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Opener
04:41
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Heard the world's this big big place but I spend all of my time playing guitar nodding my head staring at the floor pushin' the red. And I'm good n ripped fingers move strings vibrate all possibilities alive never feels too late. I close my eyes let it wash over me now, world starts moving to a beat, this is mine yeah I am free, only place i can ever see me stickin around. Come on and gimme the volume, gimme the sound, every single inch, my body, my mind, my soul, there's no one else around. And it's live tonight empty room no daylight human smell not sold out it never is 'cept I don't care, yer know that this could be nothing but this is not nothing, not nothing never was, I think I exist to be doing this, I think I exist to be doing this. And I close my eyes let it wash over me, world still moving to a beat, this is mine yeah I am free, this is where I wanna be, all of the evil in this town, of yourself and of those around, better stand up be unafraid, don't let it be a daydream. Everything eases down now to slow motion to steady hum no expectations no distractions no disbelief just empty rooms to be filled with sound pressed grooves to be spun around I'm sweating shouting wired channelling full and long held back sensation the songs energy volume surround the ride movement motion sound electricity tonight's the night and now's the time and all you need to know is there's no rules no-one can tell you what to do or how to feel who to be for one second you believe and yer capture it yer feel it in the context the moment good n ripped you can take it all right now yer can take it all
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Transcranial
02:17
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Clouds are forming ahead
The path fades to black
Can't see the woods for the trees
Will I find any way back?
Take me with
You they say
Don't you go
By yourself again
Turn my back
Don't need them
What a fool I am
Start to regret
Into the wild now
Trying to watch my step
Trip and stumble on the overgrowth
I’m crying out for help
Run to the clearing
Panic fully set
Lose my footing on the river bank
The current pulls me in
Ride this calm
Follow the stream
Cool breeze on skin
Lie back and breathe
Night sky above
Lost in that space
Stars my destination now
All else out of reach
I'm hurtling up now
Left my body behind
Bathed in burning ozone
And ultraviolent light
Race through this cosmos
My fate is sealed
Now I realise
I’ll never see them again
It's my end of days
Don't want the praise
Keep your eulogies
This dance with death
Abandonment
Will it grant me peace?
Was this a mistake?
Well it's too late
Am I sorry friend?
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Turn It Off
02:47
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Hear yer talk yer talk nah but I don't listen to it
Useless words pissing right out of yer mouth
Is just pollution made just a waste just forget about it
Future promises unreal world inner slump yeah c’mon
Turn it off I can't turn it off
My mind too burned my thoughts stick like glue
Got a bad attitude know I'm no fun I keep losing I keep going wrong
I don't want tomorrow I don't need it
Turn it off
Live in a trance a trance am fading in am fading out n thru it
I won’t break the spell can't start clean over again
I walk alone looking down watch my feet make sense of nothing
Future promises linger on linger yeah c’mon
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Sloucher
02:18
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Why should I be happy with everything I’ve got?
Why must I spend my energy on trying to change the tide?
Staring at the screen
Mad at what I read
Shouting at the obscene
No doubting what I believe
Quick to close off my open mind
Too arrogant to see things from the other side
So sure to judge as if I know what’s best
In reality I’m as clueless as the rest
When will I put things into action, instead of this inaction, or am I full of shit?
Can I really tolerate the intolerant, and can they do the same?
Practice what I say
Start by looking deep
If I want to see a difference
I’d better start with me
Quick to close off my open mind
Too arrogant to see things from the other side
So sure to judge as if I know what’s best
In reality I’m as clueless as the rest
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Workin' Man Blues
04:07
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6 in the morning, on my way to work, dirty and tired as I reach the building site
My skull is electric, my body is feeling the strain, carrying a mountain of bricks
I feel the pain
I got the workin’ man’s blues
Drinking a beer on my lunchbreak, my body still feeling the strain
Can’t shake this hangover, comes back again and again
I got the workin’ man’s blues
Day after day, same old shit, decades to the finishing line
So sick n fuckin’ tired of it
I got the workin’ man’s blues
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Holsten Thrills
03:15
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More of the same
Why do you keep on playing this game?
