We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Living Room

from Punk Songs by Tearing Up

/

lyrics

My living room was the only venue we had.
 We needed to play a show. 
We waited till my parents left,
 the weekend before graduation I said: “call everyone, tell them we’ve been waitin”

The same faces staring back


the same places haunting me


for all my efforts and what they may lack
I was only demanding my own autonomy

I was jealous of your Telecaster but I knew I couldn’t play guitar as well as you could. 
I found old recordings, ‘member you once told me: “I can tell you wrote that song ‘bout her” ?

Gathered in communion
 still in standard tuning, 
sound echoed off the walls

of our living rooms and basements. 
No means of escape,
just teenage concert halls

and we thought of a narrative,
 a narrative to carry our hearts and our heels from rust on steel and I kissed as a roman candle blew out into the field

so naive, we believed our love was real.

Like some little kid,
just out of frame
waving their arms,
screaming their name.
An integral part that keeps you awake,
it’s still in your heart

it can’t go away.

Were we just sitting around waiting for stones to bleed?

fumbling in the dark for which we could not name but need?

She said "I can feel it, there’s something hanging over me
"
swimming in shallow waters searching for the deep.


And we fell in love with the myth of our age; threw our rural anxieties up against a blank page.

We were free like all the others but we still called ourselves caged,

cause we were just begging for something to liberate.

credits

from Punk Songs, released September 14, 2018

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Tearing Up image

Tearing Up Toronto, Ontario

"You should change your artist bio, that one that's up there doesn't sound like you"
- my mom

Booking:
Canada: brendan@doubledenimmgmt.com

Britain/EU: kai.lehmann@cabinartists.com

US:
outerorbitbooking@gmail.com ... more

contact / help

Contact Tearing Up

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Tearing Up, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now