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Sit and Wait

by Sheridan Woika

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shithead Stunningly beautiful; I absolutely love the way the lyrics were written. Listening to this album gave me a huge burst of emotion and I found it hard not to tear up, which is something that I love about it. I know that this is going to help me through times of crisis, and I'm seriously looking forward to future works. Favorite track: Human Shaped Holes.
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Michael This album's gotten me through some shit.There aren't many albums where each song moves me in some way but lyrically, vocally, and instrumentally, this one gets me all the time. Favorite track: Love In Vain.
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1.
call it oceanfeet -------------- You could find a quiet place to read, And watch the pages burn up, right in front of you. You could pass away while you're asleep, and I'll just let you. Even the worst Endings Resolve. I'm going to puke In my oxygen tank. My friends will carry me away To where they keep you. I'll shuffle in at Night and I will Cut off your feet. They will remind me of you. In twenty years, I'll join you. You will die How you lived - Adrift On a sea Of abandoned Ideas, Alternating states Between a parent and A child. I will sing about you for the rest of my life. You might Want to Come back. Could you? Would you? Could you? Would you? What happens to The part of you That owns all These clothes? What happens to The part of you I never got To know? What happens to The part of you That dies Before me? It lives forever In my mind. It walks forever In the sea. You told me I should Write a song, and Call it "Oceanfeet". I never told you Even still, how much You mean to me. I never liked you All that much, shit I feel guilty. Shit.
2.
stoic -------------- Hours past midnight, I found myself At a gas station. Hungry, lost and still Tired, blank from pills. I walk like an old man I look like I'm home from the old war I'm fresh off the plane, But I've no desire to celebrate. Maybe I'm meant to be lonely. Maybe I'm meant to be alone. I retreat to the only way I feel at home. I find my way home, I collapse In the doorway. The smell of ashes Follows me home - The smell sticks. I don't think you were good for me I don't think you were good But you had me feeling Some kind of warm. Some kind of warm. I made mistakes when I Was young, At least I know that Now. I will never be The same, Now that I've Watched my brain Melt. You win some, You lose some. I hope I looked good for The cameras. "Where did you go?" I whisper in the mirror As the toilet Overflows. "How can you stay So god damn stoic?" "How does your heart break Without you even knowing it?" Maybe I'm meant to be crazy, Like I always seem to be. You can cry on my shoulder, You can be my everything. Like I'm a part of the background It's seeping into me. You're a warning sign In a language I can't read.
3.
For Levi 07:27
for levi -------------- I used to haunt my friends' homes. I used to live like a ghost. But I'm a grown-up now, I'm too old for that stuff. I used to taste like drugs. I used to watch the sunrise. But I don't much now, It hurts my eyes. I saw myself As a child, in a dream He seemed Disappointed in me But mostly Concerned With the bags Living under my eyes. I used to feel so free. I used to seem so happy. Now my voice just cracks, In some pathetic excuse for singing. Days sprint by like runners. Love will fade away. You're a grown-up now, So that shouldn't be a problem. You're nostalgic For the days That haven't come, Yet. You're smoking All the time. My dad used to Tell me, "Life's a sandwich Made of shit - We all gotta Take a bite." You're a plastic ship In a bathtub full of blood. You're a chocolate chip In a burning pancake. This is a factory farm. Take bites of what's in front of you. I can leave the house I can leave the house I can take a shower I can't even wait A half-hour NO TIME LIKE NOW I can change I know how I am frantically Running back home Now, to tell you, but, I Haven't eaten, and I get so tired, I Run out of impulse To try to explain it To try to explain it It's not hard to control me I am a slave to this body. I could be an android, Robotic little dude Shitting out my outputs, Eating all my food. Or I could run away, Finally giving merit to The things I say. We're all hypocrites, Accept that and Move on. We're all grown-ups Here, I can Say what I want. I am a boat I'll sail it and grow old But never quite that old Gotta leave room To grow I want to be happy I want to be in your company It hurts to explain it I don't expect you To understand To understand
4.
Love In Vain 05:42
love in vain -------------- I I will wait for you Anywhere you want Me to wait for you And wait As long as you like I'll wait forever, I Would die for you I will someday love you In a place full of shining Little details that prove That you are not alone. Let's Let's hop on a train And ride it til we feel Like getting off a train Let's Let's go fly a plane We'll crash it and we Won't know what we're Doing and we'll spiral To the ocean Can we Clasp our hands Together And hover Several dozen miles above the ground? You are Magical and when You're by Me I can Feel it in me too. I wish that you could see How easy it can be To be Alive. I'm just like you In so many ways In lots of way I can't Explain to you. You are all I think about When I'm alone.
5.
