Astro Alloy - Eighteen

Available for streaming on Bandcamp, Spotify, et al.

(leave me alone)

What's Going On?

congratulations! you found the secret track!
currently, the way to listen to secret track is to buy the album on Bandcamp.

Lyrics

curl in a ball & stare at the wall
you thought you were angry 'til now
you've gone out of touch & your friends don't talk much
you're scared you're to blame for it all

  but you're only human
  don't you hate how that always works?
  a friend comes to help you but you're too confused
  so you yell and you make it worse
  so you make an attempt and you say to your friend

    "leave me alone for some time"
    (in a few hours i'll be fine)

you're walking around & you talk to the ground
you lie and you say you feel better
it's so sad to see, your clenched fists disagree
cuz they say you're more angry than ever

  your brain won't shut up
  and you wish you were born an insect
  cuz then you just fly, in a few days you die
  and right now that sounds like that's perfect
  so you say to your head, in a desperate attempt

    "leave me alone for some time"
    (in a few hours i'll be fine)

Song Notes

i sure do love neutral milk hotel

if this was the 90s and i was releasing this album on compact disc
this would be a hidden track
alas no such thing exists in the year of our lord 2023
kids these days don't know about pregaps

Recording Notes

i love the sound of a fucked up cassette tape
(The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2)
we used the SketchCassette II AAX plugin
  to make an otherwise normal song sound ~ w e i r d ~
in a rare twist of events, michael is on the bongos

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