1. |
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2011
i was very proud of this when i made it in music tech which is why i still kept it
it never had a name but it reminds me of obsessively reading john green novels while watching the snow out the window (all i did in 2011)
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2. |
last night
02:49
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2015
still like the idea, but this recording is gonna just go on this thing
__________________________
last night i thought about what i was gonna write
and i thought about throwing all of this away
and turning out the light
like i did last night
last night i thought about the music in your eyes
and i thought about leaving you a message
or something else of the type that might just last
last night i wondered when we'd get each other
whether it's this day or another
how much is left to go?
oh well there's not much body mind or soul to sell
and not a glimpse of any tales i'd tell
though there's not much for your eyes
look between the lines and suddenly there's life in
last night i packed up all that i know, and i took it to go
landed in a starry light show
and another ride's waiting, so
after all that i never even fell
you'll never guess how many tales i'd tell
tell me, if there's one good way to be alive
why don't i take my car and drive
the night is there for taking
at least that's what i've heard
last night will be tomorrow
but i won't forget my word
i'm done with reaching out
because i don't need any help
the show is over now i know
that i just brought this on myself
the sky is shattered pieces
broken shards of starry glass
the light show fizzles out
and all the constellations pass
it came splintering down
and melted straight into the ground
last night comes back tomorrow
but it's ending right now
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3. |
lady liberty
03:39
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2014
i sang this one at the berklee five-week songwriting showcase, was fun
________________________
lovely lady liberty told me
"look around, there's no way you can be
an original, it's impossible, you're one of many
kids with acoustic attention machines"
i tried my best to leave her words behind
so i'll be there like state farm
in her new york state of mind
oh no, never mind
my world is too idealized
the concept's crumbling down
it's dust to dust to dust upon the ground
so take a shot of some unnecessary pessimism
there's just no need to sing
i don't mean anything
even though some hope has crawled away
there are still some words my hypocritical self will never say
check out the product of my mind
it's vi IV I V
finally originality's mine
but i still sing the song society has written just for me
i only get 12 notes for diy identity
oh no, never mind
my world is too idealized
the concept's crumbling down
it's dust to dust to dust upon the ground
so take a shot of some unnecessary pessimism
there's just no need to sing
i don't mean anything
then this lady took one look at me
and she saw right through my new identity
"you're just a frankenstein of influence
but i guess that's all alright
go call yourself unique
if the thought helps you sleep at night"
oh no, never mind
my world is too idealized
the concept's crumbling down
it's dust to dust to dust upon the ground
so take a shot of some unnecessary pessimism
there's just no need to sing
i don't mean anything and isn't it nice
isn't it nice isn't it nice
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4. |
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2014
sent this to most schools i applied to
most of them liked it
_______________________
good afternoon
i really thank you
for opening this file
and my application too
i heard the rules
be smart
and set yourself apart
from the other applicants
and i've been working on that since
what do you think of me
and will i get the chance to come here
in approximately one year
i'll wait and see
so i'll just sing
during the process i complete
while applications pile up
and rolling turns up the heat
but so much more is key
than letting you all see that
i took my s- and a-cts
and averaged over b
where do i electronically sign
before the deadline
right here
do you dislike surprise
deem taking risks unnecessary
think this song's not customary
that's just a shame
here's my legit appeal
i want to learn for real
i've got a passion to discover
at some point or another
turn the page
at least my head's in better shape
than phineas gage
so what can you derive?
