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Crazy Talk EP

by Oh Dear!

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1.
Cathedral 03:49
I'm more anxious to forget it than I ever was to learn it so I'm trading all these drinks for distorted memories. I push all of my thoughts on anyone I want and imagine who I want them to be until I start to be believe- that its true. Facts are layered in the bullshit between photographs and trinkets so I'm breaking down this bulk head to erode them and forget. But a telephone call or sentimental song forces fragments to align like an old stained glass cathedral. Relive the past We'll add a little lead between glass. Panels may change image stays the same. If I trust my past ever memory that I have I must have faith hidden in this cathedral. The church of nostalgia I pay tithing to worship the untrue. Am I even who I am? Light still filters through the artwork and illuminates the hardwood where we stand in rows of pews and harmonize a tune. As these intervals move stories become truth forcing fragments to align like and old stained glass cathedral. Relive the past We'll add a little lead between glass. Panels may change image stays the same. If I trust my past ever memory that I have I must have faith hidden in this cathedral. The church of nostalgia I pay tithing to worship the untrue. Am I even who I am?
2.
Staying 03:33
Will you stay, and hold my hand? I'm failing, and breaking down. Will you stay, and lend your strength? My tired and shaking legs. Will you stay, and watch me fade? I'll go home while you're still laying here. When I was younger I felt so brave Now that I'm older well it all feels cliche. If time has a way of repeating events We will return here and I can love you again. But we'll never know No we'll never know.
3.
They're gonna guard it like a secret they're gonna camouflage my confessions. They call it crazy talk, so you can't tell if I'm joking or not. Walking down a dirt road I started following all the fireflies. I must have got in their way when I awoke alone I had a headache for days. I am a subject I'm an experiment I'm connected to them. No ones gonna believe the story now... Its without witness. Well I was taken over if you knew me, then you'd notice. To be frozen in it's brilliance it was lovely, to be weightless. Maybe I was drinking I'm human, I'm not lying. You loved me in my silence, but I've spoken, now deny it. No one ever believes these stories anyways... they're without witness. Got an appointment with a doctor we'll shop through catalogs of prescriptions. Planning out the day-to-day And I can't tell if its better this way. Walking through the city I feel mechanical with these chemicals pooling in my simple brain. I'm carbon, I'm a stone or softened clay. Mixed with emotions if they were planted there or they're natural I'm gonna call them my own. When I'm upset, is that clay or is that stone? I am a subject I'm an experiment I'm connected to them. No ones gonna believe the story now... its without witness. I can't help but see the nature in our actions, we're destroyers. Its man-made if he builds it but how man-made are his children? This anthill has confused you this city is just a costume. You loved me in my silence, but I've spoken, now deny it. I listen to the radio just to feel like I am not alone. You loved me in my silence, but I've spoken, now deny it.
4.
Lost like a drop in a river married to a mountain. I am an old tale who is yearning to be found out now. No one really knows what I am my story's been written through the hand of a fearful man Cities give me anxiety I'd rather be living in the trees near a forest stream. Do you fear my strength? Do you fear my ignorance? Do you fear me, like a true brute? Do you fear my solitude? I'm cursed with your thoughts, when you find me tell me why you hate me. Truth couldn't move you so just shove me in this shoe, please, won't you? No one really knows who I am my story's been written through the hand of a trusting man. I could never harm anyone I'd rather be laying in a field with the beating sun. Do you need my heart? Do you need my open arms? Do you trust me, like an old friend? Do you trust my cowardice? I'm cursed in your thoughts, when you find me tell me why you love me. Truth couldn't move you so just shove me in this shoe, please, won't you decide? If you really fear me, if you really hate me, if you really trust me, if you really love me, if you really think you'll find me out. I've been out here all my life, you couldn't prove that I exist. Come visit me again, I will be watching.
5.
Say Cheese 04:14
Light shines bright from the spirit inside and its captured on three by five. Heart beating in thin air to lock it in an endless stare you can't explain this sign but you know how it felt at that time. Shimmering perfectly you just need to see it to remember that feeling, now don't forget. Through the camera lens you're surrounded by friends. Kicking waves on a beach where we said we would meet. You forgot to say cheese but thats only routine. The shutter couldn't erase that smile from your face. I wanted to see my life through a filter as kind to details I've brushed aside. So in turning a new page in an album thats wearing with age you point out every shape there, that I couldn't see in this light. Shimmering perfectly I could believe They're always here around you and me. Through the camera lens I'm surrounded by friends. Playing music downstairs where the roommates won't care. I forgot to say cheese but thats only routine. The shutter couldn't erase this smile from my face. Through your beautiful lens we're surrounded by friends. Drinking beers on the street where we said we would meet. We forgot to say cheese but thats only routine. The shutter couldn't erase these smiles from our face.
6.
This is a poem to help you sleep. When the nights are rough and you don't dream. Eyes only reflect the ceiling. This reoccurring thought is killing me. There is a dot on my hand left from a permanent marker that makes me think of the girl, attached to the pen, that put a mark on my skin. She put a mark on my life.

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Brandon Sagnella: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Xylophone
Jacob Gosselin: Drums, Guitar, Bass
Justin Martin: Guitar
Samuel Franklin: Drums, MIDI
Justin Tung: Violin on Staying

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released February 28, 2014

Produced by Oh Dear!
Mixed by Larry Crane at Jackpot Studios
Mastered by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering
Drums recorded by Andrew Nalty and Jesse Goodrum at Mountain House Studios
Design by Brandon Sagnella and Jacob Gosselin
Layout by Adrian Centoni

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Oh Dear! Tacoma, Washington

Oh Dear! is comprised of Brandon Sagnella (vocals, guitar), Justin Martin (guitar), Jacob Gosselin (bass) and Samuel Franklin (drums)

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