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The New Sounds Of Late Capitalism

by Star Parks

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1.
Palm Sunday 05:23
The Sun and Moon mean nothing to you and I am a fool for my life pursuits I assume And I may have lost a year to you Silver threads among the gold ones too Sleepy Jean, Elizabeth the baker All stood with their welcoming signs While you and I, we sat in the bleachers Shaking our heads and rolling our eyes It was all for nothing And the carpet furled Ragged and rouge Must have felt like Palm Sunday to you I almost made it out Without a scratch or a bruise In another life Who knows what I must have slept through My room was as dark as a vacant hotel I reached for a ladder and fell down a well I put all my thoughts in a styrofoam box And locked them away It was all for nothing And the band played to an empty room Must have felt like Palm Sunday to you But it was my fault Every part Over and over again But oh, I know that every stone on a slope doesn’t find a plateau
2.
On and on How long is too long? I don’t want to be wrong in calling it off So if I wait How late is too late ? So I turn around and all the walls just closed in to surrond me So if I do How soon is too soon? I need some time Just a little while Because I was feeling sentimental about a cynical girl Feeling weighed down by the weight of the world And I thought I closed that door behind me But I want something more I want something more I want something more And I was tired of waiting and running around It gets so old Oh I wish you’d take this weight off my shoulders baby Hold on I won’t tell you it’s over and we cannot go back No hold on I just need more and you can’t give that But don’t say I never loved you baby don’t do that Don’t say I never loved you and we can’t go back.
3.
Landlady 04:30
Can I stay here for a while Landlady Just a corner of the room A blanket and a curfew And I’ll be light when I’m out I’ll be quiet as a mouse Town and country But if I stay too long Or if I’m of and on The combinations wrong So I’ve tried in my way To break what I am bound to But their are chains and their are ties I just never got around to And it’s fine sometimes to leave it all behind And start it over But when it’s said and done No matter where you run You’re gonna owe someone Landlady So I try to keep it light Keep my mind off of winter But it’s few and far between When I make gold from tin and timber But give me a little time and I can straighten out Give me a little time and I can make it right Give me a little time and I can pay it back
4.
Hobby Horse 04:20
Well I’m so tired of working for that old Yankee Dollar But I’m fine, yea I’m alright No, nothing is the matter So what’s the use and what’s the rush? It never amounts to much What a useless observation Oh but I’m fine, yea always merry and bright And nothing really matters Oh but I’ve got mine And I’ll be fine Waiting around for all boats to rise Is it tired ? is it old ? Its a drop in the bowl Is it mine ? Is it still ? Is it run of the mill ? Does it hurt? Does it break ? Does it own Realestate ? Does it come when you call ? Does it just make you wait ? Is it calm ? It it cracked ? Can you pay it all back? Is it Bernadette Meyer ? Is it Champion Jack ? Is it charmed ? is it light ? Is it love at first sight ? Is it years ? is it days ? Is it merry in the month of may ? Is it all just a waste ? Is it worth such a mess? It’s a job Its a living its a hobby at best.
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Nothing wrecks the mind Or throws it in a dive Like the faces of a railway station Sentimental types and sleep walking Sunday drivers Breathing all the oxygen And I fall to pieces I fall apart Just a sign would knock me down One by one I come undone Cafes in the park Politics and art And other brands of bourgeois bullshit And I fabricate a smile Feeling all the while Like a wave crashing in a cavern And I fall to pieces I fall apart Its a crack in a matchstick line One by one I come undone So I try to carry on I keep my head down Surrounded by libertines and scarlet women But no ones got the time And everything is fine Just ordinary dime a dozen And I won’t get lost again No I won’t hide oh no No I won’t get lost again No I won’t hide in and out of the shadows
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Ask Me 04:06
Why don’t you ask me ? I know Why don’t you ask me ? I know But you’ve been hanging around With the bridge and tunnel crowd They’re telling you lies So why not ask me ? I know Why don’t you ask me ? I know And all the lights and tides are low And no one else would know Why don’t you ask me ? And every lovesick refugee And every ship at sea Why don’t you ask me ?
9.
One Big Sigh 02:58
One big sigh that moved the light around And it showed me something I’m seeing it now And all your confessions that you told to me Did they make you feel new ? Did they make you feel clean ? One more night And maybe a morning I’ll do what you want I’ll do it for nothing And one little lie That kept us in waiting (waiting around for what seems like forever) Something unspoken Maybe something worth saving (save it for some other time ) But all of this dreaming Makes it so hard to tell What’s worth believing and what’s even real But I can’t help the feeling That something is wrong But I’ve meant nothing to no one For way too long So one more sigh that moved the light around And it showed me something Im seeing it now
10.
No more lies to tell None to you and none to myself At a loss with nothing to sell no more And no more rumors to quell Or loose lips sinking my sails Or waiting around for it all to blow over So I told myself again and again That I never sold out and I never bought in And Im standing in the daylight now No more fever to break No excuse and no more mistakes Had enough All I can take of love And no more lies to tell None to you and none to myself At a loss with nothing to sell no more So I wrote it down Everything to come clean But I started believing my own fever dreams But I’m standing in the daylight now
11.
Leave behind the love you lost Don’t pay them another thought And have all your Saturdays at once Tired of waiting on the fence Never mind the consequence And have all your Saturdays at once So much time is wasted But paradise is waiting Take your troubles all and trade them And have all your Saturdays at once

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released February 14, 2020

All Songs Registered BMI BRAVE ADVISOR SONGS 2020

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