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Trippin' in A Cell

by Lukas David Schultz

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1.
52 03:35
“Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.” (Jeremiah 11:11)
2.
a part of me died the day that fascism ceased to be a mystery to me the day the parts became a whole and no one was held accountable for unprecedented crimes and all the guilt and shame were mine a part of me cried at the sight of infinite beauty knowing it couldn't be something to be owned and held by anybody still inclined to keep it to themselves i wanted to have it for myself a part of me lied when i proclaimed i was content with the future and the past seeing that there was a moment to freely exist and float in chased after by another that just said "if i were you i wouldn't bother"
3.
RIP to the homeboy sister magdalene patron saint of nowhere towns won't you show your face in the ashes of my innocence that kept glowing all winter long and now they're gone you caused me trouble no rhyme or reason covered in bruises the kind that never heals the hopelessness i cut my teeth on still follows me into my fever dreams oh and now i know that i'll never change believe me i tried and it just wasn't right so if you try and make me stay slip me some medicine to counteract the ache soon as you looked the other way i ran swore to never mention your name again and if they ask me i'll deny everything and never fall from grace again ...of days gone by
4.
(brought to you by three generations of catholic guilt) here he come dipshit choir boy smoking wet from the fire and rain the lord and the devil brawling in his brain struggling with a dying voice old friends say it's a crying shame that he'd have to go completely insane we put all of our faith in you kid will you look at what you did will you look at what you did tried to talk him out of it he broke the chain got swept away twenty years of defeat going off in his brain said "i'll sure hit the motherlode if you just let me play the game think i could wrap my head around the filthiness of fame" i said i'd bet my bottom dollar on you kid will you look at what you did will you look at what you did (...sooner or later we'll all be cold smoke...) (...clothes smell really bad...) (...poetry is very mediocre...) (...people that you see in those old photographs...) (...sober soul, don't need to be fixed...)
5.
i'm doin fine doin fine just doin fine i'm not losing my mind i'm not losing my mind and i don't even care what's yours and what is mine oh because i'm doin fine doin fine just doin fine
6.
memories won't let me fall asleep or open my heart up to the night staring down that well so dark and deep oh it gave me such a fright oh it gave me such a fright rowed my boat to starlight harbor blew all the loose change i had left on fleeting moments and murky visions of the past my kingdom come composed of an empty promise made in jest i was looking for a companion who could torch my smoked out soul teetered along the straight and narrow as i had tried so many times before oh but it was such a crushing bore crashed my car at starlight harbor from the wreckage i arose unbruised and now it's on to fleeting moments and countless versions of the truth each one a little less convincing one more pebble in my shoe
7.
you need to try so much harder today you can't let it slide you can't let it slide away you just might end up in the gutter one day you can't let it slide you can't let it slide away the sky is blue my thoughts are cold and grey i can't let it slide i can't let it slide away it's so damn frail and hardly worth the pain i can't let it slide i can't let it slide away well in the dead of night i tried to call you up but you had already gone to sleep and the abyss stared right back at me back at me am i still part of the problem am i still part of the problem am i still your fucking problem are you choking on your silence right now (don't leave me now) well then you need to try a little harder baby you can't let it slide you can't let it slide away i've given my all and now it's your turn to bleed you can't let it slide don't you let it slide away
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took my chances at the wishing well then went on to the border where they took me by surprise and now im trippin in a cell trippin in a cell trippin in a cell fill in the blank i headed back to the hotel where i found you trippin in a cell pretty baby inside your little diving bell i've been dying just to see you ate a pill then took a dive and now im trippin in a cell why it all went to hell tried to live all by myself no more desperate dreams on which to dwell i was only trippin i was only trippin in a cell
10.
(no hard feelings. really.) don't know where you get off man why don't you forget about it are you afraid they might catch you when you're not so sure about it you don't owe nothing to no one c'mon leave 'em all dumbfounded and spare me your old rites of passage we haven't progressed in a thousand years so go on cast your first and second stone see if it makes you feel less alone 'cause everybody's got one foot out the door it's plain to see getting ready to jump ship tonight it's the last call the last call for reality so please don't pray for my mortal soul my curiosity was bought and sold don't let 'em fool you twice it was some devil's voice not mine singing to you every friday night "we'll drown out the laughter in time"
11.
you want it to go your way then why are you making it so hard to listen or to look at you as you take yourself apart until there's nothing left but a dark and gruesome past you want it to be perfect so you despair at every false start you break the wholesome silence just to keep us all in the dark you know it's all in your head and in your head it must remain don't tell me you've lost it 'cause i've seen you flaunt it it's all there in the palm of your hand but you keep crushing it saying "thats just the way that it's always been" but if it's all the same to you and there's no brighter tomorrow might as well hum some silly old tune keep your head above old sorrow it might not matter to you now but you'll have to pass the time anyhow

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released August 4, 2017

or songs about looking for happiness in all the wrong places

all songs written by lukas david schultz
produced by lukas david schultz
tracks 4,6,7 and 10 co-produced by alex postel

performed by:

lukas david schultz
guitars, bass guitars, keys and synths, lead vocals, backing vocals

alex postel
drums, percussion, guitars

cover art by melissa mayer, find her at:
www.instagram.com/vizualobject/

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Lukas David Schultz Hamburg, Germany

Lukas David Schultz is a Songwriter from Hamburg, Germany.

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