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The Covet

by The Covet

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1.
Panic Attacks I got this feeling. Feeling it won’t go away. Turning and churning. Burning my insides away. It feels like I’m dying.Want you to just go away Hey Hey, Now run away. Hey Hey, Not Today. Hey Hey, Now run away. Hey Hey, And taste your pain Thought I could do this. If I could get through it, right now. Thoughts do escape me. Bile degrades me, breakdown. My body forsakes me. Opportunities wasted, oh no. Swallowed my pride. And I’m dying inside, for sure Tonight was the time. But it don’t turn out right, I know Hey Hey, Now run away. Hey Hey, Not Today. Hey Hey, Now run away. Hey Hey, And taste your pain Wanted to see you, wanted to say. When it’s not working, it hits me this way. Come yet asunder, come left to play. Its overwhelming, it kills me to say...you must go ...and I don’t know...where’s left to go...words left untold...and I Don’t know, What’s left to say, Put it away...Felling like its a mistake. Just go away, Out of my head, Feeling I’m dead, AND I won’t. Play it the same, Lost this time, Don’t know if I am insane, Stomach in pain. What’s left to take, Whether I want to know. Push out my demons, Burn in this cage..Take it or leave it, no, Am I deranged. This poison infects me, Leaves me for daze...My body my temple, crushed at this stage. And I’m bleeding to empty, Blackened heart ways...Have to believe, I can make it ok. And I want to to notice, want you to see...That I can’t control it, no, It’s not really me. Would you ask for forgiveness, some clarity...A sliver of blindness in this uncertainty. And I wanted to feel this, But it couldn’t be...I told you what happened, But it happened to me... and I’m done...with you
2.
Coronal Mass rEjections What to say...I’m dying today. Would you believe me...Whatever I say. I cut and run...let’s have our fun. Time will tell...when we are dumb. Would you go with me...too make believe. We can have...anything we need. Still I see...You so far from me. What we had...will it not be...now. Wait, We’re too late, Now our Fate, What I’ll make. No Way, Pretending, Our sign, Decending I wanted you...but not to prove. A kind of warmth...For me and you. What’s left to say...You’re not with me. Our brightest light...In cold decay. And what could be...Is just for dreams. It’s got no rhyme...Got NO meaning. A fallen stance...No lost romance. Still confused...Not half a chance. What’s there to see...Reflects on me. Generalities...Your banality. Still I want..Just one more chance. I Go for broke...Till it all crashes, down. Wait, We’re too late, Now our Fate, What I’ll make. No Way, Pretending, Our sign, Decending Gonna take your burning reset..Gotta make my mind till it’s clear. I’ll awake this waiting feeling...Close the door? No, now a reject. And the best laid plans can’t make a stand...When it falls out unto our hands. Better hold your tongue from baiting...Less it hold you back from making. This time I say I’m sincere...And at last I’ll say it real clear. I’ll awake this world of feeling...Don’t you know that love is teasing...me. Wait, We’re too late, Now our Fate, What I’ll make. No Way, Pretending, Our sign, Decending Once you take it...Why you break it. I can’t leave yet...No one’s seeing. My misgiving...Or transending. Please don’t fake now...I can’t take it...all.
3.
Calm 05:30
Calm When I remember this. From a place that’s gone away. I lost a little bit. And I don’t know what remains. I’m Calm and pristine. Sold my soul for a dollar a day. Don’t remember me. And I don’t know what else to say. What to say. What to say. What to say. And I witness this. Culled of a feeling of ill repute. My heart’s not into this. On you false imbibed views. I want to change all this. And make something better that’s new. I didn’t want all this. And I don’t have much to lose. Much to lose. Much to lose. Much to lose. Now...I won’t take this. I won’t take it away from you. How this leaves me. Now I don’t know what to do. In these times of recourse. What’s there left to prove. In all this emptiness. Now only God knows what to do. Oh...but I don’t know what to do. When I remember this. To a place that’s gone away. I lost a little bit. But I don’t have much to say. I’m Calm and pristine. Sold my soul for a dollar a day. Don’t remember me. For its shame I am amazed. I am amazed.
4.
Sympathy 04:27
