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The Year I Grew My Hair Real Long

by Jim From The Moon

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1.
long ago I was born far away I will die of other certains, this is love stick a needle in my eye won't someone come and rescue me? too much talk of the economy great forests they must sometimes burn and raindrops sometimes fall on me can you just turn upside down? pardon me, my love can you just turn upside down? I need you more than light I was born to live to roam and whatever you're ever wearing is my home do you think these times are crushing us? all sharp corners veiled with foam and you look like new york when you smile and the truth depends, how heavy was his tongue? my subconscious lips are taut too young I wanna be with you for the rest of the while can you just turn upside down? pardon me, my love can you just turn upside down and face the other way? I need you more than light
2.
let down your hair, girl so I can get to know ya it's so easy now that winter is summer write down your thoughts now cause I would love to read them on a long plane-ride away from here I know the reason you're all alone I get the feeling you're just no fun you said you feel like you're the product of a rape I can't forget, no, I can't remember I'm alone here with you and I oh, B.C., V.D., A.D.H.D., I.V., A.C., I see T.V. giving candy to your kids no peace for the all alone will I learn when I'm far from home that calm is earned through this life of flesh and bone? people, all, come on! lead me short and narrow I'm the king of nothin' goin on you're the queen of gallows people, all, come on! artificial sunshine! I can't seem to stall the coming shot though, you don't hear the dead whine just a little bit of time ago I was a boy, and barely did I notice the howl of centuries of men who came before I am sad enough to drink I am full of cum and ink there is not much more to know people, all, come on! lead me short and narrow I'm the king of nothin' goin on you're the queen of gallows people, all, come on! livin' like it's all fine she has got the eyes of half her age though, you don't hear the dead whine let down your hair, girl so I can get to know ya I can't climb your new haircut I know the reason you're all alone I get the feelin' you're just no fun you said you feel like you're the product of a rape
3.
I like you more than I'd like to I like you, and you like me too I fit you just like a grave blanket but you don't mind as long as you're warm and when you're gone, I can't go on as pathetic as it sounds when I'm alone I whisper jokes you'd find funny if you were around I like you more than I'd like to I'll live with you if you'll live with me too you make me feel 22 again I make you smoke during the day and when you're gone I can't go on as pathetic as that sounds when I'm alone I whisper jokes you'd find funny if you were around and all the leaves agree they're safer in the trees though, a golden death below... and all the trees agree that summer always leaves their skeletons stark against snow... I like you more than I'd like to when we go out I only talk to you that night we drank all of that wine on your friends kitchen floor the time we got stoned in that family friend's bathtub and when you're gone I can't go on as pathetic as it sounds when I'm alone I whisper jokes you'd find funny if you were around
4.
Oh, Gravity 02:49
she kissed my neck as her fingers tore into my skin and whispered she loved me as her fingers tore into my skin afterwards she purred and told me all the bad luck she had had and I was real stoned, but it sounded like she called me dad oh, gravity you've got to loosen up don't be so serious we smiled goodbye and she told me my shirt was inside-out I mumbled that it wasn't, but what it covered was, there was no doubt she said it didn't matter, I was only going home anyway I said that's true, but knew that it wasn't as I drove home the wrong way oh, moonlight don't you look at me that way whatever you're thinking I've got much worse things to say I tried to be true, but weakness pushed the pedal to the floor I turned up the radio so I didn't have to hear me anymore when suddenly a kitten jumped in front of me and knew I was a liar I heard it's bones break, and felt her crushed between the treads of my tire oh, gravity you've got to loosen up oh, karma I cried the whole way home the whole way home
5.
you are heart-stringing me along all across your stage I've not the years for all of this as I gain and lose age I am of spider-webbing glass you, of panic king gills I found a fitting friend of sound lalala lalala lalala lalalala been in love been in trouble been in debt been in double but never have I been in such a joke obscene! and never has it ever been so clear to me been insane been insulted been inward been inside you been in paris been in handcuffs been in utero been in absentia but never have I been inclined to be indoors or to watch, with dimming eyes, a future best met on all fours and they go unnoticed and they lie and they smile and they writhe and they go unnoticed if I had a bit of soul I'd sell it all to rock and roll I'd sell it to her pennys by-the-pound I'd sell it to her if she were around and never has the timing been on all our sides and never could you taste the stench of failure in our vapid eyes and they go unnoticed and they dig and they plant and they rave and they rant unnoticed and they live in a mind full of snapped moral vines have you noticed? and you sit and you leave and they laugh and they feed unnoticed
6.
the devil's got his hand on my shoulder tellin' me he'll see me when I get a little older he says he's got a place for me where my soul will burn beneath the sea the devil's got his eyes on my baby lets me know he's been thinkin bout her lately he tells me this with the same 'ol grin that he wore when he taught poor eve to sin the devil's got his hand on my shoulder tellin' me he'll see me when I get a little older I've got news for you, my friend it'll be a cold day where you live before I reach my end
7.
lord, you are no friend of mine a waste of tears and a waste of time smiles, though! I am leaving soon and I'm not afraid to die lord, you talk too god damn much of where we'll go when the Earth is such that we can't find her other holes to force ourselves into and I'm not afraid to die take me young, for I am done tasting the devil's bitter tongue we've allowed to slither down our throats now choke with me lord, it seems you just won't quit talking loud and talking shit if best intentions lead to hell what the hell am I to do, except shake me fist at you? lord, will this life trample me? or will I have luck and money? I've tasted dirt off the devil's hooves though not enough to die not enough to die take me young, for I am done tasting the devil's bitter tongue we've allowed to slither down our throats now choke with me it took no time to memorize flight patterns in midnight skies should've left home a year ago now I don't know when I'll go take me young, for I am done tasting the devil's bitter tongue we've allowed to slither down our throats now choke with me choke with me, my love
