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Super Fridays
03:15
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They said it's been a lousy quarter
They don't know anything at all
Staring at the charts and the graphs
Projected on the board room wall
They said I don't meet expectations
I start to laugh a little bit
Staring at the Gulf outside the window
Trying hard not to quit
So who cares what happens with the audit
And who cares if the whole thing's over budget
And who cares if the report doesn't go out on time
I've got more important things on my mind
And there's this girl across the office
She's been causing me some heartache
And it's been building up inside of me
Not sure how much more I can take
Well I know that I was hired for this
And this is not okay
But I've tried to juggle for too long now
Knew it would catch up with me someday
So who cares about my panic attacks
And who cares that I'm drinking all the time
And who cares if it seems like I'm running out of time
I've got more important things on my mind
They said it's been a lousy quarter
They don't know anything at all
They said I don't meet expectations
They don't know anything at all
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Now the lounge is full of farmers for the 7:30 draw
Teammates all left before they had to buy a round
When they pull the 50/50 and I've lost again, I'll go
Maybe have one more brown one for the snowy road
All the championship banners going yellow on the wall
And my name when it gets closer to last call
So Elvira brings my bottle, hold it up and let it bend
Figures of two rinks battling in extra ends
And I'm peeling off the label as they peel a corner guard
Dance down the sheet to the tune of "Hurry, Hurry Hard"
And my popcorn squeaks with the question, wonders why I'm not at home
Where you wait beside a silent telephone
Doodle circles within circles all alone
Have to stop myself from climbing on the table full of empties to yell:
"Why, why can't I draw right up to what I want to say?"
"Why can't I ever stop where I want to stay?"
I slide right through the day, I'm always throwing hack weight
Right off, no never ever never ever
Right off, no never ever never ever
Right off, no never ever never ever
Right off
Now the senior bonspiel winners circa 1963
Are all staring, glaring disapprovingly
From their frame in that old photograph
And I know you're out there waiting
For an answer, I can't give you
So tell me
"Why, why can't I draw right up to what I want to say?"
"Why can't I ever stop where I want to stay?"
We roar right through our years
We rip right through our months
We slide right through our days, I'm always throwing hack weight
Right off, no never ever never ever
Right off, no never ever never ever
Right off, no never ever never ever
Right off
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I've been taking medication
To get my brain back on the tracks
Gives me a tingling sensation
From my head all down my back
I've been sifting through the pictures
And personalities that have been transcribed
Getting sick of all the mixtures
Of alcoholic drinks that I've imbibed
But it's impossible for me to describe
Did you ever notice
It's nearly impossible
To meet sexy singles
In your area?
Floating out over the highway
75 miles per hour over 75
Arching my back across the skyway
Remembering just how good it feels to be alive
I've been going on the first dates
To all the hippest spots in town
Learning about all the worst traits
And feeling totally let down
But it's impossible for me to describe
Did you ever notice
It's nearly impossible
To meet sexy singles
In your area?
Did you ever notice
It's nearly impossible
To meet sexy singles
In your area?
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Hand me your hand, let me look in your eyes
As my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize
Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure
You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
When I try to open up to you I get completely lost
Houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost
And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn
And there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
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Never Sleeping In
02:44
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It's days like these I need to find a way
To handle my anxiety
To keep my hair from turning grey
To tell myself it will be ok
And when I try to think up a mantra
Like my yoga obsessed sister wants me to
It comes out sounding like total gibberish
So I fake it and hide my true self away from view
It's days like these I need to get it through me head
That I need to get out of bed
That this creeping sense of dread
Doesn't mean I'd be better off dead
And when I try to pick up a hobby
Like my oil painting mother wants me to
It comes out looking like a total train wreck
So I tear it up and try to start something new
If you have nothing to wake up for
You're never sleeping in
So even on my brightest days
It's always looking grim
And I have nothing to wake up for
So I'm never sleeping no I'm never sleeping in
And when I try to start exercising
Like my sport enthusiast father wants me to
I come out feeling totally exhausted
So I just give up and go get some fast food
If you have nothing to wake up for
You're never sleeping in
So even on my brightest days
It's always looking grim
So if I never wake up
Oh I hope I never wake up
Yeah if I never wake up
Then I'm never sleeping no I'm never sleeping in
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