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farawayfromeveryoneyouknow

by altopalo

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1.
am i am 03:20
i used to think i’d tan my own rawhide eat leafs and termites live out some bold life eeeeeeee you see me roll strikes bumpers on both sides convictions aside i’m just unfit to survive oh love am i am i am i an embattled actor playing camo in the attic of his benefactor oh god dannit am i am i am i am i am i chased down from the branches of a dream life oh why can’t i can’t i can’t i be the bloody dagger plucked proud from the heart of a deadly attacker tell me am i am i am i just an actor chased down from the rafters of a dream life woke up in mid flight buzzing round lamp light too bright for small eyes fuck knows why losing sight of the bug in a swarm i pack to leave but you know i’ll come back to where the friction is nothing but sine waves singing on the phone oh love am i am i am i a bedraggled passer face down in the scraps of an abandoned chapter oh god dannit am i am i am i am i am i am i ripped out from the pages of a dream life oh why can’t i can’t i can’t i be the cold commander struck down in the clammer of a new disaster tell me am i am i --- am i just a stander standing by on the shoulder of a dream life ooooo if i can i'll be the banished laughter burst out from the cracks of a dream life
2.
longlife 02:19
every day, somethin a walk, get out of it a maze a road alone i see you here these old tracks, are worn down i see you in ‘em and call it patience but fuck, it’s really fear my my it’s a long life what a long time in a long life my my it’s a long sigh it’s a dull knife it’s a long life my my my my my my my my my my it’s a long climb and a long sigh what a long life my my it’s long life been a long life what a long life my my my my my mmm
3.
mud 03:45
once a day or almost every day i put my clothes away in drawers, check off a chore. muddy mind no matter how i try, and so the folding goes and goes. I’m all alone. stuck in the mud all night while the brain rain pours make all the world go dry close your eyes until it does because you're stuck in the mud hold tight while the clouds blow O make all the world go bye close your eyes until it does, it does. and the more that you fight it the more you find you’re thinkina thinkina lettina good thing let go awf efjjjf iiewl scrubbing grime ilet the dishes dry and watch the clouds align, a storm, i watch it pour, lines of rain spin down the windowpane, a little grey ballet, a show. i watch it flow. stuck in the mud don’t mind what’s the weather for make all the world run wild like you always said it does it does you're stuck in the mud don't fight what's the effort for take all the time you’d like close your eyes until it does, it does
4.
lub 02:32
well you’re gonna get married either way signs were painted but faded away so i wonder if i’ve gone too long thinking some ways back a turn was wrong far away from everyone you owe all the ways you’d ever hoped you’d ever grow the only one you ever thought you’d ever really know and i’m gonna be buried either way you can see me turn a pallid eye but i’m sure i know the way well i’m pretty sure, yeah i lie sometimes and get lost in daylight spruce trees, spruce trees maybe we should turn around yeah turn around while it’s still light still light, daylight, still light, daylight, this right, dead light, this right, this right oo ah ah oo ah maybe stop at Safeway get some Pringles and then maybe wander feeling sorry for myself but acting natural looking round for some familiar far away from home wishing you had anything but what you had imagining what life was like before your mom and dad and everything that’s ever happened since the universe began i'm sorry but i don't have any quarters
5.
honey 04:13
i wanna give you something but came up with nothing always hard for me to pick a gift when all you see is wonder all i got is bummer maybe we can try to split the diff. she's a rose in my head it grows in the sand she knows how its been a rose in mind a dose in my head it puts me to bed a rose in my lense it’s you til the end never said love and then i did never saw color then you dropped in never said love and then i did coulda said nothin but it locked in i’m terrified of nothing way more scared of something always standing still till something shifts in winter summer color see it all you love it maybe you can show me what i missed when i met you didn’t i seem nice? or was that you? i think you make me nice never said love and then i did never saw color then you dropped in never said love and then i did coulda said nothin but it locked in she's a rose in my head it grows in the sand she knows how its been a rose in mind
6.
lub ii 02:33
