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Mixed
04:02
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Mixed
where do you fit
you make all categories primitive
order they insist
is all turned over by your presence
the science is in
hybrid-vigor/evolution
prototype mutation
your existence is threatening
you mix it up and taste it
in your kitchen experiment
what comes out is so random
sometimes needing help, sometimes delicious
the dream you have
is one more wish
to live
to see change
bloom and flourish
to not always feel
everything makes
sense
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Haptics
03:40
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lost through a hole in our pockets
not sure where we went
just when we’d started to feel
we were everyone else
going back to the drink
to records and cassettes
to all the things that make us
feel sheveled and kempt
pressing ourselves into times
needing proof to feel alive
I touch you now
I just need to check
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Upfall
02:22
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Upfall
a slow ascent up this face
an infinite surface few cracks
wedged in don’t pull back
1000 stories going unread
losing ground cry for help
echoing sounds making music
passed by while others fell
now just we’re two on a ledge
will you come to my upfall
are you down when I get the call
hanging round nowhere at all
nowhere out just up
can’t sleep losing tracks
in too deep we look ahead
higher we get less we breathe
onwards with this exhausting thing
getting down will be the test
as minds travel somewhere else
the higher we go
the higher we get
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Drug of Choice
01:58
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Drug of Choice (
what do you cling to
what's clinging to you
try to take it with you
unless it takes you first
those cookies, that TV
the world spinning your feet
you're a chemical thing
that’s got me hooked
I take you little by little
I take you all at once
pretending to be responsible,
measured, and involved
put me through a process
you know how to cheat
i’ll never be cured of you
things don’t ever go that far
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Other People's Bodies
01:38
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Other People’s Bodies
You want to meet someone
More like yourself
With less conflict
Over cat hair
So you can just relax
As the planet spins and spins
As time accelerates
And fear creeps in
And you feel like you’re gonna need
Another pair of hands
Other people’s bodies
Get in the way
Decades collapse into a kiss
Walking over plans
You thought best laid
Only make you lonely again
You don’t understand them
You want to command them
They become yourself then
Turn you into a weapon
You crave a distance
Just to feel resistance
Then you want the hurt
To start all over again
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Becoming Difficult
02:02
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Becoming Difficult
Is it the end of the world
Or are you having a bad day
There comes a point
When these things merge
And you just let them
Trail off
With your beliefs
That much more tightly held
Occasionally
Someone will come along
And validate
Most of what you’ve said
But in general
You become more difficult
It’s something
You grow to accept
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I Want to Sell Out
02:25
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I want to sell out
you’ve seen it before
never like this
I was once young and beautiful
now I just want to eat
the market in China
extends beyond my reach
I want to sell out
to make it small in several things
been living so big
I don’t seem to fit
want my face on the wall
it won’t hurt a bit
my phone to love me back
without all this spam
brought some samples
some recent things
hair can be dyed
photos redone
I know you don’t do
this format any more
but it’s coming back
they’ve said this Fall
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Wrong Side
02:44
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Wrong Side
I'm a captain you're a pirate
I’m a stewardess you're the high-jacker
you're the man I’m the child
back and fourth the nights swings
on the wrong side of history
waking up as anybody
the legacies of centuries
mix in our dreams
my parents were hippies I joined the police
growing up atheist now I believe
the distance of a lifeline stretched around my time
runs one-hundred eighty degrees
I live for feelings I remain mute
communicating with an instrument carved from wood
falling for people I become allergic to
yearning for what makes me hurt
I didn’t want children so I teach them instead
looking out into a darkness holding onto threads
I keep looking for the same thing in other people
nothing I want ever makes sense
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Mr. Judd
02:06
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Mr. Judd
met your wife at a party
when I couldn’t stay
looked like he missed you
but wouldn’t say
days I thought I was you
feeling you in my place
ringing ears in tribute
to the spirit of something else
said you didn’t know
what you were doing
impelled by the force
of those visions
they built a franchise
on your foundation
never admitting
the obvious thing
as time runs down
silence runs out
even our demons
need to be loved
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Weird Year
02:20
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Weird year
we tried to put it behind us
as It reached out to remind us
our grip was tenuously held
its tentacles then appeared
washed out with bourbon
bleached of its semen
trapped in memory glass
where we wouldn’t look back
weird year what was that about
we start now breathing out
weird year now it’s gone
feeling lucky we still count
looked for a future in front of us
only to find it discovered us
place to hide was inside us
the past and present wound around us
we had to write it out
with everything we had
stringing our doubts
dry in the winter air
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Bob Gaulke
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