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Good Luck, Bad Decisions
03:30
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Good luck
Bad decisions, bad decisions
Good luck
Bad decisions, put the phone down babe
Good luck
Put the phone down babe
Good luck
Put the phone down babe
I'm still alive
But I'm distracted effortlessly
I'm blessed with luck my friend
Four leaves of squandered green
It's a wonder how I've managed to stay alive this long
A series of left turns, plans gone wrong
It has been my privilege to waste it
I've gotta fuck it up so I don't get complacent
I just go out and leave my honor displaced
I don't care, I don't want to escape my fate
To the brink of my recklessness
I'm rescued by luck alone
To the brink of my hopelessness
Rescued by luck alone
At least I feel no guilt
When my decisions wilt
Your will forces me to survive
I'm lucky to be alive
Designed to ruin my own life
You'll admire me, until you won't anymore
I serve but don't protect, I will leave you bereft
You'll desire me, until you don't cause I'm more
Than you deserve evened out with neglect
Distracted and damned by cursed decisions
(Bad decisions, bad decisions)
I made without a shred of regret
(Bad decisions, put the phone down babe)
When will Hermes comes to collect me
(Bad decisions, bad decisions)
When will my luck surrender to debt
(Bad decisions, put the phone down babe)
To the brink of my recklessness
I'm rescued by luck alone
To the brink of my hopelessness
Rescued by luck alone
At least I feel no guilt
When my decisions wilt
Your will forces me to survive
I'm lucky to be alive
During the great solar eclipse
I'm rescued by luck alone
At the bottom of the abyss
Rescued by luck alone
At least I feel no guilt
When my decisions wilt
Your will forces me to survive
I'm lucky to be alive
Last week I almost died at MD 185
Cus I feel asleep at Rock Creek curve the car still in drive
Today the truck missed me flying down US 33
Next week I might not be so lucky
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Good Afternoon
I have become immune to heartbreak
The excitement in the air whispered to me that nothing can go wrong
Well I'll take the time to categorize every mistake
And spill my guts right into every single song
You've been attached like chandeliers hang on our ceilings
We're so in sync that we just busted all the backstreets
At 98 degreez our pulses. have gone body thieving
Have a nice Fightstar the Horizon brought to me
Truth does not reside in halls
Fickle hearts will rise and fall
Well hey, I've got a game we can play
It's the one where we fall in love
and never speak again
It could be so grand, we could both hands and walk
In different directions
I can tell that you love me by the way you pretend I don't exist online
This is great, we'll be fine, it's a sign, it's a sign, it's a sign, it's a sign
There's no truth inside this hall
Fickle hearts will writhe and fall
No one knows what they're doing at all
Oh, it's so clear now
Oh, its all here now
The hummingbirds and the bumblebees are both caught in traffic on the ICC
Oh, its so clear now
Oh, I can hear now
Puffy eyes and scratched up legs
Symptoms of every day
(I'm sick every morning, I think I'm allergic to waking up)
I have been falling into the sea
Atlantic storms are drowning you and me
Our (brave) skulls are filled with many doors
Enter one and be lost for evermore
I have been falling into the sea
Atlantic storms are drowning you and me
Our (brave) skulls are filled with many doors
Enter one and be lost for evermore
Do you know her, do you know her, do you know her
I do not
Can you see her, can you see her, can you see her
She's not there
Do you know him, do you know him, do you know him
I've never heard of
Can you see him, can you see him, can you see him
He's not real
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I sail across gender sea
I'm free from all adversity
The question floats in front of me
Which land will I reside
The misters settle down in Rome
The misses made a lovely home
I'd rather splash along the foam
I won't be made to decide
Oh lovely, I'm familiar and yet so estranged
Help me to appear noble, common, and mildly deranged
No delusional form of illusion
Simply a demonstrational skill
I'll tease your confusion just for the thrill
Will you become one of my vanity kills
I'm the leader of the cult
I'm the childless adult
Tell my people to tell your people
I'm the only one that's evil
We all know the destination
There is no apparent route
How can I be the baddest bitch
When my hair keeps falling out
Console, keep control
Stay the course, don't let go
This role is your own
Do not fear the unknown
It's an unconventional zone
Breaking molds from traditional homes
Console, keep control
Remember that you are not alone
I sail across gender sea
I'm free from all adversity
The question floats in front of me
Which land will I reside
The misters settle down in Rome
The misses made a lovely home
I'd rather splash along the foam
I won't be made to decide
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We're gonna try to escape without trying