you can't, my life's not over h
identity, it won, over role confusion
thank you erik erikson i'm on my merry way
but so much more is key
than letting you all see that
i took my s- and a-cts
and averaged over b
where do i electronically sign
before the deadline
right here
right here
but so much more is key
than letting you all see that
i took my s- and a-cts
and averaged over b
where do i electronically sign
before the deadline
right here
right here
right here
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5. |
Y2K, X Double I
02:15
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2012
this was about the mysterious relationship between hurricane sandy and the [then-upcoming] apocalypse
_______________________________
once upon a time
some mayan guy said "hey in y2kXII
all of mankind is gonna die"
we took it lightly til that day
when everything just went astray
oh my god we figured we knew why
the passengers inside a plane
they nearly went insane when they felt shaking
right underneath their feet
a tone that sounded really calm
explained it on the intercom
and told them to remain
buckled in their seats
"we're gonna have some turbulence"
well this is one of many hints
that signals our impending doom
go grab a gun
save everything in sight
dust off the bomb shelter
we're going down tonight
a giant mass of wind and rain
aka a hurricane
was tumbling across the whole east coast
we surely had a lot to lose
because we heard upsetting news
the nation's biggest city would be damaged the most
the people wondered nervously
if fate had done this purposely
as evil looking clouds gathered right above their heads
trees fell down and houses shook
category 1 was all it took
to leave all the local boardwalks in shreds
we bid farewell to power lines
well this is one of many signs
that signals our impending doom
go grab a gun
save everything in sight
dust off the bomb shelter
we're going down tonight
but the mayans' date was just a date
why must we assume the worst
after all a calendar starts over
what if their 2012 was our december 31
put back the gun
we've won the nonexistent fight
get out of that bomb shelter
we're partying tonight
we're partying tonight
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6. |
2005
03:10
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2013
i wrote this after watching some documentary called 'american teen' about a bunch of cliques at a high school, filmed around 2005, and recognized in it the kinds of teenagers i idolized when i was 8 years old. then had a crisis about the 8 year olds that are currently idolizing me and my peers.
_____________________________
i watched them in their polo tees
and stupid baggy light washed jeans
they sang about their problems
to electric guitars
but eight years later everything
isn't what this time should bring
we're hipsters with DSLRs
and i still can't drive a car
and all the criminals and basket cases
princesses and brains
even all the jocks
shove on these big thick glasses frames
they think themselves so nerdy
as they drive away with friends
they're having fun
they're playing fun.
so sing along
youth never ends
eventually you'll realize
that it's all the same
for the princesses, criminals
basket cases, jocks, and brains
but when you were an 8 year old
you thought you'd be alive
once you entered high school
like the teenage of 2005
but I cannot take it seriously
the things that they condone
saying hey homedog what's up
on a rounded silver flip phone
an existential crisis
in a stupid polo tee
i'd be way too busy laughing
i'd be on the floor laughing at me
so you can hate the phonies
or the plastics or the gays
but since everyone's an asshole
there will not be better days
you can wear a dumb red hunting cap
or think you're really funny
but you will be a moron
til the day that you turn twenty
and when you see a happy flapper
you can't help but be quite sad
cause you know the great depression
came along took all she had
and when you see a happy child
in a photo from the 50s
he might have died in vietnam
or overdosed on lsd with hippies
i hope i'm not a poster child
for economic collapse
or maybe of a shark attack
or of WWII perhaps
maybe in a hundred years
they will look back on us and sigh
"it's a shame they had to die
in that tragedy that's not yet specified"
and now I'm rambling against
an ambiguous rhyme scheme
maybe it's just angsty runoff
because i'll soon be sixteen
sure my thoughts are messed up
but there's one thing on my mind
why'd i think today would the same as in 2005
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7. |
midnight jingle
01:31
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2013
i still like this but i sing it differently now due to loop pedal constraints so here's the old version
______________________
they've written songs at 2 am
they've told us how they’ve written them
and the stories are endearing
and even cuter when they start to sing
in every month there comes a day
i wish that i could go away
to a universe where i'm creative too
and every night my thoughts are new
before i fall asleep at three
the second hour brings jealousy
there's the geniuses and then there’s me
scrolling and scrolling endlessly
so i present to you a single
last minute little jingle
and if it's forced, what’s it to you
at least it’s something to do
something to do
something to do
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8. |
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2012
i tried to write a song every day in nov. 2012, here's me breaking down halfway thru the month
_________________________
i'll be honest
it's been 4 days
and i've been using rhymezone
rutherford b hayes
rhymezone told me to say that
but my point is
i think i'm failing at doing this
i've been cheating
i've messed around
