Name: Check My Phone
Duration: P00H05M41S
Description: Originally recorded in late 2018/early 2019, we shelved this song because we were unhappy with a few things. However, as quarantine dragged on, the lyrics of the song became spookily relevant and not wanting to stay totally quiet during this strange period, we thought we'd finally put it out into the world.

Check My Phone

by Arid Wave

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Originally recorded in late 2018/early 2019, we shelved this song because we were unhappy with a few things. However, as quarantine dragged on, the lyrics of the song became spookily relevant and not wanting to stay totally quiet during this strange period, we thought we'd finally put it out into the world.

lyrics

The flower hides the burns, the drinking hides the rest.
But nothing seems to replicate the feeling of resting your head on someone's chest.
I've wandered very far beyond this prison we call sleep.
This bed's a grave I have dug for myself, I might be buried in these sheets.

Cos lately I've been dressing up like I don't have a home
Facial hair growing unkempt as I waste down to my bones
Roll me over so I don't drown in my sleep
These days I don't bother, no I don't even bother to check my phone

It slowly starts to burn, but what did you expect?
Yeah all I've got is this black box recording, playing on a loop inside my head
Two rivers run beside eachother but the mouths will never meet
He fills the hole with strings and ink and shiny things
But he never feels complete

Cos lately I've been dressing up like I don't have a home
Facial hair growing unkempt as I waste down to my bones
Roll me over so I don't drown in my sleep
These days I don't bother, no I don't even bother to check my phone

Cos lately I've been dressing up like I don't have a home
Wish I could make sense do I want to be loved or left alone

credits

released January 5, 2020
Guitar/vocals: Ben Palmer
Bass: Brogan Turner
Drums: Will Palmer

Lyrics- Ben Palmer
Music- Arid Wave
Recorded, produced and engineered by Brad Dorey.
Guitars, bass and drums tracked at The Park Studio
Vocals and additional guitars tracked at Fake Bandit Studio (Ben's room).

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Arid Wave Southampton, UK

Formed in Southampton by brothers Ben and Will Palmer (Guitar/vocals and drums respectively) and Brogan Turner (Bass), Arid Wave take the grungey sounds of the 1990's and give them a venomous modern edge.
With their buzzsaw guitars, frantic drums, grimey basslines and wretched, angsty vocals, Arid Wave are a band best experienced live. ... more

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