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anthropomorphic transfiguration

by Jack Carter & the Armory

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1.
Front St 03:22
yer stuck on the road that borders the water tryin to get back to where you got started but oh honey we've all heard the news lonely days dripping down the banks its written all over your face don't let the sun set on you and your front st view water table shallow underground theres a low bridge everybody get down floatin thru the river styx with you beelzebub buzzin in my ear speakin truths never been so clear like why is it that you got yer front st view
2.
its all a slippery slope from here the chapters written but the words are smeared and if i go what will come of this? i could stay drunk and heartbroken unless i don't let the demons in my bindings bound but its starting to chip my pages torn they don't fit in with your room before i went and abandoned it i could sing a bitter song bout how it all went wrong but all i see are your knees knockin in the breeze a million laughs and screams don't have to spook and haunt me the time you came, with your feet splashin in the rain the real things gone i don't have to hold on to the dream where you track me down now that i fell off out cloud and im just a face in the crowd manic depression is a pit i ain't gonna fall into its abyss the fire burning is not the one i lit i'm gonna clean my flume and wish i had back my muse
3.
hoverin round the puget sound nobodies ever felt so alone you sing your songs but they all come out wrong but nobody would even know the same gettin lost in the ether and im buried in the past cause it all happened so fast and i was never so quick to react theres nobody there to try and change your mind no andy friedman i don't do it for the thanks i get i do it cause im leavin no matter which way the coin is flipped but hey look at me! im just an orphaned, widowed, refugee won't you come by sometime and please say hello blah blah blah you've got nothin to say but you keep speakin anyway i've got nothin to do but i do that everyday but don't you think for a minute that you've got something on me
4.
Untitled 04:52
the end was clear, theres nothin under my feet i've got to pull myself together oh lord, i called out to you but only when i thought i was slippin off that mountain now i can't seem to remember your name, no no remember the time you closed up my eyes so cold it happens at the speed of light overnight oh woe is me, cause i can't seem to keep all of my papers in my pockets lest i forget, i will never ever get over it you're just the daughter of a sad and lonely man who can't seem to remember your face, no no your fingertips have grown old you've got eyes that hide all the coal inside it happens at the speed of light overnight come to me, let me know what has the time it let ya know what seeds have you sown in your garden alone a postcard or two i've yet to send you all of the stamps i can't afford they'll come flocking to your door one of these days the wave that lifts my body high breaks my bones with each coming tide now i lay basking in the moons demise im chewing on meat and im shaking my fist to the sky now im back off my feet they send the soldiers into rescue me why won't the electric current in my brain convey what i need them to say the long lost art of going off the grid i just don't understand their game keep your friends close, but keep your ashtrays closer
5.
seven 03:16
slingin slingshots in the afternoon seven peaches growin in my shoes vines growing up the side of my house i'll fly very slowly i'll sing very lowly i will know you by name carving on the inside of a pine box seven empty sidewalks on my block im draggin my feet just to feel a spark i swear to god that im a lightning rod i will know you by name when i open up my box your face will shine seven levels down are left to climb im already washed up and past my prime im all holed up inside a broken down pick up truck i will know you by name voices in my ears from beyond seven languages are yet to be brought im under the wooden floor peeking thru a knot im fine under here nothing to poison, nothing to fear i will know you by name tesla coil on top of the world seven bolts are gettin destroyed im charging up my parachute to destroy i'll slam into the ground thomas edison would be proud i can't remember your name
6.
Kitchen Sink 04:30
i don't think i should apologize just cause you can see all the pain in my eyes im like this and your like that but i don't even think thats a matter of fact i am young and that gets old i just long for the cold i could blame this city i could blame this whole thing on the lack of the stars so many people drivin so many cars but its nothin or nobodies fault but my own that the little dove loan has flown away to another home inside of an olive tree where she builds her nest out of bones and when she sings she makes the moon corrode i like to think the missing link lies within my kitchen sing with each drippity drop that goes down my drain it adds another wrinkle to my brain i could blame this city for what its done to me like i could blame the oceans for seeing things i cannot see but its nothin or nobodies fault but my own that the sun kissed scaly skin of that queen cobra snake is getting thin, while mine grows thicker and my liver gets sicker i don't want to miss her anymore i don't know what im doin here i don't know what i came looking for
7.
i'm goin to colorado i got my boots laced up nothin left on my floor when i reach that mile marker in the sky im gonna reach up high and grab the part of me i was too stoned to see im givin a speech at the utah state fair i's told there'd be two or three good mormon families there and when they hear the words i speak all they will do is tap their feet for you're inconsequential when following a dancing russian bear but i'll sing and shout and let it all out ill tell the tale all about how i left that girl way down south i left my love in georgia with my home i know some nights she won't be sleepin there alone and all the lovers that she meets they'll get stuck between my teeth for their names will be written on my walls so im going to montana in the fall i believe ill be the owner of some rusty throne but when that big sky lays its hands on me that cosmic energy's gonna set me free with its knowledge of this ancient misery

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recorded at On Pop of the World Studios by the one and only Randy Seals.

cover art by chadd myers

all songs written by Jack Carter

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released September 28, 2012

in the studio:
jack carter
harrison barrow
randy seals
gary eddy
j. marshall owen
hawke kelley
nathan myers
lil p
matt luyk
trip costas
doug pike
kasey horton

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