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Dear World

by Ordinary Things

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1.
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history Waiting for the next life To come to you from each step you take Waiting for a lifeline But there’s no staircase and no open gates One day we’ll get what we deserve We’d talk about Marx and Engels And how far we’d come In our own square Set the chairs to our own table We’d live better than we ever could’ve then We’d be better, we’d be better We’ve been fighting for the next life Every victory makes me want it more It’s the fight of our lifetime And we won’t forget what we stand for One day we’ll get what we deserve We’d talk about Marx and Engels And how far we’d come In our own square Set the chairs to our own table We’d live better than we ever could’ve then We’d be better, we’d be better
2.
Hole 03:44
My body’s a place I’ve kept captive my whole life Except for a few moments Except for a few nights And maybe sometimes In my anorexic prime I was driven by the freedom In controlling my body my life My body’s a place No one lives in here but me From time to time invaders It’s never safe or empty And mostly I desert it As I have much bigger plans Hope was here first Before despair even began I’ve never felt this empty before Like somebody drained by body With three thousand open sores All that was left was my heart and my soul But it wasn’t enough to make me feel whole My body’s a place Those who touch it are tourists With greedy eyes they gaze my size For an unwelcome visit Burn my body when I leave it It was never really mine A tale of two cities The best and the worst of times I’ve never felt this empty before Like somebody drained by body With three thousand open sores And all that was left was my heart and my soul But it wasn’t enough to make me feel whole
3.
Hindsight 03:41
You dream the sound of alarm It's still so dark outside It's just the crack of dawn and you keep searching for the light in your life You keep telling yourself that some day you will be free from the shackles of money or at least that's what you need to believe 'Cause you're dying on the inside and you're losing control You don't do what you love You don't do what you anymore and you're starting to fear getting old You're starting to feel more and more alone with each new person that you meet And to think that when we were older Things would start to get easy But you're still working hard, juggling two jobs Making just enough to pay the rent It's so hard to get ahead when you're Constantly struggling 'Cause you're dying on the inside and you're losing control You don't do what you love You don't do what you anymore and you're starting to fear getting old and someday we'll both look back and feel nostalgic and laugh at how we overthink everything and how we've made it exactly where we wanted to be just maybe
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Dear World 03:25
A stranger asked me how I spend my time Or what I do with the moments that are mine I try to make a list, try to write it down But all I hear is a draining sound I built this for you so I don’t forget I can’t let myself fall in love again Dear world, I’m giving you my all Will you be there to catch me when I fall? Come on, come on. Just ask me. Come on, come on. Prove me wrong I'm trying to live with this decision I'm just trying to be strong I think of what we’ll do, try another list Imagining a day that we make things different There are no saviors, we’ve gotta make it out alive No dream will ever save you; we’ll save ourselves this time Come on, come on. Just ask me. Come on, come on. Prove me wrong We’re just trying to build our city We’ll make each other strong Come on, come on. Let's get going Come on, come on. We can't stay Everyone here is so lucky to be alive Every day is groundhogs day I won’t light myself on fire Just to keep you warm I won’t light the world on fire Just to watch it burn
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Defeated 03:33
I don’t want to feel defeated anymore Though I can’t ignore how hard it gets Through life regrets and challenges And how often I feel broken down I want to dream again I want to believe we can I want to feel like I did when I was young And just a bit more naïve I don’t want to feel upset anymore Though I can’t ignore, it’s not easy when You get jaded more and more every year that you age I want to be out in the street with a sign protesting the war Changing no borders, with the hope that there will be none anymore I wanna be marching on May Day with a youthful heart And a motivation that Maybe this year or maybe next year Or sometime soon we’re all gonna change the world

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released August 4, 2016

Recorded Winter 2016 by Kyle Gilbride- www.whereveraudio.com
Mastered by Kris Hayes- easyplateauproductions.com

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