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Ironic Songs

by Kevin & the Bikes

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the day i was born i was injected with ritalin and i haven't stopped since and now every day i wake up early in the morning and i run four miles and have a shave i don't smoke or drink cause you don't need to get high to walk on the moon everyone is special. me too, i'm different of course you're special too open your mind and your heart and your eyes and your wallet and your ears and your soul and your brain and your head and your demons and your door and your life and your mouth with the right transaction we can help you out life on earth is a state of constant fear we are all scared of human competition is it time to quit punching this importance peeps into the modern common just be related to the right people and why not behave outside the box ignorance is to destroy the government it's all shapes and colors to you, but to me it's a rubik's cube
2.
Party Hard 02:18
as i collect your offering i ponder into my reasonings of why accepted in the first place will this substance make me feel at one with the earth or at least just give me some sensation that at most mimics it or even then, is it just my verbosity that will mislead what might be the only truly euphoric memory of my lifetime as some detached, dumb, hippy event that happens too often because i've associated the stereotype of a hippy with that moment maybe i'm just pondering too much or maybe i just don't wanna do this fuck it i can, i can't listen to me right see me through tonight listen to me right see me through tonight see me to ol scotty he's four hours deeper see me to ol scotty see me to ol scotty listen to me right just let me through tonight listen to me right let me through tonight
3.
pointlessness, aimlessness, whateverness, and endless days my face shapeshifts slowly to be garisher than all sorbets and this substance is giving me some kind of clairvoyance that everything's gonna be so damn swell again but that first night so long ago already's faded as well as the hundreds of nights before i wasted and now it's back in the air again it took you one night to make you wish it was forever can't you think past your dumb parti pris this leak is permanent, the patch is temporary why don't you use a sealant instead and get your finger out of that hole in your head your boy's on the floor again retching slightings he's dangerously floating above the trees he had a plan to get to the top but this climax is finite and he's running out of air long term problems unable to be mended with short term solutions all expended your guile is a fake one and it's conning the kids a few years have passed and i've scrabbled them your boy's on the floor again retching slightings he's dangerously floating above the trees and i don't really like what's coming out of his mouth so why would i puff that thing that you just dragged
4.
Turbulence 03:48
every day was a wreck when you were around you picked up all of our mess, shunned us, and put us down and you think you're supposed to go somewhere in a calvinistic way follow the marijuana vapor to your doom and cause dismay all day and for all the times i feel like i wanna be alone it seldom seems like i'm at home and every day i feel like i lose a bone but they'll be molded in two years and goddamn it feels good to be alive turbulence makes my head spin and it makes your head spin too when we get out of this clashing maybe you'll stay dizzy too you'll keep your mouth shut and play the role of a friend but when my back is turned that mask shows hollowness cause liberty is so great when you're a bigot dope keep all of your thoughts inside your head and shut up when you come home i just feel like i can't be me but i don't know what i am so i just play along cause pretending that it's better seems to be better than feeling like shit but goddamn it feels so good to be alive when the prices are low and the economy thrives turbulence makes my head spin and it makes your head spin too when we get out of this clashing maybe you'll stay dizzy too
5.
My Marrow 03:15
my marrow, my marrow fall through me, fall through me my marrow, my marrow break through me, break through my bones oh break through me, break through my bones building bridges all alone burning bridges on my own my marrow
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god's orientation is meant to serve as a nation of all entities existed ten thousand years with sandbox limitations all ideals objective who will we meet there? all the things that floated in the super sargasso sea all the casaulties of a stupid context i digress god's orientation is the end of all your creations anti-babel and conversate where do we go to after this shit though we've solved all we know can we die i'm so sorry but you don't understand this all repeats you can't judge my wisdom, you're the egg that has clonked can't believe you lasted that long
8.
today is the time for everyone tonight is the time for the lonely ones it's me, it's you, and everyone for time i sit on nothing just like i stand they are forced to approach everything for everything and i don't know what's right don't sing along don't tell me to do what you want me to and i won't do the same to you
9.
Salamia 05:09
you're hit from the back, you didn't know what came i hope it changes you, i hope you're not the same that seemed to be some kind of hopefulness astray i guess it's in the air, i guess it's in the air there was no meaning to it, we were trying to live packed bodies in a room, poorly played instruments learned our way to this point, we never cared for it we were happy just to collect experiences there's something coming for me and it's deadly and i feel like something's constantly warning me to run gotta betray my senses, they're quite killing me there's damage to our brains, warily and willingly we know what we were, we kept ourselves in vain our egoticism came first in our boundaries we broke down some wall, we crumbled it to dust we became better versions, we broke and reformed trust we sat and talked for hours, we shared emotions and we were happy just to collect experiences there's something coming for me and it's deadly and i feel like something's constantly warning me that shapes constantly transmogrify into demons your dab hand hurts in the time of reason but you can still pass that thing called air through your lungs isn't it beautiful to see this thing after all you've done you've gotta change you've gotta live you've gotta breathe you've gotta give your clutch away did you really trust me here in it all you seek nothing more than comforting yourself to sleep soundly and you will buy it and you'll break it in and you will use it and you'll enjoy it but each time you do it'll turn into nothing of use you know it sits there you know it's rotting you know it stays there you know it fades from your memory until it's barely it at all
10.
I Fucked Up 01:53
goodbye you moment of inspiration i know i could have known better i know i should have done you better but now you're gone forever drinking doesn't help to kill your memory of you that i regret i know i should have known better i know i could have done you better but now you're gone forever

about

a lot of people over the almost two years since dorkcore 101 came out have asked us if we've ever made any "serious" music. while we have sent our older projects to everyone who's asked, we figured it's time to just write some new songs. hence the title "ironic songs" - songs for a band that are supposed to be ironic, but instead lapse into not being ironic, which is still ironic. that's two layers of irony supposedly?

and yes the band is back together. we broke up for like two months but reconvened, we just didn't wanna say anything until we gathered a release together.

enjoy. or don't. we don't care

~k&tb 2020

jacob - instruments
todd - instruments, production

recorded from april to august 2020, during quarantine. "god's orientation" recorded in november 2019.

intellectual bean-spill video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXhafrEdWwU
turbulence video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekVY48gGl04

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released November 14, 2020

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