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The Good Names Are Taken

by Val Emmich

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1.
Downtime 03:49
left a note on the table thrown away with the junk mail started up a brand new hobby quit because of competition meant to go to California I don't want to miss the party cut my hair in the mirror nothing's different nothing's different dreaming of a better life too much downtime downtime dwelling on what isn't right all this downtime downtime pretty things make me jealous wish someone would paint my portrait available for children's parties friends are working, always working America is dumb and broke I'm the only one without a gun dive into the open water swim with dolphins swim with dolphins dreaming of a better life too much downtime downtime dwelling on what isn't right all this downtime downtime I spend hours and hours and days and days so much to do but nothing at stake and my hear just breaks I spend hours and hours and days and days I'm living in a daze so much to do but nothing at stake and my heart just breaks
2.
Better 04:21
I've been tucked away for the longest time tried to find my peace but I lost my mind and the phone keeps ringing but I don't pick up try to wear that smile but you call my bluff everybody wants to know how am I doing? I'm doing better I was in ruins I got it together and now right this second I feel okay the smallest victories I celebrate I go from sane to crazy day to night not sure I have the stomach for a long life everybody wants to know how am I doing? I'm doing better I was in ruins I got it together see my emotions rise and fall keep moving forward even when I crawl I have to crawl you know, progress is very slow sometimes it don't even show but if you really want to know how am I doing? I'm doing better I was in ruins I got it together
3.
Wino 04:20
where do I begin? the hardest thing to push my doubts off to the side let go and speak my mind what if I sound stupid? or repeat myself? it's easy when I've yet to mend the trouble underneath the news is bleak the scientists agree the future's pretty fucked we're out of luck I have a daughter how will she survive the horror that awaits the world? she's just a girl it makes me want to cry I'm just one guy I do recycle use less energy it's all a bitter comedy like Kansas said: we're dust in the wind I love that song does make me less cool? and why do I even care? it makes me sad to think that everything is a contest in the end when you get a certain age your friends just fade into their own communities and no one sees anybody there is no fun to have it's only work and work and work and work and work we never stop bodies drop time just ticks away and now we want it back all the hours that we wasted getting wasted we were such a bunch of idiots and lunatics I wish I was insane cuz now my brain it thinks too clear I feel the fear inside of every sneeze a new disease it waits for me and who is gonna miss me when I'm gone? or play my songs? and sing along? I'm scared I'll disappear was never here my darling dear promise me you'll sing I know exactly who I am a total piece of shit but I also am a genius that the world has yet to recognize I guess that makes me typical just add it to the list you get the gist like Marshall Mathers did I'll take away what you can say my sign, it is a pisces pair of fish that swim in different ways of course I don't believe in signs or god or fate or party lines only that I'm rotting day by day, I am dying what am I doing with my time? I wine, I wine, I wine I drink my wine fine
4.
Outtahere 03:22
I'm asking for a reprieve I'm ready to leave honestly I wanna sleep been trying to get with the scene it won't get with me I don't know why I even try I am a stranger in the place I was born an all-night rager I don't want to dance anymore get me outta here I'm done get me outta here I'm not having fun get me outta here I give up you won the chatter about your affairs nobody cares can I bum a cigarette? see past me to a taller success well, I have undressed you in my mind a thousand times my head is hurting the lights are too dim save all your flirting cuz none of this is happening get me outta here I'm done get me outta here I'm not having fun get me outta here I give up you won I don't know what I'm doing here ambition fills me with dread and despair I'll head to the forest take my chances with the bears get me outta here I'm done get me outta here I'm not having fun get me outta here I give up you won
5.
Return 03:59
you alone make me dumb a Bengal tiger got my tongue a heavy weight lifted up I can never have enough you return me to the boy I used to be wide awake for hours armed with superpowers you return me to the kid I was before full of hope and joy you make me the boy I used to be fold me up in your purse I can watch you while you work let me soak up what I can you may never come again you return me to the boy I used to be wide awake for hours armed with superpowers you return me to the kid I was before full of hope and joy you make me the boy I used to be my living breathing time machine you're a living breathing time machine take me back take me back every time I close my eyes return me to a former life you return me to the boy I used to be wide awake for hours armed with superpowers you return me to the kid I was before full of hope and joy you make me the boy I used to be
6.
Wire 04:02
I want to feel it I want to feel it now I want to feel it just need to be taught how why do I procrastinate? push it all aside afraid to get inside the ring get a knuckle in the eye but I don't want to miss it all watch the day expire down to the wire give me a reason I need a reason now to keep believing time is ticking down while they're busy arguing over some ideal the rest of us are starving give us something real We can't keep delaying how's it feel to watch it? the fall of the empire down to the wire don't know where to start but none of us do none of us do got a burning in my heart to get up and move get up and move a burning in my heart to get up and move right now what are we waiting for? everybody now put your mouth where your passion is let me hear you shout we've been down for so long it's time that we got higher down to the wire I want to feel it I want to feel it now

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released May 19, 2015

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Val Emmich Jersey City, New Jersey

Singer-Songwriter / Novelist / Actor

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