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1.
I am a jealous lover I cannot stand their face I’ll pace the floor for hours And I’ll curse your name I am a patient brother I’m not a patient son I disregard my father Mom says I’m always gone The Lord is a jealous lover Oh, how she hates my ways She’ll pace the floor for hours But to her it feels like days I guess it’s true Love waits
2.
Sensation 04:24
It's a sensation It's coming out your eyes again How'd you let it get like this An anchor for your sinking chest No one wins Your hands are tied, your head it spins And every life you've ever lived in former bliss Comes back to make you sick I don't know which is worse The fact that you're gone or the fact that it hurts And I've been trying to keep you down But the way you resurface makes the loveliest sound So in the past you'll stay Assuming a familiar shape Now happiness is just a way to hide your shame It's just a face you've learned to fake And it's not okay when anger keeps the tears at bay When forgiveness is met half way by guilt and blame And when apologies are delayed
3.
Angels 05:00
You wear your hurtful past On your chest like a badge It’s all the right you need To act out on your greed So you let your body go To whomever you please Claiming you are free From all my tyranny And I understand you’re numb And you barely give a fuck But hear me out this once He does not want your love Because he doesn’t know your name And he does not share your pain And he could not care less To him you are just flesh So disregard all of this And sink into another kiss Another drunken grapple in the dark And don’t take this as a judgement Please take it and consider it Does that feel like what you were made for
4.
Solace 03:14
Solace, I fear the man I might become Your hypocrite, your hired gun I count my demons one by one And you chase me as I run I've seen your face in every bar And all those late nights in her car I heard god meets you where you are Not just an apathetic hand out in the stars Solace, we are a broken family At least we have sincerity Let us rejoice and not deceive There is hope out there for you Like there's hope out there for me Solace, please send a crash to wake me up The sound of your insistent drum I need to know that you're enough I am a skeptic and a son If you are bigger than belief If you are more than eyes can see Then show me how I am to be And from the roots I'll learn to breath Cut me like a sword, cut me like a sword I wanna show off my battle scars Who I was before, who I was before I'll drown him in an ocean of my father's blood
5.
Mercy 04:33
Today I woke to find myself an orchestra with broken bells And the sounds I made, they could have come from hell Because hell is a place that I found inside myself, not underground And it all comes out when I open my mouth Because I've held notes with a chorus of thieves And I've begged for mercy on hollow knees So when I say, I'll change my ways It's a promise that I will not keep I saw heaven with my own eyes in a dream I had late last night But it slipped away with the morning's light So now I curse the rising day as she pours into my painted grave That crown of fire, she cleanses everything And the civil war has found itself brand new grounds on which to dwell My heart and mind, through space and time On the fringes of my fragile shell So impart to me everything that I do not deserve to see Please extend the vision you have given me Purge my greed And I will become the sea Despite my doubts, I will travel toward my fears and live them out And stand up to the demons that I've kept around Through ups and downs I will watch them drown In mercy's arms what I have learned Is that I don't get quite what I deserve It seems that I am measured on a curve And all I've claimed to know of love Are fruitless words from a foolish tongue It's nothing I can really speak of Because I was not there when the stars were hung No, I did not arrange the moon or the sun So who am I, what silly pride To think that I am someone
6.
Itʼs coming down hard by St. Ceciliaʼs Itʼs holy water if you can say That the chemical reactions Youʼve been causing can qualify me as a saint Cause Iʼve been feeling like a martyr for the past 2 years Iʼve been trying very hard to be brave But every time I kneel down to meet my maker The only thing I see is your face So I hope for both our sakes That things donʼt turn out this way And I apologize for what Iʼm about To say to you, to say to you But you wonʼt find another love like mine Iʼve over heard a number of conversations Of people bitching about the rain So Iʼve learned to love the storm clouds and hazy weather Cause Itʼs just another thing we canʼt change Iʼve been listening to prophets, the broken hearted Iʼve been learning something new everyday And thereʼs a lesson thatʼs been ringing for weeks in my head Donʼt ever trust a heart you canʼt break So I hope for both our sakes That we can see it this way When the water falls from the sky it does so in ways We canʼt anticipate So maybe we can learn to love the rain
