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1.
I thought I could make it work I thought I could be doomed, romantic But now I can't shake off all of these bad habits Gift me situations that I can get wrong Gift me scaffolding to swing from I've been going from Missionary into Foetal Trace two lines about my body: You have found the Axis Of Evil.
2.
You can see I'm smiling I don't know how to do anything else You can see I'm smiling I've forgotten how to be myself Get me on a train or a plane or a coach You can wear me like a bracelet You can wear me like a broach I saw myself letting go.
3.
Thinning Out 02:50
Forgoing meals for beers and smokes And to roll my eyes at my own jokes To submerge myself into the shallows To lead myself right up into the gallows I'm thinning out Thinning out for you: it's like you wanted me to A diet of spirits and gum Is a diet fit for no one I didn't want to learn to do without I didn't want to learn to live with doubt I feel my spirit sinking I feel my stomach shrinking.
4.
Buying a leather jacket I am shaving my head I am wishing everyone happier than me dead Feel like a perfect church with broken stained glass windows And on those flaws are where all the attention goes I've been feeling a strong sensation just to denounce it I'm coming home for Christmas! I'm going back to counselling! It's a blood orange sky It's just you and I I wanna swap nights grappling dread For mornings spent singing into showerheads It gets better.
5.
Who could ever love these limbs of lead? And who's gonna console me now that the vibrator's dead? I haven't felt anything in months That's why I drink, that's why I'm drunk I claim that I'm coping Fight my demons in the open My defence's used up: Bow my head, fill my cup.
6.
C'maaan Dude 02:07
The crowd sings: 'Stop being so sincere Awh c'mon man, you're killing us here You could've said yes to a few more things You could've learned to pull on your own strings' I can't make any promises but I can try Feet on the ground I'm ready for the high. Oh c'maaan, c'maaan dude This is not a competition To be the single saddest person In any given room Orange hughes of warmth Long strands of soothing talk: They're not proof of a full heart But they are a slow start A slow start I'm gonna drop the downbeat discourse I'm gonna love at gale force.
7.
Life is short and shitty Life is long and lonely And I wanted to fill it full Of people I love, people like you But now our moment is so long past It's like gnawing on a lost carcass Our love: A canary in a coalmine I knew the end was coming I just needed a sign I've had visions of us: Happy, alone The children sleeping peacefully in our forgotten home But now there are no notches left upon my belt Damaged goods, they just can't repair themselves That could've been our home But now the plans have turned to dust So I'll just leave it alone.
8.
I haven't got the time to be romantic anymore, It's gonna be stones up at your window, and bricks right through your door Our dirty laundry, Like trainers over telephone wire, For the whole city to see, It should've been just you and me We'll get into real introspective moods, because we're real introspective dudes You can run away, erratic, I'm done, nothing left to discuss, It's fine - my balls are big enough for the both of us, Why should I throw in my chips with someone I don't trust? It should've been just you and me.
9.
I've been having this nightmare constantly, When you smile and you snarl 'you're dead to me', We embrace and we vine into a weird, warped effigy, You and me When the party's over, when we've lost the light Would you lay us down somewhere dignified? The ending of the union - shocking and beautiful, Like two grown men locking eyes at the urinal Through the vast swells of time we swim, I let you down when you let me in, Now I've left us dying on a whim.

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sort-of audible songs recorded while deadlines loomed using an acoustic guitar and GarageBand

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released January 16, 2014

piano/guitar/voice - JF
drums/cheering/boos - GarageBand
artwork - JF

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