1. |
Universities
03:33
|
|||
|
What are we doing here?
We’ll pay our whole lives
For a handshake and congratulations
What are we doing here?
Subjecting ourselves
I feel less free than I did the summer before
“Maybe your freedom doesn’t lie in your surroundings"
You throw me a curveball
You say “life’s an accident
All we can do is try to be good friends”
I could get used to this
You say I won’t default
I don’t want automatic friends an automatic life
I feel like I’m living by default
Learning the rules of art
I feel like I’m living by default
Learning the rules of
These universities
All gears in a machine
Though they talk it up as higher learning
There is even ugliness behind the beautifully trimmed lawns
So what are we doing here
We’re waiting half our lives
For a black robe and a piece of paper
Last night my parents begged me to stay out every friday night
I feel like I’m living by default
Learning the rules of art
I feel like I’m living by default
Learning the rules of art
I know you’ll always beg me to party on the weekends
But you love your Friday nights I guess
You left me on the weekends
So I’ll party on the weekends
|
||||
2. |
Number
03:21
|
|||
|
Number the hours we spent together
It takes two tries
To tell you a coveted observation
You don't seem to mind quite like I do
I guess it's boring
How tamely can you dream
I’d win that round
How dare I be painfully realistic
But I fret for unrequited feelings
Oh I don’t know-
Your beautiful boldness
Never gets old
So I’ll stick around
How mildly I seem
to watch you change.
How dare I be caught in our old meanings?
You know I write and despise
because I know
your beautiful boldness.
Will it get old?
Well I’ll stick around
if you say so.
Your beautiful boldness,
will it get old?
Will it get old?
|
||||
3. |
Cryptic Mystic
03:09
|
|||
|
There was always blood beneath my skin
But you doubted it
and I tried to transcend time
But you got high instead
Don’t try to say you’re mine
Just please remember now
When you get high each friday night
I still lose faith somehow
blood beneath our skin
i lost you in the amazon
what happened to our hologram
but you were bound to sin
when you left me for the amazon
i lived in our sweet hologram
clinging to a skinny love
clinging to a wretched dove
i lived in a pixelated haze
and i doubted it
watching you get drunk for days
i stood by instead
Don’t leave me with my demons
While yours run away
From your cryptic mystic dreams
out in the woods somewhere
blood beneath our skin
i lost you in the amazon
what happened to our hologram
but you were bound to sin
when you left me for the amazon
i lived in our sweet hologram
i lived in our sweet hologram with you
clinging to a skinny love
clinging to a wretched dove
I made a list for you, for you to find
when you fall far behind
|
||||
4. |
Do You Want Applause?
03:00
|
|||
|
Don’t you take me home again
Maybe nothing’s new
Play me your new song again
I break in front of you
You do more in two days
Than I’ve done in my life
You do more in two days
Than I’ve done in my life
Look at me and just pretend
My eyes aren’t shining
You know you’re my favorite friend
I say sorry
You do more in two days
That I’ve done in my life
You do more in two days
Than I’ve done in my life
But you still take me home again
While I think about the end
Sorry for being sorry again
I try to say I’m jealous again
Choking on old words, offend
Your closest, parting friend
Do you want applause?
|
||||
Katy & the Null Sets Portland, Oregon
A foamboy
Katy & the Null Sets recommends:
Saw these guys at the Space in Salem OR. Damn great set, they wear fruit costumes and play some danceable, absolute funk. Highly recommend.
go to album
Kind of Neutral, Kind of Blue
by Mons La Hire
Some more sweet OR folks; I love playing shows with them! "Shadow Wolves" has one of the best shout choruses ever. You will want to sing it at the top of a mountain or something
go to albumIf you like Katy & the Null Sets, you may also like:
I Could Have Been A Castle
by Lisa Salvo
featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 11, 2014
go to album
Here's The 101 On How To Disappear
by Dakota
Spry indiepop from this Amsterdam outfit, “Disappear” is laced up in glimmering guitars and centered around heartrending melodies.
go to album
Spunky songwriting wrapped up in luscious vocals and beautifully baroque-pop arrangements.
go to album
Escape Artist
by Danielle Durack
The latest from Danielle Durack is a gentle wonder, its soft-focus songs full of yearning and effortlessly melodic.
go to album
