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The Future is Trash

by Trash Boy

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1.
my father and his father and his father and his father all lived in new york then one day they left the town and out in jersey settled down just came in for work that's when the city starts to change some neighborhoods look strange no one lives there cause everyone wants to so we see empty apartment blocks for billionaires with yachts laughing while the city's told not to watch all these kids at NYU can't pay the rent but don't need to their parents cough it up ten thousand more apartment dorms ten thousand service workers on a three hour commute the city never sleeps but damn i'm feeling beat i can't find a bench to lay my head i guess i'll move to philly even though the pizza's shitty fuck up somebody else's neighborhood and i say fuck new york goodbye new uork guess i never loved you anyway and i say fuck new york goodbye new york thanks for telling me that all my dreams my dreams wouldn't pay yeah i know i'm no new yorker cause i'm jersey born and raised but i can smell that salty bagel a mile away yeah i cross the verrazano half a paycheck at a time till those pearly gates await me then i'll know that i'll say fuck new york goodbye new york guess i never loved you anyway and i say fuck new york goodbye new york thanks for telling me that all my dreams my dreams wouldn't pay
2.
dont wanna be a boston aristocrat dont wanna be a dc diplomat or an ass kissing journalist who gets paid a lot to be wrong dont wanna be accepted by the ivy league dont wanna sell overpriced technology all the smart boys in silicon valley think they'll save the world but they wont i just wanna get paid enough to get drunk today dont want an exclusive credit card dont want to have to do coke just to get hard have wall street as my back yard (but itd make gettin coke pretty easy) dont wanna meet an inbred socialite get her pregnant and become rich over night have it agreed i got the right to the money i get that way i just wanna get paid enough to get drunk today dont ever wanna say that i got mine my life's not so bad the world must be fine most people live past 29 it's the best that we can do everyone wants their work done for free as long as anyone's exploited fuck it exploit me i aint got no future or family, that shit's too expensive i just wanna get paid enough to get drunk today i just wanna get paid enough to get drunk today
3.
the state wants me to skate today they want my weekend spent in a safe and unproductive way no threat to social order this democracy needs happy voters the state wants me to waste away my time under the 95 freeway a little park a small price to pay keep my mind away from one day overthrow i got new skate shoes down at the skate shop it's nice to have time to kill so i go out out in the sunshine i feel so new i swear it's unreal when i'm on my board i feel like everything will be alright and the anger goes away i guess the world is ok oh i know i might have gone insane my ankles bleed i'm addicted to the pain oh you've got to move that skateboard down the lane boy, because all these working people gotta be up in the morning and you're making too much noise so we built this government skate park the state wants me to skate and pay for branded shit on layaway so is this a nuisance or another corporate sport everything i want to burn is obfuscated when i learn that they built a place for me where i can play anarchy i can tell myself i haven't changed that the rebel in me can't be tamed but i've got bills to pay before i hit the pavement, because all these working people gotta pay their taxes so that we can start another war and build a government skate park (i want you to know) yea i want you to know there are no rules you'll end up fine (i want you to know) you'll end up fine yea i guess i'll skate my life away find out what it means to be free i guess i'll skate my life away find out what it means to be me yea
4.
you're proud of your blue state bona fides getting dusty on your shelf but they'll never change the fact that if my dad was someone else i'd make six figures moving data on spread sheets you tell me i should be glad you want me to bite my tongue til the damn thing bleeds until it bleeds i can't make me keep a job if the things worth working for don't pay i'm not gonna let them rob the best years of my life away and you think it's all because i want it easy who the hell are you to judge what makes it easy for me? you've been to school a few years you think you understand how hard it is to live your life, you feel for the common man but you never talk to anyone in your new neighborhood cash rules everything around but you can never buy authenticity authenticity i can't make me keep a job if the things worth working for don't pay i'm not gonna let them rob the best years of my life away and you think it's all because i want it easy who the hell are you to judge what makes it easy for me? old or young, if you've been blinded by your comfort do you think you have anything to offer to me? don't be frightened, you're so fucking enlightened you accept downward mobility if it don't happen to you
5.
when i go to brush my teeth i feel like a wizard i got electric brushing thanks to half-men half-lizards isn't money wonderful? it gets me what i need. like the beaver (money) does everything so damn near perfectly. i guess ill trade my time for this guitar. my bed is so cold on what used to be your side but i can buy a heater for my room for 19.99. the globalists have kept you an ocean away from america land of the free market will free us thats the logic of the age so commodify your friendships and let zuckerberg get paid. if we're lucky we can keep on working till we're old unless the reaper comes we'll still be paying off our loans. so i guess i'll steal my friend's guitar. i want to believe that fake news is what's to blame, but there's something much more heinous flowing through my country's veins. you'd like to be exceptional just because you're made in america. i used to be freer than this we need to be freer than this
