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Nervous Dater

by Nervous Dater

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1.
Kool-Aid 03:17
Somewhere inside of you You've got the guts To tell me you don't love me anymore, but You just let it all go Let your eyes roll back, to the back of your skull I am sick to my stomach Of you telling me that this is just for my health, It's all to protect my feelings That's bullshit, you do it to protect yourself I was up late, drinking your kool-aid And smoking the cigarette butts out of the ashtrays If I knock this last one back I might finally get some sleep I pray to gods I don't believe in That you would have nowhere to go But you got a new man, went all the way to New Mexico And I am stuck in this city That's packed to the gills with garbage and snow Decisions were made and mistakes made them harder At the end of the day you just can't finish anything you started Go on and make your escape Before I'm just another thing that you hate Staying up late, drinking your kool-aid And smoking the cigarette butts out of the ashtrays If I knock this last one back I might finally get some sleep You were always my greatest mistake Thought I needed you around to help me keep my shape Always the leaf blower, never the rake Blow all your problems around, never collect them all in one place
2.
Hard To Love 04:05
I was hard to love I was hard to love And yet, I'm back and fully intact But I was hard to love You were scared to lie Pretty sympathies shine You're too close to see all of me You were scared to lie Darling rest your weary head on the shoulder of the highway It's not okay... just try to make this shit last Take it back, back, forward, rewind Disorientation Are you moving forward or am I moving backwards? "No more Mr. Nice Guy!" I threaten in my mind The truth is that I'm trying my best not to try at all Darling rest your weary head on the shoulder of the highway It's not okay... Just try to make this shit last We started smoking the same type of cigarettes We were never good for each other Call me out on my shit, call me out on my shit
3.
Queens 03:48
Fell in love with the shell of a human being He said to me, "You gotta knock loud, cause I'm never quite home" So I camped out for months and built my own If talk is cheap, your silence was golden And god, did I invest the minute you sold it We made our love cause it never showed up There's no hurt like getting stood up Boy, you've made some terrible choices. If talk is cheap, your silence was golden And god, did I hold tight the littlest moment So drown your love and throw it all up There's nothing like getting fucked up Boy, you've made some terrible choices And if I ever get back to Queens Let me be, let me be
4.
Chameleon 02:03
You're a chameleon So perfect at blending in With whoever, with whoever you're sleeping with Like a body snatcher, inheriting all his traits Never dig through to find out which ones you love and which ones you hate Go on and glob on to her and hope to god that she's interesting And when she's not you'll just have to face facts that you never changed anything And you'll feed yourself fake love cause you never got the real thing Yeah you'll feed yourself fake love cause you never got the real thing And as these words fall from my tongue I hope they'll read as your last cadence Because you never learned the difference Between life and a life sentence You'll just skate by on his knowledge now And tell yourself you've got it figured out But that is one lie you've never been able to dance around Go on and glob on to him and hope to god that he's interesting And when he's not you'll just have to face facts that you never changed anything And you'll feed yourself fake love cause you never got the real thing Yeah you'll feed yourself fake love cause you never got the real thing
5.
Die Alone 03:20
Wrote a song in my dream Came out wrong waking up from some strong feeling Of a weight in my head And the way that my bed moves when I'm not moving And it never gave me time It never gave me time And the small girl never showed me light I forgot how to feel so I wrote an appeal But these fucking arms they shake and shake Shake and shake at the real And these hands they can't hold a beer let alone Stamp a heart with a golden seal Most days I know I'll die alone Most days I die alone

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Debut EP by NYC-based sad-band, Nervous Dater.

Rachel Lightner (Guitar, vocals)
Andrew Goetz (Drums, vocals)
Yonni Heenan (Guitar)
Pedro Alvira (Bass)

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released May 11, 2015

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Ignacio Lecumberri.

Cover photography by Evan Laudenslager. Masked subjects: Guy Gibeau, Megan Gouda.

Additional vocals and fuck up at the end of "Hard To Love" by studio MVP intern, Ronaldo. Harassment by Nervous Dater but not Rachel.

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Nervous Dater New York, New York

Brooklyn punk trio Nervous Dater are releasing their second full-length record, Call In The Mess, on February 26 via Counter Intuitive Records.

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