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Hail Mary Songs

by John Hays

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1.
The Soil (free) 00:59
It's lonely when you're paying for your sins and these consequences feel like they're never gonna end and if you wanna leave, well I can't make you wanna stay cause these problems that I have, I don't think they're goin away you'll never know the depths that I know and I'll never know yours but those holes have all been filled so why do we dwell on whats buried in the dirt
2.
They Don't Give A Shit (free) 02:38
hate to admit, but I can't quit writing these songs that sound like shit and insulting everyone I know but it's no different here or there it's the same ol assholes everywhere especially in a basement show everyone I used to know has come and gone so long ago and it kills me, but I need to admit they ain't comin back and they don't give a shit hide my pain by ruining your name apologies are nothin in this game I can't let anyone know whats inside so when I say how awful you are its just relief from the scars of knowing I'll never be shit and then I'll die everyone I used to know has come and gone so long ago and it kills me but I need to admit they aint comin back and they don't give a shit but I'll still stand where heroes stood pretend to be more than I should I'm just a fuck up ruining your night I wonder what they were thinking when they wrote, the words they wrote and if they knew that I'd be rippin em off tonight
3.
Temporary (free) 01:28
My friend asked me the other day what I had been up to, and to be honest I had no idea how to answer that question. I said I'd been singing, and I said I'd been fightin. I'd been gamblin on horses, getting old and slowly dyin. the worst way possible, one day at a time. watching the hours crawl by with calloused hands and sorry eyes sometimes I wanna give it up, let the river drown me downstream sometimes I wanna live it all, temporary is beauty most people can't understand realizing you're a working man. that thought makes me believe that all I got in the world is me. spend my days with cups of caffeine, they're the only thing keepin me followin my dream. I knew so long ago, that I'd go nowhere and I'm gettin there slow.
4.
Suffer Together (free) 02:47
My pal Kevin's got a big fuckin knife he holds it close when he sleeps at night sometimes I wonder if he might be right when he says we'd be better if we all died I got friends that can barely breathe and I got some friends that never seem to sleep a missin thumb for my friend steve but all together, we're all complete to live is to suffer and it won't get better so we'll suffer, but we'll suffer together I'd rather struggle than be some boring winner who cares and whatever...this shit don't even matter do you exist if you ain't got nothin to say? should we be impressed by the stages you've played? are you old when your hair turns gray? or are you old when you ain't got nothin left to save... I got some friends with sidewalks for homes and I got some friends that can't stand to be alone some say we live to slow but all together we'll get where we gotta go to live is to suffer and it won't get better so we'll suffer, but we'll suffer together I'd rather struggle than be some boring winner cause who cares, whatever..this shit don't even matter
5.
Goddamn Roses (free) 02:13
you left your goddamn roses when you left I been begging for mercy but I'm running out of breath what part of forever, didn't you get? from now on, I've got nothin left I would do anything... just to forget today your jeans and sweatshirt are still crumpled in the corner and I'm not sure how to ignore them for much longer I'm goin out so I don't feel so sick hopin someone new will do the trick eventually your makeup will wash off the sheets from all those nights you spent cryin in your sleep it's got to be ok, its what they all say it's got to be ok, ain't they got anything better to try to say I would do anything...just to forget today
6.
Thumbtucker (free) 01:52
I'm givin money on every corner, pretty sure I'll be standing there with a broken soul and failed goals, asking for change from all my friends cause I can't stop fuckin up and ruinin shit for everyone but I hope that new car drives real fast to home then work and then back again cause sell outs will need some rest for their corporate life and corporate death. I'd love to complain, but I'd feel just the same as all those bands I claim to hate..maybe I just can't relate. cause now I'm gettin older and goddamn it's gettin harder, to listen to songs they sing about stupid shit and nothing when I'm dead and I'm six foot deep I hope my friends won't remember me for fallin apart and rottin away with more regrets than I had days and all those pretty darlin's that never stayed and all those times I was just too late there's never enough time for apologies i'm just assuming, that y'all forgive me
7.
Piner (free) 02:24
sittin on the front porch lookin at the scenery lookin at the dogs, the streets and trees lookin inward, I'm lookin at me just another shitty dude with low self esteem i'm comin to realize that we can't all be free but I believe I'd be happy with you next to me thinkin about the church that I used to visit wonderin what happened to the kids that were in it did they grow up to accomplish there dreams or did they become as fucked up as me and I ain't spoke to the old man in years I never listened, but he always had ears drove by the school on my way home never did that playground seem so alone thinkin bout the friends that passed through those halls memories formed inside those walls its the place where I learned to be free simply content, with slides and a swing
8.
Better Than Me (free) 02:08
I didn't wanna confess this, but I think you were right. when you said that I didn't care about my own life. the truth is I really don't care about much anymore. just another piece of dust floating through the floor. you think you're better than me? I wish you were I wish I could write a song that didn't make you laugh. and I didn't need guitar to say the pains I have. I've seen those smiles come and I've made them go. sometimes I don't wanna laugh when I'm feelin low. you think you're better than me? you probably should be and if I'm still a stranger, the fuck ya need to know? I get up early and I go to work, then I come back home. I pretend there are places that I should be, just places to kill some time then I'm back asleep you think you're better than me? well who the fuck wouldn't be? I been tryin hard to laugh swear to god that I have. I just wish that I had somethin other than this shitty summer to smile at
9.
Sissies (free) 02:03
not much that I've got left. just a few X's inside my chest. a shitty attitude and a record collection. a dead end path in either direction. you wait on schools to give you a voice, shit like me never had a choice. every leader that begs for a vote, then stands at our backs..knife to our throats. and although this life is shit, I still have my pride all sissies goin to hell, but I ain't one to cry uneducated failures is all that we are from jail we are free but we aint goin far if I was nothin then, you should see me now if I was nothin then, you should see what I've become
10.
Laughing (free) 01:47
sometimes I wonder why we're laughing, cause it feels like the jokes on us and other times I can't help from smiling, cause givin a shit never changed much. you still go out on friday night, like them bars ain't full enough. you swear to god that you're fighting back, first just one more cup. you're so sedated, and you're so submissive, yet you're so offended, cause you've givin up. so you listen to your friends and you deny the obvious, the sad truth is you're already fucked
11.
Suffer Together (solo) (free) 02:41

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released June 27, 2014

recorded by: Jerome Westerkamp. Cincinnati, OH

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