My Experience with Post-Rock: a Journey™ through emotions - Gender Mustang Menace

from Fourth Strike Song Jam 2025 by Fourth Strike Records

Piano, Drums, Synths - cosmoptera (https://lordcakespy.bandcamp.com/) Spoken Word Poetry, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Synths, Theremin, Mixing, Production, Insane Architect - Gabi (https://girlballz.bandcamp.com/) Lyrics, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocals - sunny ( https://bsky.app/profile/sunnydfangirl.bsky.social ) Act I vocals, Ras ( ebhband.bandcamp.com ) Act II vocals, teake ( bsky.app/profile/teake.bsky.social ) Act II guitars, teganeden ( tonalchroma.bandcamp.com ) Act 4 Production, Julien ( https://okaysure.cool ) Act 4 guitar/bass/lyrics/vocals - maddie ( https://bsky.app/profile/maddieisntfunny.bsky.social )

[ACT I]
When you wake up in the morning, this will have been but a dream.
A fleeting memory of someone you once loved
A time in your life when things were going really good
But nowadays, nowadays things aren’t so good.
Nowadays, all you really wanna be able to do is just 
Let go 
Let it all out
Let all that you loved slip away and come back to you
In an anger, fleeting, and fall

Every morning when I
Wake up and get out of bed
I can’t get you out of my head
Now the trees are falling 
And the rain is come
I guess I’ll let it all come undone

When a leaf falls down
They get to float away
down torpid streams
Towards oblivion

When did I become
a thing that's been
nailed to the tree
Why can't I fall?
God, I'd fall so magnificently

All the footprints
I trudged in the sand
Let me be the wave that wipes away
the record of my past

No trav'ler will follow my descent

[ACT II]
I’m stuck in the pit
The rain’s washed away
The part of me that stings
I guess that I didn’t fit
Now helpless like prey
Wrapped up in spider web strings

So tell me I’m silly 
And laugh at the pain
Something to relight my spark
But now that I’m down here 
I can’t hear the quips 
of someone I wanted to watch
Grow old in our riverside lodge

    Oh, that house of dreams
How real it had seemed
When we were moonstruck
All the windows covered in steam
And light from you beamed
As the two of us turned off the lights,
Lights that could blind
Hiding the dark spots
In the corners of the room
It took me too long to find
The traces of rot
That soon spelled our doom

So tell me I’m worthless
And laugh at my face
Join in my chorus of one
A leaf in the storm drain
That’s mocking itself
As it watches the clouds drip away
Watch paper walls melt in a day
The colors we named turn to gray


[ACT III]
I’ve just had the hardest time
Coming to terms with what’s in my mind
But now that it’s over
I think it’s time I start over

Say “Eat, drink, be merry, for tomorrow we die”
That’s some real good advice from a real bad guy
But if nothing’s the point
And it’s all gotta end
I’ll quote a 19th cent’ry con artist and go on a bend

Life sucks, baby, but that’s alright
Cause I don’t plan on remembering the end of the night
Who’s fault is it really? I don’t care
All I know is you’re not there

I don’t wanna overemphasize 
The ways you made me feel 
Were just a worthless high
Still I got a hole inside me
After our breaking up
And a lot of willing suitors
Who can fill it right up

Life sucks, baby, but that’s alright
Cause I know I’m not remembering the end of the night
Who’s fault is it really? I don’t care
All I know is you’re still not there

You’re still not there

Don’t toy with me baby
I’m not your drone
I’m just a raging ball of hormones
Since you left me alone

Don’t try to act defensive
It’s not your look
I’ll burn down your keep
With a dive bar matchbook

[ACT 4]
woah

my gallery of regrets
and a match

for each piece

you wander these halls
trying to extinguish me
you gave me so much
i wish that i could forget
so did she, so did he, so did they, so did he, and so did

darling
ill burn us both down
love you know that ive been burned before
you know it's nothing to me
come find
me burning alive
someone's gotta set my life alight
or throw my ashes away

the flames'll kiss me tender, soft
they'll hold me like you never did
clear my smoking head
take me to bed and then
they'll wake me when i stop regretting
every waking moment
decomposing disappointment
melt the memories away