i've gotta make at least one minute of sound
and that's every day
i'm going crazy
even though musically
i've been quite lazy
wouldn't it be nice if i could sleep and get good grades
or even write a novel like nanowrimo persuades
but i'll stay here and suffer and write a song each day
let's consult rhymezone again
jean baptise pierre antoine de monet
i've got a timed writing
to study for
i thought if I did this i'd become
a songwriter who's really hardcore
but i'm not hardcore
i'm a teenage nerd
who thinks that doing anything but blogging
is absurd
i've really tried
but now I'm tired
i'll never be like the musicians i admired
but I'll stick with this
i'll write twenty six more
and hope it'll make me into
a better person than before
wouldn't it be nice if i could sleep and get good grades
or even write a novel like nanowrimo persuades
but i'll stay here and suffer and write a song each day
let's consult rhymezone again
jean baptise pierre antoine de monet
i dont want to write a bridge
wouldn't it be nice if i could sleep and get good grades
or even write a novel like nanowrimo persuades
but i'll stay here and suffer and write a song each day
let's consult rhymezone again
jean baptise pierre antoine de monet
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9. |
8/23
02:47
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2014
the garageband file was created on august 23
tried out being electronic for this, i think i listened to julie ruin or something and decided to become kathleen hanna which was p ambitious
i hated the vocal track so much i took it down from the internet (where only like 3 people had seen it) but Here It Is Again
__________________________
wiser minds advise me this:
"don't sit and kiss your life goodbye"
i exclaim like a sigh
"so obvious
do you think i'm stupid
i'll just go and live a life
when i find time"
but now it's 8/23
and a worn-out mundane tuesday
is all i'll ever be
so suck it up
tuesday's enough
want productivity
well take a look through history
will shakespeare's writing shows
but galileo's telescope can't hear this song
i think we'd get along
we share a preference for astronomy
and slight dislike of popes
but now it's 8/23
and a chain of stupid tangents
might be all i'll ever see on this here page
along with weak rhymes i have made
until forever it is 8/23
and a worn-out mundane tuesday
is all i'll ever be
so suck it up
tuesday's enough
but now it's 8/23
and a worn-out mundane tuesday
is all i'll ever be
so suck it up
tuesday's enough
and now it's turned 24
just like the hours in a day
i wish that i could get some more
but luck is tough
and tuesday's enough
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10. |
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2013
this song is about george barnett, an internet musician who deleted all his music recently to build up a new persona called AKA george, even though his old stuff was so quality it spurred 16-year-old-me to write a song about all of it. oh well i wish him luck
________________________
of little rules that i have, i sure will not pretend
to care if you type your words with "x" at the end
the presence or lack of a way to make girls swoon
could never affect the effortlessness of a tune
but i still hate you
though in the good way like i see in the tags
when they lovingly call you a fucking douchebag
and i thought that to someone as skilled
i'd never be so mean, oh
your expertise it clouds my vision
turns everything green
you were on itunes at age sixteen
at this point in time i'd rather live as you than me
you play countless instruments but i play only three
so now that my hope to be as good as you's long gone
can't you at least come and play a show across the pond
i'd buy a ticket
and possibly wait with the crowd at the end
standing by the stage doors just to become your friend
and if i could be one percent as stellar as you
i'd be set, oh woah
i bought your stuff instead of stealing from the internet
and so these purchases won't be ones i regret
now i've heard your music and i'm not sure it's fair how
you're conventionally attractive while i resemble cows
i guess that you're great at everything from what i've seen
if that makes you king then i'd collab and be a queen
rub your talent on me
and that sounds like it's showing a sexual preference
though i can assure you it's a spongebob reference
but i still despise you, i still want to kill you
you see, woah woah
although i love your music and your albums your EPs
you were on itunes at age sixteen
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11. |
the fall
04:25
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2012
the words don't mean anything, they're a vague story about an alien planet. i got a little excited with piano octaves near the end
also i thought it'd be cool of me to write a song in 7/8
_______________________
it turned around
so fast we fell stars went by
there's just air and a view from way up high
so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
we saw the ground come closer mile by mile
in colors never seen before
we should stay for a little while
so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
hair tied with bows
white faces paper skin
and they said how lucky the fall had been
so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
we didn't conquer the slanted land
or the tales they used to tell
of odd pink men with hair and nails
so i'll brave the weather
i'll brave the fall and hope that
when it ends i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
ooo i'll be safe
______________________
comment from me transcribing these in 2022: this was a sci-fi fanfic based on a picture i really liked, a painting of faceless girls catching butterflies. (it's the art for the bird and the bee's 2007 self-titled album.)
