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Racetrack Gospel: album demos

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    So, I'm sad and gutted and all of those other bleak nitemares that unfortunately we never got to make this record properly. I've been listening to these songs and all the others that aren't here for a good few years now. It's kinda gross to listen to your own music I know but I was so proud of 'em....I think it gets harder and harder to get back to whatever it was you think/feel when you first start writing songs. I've always wished I could think that way now, but I cannae. Kids and life and all that other ballyhoo gets in the way (it makes everything a goddamn galaxy better though, I ain't blaming all that, it's nowt but a million tonne blessing). Anyway, I'm super proud of these songs, I think they stand up to anything I've ever done and I'd push em into a ring with anyone's songs and have every faith they'd hold their own and swing hard and true and with great heart. I got to meet a new band o'brothers, Max, Marty, Si, y'all are heroes and it was an honour to play in a band with ye awhile. I dunno what happens next, hopefully I'll still do some music because it's a hell of a way to spend some time, I'm just a bit tired, a bit old, and a bit beaten down by the calamities which seem to befall me in this industry of nonsense and dishonesty and downright disaster. I really hope anyone who listens, digs them. I hope I didn't let anyone down and I hope I'll see the other side of what writing songs and playing music is supposed to be. A bunch of love and high fives to anyone who listens. It's always meant so much you'll never know........ Sam x ... more
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1.
somewhere out in the pines tonight I cracked my chest in two for you and I'll empty out my ghosts again and maybe then I'll mean everything to you another one's gone and I won't forget slow motion footage of dumb regrets I remember feeling confident but I haven't ever felt like that again since so I'll sing it quiet for my sister now and I'll sing it out louder for my brother somehow so if you hear it coming then you know I wasn't joking at all heaven is a never opened front door to me heaven is a quiet and a peace and a safety hell is everything outside of these four walls in the pines, in the pines where the sun don't ever shine I'll shiver the whole night through
2.
you won't believe the things I've seen I've seen ghosts watching babies sleep I heard a hymn sung by a flock of birds and I believed every single word you won't believe everything I've seen I saw the sea stop and part in front of me I've seen enough now, I'm coming home to you I'll tell you all about it she said miracles will catch you out I said all I want's to let you down its not what you think it really is it's something 'cos I've seen things god I wish you'd seen them too was a vision of a heaven was a vision of a heaven with you you won't believe the things I've seen I've seen angels watching over me a hurricane of sparrows overhead I know you won't believe me she said miracles will catch you out I said all I want's to let you down its not what you think it really is it's something 'cos I've seen things god I wish you'd seen them too was a vision of a heaven was a vision of a heaven with you
3.
Copmaths 04:14
I got problems I got police I put my faith in disbelief I fucked the maths and I screwed the sums it's getting ugly everyone there's a man out there somewhere waiting for a call to come home the world is just a place I bought a ticket to to watch it break You don't know how it feels and I'll never forgive myself I got nothing but my word that's all I got and it's not enough I bet the house but I lost the home and I lost out on everyone jesus christ did you see those kids go running through the streets? like blood horses, october dusk I saw them go with everyone You don't know how it feels and I'll never forgive myself I don't know what I was supposed to do the world ends now but it ends with you I don't know what I was supposed to do the world ends now but it ends with you I don't know what I was supposed to do the world ends now but it ends with you I don't know what I was supposed to do no no I don't know what I was supposed to do
4.
The Lift 03:59
tell me a story of blood and of love of title fight winners and someone above this place is so country 'cos people know yr bad news too and every house is a little white flag waiting up for you forever and ever forever and ever forever and ever amen forever and ever forever and ever forever and ever amen here comes the lift it's coming in from a ways off waiting for it same as always this time something's got to happen one day I will break underneath a pretty sky and I wanted out so desperately and I never even knew why so I'll put the parts back together now you should of seen me way back then I was really something I really was forever and ever forever and ever forever and ever amen forever and ever forever and ever forever and ever amen here comes the lift it's coming in from a ways off waiting for it same as always this time something's got to happen
5.
I'm in the middle I'm in the middle of it I got lost in the centre of a constellation this is a static myth, for all those magic kids who never thought they'd end up missing out on everything I'm in the middle hey I'm in the middle hey you wanna go out and waste the time that we never had? you were the centre of everything forever and I never ever I never ever thought I'd lose you 'cos you were the centre of everything forever and I never ever thought I'd lose you I never ever thought I'd lose you thought I was winning thought I was winning this time but I got lost at the edges of a blown out century this is the middle hey this is the middle hey you wanna go out and waste the time that we never had? you were the centre of everything forever and I never ever I never ever thought I'd lose you 'cos you were the centre of everything forever and I never ever thought I'd lose you I never ever thought I'd lose you
