Get all 8 Mobile Steam Unit releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Desk Jockeys, Tank, Lumon, U & I, Country Raw, Safe for Now, Flight Simulator, and Not in Service.
1. |
Are You Ever
03:19
|
|||
|
I never had sympathy
For all the things you said you need
I never bought your tragedy
You look for grace through your greed
Stop texting me all the things in your head
Leave me alone so I can get back to bed
Are you ever gonna need all the things that you seek
Are you ever gonna read all the books that you keep
Will you ever believe all the words that you speak
Baby put down the phone and listen to me
Are you eva’?
You think that you’re exemplary
Dressed up in daddy’s jewelry
But life is full of epiphanies
Your happiness illusory
Stop texting me all the things in your head
Leave me alone so I can get back to bed
Are you ever gonna need all the things that you seek
Are you ever gonna read all the books that you keep
Will you ever believe all the words that you speak
Baby put down the phone and listen to me
|
||||
2. |
Plainly
03:39
|
|||
|
No more hair left on my head
I can’t hide, I can’t pretend
Nothing left to hide my eyes now
Nothing left to quelch the contact
She’s all right but I can’t commit
Is it my past why don’t I give a shit
She’s got a point I didn’t treat her right
I can’t control my eyesight
Something’s goin’ on but you don’t have to say it to me
Something’s goin’ on but you don’t have to say it to me
There’s something goin’ on but you don’t have to say it to me
Something’s goin’ on now I can see it plainly
Trapped inside we both don’t feel alive
This must be a roller coaster ride
Nothing real to be scared of
Don’t you treat your eyes like children
Something’s goin’ on but you don’t have to say it to me
Something’s goin’ on but you don’t have to say it to me
There’s something goin on but you don’t have to say it to me
Something’s goin’ on now I can see it plainly
I can see it plainly
|
||||
3. |
The Tide
04:15
|
|||
|
She’s drinking gasoline and crying
She breathes, she inhales lightning
Then she screams just to test the silence
As it leaves her body
She goes unconscious
She spills onto the ceiling
The tide goes on believing
Oh she’s waiting
She makes her way through the frenzy
A shallow breath at the point of breaking
She’s a beautiful disaster in the making
Alone and lost
And panicking
She spills onto the ceiling
The tide goes on believing
She spills onto the ceiling
The tide goes on believing
Oh she’s waiting
|
||||
4. |
Less Texting
02:36
|
|||
5. |
Shape You
02:33
|
|||
|
Look at the stars and tell me what you think
The ones I focus on the most are lit intermittently
Too introverted to shine
but in the shadows they’re burning so violently
I gotta tell you something that you oughta know
The shape won’t change until you tear it don’t you know
I don’t know you well enough to know
To shape you on my own
Look around are we as important as we think
And take a look at yourself are you who you appear to be
So tell me something so I can understand
is everything what it seems
I gotta tell you something that you oughta know
The shape won’t change until you tear it don’t you know
I don’t know you well enough to know
To shape you on my own
|
||||
6. |
Insomnia Sonata
04:53
|
|||
|
What is there to know
When it’s all been said
I could ask my friends
But all my friends are dead
You came into my home
Slept under my bed
I wanted happiness
And I got you instead
No one gets the phone
We’re long past that stage
To answer means to talk
And vocalize the rage
Some silences have heat
But more often they’re cold
We couldn’t make it catch
A match without a stove
We blew it all before we started
But at the time it seemed important
Watch all the flames surround the space
And then it fell into place
You said you’d make it right
Then everything went wrong
Copied all my keys
And mixed up all my songs
And emptied all my bags
So you could make us clean
But now we lack a vessel for our dreams
We blew it all before we started
But at the time it seemed important
Watch all the flames surround the space
And then I fell into place
Then I fell into place
We blew it all before we started
But at the time it seemed important
Watch all the flames surround the space
And then I fell into place
|
||||
7. |
Welcome to Kanan
00:23
|
|||
|
Welcome to Kanan Indian Restaurant
So delicious, so nutritious
Tikka masala and naan
Leave a message at the tone
|
||||
Mobile Steam Unit Brooklyn, New York
part band
part brand
all business
Mobile Steam Unit recommends:
Heart of the Order
by Will Weston
a week's worth of moonbeams in every track. Tall, hard-working musicians who are predisposed to the pocket. High in brass, a delicious element.
go to album
Crown is the type of jam that makes funk the heavenly doobashoobadoobashooooo dashi hoooha
go to albumIf you like Mobile Steam Unit, you may also like:
All Those Things I Thought I Knew
by emzae
Singer-songwriter and producer's debut album is filled with '90s and Y2K-era influenced pop tracks.
go to album
The new album from Brooklyn band Guiding Light features atmospheric covers of Leonard Cohen & Nirvana alongside stirring originals.
go to album
The Montréal pop artist's latest album honors the possibilities of self-love.
go to album
Oh Uncertainty! A Universe Despairs
by Blood Cultures
The mysterious masked group Blood Cultures returns with a record of bubbling, tuneful synthpop.
go to album