throw a rock in the bay watch the world ricochet into a body drag an arm on a face while you pour yourself away into a stream spoke a thought to a phrase but the wind took it and now you can’t quite remember said a lot a lot of ways but it wasn’t right and finally you’re coming clean punch me in the face leave without a trace hide out in a cave lose track of the days and everyone you know, along with everything that ever made you alive they say baby never change don’t change well maybe today i’ll dig a well, in the dirt trick cards, on the curb sew tags on tee shirts steal a tank or be a beggar bow down to a scripture sell stock, get burned take the belt from the victor fuck it all i’ll be a beggar beggar beggar begger bengger benker banker banker banker
7.
letdown 04:21
talk is hazing tower's raising you might understand if you let it down but i sit here distant all day wishin for your walls and your world folded in mine i'm miles away don't see you at all living in lines here i've been dreamin of runnin' away a break in the wall fairytale crisis i've been screamin your name your name again again do you hear? fairytale crisis i'm gonna let it down, let it down, let it down... i've wasted ages wavin’ at far-off faces what you thinkin' bout way up in the clouds? won't you let it down? scathing thoughts that slip between the stone like you're holding back a line you cast but i've grown it out and I'm growing it down i'll let you down, let you down i'm miles away don't see you at all living in lines here i've been dreamin of runnin' away a break in the wall fairytale crisis i've been screamin your name your name again again do you hear? fairytale crisis i'm gonna let it down let it down, let it down.
8.
party song 05:06
packed my shit you said you’re sorry and i wonder where i’ll be at dawn i could steal a tank and throw a party with a boozy fountain on the lawn lalalala i won’t stay at your place anymore i’m a soldier a wanted runaway on a plane to the plains of Bhutan (right now) i won’t make that mistake anymore now i’m older you can see me as a cold case with a warm resolve lalalala cold light carry in a warm place cold mouth speakin on a warm face cold mouth runnin on n on cold light streamin on n on cold turn pillow on a warm face ice cold water and a warm plate the window open all along the dream life carry on and on
9.
i’ve never swam far from this sea separator i guess i better row on row on row on row on and i’ve never been drowned by a wave made of anger seems i better hold on hold on hold on hold on i will never run away with a packed bag and a bad mood so it’s time to grow up grow on grow up grow on move up move on move up move on hold up hold on hold up hold on move on
10.
powerlines 02:42
talon balanced on a line ruffle feathers in the slime of the flume where the runoff never dries some uninhabitable lagoon gonna make myself a life in the goo window shopping powerlines searching for another point of view while your friends are flying by swirling sisters in the rolling blue man i really wanna roll in the blue fuckin terrified of time as the particles collide- a plume saying everything is fine bastard brother of a fossil fuel i’m no no better than a fossil fuel
11.
will you shut the fuck up?!
12.
nocturne 02:18
i can sleep all day but i can’t hide in the night tracing lines all wired eyed i’m alive at the wrong time too hot too stressed out oo it’s been so long in out deep breaths now mm i've come so far tried thinking funny thoughts oh but they get away away blink toss i hear em now mm this can't go on what did i what did i do so wrong i was good very good on my own until in monsters broke down the door out oo it’s been so long clamber up on a ladder forming in the stars glowing in the dark on the ceiling shadow flash in the pattern of a manticore running in an arc comin’ ‘or me rising up i am mighty i am in the clouds flyin off the top of the world ah i see it all too hot too stressed out oo it’s been so long in out deep breaths now mm i've come so far tried thinking funny thoughts oh but they get away away blink toss i hear em now mm this can't go on
13.
of shaddow 01:05
and we turned it off over and over i fucked it up back at some intersection what’s once is lost still my ocarina plays
14.
headlock 02:39
awake till daylight star ships in your eyes the big bro’s riding in a banshee when is it my turn? story of my life you’re holding up skates always on top plasticky gold i’ve been waiting i’ve been waiting all night to get a try i’mmaa shineee watch out mister up there like you wish me well no thankless bitter unfair got me pissed as hell how’s the weather up there? cause i wish you well no doncha wish me well? a whole buncha waste of nothin i’m lookin for a song you’re lookin for a headlock you say you wanna go well fuck you to the face ahhh i’m lookin for a song you’re lookin for a headlock you’re such a little shit i know you are but what am i i’m lookin for a song you’re lookin for a headlock your friends are terrible why you such a bitch ahh
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released April 24, 2020

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