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Kyle O'Quin

by Kyle O'Quin

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i've got a lot of things on my mind, i know you sometimes feel the same a spiraling staircase in my head to nowhere, climbing to escape we gotta get up we gotta get out the record is spinning round again. a web of subtle contemplation we gotta get up we gotta get out, we gotta go before it's time to let go the city's wide awake, every things at stake it's getting hard when you can't catch a break and now i'm standing all alone everybody's walking 'round, people talking now. I still can't seem to figure out just what they're all talking about we gotta get up we gotta get out, we gotta go before it's time to let go the city's wide awake, every things at stake it's getting hard when you can't catch a break and i tried so hard to stay but something's telling me no sometimes you must gamble it all away to save your soul sometimes you just make with what you've got in the end it's all you have just go with what feels right in your heart it's the only thing that really sets up apart we had a good start then it all fell apart...
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everybody knows that good things never last everybody knows but me well i don't want to be like everybody else all the days i work just trying to scrape a buck bills keep piling high i'm running out of luck well sometimes you have to be like everybody else midnight stroll i walk around the park til half past two benches filled with vagabonds that reek of piss and booze they got nothing to lose please don't take my hard earned pay, yeah don't take that shit away and all the days go right on by and i'll just sit here wondering why i try when things never really seem to change please don't take my hard earned pay, yeah don't take that shit away we'll live to see the day, yeah we'll find some other way
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you said i could be your gentleman junkie i tried and tried to make things right please don't go there's still so much i don't know well you can be my little star you said i could be your gentleman junkie it's all i could ever be, at least all that you'll ever see i hear you hollerin' all the same shit i've heard before you best start walking out the same door you came in before well you can be my little star you said i could be your gentleman junkie there's more that you'll never see that much more that you'll never be the city streets are talking something about the stock market crashing down spinning the world round and round well take it from me your resident junkie there's more that you'll never be that much more that i'll never see the moon shines down upon your face "don't go you're making a mistake" you wait standing by the phone don't call you can make it out alone
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sitting, waiting, watching the world from your second story window holding feelings of dissatisfaction for everyone that you know well if you want it kid, you best get up and go 'cause there's always someone else who wants it just a little more i'm holding my head up high even though things haven't turned out right i'm skating through life on thin ice don't think twice and it'll be alright i haven't slept much lately, i can't seem to find my way when there's so much work to be done and so little time in each day i'm watching this world go by and i can't quite seem to get shit right i can't find the time of day to say the things that i'd like to say you don't know the second half of everything that came before or what the future holds for you i'm holding my head up high even though things haven't turned out right i'm skating through life on thin ice don't think twice and it'll be alright
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sunday morning wake up. I'm taking my time, i'm feeling just fine operation breakout of this mold that unfolds and plagues the streets of today i'll sit and wait for you in a little place off grand ave in a place where all your dreams will come true conversations with the books and radios is getting kind of old, yeah i need someone to hold i'm stuck here on the fast track getting nowhere soon nowhere close to you someday we might make up but there's still options left i'm not holding my breath i'll sit and wait for you in a little place off grand ave in a place where all your dreams will come true conversations with the books and radios is getting kind of old, yeah i need someone to hold i'll sit and wait for you in a little place off grand ave
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i sit on this stoop and write this song, i wrote it for you yeah cause what else is there for a guy like me left to do? i sit here scraping my money for nothing but i'll do it for you when your whole world is caving in and your left not knowing what to do just know this is for you all the times that i tried but i couldn't get things right yes i think i might have made the same mistake twice pretty maggie moneyeyes what would i do, what would i do without you? you sit here selling your body for nothing a chance to be true? yeah cause what else is there for a girl like you left to prove? you know this is for you all the times that i tried but i couldn't get things right yes i think i might have made the same mistake twice, it's alright pretty maggie moneyeyes what would i do, what would i do without you? these days, oh how they're fading away these nights, oh how they're passing us by
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Penniless 03:52
sitting staring up at the sky man you know i'm just trying to get by i got a guitar and a mean case of the blues i'm just a guy who's got nothing to prove here's another melody it just might be the closest you will get to me here's a final memory for you to keep, i left you fast asleep man i'm sitting here wondering why i'm having trouble just trying to stay high my papa said "son, we all run out of luck" well i got just two smokes and i spent my last five bucks and now i'm penniless, worth only the ideas in my head you been hanging around me, well you fucking found me my mama said "if you can't get out, get in" well ma, i'm in now over my head and now i'm penniless, worth only the ideas in my head here's a final remedy for you to keep, i left you fast asleep
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i left you alone in the dark well i'll be your little shooting star they say that people never change well i like you just the way that you are you came, took all my troubles right away you're sitting alone in your room with nothing left to do i may be a far ways from home but i'm thinking about you you came, lifted my sorrow right away things might not work out in the end but i still live it all again all of the things we're looking for i swear that we've seem them all before
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we're all just waiting for the day when all our problems wash away well it's gonna be a long, long time but that's alright i'm a patient kind of guy cause in the end we have our time i'm wasting yours, i'm wasting mine one day i hope you'll know your way and find yourself down on rhododendron way walking down the street dragging both my feet i'll give this one more try cause i'm a patient kind of guy lets take things back from the start back before they fell apart cause nothing in this world is free well that's alright, that's just fine with me i'm a patient kind of guy
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kinda funny how the truth gets bent, you don't even know you're lying i never knew what you meant until i saw you crying Isn't it funny how things go? there's always something that we won't know the people that come and the people that go so far away where were they all when we needed them most? brother i want you to know i never meant to hurt you with all the time in the world, still i'm left here searching isn't it strange how things go? a struggle to carry the weight of the world left here alone at the end of the road so far away where the people you love aren't the people you know

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This album was recorded in 2009 at the House of Breaking Glass in Seattle, WA

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released September 20, 2013

All songs by Kyle O'Quin
Produced by Phillip A Peterson and Kyle O'Quin
Mixed by Steve Fisk and Kyle O'Quin
Mastered by Steve Turnidge
Engineered by Phillip A Peterson and Kyle O'Quin
*Lead vocals for the whole album and piano for Gotta Get Out engineered by Steve Fisk and recorded at his house

Kyle O'Quin: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keys and Drums

Phillip A Peterson: Strings, Horns and Backup Vocals

Additional Players
Aaron Benson: Snare drums on Patient Kind of Guy
Nick Shadel: Backup Vocals on Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
Peter Kowalczyk: Backup Vocals on Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
Ryan Van Wieringen: Backup Vocals on The Way Things Go

Cover Photography: Zach Carothers
Cover "Art": John Gourley

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