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Bad Touch

by The Revenants

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1.
'Tis a Shame 04:58
Nothing you can do about it No nothing to be done You shouldn't even think about it Won't get far my son On the one hand it's this On the other it's that Taken altogether You gotta know where it's at Gotta know where it's at Tis a shame Tis a low down dirty shame Ain't no one you can blame Tis a crying shame Tis a crying shame You got some problems Yeah maybe one or two Don't even think you will solve them Ain't nothing you can do Ain't nothing you can do It's quite a conundrum Yeah that's what they call it Can't shuck it off Can't somehow stall it Do you feel like a fool Well I don't blame ya I would feel like one too Do you feel like a tool You are so lame ya You feel the turn of the screw You can't stop dwelling on it It's become your obsession You think you can't live without it Live without your prize possession It's driven you to madness Yeah that is for certain Every single second without it You feel a hurtin' You feel a hurtin'
2.
If you listen closely to what I say None of it makes much sense But it’s in the way that I say it That you hear my profane eloquence You really should believe me You’d be a fool not to I’m the only hope you’ve got On this precipice I brought you to What is pure truth It’s relative all the same First it’s here and then it’s there Like a pea and shell game First it’s here and then it’s there Like a pea and shell game You think I’m being a bit tricky Well just maybe I am You bought into it whole hog You bought into the spam I get my delight By watching you squirm I’m a sophisticated human host And you are merely a worm I have always been above you Yeah that’s been our dynamic I can pick apart your fragile ego And send you into a panic Your first mistake was loving me I am so not worth the bother You put me on a pedestal And I beat you like your father
3.
My Problem 04:44
When I think about it I know that it sounds insane I know that it is all a delusion But I don't know what to do Goddamn love it makes me crazy Bashes in my head like a contusion The world that I live in It defies physics It defies time and space It lives up here Deep inside my head An endlessly evolving database That's my problem I know the truth I see the light But still I want to bend it to my will Want to look away But I know I can't It's like a demon face in the windowsill Out damned spot Out I say One, two Why then it's time to do it Why do I do this I always ask myself Why am I compelled to fantasize Is there really nothing else No place for me to go No singer for me to harmonize
4.
Sweetest Sin 03:50
You push the button for me 'Cause your timing's right When you explode in my face I know I'm losing my mind I'm your slave And I give in 'Cause you're the sweetest sin I love the game But I can't win 'Cause you're the sweetest sin And the sparks never fade away I want it all again And we taste like the sweetest sin I drink you in again You got a Nero complex I can't deny it I mean, why would I I'd have to be out of my mind The siren goes off And my apartment burns down Ain't got a home Now I am at your door
5.
So if I hear what you are saying I don't know what I'm talking about You don't have to say it twice You don't have to scream and shout I guess I must be kinda stupid I guess I don't really understand I guess I don't have the facility Or the smarts at my command Comes in here and goes out there And what happens in between Is a strange, strange affair Comes in here and goes out there Might as well be talking Out my derriere So if I hear what you are saying I must be out of my tree I try to put two and two together But I always wind up with three It's in the way I see the world It's in the way that I am built I'm a mass of contradictions With a smattering of guilt So if I hear what you are saying I am lost and without hope Don't got me a chance in hell Out here at the end of my rope I know you can't save me I know you really don't care I know you say I'll be OK But you know I don't have a prayer
6.
Looks like you made it abundantly clear As clear as the sky blue sky Yeah you told me that I'm not welcome here So it's best I make a quick goodbye Don't love me No don't you love me Don't love me baby blue Don't love me No don't you love me Don't you love me Love me do Don't think you could be more obvious Not more obvious if you tried I get it, yeah you're being honest with me It's not like I thought you lied Love, love me do You know I love you Love me do You can relax, yeah you can relax now Won't be coming 'round here no more I am splitting like an atom I'll spare you the blood and gore
7.
Not Sorry 04:09
Guess you didn't know the truth about me Yeah, I can be one cool cookie I may look like I give a shit But I'm trying to not look like a rookie It's time to pull down the veil I said some pretty mean things Made you think I might desert you I'm so sorry you were hurt But I'm not sorry that I hurt you Don't you look to me like I know it all You're sure to be disappointed You want me to be something I'm not That's how I've been anointed It's time to see me as I am If you think I’m cold hearted You would be correct Now it’s your image of me I’ve wrecked Boo-hoo I know you see me as picture perfect But you’ve never seen behind my blouse I’m a little bit fatish and my skin’s a mess I’m actually kind of a louse Time to pull back the curtain
8.
Bad Touch 05:29
I let you in Into my tiny world It's a world that no one has seen I take a risk But I never know Will you be loving or will you be mean Will you be loving or will you be You gotta bad, bad touch But I love you so much I am a fool to let you in Your gotta bad, bad touch Put me in double dutch You always get under my skin Your bad, bad touch It happens every time Shouldn't be surprised Never seem to get it through my thick head You give me that look Then you pull out the rug Then you disappear and leave me for dead Then you disappear and leave me for Why do you do what you do Well I don't know Does it give you a thrill To know you've hurt me so I let you in Into my tiny world You trash the place like you don't care How can I blame you It's my own damn fault One day I am gonna leave you I swear One day I will leave you
9.
Here a man smashes out a window And leaps out to his death And I just gotta wonder What was the last word on his breath These strange ways These strange ways These strange ways Was what he said These strange ways These strange ways These strange ways My oh my he lost the thread What do we know And what do we say How will it look in days to come Who will write it down Who will bear witness Who will survive and who will succumb Here a life goes all haywire A cancer grows like demon seed He sticks in his thumb and pulls out a plum Gets out ahead of the stampede Once again he is out on the road That old Highway 46 Over here the bodies are turning over Over there the River Styx
10.
Can't see what I am doing Never have and never will Can't hear what you are saying My brain can't seem to distill Go ahead and break it down If you believe it will do me any good Go ahead and tell me you're thinking I'm sure it will be misunderstood Over and over Forever and historically Must be that funny thing Must be that funny thing about me Can't seem to get it straight When it's staring me right in the face And just when I start to hold on to it It's gone without a trace Go ahead and tell me I'm fucked up Tell me that I lost the plot Tell me that I am a worthless pill It's not like I have heard that a lot It's all very funny But in truth it ain't no joke It all depends on who is laughing Who not too sensitive for a poke Can't explain my behavior I have tried but I have failed I done my best to articulate But I have never prevailed Go ahead and laugh at me I know that I'm a bit much Go ahead and burn me down I am too sensitive to the touch
11.
I got a bug up my ass And rightly so I'd say I feel betrayed by you Betrayed in the worst kind of way I told you all my secrets And pleaded with you not to hurt me But not only did you hurt me But you also done desert me I got the angry man blues Yeah I am angry as hell I got the angry man blues And I can't break the spell I held on to that notion That you could let yourself feel what I feel But when I showed what I feel To you it became all too real So you called me inauthentic Said I was simply trying to manipulate But what I showed came straight from my heart Didn't matter No way you weren't gonna take the bait Oh man I'm mad Oh man I'm mad Oh man I'm super mad Just wanna hunt you down Just wanna make you pay I'm down here in hell And you're out there having a nice day Hit it carl! I sort of knew that this would happen It's what I've come to expect It's no wonder I never get nowhere No wonder my shit is wrecked There's never gonna ever meet nobody That I'll ever feel any real connection I only wish that it was you Who would point me in the right direction
12.
What game are you playing Wish I could say But I can tell you I can tell you it's killing me You had become My last best hope But then you abandoned me out at sea My greatest mistake I believed you And I'll regret it all my days I gave you my heart For safekeeping And I pleaded with you Please, please don't hurt me I trusted you With everything I had How could I know you would desert me And I just gotta tell ya I just gotta tell ya You got some wicked ways You got some wicked ways You got some wicked ways I looked up at you From down in the depths Saw you standing on the rampart I called to you to love me I called to you to hold me But you went and broke my heart

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“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.” –Martin Heidegger

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released November 16, 2023

Cover "Bad Touch" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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