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JOKES

by GIFT SHOP

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1.
INHALER 03:02
hearing jokes, hearing fake japanese in the bathroom line she says, “I need a break from my break” I check the time left hand scissors making cracks in the coffee table you ask for a light while I pick dog hairs off my jeans and try to act polite then she asks if he found god and he says, “I guess” then he asks, “you come here a lot?” and she turns the other way making friends in the parking lot with some kind of writer says he’s working on a book about a taxidermist who kills his wife then I ask who he reads he says, “you probably wouldn’t know 'em” then I ask if there’s any hope for me and he turns and says, “I don’t know much about will except that it’s easier to do something else and what looks good from the view isn’t always what looks good on yourself”
2.
AT OWL 02:49
plastic clock hung on the wall tells me it’s time to rock & roll but all the voices in my head tell me it’s time to just be quiet so I am hiding from fluorescents I'm eating with my eyes closed fending conversation with I-don’t-knows and incoherent groaning bandaid stuck against the tile makes it near impossible to fake a smile as the waitress walks by it mocks my very being and I am sweating through my t-shirt can you see me through the ether? I don’t care or maybe I take offense enlightenment is a gateway to condescension to flipping off your friends and you say, “hey, you know, I mean no disrespect but I’m better now can you at least understand that?” and she says, “get used to playing in the dirt because no one pays for happy if they can pay to watch you squirm” plastic clock hung on the wall tells me it’s time to rock & roll but all the voices in my head say, “you have to think about your future”
3.
FLAT 03:39
we don’t talk when I drive my car except when we play twenty questions or argue about something stupid like wrestling gimmicks like our parents’ accents like how I am incapable of taking a compliment and then I turn on the radio and it’s a sprite commercial but how fun would it be to tell a funny story where something falls out of the sky or it could be about anything else you can say anything you’d like my filter won’t stop filtering and I will not watch the new star wars I will go to bed at a reasonable hour and when the noise comes through my walls and says I made the wrong decision I won’t mind if you borrow my speakers just please don’t make me pay to use your printer because five cents a page adds up after a while and I have to print my thesis so I can scratch it all up and then print it all over again and again and again and again I don’t sleep because I have TV and you are my friend and you entertain me but sometimes we sit and it gets real quiet like we aren’t comfortable enough for comfortable silence I don’t get the reference you don’t like my jokes I don’t know if you had any pets growing up I don’t know why you don’t like your home you say it’s only weird when I bring it up and I don’t know but if you’re right I guess this takes care of that
4.
she says straight I turn left above my head I can see her dancing, the cardboard lady with marilyn’s face she says straight I turn left and immediately almost kill a woman in a light blue civic but she drives on and I know you’ll probably be angry at me for most of the day but I know I probably won’t even remember it anyways and the kids say, “we’ll keep to keeping faith in the medicine” I guess until then, we’ll wait
5.
II 05:47
collapsing water bottles to save space talking as little as possible to save face oh, ma, why should I make my bed just to mess it up later anyways? when in doubt, I agree when embarrassed, I forget when I’m lost, I listen to my gut and do the opposite of what it says says he hates himself because he’s got too many shirts like, “what kind of psycho narcissist keeps this many shirts? I don’t even wear half in fact, I probably only wear four or five” when we’re together you are the only thing that matters when we’re apart this seems slightly less attractive that looks meaner than intended written down just supposed to be a comment on perspective but it’s not what I say it’s more of how I say it a platitude whose truth I should be more okay with or I could pull all my teeth out I could run the other way - I can stay up as late as I want I can unlock all of the doors and make friends with the neighbors I can give all my money to the man in the street with a cardboard sign that says, “have a nice weekend” and maybe I’ll find some sleep or maybe I’m a sucker and you are right about everything - hearing jokes, hearing fake japanese trying to justify why I don’t like the beach and how I can be this bad for you and you can still be this good to me something’s burning in the backyard but out on the lawn we try and act cool and when we speak it sounds like slogans and when you look you see that everybody’s wearing the same hats and jackets beg for detachment make the same ten references over and over and I just want to be vulnerable again and you are watching me watching you are watching me watching you

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released December 28, 2016

drums tracked by Chris LaRocque & Steve Aliperta
@ Kennedy Studios
everything else tracked by Josh & Billy @ Fran's
mixed by Josh & Billy
mastered by Chris

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