Sympathy Staring down at you…Holding eyes unglued. You know it feeds me…To this appease me. We turn it round again…what’s become our friend. Standing at our fate…Why did you fall away. And you fell away, And you fell away. And you fell away, And you fell... Our tired, weighted hearts will be. Our tired, wasted eyes will see. Our tired, weighted hearts will beat. Our tired, waiting hearts will bleed. How you think…Murdered Sympathy. We take another drink…and scream about nothing. Already lost again…Tired parts, they blend. Staring at our fate…Why did we fall away. And we fell away, And we fell away. And we fell away, And we fell... Our tired, weighted hearts will be. Our tired, wasted eyes will see. Our tired, weighted hearts will beat. Our tired, waiting hearts will bleed. Our tired, weighted hearts will be. Our tired, wasted eyes will see. Our tired, weighted hearts will beat. Our tired, waiting hearts will bleed. Our tired, weighted hearts will be. Our tired, wasted eyes will see. Our tired, weighted hearts will beat. Our tired, waiting hearts will bleed. Our tired, wasted eyes will see. Our tired, weighted hearts will be. Our tired, weighted hearts will beat. Our tired, waiting hearts will bleed
5.
Love and Contempt Don’t want to leave. Don’t want to leave. Don’t want to leave. But I’m going to. Don’t want to leave. Don’t want to leave. Don’t want to leave. But I need to. Don’t walk away. Don’t walk away. Don’t walk away. When it’s broken. It can’t stay the same. It can’t stay the same. It can’t stay the same. If it’s over. Now I’ve said it many times. I guess I’ll say it some more. Can’t take your petty lies. and your insincere overtones. When I’ve said I’ve had it. I truly mean it’s a fact. When your best friends are cancer. Who stab you right in the back. You don’t even see. You don’t even see. You don’t even see. What its doing. When I say it’s a cancer. It’s eating right from the heart. Burnt right and corrosive. You won’t see the alarm. Down hill by the hour. It will only tear us apart. You called this a friendship. But you wouldn’t even the score. What will you say. What will you say. What will you say. And I turn away. We’ve been down this road. A thousand times it seems. I could pull out all of my hair. And scream again and again. This song won’t change it. It seems a weak reprieve. You have to want to change. Its the way we act that reeks. Now don’t take it from me. You don’t take it from me. Don’t take it from me...yeah. You’re gonna have to see. You’re gonna have to see. You’re gonna have to see...for yourself. We can’t let it be. We can’t let it be. We can’t let it be...no. I can’t wait and see. I can’t wait and see. I can’t wait and see... Can’t you see...You’re breaking a dream. A fragile piece...What’s left to be. A simple choice...Left to most. Would fall apart...Right from the start. We hypnotized...believed the lies. Oh too bad, this way must die. We have to change, this life rearranged. Or so it seems, we’re not living the dream
6.
You Were Around What to say when its over, Not much to believe, And I miss you, I still miss you. Our days have sunken into night, And I am left alone, Without you, Without you. Now all you problems won’t escape you, Even if you run away, But it’s over, I’m not over it. When you were around. When you were around you didn’t see me in your eyes...Your eyes. When you were around. When you were around you didn’t see me in your eyes...Your eyes...I’m seeing. Now won’t you sing in time, Won’t you sing with me, Like we use to, Like we use to do. I saw you left town, Gonna be too far away, Why you leaving, Why you leaving me behind. I’m standing alone in a desert, To far to recieve from you, All these things you say, But you won’t come, WITH ME. When you were around. When you were around you didn’t see me in your eyes...Your eyes. When you were around. When you were around you didn’t see me in your eyes...Your eyes...I’m seeing. When you were around. When you were around you didn’t see me in your eyes...Your eyes. Just come with me. There’s only one way to test our fate...tonight, tonight. When you were around. When you were around you didn’t see me in your eyes...Your eyes...I’m seeing. Now in our time, In our time you told me a lot of lies. Just an explanation, Is all I want right now, would you mind?
7.
