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Old Factory Living

by Arvid

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phantoms of the night which propel you and keep your spine upright to say which wrong is right i slouched without a fight with phantoms of the night ordinary fears measured crudely by simple quiet ears i drank another beer so passed another year with ordinary fears waiting for sustain paddling softly like droplets from the drain i heard about your pain while standing for the train waiting for sustain and phantoms of the night i'd compel you but that would not be right such a shameful frigid sight expect the pending bite with phantoms
2.
i don't want to bother or simulate your father i don't have a gas when the paper's all torn wrap it up in dust seek your tractor's musk bleeding in the ruck i spelled it r-u-c-k i should know the wander singing underclinging path you know is outright crooked i should know the wander singing underclinging path you know is always crooked she paid the actors her feeling's not a factor i'm overreacting when i beat the sun down i don't want to bother or give it to another call me in the middle of your righteous protest problems that will render every passing vender effigy surrender like i burned it okay massive appalachian bleeding with the nation value education like it's necessary
3.
pepper and salt you call it a voice i call it a cult i found a picture in the vault depicting you and me i've got lots of friends that are making amends with the fuzzy peach tree pepper and salt please read the book walk by default don't take a drive through 95 with that lens you've got a monotonic way of believing you and all of your friends it's sort of like a running joke i can't even have a smoke there's a runaway on the freeway lifting up both his hands i told you it's a reason but you'll never understand but that's alright pepper and salt cease the momentum with a halt it's not my fault so don't insult me with that tone i hope these memories stick around they're all i've got on my own pepper and salt i must implore it's not my fault i can't decide which one is which or why i'm down it's something crazy an idea to me why you keep me around i thought about it for a few days the fire that the griddle displays i'm left in good company by the smoke that ascends there's more to this than what i see or what i can comprehend but that's alright with me
4.
just when the arrow'd hit you and you spent your time alone just when i'd thought i'd quit you and the cattle had wandered home just when you felt the inward pull that kept your life from becoming dull the promised arbitrary vector control you'll flock your knives to the bottom overcast aside from the wave that brings you down you won't feel your mind until you've got it
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Mountain 02:09
there's a station not far from here i think i'll buy a pack of smokes and whisper in somebody's ear let's pack up our shit and go i got a mountain let's climb a mountain ascend up the mountain in my brain and in my pocket i got the compass that's gonna take me where the cloud's full of rain i don't got time to choose this way or that so i'm gonna shut the fuck up and go i'll spend another night with my mouth on the bottle oozing words i'm barely choosing to throw i got a mountain let's climb a mountain let's walk till our legs bend askew i heard some words that somebody told me that i'll never have the nerve to ask you now i'm wandering atop a peak and the motion of the ground makes me ill so now i'm picking among the abscess of which perversion i should choose to distill atop a mountain let's climb a mountain and plunge into the distance below somebody heard me forget the answer because now i think i'm taking it slow
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Factory Town 04:32
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Stage Fright 03:07
when you see me walking down your neighborhood did you ever seem to see what you've done to me i would ask you for the time and spare some change but i've seen two faces and the better one of each one day you know i'll mask the smell again and some day i'll buy myself another pen some say that i'm a fool for thinking of you in some ways i think i'm pulling myself through one day the words will whistle you to sleep some day your skin will dry before you weep i just pray for thoughts to show themselves to me to cure my own stage fright another dance another song another time and place another way to sing the same sweet songs once again yo dude man i need a plan you know i'm way too high i hear the ocean sounding tides that wash overhead i'll wait another week or two to find it but i've bathed in words so cold they leave me blinded and i'm losing touch with sounds that once were sweet i once was proud to stand on both my feet there are words you know that only go so far i used the wrong kind of gas to fill your car this aint neither a case of fight or flight just some more of that stage fright
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i walk away you draw the line i walk away you draw the line that's the way it's been for the longest time so take the backroad to the shelter i don't know where i'm bound to go but wherever i go i know i'll need some clothes i fall behind you're up ahead that's the way it's been now the way it is and the way it's always gonna have to be no time to talk i know you're the one When all's said and done, you had a lot of fun and your eyes rolled back when you tasted the sun
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Wasted 02:34
she found the sunlight splitting through the blindfold far too early and i've been walking for weeks with no apparent end in sight on this occasion tucked in the pocket behind the wallet before the lighter i took the money you kept the gold now it's been wasted or so i'm told no time for mercy sitting in a chair upon the carpet the magic eight ball shook me as it spoke in different keys so many questions yet to be answered is this the impasse or a mirage the time spent walking has left me old now it's been wasted or so i'm told
10.
find me a totem from which i might sanction a common reaction from words that aren't there that once would unfold in the dead of the night when my heroes were told to unveil every spectrum caught stuck between posts erected in malice intentionally sold no buses for strangers no wick for no flame no moments of danger no feelings too tame no wretched behavior no seeds to be planted no conscious no savior no wish reprimanded no spirit uncanny no view too outlandish no questioning can he no vague disadvantage no ribbons for branches no thoughts left to seize no fragrant advances nobody wants these pull me out don't pull me up
11.
who is the pilot that gives you so much sympathy i'd never ask one city's fool all bent and busted relax the nerves that sicken you it's ordinary yes it's true i can't wash it out when the light's so blue you build it in you shoot it out i don't know why you build it in before you shoot it out fortified wine sippin up on yours cause i've got mine you won't see anything this time but if there's a crosseyed variation you won't see mirages clearly enough but you know i never think about that stuff
12.
i'm still elusive when nobody is watching i let the light through when nothing else shining where were you when they untied the horses when they positioned their change in their forces and I'd gladly give you any of my time when you need it days keep on slipping through cold alluring fingers make your mind up and repress your every design you're gonna go and I know you'll be on your way it's been nice what we've had by the way you'll still be on the front of my mind while I'm sitting in the back of yours you're going to fly to find something to cling onto and hope it means anything but you know i'd be willing to take any of your time but I don't need it
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Trial Blinds 05:01
i'm wondering if the wheel's spinning out and if the clouds will obey far reaching from the nozzle to the spout and every stop on the way there are words that i hear when i shout but i don't know what to say the trial blinds keep knocking me out and i'm hoping they stay and i'm walking where the walls will come down and i'm standing in the town where i'm found i'm trying really hard to figure out which way i'm supposed to go but they'll never tell me what it's all about and why the wait is so slow now wait here i'm going to turn around the bend and then i'll be out of your way the trial blinds keep blocking me out and i'm hoping that they'll stay

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old factory living is the first album released by Arvid

it was recorded on cassette between october 2013 and may 2014

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released May 4, 2014

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