The Menzingers - After the Party (February 3, 2017) Album • Page 66

Can confirm record bangs harder with 3 cups of coffee

 

Did you order from Kings Road? If so, did they give you a shipping notification?

 

I ordered from Bull Moose - they shipped it 2-day on Monday and notified me.

 

One thing that took me by surprised is how good Tom's songs are on this album. Definitely wins most improved Award.

 

I got my shipping notification for my preorder and it won't be in until next week... The whole reason I preorder an album is to get it on/before release day!

 

My Amazon pre-order is supposed to get here Friday. Prime don't fail me now!

 

This album is very good. Greg and Tom both sound great here. Boy Blue is an early favorite

 

Midwestern States and Your Wild Years are really hitting me. Love the rest of the album, especially all the singles and the opener, but those two are sticking out as the best to me right now.

Anyone else seeing them at the Metro in March? Cannot wait to sing that line about Chicago in Midwestern States surrounded by a punch of drunk Chicago punks.

 

Just wanted to say, really enjoying this album and a lot of songs I can really relate to. Absolutely fantastic to here this along of with their cover they done of 24frames.

Anyone know the track-list for the cover EP being released at the end of the month for the tour?

 

Blasphemy about Gates! Agreed about Casey and Mexican Guitars though.

I'd love to see Sculptors And Vandals and Coal City Blues live tbh.

 

I've only seen them once and they didn't play Casey, so I definitely want that most on this tour.

 

Decided that for my re-listen of OTIP - in preparation for ATP to drop on Friday - to play the album front to back on guitar.

 

Seeing Casey live was one of the best experiences in my life

 

This album is damn fantastic cant stop listening to it.

 

House on Fire was my jam during my run today.

 

The lyric booklet leaked last month. If no one minds I'll copy and paste it...

1- Tellin’ Lies
Oh yeah, everything is terrible when buying marijuana makes you feel like a criminal
When your new friends take a joke to literal, making you feel like the bad guy
Oh, where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?
Oh yeah, all hope abandoned not young enough to be your companion
Not old enough to be your guide, what a cliche time to try
Oh, where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?
Where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?
Everyones asking me over and over.
The decade taken hostage by my own guilty conscience
When you gonna quit this nonsense, everyones asking me over and over
But I don’t mind tellin’ lies.
So oh yeah, lets go to Vegas, put it all on black and get married by Elvis
If we wake up broke we’ll be fine, we’ll get rich in another lifetime.
Like tension you can cut with a knife, like a wedding ring that never fit right
Like a car alarm that won’t stop howling, a decade lost in the motions
To romance and cheap whiskey, the subtle sound of a fleeting feeling
Like four chords that don’t love you no more, in a motel room
In a sleeping bag on the floor, is it wrong to say that things can change?

2 - Thick as Thieves
I held up a liquor store
Demanded top-shelf metaphors
With a sinner’s smile and open arms
Drop a line to charm the silent alarm
Heard neutral angels call the cops
They’ll be choosing sides when the fighting stops
Polizie in the cabaret
While we six kings made our getaway
Thick as thieves
On our knees
With an ocean in between
Laughter in the darkness
I heard whispers in the shadows
I was there when the wall fell down
I'll be there when the ocean rises
Building castles with cans and bottles
Drinking like they do in novels
I know they’ll get me by and by
But tonight you are my alibi
The same old sun that we all come from
Faded stars in the air that we breath, in the earth, in the sea
Thick as thieves
On our knees
With an ocean in between

3 - Lookers
Lost in a picture frame, the way our bodies used to behave
The way they smiled in the moment before they permanently froze
But that was the old me and you, when we were both lookers.
Lost in a picture frame, the way my body used to behave
The way it smiled in the moment before it permanently froze
But that was the old me, I was such a looker in the old days.
You little Kerouac, always running like Dean and Sal
Always waiting on a freight train, always looking for a story to tell
But that was the old you, you were such a looker in the old days.
Yeah we were both lookers.
Sha, la, la, la Jersey girls are always total heartbreakers
Julie from the Wonder Bar I still wonder where you are
Cause I know the old you, and you know the old me.
I was certain that I’d find her, in the back of the diner
In a cloud full of nicotine, in a teenage memory
That I hold till eternity cause the future aint coming for it.
In a 5x8” black and white, on the nightstand of my mind
from a time I hardly recognize.

