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Put On Your Own Mask Before Assisting Others

by The Nucken Futs

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1.
Stay Afloat 02:29
What's the matter? Can't be no one That has made you this way Has your heart 'til Now been nothing But a pain in your chest You're too afraid to feel So you pushed all of your loved ones Away from this place you'll never go 'Til you change your own head I will be here when you suffer I will be here even if you are gone I can't end, I'll carry on your name But know that I'd hate you for leaving this way Hold on through the rain and Through the hurt and through the pain Give me with what is left all you have to Keep yourself afloat
2.
Gabe 02:19
This week I read a post that said The body of an 8-year-old boy was found Passed out on the floor of his school and two days later Hanging from the fan affixed to the ceiling of his bedroom The noose that he learned how to tie on YouTube 'Cause it's not a thing that we're born to know He heard the words but couldn't make any difference His mom called, "Gabriel I'll never get through this" If I believed I'd tell you god had a plan Called his arch angel from the misery of man But I don't so all I have are tired, trite cliched Like man at least he has no more pain I'm sad he had to die To release all his pain But not as sad as that He felt he had no other way out
3.
Kids 03:12
I crawled up the mountain, stared into the sun Past a fence made with fingers, the shadows that run Like a window with bars to keep fireworks out of my house It's not funny, set yourself on fire But what is a house, not a home, just a living room Peering out into the world like a cell phone This safety's not real and my own mind's a prison I've never been home, am I waiting to get there? I'm not taking time to breathe like I'm alive I'm not taking time to find how it ends I passed through the eye of a glass to myself Like we used to with bee bees shoot beers on the shelf 'Til the shards fell like bullets and one of your guns went off Into the distance, we stared out at nothing But what are these feelings just lost in the ether These wholes that we halve 'til there's nothing left in them The sleep that you'd get when you laugh yourself stupid I wish you remembered the last time I talked to you
4.
I've been holding off my mind On speaking words to other people Like a kid stuck on a stage of Fear brought on by others' meanings To this life, he feels like anger's all he gets From his siblings, teachers, parents, friends and enemies Hold the start guns Peel away Step in line, we're killing for the half life Hold the start guns Peel away I'm wasted, exhausted and excited I spent years waiting and fearing What they'd think about my mind If they heard the thoughts trapped in my gut And eating my insides I'm a manic spin of a top, beating wings of a bird Fleeting light like the sun left with darkness Fall in line, coming down, crawling out Like a cat in a box, dead, alive, fight to feel Fight be to what it means to be you, to be me Thumb print on the web of an on-demand Society breaks down when you don't bend down to their rules Fuck that, fool that they think of you As a noose on a tree, a scab on the skin of the arms of history
5.
Bluebird 03:07
I wake up cooling to the touch of a flame From the forlorn sheets of the ocean in waves, suffocating I wake up feeling moving's progress But never move that far Bluebird, perched on the window Can you explain entertaining This illusion that life calls enjoyment Feasting on the delusion of fame But it's not that we can't be free of our fear of moving out It's that we're bound by the shackles of society that tells us to work While we look up to the rich who don't play the same game To slave away in these cubicles I'm not jealous, I'm not blaming them We did this to ourselves I wake up angry to the cold tough of nightmares Feasting on the dreams of my celebrity ghost They tell you that you can make it someday But you won't, and you can't You can't have the same expectations laid out in a free market That promotes mediocrity to the beat of our contentment Well I don't want contentment, I want a life, not a sentence And it's not that we cannot enjoy a sunset or a rainbow It's that our brains get so fried by our jobs that I don't blame you for hating them And what's money without happiness? Is it worse that a poor man's family? Entitlement, not enlightened But I think I'd find peace if I had time to relax Heaven leave us something on this planet I'm not betting on your existence
6.
Faith that's given to a worse pain So that me might feel that every turn we take ain't bad Is another faith that I don't want to believe And every fallen horse you beat is A dead ringer for your grandfather's Old heart breaks for a life that's run its course And every holy ghost we never perceive Is just another life we keep pinned down I need to live Attach my mask before I drown Pick my up my loaded gun I don't have time for you Fit me through this loaded life I cannot see this through The chemicals are working and that scares me We will be just fine
7.