6.
I was the only kid who ever looked up into that meanness rolling in like a storm from some place no kindness I look up from my birthday cake and all I see is ghosts all I see's the faces of the ones I miss the most no abstract thought it's all love forever no abstract thought it's just love and that's all it ever was awake in a sleeping house I wonder what you'd look like now but I can't picture that, only this and I wish I couldn't the saddest ever homecoming that I ever saw all I see are pictures of the ones I missed before no abstract thought it's all love forever no abstract thought it's just love and that's all it ever was if all of this all falls apart today that's alright that's okay I fell in love once and that was enough
7.
spirit is a landfill full up with the people dreaming of my friends all gone kissing like I mean it falling like I never knew which way the day would come so lay me down on pavements wrapped up in a white cloth bible talk for ever more 'cos I'm singing to your bad dreams tracing maps on palm skin making up a saviour's name spirit is a landfill full up with the people dreaming of my friends all gone the winner on a bad hand the singer in the best band I'm still the damage dreams can do 'cos no one is a prophet and everyone's the same debt we pay until the will runs dry please don't forget me remember me still, remember me quietly please don't forget me remember me still, remember me quietly I was once a man who tried to hold on to myself
8.
Still 04:21
I read the news today oh god, oh god I don't know what I'm supposed to do there's a kindness there but a meanness too the odds are good but the goods are odd no kid left behind we should be better and we will be where I was born nothing happened some kids that I knew then, they never came back again they went there and they never came back I'm still here don't forget me I'm still here somewhere don't forget me I know we lost some friends back then but they'll be coming back home again I read the news today oh god, oh god I thought there was a kindness there, but there wasn't where I was born nothing happened some kids that I knew then, they never came back again they went there and they never came back I'm still here don't forget me I'm still here somewhere don't forget me I know we lost some friends back then but they'll be coming back home again yeah yeah yeah........nah nah nah....yeah yeah yeah....etc
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Anymore 05:58
take good care of yourself 'cos I've seen what happens when people don't I've seen earthquakes shake the sky I've seen hurricanes and I don't wanna see it all anymore somewhere out there at the furthest point hold me close and give me reasons if I could sing I'd sing to you if I could I would but you don't want to hear it all anymore days are slow and nights are quiet my kids are whistling in their sleep from way up here they're dreaming from way up here they don't look sad or worried anymore I see it all now I'm not there I see it all and now I believe that they're the only good thing I've ever done they're the only good thing I've done take good care of yourself 'cos I've seen what happens when people don't every single one's the same we all fall down in the same way but I won't get up again anymore 'cos I wanna give up but I won't you know I wanna give up but you won't you know I wanna give up but I won't you know I wanna give up but you won't let me go anymore I see it all now I'm not there I see it all and now I believe that they're the only good thing I've ever done they're the only good thing I've done
10.
Neverever 04:30
Give a kid a box of matches and what the hell you think will happen? I don't never ever wanna not care I don't never ever wanna not care no show me what it's gonna look like give me terrible and give me dark nights give me rolling news and dumb conjecture I'm America I will protect you but what if nothing never comes down no rockets raining on a small town? what if nothing's never gonna happen here? what if nothing's never gonna happen here? I never ever believed that we'd be these versions of the people we expected to be we're old and we lost our direction back home but we're never ever, we're never alone for the smug and pretty perfect young kids and their stupid clever stupid emptiness I am a grown man and I'm not the only one I'm a grown man and I'm not the only one who's obsolete and pretty useless fat on memories and recollections I don't never ever wanna not care I don't never ever wanna not care I never ever believed that we'd be these versions of the people we expected to be we're old and we lost our direction back home but we're never ever, we're never alone they say all kids they sleepwalk through the failures of their mums and dads so what are we supposed to do? you give us this so that's what we do
11.
I don't know what's wrong with me I don't know what I need I think the worst thoughts in my dreams and in the happiest places I've ever been

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Demos for what was meant to be the album. All done at home, Twinpeaksville, Ford Lane, trains, etc.
It's first takes, scratch vocals, no live drums... excuses excuses excuses

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released June 14, 2016

All of it by Samuel James Herlihy. Drum samples played by Simon Jones and Simon Goldring. Some string samples played by Mike Siddell.

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Samuel James Herlihy England, UK

Used to be in Hope Of The States then Troubles then Dark Houses then The Northwestern then Racetrack Gospel.... now I'll just put stuff out on here and score movies and whatnot....

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