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Bashful Hips Vol​.​IV Featuring the Music of DarkmatterJesus

by Bashful Hips

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I fell asleep early, after listening to politicians speak of future men I dreamt of a north eastern forest, it was some kind of party Pat and Curt were there, Curt had on his old hoodie And he’d been clean like the past five years never happened Then we dispersed into the forest And I awoke around 1am, to the sounds of rain And I try to go back to sleep again Do I have a head cold? Or was that a fever dream? Or just bad allergies? And I walked, until I found a house In the basement I found a couch, I put the tv on and you came in When you came in you took the remote and turned the tv off And you crawled into that couch and we tried several different positions And like a cat you put your two paws on my chest and kissed me And then we slept for four days and felt refreshed
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Break a time frame Be alone, use mind games on yourself If you have the energy, Do it behind glass panes Smash memories, look in the mirror and ask “Who’s this?” Write poetry everyone can see, Well, have a rap sheet; get tangled up in bed sheets, Get more sleep, make dinner late, eat on paper plates I should learn to meditate, Sit on the grass, and eat more ash Stop feeling bad about the past Get your head on, move up the social ladder And I should start having relations with nuns, Fall for a girl with a bonnet Goddamn that sounds pathetic I should join a book club for ex-husbands who live in the death of divorce Have nightmares your back in court The judge she stalks you at your work Brush it off like the broken speaker in your car that you pray still works
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Well the first punch was knockout, Now I’m trying to find my shoes on the ground Recycle my art I’ll write you the best lines I’ve “Wondered where you are, I’ve hoped you’re happy, I’ve hoped those boys in your bed are just keeping the bed warm for me” But it’s just that you have so much company Loving someone or something does not make that object perfect Nor does it make up for the mistakes Or the crimes it perpetrated I’ve been asking bigger questions Go to work don’t think about dying Sneak behind the bakery steal stale bread Don’t fall in love with lovers, Because lovers are loners
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This template is a stage where the actors can improvise and create their own lines Say what they need to say, Where the actress is not an actress just a girl on stage She belts it out not proud or ashamed Just a girl who has so much to say Just someone who has so much to say Don’t ask about ugly because there is so much to say And the curtains close when the sky goes But the actors stay on stage Way after the audience leaves They dream of situations they dream they’d be in But there only dreamers My best chance will always be To be the kings court jester
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I dreamt that I found love inside of a swamp, a vacation in hell There were these two twin sisters, With fins, scaled lips and jagged teeth They held me down on the garbage heap Looks like we might lose again, well your throats dry from golden pollen Your clothes your backpack stolen Now I have my shoes on, going to walk to the beach, I’m going to find the perfect wave, Sail on it, write the perfect sonnet To make myself fall into you Well one of them she spoke a spell There feet turned back into fins And they floated out back to where they came from What a wonderful vacation, this vacation in hell
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And I saw a flower beyond the prison yard I hope the grounds keeper doesn’t mow over it When the warden won’t tell you his time It’s hard not to think about how long this sentence is And the wardens a prick and time can be a bitch So I’m going to switch my daily routine until I can’t make any sense of it Until I can’t make any sense of this And it’s hard to let go if you never had a handle on it And I just want to is chain smoke and exercise It’s obvious I don’t know whether I want to live or whether I want to die I didn’t speak for forty-eight hours; I think it may have been longer And I haven’t bumped shoulders with anyone I’d want to in months
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Well does being alone have to be so damn ugly? Do I have sit like a stray cat? And move my head towards any type of affection? When you’re lonely, People see that your heart carries infection I took a walk with my winter coat, Silhouettes of mountains, They use to carry hope and compassion; they use to guard me, Now it feels like they suffocate and trap me When emptiness rings louder, laughter should hit you harder I’ve been going through old cd’s trying to recreate history Well the weekends are the harshest I ask the boss to put me on, keep my mind off it So I have an excuse not to go out Well a woman cried and told me how the father of her son died To see a real feeling from a person I did not know changed me And I’ve alienated myself from others To see a real person with real feelings I didn't know, changed me It made me feel better for than just a second, I guess that’s what they call voyeuristic
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released October 1, 2012

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Bashful Hips Chicago, Illinois

Bashful Hips is an Avant Garde project from the mind of Ian Fellerman. Bringing his sometimes searing, sometimes hilarious but always poignant observations to bear over an entire stable of Noise Rock/Hip Hop informed Electronica, Ian's music is never stable, always changing and searching for the sound to express his feelings.
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