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Hold Onto Your Luck (LP)

by Trophywife

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1.
Thief 11:07
Vagrant howling lines intersect to step outside my body Break down in air Relax reveal and rewind the memory Stare straight for no light is breaking Content we lived outside a mind Reconstruct with level heads Don’t ask for which impression left Footprints sewn upon the evidence Break the hand you’re holding for it never tried to heal you And leave the heart that stole the smile from beneath you Thief take more than you know Open my wide eyes and leave me behind Someone who wants to remember Well I'd rather be a failure than a fucking pretender Have I really written this? Never thought of what I’d say to mend it As long as I feel like I exist Within what we perceive to be reason All the harm inside of me believes in freedom. They all leave scars their venom leaves you wanting more For the sake of diversity stay the hell away from me You know they say where theres a will there's a way "will it away" Will it away will it away. A small seem in the night A thread bearing some light You took those words I can't remember What a waste of my time You say you know me So nice and lonely But you don't know me I don't remember What a waste of my time What a waste of my time You could steal the city The dirt and pretty Holes in this town ghosts in this town I can't remember I don't remember What a waste of my time What a waste of my time Every locksmith Every jury You could steal a body Unholy water I can't remember I don't remember What a waste of my time What a waste of my time I could forge a river You could forge a sentence Rhetoric question An open ending I can't remember I don't remember What a waste of my time Every locksmith Every jury You could steal a body Unholy water I can't remember I don't remember What a waste of my time Waste of my time Just leave me behind Just leave me to die Oh look you keep wasting my time again I don't know why. You keep wasting my time wasting my time.
2.
This house is the darkness but the dark's where my heart is While racing down a more traveled path you'll notice all your roaming neighbors are fragile Walk at a pace that is slow down a path uninhabited and unknown You'll be sorry you were ever over being in such good company but still so alone Try and crawl inside of every hole that you weren't man enough to call your own You didn't call her home You could have never grown I am still trying to sleep To hold a knife but not hold your head I hear the words but I can’t understand them To drag the pain through the dead Till I develop an eye for you It’s like watching you watch me Now I understand Intervene inconsistently Oh my eyes will shake and shake Haven’t you noticed? I saw this coming I saw this I saw this decaying from underneath (Past all the doubts of unrequited love sits the figurehead with his judgements cast A faint voice breaks out and says "Pain caused is real enough to see the truth keep those that say lies keep my pesky visitors away”) Call her home I crossed the line to see the dust cover their eyes It's no surprise Don't call her home Oh no no no Call her home
3.
XI 10:28
The day started normally my bad dream just wouldn't leave. I saw her get cut in half but no it didn't bother me. I walked by two churches on the same block. It all seemed relevant but for what? You know I never bothered to ask Did you find it funny when I offered you advice on destroying your past? Promise me you laughed cause I know I am He's got the writer’s block of a runaway Afraid to put in such a permanent ink what he knows they'll say God please stay as we run away Never take for granted something that's been given to you as a gift he said I don’t have a way to express the pain in my head. I looked up at him and said Keep your vices in check and your heart will impress you with how much it can forgive God please stay as we all run away And we all know why it was just too much to show up this time to show up tonight Oh the bitterness that I have seen worn and tattered on your sleeve From the sweater I made you out of all my self-esteem. Wear it out please wear it out without a doubt I couldn't care less. If these words are marks on your body and these antagonists are all of my friends I still couldn't care less Find a different means to make it end. You're like a splinter in my finger but I can't keep it still There’s so much happiness that lingers but let’s forget the heart it filled. I will drain this place of all its nutrients Go town to town wearing down the people that love me Someday soon I'll lose the good fight from inside my own cocoon We are only as sick as the sum of our secrets Some say it was human kinds first mistake to love so strongly with a heart that breaks But I believe it to be our greatest strength to stay unwavering in love while the world loses its faith. I'll trade you a title for a body let's see which one they ask for And I thought about all the things you said that kept me here that kept me fed Glass molded frame Drawing curtains closed Both arms losing distance Stopping dead in set tracks Circle back again This old paved road It always leads to stone Surrounded by these homes Only one enclosed half a circle shown Oh how long I’ve longed to know Just how long you’ve been awake
4.
Please take me back to a place where things weren't settling underneath. Here I wear a crown of broken kingdoms and pillaged towns Where we stand around Friends we've lost and friends we've found I see a place where we can speak without the holes in our feet From walking to where we need to be A place free of everything There has to be a place where we can choose to live where every day doesn't feel like this Please take me back to a place where things weren't settling underneath. Lie through your teeth I’m through with these visionary beliefs Making myself out to be any of these wasteful dreamers Since true sailing is dead I think I'll swallow a few of you leeches sticking to my skin You could never make out my compass bucked off horse latitudes You've been row row rowing an empty boat harshly through the sea merrily merrily Real life is in your dreams I’ll hold this all together And all the while the sovereign woods will lead us home But you never know which home to call your own Your own your own you’re homeless in spirit And I won’t miss it In all the static I keep trying to breathe But I just grind my teeth turn them red just to stop all of the thoughts that I read from surfacing Choke on the name live in the memories but it's all just a book that I read in my sleep It was titled "The Past: Filled with Dead Hopes and Lost Dreams". When can I start a different passage how does the parting begin? All I know now is the food I've been fed. Love lie lust and loathe just to try and live again When can I start a different passage? How does the parting begin?
