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Sidewalk Songs

by Yellow Belly

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1.
Band Geek 02:04
in the back of the room in front of the source of my headaches every morning I can't breathe sometimes I don't even bother to play I look at faces around me clutchin for something they don't quite get we play the same songs every day but are we getting bored yet i'd always be invisible if it wasn't for the sounds that I make my life has been pretty simple I haven't had many chances to take I look at faces around me clutchin for something they don't quite get we play the same songs every day but are we getting bored yet I step outside the faces here are different oh my god none of this makes any sense to me lookin around but nobody's lookin at me and why should they i'm just a fuckin band geek my dog is barking and waking all the neighbors numbers and digits tell me what i'm savin for stuck in a world of ignorant depravity with every step we fight against the gravity turn on the light but still scream at the black sky screaming our pain into the air without a reply eyes at ground level we're in it for the long haul the bigger they are the harder they fall I am aware of the human dilemma jump of a cliff like a culture of lemmings misery's played out because all of it's old news our feet are going nowhere else but our own shoes I am aware of the human dilemma jump off a cliff like a culture of lemmings living your life and securing your own fate we are all stuck in a perpetual stalemate my dog is barking and waking all the neighbors number's and digits tell me what I'm savin for stuck in a world of ignorant depravity with every step we fuck it up here we go
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i can hear you going crazy in the world we've left behind i would have changed a couple things if i had had just a little more time to speak my mind but it's so cold and they're so unreceptive i scream out my heart but it isn't effective so if all you're gonna remember are all their lies there's nothing i can say that's gonna change your mind i'm tired of bitching and i'm so tired of whining if i can't change the world right now then i don't see the point of trying I've made the conscious decision put my hands in my pockets and see which side wins i'm just a single man if my vote counted i still wouldn't give a fuck about it cause i'm so tired of bitching and moaning if i can't change the world right now i'm probably never going to I've made the conscious decision put my hands in my pockets and see which side wins i'm just a single man if my vote counted my throat wouldn't be sore from shouting
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Filth 02:02
everything i say is filth from this point on turn off your ears i'll say it real fast so you don't have to hear it you won't have to think about it long enough to fear it here we go nobody has to feel me this ain't my sole motivation for living no more no way it's not gonna kill me I've added more years on my life but i will age they say live fast die young yeah right dream on you'll still be here long after your life is gone with all your friends and your history of being on this planet as a human being so now all my talents all my hopes and my potential are being expressed with vulgar connotations and all of the wonderful gifts that god gave me are being misused polluted and wasted spillin my guts on notebook pages pukin my soul on payphones and stages nobody understands me all of my thoughts are expressed at random i put myself out there to be judged by the masses show em my heart my soul and my ass but it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll and if you play punk rock you might never be known so if i do this shit for a decade will i die alone or end up like green day with everyone saying "they were better when they started but all their new shit's fucking retarded" but not before latching everything to it and bringing everything i love down with the ship so i'm still gonna do this as long as i'm able not gonna bitch about it like tom gabel they say punk is dead i say stop grieving punk's not dead cause i'm still breathing spillin my guts on notebook pages pukin my soul on payphones and stages
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Goodnight 01:30

about

These songs are pretty old. I've played a few of them with my band, which officially began in 2012, but most of these have remained poor quality laptop microphone recordings uploaded to a long abandoned Myspace page since 2009.

These songs were recorded by Brett Siler in Evansville Indiana in two hours for fifty bucks. He used a lot of microphones and did an amazing job. The next day his house caught on fire and his cat Thombus died. I met him and he was a chill dude. Well, Brett was too - I was taking about the kitty though. Anyway, there's a link at the bottom of this page that you can donate money to them through. I think that would be money well spent because I'd like to get a band in with him sometime to hash out the grand musical delusion that I've been concocting for the past few years.


I still have a great deal more music to share. I don't really write music much these days, but I wrote a lot of songs back when I was younger that I still stand by today and still think deserve to be shared. So I'll let you know when that happens I guess.


www.gofundme.com/thombus

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released June 24, 2016

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