Another bust
You’re on the floor, you’re on your arse
They give you nothing
You owe ‘em nothing in return
Ruin’s a sure thing
So crack open a bottle again
Drink
Deep
No
Sleep
Maybe nothing’s as it seems
Maybe it’s a lucid dream
Maybe you’ll wake up one day
And maybe all this hell gives way
Bullshit this is it
You’re wide awake in a fucking state
Keep walking on by yourself again
Lost on your own you made the same mistakes
But you find your friends over that hill
With welcome arms and promise of those Holsten thrills
Eyes wide and tears of joy feel alive again in their embrace
Dust yourself down breathe it in not a care in the world or an ounce of despair
The first time since god knows when oh man oh man got a plan a plan
With love standing by your side you can do anything and go anywhere
We kill the light
When we’re alone
But in union
We illuminate
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Rathaus
04:19
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Yeah yer so forgiving and so benevolent, I bet yer shit smells like roses too
Seen yer take away the money, watch yer hold yer hands up, pretend that they were tied but you know that ain’t true
it’s not alright
yer say take yer medicine, ask why we actin’ reticent, well what do yer reckon take a wild guess
not just the way I’m feeling, yeah cuz it’s you who’s cheapening this with the way yer act
it’s not alright
yer try not to take it so personally but it is what it is it affects you and me
got this disconnect growing, all this blaming yer see, depends whose lies do yer want to believe
do yer feel it
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Pink Roses
01:47
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I’ve got a question you don’t have to answer yet
You can think about it
But what you see is what you get so don’t forget
I’m just another person looking to score
Why’s it matter who I want to love?
Why you choose to judge I never know
Are you unhappy or scared or hurt?
I’m not the cause I’m just another lost soul
But I choose love
You see me standing alone on the train
Why do you think it’s ok to touch?
What makes it ok to act this way?
The answer’s nothing: no ifs, no buts
It’s not a matter of no means no
More a case of only yes means yes
Are you unhappy or scared or hurt?
I’m not the cause I’m just another lost soul
But I choose love
If you give me a shake
My petals might fall
But if you make that mistake
If you grab me I’ll make you bleed
I’m not a thorn in your side
I’m not here to hurt you
All I see is a beautiful world
And I’m not your enemy
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Sud Ripper
01:38
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I just got in
Can’t wait for a good night’s kip
My phone starts to ring
You’re on the other end
You want to go for a drink
You got the midweek blues and the cure is booze
You’re going to drag me out
You’re dragging me out
Well I have to admit
I don’t need that much convincing
Maybe one or two beers
Just one or two beers
Now it’s getting late
Some good chat while we’ve been knocking them back
My mind gave me the slip
It gave me the slip
I’ll feel this in the morning
Never heed my own warning
It’s yesterday played out again
I guess tomorrow’s another day
First let’s head back to mine
A few shorts and put the world to rights
Have you got any smokes?
Maybe a little toke
Now my head’s in a fog
It’s light soon, it’s going to be a slog
But I don’t do regrets
I don’t do regrets
I’ll feel this in the morning
Never heed my own warning
It’s yesterday played out again
I guess tomorrow’s another day
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Springer
02:21
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I been where you are now with the negative head
Nothing much that you can do to put yer mind to rest
Have to tell myself I’m not looking back
I’m gonna live in the now
That’s when I realise it’s nothing at all
When you say all the stuff that you said when we were walking about
Is when I get the feeling that I don’t wanna fall
‘Cause I been down, don’t wanna go there again
You remember what it’s like, the negative head
You got no space, you can’t breathe, the walls closing in
Have to tell myself I’m not looking back
This is how I wanna live, I wanna live in the now
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Become The Scum
04:54
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I was there standing round when it happened but I just closed my eyes, did yer hear about it, yer must have heard about it, everyone was talking so loud
I been actin’ so tough, I been pretending that I am just fine but what I saw what I heard what I felt, don’t like it that much, is a stupid game, leaves me feeling rough
Shut my eyes and start thinking, I zone in I zone out, am I now a straight thug another cog is it a stretching of time
Gold top I drink it down, all my mistakes, be what yer not, I drink it all the way, to forget, to leave it drifting
All the way down
I don’t wanna become the scum
What if I already am
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