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The Kids of Summer
03:10
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The kids of summer will take their prize
In bitter plain cruelty make the rest of us suffer
To watch them
And when they’ve grown up and they’ve got it all
They’ll scream down from their towers to the street
‘Hey Ma, watch me playing’
The kids of summer will settle down for the night
Safe in their quiet abodes and note everything
Is stellar
The kids of summer will wash it down with a half pint of rum
And snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
And when they grow up and they’ve got it made
They’ll say ‘look around the globe, see this holy mess
I’ve created’
The kids of summer will show us dysfunction
And we’ll be made to ape them, in a quiet display
Of politics
Kids of summer don’t hurt me man
I’m just trying to get along with my wife my kids
And my family
And when they’ve grown up and they’re still not happy
They’ll look around and say ‘Please, please, someone give me’
‘Some substance, yeah’
Oh the kids of summer will show us madness
And we’ll be forced to go along in degrading displays
Of apathy
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Stand with my back to the wall
My feet are in the crowd
Got something I wanna say
But I can’t do it out loud
Trying to connect, so I can rise above the din
Can’t shake that feeling I’m on the outside looking in
Oh, I’ve got to sail away
Oh, can’t face another day
And it’s just another thing I’ll never get to do
Whole weekends spent apart, trying to get untied with you
It’s just another line I’ll never get to say
Toe the line and walk around, but never get to play
And it’s overlong
And it can’t be sung
And it’s oversold
And it can’t be told
Standing on the dock, down by the buckets and the pails
Looking out to the waves can’t help feeling my ship has sailed
It’s always the ending of one empire or the next
Leaves one in a state of feeling, constantly perplexed
Oh, it felt as though I’d died
Ah well, why don’t you tell them that I tried
It’s just another thing I’ll never get to be
Down here you can see the embers flying as it falls apart at the seams
It’s just another word I’ll never get to taste
Whole years spent miles apart, living my life in haste
And it’s overlong
And it can’t be sung
And it’s oversold
And it can’t be told
I’m racking my brain, trying to think of another line
Bout how everything seems to be in permanent decline
I remember what you said to me when I was barely alive
To the crooked go the spoils of war, and for the good only the knives
Oh, I’ve got to sail away
Oh, can’t face another day
It’s just another life I’ll never get to live
Days creep in closer now, running out of room to give
One more thing that I will never get to be
One more thing that I will never get to be
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Lillyanne
06:17
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Oh Oh, Lillyanne
I guess you’ll do what you can
Trading your fortune for coal
Selling your good looks for gold
Oh oh, my sweet girl
I guess you’re queen of that world
Making my forehead perspire
On account of all that transpired
We met in some great temple
Oh mother, you’d be so proud
It isn’t as though we really liked each other
But she recoiled when I expressed that feeling out loud
So drunkenly, I tried to kiss her
But she just turned and shook her head
‘My paramour would not like it’ she said
‘He’ll be even less pleased when he sees us abed’
And I say oh Lillyanne
I guess you’ll do what you can
Trading your fortune for coal
Selling your good looks for gold
Oh oh, my sweet girl
I guess you’re queen of that world
Making my forehead perspire
On account of all that transpired
We loved for less than a season
Oh sweet mama, you make me forget all I know
Lying in the crypt, with our ankles wrapped around each other
Till we agree that it’s time to go
And so I, I told her
‘Everybody’s eyes, they’re all fixed on you’
And she said ‘yes, but for what reason’
They all want to haunt me, just as you do’
And I say oh Lillyanne
I guess you do just what you can
Selling your charms for gold
Hoping to come in from the cold
Oh oh my sweet girl
I guess it’s a lonely kind of world
Give the people what they want
So you can climb to the front
And one, one day, it was over
With a letter, pinned once to my suit
Inside, a note and a picture
Reading ‘nobody cuts quite like you’
And I say oh Lillyanne
I guess you'll make your own plans
Selling your image for success
The high heels and the dress
Oh oh my sweet girl
They’ll never respect you in this world
Ain’t it better to bare it all
Than to stay cosseted and fall
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King Lear
02:13
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Never underestimate
The political capital of doing nothing
You know it works for relationships too
Didn't King Lear say
'Nothing will come of nothing' yeah
Why don't you stall for time
Till she moves down the line
Though I think he was talking about something else...
