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Trick With a Knife
02:51
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you say you wanna see a trick I can show you a trick you say you wanna see a trick of the eye
you say you wanna see a trick I'll show you lickety split yeah I'll show a trick with a knife
I don't know what you're thinking now
I don't know why you haven't turned and run away
I'm not sure I believe this
I'm not sure how you're still breathing
Hey you!
well you wanna see a trick I can show you a trick yeah you want to see a trick of the mind
yeah you want to see a trick I can show you super quick I will kick you then I'll spit in your eye
I don't know what you're doing now
I don't know why you're still lying (like a rug)
I'm not sure I believe this
I'm not sure how you're still breathing
Hey you!
RUN
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2. |
Ted Bundy's Heart
02:41
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I am not a monster even though I act like one
I am not a monster even though I've got his heart
I'm not a monster even though I act like one
By acting like they expect to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?
All those girls, so unremarkable
So many people in the world, tell me what's one more?
I'm not a monster but I know he was
I'm not a monster but I understand his heart
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3. |
1108
01:46
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4. |
Try
02:03
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5. |
Excite Bike
04:44
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oh brother I love you
but I don't believe a thing you say
anymore
I think you hide things
we used to be so close
but we aren't anymore
I guess I imagined all the ways
we used to click
so we head out for a ride
you don't know it yet
but it will be the last time
I threw you off so easily
and now we're tumbling down the highway
like debris
my mother she sent me
a postcard asking why
I don't know, I wanted a chance to start again
I meant for us both to
meet our final end
and I guess I was granted a continuation
and in it's bitter circumstance
I can't help but feel a little glad
to be out of it
I couldn't stand all of the quiet
couldn't take all of those lies
about being fine
and now it's finally done
in life you hated attention
in death you finally got some
I just wanted to go with you
and go back to those days when
everything I knew
revolved around trust in you
it's easy as a game
I rev the engine
but when it ends
we cannot stay this course again
it's time that we stop playing
cause life has no reset
and when it ends we cannot do it over
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6. |
A Letter I Won't Send
03:46
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I could say that I'm sorry
but won't really mean it
My love's no appliance
I can't guarantee it
my affection's no faucet
I can't turn it off
when it gets inconvenient
one more time tell me you want me
pretend like you mean it
I reject your rejection
at least for these reasons
I'm not sure I'll be here
not when it's so clear
in your mind I'm gone
'cause unlike the saying
I think absence is needed
it helps me to forget
the things that I wanted
til I think I just dreamed them
I never believed them
and in time it leaves my mind
I can say that I get it
we both know it's bullshit
I don't know what will happen
and neither do you
I just need to know I did everything I could
I was totally out there and honest
and you, you are stubborn,
but me, I'm capricious
you had your mind mde up but
mine, it still switches
from things as they could be to things as they should be
I don't care what's right anymore
so I wrote it all down
in a letter I won't send
a list like you gave me
chock full of good reasons
that left me dumbfounded as the night that we first kissed
and both knew what we did
you are steadfast,
not influenced by the pack
you leave me speechless
be it furious or glad
and you're so familiar
like an older brother
and the affect, accent
of your voice is classic
and thinking
and music
and making
aesthetics
You can say you don't want me
I won't take it badly
I am here in whatever capacity you'll have me
I am trying and I hope that's good enough
oh no
oh no
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7. |
Game On
02:15
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I'm all exhaust
coasting on the fumes
of these nights with you
Cmon and choke me
fill my lungs with smoke
I do not want to breathe
I'm gonna burn burn burn at both ends tonight
but it'll make make make such a lovely light
I'm gonna run run run the tired out of me
game on
it's everywhere
there's powder in the air
I'm never gonna sleep
come on and stroke me
till I'm out of focus
I don't want to see
I'm gonna pay pay pay for this cloudy night
and just hope hope hope things turn out right
I'm gonna go go go til the morning sun is here
game on
quiet now you say
it's time to sleep sleep sleep the days away
you climb into my brain
and say i just need need need something to stay awake
game on
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8. |
Haunted
01:52
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everywhere I go I see yr ghost
in everyone I meet in everyone I know
time and time again I try to exorcise you
but you still won't go
the shadows that appear
I see you in the dark
shouldn't I be scared
I see you in the dark
Every day and night I vacillate
elation to despondency
yeah you got yr sheets you got your chains
you shake shake shake shake shake them at me and
the shadows that appear
I see you in the dark
shouldn't I be scared
I see you in the dark
CB TV everywhere I go I see these versions of you around me
nightmares dreamscapes someone keep me awake, I don't want to feel so hunted
haunt me haunt me haunt me baby
Oh the shadows that appear
I see you in the dark
the monsters that you fear?
they're coming after you
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9. |
Phoenix
01:35
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Betcha didn't know
where this was headed
betcha thought i'd grown
And that i'd accept it
now that you know
I'm not pathetic
How do you feel
do you regret it
now that the table's turned
Now that you've fucked up
come take what is yours
you know i adore ya
oh oh oh oh
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I have to be here
you don't
you sit so silent staring
why don't you just go home
and every time I see yr face
it hits me like a tidal wave
all my body knows to do is shake
and I don't want to let you see me crying again
I don't want you under my skin
why do you come here over and over again?
I swear sometimes I wish you had just killed me that night
well I work here,
what's your excuse?
for visiting this graveyard
it's borderline abuse
and every time you're in this place
you hit me like a hurricane
I am simply blown away
and I don't want to let you see me crying again
I don't want you under my skin
why do you come here over and over again?
I swear sometimes I wish you had just killed me that night
We're always up, down, up, down
up and down.
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11. |
Spooky
03:45
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Sit on on down cause everyone's talking
Everyone's talking but not to you
The room is dark and everyone's staring everyone's staring
Do you want them to?
You can't stand the thought of breathing can't stand the thought of breathing
the smoke chokes as it curls towards the glass ceiling
Can't stand the thought of breathing/
The mirrors all around you reflect the lack of meaning
And they'll never admit what's true
They never bothered to think of you
No they'll never admit what's true
There was never opportunity there for you
They say you gotta compromise to make it
But I'm mad as hell and I won't take it!
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