Procrastorbate Hey you there waiting for your life...Sitting on the side. Your loose ends ARE never tied...Waiting for?... Descending, Pretending. The pretense is ending. You waited, Frustrated. But what is it making. You beat it, Defeated. But nothing worth keeping. As time passes by you. Your days are all dying...now. In time it all falls through your hands...Bliss in emptiness. I close my eyes and take a sigh...waiting to get light. Its something that you have to find...Well, take a look inside. I’m so bored, out of my mind...I’m fading. Descending, Pretending. The pretense is ending You waited, Frustrated. But what is it making You beat it, Defeated. But nothing worth keeping As time passes by you. Your days are all dying...now All this time, slips through my hands...At emptiness I grasp. Feeling lost, can’t comprehend...Who made up this plan. What you filled into my eyes...Your sacrosanct are lies. Seeking out the questions why...And finding we are blind. Descending, Pretending. The pretense is ending. You waited, Frustrated. But what is it making. You beat it, Defeated. But nothing worth keeping. As time passes by you. Your days are all dying. You sit and you wait. It’s your greatest mistake. This life that defined you. Now that you’ve given in.
8.
O.N.O. 04:20
O.N.O. (Old New Order) I want you to think about what I sing...Am I dressed in tin foil? The powers that be, what they want you to see...Just another lie for a profit. And let’s see who controls all the money...Now we’re all living for paper. Behind the lies, What will you find, Control the mind, Then all our lives. Let me be is what I need...I don’t need your fear porn. If there is scarcity, then we’re not free...It can be so much better. These darker times, they will unwind...They can’t wage wars forever. If profits before people are the corporate steeple...Now isn’t that the root of all evil? I don’t assume to have all the truths...But we all need to question. Just look all around you if you are confounded...Is this the world you wanted? Behind the lies, What will you find, Control the mind, Then all our lives. Let me be is what I need...I don’t need your fear porn. If there is scarcity, then we’re not free...It can be so much better. Now the poor get poorer, and the rich get more. Am I left just to bitch here? In all this tragedy, got to stand up to see. What could be our world? On the screen of your TV...Is the fascist banter. Messaging that’s so obscene...Controlled by just a handful. Their loose change can’t rearrange...A false new world order. The fascist shits, those hypocrites...They want total control now. But what we need is to be free...Stand in your own power. Tomorrow only knows what we all chose...Will we make life any better?
9.
Walk Away 03:57
Walk Away So you think your times are tough And they say you’ve had it rough And what you really need But you know you just can’t get it So what do you want from me You’ve got your plight I see Well, I’m not the one who oversees So let it over me So you think you’ve had enough There’s more to life, but this sucks But you don’t know what you need Still now, too dark to see And you swear you wanted change To be in this fight for days But we’re lost in this fight you see It’s a game...It’s all about...MONEY And you walk away...yeah, And you walk away...yeah And you walk away...yeah, And you walk away...yeah And you walk away...yeah, And you walk away...yeah And you walk away...yeah, And you walk away...yeah And you walk away...yeah, And you walk away...yeah
10.
Blood & Oil 03:36
Blood & Oil What you say you wanted. What you said was wrong. Don’t take it for granted. We’re all paying in the end. When you set the agenda. When you sell your propaganda. We don’t need your weaponized fear. We just need to all see clearly. When has it become too much. When will we have had enough. A culture fed with fear. We break the shackles of the overseers? Your lies...Your lies and greed Will this regime ever change. Will it ever get better than this. Now, the sky, it isn’t falling. But I can clearly hear it calling. What’s the answer, I don’t know. Is it time to break the mold. I Got stuck in rabbit holes. Will we stand up, or will we fold. Your lies...Your lies and greed Your lies...Your lies are death Control is the paradigm. Starving the middle class to die. Transnational corporate war machines. Profiting off of death is obscene. A man of change and empty words. Just a game to placate the hordes. The devil’s details were made so clever. Until its revealed who pulls the lever. Of power, money, and greed. The death, of what we all need. To come together in peace. Love and harmony. Just a hippie fantasy. Is that what you’re telling me. I say it can all be done. If we all see that we are one. It’s just like in a dream. It only matters what you believe in. Or will we all hang separately. Held down by how we all see.

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released March 28, 2014

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by John Rettig (The Covet). Mastering and additional mixing with Jon Risen.

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