8.
Oh, Well 05:15
you can't see me cause you've no will oh, well I can't see you cause you won't answer my calls oh, well we can't relate cause one time on acid I saw hell you said I've never come back I said oh, well you can pretend you didn't turn into your mom I can pretend all your chances are gone your birthday came and went I didn't call cause I had nothing nice to say instead I got real drunk, but not for you see, I was gonna do that anyway now we only talk when we are loose or when you've smoked yourself scared yes, I say, I'm still your friend I am your friend pretend you can admit you get turned on when I get mad I will admit sometimes I sound like my dad my hell would be of mirrors and idle years spent dry in this body of water in a year or two we won't remember what we saw in us at all we'll get together for a drink, we'll chew the fat I'll make a joke that'll make you laugh then we'll get all fuzzy in your car then we'll go and take things far too far my hell would be of mirrors and idle years spent stagnant in this body of water spent rotting in this town
9.
Aeroplane 03:27
open eyes for something new feeling green and slightly blue no one's calls are getting through better yet, just leave me where I stand how often I have lighters how rarely they are mine a pointless observation oh, well, that's fine just leave me where I stand and in time you took his name which ain't too cool but you ain't to blame cause I was off on an aeroplane to get down I'm alive, she cried a thousand times tangled up, I must unwind can I write without this rhyme? another time just leave me where I stand and in time you took his name which ain't too cool but you ain't to blame cause I was off on an aeroplane to get down you leave me all of the time when I wake up when I wake up old and in time you took his name which ain't too cool but you ain't to blame cause I was off on an aeroplane to get down, to get down, to get down...
10.
every night she comes home to her baby boy she's 22 and she smiles wine to unwind every night I come home to the same smoke-search for something new and I sigh wine to unwind everytime I'm feelin low she calls me up, cause she's feelin low and we laugh, cause there's not much else to do now and then, when things are red I drink these words one time said and they dance, thick as blood down my tongue wine to unwind one of these days, when things aren't so gray I'll leave this room and I'll face the day but for now... wine to unwind
11.
you call on me when I'm fast asleep truth be a love that I can not ignore truth be a love that I can not ignore you were poison and I, a fool to think I could dilute you and be fine for a time nothing complicates the future like a complicated past days tied to days tied to days disappear you just sit there waiting waiting away this would work if we were young, and I was near, and you told truths this would work if now was then, or you were home, or if I was new call on me truth be a love that I can not ignore call on me when I'm wide asleep you said that you couldn't take anymore your blood was upset your bones tired and sore as the night yawned, you called me slightly drunk and drenched you told me to come kiss you just to drive halfway but then he called, and she did cry and in silence I did hold do you know she never came back?? but atoms of me are still waiting this would work if we were young, and I was near, and you told truths this would work if now was then, or you were home, or if I was new call on me truth be a love that I can not ignore call on me when I'm wide asleep you said that you couldn't take anymore your bones were upset your blood tired and sore from the weight of wide eyes and the feeling when you know something is lost what can I say about the weather? it has a way of falling down
12.
New Years 03:50
we welcome the new year in the dead winter cold we celebrate with friends friends new and old we wear silly hats, and we blow silly horns we check each other's sides for last years thorns oh, will this be my year? no, this will be my year drunken resolutions of what to do and what to not to stop smoking cigarettes and to quit buying pot to keep the whiskey closed, and maybe just stick to the beer and if you haven't the will, well there's always next year oh, will this be my year? no, this will be my year through all of the pain with it's endless refrain and the way that she looked when she said things just weren't the same no, this will be my year the old years are over it's time to go to sleep there are holes in your soul to sew and there are promises to try and keep before we're dead and gone do you think you'll ever see that every passing moment is the youngest that you'll ever be? oh, will this be my year? no, this will be my year through all of the pain with it's endless refrain and the way that she looked when she said things just weren't the same no, this will be my year

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On this album, Jim delivers Acoustic/Folk/Rock with Pop tendencies, which has critics saying..."Phenomenal" "An aggressive, heartsick busker, possibly with punk rock roots..." "No BS lyrical style…not one ounce of wanker about him…extremely genuine...disarmingly simple stories with no corny catch lines or predictable riffage"

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released September 16, 2009

Recorded in West Orange, New Jersey in 2009.

Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Piano & Vocals: Jim from the Moon
Bass, Piano, Electric Guitar, Harmonica & Drums: Sam Lehmert
Drums & Percussion: Mike Neglia

Engineer: Sam Lehmert

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Jim From The Moon Los Angeles, California

At times Jim from the Moon plays acoustic tunes about girls, the devil, and similar distractions. They flow in the vein of Loudon Wainwright III and Neil Young, sung with a voice soaked in years of Irish storytelling. Other times he expels far-out electric rock that is primal and space-ward, with heavy, psychedelic sounds. Both sides are focused, catchy, and ready to be eaten by your ears... ... more

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