4 - Midwestern States
I hope this isn’t a burden, thanks for having us over
We could sleep on the couch, we could sleep on the floor
We will leave before you even notice we were here or even notice us at all.
Been having problems with our landlord, he said he’s taking us both to court
She got her hours slashed and my unemployments drying up fast
We both got worthless diplomas from worthless universities
Two bachelors in worthless studies but at least it made our parents happy
And cost a whole lot of money.
You said L.A. is only two days if we drive straight, Denver if we get tired
Said you didn’t mind stopping just as long as we got out of the Midwest States.
The Midwestern States.
But I know somewhere in Chicago where we can stay for a little
I hope this isn’t a burden, thanks for having us over.
Most nights we always fall asleep with something dumb on Netflix
Some nights trash reality, kids cartoons, or shitty documentaries
Not perfect but we’re good together, me you and our bad tattoos
All our stick and pokes, all our inside jokes, we’ll regret 'em when we’re dead and sober
But we’re still breathing and the party ain’t over.

5 - Charlie's Army
I guess I should tell her I’m sorry, why I never showed up to the party
I got into a misunderstanding with her old boyfriend named Charlie.
Yeah, I love my Juliet, but her ex-boyfriend wants me dead
But tell your men I ain’t afraid to die.
When I first met her i fell in love and she smiled because she knew
We were day drinking in Brooklyn, it was death in the afternoon.
Charlie’s Army is coming for me.
Tell your men I aint afraid to die, if loving Julie is a capital crime.
I ain’t gonna tell him I’m sorry, cause its me and her after the party
No need for a misunderstanding cause nothings gonna change my mind.

6 - House on Fire
Waiting for your life to start then you die
Was your heart beating in the first place?
Waiting for your life to start then you die
Was your heart beating in the first place?
Lost myself in the kitchen
There's an old friend falling down the stairs
They say there's cops in the alley way
It's too late for saving us
Let it burn down
Waiting for your life to start then you die
Was your heart beating in the first place?
Waiting for your life to start then you die
Was your heart beating in the first place?
Found myself in the basement
There's smoke, there's ash over everything
This girl I know yeah she's tryin' to get high
Telling me, she's telling me,
"Let it burn out"
Yeah, does it make you nervous?
Have you fulfilled your purpose?
Yeah, does it make you nervous?
The house is on fire
Yeah, does it make you nervous?
Have you fulfilled your purpose?
Yeah, does it make you nervous?
The house is on fire, but there's beer left
I think I'll stay
Waiting for your life to start then you die
Was your heart beating in the first place?
Waiting for your life to start then you die
Was your heart beating in the first place?
We set the house on fire
and we ain't going nowhere

7 - Black Mass
I was staring through the stained glass, into the procession of a Black Mass
Oh how the subject at the altar wants their life back
The view from here to there is a lot like wilting flowers
Bored beyond repair and unfit for an altar
Strange relating with the Lamb to the Slaughter.
But hey, do you really wanna throw it away?
I’d do anything to make you stay.
We used to only take the back roads, but now we found a distance shorter
You used to call me darlin, now you prefer more formal
We used to get high and stare at the moon
And wonder how long it would take to walk to
But now thats like the distance between me and you.
But hey, do you really wanna throw it away?
I’d do anything to make you stay, for just a little bit longer.

8 – Boy Blue
Took our father's name
And our mother’s heart
We felt our sisters' pain
Then it fell apart
They said one thing
Then showed us another
Is it finally true?
We’re not getting any younger?
Boy blue and the silver spoon
They found him dying in the living room
Say goodbye to the bride and groom
Send em off on a honeymoon
A Dreadful sound
Echoed through the trees
Dirty headlights
Put us all on our knees
Route 502
We were waiting for you
But you couldn’t see
It was new years eve
Boy blue and the silver spoon
They found him dying in the living room
Say goodbye to the bride and groom
Send em off on a honeymoon
I’ve been told
There’s no going home
No room left for you and me
No empty seats in eternity
Ive been told
Theres no going home
No songs left to sing
No second act to mortality
Boy blue and the silver spoon
They found him dying in the living room
Say goodbye to the bride and groom
Send em off on a honeymoon

9- Bad Catholics
We should have never thought that we could get stoned and drive around with just a half a pack of smokes
A bottle of clear eyes, an appetite, we were pillaging the Turkey Hill on Main Ave in West Side
Wouldn’t you guess the only thing we had to fear would be flashing their lights in our rear view mirror
This time they got us its all over now, you were praying Hail Marys for an escape route.
But thank God for your fathers last name and all the connections that he’s made
To everyone you’re such a sweet church girl, but I know your secret.
Bad Catholics weren’t we darling? Always dipping out before communion started.
Another summer and another church picnic, I watch a mother run around in a panic
Chasing her kid with his orange soda mustache, while his fathers by the gambling wheel
There I saw you in the beer tent hanging with your new husband and your baby on the way
Oh its kinda strange how it made me miss something, long lost in the both of us now.
You thanked God that I found my way and introduced me to oh whats his name
To everyone you’re such a sweet church girl, but I know your secret.