People will hate you
For telling the truth, they'd prefer nothing
As long as you don't say
Nothing bad will come their way
They'll let you get away with anything you like
That's right...
And when it all was over
I asked them, for a reprieve
But she just turned, and smiled at me
And pulled the ace of hearts from her sleeve, hooo hooo hooo
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do, do do do doh whoa
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da de duh de da dah
Yeah
Whoa oa oh oo oh
oooo oo oo
Yeah
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Camera
02:46
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I want a camera watching over me, all of me
Reach into my being and tell me how to be, totally
This feeling’s cancer it’s all over me
But it offers comfort , it’s a paradox, outwardly
The Buzzard glistens, hangs from a broken pole, oversold
Spits out its gizzards and gives them to the troll, full control
This heat is in my brain watching bitterly, overly
Narrates my commandments until I start to bleed, right under me
It’s funny, even when you’re next to me, hard to see
The person that you were in messages, bitterly
That feeling falls like sand, through my hands, under planned
Sense of perspective feeling overran, an errant scan
I need a screen to look at everywhere, vacant stare
Dictate my being and tell me when and where, go over there
Connects my mind to another realm
Disconnects my life so I don’t know who’s at the helm,
I’m feeling unwell
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Black Cloud Blues
04:39
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Well I came to in the garden, laughing as the rain came down
Said I came to in the garden, laughing as the rain came down
Wishing my long departed senses, would step to me, shake to me
Tell me what was going on
Well I'd rather burn out babe, than die drowning in this rain
Said I'd rather burn out babe, than die drowning in this rain
Big thunder keep on rolling
Take away my pain
Black clouds in the sky babe, peering at me through the night
Well black clouds in the sky babe, peering at me through the night
Well I've got this funny feeling, oh way down inside babe
That tomorrow, the weathers going to be alright
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Oh girl, I want all your attention
Oh man, are you going to test my retention?
I don’t care, I just go out and get what I can
No connection, I’m looking for a henchman
Cos I get,
More than most but less than some, na na
More than most but less than some
Can I get it on the run, na na
More than most but less than some
Oh world, I want all you’ve got to give me
Don’t care, bout war or strife or poverty
I just need, the dopamine for my brain to shine
Just think bout getting it in, most of the time
Cos I get,
More than most but less than some, na na
More than most but less than some,
Can I get it on the run, na na
More than most but less than some
In the water, I see a vision
Of another way to be
Less blood, and needless slaughter
A kinder life for me
With a beautiful girl
Not looking for that next spin of the wheel
A kinder soul
Then I rediscover my Achilles heel
Oh well
I must admit that was a beautiful dream
But now I wake, back to all my animal schemes
I can’t change, I’ve been like this from the very start
I’ve had millennia, to consider my evil and practice my art
Cos I get,
More than most but less than some, na na
More than most but less than some
Can I get my kicks for fun, na na
More than most but less than some
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Forever Blue
04:19
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I want to fall into a largely hopeless wild romance
Surrender my soul unto you, now wouldn’t that be a beguiling dance?
