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If You Were Here, I'd Be Home Now

by Monday Appreciation Society

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1.
Tape 01:00
2.
Blankets Of Youth (free) 02:09
I promise all those drinks I had were from the bottom of my heart I soaked myself in sincerity and pretended it’s a place to start I threw myself around the room and eventually I came back with you Well, it’s a wise demise that shines and blinds And keeps you there for at least a little while And somehow it all gets dropped Under blankets of youth and a ticking clock And the shades of grey Become a pattern we accept and an excuse to stay The days alone can make love bloom With the turning of my head My future wife across the room Is going downstairs instead And our children start to slip away As I’m struggling just to say my name I’d put my arm through a pane of glass If only to have your name on my cast And somehow it all gets dropped Under blankets of youth and a ticking clock And the shades of grey Become a pattern we accept and an excuse to stay And how carelessly cold I can be to the things I’m told And your eyes as they try to find A feeling that is recognized.
3.
I'm Going Blind (free) 03:36
When did the time come When all was strange And the lies told Protected my name Where even how I spend my days Grows larger as my shoes stay the same I've got a room now, not a house And some bullshit, I could do without The debt hangs on my wall Next to posters that teenage hands had bought I dream of gasoline and a thousand miles And bar rooms and strangers' smiles A rock n' roll dream turned low Content with simply just to go But I believe That someday I'll see How it all just bleeds Into the days that escape Not the months or the years we thought it just ok to wait Well I'm always sincere, but I'm not always honest A surgeon's hand for the lonely among us When tried I will tie my tongue Defend intentions for damage done Cause when conscience calls, we'll see our friends As a tunnel of light for the deeper in The guiltiest of minds gathers weight from the better times So in them I'll hope, and in them I'll believe To let a misstep's print get buried with leaves Set the fire and watch it burn Engulf our love and resentments earned
4.
Welcome Home 05:40
Today I found a syringe on the ground outside my house I wondered if they came from a family that could be blamed or a highly regarded name And just off to the right was some broken glass from bottles we dropped last night We had celebrate too long the acceptance of a friend to study law la la la la la la A girl at a party once said, "All these broken streets are meant to be." She caught the beauty with her film I wondered if it was framed and hung up on display down at the local baristas' cave Well in three weeks her lease would be up and her internship would have switched to some spot in Connecticut Well the feeling of home will fade Carry on the call regardless of the name And blame and blame and blame And a couple of neighborhoods down contractors are hitting the ground with some grants for renewal When it's finally cool I guess we'll all move...
5.
Happy Anniversary (free) 03:27
It’s four o’clock, the door is locked and I’m home Your hands are full grocery bags after school the girls in tow I know well, yeah, I know well that you’re tired Well, so am I A softball game, at the keg I asked your name, after a while The gold of your hair caressed the dirt on your shirt and your smile And now your old number is staring back at me from the bottom of a plastic bag we’re giving away The cracks in the years can swallow kisses and the tears till they’re gone So all that’s left are the memories when it was best to push us along But 20 years in, if I catch the right wind, I can smell it all I can feel it all.
6.
Falling Up 05:13
She came in from outside alone Put her lips to the glass and came up surrounded Where she came from, I don't know But the chain's around my neck and I'm in the corner I should just forget Last night I dreamt a baby crawled off a roof Nobody seemed to care except for the mother Reclining chair and 80 proof A single shriek rings out and waits for another I should just forget The letter in my hand unsent You can't answer your phone to give me the address Four years of friendship washed to an end But there's memories to be made and you were the fastest I should just forget
7.
Marry Me 01:52
I'd rather try than sell my heart to some fucking contract Grab her by the arm and say, "It's OK. We're all the same." Understate while fully knowing the years ahead will surely gather blame for our youth-less days We'll share the name counting thank you's while the ones we tried to escape slowly fall away When all seems right the tears will fly over locking eyes and her friendly hand to my arm And when the words fail, we don't And when you say come, I won't And we'll grow to see
8.
I tried my best last night not to call you but the fire came from inside A brain of ash and crimson crimes Circular rims and cloudy bathrooms Well count it as another line We have our nights then we define But I can't go back to those feelings that you lacked and the mornings you'd pretend to sleep And those guys downtown never wanted me around So I fucked off and stumbled my way home You didn't call that night so I called her 1:30 I'm a puddle at her door The shortest of grasps for something more Kick drum basements and stained glass lawn chairs Your voice came from the other side I never knew you to be so shy But it's all I can to do just to be with you The lazy and the scared expire But through tightly closed mouths springs the sound of sudden doubt and the urge to carry on floats high floats high
9.
"Don't be shy. It's all alright," she said as she slowly undressed And he quickly learned there's no concern that her body, it could not suppress A couple of weeks and the silence just creeps through the offices and car rides home And a stomach sick with indignant trips, excuses, and turned off cell phones A quiet night under their kitchen light She smiles as she pours him some wine And he was never more sure he had ever loved her more than right there with guilt at his side And the weight of a roof that's shared cuts through even shopping lists and bills paid And though their fingers are bare this outsider's glare brings youth and confines to his eye A trip to the park as the day meets the dark and the leaves see the last of the year And as families surround, she thinks out loud, "I could see wanting that someday." With dark glasses on, tired and calm the words fall like a newly remembered song And the pain in her stare as she quietly declares, "I cannot believe this at all." She cries, "I'd never do these things to you. How can you do them to me?" She cries, "I'd never do these things to you. How can you do them to me?"
10.
Well you say you write letters just to keep from floating off But your tired eyes and cough only seem to belie you Cause all those nights you stand with your dreams clenched in your hands And even your subtlest demands only seem to amuse them In the forefront of your mind is a fence that's bleeding white But the ones that are in your sight only see what surrounds them So you'll hang on for the day you can put your heart away And he will do the same Become one within the frame But we'll come knocking down your door with the same warning as before, "You're too young to give this up." And you'll say, "No, I'm giving more." Well in the deadening summer heat fresh feelings have arrived But when you're out of work by 5, he's squinting through daylight In warehouses and dance spaces on crowded Friday nights his hand has grasped yours tight as he smiles down upon you Through beads of sweat and shortened breath you scream the chorus along And though you know that nothings wrong you still long to be somewhere with a man by your side on a couch by firelight and another in the next room sleeping quietly for the first time So you'll hang on for the day you can put your heart away And he will do the same Become one within the frame But we'll come knocking down your door with the same warning as before, "You're too young to give this up." And you'll say, "No, I'm giving more."
11.
We rounded the corner as we started to shout with all the doubt that's inflamed in drunken mouths Casual comments to some girls who walk by but they're forced shy by the gaze of eighteen eyes And then It all began again Oh and then It all began again Familiar faces and some names I can't place Polite smiles and empty questions are keeping the pace Shoulders brushed and there's a rush for the door One says, "Faggot I've never seen you around here before." And then Men were made again Oh and then Men were made again Attempt some gestures to a girl I don't know I take her thank you's for her love as she examines her phone A good friend sits back and laughs at us all But then she cries when her boyfriend misses a call Cause then She's all alone again Oh and then She's all alone again But to waist these two nights if a feeling that we don't like Cause the days in-between are all that they really can be Dry mouth and some dreams about you shake me awake as the morning light comes breaking through All the drinks are pressing but too tired for the stairs So I'll toss and I'll turn for two more hours Pounding, I don't want to wake up

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released December 8, 2014

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Monday Appreciation Society Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Recording project consisting of Philadelphia musicians Mark Rybaltowski and Dan Wisniewski.

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