bright candles by thy side -------------- Loneliness became The smoking gun Uptown fumes enveloping The sun I watch it go Carelessly, you fall From my back Pocket, like a State ID. I've lost a part of me I never wanted To let go of. Maybe in a year Or two, I'll fall Right back In love, but People are Fragile, people are Small, inconsequential To my fall. I'm wandering off I'm outside the lines I'm waiting On a stranger To look me In the eyes. Jestem rozrzucając popiół Kochanie Jestem jednym z krajobrazem Pływające
6.
scratched out names -------------- I will walk to the ends Of the earth, at least Until I get cold I will push one leg Above another until My secret's told When I stumble, I will fall I'll continue even if I have To crawl. The trails that I face Can't faze me At all, Can't stand me Less tall, But it's tough To kill a thought. It really is. I'll avoid the things That make me think Of you, I ardently Refuse to be your slave A diary with scratched-out names I know you're trying to help But you don't know what you're saying. So you feel like dying Go ahead and feel like dying You're so sure you'll never beat it Don't call 'em problems, Call 'em reasons No one deserves that kind of treatment, Not even suicidal feelings. It really is that simple. It really is. Keep an eye on humankind Peoplewatch to pass the time People love to pass the time Keep connected with the outside Snorting pills to wake alive Quitting pills to wake alive One night I caught the fever In the devil's bed I could be dead right now But I'm here, singing instead These hands can crush the wheel of time And I can send you back there This body isn't quite right But there are ways to make it mine These hands can stand the test of time And I can make it there This body isn't quite right This body isn't quite right These really are the thoughts I keep That which have power over sleep You're just saying that, I know But I love what you're trying to show These really are the thoughts I keep That which have power over sleep You're just saying that I know You're just saying that I know As above, so below As above, so below As above, so below As above, so below
7.
human-shaped holes -------------- I stare at the space between us Like a river, growing wider I watch you drinking, and your mouth Looks like the mouth of a dead bird Animals hiding in ferns Watching us drift apart like branches Human testaments to things That are probably gone by now That are probably gone by now I got to my hotel room And I did the locks real tight Walls lined with pictures, crayola Colors make me feel just right, oh These little bottles aren't enough To get me talking Oh, the places I'd have gone I don't recognize this face I don't understand what Happened to this place While I was gone Whenever I leave I get aches, I get these Unexplainable pains And again and again and again and again and again And again and again and again and again and again Keep growing number Everybody gets their turn Every needs to crash and burn Every now and then, or they won't learn Every needs to crash and burn Every now and then, or they won't learn I can't please everyone Or anyone You cut me off from life support I feel like a patient on a table On a mothership, and you cut Me open, and now you're trying To sew me back up with all of The parts of me I don't like in Your hands, grasping at straws That I can't stand, you tell me You're done, you tell me to Stand, but I can't face what's Inside me again, you tell me You're done, you tell me to stand But I can't face what's inside me Again I'll congratulate myself I have found the things that sting Even now, they linger around, but I have a lot of doubt In my young head, we are Human-shaped holes, we are Probably gone by now We're probably gone by now We're probably gone by now We're probably gone by now We're probably gone by now
8.
kind of pretty -------------- Rot and fade Bask in the sounds of decay It doesn't seem to make much difference, anyway It sounds the same either way It hurts to write It hurts to write But I will fade away if I don't I need to confide Or someone by my side Oh, someone by my side Masked men conducting experiments Somebody who asks where I'm from Places for a secret to hide in, and Records of the things left behind It hurts to talk I will try to start a conversation With the nurse who changes my clothes I didn't notice, I Am getting older all the time I didn't notice, I'm Getting older all the time It's hard to imagine The things that I felt Happen to me And not somebody else Not somebody else I am somebody else Oh, I'll sing myself a new love song Oh, I'll get shipped off to the shrink Oh, stop on the way to the madhouse And pick me up something to drink Pick me up something to drink Pick me up something to drink Pick me up something to drink Oh, I think I'm starting to see things I think I'm starting to crack I call forth powerful deities These names for disorders, they sound Kind of pretty Grinding like old machines Lost like a memory Soft-bodied animals Living lives out on me Lives out on me
9.
Abscess 01:34
abscess -------------- (no lyrics).
10.
Zugzwang 06:05