i always thought they were clones or aliens made out of paper and i wanted to explain this via song! the narrator falls out of the sky onto the planet where the girls live, and becomes one of them upon arrival. i felt like i didn't do it justice here, and didn't care to explain further. (what i did do was use a fun time signature – a worthy cause to my teen self)
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12. |
away
03:16
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2012
it's about sitting on the curb after trick or treating and feeling depressed after realizing nothing seemed to mean as much as it did when i was a kid. this song is so bleak and sad and i remember i took it down from tumblr after it got 0 notes but it sums up a lot of being 15 and quiet so here it is
____________________
wishing for all the seasons to change
watching the snow the leaves the sun the rain
now i've seen it too many times
counting to things that pass soon after
opening popsicles presents bags of candy
now i've seen it too many times
all the things that stayed
now they've gone away
all the things that stayed
now they've gone away
on a curb somewhere in the dark
and it's cold and i can't tell the difference
from six months ago
once eager heads now they look down
and keep their image low
and i've seen it too many times
but i've got a jacket
i've got a vent and a fan in my bedroom
it doesn't matter if i see a blue or a white sky
i've seen it too many times
all the things that stayed
now they've gone away
all the things that stayed
now they've gone away
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13. |
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2015
the lyrics don't mean anything, but i made the loop on voicejam and thought it sounded good
___________________
no one's making headlines
they don't speak
they're apathetic sometimes
but they're far from weak
according to the source
it's all fine
they plaster on a smile
and brighten their eyes
stop let me give you a piece of my mind
i'd criticize but you're so high you're riding satellites
bits of dialog join the fog as it falls
this is the fourth wall hey i've broken today
you say here is the rain again
round up a couple friends
throw in a joke now and then
but the sentiment is always the same
if it rains on your parade
i'll close the shades
and hope it goes all day
you grab the mic and say you'll narrate
you tell a couple stories and the scene looks great
the words are catching up though one by one
soon the purpose goes and your show is done
i hope that the whole world is the same
with snake eyed arms and chessboard brains
disclaimer it's a consciousness flow day
none that saves what i made
what i wrote and i quote
you say here is the rain again
round up a couple friends
throw in a joke now and then
but the sentiment is always the same
if it rains on your parade
i'll close the shades
and maybe in a couple days
i'll see the setup wash away
if it rains i'll move away
i'll close the shades
and hope it goes all day
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14. |
rabbit holes
02:27
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2015 (written 2013)
i wrote this about a castle/myth or something on a student trip in europe the summer after sophomore year. it was the first original song i played for an audience and it made my life to hear people clap afterward. finally got around to recording it this year
___________________________________
perched in front of rabbit holes the opportunity
to swiftly fall inside of one presents itself to me
and if i choose that option of the vastly different two
the cause for picking it would be a hope of seeing you
will you fall with me
will you fall with me
i'm sure that many alices who living since the day
a book was written all about an alice gone away
have stood in front of rabbit holes and peered into the dark
wondering if this is where she'll finally make a mark
will you fall with me
will you fall with me
if i were a princess from a kingdom far away
we'd make an alliance on some joyous sunny day
for now there is the rabbit hole and all its promises
of different worlds, the one i'm in would be so hard to miss
will you fall with me
will you fall with me
will you fall with me
will you fall with me
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15. |
music tech project
01:39
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2012
i thought i would be cool and hip if i made a song in 5/4
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16. |
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2012
lil piano melody from the summer that i was super proud of, because i could play this all by myself without multi-tracking (still can, thx muscle memory)
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