We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Ersatz

by Joe Guy

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £7 GBP  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 3 Joe Guy releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Ersatz, Oh, helo!, and Insecure. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £5.20 GBP or more (35% OFF)

     

1.
Instrumental
2.
My press cant speak They just lay down the meat While hungry molars wait, watch and eat I’m a prefect I’m perfect I lie to myself I cant lie to myself I cant lie by myself I cant count on my health Count the cards that I'm dealt With my usual stealth Ill enlighten myself Would you call it living After wading through again So full of fear, and still living In imaginary years I’ve severed my ears On top of the table while still young and able seldom gives scars so graceful I wanna know Where you think you'll go Where you think you'll go I’m a prefect I’m perfect I lie to myself I cant lie to myself I cant lie by myself I can count on my health Count the cards that I'm dealt With my usual stealth Ill enlighten myself Could you call it living? After wading through again Can I call it living? After waking to the scalpel piercing in No one believes you No one believes you baby When you tell the truth When you tell the truth No one believes you No one believes you baby When you tell the truth When you tell the truth No one believes me No one believes me baby When I tell the truth When I tell the truth No one believes me No one believes me baby When I tell the truth When I tell the truth
3.
Vanilla 03:19
Look at the world in a spell Do you ever feel so uncomfortably real I look into those eyes and there’s something to steal Ever had to fight for something to feel? You've never had to fight for something to kill It isn't real, but it seems If I had all the answers I wouldn't dream Ive never felt disaster like that second gin Don't think anyones ever really let me in Only for a moment Touching skin The patterns of the past you put me in Thats the only fantasy I want to breathe I don't think you're ever gonna let me leave Time moves incredibly fast in the void Moving, makeshift, destroyed Get that hair up and find Oh, that real love I’m boiling out Im washed in it all the time I can’t find my mouth
4.
Breathe 03:29
Will no-one try and save me Will no-one try and save me Dressed like this Hips like these Please Eyes, my eyes, my eyes I need them, to follow me, wherever I go Every step I take, forever Teeth, my teeth Tease syllables, paragraphs, intervals That haunt me And hearing where my voice lies destroys me Do you ever feel like laying your bones out on the cold bathroom tiles Isn't it hard to sleep With angels screaming Their eyes snap right onto me Crooked smiles They want to put me in fire Dry bones, vapour, ashes They want to watch as I die Chanting, vision dances See colour bleed from my eyes Within disturbing trances I’m feeling weak and only Percocet will help me sleep She takes you by the hand You want to die again Breathing like a man Then just for a second You figure it out Floating from the ground Its in the inflection, choking you out What thin protection you have now Your pretty projection, does not fuck around The alienation Has strangled you down
5.
They have said, I’m a good, bag of blood Only stabbing, around, in the mud Oh give me more I am realities whore I only focus Till I focus no more Bolting down the street at midnight Who will you fall victim to Playing up the best angle To anyone who worships you This always takes, everyone away These kind of things Put butterflies on pins Dig your talons in Bolting down the street at midnight Who will you fall victim to Playing up the best angle To anyone who worships you One box of matches, one box of matches One box of matches, one box of matches One box of matches, one box of matches
6.
Someone Else 02:55
I can see Is it real? Because everyone tells you how you feel I can’t think Only steal I cannot figure out just how to kneel, before, the wheel It only takes some time to waste your life on anyone It only seeks to find a ray of light in anyone Is it the way you itch and tease your style And everything about Yourself That you owe to everyone else Ooo I’m twitching like a post breaching into treason And talking back on my internal chatting sense of reason Im, preaching Into life again It only takes some time to waste your life on anyone You always seek to find your way around to everyone Is it the way you itch and tease your style and everything about, yourself That you loathe in everyone else It will take some time to rectify your situation You can capture life like a polaroid in grim narration Take a look at that old photograph in your pale hands and see What it, all means
7.
Calling It 03:31
No one no wonder like you, wonder like you, wonder like you Mum the ideas have taken hold of me I can’t stop dreaming Sweet dreams are making me, making me We both wont walk away We both wont walk away I have never seen a more possessing human being No one no wonder like you, wonder like you, wonder like you Ooh I could fall into life in a habitat Ageless faceless nameless places Ooh I don't want to forget your features Or repeat mistakes I’ve made this evening Move on, Move out, move in Kiss hello to better lips again No one no wonder like you, wonder like you, wonder like you No one no wonder like you Mmm one never is enough Never is enough without you Mmm one never is enough Never is enough without you
