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Souvenirs and Astronauts

by Nick Pope

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1.
Nothing left to do today— OK for now, whatever. List a thousand things together, holding hands and taking pictures. Now, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Well, at least complete. It's got eyes and ears and pirate feet, a wolverine and tight wire, tequila. I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Yeah, I feel better by the minute. Just got one big thing with other things in it, a bag of drugs and cactus, flyers. I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Yeah, cloud jar money. I'll be fine, I'll be fine. The way it ticks, just a list is all it is— it's also all that. Lazy Susan, pocketbook, artichoke, Oklahoma plates and candy cane, decanters. I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Concrete and a reindeer, sodas, tupperware and mistletoe, peanut brittle, rubberbands, barley, mino, marzipan. OK I'm fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Yeah, cloud, jar, money. Fine, I'll be fine. The way it ticks, just a list to have it— ceiling fans and traffic, motorways and wells. I was in the woods. Now I'm souvenirs and astronauts. Ice cream, button, monster, tongue, a wooly mammoth, acorn, bikini. I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Yeah, cloud jar money. I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Fine, I'll be fine. Cloud jar money. Fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Fine, fine. Cloud jar money. I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine, I'll be fine. Fine, I'll be fine.
2.
Pup Chow Loo 01:25
Pup Chow Loo I've been barking too. I've been watching what you're doing— Pup Chow Loo-ing. Earlier we were hungry for lunch, so we ate a bunch, so we're tired now. You look like a cow but you prowl like a cheetah. You learned a couple tricks that I didn't really teach ya. Sleeping on the couch for now, ya Pup Chow Loo. I've been barking, too, Pup Chow Loo.
3.
Saturday night, Nicole told me she loved me, we were both drunk on gin, and I cried in her arms as I confronted my flaws and thought about Mom.
4.
Have you noticed they all are staring at you now? Will you do something to keep them pleasantly caring? I wonder how. Have you noticed they all are staring at you now? Will you do something to keep caring now? How I wonder what. Do they like big lights and loud sounds? Or do they desire lavish robes and gold crowns? How I wonder if they want to see me chasing what I'm after. And I wonder if they want to see me catch that which I wish to capture. Are they after me now? Now that it's so clear. Are they after me now? Now that I don't fear anyone. Are they after me now? Now that the whole world can hear? Are they after me now.
5.
Dig 01:20
Your face, your eyes, your shotgun shell. Your fate, shut everything out, and so I fell. Wanna jump your bones.
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I'm so happy you're alive, baby. I'm so happy you're alive, so we can share our time together. I'm so happy you're alive, baby. I'm so happy you're alive, so we can share our time together. Oh I'd be sad if you're gone, but you're not, so I'm happy. I'm so happy up and down up and down up and down up and down. So happy I can see your chest moving up and down, down up and down. I can see it up and down. Happy just to see it, up and down.
7.
Good Friends 04:15
If you were to cut in, remind me of a life sold out for comfort, small talk and cookies— so get the knife. Does a good friend make it easy? Or cry at the door— please. Surrounded, waiting, quiet, anxious.
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I sleep with two bad bitches, and they give me mad kisses cause my love's vicious, and I do the dishes. And the meal was delicious. So Kim, what the sitch is, pup, man, and Mrs. ? And I'm rappin but I ain't malicious, or concerned with riches, or Abercrombie and fitches. Naw I'd rather be takin a bath with splash splishes, or toastin up a loaf and makin sandwiches. Every time our path criss-cross or cross-crisses man it pops and it fizzes till we all up in stitches, it's nutritious cause she hella ella expeditious— with any trace of glitches man she squashes and squishes. Such a sweetie, she loves syrup, but I ain't suspicious cause she ain't surreptitious. This is where my niche is, in between the sketches and skitches, in between the tough love of my two bad blitches. See mom I'm watchin my cursin, but I could use some listerine for some swashes and swishin. Find me in the kitchen mish-mash and mishin, cookin up a rhythm for some self-publishin, cause I'm chillin on a hook, but I ain't catchin fishes. That's right I'm chillin on a hook with my two bad bitches.
10.
Stumbling 02:58