zugzwang -------------- In my hole I draw pictures To survive Wishing someone else Was here, I could Show them I'm alive I get scared When time Moves forward Why can't I Un-think these things? Why can't I Un-torture torture? I want to huff On the back Of the delivery Truck, maybe If I'm lucky, It'll go to Another town Or city, I will Start again I will never Make amends With the Enemies I've made I try to be Nice, I'm Going to Need a Reason Not to Jump My fellow Man Is the Only reason I still have my Ears, 'cause other People always make Me feel like I exist. Do Other people always feel Like That? In the mirror Is someone That I met, once After our one night Together, I Developed Schizophrenia, or Maybe, that's just The way I've always Been. I've always known These demons, and I always Just ignored them, but when the Visions get too loud, they leave me Screaming on the bathroom floor, pissing Myself, and throwing up, and I've never been So scared of anything at all quite like Everything inside myself, now. I will get back to normal after Just a couple hours And then I will go to work For five days At night I'll stay awake And fight my rouge imagination No one's gonna hear me scream I will sit and watch it all repeat Until I die in the snow Cold, alone, and helpless I just wanted to help But I can't help you I can't help myself How do you love When you can't love Yourself? How could I cheer you up When I'm inside of Some kind of living hell? I will get back to normal After just a couple hours And then I will go to work For five days At night I'll stay awake And fight my rogue imagination No one's gonna hear me scream I will sit and watch it all repeat It repeats, it repeats, it repeats, It repeats, it repeats. It repeats, it repeats, it repeats, It repeats, it repeats.
11.
1200mg 07:22
1200mg (twelve hundred milligrams) -------------- I found another little part of me That's certainly not mine down here I'll throw it out when I learn how I'm gonna take a little rest now Listen to the cards in the deck, now If anything can calm me down, It's how empty rooms sound, to Someone like me It swirls around and hits you It hurts you and it covers up your vision It hugs you It loves you Just like I do I drank Twelve hundred milligrams of Some shit Can you feel the holes in my chest From way out there? Can you hear me breathing, maybe? You can treat me like a cigarette butt I love it, I want more of it Stop, slow down Stop, slow down with me If we sing hard enough, and long enough, We might start to heal Ask yourself if you're dying or if you Just need to have the conversation that You've always meant to have with Yourself right now I'm gonna sink into the ground If you don't come over right the fuck now Watch lookout, I'm blind with fear of What god has in store for Someone like me Of what most strangers think When they look at me Who do they see? No one's ever felt this good before I'm gonna punch through the window Of a liquor store, but It's not like it was last time, baby I take twelve hundred milligrams I take twelve hundred milligrams I hear voices in my head But you swear I'm gonna be okay I will make sure they die with me They die with me They die with me WE ARE ADULTS WITH BANK ACCOUNTS. MY HAPPINESS IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO OTHER PEOPLE BUT IT SORT OF IS TO ME. I WANT TO THINK OF OTHERS FIRST. I WANT THE KIDS I'LL NEVER MAKE TO BE BURIED NEXT TO ME, ROTTING IN A WORLD THAT NEVER WANTED THEM. THEY DIE WITH ME. I WILL MAKE SURE THEY DIE WITH ME.
12.
Sit And Wait 07:17
sit and wait -------------- Bring the loudest chime Bring the heads on pikes Bring my spirit to the throws Sacred dark of night Ring your battle cries Bring your futile tries All summer nights bring summer days In the distance, a band plays Warped by night, and Worn from the rain, I am Faceless and lifeless I will continue to train Dream about a better world Wrapped in dirty blankets Dream of being warmer Dream of growing older, and older Find something to sacrifice Nightly rituals burn my soul, my time, I am dead to my old friends I am numb to feeling miserable And uncomfortable I'm in pain I'm tired all the time Unsatisfied, I Barely feel alive I am an insect in a bucket Placed by tools beyond my comprehension I'm an insect in a bucket Barring divine intervention, I accept my fate I'm overwhelmed I'm overwhelmed When the shadows start to crawl I'm carried like a hog and stricken from the bone I'll sit and wait for myself to get happy again I will wait As long As it takes No matter what I don't care what the doctors say, I am still breathing. I will not stop until it stops being fun. It's not fun anymore. It's stopped being fun To feel so small To stare at walls When the weariness finally lays me down Crowds gather in my hometown They applaud and chant for a while, Then go back to their day I sang a couple songs for you tonight I hope you get something out of them You're just A passing stranger in the night Whom I try not to make eye contact with If I try, would you try with me? If I try, would you try with me? If I try, would you try with me? If I try, would you try with me? If I try, would you try with me? With me

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"Gorgeous, haunting"
-a young fan

"You are very talented and have a great future ahead of you."
-an old pro

"Almost reared up."
-a friend who meant "teared"

"By far your best.. downright chilling"
-a record label person

"like jeez 1000000/10, this is what i hope my music sounds like one day. fucking incredible stuff my dude."
-an excited blogger

"I know I've said things like this before but honestly your music means so much to me. I don't know how to explain. You mean so much to me and I wish I could figure out the words I want. sit and wait is wonderful by the way. Thank you for that."
-a kind teenager

"I listened to some of your stuff. I think you have potential. Keep up the fight."
-a distant relative

".... so this string of messages was ultimately pointless to you so i'll make it worth your while hopefully by saying thanks yet again for making super chill and wonderful music that never fails to move me."
-a pen pal of sorts

"Hey sooo.. totally random but I've wanted to tell you for a while that I adore your music and I'd be lying if I said it hasn't helped me through some shitty times. Please never stop making the music that you do."
-a beautiful stranger

"Just stupid!!"
-an old lady on facebook

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released July 18, 2016

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