We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Sample Platitudes: A Retrospective Collection

by Spiderlegs

supported by
jadedangel
jadedangel thumbnail
/
1.
Venus of the Hard Sell 04:36
lyrics
buy track
Love, adventure death and glory The short goodbye The whispered story One last glance at the chameleon dance And into the dark across the park I ain't no mark for the Venus of the Hardsell (Say it) I ain't no mark for the Venus of the Hardsell Saints and sinners, new beginners Lipstick traces and TV dinners Cigarsmoke bars and expensive new cars The acapulco dive and the media jive They all survive for the Venus of the Hardsell (Know it) They all survive for the Venus of the Hardsell Empty graves and shallow heads Shallow smiles and empty beds Betta get a room without a view Sail out of sight of land Momma won't like it but you should Travel with a roughneck crew Listen out for all that's said Just worry when the hounds aren't fed (Gotta) Worry when the hounds aren't fed 'Cos one mutt yaps and the pack starts baying Blood for the gods it's cheaper than praying Soldier-boys die but Superman still flies Violent days - it's a permanent craze It never pays to love the Venus of the Hardsell (Leave it) Don't screw around with the Venus of the Hardsell There're new uniforms at the church bazaar Fanatics got the rising star Thin dark streets ring with marching men's feet Past the billboard bride troops the national pride It's all supplied by the Venus of the Hardsell (Fuck it!) It's all supplied by the Venus of the Hardsell Nixon's names left on the moon Where Apollo's masons called the tune To cast their influence from above And damn all lunacy and love You know they made her the Venus of the Hardsell (Raped her) You know they made her the Venus of the Hardsell They're winning momma and it's getting dark D'you think there's time to build an ark? Tomorrow's a fiction, yesterday's a lie I had a friend stuck his works in his eye Perhaps he'll die? I wonder why we don't cry for the Venus of the Hardsell Don't sigh for the Venus of the Hardsell Don't lie for the Venus of the Hardsell Don't die for the Venus of the Hardsell Free her and live https://youtu.be/lV6Sl_u1s3M lyrics by Jamie Delano
2.
Monsters 05:44
lyrics
buy track
MONSTERS Hey lady What are you afraid of? Is something/chasing after you? Your nightmares feed on you like vampires Did you invite them inside? Did you think that you were safe here? The monsters can’t stop laughing Did you bring me here to slay your memories? Am i monster enough to take that chance? I haven’t seen any ghosts here Other than the ones that always try to escape you Taking drugs to ease the pain of which we’re unaware Your nightmares could lead us to ruin Hey. baby What are you ashamed of? Are the rumors/finally catching up with you? Did you bring me here to protect you From all the monsters gathering outside your window? Did you think that we’d escape here That i would be the one you followed home? Disorientation was mistaken for bravery Do we now exist only in your nightmares? I haven’t seen that many ghosts here That weren’t just our very own reflections Taking drugs to ease the pain Just something to keep me aware That you brought me here to feed me to your nightmares (Instrumental Break) Did you think that we were safe here? The monsters can’t stop laughing Did you perceive me medicated as some kind of savior? How long until i become just another one of your monsters? All i see round here are zombies They’re all that’s left of all your former lovers Taking drugs to ease the pain— If you’re not well then you should be— Since you’re driven to see all your nightmares come true! I was dead or I was dying You were there and you were trying To finish the job that someone else started I know, you think drugs are bad I don’t care it was all I had To make your night mares stay away For a little longer Now do you finally understand? I was a monster... But you were a monster too https://youtu.be/A6tiJqGgxEQ
3.
Like It Even Matters 03:58
lyrics
buy track
i sense something wrong here i can't tell you what it is but i know there's something wrong here i don't think i belong here people look at me straange i'm sure i don't belong here nothing stays the same and i gave them everything i have they even want the stuff i don't have everybody needs to feel powerful standing over me and gloating like it even matters everything is strange here even she seems strange to me she doesn't seem like she belongs here everything's so strange i just want to grab her and take her someplace that's safe someplace that's not here if she believed in me then i'd want to be everything she needs and she needs me to be stronger if she'd concede to be all i need to be the shaper of, shaper of, shaper of my destiny but destiny doesn't want to change for little ol' me... i sense something wrong here i can't tell you what it is but i know there's something wrong here i'm not sure i belong here even she seems strange to me it doesn't seem like we belong here nothing stays the same and i gave them everything i have they only want the stuff i don't have if she'd concede to be all i need to be the shaper of, shaper of, shaper of my destiny lots of people need to feel powerful standing over me and gloating like it even matters people think i'm strange because i don't like anything that has to do with anyone or anything... that doesn't have to do with me
