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Novelty

by Kitsch

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Inaudible 03:53
Everybody's talking way too loud Like we're all trying to drown something out Some inaudible tone More like a siren song That lifts you up and leads you nowhere But I swear I can hear what's being said... To give up To forget To regret To fuck up To regress To tear down To bleed out To lie, to lie, to lie To lie, to lie To lie to everyone Especially ourselves I know that I'm doomed I stopped looking For my reflection I stopped paying attention When I speak my truth. And I've got some crazy Ideas for this world If they'd only let me in But for now I guess I'll just... Give up And I'll forget I'm full of regret And I keep on fucking up Because I've regressed So I'm going to tear down Might as well bleed out Oh to lie, to lie, to lie To lie, to lie, to lie Til everything is the same Til everyone understands Til the truth resembles sin Til the whole thing just explodes And we can all Finally go home
3.
Wind the clocks back At least 3 billion years, You won't believe the sounds That swim through your ears Dark hearts moving through an ocean Bluer than your irises; waters richer than honey High moon tide, some invisible movement The Earth is a morsel made for future fishnets The stars are like sea-foam on a celestial current Nature molds us in odd shapes So we just flow with the sequence People used to stop and wonder: What does it all mean Well with everything that I've seen I say who gives a shit what's out there Everything is eventual We're all caught in a sea-change But we're resilient as plant-life Amidst a wakeful rage That knocks you down canyons As life emerges from deep time
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Cocktease 02:48
You're not so good for me You're not so good for me You're not so good for me I can't talk right You're not so good for me You're not so good for me You're not so good for me I can't think straight You're not so good to me You're not so good to me You're not so good to me I cry all night You're teasing Cock-teasing You're teasing You're not so good for me You're not so good for me You're not so good for me I can't get right You're not the one for me You're not the one for me You're not the one for me Nothing makes sense You're teasing Cock-teasing You're teasing...
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I was born a complication Interrupted the doctor's winter break Since then I've been thinking Of all the time that I waste And I've got me a good friend She says "You don't learn nothing from the truth" You just keep on pretending that that's A home you go back to What a sad, short life-line But if only my dreams could count As some kind of proof that I did all that I could I've been really good at living in a suitcase And out of my head I was such a lonely child I was such a lonely child Now I'm cold, selfish and sterile You learn to turn your back just Like this world is going to do And yes it's a real shitty feeling But if by cheating I could make it too You're damn right I'd take my chances too Got one lead foot held-fast in the grave And the other one's heel is stuck Spinning in the same damn place Got one lead food held-fast in the grave And the other one's turned green Guess we're going to have to amputate I've got no energy left for to reminisce So my memory's all muddled Can't tell my sorrows from my bliss I wish sometimes I'd perfectly align With the daily horoscopes Which I read from time to time Really think I should just shut up And let all of life's simple things Just smooth my rough edges out There's not enough alcohol In the world to manage this This feverish head-trap of consciousness And the sparrow caught in the undercurrent cries: "There's gotta be something better than this!" Open my eyes Got to live just Long enough to make One more to-do list This time I swear This time I swear I swear I swear I'll get through this
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One way out If I were bird I could flight it You're in love with this sound But you don't really (hear it) I'm poised at the edge The ledge of a balcony Looking down at all That I see around me Look at all those little people Placated with their busy lives Don't bother me with details it's just Not enough hellos Far too many goodbyes Oh morning star You're the only one Who knows me And oh lover moon You're always too far away I'm slipping into Something uncomfortable And this is one Mistake I can't undo The veil of my insecurities I'm so tired of fighting And I swear I'll never win I am so tired of fighting And I swear I'll never win I'll never win
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R U Taken? 04:34
Trust me love You are the exception Everything you do is all right Everything is golden You are the sound ringing in my ears Causing me to bleed out You are everything that is alive In a world that's forgotten what that means This world can be so unforgiving But I try and you try and we try You gave me something to believe in And I really need to know now Are you taken? Are you taken? Yes I really need to know now Are you taken? Are you taken? I really need to know now Trust my love Don't shy from my affection You are all that I see now You are my only purpose This time will be different I know This time I can feel it Put your little hand into mine We'll run away... This world can be so unforgiving But you try and I try and we try You gave me something to believe in And I really need to know now Are you taken? Are you taken? And I really need to know now Are you taken? Are you taken? And I really need to know now...
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Reproach 07:25
Father, Son and Holy Ghost I am a most offending host Laced with irony and spite I won't lay down With your cross tonight Tell me what is it like to always do right No matter what you say Tell me what is it like to never do wrong No matter how many you kill Or who kill for you And I do And you, you tell me I'm a liar For things I'd never say And you, you call out sinner Damn me for what I'd never do How can I abide when I'm at your window At your feet I'm there in my bed You were there in my head How can I abide When I'm at your mercy At your beckoning And you? You don't care You don't care You don't care Not even listening Mother Mary, our perfect woman Did you have to die for that honor? Life is hard for the lowborn We're our own kind of martyr And you, you tell me I should follow But you never say where to And you, you lead me to the slaughter Like a good mother would And how can I abide When I'm at your window At your feet You tell me stand But there's nothing underneath How can I abide when I'm at your mercy Hand of fate I'm clenching your dress But I'm caught in your necklace Ha-hallelujah Ha-hallelujah Ha-hallelujah Ha-hallelujah And how can I abide When I'm at your mercy At your beckoning And you're never there You were never there And how can I comply With divinity I'm just Emily I ain't nobody's saint I ain't nobody
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Tempest 04:00
Looking for another way out Ain't gotta ticket Never had money Just need somewhere to lay my head down I'm growing weary But everybody tells me Calm down, you've got a lot of life to live But everybody's fucking crazy And I'm the only sane one left So it's one more nail in my coffin It's me standing here And I'm waiting for something Tried to tie myself down to someone Who wouldn't change with the weather But I find myself in a hurricane I'm really good at this game And oh the wind how it howls And you are the reason that I'm going So you're one more nail in my coffin It's you standing here And you're waiting for something to come Maybe I'm just being neurotic I know it's a feature Maybe I'm just over-thinking our Collectively impending future Because everybody seems so happy Though we're not allowed to live our own lives Am I the only one who's worried That someday we're all going to die So that's one more nail in my coffin It's us standing here And we're all waiting for something But it never comes No it never comes It never comes No it never comes

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Recorded 2015 in Waterloo, IA

Dedicated to Diane Mollman and Timothy Hanten

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released April 15, 2016

Recorded by R. Scott at OM Recording
Mixed/Mastered at JMoney Productions
All songs written by Otis except "Cocktease" written by Otis,
Dexter and Sommer Darland.
All songs written and performed by Emily Otis except where noted.
All bass parts written and performed by Jonny Dexter.
All drum parts conceived and performed by Michael Bowman except where noted.

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Kitsch Cedar Falls, Iowa

Kitsch is Emily Otis, Donny Halbmaier,

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