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The Hazards of Being Free

by Nancy Gardos

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1.
Come from Southern California And I really outta warn ya It’s as dry as a bone here We could use all of the love you’ve got But I’m never gonna stop, never gonna stop Never stop being born here Take you for a ride Somebody cut the cord It’s always you and I Making our way on the west coast Turn on that cruise control And slide, slide Over to me now And slide, slide Over to me now And watch the sun go down Oh, I could never sleep past eight in the morning Like dust upon the interstate, I can’t lay still Let’s pretend noone can find us As we turn this engine over Turn on that cruise control And slide, slide Over to me now And slide, slide Over to me now And watch the sun go down And watch the sun go down And watch the sun go down
2.
I’ve been wrestling in this place Of when I’m with you and without you I feel your kiss as you leave And the sun is still not up A few more winks before the day starts Interrupted lines in my throat We need some time To be alone together Alone together Alone This broken pencil needs sharpening Just like anything worth saving We need a getaway plan Baby step in my direction Let’s finesse the next few steps Make an elegant gesture Toward a love that’s not fractured Oh, we need to be Alone Together (together alone)
3.
Lost Track 04:44
Hey, is everybody awake now Well, here we are Could you pass me a light ‘Cause there’s a chill now On the filter I have placed To harbor what’s been wrecked to shreds And salvage one more hopeful thread Am I just to swallow this back? ‘Cause I have lost track of the world That I thought I could recognize But I’m not dead to it yet No I’m not dead to it yet I’m filling the hole with my friends Hanging out with the constellations Unimpressed and overfed In my head I’m burning you with the sun Using up my darkest days To mastermind the next big phase Am I just to swallow this back? ‘Cause I have lost track of the world That I thought I could recognize But I’m not dead to it yet No, I’m not dead yet Watch me fake it just a little bit Where’s my stunt double when I need it? Ill-fitting suits and hot pursuits will get you in the end Ill-fitting suits and hot pursuits will get you in the end
4.
Saltwater 03:33
I’m fixing to change with the same old tools I’m speaking in tongues, I should be listening to you I wish it was easier Think I’m drowning Afraid I’m down in Saltwater here it comes here it comes I’m under, I’d give a fortune just to know How to float Will you float with me? That wasn’t yelling yesterday with your door closed Like Morse code between the dashes and the dots Translating all my thoughts Navigating them Saltwater, here it comes here it comes I’m under I’d give a fortune just to know How to float Will you float with me? The best part is knowing that we are better than this Better than this Floating I’m floating With you
5.
Beginning I’m okay but sometimes I tear like paper Set me up sideways Just to keep it together I’m wild and restless In this twisted age You think you’re the winner But you’re not Well you played your weakest hand by far I can’t begin to tell you how wrong you are Well I’ll tell you how wrong you are You are you are you are Middle The darkness all around The sound of sweat and bass and drums You think you’re gonna never tell The bodies from the music all apart You think you’re gonna fall in love In love with the sound of sweat and bass and drums And then the light And then the light And then the light Ending You need to know we won’t surrender Until you go we won’t surrender These are our friends we won’t surrender Until it ends we won’t surrender
6.
Us and Now 03:25
There really is no doubt That I have been figured out It’s really not that hard I am most myself with you It’s all I ever wanted Don’t change don’t change don’t change Don’t change don’t change This is real life in this house This is real life in this house There is only now there is only now There is only now there is only now Us and now Us and now Would you have loved me back in 1982? When we could hardly say our names Must’ve been a chemical reaction I’ve got flaws your hands can take Feel my weight as I sink in deeper The deeper the sweeter the sweeter it tastes It’s all I ever wanted Don’t change don’t change don’t change Don’t change don’t change This is real life in this house This is real life in this house There is only now there is only now There is only now there is only now Us and now Us and now
7.
Is this your seat for the impossible dream? I am marked by the fall of my unsteady feet Counting of sheep I clutch the idea of being free Falling just out of place From a thousand miles in space Bake me til I’m golden don’t leave me here in this flyover state I wanna see your face again again I wanna see your face again again I wanna see your face again, again I wanna see your face again again and again Bake me til I’m golden don’t leave me here In this flyover state I wanna see your face again, again I wanna see your face again, again , again I wanna see your face again I wanna see your face again, again and again

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recorded, mixed and mastered by S.Husky Hoskulds, Groundlift, DTLA

Christopher Allis - drums
Jason Chesney - bass

All songs written by Nancy Gardos except Lost Track
Music co-written + produced by Matt Brown
RoCoBro Studios, Marietta, GA
I Can’t Begin To Tell You How Wrong You Are, co-written + produced by Frank Padellaro and Brandi Ediss at The People Above the Stairs, Northampton, MA

Additional recording at Corner Office Studios, L.A.
Debra Tala recorded at Teeny Tiny Studios, Atlanta, GA
Paul Melançon at SuperActionGO! Studios, Atlanta, GA

A few of these songs were demo’d on Theme Music, the collaborative Facebook group started by our Fearless Leader, Matt Brown. Thank you Matt! for your 6-year music odyssey, its comic relief and continued virtual and in-real-life friendships. Keep making song, people!

I am forever in debt to my ‘rocking teenage combo’ Christopher Allis and Jason Chesney for keeping me in time and sharing bowl upon bowl of Sawtelle ramen goodness.

Very special thanks to Laurie Dworsky, Dinn Mann, Michelle Bader, Jasmine Jaffe, Babak Shokrian, Amanda Miller and Lisa Diamond for sweetening the pot so generously during our Kickstarter campaign!

A special nod to Otto aka ‘Captain Glide’
and my ever-supportive parental units, Dan and Sylvia Dworsky.
Max and Hannah..i love you to the moon.

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released December 25, 2017

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