I'm jealous, I'm overzealous When I'm down, I get real down When I'm high, I don't come down I get angry, baby, believe me I could love you just like that And I could leave you just this fast But you don't judge me 'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too 'Cause I got issues But you got 'em too So give 'em all to me And I'll give mine to you Bask in the glory Of all our problems 'Cause we got the kind of love It takes to solve 'em Yeah, I got issues And one of them is how bad I need you You do shit on purpose You get mad and you break things Feel bad, try to fix things But you're perfect Poorly wired circuit And got hands like an ocean Push you out, pull you back in
8.
Freedumb 02:23
How many kids that have destroyed their lives? (You waste your time) Sleeping still won't ever bring you calm (It's all your fault) They looked to you for what they thought was hope When everything was turned upside-down Torn from home don't have a chance in hell Your stupid tone just makes the hate sound real America Land of the fear We take our poor, put them in jail Celebrity When you're in debt You sell your soul, stay trimmed in gold I'm not placing blame I've been a part in playing This unholy race of ours, the privileged lay Atop the rest who dig their graves like beds Just build another goddamn hotel You fucking asshole You ungrateful dickwad You populist fascist We're not gonna stand here And watch you bend over Our lady freedom And fuck her for fame and We're not gonna lie down Without fighting back for Our friends who came here For a better life
9.
There ain't no fighting for reasoning that we must die 'Cause when we fall on breathing our final breaths the memory will keep us alive For harm or healing our minds become lame We wait and hope for our better days Even when there's no hope for better days Why we should try to make the best of today I hear the laugh of an innocent child And see the color in light from sunshine This life is beauty, ecstatic and full Of those, our loved ones, that they make us whole And carry on 'cause what we do best Is not forgot the ones we respect Past days from best our love gives us breath If just for one last hope that we rest And I've never hoped, never been, never will Be a part of the sorrow, never let it win No more to life, not more to death than that of which we see Doesn't mean it's not a life we can find worth in living
10.
Trust, hunt's not following dust Kicked up holes and they rust To the beat of an airplane's jet engine Wars, of the rich man's followed by us And the poor man's fighting by dusk O'er the sound of the air forced into his new lungs And I'm not here to tell you I won't Think of his friends as they walk Through the bars, like a caravan careened off the coast And I'm not here to tell you that All the fighting has been all for not But it's not the war that keeps us free Guns won't help us fight poverty Sociologically trapped by economies You, your life is fundamentally changed By how much or how little you grow up with And just because your culture worships cash Doesn't mean the others don't have value 6 million years since the Advent of bipedal vertebrate land mammals And what have we to show but clans Fighting over land, sex, religion and policy Brothers and sisters, I urge you to sing With what's left of our breath that we might make a change Put yourself in the shoes of someone else than you Take a walk on a social foray
11.
Another night you're held up in there Bruised knees and blood in your hair Hands tight around the porcelain, clenched jaw, Empty stomach, throatless screams, A noiseless cry, unheard, unseen Pulled back against its brass The door won't hold off too long You feel your heart racing Foot inside, sliver of light A darkness pours like gasoline I can't stand by to watch you subside Left you faithless for pain left inside Claimed your body but you have your mind It's your turn to leave it behind Alexandra, what has he put you through? A romance with the bottle Just to take it out on you Alexandra, in this room you're left alone But to keep her safe we won't take Alexandra Coffin home Black eyes through broken windows Glass from inside that won't be swept up Live life on pins and needles Laugh off all recovered pride That's blamed by your victimization His fits have owned your silence You owe him nothing but hate Take off before he kills you Have a chance for a new start Don't fall for comfort's false forgiveness I know your mother made a sacrifice and forced a filled vice of pills To numb the nexus of a series of blows he swung and hurled to beat her little girl She died to protect your life and now you owe it to her to take your life and Move a thousand miles away from the pain 'cause the pain isn't what love is
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This record is mostly about problems, but they might not feel so bad if we shout them. Recorded at Parker Hill Studios, 2017.

"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"—RuPaul

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released August 3, 2017

All songs written and performed by Aaron Dojj and Jeremy Newstead of The Nucken Futs, except Issues originally written and performed by Julia Michaels. © 2017 Brooklyn Dojjers Records

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The Nucken Futs Boston, Massachusetts

Boston-based gutter punk. We like to listen to The Descendents, Strung Out, Leftover Crack, A Wilhelm Scream, etc, etc.

Aaron Dojj—vocals, guitar

Jeremy Newstead—vocals, drums, bass

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