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doing my best

by Cape Chacon

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1.
virgo season 00:53
you always know what you want i gotta listen harder when i think i know what i want it dont make any sense but its virgo season and ive got a lot to do i stack em up, and i slice em down
2.
laugh @ me 00:58
when i was a kid everybody laughed at me nobody took me seriously i wanted to be intimidating, i wanted to be scary now im all grown up and nobody ever laughs at me everybody takes me seriously u think im self centered, call me ur highness, think im a dick, i guess that i am but really im as scared of you as you are of me and i wish you'd just laugh at me i miss when they laughed at me
3.
i'm bored 01:43
i'm bored cuz i don't know anybody here you're home and i wish i was with you there in our home, in our small home, in our home, with all our windows im bored, cuz i don't like anybody here you're gone, and i wish i was with you there in the cold, in the green cold, in our home, with all our windows
4.
you can't save me for later you can't call me once a year just to make sure im single for the next time you're here never asked you to be sayin marry me you kept bringin it up like what the fuck? you can't save me for later you can't call me once a year just to make sure im single for the next time you're here
5.
rubber band 03:06
i tie my hair back with a rubber band it hurts but ive got nothing better i smash my ankles inside my shoes they hurt but ive got nothing better ive got nothing to lose, ive got everything to prove ive got everything to lose in you i can't do anything right, im a spineless snail in my life i'm doing my best, im just a mess im doing all that i can, can you give me a hand? i tie my hair back with a rubber band, it hurts but i dont want nothin better i smash my ankles inside my shoes, they hurt but i dont want nothin better ive got nothing to lose, ive got everything to prove ive got everything to lose in you
6.
say ur sorry 02:21
ten years ago you did me wrong did you even say ur sorry? did you ever make it up to me? well maybe you said it but i couldn't get my stomach off of the bathroom floor i still needed more you will never be able to say im sorry enough to make me feel good too much has passed for it to fix anything too long to know that you should five years ago i did you wrong shoulda called you back now i never can im just a coward man i will never be able to say im sorry enough to make me feel good too much has passed for it to mean anything too long knowing i should but im forgiving myself.
7.
honestly 02:06
honestly what did you want with me i was 14 honestly what could i want with you you were 22 im not gonna apologize just cuz i broke ur heart seems kinda like it should be you who's sorry honestly when will you say you're sorry stop sending me your story
8.
once a year 01:36
it happens once a year maybe twice but not that often it happens once a year i don't want you to think i think about you all the time just when i notice you're around like when the cottonwoods are blowing now i know that makes it sound like im in love with you or something and i know that makes it sound like im still keeping all the promises we made when we were kids i swear im not, i swear im not it just happens once a year
9.
now that you're gone i can see where we went wrong we all kept fucking up guess its time to change our strut i don't know how i can make this any better what's done is done i hope you know i love you still i was just so scared of what was going on i can see the moon shine into your old bedroom she came and packed up your stuff brought you back in a box i know we don't have much time so im trying to change my ways i want to remember you in the light of your last summer days remember you laughing remember you always
10.
whats a kid to do? ive got nothing on my list! i ride through my hometown and map the places that we kissed i ride my bike at night through the streets that ive been riding all my life i keep hopin that ill end up somewhere right but it's not mine tonight and i keep wavin to people who don't live here anymore i keep thinkin that i see you through your door but its not yours anymore what would america want me to do? i can't do that!
11.
my cat likes me best you thought i was boring but my cat likes me best! so fuck you! my friends love me best i think im annoying but my friends love me best! fuck me too! i don't know what i do without you my friends! i don't know where id be without you, my family!

about

written on bike rides through our midwest hometown: past all our friends houses, the cemetery, our elementary school, where we sat on the curb outside the hostess shop with honey buns after basketball practice, where you told me you loved me for the first time, where we swam in the dark.

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released February 23, 2019

all parts written by Cape Chacon

Cape Chacon is:

vocals/guitar/drums: Emma Hitch
vocals/synth: Margaret Hitch
drums/guitar: Matt Langlais
bass: Matt Curran

recorded, mixed, and mastered by Matt Langlais

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Cape Chacon Portland, Oregon

indie rock that's kindof like when you forgot your pencil in sixth grade but ur bff had an extra

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