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High Jinks

by High Jinks

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it's been far too long since i felt this blood rush through my veins washing away the fear as instinct overrides all sense and all i see is red it's good to feel this enraged because i've spent all my days in this cage and the bars will come down as i step on the stage you're my enemy you're my enemy you're my enemy i need a release
2.
Love Is 01:09
there's a boy behind a desk hating everything he is who's praying something different every single night just like the boy who was raised knowing he was second class, on his knees beside his bed praying that he'd wake up white there's a boy behind a desk with a collar and a robe who sees sanctity in high- definition black and white and he doesn't care in which god's house they're signing the cards, but he'll shut it down if there isn't a man and a wife there's a boy behind a desk writing laws in holy ink with his foot on civil rights in the interest of the clerics blacks got equal rights women go the vote but god help him if he'll give faggots the right to marry love is love hate is hate outlaw the marriage of the church and state
3.
a layered oil painting made centuries ago depicts the fall of man on judgement day and jesus on his throne. the screams of quivering bodies are thoughtlessly ignored while the arch-angel rears his blade and weighs the value of the souls. outside the epic imagery, the symbolism's clear. heavens right around the corner if you live your life in fear. a soldier of the church is a part we're willed to play because we all know a good war is where the money can be made. it's promised that a martyr's life awaits the ones who give their lives; these fucking kids consent to death based on pious fucking lies. an enemy of god will surely raise the tithe; and enemy of god will show us wrong and right.
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Harsh Wees 01:05
at the polar ends of this microcosm they're either standing up for sitting down or turning their noses to the air fucking sub-cultural worker ants but as much as i loathe social politics and the trivia that comes with them, i can't quite find the words to spend that would properly condemn, because: it still speaks to me, louder than anything through black and white photocopied sheets through nights on filthy crowded floors, 800 miles from home on the few days of my life that i could call my own
5.
Hardbodies 00:30
when it's too good to be true, that's when it is and i've just got to keep fighting there's more than just this keep fighting keep smiling time's moving stop for a moment and it rips right through you … and i was waiting just waiting just hoping that i would catch this moment but waiting, is hopeless and now it's fucking over story of my fucking life
6.
you'd never guess behind those dresses and ties stood alcoholics and battered wives how did our parents live through this? no matter the sheets of moral fabric we're force fed we thrive off the same things that we ignore we thrive of the same things that we ignore happening, we're doomed we're doomed to stand like our fathers and smile for the camera "those who don't learn from history are doped to repeat it" so what the fuck was the point of reading about elbow-greased struggles under prairie skies, the good ol' days, or the changing times?
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Violins 00:38
if this is unity, i'm calling a mutiny all we're showing is that we'll beat up kids who aren't in the scene closed fists, hypocrites, is this what you strive to be? an exclusive social regime i hope that you made the team don't look twice don't make the wrong move because me and my friends we like to beat up kids like you if that's the message that we send then i'm afraid for the shows because if everyone's afraid then nobody goes
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Fool's Gold 01:13
this bureaucracy yeah it gets to me feels like i'm sitting in a prison while i'm free to leave white washed dreams, so clean dreams this distant seem too voluntary un-coerced to question foolish schemed now i've got to choose can i trust these views? now i've got to choose one day soon, i'm told we'll be much too old to do anything but fit the mould feelings bought and sold the whole world put on hold and that's what comfort's called because we're controlled this is nothing new, because nothing's new this is what you need and this is what we need from you this is getting old, i know we've all been told that growing up is necessary and that we'd grow to learn it's eating me alive it's burning up inside us all
9.
if there's one thing that gets on my nerves it's some asshole telling me that my best days are over and there's nothing i can do but sit back and watch myself fall apart, bitter. old. alone. with nothing but contempt for the world what the fuck is wrong with just living every day? it's like i'm a fucking child, as if i don't have a say, i won't give everything i love, for a life lived as a slave i won't die in this city i won't kill myself that way.
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take cover in the fact you fucking reap their reaction use your petty fucking morals to avoid the detraction it's so easy to indulge in that sense of satisfaction you'll be frozen where you stand when your infatuation crumbles to dust… oh i don't want to hear about your twisted sense of pride your ignorance, it's arrogance, and it's oh so fucking snide to think your label and your leaning hold advantage over mine i'm laughing as you stutter spouting pledges for your life the answer's not naiveté and it's not conviction there's no hidden profound truth inside of rash prepossession kill your local drug dealer, ignore laissez-faire and religion with no holy books, it's just a catch phrase when simple rules of reservation tangle in conflict your escape from obsession becomes oxymoronic tell me i'm killing myself, that i'm a slave to a tenet i'll stand on the highest peaks and scream… i already know it.

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released July 1, 2007

recorded by stephen laughton forever ago

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