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Poltergeist

by ALT GRL

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1.
Poltergeist 06:02
Didn't think of you for days as I searched the house for all of the doors that had shut. But instead I found all of the cabinets flung open the closets were vacant of all our stuff. The floors are still scratched But there's light shining in without those tacky curtains you matched to all the cracking paint on the walls That all of my hums and chirps bounce off I like the sound of them till your voice echoes back saying that I'm a broken record You weren't the first to tell me that You probably won't be the last I'll have you know that I've taken new lovers into bed Yeah I far prefer them to anything we had You took that bed frame when I left The jagged one that used to always cut my back That's a feeling that I know that I will never miss When I'm trying to get some rest I hear noises coming from the vents Those memories that I'd like to forget And at the far end of the house there is a basement The entrance is dark and it's gaping I hear The throwing of things all about A poltergeist haunting this house of mine That's all I ever find You clawed your way into my heart But only the deepest darkest part of me That's all you'll ever see
2.
In that potter's field outside my house Unmarked graves are everywhere I don't remember where your's is so I picture it everywhere I'm looking for markings For pigments and epitaphs Of a funeral I never had Identifying trinkets in the upturned dirt Those things left on graves Signs of fresh death like at evergreen But I can't find, No I can't find a thing So I will write this out and scream at your grave If I ever find it these are cruel words I will waste to summon you Summoning you out Summoning you out
3.
No Parades 03:08
I ripped out those pages of my calendar The empty ones reminding me of those empty two years You wanted us to die together But I'd rather that you died alone Well your hearse is now rusting away And your cadaver is rotting Yes you'll get no parades
4.
Ghost 02:04
If only then you knew If only then you knew That I am an Angry Ghost Haunting all that you've known If only then you knew If only then you knew That I am an angry ghost Haunting all that you know If only if only if only you if only if only if only you Dreamed of me Destroying you
5.
Wish I was ugly enough to love anyone Though deep down I'm ugly too I'll build a vanity mirror, baby Construct us a better version of you Maybe that will justify loving you But right now you're far too ugly for me to Maybe we can turn down the lights soften those features I don't like I'll cover it in pictures of better times I don't think you're worth the effort to try Maybe to not make it and just leave would be kind Maybe to not make it and just leave would be kind But I hate you and I really don't want to be nice You're deep down in my soul where all my anger resides I hope for you that I'm an apparition every night And it's expressions are reflections of how you look in my eyes I just want the pain to have been worth something That penance long ago cleared my conscience I think that these songs are the best work that I've ever done And I'm angry at the hand you had in every one So I'll erase your name from all of this Bleach it away like the hair on top of your head Throw our pictures into a big blue sea The same color as those contacts you'd wear around me Your eyes are really earth brown and you hide them You are a jealous child You are selfish in real life Your eyes are really dirt brown yeah you hide them You are a Jealous child You are selfish in real life And I do not forgive you
6.
Seance 03:20
Well I did a seance of you last night. No I didn't once flinch when I called your name out three times. When your apparition appeared to me it cried. Yeah I wasted more words on you than I'd ever like. Your ghost was begging for forgiveness for all of the things it had done. But it could not reply when I asked it it to recall any specific moment. I don't have to forgive you there's no point, you'll never change. You'll just dig through your past in an effort to explain. Why you act the way you do. You're not sorry for anything except for the fact that you'll have to deal with yourself now without me to take all those beatings your guilt is the easy kind It's the kind that lets you pick the mornings you get out of bed You get to select which quiet moments you cringe From a lover's touch you'll never recoil in fear You just use it to beg for sympathy for everything that you did to me Well I don't need to forgive you you'll never change You'll just dig through your past in an effort to explain. Well there's a warm body in my bed and I've got work in the morning I am waking up in a few hours to an objectively better future
7.
When I get home at night I listen for the sound of your wings on the wind. You are a hunting hawk in my life. Always waiting on my few quiet moments to strike. I want you to know that a few lies were said when your talons carved the pelt on my back. I'm small game at night. The Horns are calling a hunt. Wings spread, you're unhooded and your eyes are red.

credits

released June 10, 2017

Thanks to:

-[REDACTED] for joining onto this weird endeavor

-CoogRadio and Esteban Rodriguez for providing studio and practice space

-Elijah Hall for being an eternal idea sounding board

-Erin Davis for coming to our first show and offering constant artistic
support

-Smircle

-My ex, for being a shit human

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ALT GRL Houston, Texas

Making melodies out of everything

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Vox-Gregory F.
Synth-Erick W.
Bass-J.E.H.
Drums- Kadhir A.

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