar experiments with synths, bass, & percussion to make music similar to that from the '80s homemade tape scene. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2023