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everything feels bad all at once (2018 remaster)

by The Human Fly

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1.
plague 02:32
I don’t feel quite like myself shed skin drying on a rusty shelf shadows thicken by the lonely tracks I can’t go back, I can never go back everything was perfect waiting for the servant now soul sucking tongues shake tragedy that strikes makes a human fly blade of grass with the color dripped out my lips give way and my temper shouts claws make nice redirect my mind i won’t be round here for some time
2.
tiger 03:24
holiday a feeling that you took away something lying in its place tiger with its stripes stripped and frayed it’s starting over every sea is parting over makes the way to four-leaf clover fields of grey it’s my lucky day lately i think I’m going crazy
3.
moth 03:06
Nothing’s gonna be kept sacred If you give it up, then you should fake it Then somebody wins And you shimmer, you got thinner, or it might just be the cloth Well, I’d love to be a butterfly, but I was just a moth I eat away at all your clothing I hang out on your wall self-loathing I won’t bother you There’s a serious request at hand, you’re trying not to laugh And it seems like good things go away, but bad times never pass Everything grows then goes out the window Lay me to rest right under your pillow You don’t have to hold a service, everything is perfect as is What’s left to say?
4.
there’s a fine, fine line between being mental and all right I’ll take what’s yours, you take what’s mine take what’s mine there’s a fine, fine line between staying clean and being grime some dirty thoughts are on my mind on my mind nobody worry I’m not insane swear to god, I was just born this way. Mommy never told me why I was feeling lonely, I was feeling all the time
5.
severed hed 02:05
everything is skin and bones don't make me change my voice into a different tone everything is AOK i hate you but i'll like you if you feel that way clouds rolling in sunny days are never ways to begin guillotine on my mind i get my head cut off every time everything is skin and bones don't make me change my voice into a different tone everything is going fine but i like to make decisions then I change my mind
6.
lungs 02:56
everything goes gets flushed down the drain but all things that grow come back in the rain in an instant, ton of bricks hit in the face and I rebuilt all the houses I misplaced they’re wonderful tied silver strings and campgrounds at dawn these are the things I’ll take when you’re gone soon you will leave and I’ll understand nice to have seen a crazier man
7.
Boiling Like the kettle rings Like the devil thinks I can see it in your eyes Bodily Intent of injury No authority Approves in the skies Angry baptisms of blood Your name was lost in the flood She can’t recall a thing She’s naked and she’s scared You put the knife away It’s not your cross to bear Hey, raise and treat me right I think I’ll check out for the night
8.
ugly stain on a beautiful plain, I was left to fight all the ghosts that I miss the most will haunt the streets at night dust takes in faces, all suffering adorned with gold and shimmering it must die. money burns, ashes kept in an urn the thread that ties will thin you ignored, hung around and looked bored in temples I stood in and I’ll drive back home when you have learned but when I get nothing in return it must die.
9.
bridge 02:30
so enticing, leaky faucet couple phone calls, one or two voicemails. understand me, now I’m begging don’t you get it, fuck, I’m unhappy. Jesus was the only cure the remedy for years unsure of what I am staring into blackest void concrete visions all destroyed body imprint amber the last color before the night caves in disintegration of a patience wearing thin await a kid to reawaken all you knew the boundary’ s here. I can’t push through.
10.
Heaven sent, I’m afraid Tying up a mess in a braid, Better shaving it off Heaven sent, I’m confused Even when I’m winning I lose I was losing it all Habits are forming, they don’t make a sound Running like a chicken with its head on the ground My shadow creeps on my skin, it sinks in, it surrounds Me and takes my brain thrown away Heaven sent, I’m afraid Tying up a mess in a braid, Better shaving it off
11.
how many times can you cave me in before I make a go at your medicine? what does it take ‘till I feel enslaved? swallow with water, makes me behave my primitive ways how many times will you check on me before they’re gonna give me a lobotomy? what does it take to inject my veins crawling up my body, redirect my brain
12.
marlboro man 02:54
cope pains hang like a shadow hope light pours in the window hold your vocal chords and tongue I’ll be singing what you sung cope pains hang like a noose does hope chase it like a goose does hold your vocal chords and tongue I’ll be singing what you sung riding into the sun, dispose of everyone breathe in the toxic air, nobody really cares I’ll be breaking rules, mistakes and ridicule Nothing will matter now, it all works out somehow.
13.
ADHD 03:06
brains spilling on the floor bleeding the blind aren’t seeing, but they’re leading somebody get that man a doctor saying some words that have no meaning dog in a pound that begs for pleasing I only want you to be happy hey, what did you say? life is a mess that I’m not cleaning I’m giving you less than I’m receiving somebody get that man a medic I love you, I don’t, my heart is fleeting I only believe the things I’m reading I only want you to be happy
14.
maybe tonight, you’ll be in my dreams pale but alive and I know there’s a secret locked up inside there’s got to be. Holy ghost, I see Things won’t ever be The way I want them to be. I’m not sad, I’m just trying to cry I will pour you out with my tears. graveyards filled up with bodies, lives all forgotten over the years. You are dead to me now. That’s okay, somewhere, somehow.
15.
16.
Hold me to the ground Tie your ropes around the trunks of all the trees Make a mass of broken branches and their leaves Burn the whole thing down Then prove who missed me Find the lips that kissed me Trick the thing that tricks me Demons be scorned now Reasons be formed now I’ll be reborn now

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Originally released 2012
Re-mastered and re-released 2018
All songs written and recorded by Robert Mathis
Re-mastered by Heather Jones

Sample from Track 15 from 'Our Town', produced and released by PBS Television Networks

original note:
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this record means whatever you want it to mean.
the result of nine months' work and experience,
recorded on a laptop from october 2011-may 2012
listen straight through.
post it for free wherever you want.

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released May 31, 2012

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5-piece making eclectic alt-folk hailing from Philadelphia and New York. Powered by friendship.

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