End it all feeling cold and broken hearted
Dead to the world, pining over some girl with whom I’m parted
I’d like to paint a picture with bold acrylic paints in line
I’ll make a mandala out of coloured sands with grains so fine
And when it’s done, I’ll throw it all away
Set the canvas on fire and pour the sand all down the drain
I don’t want to go
Safe in your arms for now
I don’t want to leave
Stay here awhile and grieve
But that will never do
I’m awake now, and forever blue
I want to fall into a, largely hopeless, wild affair
Surrender my wits unto you, disregarding them without a care
And when It's done, I’ll throw it all away
Set the canvas on fire, pour the sand all down the drain
I don’t want to go
Safe in your arms for now
I don’t want to leave
Stay here awhile and grieve
But that will never do
I’m awake now, and forever blue
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Hey man, I fucking hate you
You said you were, riding big on some beautiful wave
You thought you were, so immune to insanity
That all the cards, and the people were yours to play
Step into the distant future
Take a minute to look around
Tread softly, my love
You never know if I’ll be around
Step into the distant present
Make it easy for yourself now love
Try to communicate a little more lightly
You never know what kind of sound
You’ll never know
You’ll never know, how good it feels till it’s gone
You’ll never know, oh no
Cos hey man, I fucking hate you
You said you were, riding big on some beautiful wave
You thought you were, so immune to insanity
That all the cards, and the people were yours to play
Jet off into the sunset baby
Take no prisoners this time around
Pull the rip cord on your way down love
You’ll never hear all the useful sounds
You’ll never know
So don’t forget it
It’s just some funny phase we’re both going through
You’ll never know, oh no
Cos hey man, I fucking hate you
You said you were, riding big on some beautiful wave
You thought you were, so immune to insanity
That all the cards, and the people were yours to play
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Apocalypse Daydreams
05:54
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Haven’t watched the news in 15 days
Used to feel good to know what’s going on
Nowadays the sound just pains me
A phosphorus grenade to lay my fears upon
Cartoon cutouts dominate the mainstream
A sad satire of Kapitals Id
Trying to work out if I hate these creeps more
Than the grey gormless bureaucrats who tried to keep it all under the lid
Maybe I’m the one to blame
For thinking the world was not all war and pain
For thinking merit had a chance
We could all learn to dance
Play happily in the sun
Not just ‘duck, and cover and run’
I’m a part of this scheme
For believing in this stupid fucking dream
They talk about a ‘social contract’
My insides are beginning to contract
Apocalypse is a concept
That we will on ourselves till it manifests in corporeal form, by hating this world, its corruptions, each other and eventually ourselves
The will to life doesn’t become us
The will to death overcomes us
Four horseman, Valhalla, the end of days
The great battle at the end of eternity
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The Kids of Summer Pt II
04:14
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We built ourselves this world to keep out the darkness
Semi detached houses with fully detached people, filling their days with sunshine and tasks while slowly drowning on the inside
Because it’s cold outside
And beyond our relativistic sphere lies dread abandon
Nothing but cosmic horror and the void
No one’s coming to save you
Everything’s just.. indifferent to you
It’s a strange and twisted fantasy to want to subject others to this vision of hell
Take the cosseted and pampered kids of summer
And shove their faces into the brazier
Will it inflict meaning or am I just seasoning them for a life of dread horror and philosophical ambition
Forever treading the line between the in group and the out never truly fitting in with constant questioning throughout
It’s the age old question, is it better to exist in a manufactured state of bliss, ignorance will keep you happy they say, forget the rule book and the calculator, put them down child come play
Though the game we play is my game
And the rules have been made the very same
If you don’t like drinking to abandon so as to forget that you abandoned all your plans in cold dread, passion projects left to the wayside, instead having to talk about people skills and working well as ‘part of a team’
Fit yourself into someone else’s grand vision or scheme, and if this is not what you want then it will BREAK you
And you’ll have to talk to the boss to discuss what’s wrong, you’ll have talk to the councillor about why you’re so headstrong all the live long day and before you know it you’re at the doctors and he says take these pills, come what may, you have to be medicated for your sins and no one wants to help you or talk to you about a thing unless they then therein have to discuss their own dark path and their own dark feelings and how sometimes they don’t find it all very appealing..
We’re animal players in a digital world, and we’ll soon find that the new kids on the block think that we’re quite absurd, chasing after petty physical sensations when we could assimilating our frustrations and taking it out on simulacra of our weak human fixations.
Where do we go when we die?
Let’s face it, we’re all heading for the big databank in the sky
The other’s a bitch, we’ve finished our news,
Homo sapiens has far outgrown its use.
Well, it was a painful delivery and protracted affair
But she’s finally given birth to the 21st century.
Welcome to my world Kids of Summer. Have fun burning in the new normal.
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Tomer Krail London, UK
Neofolk artist with a rembrandt complex. Currently self isolating in the fortress of solitude.
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