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ambition creeps and ambitious creeps hate it when you show the ways they're weak won't be satisfied until you never speak or even try petty tyrants and presidents obsessed with perceived achievements but they're still gonna shit their pants when they die they don't want you to know that you can get all your time back nobody asked to be born no one ever got to have a choice of where to start nobody asked to be born no one ever got to have a choice the times you lost the times you had trying to make yourself less bad it's all an insane power grab crankin hog if you're serving onion rings or an MBA made you a king everybody serves something what's your god? they don't want you to know that you can get all your time back nobody asked to be born no one ever got to have a choice of where to start nobody asked to be born no one ever got to have a choice is management what you expected? bossing around the disaffected nobody gets resurrected if you ignore the fire you won't be protected if civility makes you a dense motherfucker i'd rather be down right here in the gutter if civility makes you a dense motherfucker i'd rather be down right here in the gutter
7.
Polly 03:42
there's a caged bird in my house and he screams and squawks whenever i walk by there's a reason he dont sing to us cause we cut off both his wings so he cant fly if all you see are wire bars how do you know your heart feels anything at all there's a caged bird in my house there's a caged bird in my house i don't know if i was happier before i knew there was a sky to fly in but now i know i've been cheated, lied to there's no coming back from this there's a caged bird in my house there's a caged bird in my house all i do is flap around inside my head all i do is flap around inside my head
8.
why don’t you don’t call me (call me) like you used to every week we’d get fucked up and then we’d walk to the quickchek back when we were band geeks too many diamonds (diamonds) on my girlfriend’s girlfriend’s rings seems like everybody’s sealing the deal but i’m fine with just loving oh what’s wrong with just loving last time i was at your house your dad was passed out on the couch that was eight years ago now you got shit figured out you're sober got a boyfriend now i'm still drivin drunk home maybe you're right and i should stop while i'm not dead but tonight you're not here to fuck around in my backyard with everclear i’m hungover at my job i've been here for way too long i'm a shit show at parties but i always bring beer don’t grow up till you have to do you really have to? too many heads too many beds i can't remember when i wake up but i won't hold me back now nothing beats that feeling when those tests come back negative too many parties (parties) i can’t go to anymore all these kids look like they can’t even drive how did i end up here? all my dealers (dealers) died or quit or went to jail now i’m bumming shitty hits off my roommate and this weed tastes like ass i’m a fucking adult i should have my own drugs i’m hungover at my job i've been here for way too long i'm a shit show at parties but i always bring beer don’t grow up don’t grow up don’t grow up till you have to
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it's hard for me to negotiate the distance that i must keep from you you pull me in just to push me out and i'm pretending that i know what to do but each and every evening i try holding back some more but you always tell me i kiss with too much tongue that i don't tease enough i blame it on the love and i'm always quick to trust since i was a playground kid i never knew who wasn't a friend give an inch fuckers took a mile and i'm laughing like it's all just pretend but each and every morning i was walking out my door the names got a little meaner so i kiss with too much tongue i don't fuck with anyone i just hole up in my room until i get some time with you the world is full of shitty boys (Everybody sucks now, baby) with lips that could destroy (Whoooaaa-oh-oh) and everybody sucks oh why oh why don't you? i need to be a tough guy can't let anybody know who i am conserve emotional capital don't let anyone like you give a damn so you can kiss with too much tongue and not fuck with anyone don't just smoke up in your room until you're sleeping on the moon yeah everybody sucks (you know we all do, baby) and yeah everybody knows (Whoooaaa-oh-oh) i don't think i'll ever know what is too much, too much tongue
10.
a married man once met me he told me "son, don't go from i to we" spending all your time with one person shutting out the thoughts sayin is it worth it there's so much you end up ignoring the day you lay down and become boring why would i want to be in love? ain't life short don't choose convenience and don't trust luck once that you're in it you don't even know you're stuck (but you don't have to be) spending all your time with one person shutting out the thoughts sayin is it worth it there's so much you end up ignoring the day you lay down and become boring why would i want to be in love? ain't life short

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released November 10, 2017

All songs by Trash Boy

Trash Boy is
Chris Fortunato: guitar, bass, vocals
Dan Baggarly: guitar, bass, vocals
Nolee Morris: drums, vocals

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Gary Clarke: saxophone

Recorded by Patrick Bayer at Evergreen Audio, Philadelphia
Mixed and mastered by Alex Slohm in NYC

album art shot and edited by Matt Lesko
model: Ammar Dahodwala

special thanks to Tony Giambrone, Sam Zimmerman, Ari Rubin, Katie Webb, Liz Touchstone, and Elise Enners for constant support, feedback, and encouragement throughout this process

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Trash Boy is actually 4 people (not one boy alone) who love Philly & its DIY world and hate rules that oppress the marginalized & uphold bogus meritocracy.

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