4.
A Piss Before Dying 02:27
lyrics
buy track
she asks you if you'd like a drink you nod and politely say, "thanks" you check to see what the time is and that's when you hear the explosion and the flight attendant leaves her feet the drink cart follows her out of view and the plane feels like a die in the hand of a titan and you're glad you left your seat belt fastened because people are tossed like leaves in a whirlwind and the woman sitting next to you--unknown until now-- reaches out and clutches your arm and the warning lights have come on the oxygen masks fall from the ceiling you think to look out the window and see the ground is looming much too fast and you hear another really loud noise the cabin fills up with fumes from the burning you could pass out from all this excitement but you want to meet death with both eyes you watch the other passengers panic their screaming and crying fade from awareness now you really wish you had gotten that drink when you realize you need to hit the toilet and you laugh because it seems too funny in this situation-- a piss before dying... and you wonder if anyone will live and if you'll be among the survivors your life is left to nothing but chance and you hope the titan rolls a seven that's when you hear an even louder explos-- https://youtu.be/99Ix2swR0IQ
5.
Nihilist 06:06
lyrics
buy track
you seem nervous you'll feel better once you take your clothes off the apprehension of a strange new scene and from being there with...me i don't care how long you stay it won't be anything to lose you everything should end this way i'm just here to use you you'll only get hurt when you don't know what you're after such a pretty flower with such low self-esteem filling the room with...worried laughte i don't care how long you stay it wasn't anything to choose you everything should end this way i'm just here to use you since you're already here how do you feel about inappropriate surpises? there's not that much to fear but it might just blow your mind no one is really who they seem to be your innocence might just wind up killing me no special reason why i chose you (such a pretty flower with such low self-esteem) i just decided that you'd do...me...in... now you're trembling you'll feel better once you've pulled the trigger just leave me here on the floor there are people paid to clean the mess up for you i don't care how long you stay it won't be anything to lose you everything should end this way i'm just here to use you i don't care how long you stay it wasn't anything to choose you everything should end this way i'm just here to use you
6.
Eschewing Mettle 05:06
info
buy track
7.
Ode To Despair 03:04
lyrics
buy track
Ode to Despair I’ve seen you smile When you think you’ve found Another haunting ground I’ve felt that steely stare I followed it everywhere Here where it’s all that exists And nothing can compare with it Here where tears are dry In you I could almost die I’ve seen you smile When you think you know There’s going to be another freak show I’ve matched that feral grin So nice to have it back again Here where we’re all that exists And nothing interferes with this I can let them down In you I can finally drown I’ve seen you fall before Once more I could not take it In this weakened state How am I supposed to wait So let me fall before you Defeat It had no glory until now Until now So let me fall before you Let me fall Get a load of me
8.
Keep Doing What You Normally Do 02:56
info
buy track
9.
Just Let Me Know..(A) 03:04
lyrics
buy track
Just let me know... Just let me know When you’re through with me Let me know and I’ll be on my way When I no longer have any value To you That’s when I cut short my stay There’s a sparkle in your eyes When you’ve been unfaithful to me I’ve seen it each time you’ve been away Faithful I see is something you are Unable to be Watch what you do Watch what you say Love given life can be killed so easily From something precious To something so despised And if you want to know how awful Hatred can feel Then hold, take a long hard look into my eyes Your eyes hide dark secrets Of which you’re ashamed You hide them deeply But I know where you keep them Just so you know I’ve got secrets of my own There will be ruin If I ever reveal them. Just let me go When you’re through with what we’ve known And the pain diminishes all of what remains Just so you know I’m not afraid of letting go And finally living free from your disdain https://youtu.be/w3e7EGZ9Y-I
10.
Bleeding 04:05
lyrics
buy track
and so you try not to notice her (you can't help but notice) she's got a home but it's not yours (no longer yours) and all the things that spin her around (spin around) none belong to you this quiet evasion-- you in your pinhole frame counting your punctures and trying not to notice you're bleeding the one who holds her now is thin and made of plastic (she's thin and full of nails) pieces of you die every time that you see them (and you see them all the time) and you wonder what you're made of and how much of it remains eyeing her scratches and trying not to notice she's bleeding angels fill every chair in your orchestra playing your grande finale each movement, another part of your torment and you know that it all must end and it softens for your demise you see the angels—— but you try not to notice they're bleeding
11.
Silken Guitar (Instrumental) 03:27
info
buy track
12.
Understated 03:54
info
buy track
13.
Xmas Eve of Destruction 05:12
info
buy track
14.
Healing is Unique To The Individual 04:04
info
buy track
15.
Prison's Hell (Instrumental) 04:27
info
buy track
16.
Rise, Prosper, And Decline 04:32
lyrics
buy track
her hands so cold and made of clay and crumbling breaking off her fingers to mould me, scold me-- trying to hold me or trying to hold me down? my reactions come too soon distracted by things that move me eschewed by things to which I'm most attracted impacting me unevenly a sigh sends a kiss across the room as if bourne upon a feather a kiss that might bring about a needed change to the weather something beautiful...hangs in the air forever are we ruined artifacts, just ancient fossils? there's little value if the total measure of our interaction amounts to a crucial lack of pleasure or satisfaction we will be forgettable if the only impact we both make on anyone is only the impact that we made upon each other a sigh that sends a kiss across the room floating on a feather a kiss with might enough to change the weather so something beautiful may linger here infractions come past due again distracted by the things that doom me soon to be entombed by those to whom I'm most detracted impacting me directly... a chain will keep us slaves enslaved together no matter whether we can stand the pain of being tethered each of us has tried to be the master of the other's fate forever we seem to value control more than our own freedom and knowing this doesn't help us see it we just keep piling up our things around us so we don't see a sigh once sent a hopeful kiss across a room like it was guided by a weather vane we thought that kiss could change everything something that was supposed to last the chain that keeps the slaves as slaves together still hoping for that drastic change of weather each of us will always be the master of the other's fate forever-- while outside cultures rise prosper and decline
17.
Tonight 02:50
lyrics
buy track
tonight when the alcohol and pain become entangled once again and they conjure up your face and you're smiling just to spite me when your enjoyment all alone takes you to heights you've never known and all the things you've never done seem more exciting without me i reach out to touch you even knowing you're not there-- embrace nothing but the air-- but still feel something my desperation, my disease that lets your memory torture me whether i'm awake or i'm asleep i'm always drowning and bleeding knowing you're not there though i see you everywhere my senses rest, my heart won't dare for i'm drawn to you like death because you move me now i seem not to exist close your eyes and i'm not missed an unimportant object from the past-- a disposable item-- one not meant to last
18.
A Peaceful End 02:54
lyrics
buy track
She dropped the bomb and remained to clear out Any survivors As if anything were left alive She sculpted and then shattered me Scattered my remains All among the ruins She blessed then damned me Hunted and freed me Discarded me when she most needed me She meant more to me Than anything else that ever murdered me I was the martyr She was the cause worth dying for She is what is, I am what was It’s me from us she will rend All I yearn for now is a quick and peaceful end An end an end a peaceful end A sweet, dreamy peaceful end An end an end a peaceful end A peaceful end, a peaceful peaceful end

about

A Collection of SPIDERLEGS tracks from over the past decade or so...

credits

released December 12, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Spiderlegs image

Spiderlegs Texas

am, have been, will be

Weird stuff for weirdos

contact / help

Contact Spiderlegs

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Spiderlegs, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now