On a private jet we can't stop flying
You'll never make it out to sea
If I convince the climate to marry me
Home of the brave, land of the free
To be exploited and sold as property
On a game board monopoly
My piece is made of mahogany
I will endeavor to make a stand
To be the first realtor in the land
To sell premium climate insurance plans
Never be another scheme quite this grand again
The mid-atlantic summer will be nine months long
And by June and July, everybody will have gone
Further north up the hudson to pretend to speak French for several months
Old Ellicott City will flood again
For the fourth time this summer, and we will demand our congressmen send more mirrors to the stratosphere to block out the sun
We're gonna try to escape without trying
On a private jet we can't stop flying
You'll never make it out to sea
If I convince the climate to marry me
Don't speak its not on the policy
Built to last three more democracies
It's gonna kill you but it won't touch me
Cause I live above the food bank
Pressure is rising, buildings are climbing
Stories are ribcaged and ever defining
If I ask for one thing it's always the funding
That takes me away from the mess we have made
Theres a new bridge over the neighborhood now
It's far too late to turn around
I'm not from the future, you're from the past
We're gonna try to escape without trying
On a private jet we can't stop flying
You'll never make it out to sea
If I convince the climate to marry me
Don't speak its not on the policy
Built to last three more democracies
It's gonna kill you but it won't touch me
Cause I live above the food bank
This is the hottest new opportunity
I'm going to liquidate your topography
Waterfront margin hegemony
Environmental injustice impunity
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Swimming In My Car
04:46
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Swallowed by wails of by failures I've earned this
Surrounded by your whaling sailors I'll learn it
This is my last chance, my last chance to pull through
Swimming in my car cause there's nothing left to lose
Jump off the bridge, jump off the bridge
Say that it's time and I'll jump off the bridge
Jump off the bridge, jump off the bridge
Say that it's time and I'll jump off the bridge
One day if I could do anything I wanted to
Without harming those I love
I'd drive right into the Potomac interview
And let water flow above
I would swim Anacostia to Patuxent
And emerge wholly alive in the fall
Cause the land in summer time is so tedious
I become responsible for it all
At the bottom of Chesapeake sound
What secrets have yet to be found
Or drowned
At the bottom of Chesapeake sound
What secrets have yet to be found
Could you drive in peripheral vision
For the rest of your life
(Arrested by night, distracted by might)
Could you lie in bed dreaming new conditions
While it falls into strife
(Arrested by night, distracted by might)
And nothing feels right
Cause nothing is light
Superflous suspicion cuts like a knife
I'm begging you not to end my life
Breathe despair
Hope to disappear
This is the bottom
The nadir
Are aspirations still yours
Do expectations endure
When you're at the mercy of those who want you to break
How does your bravery land
And can you faithfully withstand
The collapse left in your best friend's wake
Feels like dying, and
I swear its not from within me this time
You tried to kill me the world left me barely alive
All that we built left the crumble by the wayside
Our ambition cries of frayed ties and shattered lives
If you're trying to save me from hell
Hope you save some strength for yourself
As well
If you're trying to save me from hell
Hope you save some strength for yourself
Could you drive in peripheral vision
For the rest of your life
(Arrested by night, distracted by might)
Could you lie in bed dreaming new conditions
While it falls into strife
(Arrested by night, distracted by might)
And nothing feels right
And if I crash off I-95
Don't leave flowers at the scene
And if I slide off MD 200
Please build the new bridge for me
I've lost everything to the brink
Now how will I carry forth
I'm a shell of my former self
Just begging to be reborn
Jump off the bridge, jump off the bridge
Say that it's time and I'll jump off the bridge
Jump off the bridge, jump off the bridge
If only if I could've jumped off the bridge
Swallowed by wails of by failures I've earned this
Surrounded by your whaling sailors I'll learn it
This is my last chance, my last chance to pull through
Swimming in my car cause there's nothing left to lose
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Lenore
05:18
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Lenore we could burn so bright
But Lenore you live in the night
You made a pet out of me
But one day you may see
Sunlight
What words are there for me to say
What prose to write of my dismay
Of you seducing your way to my capitulation
I've been deprived, you've been depraved, you have deceived, I have betrayed
And bravely this time Isaac's coming in
And he's ushering enlightenment
Well if you bring me along
We'll find some place I belong
