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Old Gods & End Times

by Breakfast for Turtles

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1.
We are gonna cry out Until we cannot breathe. We are gonna raise Our flaming bottles high. We'll put sacks over the heads Of every single doubt, Pull all the triggers, Pan the cameras to the sky. Dance like Che Guevara in Havana On a sunny day in 1959. A bloody path behind us, a lot of work ahead, Ah, but listen as the whirring sound align. Shining stars exploding through my spine. All the ashes falling Through the heavy air Like confetti We'll never fully clean. Sifting out our callings From sieves of matted hair, Not forgetting Our friends' blood on our jeans, But there is something of unfathomable purpose Scratched on one of these innumerable pages And if only I could ever seem to find it I'd be alright. Everything I need just out of sight. And I've hit the point where all the fighting's done And now I've got to build. Stand up, make the tough calls. Be ready or be killed. And there's a moment of extraordinary insight Hidden somewhere in these years of filth and pain And it's nagging like a word I just remember But never find, And there's some great romantic cosmic truth Tucked away inside those dreams that make me cry, But it's always in some out of focus corner And I am blind. Everything I need lost in my mind.
2.
Feel the quiver in my hands. Splash some war paint on. Carve my teeth real sharp, Bare them big 'til dawn. Indulge a moment's regret, All lost in glass. Biting hunger in my vains. Feverish dreaming kiss. Feast on everything And vanish into mist. Rising high into the cold black sky Shivering wildly waiting this dread night to pass. Scour barren lands, Big holes in my shoes. Proudly count on these worn hands All the spoils I am waiting now to lose. Flee porch lights like a cockroach, Wait for death at braking tires. No sleep for vampires. A panicked scream through the rain. Know I've left my mark. Cast a doll into the storm drain, Swallowed by the dark. Dancing wildly with my demons Until they come and make me leave the park. Walk hand in hand With grizzled men thrusting sharpened sticks. Curse every brand. Curse dark spots in my flesh from pleasure pricks. Wrap myself in stolen velvet On a burning funeral pyre. No sleep for vampires.
3.
When the corner-eyed glances of strangers you pass in the street Lead you back to the chorus of horrible things that you sing to yourself on repeat. When the fake laughter backtracks and meaningless smiles leave you numb And the clothes you are wearing all point to a someone you're hoping you never become. So you stand with your back to your memories starting to peel Between the mirror and the mask you can never be certain just which of these faces are real. When the pronouns and pre-ordained paths you can see all seem wrong, With the scars you remember and eyes that you don't staring back from the place you belong, We're going to beat you We're going to crush you We're going to tear you apart like we did back when you were a kid No one will save you No one will comfort you You'll be reborn and you know you deserve it. We'll tattoo arcane glyphs and bad words on your face, Consulting ancient tomes and our outstanding tastes. We're going to beat you We're going to crush you We're going to tear you apart like we did back when you were a kid No one will save you No one will comfort you You'll be reborn and you know you deserve it. With the demon cultists chanting And the sacrifices screaming, You'll emerge with cloven hooves and a fresh wardrobe. Your burning red eyes gleaming, Your forked tongue will hiss, "I am whole and I deserve this. I am whole and I deserve this. I am beautiful and terrible. My universe is me and I deserve this."
4.
Quiet 05:25
Purple velvet on the nightstand watching us fall Dim light casting weak shadows up so tall And all the wrapping cast aside We are open. All the day's miles away on the floor. You can still hear the cat past the door, But for a few hours we'll hide. We are clean. And there's nothing that I have left to say. Tied tongues tumble and stumble in the way Of the quiet faint rumbling of our breath. There were times before I'd dream of flight Or be hunted by wolves through the night, But here burrowed in bed We lie safe within its breadth. And I will make me better So I don't burn this home to the ground. From all the black flies and stormy weather I will seal us good and tight Build a roof from whatever can be found.
5.
Light up all of our candles Open all the wine Burn through all the foodstuffs 'Til the air is sweet and fine. Kiss each friendly lip in town. Follow all of your urges down, down, down, down... They've howled at the gates For two long months at least, And the flames in their eyes Have every day increased. In the morning I'm sure we'll die, But tonight our souls will fly, So sing for your brother And all your neighbor's pets, For your first grade teacher And the love you've never met; For your friends and your bulging eyes Let your last cries pierce through the skies.
6.
Revelation 03:32
In my dreams I am a prophet where the last days break I am wading through the waters of a clear dead lake. Flecks of sulfur up high blotting out the sun and filling up my chest. Sky shining radiant and golden as the end times crest. I am hungry in the valley, I am hungry on the steppe, I am hungry in the grassland where the last lion wept, Engulfed now in the unabating fires that sweep across the land. Ah, but look at me, look at me, my God I can make it all sand. Raise my rod to the sky. Hidden symbols to trace. Shout on the street corner to every passing face. Birds fall high from the treetops, They are waiting now to die. We are waiting now to die, And we prayed and heard nothing from the sky. In this tomb that we have made we are shaking and afraid. Revelation. Raise my rod to the sky. Hidden symbols to trace. Shout on the street corner to every passing face. Birds fall high from the treetops, They are waiting now to die. We are waiting now to die, And we prayed and heard nothing from the sky. In this tomb that we have made we are shaking and afraid. Revelation. Our destroyers' children living on in a great iron lung, I am babbling and thoughtless, ancient fables on my tongue. I see the rolling green hills that I grew up on plunged into eternal drought, And I see the light sputter out.
7.
You rode your bicycle far, far beneath me, Dodging landmine cracks in pavement, big strong roots, And how I wept at every scrape, willing healing. How I always prayed you'd pluck the sweetest fruits. And when my magic winds had all seemed to fail you, Diving deeper than my ancient eyes can see, My feathers hung in sorrow. Red gold and green. But you had crawled up back to earth with bloody fingers And I have never been more happy in all my many days A million offerings on alters Before my gaze Now you are riding once again (through the backyards) Fences cracking under hoof, drum roll beating through your heart. Dawn breaks in an instant. I am the morning star. Ash and feathers raining down Upon your brave new start.

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released December 8, 2019

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Breakfast for Turtles Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Breakfast for Turtles is a folk-punk-adjacent band of friendly reptiles from Philadelphia. Expect high energy, heavy bass solos, danceable rhythms and intense, emotive lyricism.

Lead Vox/Guitar - Gabe Robitaille

Harmonies/Bass - Ben Anderson

Drums - Matt DiPaolo
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