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No Slogan

by Our Bones

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1.
Incumbent 05:12
it seems my friends we’ve been forsaken bound to this place where god don’t ever show his face left us for the birds divided by walls of words it seems my love has been unfaithful she said she’d be home but now she won’t pick up her phone - tired of fuckin’ around find someone true and settle down some people take all that they can get (they won’t give it up slowly) and have their way with it (gave up on giving it back sad souls for dollars and cents) some people take all that they can get just to die with it it seems our rights are being taken and this corporate greed sure has left its mark on me what’s good for the goose is good for the gander - slander they’re feeding us cancer what a brilliant trick you’ve found, trickle down - yeah right hows-a-bout we pass around
2.
i’ve seen enough of your coffee mugs framed impolitely i’ve had too much of your parent’s basement though i’d never tell you that now you’re bending over backwards so your back won’t break and there’s a figure in the corner screaming ‘take take take! and don’t bother me when you’re found feeling hopeless’ step in line watch you step in time slowly I feel so sacred that your mono rhythm bores me and glory is just a tickle in your gut that tells you ’life is satisfying and you’ll never get enough’ so run scared - run screaming run and tell a stranger exactly what you’re feeling we can eulogize precisely what we thought we’d known before but we want more so much more so run scared - run screaming
3.
Die Alone 04:02
you tucked a fitness magazine inside your winter coat they told you ‘life’s lead by the body, and love cuts at the throat’ but that’s all they wrote you turned to face the catcall of code that you never spoke of outside your home - you might die alone now everyone around is pleading, ‘it’s my turn to be saved!’ to some trumped up human garbage the battered and broken remains of the last time I spoke to the first one I loved who had small words for me, she said, ‘life’s lead by the body, and that’s all you will ever be to me’ and you’ll probably die alone we might die alone
4.
it takes hold that sinking feeling that you strangle at your chest progress preventing that which every detail told and I’m growing old through imagined pastimes a mantra of control unfolded at my knees and taught me how to pray but I wouldn’t some might force me down toward the stream singing ’don’t drink the water!’ not another hypocrite will make me bathe in the blood of those tortured souls and I’m growing old, still staggering at the truths that loved ones keep and that they might prey on me like water over stone you dressed the stars in second-hand clothes revealed a single aspect of principle, but now you’re gone, you’ve been gone and they made songs that they’re still singing out loud - ba da da your god won’t bring me to my knees no god is not a problem no god will sing me to my sleep your god is not an option
5.
I Lit a Fire 03:35
I lit a fire on the tracks and it’s never going out I’ve got the evidence on hand and no one’s ever finding out you better keep your pretty mouth shut I’m bringing everyone down now speak softly to me potential rests in my hands yeah, come on how could you do this to us? after everything we’ve done oh darling it’s everything you haven’t done that’s the reason I am done I am an unforgiving hand that’s completely given up I lit a fire and now I’m watching it spread you’ve got an army of a thousand men you’ve got a ship that could rule them all you’ve got the whole world on your side look at me - I don’t have anything at all but there’s still time to make it right you haven’t given up I pushed my way to the front of this line and now it’s my turn you had your chance and look at the world I’ve given up on you and now i’ve given myself up look at me I have this match in my hand look at me I have this match in my hand I lit this fire and it’s never going out I lit this fire and I’m finally going out
6.
in time you’ll feel important a crooked smile with rotting teeth you won’t forget the soft, sad silence cause when you’re home you hardly speak you hardly speak you saw a silo sanctuary fed a famished heart to beat lost your languished love to science now when he’s home you hardly sleep no more dreaming of the typical late born daughter of a criminal your lack of empathy is so complete stripped bare you’re a blatant obscenity to me you swore a likeness to anything but your father’s wealth an outdated ideal form of nothing but a calculated symmetry jeweled indictment for a soulless incredulity so take your time signing self loathing to a greeting card capital gains to your bed your father’s crime is not transcendent, or ruthless or breaking the blood in your head no more dreaming of the typical late born daughter of a criminal your lack of empathy is so complete stripped bare you’re a blatant obscenity to me no more pity for the miserable blood-torn victim of the natural misguided sympathy bars extremes stripped bare you’re a vacant identity to me
7.
Rose (Pt. 1) 03:20
Rose, you really put me out of touch and I’m amazed by how you grow from moss and stone you cast away your fortune you’re all but out of luck and everyone you love, everyone you love cries oh, you won’t let me down again your last wilting wishes won’t be shared amongst friends pretend you haven’t wasted the light half of your life to the bird and the branch the botanist’s knife Rose, how many heroes have you shaped? sculpted from a structure that the artist claims innate it’s okay to be weary it’s okay to jump ship and not swim you could never swim grow until your arms might reach the sky but when you die only carbon’s left behind you cast away your fortune and you’re simply out of luck now and everyone you loved everyone you loved cried oh, you won’t let me down again things might have been different if we’d all played pretend your friends are all getting wasted on someone else’s wine and you can cry - you can cry but I won’t watch you die, Rose I can’t watch you die, Rose
8.
Rose (Pt. 2) 05:13
in comes the band they struck a chord that left your sinew smiling it missed the mark in the end it goes hand in hand with that scowl you’ve been sporting from years of constant compromise in light of many more in loneliness you are not alone happiness will come, but by its nature it will go and now I know that all that matters in the dark is felt and heard still I can see that you’ve been dreaming cause I’m conscious to a fault and it’s not what you deserve your own voice was too loud to utter promises or prayers you reprimanded honesty and honestly I can’t describe what happens in the dark is more than half of what you see but you won’t ever believe it unless you dream it in your sleep I can’t watch you die, Rose I won’t watch you
9.
Lost & Found 04:43
lost and found - the danger lies in knowing what’s at stake I have found this life incurious to those who are not awake compromise - might be easier to carry on if I close my eyes but you are my god the brightest star shining in my sky and I, no I can’t let anybody else shine light in my eyes this is all for show and there’s one thing I know there’s so much more out there than what we can buy when you’re on your way you may be led astray I won’t let you be blinded by dollar signs they advertise with flashing lights it’s so inviting and exciting but it’s blinding you sell your soul to buy more stuff you’re not fulfilled you’r out of touch but can you tell me apart from the war? can you tell me apart from the war on us?
10.
No Slogan 04:52
you stepped through the door with your foot in your mouth honored guest at the party that you threw for yourself call off the patrons devour the host you might suffer in silence but you don’t suffer the most so I wrote a letter in pencil that I only half erased and sent with no return address to hope that futures make but there’s no golden pavement crowded streets, shaded stone your future is not calling your house is not a home please hold on to hope the sadness you feel now will go sold your soul on common sense in ignorance you manifested you can pretend this window’s a mirror step outside it’s clear - you are not alone sold your soul on common sense in your cashed out credit over confidences you can pretend this window’s a mirror step outside it’s clear - you are not alone now everyone’s got some syllables like what is or isn’t great preaching hope or change but it’s never what we make but there are real human lives here and hearts so filled with hate intolerance or indifference the difference is in the effort that it takes but wait, why should you care? as long as you can eat as long as you can get good and drunk in front of your tv cause if it’s not in your line of sight then that renders it unseen and there are only slogans in the static screaming from your screen but please hold on to hope the demons you fight now will go

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Recorded and Mixed by Our Bones
Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio
Album Art by Josh Angehr
Photography by Benjamin Durland

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released June 30, 2017

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