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Cat​-​Astrophe: We're Not Kitten

by Penguin

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1.
#1 01:38
She comes to me in dreams, like a voice inside my head hanging in the air, like the faces of the dead & If I had stopped and really listened to what she said I never would have packed up my shit and left It all ends in the same way You get the call you'd better be on that train and when the time comes You'll have nothing left to say Except, "No, please not today" It's time you figured out what you say and what you do may just influence the people around you Despite all that you've seen and all you have been through the reaction that you get won't be the one you wanted to When I shut my eyes and try to block out all the sound from the ringing in my ears, to the sentence you passed down & if I could just find a way to write them out find a way to change the script you bet I would know how
2.
Work 01:49
It's time to put this to bed, all the stupid ugliness All the yelling and the screaming I've been trying to catch my breath It's a fucking waste, creating all this negative space Our time is spent destroying what we built And we end up alone, voices yelling watch out below while the shit is flying right about our heads and when the big one hits, you better be ready to deal with it 'cause no one's out there looking out for us. Our work is never done, building something where nothing was we build up our community, where respect is never good enough and we all have to learn, to shut our mouths and wait our turn Not waste our time infighting while we work and maybe someday all this shit will cease to hurt When will this end, all the stupid petty shit the lip service that we pay to it, the gun is still pressed to our heads How to we re-create, something so thoroughly brought to waste All our time is spent re-building what we killed.
3.
Coming down hard leave you begging for breath we are the small band of kids the queers marked for death if you're looking for a reason it's just the way that we live and if you want to know the time you know we know what that is It's not always easy being alone in the crowd it's not always easy to be the one who's picked out I don't see a reason to be shy about it now fuck that other shit, here's a better reason to be proud It'll never be enough & I don't give a fuck Up the, up the, up the queer punx!
4.
Lights Off 03:19
I'm so fucking sick of these shades of grey while the girl I love is 4 blocks away I can't help feeling just a little bit like a disaster Every question I had asked before just leaves me sinking further into the floor & she don't even really know what she's after Every time I said it I meant it When you said this hurt you I felt it Turn off, turn off the lights saying goodbye but should be saying goodnight curling up alone, but could be curling up with me Turn off, turn off the lights You said I did you wrong, so let me make it right let me show you how good this love can be It's been a long time since I've felt like this & I can honestly say it's not something I missed being lonely' s just so much less hard And I really don't know what I'm supposed to do I can't stop my self from making distance from you we can work on this if you can find it in your heart Every time I said it I meant it When I thought you were leaving I panicked Every single second that I hold my breath is a wasted moment that could have been spent exhaling into your ear It's in these moments that the future changed you were stopping time 10,000 miles away when you really should have been here Gimme a change to clean up the mess I've made and detail the prevention of future mistakes I swear I can do better if you let me Can we chalk it up to a trial run I lost the race when I jumped the gun I'll be more patient next time if you'll have me
5.
Not Finished 02:40
I'm feeling this amazing connection  and I'm not trying to leave just yet You know it's vital that you make the distinction that you know what you want but you take what you get I got a brand new outlook and I got amazing friends I've got a key to the city and I got to where I'm at But, I'm not finished yet I can't tell if it's the start or it's the end I'm just waiting (yeah) I'm just waiting for my real life to begin I can sense your urgent devotion to the sad loss, longing for the life you had I wish so hard I could have seen this coming that I could have stood up and fucking been a grown up then I've got, like, 46 dollars and I got a master plan I've got a key to the city and I got to where I'm at But, I'm not finished yet These things are not the way we left them this room is stale and re-arranged I'd have bet a life time on never coming back here you only can't go home because home won't be the same I got, like, 46 dollars and I got amazing friends I've got a key to the city and I got to where I'm at But, I'm not finished yet I'm just waiting for my real life to begin

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released July 30, 2013

Al - Guitar & Vox
Chicago - Guitar & Backing Vox
Santos - Bass & Backing Vox
Eli - Drumz

All songs written by Penguin

Recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks Studios on 7/25/12
Engineered by Matt Shane

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