Get all 18 Porch Cat releases available on Bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Helena (My Chemical Romance Cover), I LOVE Y'ALL [A Folk Punk Cover Album], Broken Body (Demo), In The Garden I Will Learn To Grow (Demo), Time of Year, 2019 Demos, 500 Days of Bummer (Unreleased Songs from 2019), DEATH AS A WOMAN, and 10 more.
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Special (live)
01:53
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I tried to wash you off like a Sunday morning
Of mowing lawns and weeding gardens
Bleeding from the thorns that are growing here
I tried to write you off when I heard you coming
Like a burning car, like I went running
The only way I knew was very far
You wanna say I'm wrong
It's not like you so I must be wrong
So if you wanna say I'm wrong
You get to be in a song
Aren't you special?
I feel like a TV set, static glitching
Volume up and screen projecting
Making sure I'm light years away
You threw me off, didn't see you coming
So I shut off, and began re-numbing
All the parts of me you tried to break
You wanna say I'm wrong
It's not like you so I must be wrong
If you wanna say I'm wrong
You get to be in a song
Aren't you special?
If you wanna say I'm wrong
You get to be in a song
Aren't you special?
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2. |
Medical Mystery (live)
01:43
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Must be a medical mystery
Even though it's hard to see
I know it's scary that we don't know just
What these tests show
You've got a rare disease
Of the tissues and disrupted sleep
Chronic pain, it fills your spine
Live with it, you're not dying
So you try to hold on
Even though it's your job
To schedule your life away
Appointments every day
Sometimes it's hard to eat
When I tell jokes, I get weak
I crack my knuckles loud
My body echoes the sound
You know I'm sick as fuck
Feel like I got hit by a truck
But it's just from waking up
After fourteen hours of sleep
So you try to hold on
Even though it's your job
To schedule your life away
Appointments every day
So you try to hold on
Even though it's your job
To get through the symptoms here
Try to do all the things you fear
You won't do in a year
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3. |
Dream Girl (live)
02:30
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Straight boy thinks it’s kind of weird that you have pride
When you say you’re breaking up he acts like love has died
He can't be with someone he can’t change
And you can’t be with someone who won’t call you by your name
He likes your hair a little longer
He can’t stand you being stronger
Stab your own thigh, watch it bleed
Just get this boy away from me
I can’t be the girl of your dreams
I don’t even know what that means
Am I a man or am I a queen?
I keep dreaming we got married
Or we find each other after all these years
I keep dreaming all the bad things
The hiding and the fucking fears
Of being hated for being me
Of being hated for being me
Of being hated for being me
Of being hated for being me
I can’t be the girl of your dreams
I don’t even know what that means
Am I a man or am I a queen?
When you’re dreaming of me
I’m dreaming of a girl
She looks like heaven to me
She looks like the whole world
I can’t be the girl of your dreams
I don’t even know what that means
Am I a man or am I a queen?
I don’t even know what that means
I can’t be the girl of your dreams
I don’t even know what that means
Am I a man or am I a queen?
Am I a man or am I a queen?
I’ll be your man, yeah I’ll be your queen
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Pain! (live)
02:28
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Fingers, ankles, head and spine
I’m gonna lose my goddamn mind
If I can't smoke away this pain
Sometimes I think I’m in too deep
But no one else sleeps how I sleep
My dreams keep eating at my brain
I am pulling the teeth out of my head to dull the ache
I am pulling out all of my hair to stay awake
Lipstick sigil on my lips
A prayer for my troubled hips
A spell to keep the doubt at bay
They will tell you that you lie
They will tell you that you’re fine
Cause they can’t take away your pain
I am pulling the teeth out of my head to dull the ache
I am pulling out all of my hair to stay awake
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5. |
Bad Men (live)
02:52
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I found them with my mind
I want them all to die
I found them with my mind
I want BAD MEN TO DIE
I want bad men to die
I want bad men to die
There are so many things that you can do
There are so many things they took away from you
Anger and pain can keep you down, down, down
You can’t help feel like they’ve trapped you in that town
I'll take them with my mind
Make them see all their greatest fears
I’ll take them with my mind
I want BAD MEN TO DIE
I want bad men to die
I want bad men to die
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Reclaim (live)
02:59
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I'm pulling out my hair counting the days
I've thought up how to die in half a million ways
I saw your pictures floating on my screen
I wanted to cry I wanted to scream
Cause when you lose your sense of self
You become somebody else
Take the pieces you've found back
And reclaim
My fingertips are bleeding I bite my lips
I just can't help the feeling, I want to resist
Tell all your friends I'm crazy, like most other girls
Well I don't care if you hate me, you make me wanna hurl
Cause when you lose your sense of self
You become somebody else
Take the pieces you've found back
And reclaim
Reclaim
If you told my friends what you told me
They would hate you too
But if you're feeling kind of lonely
I guess that means that you should call me
So if you're feeling kind of lonely
Don't think that you should ever call me
I never wanted to be your girlfriend
I never wanted to do the things that you wanted to do
I never wanted to be your boyfriend
I never wanted to be around you but I felt like I had to
When you lose your sense of self
You become somebody else
Take the pieces you've found back
And reclaim
Reclaim
If you told my friends what you told me
They would hate you too
But if you're feeling kind of lonely
I guess that means that you should call me
So if you're feeling kind of lonely
Don't think that you should ever call me
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7. |
Turns Me On (live)
01:57
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We went swimming in the bay
And I couldn’t look away
I fell in love with you
I’ve been staring into space
The constellations on your face
You take me to the moon
Your beauty is arresting
But I think maybe the best thing
Is when you’re being you
It turns me on x4
Hey!
You wear your heart on your sleeve
That’s the way things should be
I wouldn’t change a thing
Give yourself a chance
Baby, you know you can dance
And damn right you can sing
You’re learning how to love yourself
Learning how to not be someone else
God I love you being you
It turns me on x8
Hey!
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Porch Cat Washington
Porch Cat is a DIY, queer, folk punk band from Washington, fronted by Chan B and accompanied by Emily Ayden. Chan's raw, honest lyrics and unique vocals define the bands sound, while their partner, Emily Ayden, brings thoughtful vocal harmonies along with a driving and melodic guitar to round it out. Porch Cat is a project that strives to connect with and empower marginalized people through music. ... more
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