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Sounds Too Loud, Lights Too Bright (2010)

by Man Without Plan

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1.
Canada Stand 01:14
I say "man down" she says "man up" neither one's an option so I guess I should just shut up I don't know what she has done to me but if I sink these hooks then maybe we'll be happy and let the bad parts drift away I have no life but demand all kinds of respect I admit I don't know what to say sounds too loud, lights too bright even when locked up at night I'm a kid myself, I can't kid myself hiding in an overcoat tongue is in my cheek and throat
2.
sitting at a table, looking at a bottle, draped over the back of a chair you don't need to be a scientist to dissect your arms trace the scars and sew me back together again before you can walk, you must crawl, but in between you will fall before you can talk, you will bawl, but please believe in it all everywhere I look is another distraction hinges are in place and the lock is not broken but my door is not always wide open airplane sandwich with phone calls for bread shades drawn, lights on
3.
the crease created in jeans when seated waiting for you to talk to me defying laws of social convention (cigarettes out, heads down, text-messaging) casually denying causality imagining many hypotheses examining plenty of hypocrises there's a chill in the wind in the air again there's a shade of the blood in our heads and a lightness to the fall of your hair then the iciness comes over me
4.
Evening Out 01:28
dark clouds rising from the ground up at the horizon there isn't any way this will turn out good I took what was prescribed, followed rules, advice and did what I should but nothing is turning out good lie awake, but there's pills to take for that kind of thing every mistake mistaken for a monumental break you can try and fake like you've broken your habit but you and I both know that you haven't
5.
this is just a test this is just pretend I simply must protest this is not the end this is such a mess but it's not revenge it is what I guessed it's all how you said I was never missed I whistle in the wind I will muster this I refuse to bend I cannot predict I will not say when I can thus attest you are all my friends there's a plus to this it doesn't have to end there's no discussing it I'm doing the best that I can
6.
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7.
I'm unsanitary, I'm in solitary I'm empthetic, I am pathetic it is and it isn't, it isn't, it isn't it did and it didn't, it didn't, it didn't I'm weakened by the weekend I worship those old warships once a worrier, now a warrior this illusion meant disillusionment once a losing bet, now a proven bet I'm individually wrapped too tight in the hideous bathroom light it was and it wasn't, it wasn't it's no thing, it's nothing achievement is relative retrieval is imperative it's progress not perfection content in my direction
8.
my head is spinning with vicious cycles there's a lump in my throat from a knuckle sandwich (not to mix metaphors) lazy language keeps making me angry too tired to finish your sentences semantic discussions, demanding concussions I'll mentally masturbate instead I'm so happy I could laugh out loud ne pas des questions, s'il vous plait suck it up and deal with it fuck it up and live with it look for the appeal in it give it up and kneel, defeated
9.
born insane, going downhill ever since or maybe it's uphill, it's hard to tell which to the top of the mountain off the chain and loose in the rain smiling open-mouthed, not feeling anything just say this is not the end yet don't make me go back inside just say you're my best friend again promise me I get to stay alive I remember even though this brain doesn't fit the shell that it came in I bow my head, lean into your shoulder
10.
people of earth! I have returned I come to share with you all the things I have learned I've been through hell walking backwards and barefoot I've come to tell, for anyone who cares to listen to my diatribe I apologize I was not there for you I was dead in a fucking life a ghost of a son of a bitch a directionless whirl of knives I will describe the machinations and the workings inside
11.
See An Enemy 01:42
my heart beats out of my chest does my best beat out the rest? the beat reaches part of me that makes the world seem empty and flat the beast doesn't eat anymore but I haven't bricked over the door I could go at any time I need to speak out of my mind or I will freak out, and goodbye I have nothing left but respect for people who handle their wrecks of lives but I'm not ready to watch you die although you seem to have prepared yourself tantalize me with your lies and prophecies they aren't anything I haven't tried to tell myself
12.
Demon Gold 02:29
rising action, repeating wisdom, defeating I have a policy of non-interference it's in my interest can't avoid it can't destroy it now I own it with a bonus can't control it better get to know it it wasn't my choice I didn't decide on it I can tell you're into it I can tell that it's got you you look so scared gonna have to remove it since you can't really use it it might seem confusing but soon you'll get it it's unfortunate, but necessary in the end you'll feel better

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Released digitally 6/1/2010, CD/LP 6/1/2011.
Recorded and mixed Winter 2008 by John Meredith and Josh Carothers, at The Mollusk, Ridgewood, Queens, NY. Mastered May 2009 by Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room, Ft. Collins, CO.

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released June 1, 2010

Barclay: vocals/gtrs
Zack Fanelli: bass/vocals
Josh Carothers: drums/vocals

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We slash the piece pop band from New York City. We have insect bites, have been attacked by demons, as greedy play was furious. If we are set on fire, at least we had conquered the day; please destroy the world. ... more

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