7.
Wayside 03:13
When I’m not there I’m not there to you When you’re not here You are with me still So does that make me Something you could take or leave Because on the shelf It’s living hell to be On the wayside If you don’t care Then you should tell me so Because if you don’t Then I can let it go Nowadays I wonder how We got like this So far out I’m by the wayside
8.
On that river bank On the 4th and St. Patrick's Day Well I saw the truth and it shook my faith She and I were born to change Tennessee, you thief You took what I believed And you showed me things that I'd rather not see That everyone eventually must leave And as I watched the moon undress Well I heard the stars profess Some things are better left unsaid When it dies don't look back on it But out here on the road Between Georgia and Chicago I found a pardon in my soul For everything For even things unknown So in a body made of borrowed bones I am learning to forgive Cause I still have a ghost that haunts my home And she gave birth to bitterness So in the trenches of this war zone I know that someday I'll forget And I'll set fire to these borrowed bones And rid myself of selfishness
9.
Prone 02:47
I can see it now Through all the people I’ve once been And all the times that I lost it You were still by my side Like an ocean That I heard in the distance That I saw in a vision I found myself on the tides I’ll admit it That god, mostly I doubt you And there are some things about you That don’t sit well with my pride But the truth is That no matter the distance No matter how far I drifted You’ve been here the whole time And it’s true I’ve been fairly blind And it’s true We’re prone to divide And if it’s you That I’ll meet when I die Then I’m asking Open my eyes
10.
Cathedrals 10:01
I've been asleep for most of my life 
 To the things that I want, I am chained tight It's true that the punishment must fit the crime Some call this living, I'm just doing time With lungs filled with water or lungs filled with smoke We must learn to sing the words we once spoke In the midst of our seasons wearing death like a crown We must learn to walk lightly on delicate ground As the earth turns below us on an axis of time That only moves forward as we beg to rewind The tape at the end of our vaporous lives 
Will it show what we wanted or that we just learned to tell a few lies While we were alive I've been asleep for most of my life
 To the pain I have cause, I remain blind I've played the victim one too many times I have my reasons, but it still isn't right Like cathedrals built on slow sinking sand So is the life of a resentful man
 We must learn to walk backwards through our passage of time And forsake our demons and idols alike 
 Cause if your god's in a building than your god is a stone And I’m sure there are things that I’ll never know But despite how far I wander I can still hear them sing The ballad of life and of death it is ringing What is known is not for us Does not the mother guide the son With speaking up I am done Quiet my heart quiet my tongue Come speak in the silence

credits

released October 7, 2016

Personnel:
Sai Boddupalli: Guitar
Billy Centenaro: Guitar
Jesse Denaro: Drums
Jeff Kinsey: Bass
Alex Pickert: Drums
Matthew Politoski: Guitar, piano, organ, vocals
Zach Weeks: Bass
Paige Chaplin: Vocals
Avery Ballotta: Violin
Chris Gooch: Banjo
Collin Pastore: Pedal steel

Also featuring: Austin Abbott, Joe Bobula, Chris Geller, Drew Gilbert,
Tim Kmet, Olivia Laratta, Ben Lusher, Mike Nevin, Nick Surette

Written and produced by Matthew Politoski
Recorded and mixed by Billy Centenaro
Mastering and addt. recording by Zach Weeks
Addt. recording and mixing on "Prone" by Matthew Politoski
Additional engineering by Virginia Wright and Sean Duffy
Design by Zach Weeks and Matthew Politoski
Cover photo by Nick DiNatale — www.nickdinatale.com

Lyrical content in “Solace” is used with permission from Levi the Poet
All songs written by Matthew Politoski

RECORDED IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS BETWEEN THE YEARS 2014 & 2015
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