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Creative Nonfiction

by Rad Touch

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1.
We felt the wave break Our crest has all but fallen Our mark on history Was etched before we carved it Time fails All life All kings Will die It’s all or nothing And they’re exactly the same The stream is strong Against the current we trudge on Until we slip and we’re gone To each his purpose Whatever it may be Are you predestined? Some whim of a phantom being Or is your path at your discretion? I hear you listening You faint echo of nothing All this happened before And it will happen again But we carry no reminders Of who we were or what we’ve been Time waits For all men It’s got nothing else to do But still we strive To gain the knowledge That will be disproved When our great-grandkids go to college All this happened before And it will happen again But each further down a timeline That ends up right where it began Time waits For all men It has no choice but to see us through The dream is strong But every aspect is wrong We’re all fumbling along In pattern Either way we’re doomed Eternity is an endless tomb Those books That tried To expand Your mind Guess what? They lied You’re dirt When you die It’s all or nothing And they’re exactly the same
2.
There’s a pile of phone books At the apartment door Ignored, they sit for weeks Forsaken, obsolete I am online, I am alive I need it to survive I want it now, I need it faster First world problems Hey social network Freeze, it’s the grammar police And you’re wanted for murder How much language degrade further? Get psyched! We’re all going to be famous! Just film your stupid life And hordes will swarm to trash and praise it Or get off By keeping your spite nameless Spitting the foulest bile Anonymously shameless A failed ideal There’s no global community It’s just a web of chuds Talking shit with impunity No one around me Listens to what I say How do I make it viral I’ve got what it takes To succeed I don’t need it to last Just give me a taste I’ll burn out hot and fast My opinion is important That is why I write my blog It makes me feel like I’m important When people read my blog It feels so good when the words come out Keystroking my ego What else would you like to know? I took a look at your life On the internet And I was not impressed
3.
Life Nap 04:31
Don’t broach the subject, just let it lie Keep it in the tall grass, just beyond the line But oh, an abstract Concept lurks A warring, inactive faction reacting To threats against my worth I don’t understand What that man has got on me An income deserving, professional earnings A company to claim I make enough to get by Yeah I do my job Someday I should get a better job I suppose Is it wrong to live like this forever: Sediment in my adamance That pleasure should take precedence? Ambition is a bitter drug A poison lottery Well my ambition is to never be Another goddamn worker bee Don’t break the silence Keep it to yourself Nobody wants to hear it You’ve got nothing to complain about I want it all I want to be the one who sold before the fall
4.
Listen here I'm no Young Money Millionaire And I get winded walking up the stairs I know you see a lot of men in here But they don't love you like me I'd pay your bills If I could pay my own I'd go half on a baby Even if it wasn't my spawn I know you've been with better I know I've been with worse I know you'll love me For every dollar I'm worth I will bring a summer flood To wet your barren hills I stake my claim Until my money's gone My word is bond: I belong And though I emit A dull light I will never Say goodnight
5.
There is no love Left in my heart for the world of men So I depart For the undying lands There is no love Left in my heart for a mortal woman I am a shell, a trail of smoke An evaporation I live my life In twilight Just grasping And groping at the dark But there's nothing to grab on to Or grabbing back I am driving through the forest With no headlights I don't know why I haven't crashed into a tree I never hit the brakes The hills just aren't that steep I'm never going anywhere at a fatal speed So I set my sails And float to my end "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow I feel my fate in what I cannot fear I learn by going where I have to go" I live in words that are not my own It takes too long to finish What needs to be done I see my prize waiting for me But I'm not sure I've won I've wasted so much time Defining what is mine Nothing is Mine
6.
Big Hurt 04:02
You're not The one I love But you're The one I got Still, I'm not too blind to see That you're the only one who will have me The girl Of My Fantasies Is not The one Of my Reality Still, I'm not too blind to see That you're the only one who will have me Somewhere One of my ex-girlfriends is getting fucked And it pisses me off I am my betrothed
7.
Galactus 07:47
The world is crashing to an end Nowhere to hide No compromise Destroyer’s hand is bearing down We are but fodder to the crown Of Galactus And as we die The sky burns red For our final dawn A civilization gone And so he moves on To another world To feed upon An endless void Countless souls deployed To the nothingness That is the black of space Galactus draws near Bringer of death He merely seeks a meal Zen La must not fall in his grasp No world will ever be his last I trade my freedom For my kind I leave my mortal past To set Galactus’ path And steer him towards Only lifeless worlds My home is safe But I may never return I am banished to serve The destroyer Why do I toil Where are my memories How many years Eons of suffering There is no future I must break free I am a slave to no man I know your size I will fight you I am awake I will no longer feed you I fear no Gods I will fight you
8.
I’m moderately good at everything But I don’t get paid for anything I’m mostly just hovering No catalyst, slowly aging I went to college I got a worthless degree And instead of smithing words I’m bringing you something to eat Where does the line get drawn You live the dream until it’s gone Working for tips and minimum wage Where does the line get drawn You live the dream until it’s gone If it felt nice, you didn’t do it wrong We break front teeth And like us they stay broke too Two spikes in the throat! Two spikes in the throat! And a finger pointed straight at you I need a mustache A Tom Sellick; Freddy’s mane My dad’s hands, my dad’s face Our “adult” is not the same I will fight no wars I will not ride On a submarine Cause it’s less likely that I’ll die No, I’ll collide With a purpose, in due time Late blooming and left behind Stubbornly alive Is there a timeframe? Then I reject it This is my cruising speed Take all the time you need My time is mostly free Of things that nag at me There was a timeframe But I defected How long ‘til I regret it? We break front teeth And like us they stay broke too Two spikes in the throat! Two spikes in the throat! And a finger pointed straight at you I need a mustache Like Burt Reynolds, damn it! Flame! A symbol that I’m a man Something classic I still can’t obtain
9.
Where is the push? All I feel is pull One sided energy Depleting constantly Until the pile is overwhelming And so it pours again The steering rack is thrashed There'll be no turning That cloud of smoke Is money burning Where are you, Spirit Bear? I need your wisdom here My vision is not clear enough To set a path Or plan an attack Or dig myself out of this trash It is the damndest thing But it too shall pass Either through or around And out of my grasp Though the days May swelter us Red and frayed The nights can never Be hot enough To keep us down Or out of the lake
10.
Dream Loner 05:34
I’m tormented by my dreams They give me tastes of what I need But never seem to achieve In her face I saw the love of women I had known One sided and unrequited lusts best left alone But here they’d found a single form, and I gallantly obeyed Dancing, pulling ever closer, transfixed inside her gaze Until I came up for air In an empty bed, reeling From the greatest days I’d ever live Or the approximate feeling My body ached with an instant withdrawal Every bitter waking moment grasping to recall What I’d lost, what I’ve never had, what doesn’t exist A congregate of felled desire begging me to resist And never come up for air

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Bass and drums recorded at Bear Creek Studios 4/10 by Matt Doctor
Everything else recorded at Tim's House over the following 10 months
Mixed by Tim Karman
Mastered at RFI by Ed Brooks

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released February 4, 2011

Jeff Kirby - Guitar/Vocals
Josh Thomas - Bass/Trumpet/Keys
Tim Karman - Drums

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