We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Demo

by Rory Strong

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
the fever broke that summer when all of the basements went cold but there's still a box of clothes that you brought me when i lost all of my own. we broke into my house on your last night in town and we kicked a big whole in the wall and we found a stash that belonged to my dad must've been a couple years old and you know that i'm hungry but i don't want to leave i want to fall asleep hungry i want to want in my dreams and that was one hell of a bender you could say we had a pretty good run between pinpricks and saucers if no one's the wiser i guess we had the going for us and so i left that hall back to my own four walls they sway and they swell like a tide and i said fuck it, man, threw some ash in the can remnants of some long burning fire so it's true i'm still hungry but i've got things to do so if i sleep thru the morning i've got all afternoon i've got all afternoon i've got all afternoon the fever broke that summer when all of the basements went cold but there's still a box full of things that you brought me
2.
Song for O+J 03:44
the weight it is staggering and the cost of the whole thing's astonishing i've become a stranger who brings bad news to your family and i know you're pissed off but you should probably know people care you say, "i know that that's true but there's no one who can keep me anywhere." the last time i saw you you hit the trailway the last time i saw you-oo-oo-oou was the driveway i saw you in the driveway and it's ugly and repulsive. the disease is comes in a full swing the glossier the eyes, the louder the songs that we used to sing saying, "i know you're fucked off but you got options besides staying out there." you say, "i know that that's true, good insurance it will take me anywhere." the last time i saw you you were getting in the backseat after a hospital room where you were little more than a bedsheet
3.
Julie’s got a brand new window pane Hanging out with me at the end of the lane And I got a brand new set of strings A couple new songs I’ve been trying to sing And she says, “Could you sing that song for me? The only someone else wrote ‘If It Makes You Happy?’” She says, “But if you’re too tired then it ain’t no thing.” She says, “It ain’t no thing at all.” And all my friends were talking about places they were staying And I was in the kitchen when the band had started playing I maybe should’ve listened to all that you were saying when you said it Maybe nobody means to be a heavier stone We just get all caught up in these weights of our own And if I’d spent last time digging up crushed bones Maybe I could belay it But still you said, “Hey girlfriend, put your dancing boots on We’ve got another five minutes before they shut it down And if you ask the band real nice if they know our song maybe they could play it.” That’s when the band started playing Alright so Jim’s got the same bad habits as me That’s how we all ended up here on Christmas Eve He even introduces me to his family And his kid says she’s gonna give a gift to me So she gives me this crystal hanging from a string To be honest I don’t really believe in that sort of thing But I’m never as right as I’d like to be No, sometimes I’m not write at all So when she took that necklace and she placed it ‘round my collar It was all that I could do not to lose my shit and holler When really I know I should just say “Hey thanks for the offer” I still have that necklace somewhere That’s when you said “Hey girlfriend, don’t you know you’re not special At least no more and no less than anyone else is anyone else is special So stop trying to make yourself some kind of exception and maybe start living your life for once.” So I went to to the gazebo for the last time that night And I stayed up way too late and I almost missed my flight It’s Nick says, “Don’t you know you can be just as strange as you like But don’t be a stranger.” No, I don’t want to be a stranger.
4.
this song will never be finished
5.
My Boy 02:43
my boy is like fire burning on his own i wanna be his desire i wanna be there when he gets home and i never meant to love a man i never meant to love no one when he pushed down on my hand and he burned me like the sun and i was making noise in the backroom with that boy and a whole bunch of trouble on my mind he might be the one i don't think about it much i really don't have the time my boy is like water flowing from the cup i might ask for a bit longer i might ask for another one and he might be the missing leaves of a fruitless fig tree and i know he ain't know religion but i still get down on my knees and i was making noise in the backroom with that boy and a whole bunch of trouble on my mind he might be the one
6.
In a past life we had all that we needed that's not our paradise, that's someone else's eden and i keep my hands tied to work on my breathing i walk to the store, i walk home now we're on guilford and east 23rd i do not mean to argue but are you so sure? between hell in my handbag and the gun in your purse and always and everywhere the word always and every the word - i heard he was a sailor before he went gray but the tides do not shine like they did in his day and before there were mirrors a smooth glass display in the water caught the look on his face and he kept a guitar 'round for when the house croaked and he'd sing all the old songs that his old friends wrote he says "alright, maybe it's true and the center can't hold what would it mean if we even could know? what would it mean if we even could know?" - and in a past life you had got the right treatment that's not what it's like and this sure ain't no eden still i marvel at the strength that you found in believing that all that might rise might converge now i still have dreams of a hospital room where you're talking to me and i'm talking to you and the whole thing's so lifelike it's hard to know what's true i leave a note for myself in the morning that's just something that i carve in the door

credits

released May 28, 2019

track 1, 2 and 6 recorded by Jeff Bowler in Huntington Beach, California. Ryan played harmonica on OJ and mandolin on SEE.
Track 3 was recorded on a cell phone on Peaks Island, Maine.
track 4 was recorded by Joni Elfers in a chapel near Baltimore, Maryland.
Track 5 was recorded by Elias Schwartzman in Costa Mesa, California.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Rory Strong Long Beach, California

pic by simi

THEY THEM etc

@roryory1

contact / help

Contact Rory Strong

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Rory Strong, you may also like: