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.

Rooster

from Windjammer by Carl Hauck

supported by
Spirit YPC Ltd
Spirit YPC Ltd thumbnail
Spirit YPC Ltd This track was used on the short film 'Dear Friend' from Spirit YPC Productions.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $0.99 USD

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Digipak, artwork by Casey Weldon

    Includes unlimited streaming of Windjammer via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD or more 

     

  • Buy Disc

lyrics

The haze of coffin nails and the scent of liquid nerve
Swirl through the vacant garden rows
The verb coils warm as the check, check, checker
Reigns in his ersatz troubadour clothes

The ivory is stale as the company
Chestnut roots and fifths bled dry
The tired minstrel turns out uninspired words
Of hope and change and other statist lies

Cue the garbled sketch of an overpass arena
Where Rooster croons for an audience of two
Passing pairs of headlights make for transient marquees
And the stars guide his fingers in those rusty twelve-bar blues

They start with pilfered wives, then slide to maudlin sighs
For his only son who married a machine
He flails his head about as his voice grows loud
But nothing comes to mind for the turnaround

So he says whoa whoa whoa whoa, don't wanna settle down

Left with the slurred advice "don't depend on anyone,"
I slowly nod, but purge it from my brain,
Assure myself that it's too late, it's too late for that
And hope to all that's holy that won't change

credits

from Windjammer, released November 9, 2010

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Carl Hauck image

Carl Hauck Chicago, Illinois

contact / help

Contact Carl Hauck

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Carl Hauck recommends:

If you like Carl Hauck, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now