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Catching Up To The Past

by Jesus The Dinosaur

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1.
I'm a defiant man and self-assured defiance is just self-assured I'm half crazy maybe I'm not sure so when it comes to you and me or, for that matter, anything reality is bound to change so maybe I'm not sure everyday I see her walking by I used to shout and curse the sky nowadays I could care less and I don't picture her undressed maybe this is the last test I am so happy to be alone I would see you but you're not home hear you two are doing pretty good and it's ok it's getting awful stale anyway and for the first time I feel sorry for you cuz I am in bloom you'll go down your slippery road and I will go down mine you can just do what you want cuz I'm gonna be just fine love is not something that you should have to bear and if you try to get me down, you won't I wish you all the luck in the world and I hope you find what you need and wherever that may lead oh maybe we will.. I am so happy to be alone I would see you but you're not home love like that don't last so long just like a couple of shots and you're done don't let it get you down for the first time for the first time I'm not alone and without you.
2.
Mutiny 04:20
feels like my world's ripping apart I am blind and in the dark harpies tearing out my chest with their hooks my only company are those in books somebody tell me what to say I'm alive, but I'm ok can't tell if I should listen to my brain concerning puzzles laced with insane and I thought once we were on an island but now I see only bridges in between mutiny take over and mutiny again I thought I saw a light and that it wasn't at the end oh I believe in the things I swore to never try again mutiny take over and mutiny again as time goes on I'm always older when you catch up I'll have left you colder we switch roles between thief and widow and i believe that this whole show will end when everybody's dead I'M SORRY FOR THE PROMISES THAT SPOILED INTO LIES THAT FESTERED INTO MAGGOTS, GIVING BIRTH TO BABY FLIES THAT FLY AWAY OR STICK AROUND TO FEED ON THE DECAY EITHER WAY RETURNING BACK INTO THE DIRT WHERE THEY WERE LAID.
3.
Lights 06:00
we're in the city of lights, but nothing's on we got permission to fly, but we're not grown we're gliding by like ice and sometimes i worry dark and cold are together if i could change your mind maybe it'd change the weather we're only passing by the lights are slipping by we're gliding by like ice and sometimes i worry and sometimes i don't care to mind FLOATING ISLANDS IN MY HEAD i think i'm stranded but i can't check the one towards the sun is blinding the one towards the sea is calling and sometimes you're calling and sometimes i don't care to mind come back get back to the place where we were born into the light whatever helps you sleep at night turn down the knob on the dashboard radio the light is bright, but as far as i know your voice is all i hear your voice is all i want to hear.
4.
Ten 03:15
got ten fingers got ten toes got more than ten reasons not to let you go oh i know, houses aren't what they used to be outlines of where we used to sleep breath in the cold holds it's form longer now than bricks in a line this is home now welcome welcome i only need one reason now clear as the sun when you're around when the eclipse in the sea and the sand dunes meet
5.
Coal 05:44
every song i write is the same i'm an honest man who makes his own pain trying so hard to tell everyone how i feel and explain pavement, madness, and you trying to understand and by god i wish that you could i figured out that nobody stops loving who they loved you caught desire and i caught the flu drowns in my eyes the coal piling up and i never knew it wasn't enough but who can blame a girl for jumping off a sinking ship? if you were drowning who forged the news? words don't say enough i want you to see this too i'm begging of you i tell it to go i tell it to spread it's colors i point but i don't know its name trying to let this go you can't change what you don't control i figured out that nobody will ever know me (the light that's burning away makes me feel so alone i've been here so long, so does that make it home? the darkness makes me wonder how much left there is to give to you) love is the only way to heal it's own break-in/until i learn to stop and end this agony i asked for turn out the lights i'm coming home da da da da doesn't matter it's all the same say what you mean and take breaths in between don't have to be my enemy don't be my enemy or my one and only, lonely.
6.
All I Saw 04:15
you were all i saw in the end i did not see my mother and i did not see my friends you were all i saw in the end you were all i sang in the end i did not sing my brothers and i did not sing amen you were all i sang in the end i stepped into the night and the light fell quietly turning me to shadow on the wall i didn't know a thing i was the only domino as i fell your echoes drowned the curtain call you were all i saw in the morning i saw your gaze of embrace and i saw your cheeks' sunrise reborn every day in your love.

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for anyone feeling alone in a mutiny of mind/heart/home.

ALL PROCEEDS go to Egan's Team for the 5/20/17 CF walk in ATL.
greatstrides.cff.org

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released May 6, 2017

all songs written 2010-2012 (except "All I Saw")

Tracks 1-5:
Recorded August 13th-27th 2016 at Panic Productions in Sydney, Australia
All songs written, produced, and played by Tommy Ng
Additional percussion on “Coal” played by Jonno Panichi
Co-production on “Coal” by Russell Finch
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Russell Finch

Track 6:
Recorded 2015 at The Record Co. in Boston, MA
Lyrics, Vocal, and Guitar by Tommy Ng
Drum by Jamie Rowe
Cello by Brad Robertson
Engineered by Will Palmeri, Brad Robertson, and Jamie Rowe
Mixed and produced by Jamie Rowe

Cover art by Nat Emerson (@vuntagebee on Instagram)

Special thanks to the Panichi family for housing me during the two weeks of recording: Paul for lending me use of your Panic Room, Kathy for the home-cooked vegetarian dinners, Jonno and Kit for early morning couch riffs and late night gaming, and the whole fam for your support and for listening in. Russell, thanks for sticking with me through the long days.

Thanks to Erica, Luke, Josh, Christian, Egan, Meg, Cullen, Alishan, Parker, Ben, Nat, Izaak and Chris for their ears and input in the early stages of these songs at lunch breaks and after school, and to Thrower Starr for letting me borrow his guitar to work on them.

Thanks to Austin and Sam for their early contributions to “Lights”, and to everyone who came to a Moondogs show.

Thanks to the Dingo family for their loving support of my non-dingo songs.

Thanks mom, dad, and Carly for your encouragement, advice, and constant belief in me.

JTD listens to ‘Emotionalism’ by The Avett Brothers, Chadwick Stokes, Neutral Milk Hotel, and watches Wes Anderson films.

JTD uses Ernie Ball 2003 Earthwood 80/20 Bronze Alloy Medium-Light strings, which sound great when they're dead, too.

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