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Midnight in Az
02:24
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Twenty years living in sin.
Three trying to get born again
and six months beneath the crushing weight
of a lover.
Getting free wasn't supposed to be easy
but once you got through you were supposed to be free
You've been locked in tight for as long as I've known you.
In a motel in Arizona.
You won't take their medicine
because what you've got is more effective.
Oh to be lost in California.
You crack a window and a door slams somehow
someone's saying goodnight to your baby now
and its been getting darker everyday since I've known you.
Now its midnight in Arizona.
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2. |
Yours Truly
02:48
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Let me be alone again
I think I could feel better then
and if dark thoughts start creeping in
I'll find a more productive use for them
and I'll hold on until the morning starts
and love even the broken parts
and if holding on gets too hard
then I'll just let go.
Dear So and So,
I want you to know:
I'm gonna be fine after a night out.
I'm gonna be fine after blowing off steam.
I'm gonna be fine.
Yours truly,
Let me be alone again
I think I could feel better then
and if dark thoughts start creeping in
I'll find a more productive use for them
and I'll hold on until the morning starts
and love even the broken parts
and if holding on gets too hard
then I'll just let go.
Dear So and So,
I want you to know:
I'm gonna be fine after fresh air.
I'm gonna be fine after a few weeks off work.
I'm gonna be fine.
Yours truly,
I'm gonna be fine after talking.
I'm gonna be fine after medicine.
I'm gonna be fine after they cure me.
I'm gonna be fine don't worry.
I'm gonna be fine if it kills me.
I'm gonna be fine.
Yours truly,
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3. |
Start Living Right
02:55
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We are broken
beyond what can be fixed.
We are going nowhere and
for some reason we're kinda
proud of it.
Paying cheap rent on time
for a house way too close to the track.
Getting bored and lonely
over the deafening and incessant
click clack click clack
click clack
We've got pretentious books and
rare records but
we watch too much TV
I keep saying how we're doomed forever
and we're both starting to believe me.
But if we make out of here alive,
I'm gonna start living right.
If we make it out of this town alive,
I'm gonna start living right.
There is a world outside my window.
I can tell that it exists.
I see it moving, hear it laughing,
but I want no part of it.
So I stay inside my bedroom
to make sure that I still feel like shit.
While you're downstairs breaking glasses,
falling asleep on the couch.
Guaranteed mutual distruction.
Both looking for something bigger.
We are broken.
We are broken.
We are going nowhere.
We are broken.
We are broken.
We are going nowhere.
We are broken.
We are broken.
We are going nowhere.
So let's get high and watch TV
and when we make it out of here alive,
that's when we'll start living right.
If we make it out of this town alive,
I'm gonna start living right.
I'm gonna start living right.
I'm gonna start living righ.
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4. |
Convenient Company
03:37
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Muted television
22nd floor
wanted someone else's love
settle for yours
you settled for mine
usually it works alright
noone's lonely
long night
sometimes
sometimes its a long night
Gentle routine kisses
convenient company
wanted someone else
settle for me
I settle for you
both know it's true
noone's lonely
long night
sometimes
sometimes its a long night
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5. |
Visiting Hours
04:13
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If I die in Sun Country
make sure that they don't bury me
here comes the darkness
the sad part of my story
I was young and Jesus felt like a friend
who knew I had to screw up
and would let me start again
now he feels more like a friend
who keeps showing up to our parties
and we don't invite him in
lately I've been feeling unqualified
to talk about my old friends
I've been wondering what there up to lately
but the phone's not ringing
I am at Sun Country just waiting
I should be happy with my station
but I'm too focused on complaining
because the phone's not ringing
the phone's not ringing
Ideation's not intent
no its just generally thinking about it
I was daydreaming sins I'd never commit
while everyone graduated without me
so I'm staring silently in the void
and I'm focusing on my breathing
but I'm still getting annoyed
I've been lost I've been found
I've been found I've been lost
now no one's looking for me anymore
lately I've been worried
that no one's looking for me anymore
they all found love in shared apartments
and forgot what they were searching for
forgot why they were searching
I am at Sun Country
I am deeply lost in thought
I should be content with what I've got
but I'm not
because the phone's not ringing
the phone's not ringing
the phone's not ringing...
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6. |
Sleep it Off
02:45
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when it's feeling so bad
you know it won't get better
when the storm rolls in and
you know that it will stay dark forever
when the one's you love
feel like the one's you don't
when the things that will make it better
become bad habits that won't
sleep it off
sleep it off
sleep it off
sleep it off
when the music fades
and you're left with quiet
when the door is shut and locked
and its just you inside it
when the songs you love
sound like one's you don't
when the words that will bring you comfort
form into choruses that won't
sleep it off
sleep it off
sleep it off
sleep it off
when it's a part of you
you can't get beyond it
the big black lonesome comes
and you're perseverating on it
When the one's who visit
turn into one's who don't
when the places that will take you
tell you to turn around and go back home
sleep it off
sleep it off
sleep it off
sleep it off
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7. |
Idler's Curse
05:23
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in the shadows of tall buildings
in Washington Square
you could sit here forever
as far as anyone cares
drinking caffeine too late
you'll never fall asleep
not that that's a bad thing
you feel like a pistol
that's never been shot
so potentially dangerous but
you're probably not
you're leaving the cafe
but you're not going home
and you're never in any big hurry
you get so bent out of shape about love
you get so bent out of shape about love
you get
so bent
out of shape about nothing
sometimes you get lonely
and sometimes you don't
you could call an old friend but
you know that you won't
and they won't call you either
so nobody talks
and for some reason
that makes you happy
then you feel bad again
then you feel worse
end up back where you started
the idler's curse
the shadows getting longer
across Washington Square
can stretch out forever
as far as you care
you get so bent out of shape about nothing
you get so bent out of shape about nothing
you get
so bent
out of shape about love
you get so bent out of shape about love
you get so bent out of shape about love
you get
so bent
out of shape about nothing
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8. |
With You
03:28
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if I stay here long enough
I'll become part of this place
and when people think of Arizona
they'll think of me
if I stay here long enough
I'll start to blend in with the scenery
and when people drive through Arizona
they'll look at me
I'm a part of my surroundings
blended with the place where they raised me
I am my parent's love
and my family's flaws
in some kind of twisted harmony
and so I gravitate towards the deepest corner
of the room that the most people are in
and keep trying to make everything darker
and hoping that it will be bright again
I see the fruit of all my burden
unfinished paintings in a pile
portraits of everyone
I've ever convinced to love me
getting distant
while I try to make her smile
so I just keep on painting
in these moments before dusk
I start wondering what will happen
if I stay here long enough
with you....
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9. |
Dear So and So
03:31
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despite the worst in me and the worst in you
the things that we're ashamed we do
the struggle we put each other through
I still believe your aim was true
and hope you think that of me too
despite the worst in you and the worst in me
the thing's that we're afraid we'll be
despite our steady strides towards misery
I still think you did some good for me
and hope you feel similarly
I wish I may I wish I might
get some decent sleep tonight
lock the door turn out the light
the phone's not gonna ring tonight
the phone's not gonna ring tonight
I wish I might I wish I may
I wish that all bad feelings would go away
but here we are extended stay
the phone's not gonna ring today
the phone's not gonna ring today
despite the best in you and the best in me
despite 30 days in Sun Country
I'm leveled out but not happy
the way that it is going to be
because you're still you and I'm still me
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