8.
9.
Ooo I know I don't deserve your time But I want to, introduce you To some god-damn friends o’ mine I’m sorry she’s not heard of you She don’t read that magazine Bookshelf full of novels But not as smart as she seems. Ooo, if you like yourself so much Why don't you marry him And die together? Fuck yourself forever I’m fucking flexin’ on my own reflection Not posting shit for attention The worlds so full of pacifists, and pricks with shiny teeth But I cant pull the strings apart to see whats underneath Would not believe it if I did
10.
puppet 04:32
I will beat myself up I cant be myself around you Its impossible I cant put myself into your skin i cant feel what you feel I cant see what you see in him I returned from somewhere I've been under your spell I've been under your stare I returned from somewhere I've been under your spell I've been under your stare I will stain the memory of you With the pallet that i use To recorrect the truth You have found another day Another way To make me pay I returned from somewhere I've been under your spell I've been under your stare I returned from somewhere I've been under your spell I've been under your stare I've been under for so long Isn't easy You've been stringing me along Isn't easy Pick me up and pull me round Puppet me above the ground Enemy in chemistry I will not make a sound Even though its tightly wound The carousel wont turn around Pick me up and push me round I will not make a sound
11.
Ooh, It's all i know Do, you have to go You've not broke me just yet I can live in retrospect I can clear the misconceptions, Of your twisted dialect And i feel lucky to know That those two eyes can take me home A thousand people all alone My clock is wound to milestones Ooh, It's all i know Do, you have to go Robert Heavy heart A very very heavy heart Hard to start A bitter watermark All over my dreams In my nostalgia Into the seams Taxis here Taxis gone Taxis come and go Back where they are from Wish i hadn't come Wish i wasn't numb Hate everyone in this house Except for one My blood weighs a ton Ooh, It's all i know Do, you have to go
12.
i love you 03:08
I love you And if you change state, that fact shall remain Ahhh, I've found the cure for loneliness its in my brain Ahh, Ahh Bear with me If it doesn't make you feel honey thats okay Everybody's moving in the out of time dances Shower tap balance, in a tightrope stance Above the deep expanse, there's no second chances I don't know if ill survive in the circumstances Everybody's moving in the out of time dances Shower tap balance, in a tightrope stance Above the deep expanse, there's no second chances I don't know if ill survive in the circumstances I am fearing what i feel when i lay in bed And i, i know just what you're feeling when you seem misread Ahh, Ahh I cant see Whatever it is that you will convey Everybody's moving in the out of time dances Shower tap balance, in a tightrope stance Above the deep expanse, there's no second chances I don't know if ill survive in the circumstances Everybody's moving in the out of time dances Shower tap balance, in a tightrope stance Above the deep expanse, there's no second chances I don't know if ill survive in the circumstances
13.
i've lost 06:29
All these mirrors in your head Reflect what hasn't happened yet All these mirrors in your head Reflect what hasn't happened yet All these mirrors in your head Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet Reflect what hasn't happened yet I've lost the will to keep trying all the time with you And i, i lost the pen that could speak more words that i ever knew I lost the poem, that i wrote you and put straight through the blades I lost track of time, but you've been sat outside the maze I lost control, this raft is sinking in the sea I lost the vision of us sitting round and drinking tea I lost the puzzle that was sitting there but now it’s gone I lost somebody there was 2 but now there's one
14.
No-one wants to save you The way I want to save you No-one watches anyway Leave yourself I don't want you to be ashamed I could tell you anything No-one wants to be alone Pacified and fully grown Panicked in a passive tone Drawn the lines A day goes by Were singing and dancing In infinite patterns It’s real life Will you make it out alive No-one wants to love you. No-one wants to feel a thing So fucked up you cannot Think No-one wants to be alive Fancy anyone you find It’s easy Its a feeling now Pulling me away from the sun Thats exactly it now I’m dreaming of ways to wake up Are we are, are we are, are we are we are, we are Are we are, are we are, are we are we are, we are Are we are, we are, we are, we are, we are Are we? are we are! we are!

credits

released February 14, 2021

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Joe Guy London, UK

contact / help

Contact Joe Guy

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

Joe Guy recommends:

If you like Joe Guy, you may also like: