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Diary of a Plague Year

by The Revenants

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1.
I called your number but it was disconnected I called again and again hoping I'd been misdirected Where are you now my old friend I searched the internet and found you had died Just a tiny footnote like no one had cried A sad little end, my friend They're dropping like flies All around us They're dropping like flies Death surrounds us Just stand back and watch them fall I went to see your mother but she moved away Went to see your best friend Sal and she had this to say Just one of those things, my friend I looked through all your letters I had them lying around They were smart and witty And at times profound Now their every word stings, my friend I pulled out a bottle and I got smashed I cried my holy head off unabashed It's the end of the world, my friend
2.
Tomorrow 05:06
The clock on the wall is spinning around 'Round, 'round and 'round Like a wheel that's set in perpetual motion And it yanks us along so cool and so unwittingly Like the pull of the undertow in the ocean And then a giant wave crashes in and sweeps us all away And we sigh dear God Dear God To the lonely and invincible of the earth To endure and then endure Tomorrow and tomorrow Dear God The clock on the wall is spinning around 'Round, 'round and 'round And the planets all revolve around the sun And we are merely dust and we are barely dreams That fade away when the day is done And we hush with our breath to hear And we strain with our eyes to see And if the shores are drawing near Eternity! Eternity! And then a giant brush sweeps in and wipes the old slate clean And we sigh oh my Oh my
3.
Scoundrels 04:31
There was Dan and there was Daisy There was Jeff and there was Maisy Together they were all a little bit crazy Yeah, oh yeah They made for a funky quartet Wanna know how scary they could get Well you ain't seen nothin' yet Man, oh man They were scoundrels, wicked scoundrels They hurled their sticks and their stones They were scoundrels, nasty scoundrels They were bad in their bones They tore up the whole countryside In a red Trans Am with some flames on the side They looked so cool in their hopped-up ride Yeah, oh yeah Stole from the poor and gave to the rich In a rather unorthodox switch They left my grandma lying in a ditch Boy, oh boy Dan dined on human flesh And Daisy picked the remains Jeff had a taste for Type O blood And Maisy sucked on the veins Dan and Daisy they died pretty young He ate her liver and she ate his tongue All that remained was a pile of dung Yeah, oh yeah Jeff and Maisy they moved the Valley They opened up a bowling alley They had a daughter and they named her Sally Sweet, real sweet
4.
I don’t wanna I don’t wanna talk about it I don’t wanna talk about these hurtful things Just wanna keep a civil tongue in my mouth, oh yeah Don’t get me Don’t get me started Don’t get me going on all the ways that I’ve been hurt I may blow right up in your face I don’t wanna talk I don’t wanna talk about it Don’t wanna talk about nothing at all Just wanna keep my old mad mouth shut, yeah I don’t wanna talk I don’t wanna talk about it I don’t got nothing I wanna say to you at all No not at all I don’t wanna I don’t wanna hear your lies Don’t wanna hear you twist the truth the sweet way that you do Don’t say I love you Don’t say nothing at all I ain’t gonna I ain’t gonna let you hurt me Ain’t gonna let you hurt me no way no how You don’t get to do that
5.
Looks like you're standing on solid ground Kinda strange you're the only one around Everyone has deserted you Everyone's gone on to do their own thing And you wish them well With how their every endeavor takes to wing You can believe it's all for the best You can believe like a man possessed You can try to hold on to every little thing that you know But in the end it will slip away You can believe you can control space and time Goodbye tomorrow, hope you had a nice day Looks like you're living at the top of the heap You can afford to act like a big ol' creep But everyone is indifferent Everyone doesn't give a flying toss Still you don't care as long your gain Is the their interminable loss Doesn't it bug you just a jot You must know that some things can't be bought Well all these days they go flying by Gone, gone, gone in the blink of an eye You can't get them back no matter how hard you try You think that you are in command You think that you are the king of the land Well I guess you don't understand, no One moment you're here and then gone Pushing up weeds on your own front lawn
6.
I went out for a walk Went way past my block And I kept on going right out of town Walked unfamiliar streets In my bare feets Well I walked up and I walked down Larking about Larking about I found my own way I found my own way out Threw away my phone Got no direction known Just like that old-time Bobby Dylan song I would make my home Wherever I roam Whatever place that I feel I belong I carried what I could pack Just like Jack Kerouac My life well it had become a long and winding road Met a lot of different folks Told a lot of dirty jokes Learned what they called the road code
7.
Here, here I come Napoleon in rags And I will conquer you Here, here I come Napoleon in rags And I'll devour you Don't you dare stand in my way I will smite you down With my mighty hand I am so righteous and so cool And I will take away all of your land Don't you dare find fault with me I will smite you down With my killer stare I am a god in my own mind With my rock star looks And my perfect hair
8.
When you have everything Then you have nothing When you have nothing, you have it all Don't try to be big, my love Be small, be small When there is Ovna There is love You can choose the easy road but you will arrive too fast So choose the hard road and the journey will last If you change your perspective If you take a longer view The world will open up In front of you When you struggle to love, lve does not come But once you let it all go it's easy as a fall Don't try to be big, my love Be small, be small If you know your own heart and be what you can be If you do these two things You will set yourself free
9.
I was going to see my girlfriend She lived up in Santa Cruz I was on a midnight drive Driving like I had nothing to lose I popped some dexedrine Just to keep me awake I guess I took a little too much 'Cause it made me start to shake, shake, shake Then I saw a big old semi Coming at me in my lane He ran me right off the road For reasons that I still can't explain It was somewhere in-between The Lost Hills and Paso Robles That I did get my final kicks My old car it spun like a dervish And wound up deep down in a ditch Way out on Highway 46 My car, well, it flipped and rolled And it landed upside-down It all seemed to happen in slo-mo In a haze of yellow and brown I remember I said to myself Hey, well, this is it This is how my life will end Holy shit But then the dust did settle And I got myself out I looked at my mangled car and thought I should've died in there no doubt I was lucky I didn't die I still wonder why, why, why, why didn't I Since then nothing's been the same And I gotta wonder Maybe this is the Twilight Zone And I'm really six feet under Well maybe I didn't survive and I'm in hell Maybe that's why the world's so strange It's hard to tell They say that Jimmy Dean He died here trying to get his kicks Maybe somewhere he's written a song About Highway 46
10.
We been around For what seems like a million years And look at how far we have not come We love to tell ourselves We are the smartest creatures of them all But the facts are we are oh so dumb Can you hear Him, God is laughing The world spins round and round and round And we heed the call of an ancient sound All for nothing, all for nothing We build our cities from the sand to the sky We live out our lives and then we die All for nothing, all for nothing We make our plans and we are think we are in control But they slip away every one We work our jobs And we buy ourselves a house in the 'burbs We think we live the dream but there are none Can you hear Him, God is weeping We think we're at our peak We look at how high we can reach But like Sisyphus we go a-tumbling down We go to church and we pray for our souls to be saved The water's rising and we're scared we'll drown Can you see Him, God is sleeping
11.
End of Days 04:31
The news came on A special report The man looked pretty upset He cleared his throat and dried his eyes And said something I won't forget It's time for you to come on home Head back without delays The hour's late, the time is nigh It's the end of days The sky was black at high noon And the air smelled of sulfur and ash It was as if God himself had swooped on down And said, time to take out the trash An earthquake here, a tsunami there Our world lay in rack and ruin We cried out to the lord above Screamin', What the hell are you doin' Come along now, my little one Better lock up all our belongings All I got to protect us is a rake We will hunker down in our basement And hope that this is all a bad mistake We will pray for our salvation While the rest will rot in hell We will ride on our chariots, yeah And we will live where the sanctified dwell
12.
Here I am guilty as charged I'm the one The one you want to hate Yeah, here I am Guilty as charged Lock me away I stand alone I stand apart I am not connected To your heart I would like to state The nature of my case I would like stare My accuser in the face I stand for alone I stand outside There is no place For me to hide I have my dream And you are there And you are my essence You are my prayer

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The clock on the wall is spinning around
'Round, 'round and 'round
And the planets all revolve around the sun
And we are merely dust
And we are barely dreams
That fade away when the day is done

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released August 14, 2023

Cover "Diary of a Plague Year" by Karen S. Langlie

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEqkQp0YC0o

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