You'll show me how I was wrong
To want this
Lenore this war will enslave us all
Bolster the sanctuary while she indefinitely breaks down the walls
You must have noticed by now
Her great ambition risks a greater fall
Escape somehow
Isaac's getting closer
And Death skulks down the halls
Lenore come with me
Survive and we'll be free
We will uninvite
All misery
I wanted to keep you safe as I've learned the value
And the beauty of that which lives longer than I do, Lenore
Well if you bring me along
We'll find some place I belong
You'll show me how I was wrong
To want this
I thought I would be your charge
Luxury pride and envy scars
Dreams decaying fast and drifting so far
Don't forget I wanted to
Stay with you
Til you drew my blood
How could you put me through
Such a lovely flood
Carmilla will set this whole land ablaze
If I don't get away
How did they breach the corridor already
I wished that I could stay, but now it's far too late
There was no love in that room
Your blinds exposed
There was no love in that room
My cell is closed
Well if you bring me along (you'll leave me bleeding on the floor)
We'll find some place I belong (and I'll be coming back for more)
You'll show me how I was wrong (I cannot help but adore you)
To want this (I'm sorry Lenore)
I thought I would be your charge (you'll leave me bleeding on the floor)
Luxury pride and envy scars (and I'll be coming back for more)
Dreams decaying fast and drifting so far (I cannot help but adore you)
Don't forget I wanted to (I'm sorry Lenore)
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Dream Punk v2
05:00
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I saw you again
I was smoking with my former friends
They identified all the different strains
That I never heard of before
When you came into the car
You pretended to fight me, then you took me home
And you held me, and you told me
You love who I have become
The most beautiful dream I ever felt
Could you play with me once more
Will I ever be someone you adore
I inscribed these words in stone
Cause without you I felt alone
I heard your new voice in my dreams
You were so handsome
You spoke Japanese and you stepped on my toes
You said you don't know who you are anymore
Cause you can't follow yourself, and so
I told you
I told you you have to create yourself anew every single day
You once taught me how to live
Did I teach you how to change
I inscribed these words in stone
Cause without you I felt alone
It's not what you want to see
But it's where you're meant to sleep
I am still yours
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We tried to escape without trying
Now everyone knows the earth is dying
Our coastline is sunken history
It used to never snow in D.C.
Wanted to take a trip to Miami before it became a lost city
And Atlanta acquired beachfront property
(New orleans has surely drowned)
Rehoboth is a mermaids land
404's buried in murder sand
The whole delmarva sunk right under me
(The bay bridge has fallen down)
I sit in my car when I'm trapped inside
The storm threatens to bury me alive
If I had a sun roof I might try
To find what's abandoned our grey skies
Breathe in cold air, exhale life
The cost I ignored for all this time
Where's the family I had forgotten to cry for
There's no one left for me to die for
We tried to escape without trying
Now everyone knows the earth is dying
Our coastline is sunken history
It used to never snow in D.C.
Don't fuck with me in the driver's seat
If this steering wheel moves we'll be the trees
It used to never snow in D.C.
Now I'm stuck in line at snow bank
The richest lied "it doesnt exist"
They threw our money in the final ditch
The tallest sea wall, the largest raft
They need express lanes, avoid the crash
When truth comes flooding in take mortality to task
The limits at the precipice, the dice long since cast
Bail us out with paper cups
May the meek float backside up
Fortify the levees with our blood
Constituency under mud
You should've changed it yesterday, tomorrows coming fast
I'm not from the future, you're from the past
We tried to escape without trying
Now everyone knows the earth is dying
Our coastline is sunken history
It used to never snow in D.C.
Don't fuck with me in the driver's seat
If this steering wheel moves we'll be the trees
It used to never snow in D.C.
Now I'm stuck in line at snow bank
I was waiting on a collision but I guess it never came
(One degree deficit)
Only the best equipped ones survive change they say
(Two degree deficit)
I was waiting on a collision but I guess it never came
(Three degree deficit)
Only the best equipped ones survive change they say
(Four degree deficit)
There was nothing more that could be done
We didn't want to try anything else
There was nothing more that could be done
We didn't want to try anything else
(There was nothing more that could be done)
It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees
(We didn't want to try anything else)
(There was nothing more that could be done)
So tally up the bodies
(We didn't want to try anything else)
Tally up the bodies
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