C'mon down, down by the river. Get your head right in until you shiver. It's alright it's okay to get a little bit off your mind today. C'mon down, down by the river. Get your head right in until you shiver. It's okay, it's alright to get a little bit off your mind tonight. It's okay, it's alright cause if I'd known, if I'd known better I'd still be here, still be here, still stumbling. C'mon down, down by the river. Get your head right in until you shiver. It's alright it's okay to get a little bit off your mind today. It's okay, it's alright cause if I'd known, if I'd known better I'd still be here, still be here, still stumbling.
11.
Baggage 03:05
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I was hoping you would call me by the time I reached the door. Sure, I was hoping you would call me, and maybe call me back for more. I was hoping you would call me by the time I reached the door. Sure, I was hoping you would call me, and maybe call me your baby once more. And now, you and your silverware get up and go you and your love can walk out the door. I was hoping you would call me by the time I reached the door. Sure, I was hoping you would call me, and maybe call me your baby once more. And now, you and your silverware get up and go you and your love can walk out the door. I was hoping you would call me and maybe call me back, call me back and call me your baby once more.
13.
Just last week she would tell me where we'd meet. I could go and say hello, but now I'm on my own. She said don't call—I don't want to hear your voice at all. I moved on to someone new and I think you've ought to. Say the words that I long to hear, "It will only be a day or two till I'll be with you." But no. Just last week she would tell me where she'd be. I could go and say hello, but now I'm on my own.
14.
Robot 02:00
I feel like a robot programmed in a knot— I can't get anything done. I planned for the future when I was stupider— man it ways a ton. I feel like a robot who forgot how to walk— cause all I do is run. My plans for the future are falling from heaven trying to remember the sun. I feel like a robot choking on moments— man I miss the fun, and man it ways a ton, and I can't get anything done.
15.
Alright 03:10
Oh to sing without my heart on the line, just a sweeter way to pass the time. And when the words fall out it's the craziest thing what thoughtlessness can bring. Oh how'd it become so sweet to be so deep inside your melody and rhythm. And when I feel alright it's the easiest thing I can play guitar and sing.
16.
All I Can Do 03:23
Said it's all I can do to just sit and watch the day roll by, now that you're gone. and it's all I can do to just sit and watch the day roll by, now that you're gone. Baby please don't look my way, you're memories. Just memories, I don't want to be just memories now that you're gone. And she screams softly let me in, I've been counting while I walk to keep my balance. I don't want to be just memories anymore. I said it's all I can do.
17.
Coley 03:20
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Bantering On 02:50
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20.
Soon, child wonders will fill up your room mild pintos and bays golden, wild-eyed and over the moon rushing away. Goodnight love you and see you tomorrow after your dreams after the sun fills up your window.
21.
The Trying 03:22
No matter how much how many or what or when or where. No matter how wide or how clearly aligned or how long I can stare. No matter how tightly or gently. No matter how much how many or what or when or where. No matter the things from before or the words or sounds or lights or motions or temperature. No matter how messy or clean. And no matter the trying it stands between what I do and what I mean and you and me. It's happening I'm back I'm stuck I'm caught it's the same fight I fought the same lesson I taught myself over and over again it's too late, it's shaking and broken and breaking and taking me farther and farther away. I'm completely arrested she's already guessed it nakedly racing around this old place. I'm at it again wish I'd rather not I'd rather not. No matter how tightly or gently.
22.
The Hours 06:03
You want to sit up and speak but your tied down, and so the weight is on me yeah, it's mine now. I'm in the middle of three I couldn't lie down, and so I pull up my sleeves and I cried out. Since I saw you there in that moment there's no turning back, and with all that's needless to say it's all wrong any other way. It's a bitter relief but we're tired out. Yeah a hit of release— been awhile now. Since I saw you there in that moment there's no turning back, and with all that's needless to say it's all wrong any other way. I can be the one. You don't have to say. I can tell you're done. I can be the way. C'mon I can tell. You don't have to say. You don't have to stay, counting on the hours. You don't have to stay. I can tell you're done counting on the hours. You don't have stay.

about

"Souvenirs and Astronauts" is a six-part compilation of music recorded over the past three years in my bedroom and at Cowboy Technical studios in Brooklyn.

Co-Produced and Mixed with Kyle Joseph
Artwork by Nick Pope
Shoutout to Pony Christ Studios

Released on Odd Gift Records, Brooklyn, NY

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released November 22, 2016

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