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Burn Out Like Roman Candles

by New York City Queens

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1.
She (he) said it's over and I'm leaving but I wanted to stay I thought I'd see you in the morning time But when I tried to call I got the dial at your end of the line Oh ain't it funny I don't feel a thing? Maybe it's boredom, the numbness, the cold Maybe I sort of just fold It's getting old
2.
Tell me, tell me, tell me all about it I swear I'd like to know but I don't "You're such a dick," I'm feeling like Nixon Sick such as short sold But I won't show it now, I'm not sure how Visit in a minute misses You must have misheard mister mistook me for a hipster Little does he know, I'm just a felony, end of his rope case And point, you point the finger Speak before you know, while you're selling me straight up the road But one on one's not quite as fun, is it mister cynicism?
3.
Karma 02:36
Let me be the first to admit On so many nights I've done it Thought too big, lost my shit over something so small And I take it back, take it back, but it really don't change That you really don't want it And you really don't need it though I'm starving honest but I really can't feel it so I think I'll manage take the damage Chalk it up to karma So don't you panic, I can stand it And at worst I'll die young But I'm dying young baby Let's see have we completely lost it? On so many nights you've done it Thought too small, not at all over something so tall And you take it back, take it back but it really don't change That you really don't want it And you really don't need it though I'm starving honest but I really can't feel it so I think I'll manage take the damage Chalk it up to karma So don't you panic, I can stand it And at worst I'll die young But I'm dying young baby
4.
Foxes 02:09
Don’t move if you wouldn’t mind I’d like to remember this for a lifetime exactly how it is Stone proof that we couldn’t hide Sidelined to leave embers lit By our night time dreams Of bridges burning And I feel it Is it wrong to say That i feel something? I phoned you but you couldn’t find Find mine on the members list said, “they might mind” I know exactly what this is Stone proof that you shouldn’t hide Sidelined to leave embers lit By your night time dreams Of bridges burning
5.
Suburbs 04:01
I know time has a funny way as it may Of sneaking up on you Don’t you ever sell yourself short And I know there ain’t no sun today Yesterday was likewise a grey one The view from the windowsill is a bore It's a bore But then the rain came and rose up a flower Smiling in the wind as she waved And with the pace of the clock plays a score Through the passing of hours But you’ll never hear it With your back turned away I know i’m not the one to say as i lay And count the cracks in the ceiling But don’t you ever sell yourself short I know that the sun we crave day to day Shines on all that you’d love to hide By the windowsill on the floor And you’re torn
6.
I smoke too much i drink too much I don’t eat enough At least that’s what they tell me I talk too much i yell too much I don’t think enough At least that’s what i’m telling Myself i know well and i don’t like me anymore And its so sad to say that i’m feeling this way But its true, I do I want too much i take too much I don’t give enough At least that’s what they tell me I talk too much I yell too much I don’t think enough At least that’s what i’m telling Myself i know well and I don’t like me anymore And its so sad to say that i’m felling this way But it’s true, I do You left me weightless hopeless dead and floating too You left me scarred and choking hurt and broken too And I hate to say that its true but I do
7.
Radio 03:50
Go on, get out, don’t speak Turn the radio up Oh don’t mind me finally i see its never enough And I (you) am (are) a spirit born to be Born wild and born free maybe (baby)
8.
I’ve waited for you And i’m so glad to see that you made it And came through You don’t know just how much it means to me ‘Cause I don’t wanna burn out like roman candles And if that’s how it turned out It’d be too much to handle You waited for me And you’re so sad to see that i made it And brought three But you’ll never know just how much it means to me ‘Cause I don’t wanna burn out like roman candles And if that’s how it turned out It’d be too much to handle
9.
My heart is hurting and my thoughts weigh heavy And there’s no use serving A prison term that was never yours My heart beats heavy and my head is hurting I think i’m ready to go home now Acetaminophen My heart beats heavy and my head is hurting I think i took too much last night My heart is hurting and my thoughts weigh heavy And there’s no use serving A prison term that was never mine Acetaminophen
10.
When life’s a shattered hourglass When the time has passed And when the sand Is scattered aimlessly about the floor And you wish you could go back So bad to get some more But you can’t and then you say Leave a light on for me I don’t know if I will be getting too much sleep As i lie awake dreaming of future memories Now that life’s a flowered grass And the time has passed Now the sand is a castle We built and moved to drier shores And i sit and reminisce Oh to go back so bad i’d get some more But i can’t and then I say Leave a light on for me ‘Cause I don’t know if I will be getting too much sleep As I lie awake dreaming of future memories Because we all fall down

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released August 17, 2012

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