10 - Your Wild Years
Long for the words with hearts and wings
Something familiar when you miss everything
You rest your head against the window pane
Feet on the dash through a steady rain.
I drove you home while you slept in the front seat
After a show at the stone pony
Watched you wake so God damn sweetly
Over the Walt Whitman bridge back to Philly
I toss and turn at 4 in the morning
Petrified of where our future is going
Cause you’re the kinda girl that deserves the world
And I’m just the kinda guy that promises the world
So I fix a drink nice and strong in the kitchen
Something quick that’ll cure my conscience
Creep back to bed and I kiss your forehead
Maybe everything is fine and its all in my head.
A little Irish in your blood, a little polish in your name
A little Boston in your attitude, just the way you were raised.
We drove up to Massachusetts together
Your old house was just like you remembered
We stayed in your adolescent room
And rummaged through the boxes labeled former you
The souvenirs of happiness in a moment
Your wild years that you often mention
The sands of time in an hourglass
That you’re always begging for back.
I got drunk in the afternoon, with your father in the living room
As the television broke the silence, you smiled knowing I was trying
The best that I can do.

11 - Bars
Sunken eyes in strangers faces
I’ll fall asleep in the strangest places
What the hell am I doing?
Where have my friends gone?
I know I’ve been here before
But ya can not leave when you can’t find the door
Smashed my phone
Lost my wallet
Who’s this new friend of mine?
Why do some people make you nervous?
Others drive you to drink
When the bars are closing...
A nightstand memorial of past libation
A sudden fear of phone vibrations
Too hungover to sleep
Too tired to be alive
Bezos, bile and bills,
There is so much missing time to kill
I shake like an airplane on it’s way down
Why do some people make you nervous?
Others drive you to drink
When the bars are closing...
When the bars are closing...
No good’ll come
from stumbling home with the sun
No good’ll come
from stumbling home with the sun
I used to care
Now I just stare into the..
Sunken eyes in strangers faces
I’ll fall asleep in the strangest places
What the hell am I doing?
Where have my friends gone?
Why do some people make you nervous?
Others drive you to drink
When the bars are closing...
When the bars are closing...

12 - After the Party
Its the little things my mind commits to etch behind my eyelids
Like getting stoned when we wake up, coffee grounds in coffee cups
Your silhouette in hightop sneakers, hardcore from laptop speakers
The classics to the more obscure, Minor Threat to your old roommates band.
Like a kaleidoscope in vibrant hues I navigate round your tattoos
Said you got that one on a whim when you were breaking up with him
And that Matryoshka Russian doll that lines your shelf from big to small
What a way to start new to shed your skin and find the old you.
Everybody wants to get famous, but you just want to dance in a basement
You don’t care if anyone is watching, just as long as you stay in motion
We put miles on these old jean jackets, got caught up in the drunk conversations
But after the party its me and you.
With a new outlook on everything we see, from high up on this rooftop over South Philly
To the nights we loose all self control, from the sex, from the drugs, from the rock and roll.

13 - Livin’ Aint Easy
In vibrant hues in subtle brush strokes of memory
The life I’ve painted I have sold for a quick twenty
Its on display now for the privileged and the wealthy
God I despise their reassuring lying eyes
Our home stands tall behind that foreclosure sign
Everything in boxes for another lifetime
Continental breakfast in the lobby
But they’re always out of coffee.
Only a fool would think living could be easy.
In this little motel room, I-80 west of nowhere
Why count the stars, you’ll never know where you are
Somewhere lightyears from the world you used to know
Like a lock that doesn’t turn, like a plant that doesn’t grow
Long for the words with hearts and wings
From five states over, I am running from everything
Continental breakfast in the lobby
But they’re always out of coffee.
Oh you know what breaks my heart? Watching your whole life fall apart
While bastards dance off with the night, as we try to break free with all our might.

 

God bless you.

 

Throw my name down on the list of people not in love with the closer

 

Probably the most under rated song on the record I think.

 

What the fuck

 

If I was a wealthy man I'd pay the $3 to change my username to "Mexican Guitars Plz" or something millennial like that

 

Historically Menzingers closers aren't as good as the rest of the record. I mean I still like most of them but they've never ever been in my top 5 tracks.

 

It doesn't grip me like the rest of the album. I'm sure further listens'll change that

 

The closer isn't my favorite track by any means, but I think it's a pretty fitting way to tie up the themes of the record.