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Rocket Summer

by Hey Mister!

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1.
You told me it would be impossible But, no, I don't mind telling you you're wrong I left this planet close to 6am, headed for stranger skies I should be back by 5 But if I find what I'm looking for, baby, don't wait up I'll be just fine Content to lay across the hood of my trusty homemade rocket And gaze upon endlessly stranger skies
2.
I'll take you at night To a swamp made out of mud All the lines are blurry You'll see there's victims here You'll see the rotting in their skulls Who ever knew we would be? Now playing mind control With all the pieces sitting in front of me Don't imagine you're alive Just know you're knee-deep And sinking! Grab the rope I just want out Toss the rope and grab me out I can feel the mud it's smothering me Nothing left but sudden death All I've got here is my strength I just want to get out, get out now! So back inside the swamp Our hero's end, it won't be long Until another number Ends up sinking all the way Too deep you'd never find a way To even scratch the surface Just look inside of me I can't get free, I'm looking for anything All that we've got left is our hope Anxiety is past it's quota And still we're sinking! Grab the rope I just want out Toss the rope and grab me out I can feel the mud it's smothering me Nothing left but sudden death All I've got here is my strength I just want to get out, get out now! Aimless, shameless Not to be outdone I saw the light on And it wasn't inside of me It came from somewhere deep inside the mud Still urging me to stay I'd say, no way!
3.
Salvation 01:34
Where were you when I was plotting to move The statue still represents a past Our human need for selfishness In my dreams you would have mended a broken scene Filled with such hypocrites there's Conventions teaching "how to shit" Everyday when you're feeling so much worse Just know that right now someone Is dying to be saved 'Cause they don't have a way Salvation without blood Always played in rewind, we stand and realize What's left is nothing more than a Coffin left waiting for us As we watch from our seats, "high above society" Going down the ugly road of the "Take all you can" with every move Everyday when you're feeling so much worse Just know that right now someone Is dying to be saved 'Cause they don't have a way
4.
A Bad Idea 00:57
I built an atom bomb I shot it into space Forgot one minor flaw: The laws of physics dictate what goes up must soon come down It hit the planet Mars It did not detonate It then bounced off Jupiter And back to Earth it ricocheted Please tell me it's okay I swear I'm sorry and it won't happen again One bad idea shouldn't haunt me 'til the end Which, by the way, according to my math is not far off Please tell me it's okay I swear I'm sorry and it won't happen again One bad idea shouldn't haunt me 'til the end Which, by the way, is in, like, twenty minutes
5.
Unnecssary this one's very Knocked out, beat dry Unecessary this one's all they want 'Cause it's not just forward momentum That makes life seem introspective Selections. Brandings are destined for anarchy The other side inside of me it swallows Memories of things that hollow me. For deciding to feel connections At a time when so much was messed up We've slept off more than we've read on this tragedy No instruction signs for us to follow Will anyone see tomorrow? But unnecessary, this one's very Knocked out, beat dry Unnecessary this one's all they want Unnecessary this one's buried Far down, knee-high Unnecessary this one's all they want This one's all they want.
6.
Shortstop 00:52
Are you just getting paid to tweet? To just sit around and eat While the rest of us are trying to do your job? Got your feet up on a chair Junk is waving in the air What exactly do you do here anyway? You're nothing but an overcompensating, hollow man The next "boom" will be my fist hitting your face. And I don't wanna listen to your rationalizations for unsuccess And I can't stand to listen To deluded self-aggrandizement Your empty threat embellishments Your meathead drunken debauchment Hope you end up sad and all alone.
7.
1956 01:50
He falls asleep again It tends to happen now and then A typecast sentence, five-to-ten They all said he's through I guess there's nothing left to do But sit back and watch it all come true "Well you can all go straight to hell As soon as I am feeling well I'll get up off this chair and fill my lungs with desert air I don't want this life of disrepair." A comeback unaware. Black and white shadows pass for memories Scrapbooks filled with a life forgot The final curtain drawn down over a scene once written But unread by his eyes The story could not have been told by anyone but him Anyone but you A comeback overdue
8.
It's the time again Don't mean anything Less of course you mean to satisfy the truth? Of what comes next and My own dimension Abort to magnify insiders tragedy Dusting in the pool I found it out! You've been crawling through the back streets With some broken, shattered teeth! Gently oozing seeps from mouth. It's that tongue I can't hold onto And it's not so hard to see which way you've gone. These footsteps. Time old philosophy. Watching how the clock moves, I can see you standing right aside, askew And full of shit! Tell me when lunch begins I need some medicine To force evacuate decider's tragedy. My own decision? Grant me permission. Consort to satisfy misguided policies. Dusting in the pool I found it out! You've been crawling through the back streets There's no doubt. But now I'm sure that there's a way we'll find out. In a land of frozen minefields I can see the other side of sanity. It's these footsteps, time old ferocity Running on the back heels To look "bargain hunter solid" has it's truth, That's bullshit!
