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Skeptic Goodbye

by You Won't

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1.
my god how far can baby burn the noose in what cause my god to turn his wailing loose in and i been to the bottom of the well where he yearns in despair ‘cause i had my own and i can tell there's nothing there it's a delusion babe it's just a movement made and such a ruinous way you're traveling who'll say what shape we children bend the rules in one way all paid no space to spare the truth in and i been to the ragged humble hole where you learned your wordplay three car garage and a swimming pool, nothing to say it's a delusion babe it's just a movement made and such a ruinous way you're traveling i've been brought up clean and organized i've been each december satisfied i've had wishes granted none denied i've been flown down south and Disney-fied i sailed twenty seas of deep denial on a million frequent flyer miles ran a gauntlet built of grocery aisles and a walking wall of guilt and bile tell me are you not the same as me did you pay your dues in little league did you wash your hands of blood and breed and stumble back in time of need you are clever imitation mined from photographs and DVDs you are subtle repetition tied to thirty-two-inch plasma screen it’s a delusion babe it’s a delusion
2.
adolescent longing eyes smile and laugh and criticize ten foot tall a sorry sight repetition memorize still no good so one more try empty-hearted and resigned i am built of lazy lies i will cave myself in in time stranger come and stranger go we'll give the kids a damn good show i'll give them every trick i know past the street man shouting strange he just want booze so keep your change fat and happy can't complain i am built of lazy lies i will cave myself in in time
3.
Who Knew 03:14
if i was a cute little kid i would show you the painting i did for you but i'm up in the air i'm not here and not there if i was a sad-eyed eighteen i would cut all the holes in your jeans for you but now what can i say i'm too little too late all along I did what I could but you tell me my timing’s no good who knew if i was a middle-aged man i would buy you a new minivan or two but i'm stumbling around with one foot on the ground if i was a hundred and three i would share all my boring stories with you but you caught me too soon darling what can i do all along i did what i could but you tell me my timing's no good who knew if i was marty mcfly i would go back to when we were nine or ten and i'd be your best friend say that i knew you when if i was a ghost on your hall i would haunt you and walk through your walls at night but i'm flesh and i'm bone and i'm stiff as a stone all along i did what i could but you tell me my timing's no good who knew
4.
Fryer 03:26
out of the lion's den and Daniel is tired out of the frying pan and into the fire kachikaooooo if all love is lost he says why should i stay here with my skin falling off? once buddy was handsome, he outshone them all now he's fat and he's lonesome with no one to call he said oooooo if i still had my breath well i'd run to the ocean and drown all that was left Christine loved a nice boy until her boy died and she's punching the walls now and wanting to cry she says ooooo if i got me a gun blew my brain from its body would i finally be done?
5.
rest your head upon me i have seen your failures multiply and the folds of your eyes draw a line to the bedroom you left far behind just as i left mine let me stand, i am leaving for a while this childish place in our minds this old rusty blade in our sides that will whittle our bodies in time down to nothing set your gaze beyond me, i have tried your woebegone way to abide your hard-hearted ocean to cry now we're too old for biding our time and i'm not waiting
6.
hey little boy where you going are you digging round where you don't belong did you bust a door just to prove yourself well you just can't say did you earn your stripes in a haunted house while your daddy paid did you cut and run when the poison mud monster came did you come up lame hey good old guy what are you doing among the roaches and the ruins do you think someone could pick you out well you just can't say how ‘bout that yuppie yankee mouth and your sunburned face well what if sweat and grime won't kill naïveté? what’s it gonna take now hey there dude are you getting strong digging these ditches all day long did you get your kicks knocking down a wall well you wouldn't say did you find yourself trying to figure out why you ever came did you find your heart in all the danger death and pain are you just the same? and nice young man do you feel lost between the haves and the have-nots will you turn your back on all you got it's hard to say when you see the misery that it brought a bit too late no toxic water gonna wash your life away you look the other way hey buddy boy you done just fine sucked in your gut and did your time tell me what difference did it make well you just can't say are you worried now that you didn't help but you took away well mom and dad say these things always go that way don't it ever change