5.
Foothills (free) 06:11
I never meant any harm but where do I begin? Oh how gracious a host I’ve been In making my heart a home But still I let you in dressed in black and old blood Like a perfect gentlemen Like a perfect gentlemen Bad thoughts understood Bad thoughts plug her in Out of sight out of mind I'll hold this animals mouth closed So warm the breath proceeds Over and under me I've been building an arc to take us away from the way we all used to be Bring only two of your kind yourself and someone you want to die by If you were listening you would have seen me as I shouted "don't watch me" All of these questions never asked (watch the hand that feeds me) The words that forged the mast Carry me from one to the next (in the name of secrecy) Drug it to death bury its head amongst the rest of them Support without a neck (I keep these black lies behind my white teeth) Darkness feeds the man who asks for it to understand I don’t need your words stitched inside of me Cause all you need is the blood you breathe and the air that defeats In the dark skin you buried light now see what no one can see For all those that give god help: no one is majestic Washed ashore I’m driftwood in store for a more Interesting story I’m trying my hardest not to find it all boring My dearest love and lies (no one is majestic)
6.
Build me in a fortress you've made out of petty things I will decide to bury my mind but you'll still think that you can read mine You can't read mine. I'm crying come and see this world is far too close for me to breathe in this air to swim in this sea I'm already uncomfortably close to nothing Close to nothing Count on all your feelings sparingly To me this earth moves much too slowly Come and find me in the house built from everything that you left out in suspense of whats to come Don't leave my finger on the gun Because I do believe in a world of what’s to come Should I find myself without anywhere to run turn me a servant into a make believe artist of uncommon dignities Uncommon dignities I'm not leaving without blood on my hands neck and face Put down a tragedy placed inside a makeshift ghost of me I'm trying to give these people something to fight about You're out of breath You're in denial You're acting now Play dumb a while You're out of breath You're in denial Play dumb Play dumb Play dumb and look down You're out of breath You're in denial You're acting now Force a smile Don’t expect them to direct their anger at anyone but you That’s right haven’t you heard? What they’ve been through Oh no how could you? I'm not leaving I'm not leaving without a war I'm not leaving
7.
Like a blind flame try and find try and find your way Through a maze so cold and surrounded by your thoughts clamoring for the sown Ideas you never gave a second chance rising on their own. Like a blind flame they trap this place your mind is at and keep you feeling down You are a despondent mess It's rare to see anyone not like this in town Cause these days we all feel like hiding when there's nothing we can pride ourselves in In the end just pretend you're comfortably dying We all have to see the truth and let it rain down on us Give me a free life Give me a true life into an even truer death You know this you know this quiet crucifix is growing very old Do you hear it when it's obvious? We have a liar’s tongue that’s fixed on bringing change through our ego Take all I’ve grown into your empty moans We’re all just pawns to pass the time There’s no one here to try you All of your judges are deceased Strangled them with your indifference Some lost source of heat Bring upon the healing that I asked for That we asked for Just hold on
8.
Hold onto your luck It’s yours to take Not holding breath for you to speak Let that city wind invest in all the promises you’ll make but never keep If we wait for you to wake we’d all die of old age A friend once lost a love we’ll never wage The door could never close too hard Amends I’ll never want to make You are a ghost to the world There is nothing you can do to prove to them what you used to feel Try and show them that you are real It will never work Only alive to those that have died and you seek the forgiveness of the living You can't find solace where you can't find giving All the little soldiers we are up against the wall up against the wall Marching in a death walk Let's ask who death stalks. All the little soldiers we are up against the wall up against the wall Marching in a death walk Let's ask who God’s marked Bring him forward but don't believe him Kept imprisoned Break his spirit Stories without endings suffer the consequences of living in hell Depending on fences everybody's got a story to tell But it's hard to hear them when their burning in hell So write your story down I’ve been lurking underneath the surface of something bigger for so long I’ve been too busy imagining and forgot how to finish this song But now were here so sing along Listen closely and don't you forget Curiosity killed the cat But certainty certainly soiled it

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Trophywife's highly anticipated sophomore album "Hold Onto Your Luck" is now available for download! This album is currently on sale for $3 instead of $5 while we're the featured artist on www.decoymusic.com!

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released July 4, 2012

Recorded at Portrait Studios
Mastered by Chris Badami
Produced/Engineered and Mixed by John Ferrara (Trophy Scars) + Guest guitar solo on Thief
Jerry Jones (Trophy Scars) - Guest vocals on Thief
Tim Balch (Andross, YGATM) - Guest vocals on Thief
John Grater - Guest vocals on The Most Untraveled Path and Foothills

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Trophywife Harleysville, Pennsylvania

Trophywife is a progressive/post-hardcore quartet from the Philadelphia suburbs. Since their formation back in October of 2009, they've played shows feverishly, embarked on a two week tour around the east coast/mid west, recorded a full length and a music video all under two years. Each member has a completely different musical taste and background that has contributed to what is now Trophywife ... more

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