9.
I think I'll move to California As good a place as any I don't think I'll ever make it home I'll ditch my phone along the freeway Sit on the beach, look to the skies And wonder how to pass the time Or New York, if I'm feeling lonely Bring my guitar, and bring the band Don't think I'll ever make it home I'll rent brownstone up in Brooklyn Sit on the steps, look to the skies And wonder how to pass the days away So far away No, I can't wait And I don't think I'll ever make it home
10.
All the Time 01:58
I'd give you all my love today But in the end it'd be a waste Everyday you wake up to a life that's full of hate I know that life's not the same for us but It doesn't change a thing 'cause a life Is not something you have a right to take Every time you get a chance Look around and see the evidence Seems we're losing our intelligence Minds seem to go in descent All the time Wonder why we're struggling To understand what conscience means Every night you enter a day less to find it out Every time you get a chance Look around and see the evidence Seems we're losing our intelligence Minds seem to go in descent All the time
11.
Left up to you it'd be no better Than saying what's been said Than saying anything inside that has no meaning It's up to you to be much better To be no one you know To be only something inside that you can live with Everyone's got greed and anxiety We're all bleeding Every time guilt weighs on your mind You have to find a way to lose it Don't trust inside What others live by You might just find There's no receiver Paint black the skies And let them dream So much that we can finally come clean It's up to you and I to seize it And so they say "Go it your own way" You see this world is how you live and how you struggle all alone To carry on And so they say "Go it your own way" You see this world is how you live and how you struggle all alone To carry on You must be strong inside a maze Not knowing if we'll ever get out all along
12.
Peace Out 01:42
It's never the worst until you're feeling kind of lucky Memories thirst to exist without sucking All of us try to refine the details If we're still alive, celebrity drive is about complete fail Discounting your worth doesn't seem like the answer When telephones burst to reveal other cancers Leverage fails to deploy the landmines If that's how it is, then that how this will be played out then Peace out, I'm watching all the battles drown Turn lickety-split into procedure Peace out (peace out) I'm watching all the battles drown I'm battled down and bleeding Umbrellas don't work, all that rain isn't asking It's telling us first to receive all the answers Subliminal pull has besieged the end line If memory serves, I'm feeling the worst Won't be the last time All units fade, resume silence All that this proves is we breed violence Need guidance, preside it, deny this but try it Or we could just be like Peace out, I'm watching all the battles drown Turn lickety-split into procedure Peace out (peace out) I'm watching all the battles drown I'm battled down and bleeding Peace out, I'm watching all the battles drown Turn lickety-split into procedure Peace out (peace out) I'm watching all the battles drown I'm battled down and bleeding
13.
Underlights 01:22
That night I saw the underlights A pale fluorescent glow A car packed tight with ignorance And ready to explode A night spent wasting time again A pavement prison cell Friday's not the time for us Friday's not the time for... Blast away the concrete words of those who never meant to pay He wasn't there He wasn't one to mess with And he won't admit the time they shared was all the same Seven years of lame And we couldn't think of a better epitaph Than "here he lies, he was nothing but an ass" His underlights, they faded with the sun Until that night he never thought to run
14.
Adrift 04:54
Well I've been gone for so long now, I'll never find my way I wonder where I went so wrong And there's not much I can say except I wish I'd stayed at home I sailed right through a black hole I crashed into a sun, survived a subatomic shift But now I'm stuck between dimensions Quantum-partically adrift Well I don't wanna die alone But I'm running out of oxygen The food supply is low The thrill of my discovery of a self-renewing energy Is somewhat tempered by the fact I can't get home So I'll just wait it out I guess There can't be too much space-time left I hope the cats will be okay No, think of something else These stranger skies, a backdrop Beautiful but no replacement Give me cloudless blue, I changed my mind I miss it so [INTERLUDE!] Cuz there's no place like home No dimension like my own Well I've had it know, the end is close The oxygen's all gone With my dying breaths I'm singing one last song Something by Descendents or a verse from "The Decline" If I'm gonna die I'll make it worth my time Cuz there's no place home No dimension like my own

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released October 1, 2014

CHRIS! - vocals, guitars
JONAS! - vocals, drums, oozin' ahhs
FAB! - bass, French

Recorded in The Good Ol' Shed and a couple of living rooms from Oct. 2013 to September 2014

Mixed and mastered by the almighty OLIVE at ELECTRIK BOX STUDIOS
www.facebook.com/electrikboxstudio
electrikbox@laposte.net

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*as in song length, not stature. We are fairly tall.

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