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Bad Ideas (2016)

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1.
Castles 03:40
I'm not ready for anyone but me But I must say that I'm lonesome Oh, my sweet So go steady when pulling at my seams I've been drinking, barely sleeping Feeling weak I'm laughing aloud, my head in the clouds And I feel kinda proud I've tried as hard as I might To bury this bag of tricks I carry around I built my castle in the sand Fooled you all into thinking my walls are tumbling down I've mixed cement with my own hands Found the stone by the stockade that my neighbours tossed aside So go steady when climbing. Oh, it's steep And the turrets, they've subsided now for weeks. So go steady, tread carefully I don't mean to appear rude but you all have to leave
2.
Give Up 03:05
I have spent the first few days of this year Calling everyone I know I am hopeless, I am hopeless - give me hope My friends, they've spent the first few hours of this year Along with me as we repeat ourselves Coming up and staying in We're old And you have spent the first days of this year Along with people I don't know In the places we would go and in our homes And I'll resent the time you'll spend without me And the fool you'll find to keep you sweet The ground you'll grace beneath your feet I've been living out of the back of my car I have got the feeling I could be a while here Pack my things away and wonder where you are What to do with all these bags of clothes and old guitars And if this was the start, the way I mean to go on I just might give up on this year And if this was the start, the way I mean to go on there is oh, so little hope for me
3.
It's a bad time A bad time for me, son Fourteen years I still haven't one quite right for me In my state of mind My list of problems could black out the sun If you held them up Are you sure you're mine? You won't pay attention to positive praise Squeezing your face from anyone Are you sure you're fine? You're a damaged human You won't listen to me when I list my problems For what I witnessed, they could lock me up, And they did I'm just hopeless, helpless, lazy and feckless My kid
4.
I know you look like the last one That I'd hope to sit on the top of and rest Catch my breath Hills can't grow taller with sunlight and water, it's true What's feeding you? I took the trouble of avoiding the trouble that's you Gave up on everything: you, me, the truth Last night I found a good place To stop this endless walking, call an end to the day Watch your feet on broken glass 'cause I've been drinking Throwing bottles, lighting fires and making mess Making up for time I've missed I took the trouble of turning around for the view I'll take the trouble to stay here and take it in too
5.
You always had the wits about you To match gods you couldn't hide if you tried You always had something about you Wouldn't take the shit that I do Let 'em try - oh my, oh my! I never had no doubts about you I read the troubles or two in those pretty eyes I can see the fire build up in you Before the others really do When all the parts have been your fool Yes, it took some weeks and months for me to win you over You were my little bulldozer Now that I am by your side, I'm no longer in your wake... We are the biggest wave; the cardinal sin So tell me how you make such noise for such a little thing You never said we would take prisoners Never promised anything You never promised a thing
6.
Brian's Boat 03:43
We need to speak. You'd best believe me when I leave My feet carry me through the front door or they'll creep any which way I'd tell you again but it won't change a thing You'd best believe I'm killing Monday with my teeth You won't see me take a back seat with my dream ever again I'll take to the sea; don't follow me I'll wake for the wind to pick up I'll wake for the wind to pick me up There's islands in the sea There's islands in me Godspeed! Brian please don't let me down With your feet hanging from the starboard bow
7.
We'd spend hours outside Race our cousins on bikes We couldn't see the wheels for losing light Oh, we stretched the summer's patient skies We would cut the tall grass from the roots to fight each other in the sun Hollow trees for hide and seek - my brother made a fool of everyone Tunnels under shelters that one day used to save us all from bombs Garden with the house was sold to someone - hope they know what they've got Boys, it's getting dark Will you come back in the house?
8.
It's laughable now, but I wouldn't laugh Thinking of just how we got so worked up I'm telling you now: I am not proud Of what we forgot and of who I was Something's stolen me from myself Took my happiness and my health Something's taken me from you And left you with this idiot, this fool. Came home and our house looks so different now Though nothing's changed it has somehow Promise me now, we'll stop digging holes Holes in ourselves we cannot fill You with your big ideas, you know nothing Ooh, have your great ideas got you lost again?
9.
Oh, my dad will play hell when he finally figures out How I've been spending my time Why on earth did he send me down? Oh, my trouble with sin and the rules we cut in stone They felt so much better apart Observed from the sky than down here alone I'm coming home with a heavy heart Holes in my hands, I'm falling apart I'm coming home with a broken heart Holes in my feet they walked me so far To hell you'd send me and my friends If only you knew the half of what we did To stay on the better side of it To stay on the buoyant side of the ship Oh, wine passes the time. I never found it hard to find Oh, lies that I told: "five thousand" was only five Oh my! I'm telling you know, I never did appreciate How good's the fruit you forbid us to touch, to smell, to taste

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Bad Ideas (2011 - 2016)

Unreleased self-titled third album

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released April 18, 2016

Recorded throughout the latter half of June 2015 at Greenmount Studios, Leeds.
www.greenmountstudios.com
Produced, engineered and mixed by Jamie Lockhart, Lee Smith and Rob Slater.
Mastered by Bob Cooper.
www.bobcooperproducer.com

All songs written, arranged and performed by Bad Ideas: Sam Cook, Dan Neale, Chris Coleshaw and Nate Davenport.

Photography, cover art and layout by Steven Haddock.
www.stevenhaddock.co.uk
Art concept by Sam Cook and Chris Coleshaw

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BAD IDEAS

(2011 - 2016)


Borrowing their name from the lyrics of an old Alkaline Trio song, BAD IDEAS is a

British punk rock group that owes as much to the youthful swagger of 90’s Brit-pop groups and guitar led indie bands as it does trans-atlantic punk rock.

www.badideasmusic.co.uk
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