7.
oh you lied reached right back, dug the knife in my side oh i won't cry i seen it coming such a long long time oh my dear i was calling for you, you were nowhere near ooooo choking down the tears and all i ended up was sad and full of beer and so away you go can't say no i wish i was ten years old to see you looking at me smiling shy and slow
8.
Old Idea 04:01
now you analyze take a breath and turn your back now you look me in the eyes sit me down and paint me black what you wanted to find all bound up inside your head oh you were just some old idea i had now you're singing in the subway spilling onions from your mouth now you're lying in the hallway trying to sink into the ground telling stories to a screen, making signals of yourself oh you were just some old idea i found now you're diving to the depths of the rubble of a storm raise your hand up in a fist, throw a chain across the door were you lying when you said we would settle all these scores oh you were just some old idea i wore now you're chasing after tyrants beating drums and throwing stones giving substance to the silence of your well-appointed home giving comfort to the guilty with every well-intentioned blow oh you were just some old idea i know
9.
Dance Moves 02:47
oh what'd you come here for with your sad look eyes and a surplus coat is it a childish dream? well you can always hope but you try and you fail and you can't and you don't and you ain't and you won't and you won't oh seventeen you got it all laid out you got that upward motion you got the dance moves down by twenty-five you're sinking underground ‘cause you try and you fail and you can't and you don't and you ain't and you won't and you won't
10.
Television 02:30
back when i was young enough to know from where i came i saw my love be spat upon and shouted down in shame well i hung my head and shed a tear when i went to change my name but his honor told me dontcha fear ‘cause it always ends the same it always ends the same he said always ends the same oh remember dear this too shall pass and it always ends the same well i was feelin so alone when the congregation sang of jesus christ and Lucifer and the price that i would pay but the preacher told me not to fear for they know not what they say yeah the history is on your side and it always ends the same it always ends the same he said always ends the same oh remember dear this too shall pass and it always ends the same now the fishes on the TV fly in circles all the same like little children terrified by what they can't explain but when the suburb and the sky are both awash in flame oh the television won't survive and it always ends the same it always ends the same ya know always ends the same oh remember dear this too shall pass and it always ends the same and when i'm finally old enough to learn to play the game all the dinosaurs will roam the earth and resume their bloody reign but when i hear their victory song I will hum the old refrain no lie can live forever on and it always ends the same it always ends the same ya know always ends the same oh remember dear this too shall pass and it always ends the same it always ends the same he said always ends the same oh remember dear this too shall pass and it always ends the same
11.
it's a sorry state i find you in all broken where you would not bend with dagger drawn and steel to skin you poke at wounds that do not mend and i've seen you act this way before it's not as funny anymore with tired eyes you cross the floor to say goodnight and close the door the days and weeks will not be kind to those who fight the will of time to little boys who fantasize and dream of toys instead of wives and it's a sad charade i leave you in a wicked way to see it end still calling out without a friend remember me, remember when
12.
Realize 03:57
wasn't there gonna be a rolling thunder wasn't there gonna be a vicious rain wasn't there gonna be women and children everywhere fleeing them planes when they came wasn't there gonna be a riot somewhere wasn't there gonna be a fiery fight wasn't i gonna be throwing bottles through the air , doing my part for what's right well it's a hard road to ride when you sit right back and realize what you're not wasn't there gonna be a battle raging wasn't there gonna be a crack in the sides wasn't there gonna be cities of old men breaking down crying with no place to hide wasn't there gonna be a common calling wasn't there gonna be a light in the flood wasn't i gonna be digging up hidden treasure stead of burying change in the mud well it’s a hard road to ride when you sit right back and realize what you’re not in the middle of the middle of the ocean in the middle of the middle of the night cast aside all my troublemaking notions and sailed for the sedentary life in the meadow where we struggled in the old days only evidence of cigarettes and beer don't look now we'll sing about it always the grass growing wild through the years well it’s a hard road to ride when you sit right back and realize what you’re not

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released February 14, 2012

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