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Shrub
00:51
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I am singing a song about love
I am singing a song about love
Maybe the kind of love you had
Maybe the kind you wished you had
Maybe you will listen to it
In your mothers car
Driving down the familiar roads
Of suburbia
With your love
I am singing a song about the past
I am singing a song about the past
Maybe it will fill you
With a kind of longing
For a different time
Swimming pools and barbecues
Your dad’s hairy back
Snow man’s nose
A garden hose
Peanutbuttery snack
Want it back
This a song about seizing the day
This is a song about youthful vitality
Come on guys we are so awesome
Young and thin and tan
Old people they are so boring
Don’t worry we’re not
Come on guys let’s change the world
And pound another shot
Of Smirnoff
Ba da ba ba
La da ba
Ba da ba ba
Laaa laaaa
La la la la
La la la la la
La la la
Laaaa la la la la la la
Laaaaa la
Laa la
This is a song for an advertisement
This is a song for a sales department
Stir the feelings
Make it perfect
Put you in the mood
Listen to this soulful tune
And open up your heart
My boss wanted me to tell to you
He needs a bigger yacht
Than the one he’s got
And I need to make the rent
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I don’t know you anymore
Hell, I don’t know you yet
I’m feeling so distant from you that we probably never even met
But
We are not contingent
We are not fixed
And time does not exist in the space dust in your iris
But
I miss you from the future
(rep)
Hidden galaxies my heart is syncing with or in
You are the darkness, lonely spirit guide beneath my skin
And I am bleeding for you
And I am beating this
And I am breathing with you
And I am meeting you
But
I miss you from the future
(rep)
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4. |
Breaking Ground
02:03
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Snide blooms blossom like middle fingers through parking lot concrete
Breaking notions otherwise unnoticed
Their righteous violence goes ignored
Until the contractors secured the right funds again
And we swallow bleak silence
Knowing our ancestors died for much more than this
So we pave the way for proto-singularities to stave off human needs
Using supposedly post-technological technologies
But really our captors’ philosophers are just bored
And what’s the difference between labor and slavery?
What’s the difference between freedom and laziness?
What’s the difference between true meaning obscured
And the word replacing what is true?
Why must the pen be mightier than the sword?
A sword could kill the president
But my words’ll never hurt him
Although he is quite sensitive
But I’ll never hurt his feelings out of deporting my friends
Although I could kill the cops who try to kidnap them
But only if I had a gun
And a million more friends with a million more guns
And it seems like organizing
Only follows the same order as those whose orders I wish not to follow
You follow me?
Don’t! Cuz I’m just a weed, breaking false ground
In my raging indifference to your Honda Civics and Lexi, I am life
Gray
Bottomless
Swallowing everything you think you took
Quaking your boots
Like the free reverberations of a deerhoof, unshook
Cement truck? Down the hatchet
Railroad tracks? Down the hatchet
You just make more of me
Thank you, fuckface
My every breath is a blemish on your state
My life is your disgrace
So cram it, cuz I am the goddamn planet
And while you pave and pave, I’m only waiting to grow over your concrete grave
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That Little Thing
04:56
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Why’s there blood on my hands
It’s already dry
Don’t remember feeling any pain
Man I turned a blind eye
Even though you should have felt the
Pain inside your nerve endings
You have forgotten what is
Most important to living things
Hey there’s a stain on my pants
Don’t remember what I ate
But I know that it wasn’t covered
With a liquid that looks like jizz
Maybe it was from that sandwich
That I ate at that park bench
Outside my office
Because I didn’t have anyone to eat with
Well I uh
You know it’s kind of
It’s kind of tough man
You know it’s uh
It’s one of those things that’s like uh
You know
It’s just kind of like one of those things
It really makes me seem like
I don’t care about myself
Sometimes I wonder if I really
Do care at all
About myself
About myself
About myself
About myself
About myself
About myself
About myself
About myself
All the people walking by
Seeing me in shame
They all seem to assume
That it is my fate
To be in the situation
That they have been in
I guess that I
Am bad at being a person
I think that I
Am bad at being a person
My body screams that
I’m bad at being a person
Your eyes tell me
I am a bad person
Hey there’s something in my eye
Oh man it really stings
But I know that I shouldn’t rub it
So I guess I’ll sing
Isn’t it a little funny
That that thing got in my eye
You’d think that I
Should have been able
To see
That thing coming
Coming
Ah wah dah woo
Coming
Aaaahhh waaahhhh oh oh oh
Wooo oooo
Oooooooo
oooooooo
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6. |
Another Morning
02:47
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I’m so lonely that it hurts to be around people
It hurts to be around people
And it hurts so bad that I feel pain to give myself pleasure
I’m in pain to give myself pleasure
And every itching inch I scratch to kiss this conviction that
I’m bound to find you
But every new suffering will undoubtedly produce
A whole new set of wrongful truths
Like
I shouldn’t be happy, I shouldn’t be happening (rep)
Yes, darling, smile your blues away
I promise that I love you
Yes, angel lift your hurt with mine
With mine
Yes, angel lift your hurt with mine
With mine
But don’t lock me in the trap I save you from
My special burning sun
Light the way away from your own cage
Before your day is
Done
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7. |
Drone Bees
03:12
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Ruderals New York, New York
Modern art rock / post-punk trio based in Queens and Brooklyn. Folk-punk roots, with melodic aspirations toward jazz and avant garde. Known by friends as Ruds, the band self-released Live at the Whiskey Bar in 2018. Their first EP, Growth arrives on Captives Collective on May 18th, 2019, to be followed soon after by the EPs Wither and Decay. ... more
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