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Recollections of Affection

by When I Was 12

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i had to drink vanilla vodka just so i i could kiss you i had to ask you for something stronger just so i i'd have the guts to so i (i) asked (asked) you to pick a number one through ten and if you got it right i'd make sure we never spoke again do i have to get drunk enough to black out dangle my body from your living room couch katie says to stop being a decoration in your fucked up life and not to give into temptation so i (i) asked (asked) you to pick a number one through ten and if you got it right i'd make sure we never spoke again i had to drink vanilla vodka (x8)
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whenever I'm alone i imagine you in a tuxedo i cover myself with a white sheet to see a bride a ghost or whatever is left of me and nothing is (x2) when the night is young but i am tired i meet you on a telephone wire ask you to cover yourself with my duvet floral prints and when there's nothing left to say close your eyes (x2) i wish i wasn't so devoted to this terrible old habit when i've cried for seven days straight and my heart no longer cooperates a wet pillow and bloodshot eyes lock myself inside and tell you to go away go away i wish i wasn't so devoted to this terrible old habit
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Crow 03:23
you warned me that you were like a crow but i thought i saw something kind in your eyes and i was wrong, so wrong i was wrong, so damn wrong you said you would eat my heart first if it helped cause you're a crow and you feed on dead corpses in hell and i should have known it all along yeah i should have known this all along you've ruined it for me and the next boy that i meet you've ruined it for me and you've ruined everything yeah you've ruined everything i didn't think this would happen so i sat there and cried i listened to noah and the whale's latest album and i downed my red wine cause i was wrong, so wrong i was wrong, so damn wrong cold heart what will you do with spring right around the corner i tried to give you my affection but you like being a loner i should i have known it all along yeah i should have known this all along you've ruined it for me and the next boy that i meet you've ruined it for me and you've ruined everything yeah you've ruined everything love is just a ghost of the past i don't believe in it because i know it won't last
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we sat on your bed quilted and covered with something that your grandmother made i wondered if she'd be happy about the way you were treating me i closed my eyes i tried not to cry because you said you liked them brave but i'm growing tired from attempts not to let my heart cave you smoked a cigarette watching with helpless eyes you noted that just like your plants love and everything else you know must die you told me you wanted to be surrounded by a herd of yellow butterflies and that this had never left your lips until now you kept it inside but i know that you have deeper and darker secrets so that's why i said i didn't know if i could keep this
5.
you said i looked kind of intimidating is that why you were debating whether or not you should come say hi that night that night, that night i was so fucking tired i couldn't tell if it was a dream were you just a dream lets skip intimidating lets just start dating you said you had a dream that you kissed me inside my door room when we were listening to our heart beats collide that night that night, that night you were so fucking tired claiming you were good at spooning we laid side by side

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released August 2, 2010

We would like to thank John Custer for recording vanilla vodka, crow, and tuxedo, Brian Malvey for mastering it, Eric Resnick for playing drums on crow and tuxedo, and Tina Saienni for taking the cover photo

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