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Let's Try This Again

by the subjunctives

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no more suffering your latest wit and no more pretending that I give a shit and no more sitting through your gloomy weather no more pretending that I can't do better we're not friends anymore i hope you realize our best days have passed up by no more cringing while I look away and no more alibis for what you say and no more nodding through your latest intrigue no more tacitly endorsing your hate we're not friends anymore i hope you realize our best days have passed up by
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gonna quit gonna quit gonna quit gonna quit this job getting tired getting tired getting tired getting tired a you all this time you've gone too far I can't give you a pass on your way out don't let the door hit you in the ass goodbye I will not miss you you dicks you're a dick and you're a dick and you're a dick and you're a dick as well you can all go go go go go go to hell this time you've gone too far I can't give you a pass on my way out don't let the door hit me in the ass
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I don't have the time I don't have the time the time in the day and I don't have the words I don't have the words the words to say hey what planet are you from is everyone there this dumb I don't have the time I don't have the time the time in the day and I don't have the words I don't have the words the words to say opposite of intellect your assertation I reject the shit you say is asinine and I just don't have the time ba ba ba ba ba
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Smart Punks 01:21
I don't wanna be a dumb ass I don't wanna be the guy that doesn't know I would rather be a well read man a knowledge stan a thinkin joe you remember when punk was young? I remember when pop punk wasn't dumb dr frank lance hahn greg graffin and milo auckerman smart punks go back to school / and read camus ergo sum punk rock doesn't have to be dumb larry wrote that punk rockers were hesitant to display intelligence or put their minds to full use because the wisdom was that punk was ignorant jeff bale said that it's classist david hayes said a smart punk was neither one in the pages of mrr the battle raged but I know which side i'm on smart punks reading books / writing hooks ergo sum punk rock doesn't have to be dumb
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I see you standing there all fine in the morning glowing like a ghost across my bow you hang on to this old romantic notion somehow though I dare not ask you how hope that I can measure up to the man you wanna see when you look across at me am I a good man? in the noonday garden sun like a shepherd walking with her charges all around I'll pour a drink at the risk that you don't need me to lift you up so I won't drown hope that I can measure up to the man you wanna see when you look across at me am I a good man? in the evening when the light and our strength is fading and quiet's on our house I'll lay a blanket across your lap so you won't shiver as the darkness gathers round hope that I can measure up to the man you wanna see when you look across at me
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91 in my room with the karin seven inch I was so taken by your lyrical intelligence I could picture you kickin' past pancho villa's surplus combat boots and a worn out cccp tee 97 tour I took your sg to the shop we said goodbye never would have thought it's a shame we didn't get more time 94 me and josh at the epicenter bins I said I liked cringer better than this j-church band you were right there but how was I supposed to know? you were always kind but you never seemed to let it go 08 abroad and my lifeline home your songs I read the news that you had gone it's a shame we didn't get more time Lance the joke is that we always think we've got more time (but the joke's on us as time goes by)
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payment on this car I cannot miss so each day I get up at six drive to my job where i'll get paid so that the payment is not late they asked me where I saw myself in five years I told them I don't know but i'm sure it's not here don't wanna be a leader don't wanna be led my boss says I must take on more so I can get a higher score then i'll get a promotion so I can take on more again they asked me where I saw myself in five years I told them I don't know but i'm sure it's not here don't wanna be a leader don't wanna be led
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I got my hair cut short I got my sleeves rolled up Catch me in the pit I'm gonna fuck you up My girlfriend tells me that I need to stop But I just gotta rise above Hey buddy don't look at me I went to the henry rollins school of menacing I look across the bar I give you a glance You look back at me so I take my chance Said if you wanna be my lover girl You gotta get with my war Hey buddy don't look at me I went to the henry rollins school of menacing
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could you believe anything was wrong in the world on a night like tonight? keep the beat up fast and everythings fine and the crowd reflects a shining light telling me that i've done something right for once and telling me that I mean something to someone and I wish there was a way to say how much this means to me this is the way that I had dreamed I can't believe that this is me me and 10 years gone and this scene will not be replayed your patient ears and all the shows we've played in the past (thirty)4 years leave a debt unpaid telling me that i've done something right for once and telling me that I mean something to someone and I wish there was a way to say how much this means to me this is the way that I had dreamed I can't believe that this is me
10.
as the car rolls through the streets still wet from an early evening rain. street lights to my eyes go blurred like stars so far away. each car that passes us reveals a tiny world unto itself. sharing space and time and hints at stories we can never know. thanks for driving me home old friend in this state each tiny thing puts my mind to running wheeling scraps of paper in the wind set an empty mind alight turning off of the main road we slip into the darkened neighborhood though i'm fading fast I say goodnight and I know that it's all good thanks for driving me home old friend if I was drunk at the bar it was only half from the booze friendship conversation fills me up the other half was you
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maybe I should start to recognize maybe I should learn to empathize maybe I should find a compromise maybe get my life together wanna get my life together maybe I can see a new north star maybe I can set a higher bar maybe I can spark a way to start maybe get my life together... maybe I could be a better man maybe I could show a kinder hand maybe I could prove a better friend maybe get my life together wanna get my life together if we ever get out of this mess wanna do something with my life maybe I can try to build your trust maybe I can demonstrate my love maybe I can un-dertake enough maybe get my life together... maybe I will pause before I shout maybe I will stop and think it out maybe I will end on a high note maybe get my life together i wanna get my life together if we ever get out of this mess wanna do something with my life
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Up And Down 01:56
Elevator number 1 when the day has just begun To my car to the bridge i sit and wait It goes up and down It goes up and down Up and down it goes up and down Up and down it goes up and down Down down down Elevator number 3 in the halls of industry Stare straight ahead don't say a word I sit and wait It goes up and down It goes up and down Up and down it goes up and down Up and down it goes up and down Down down down Elevator number 3 take it back up to the street To the car to the bridge I sit and wait It goes up and down It goes up and down Up and down it goes up and down Up and down it goes up and down Down down down Elevator 1 is in repair i guess I'll have to take the stairs walk through the door and you're not there I feel down down down down down down
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in 1989 I played in my first show I was psyched to play but my fear didn't want to go were my parts gonna fit and was my hand gonna stretch? was I gonna get a panic attack from playing like this? I look like hell and I feel like crap i've got nowhere better to be I come outta my shell to find i'm on my back but i'm so glad you're here with me. in 2021 we stayed inside all year I returned to shows and so did all my fear were my pants gonna fit and was this shirt gonna stretch? was I gonna get a panic attack from wearing this mask? I look like hell and I feel like crap i've got nowhere better to be I come outta my shell to find i'm on my back but i'm so glad you're here with me.
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I don't wanna be alone again I don't wanna be without my friends I don't wanna be the lonely man sat at home remembering you oughta know by now you are my very best pals and... I don't wanna be a basket case I don't wanna drive you away I don't wanna be old and grey looking back on the mess I made you oughta know by now you are my very best pals and... what's up fuckers you're my mother fucker I don't wanna be the angry guy I don't wanna sit home and hide I don't wanna be the one to cry you oughta know know by now you oughta know you are my very best pals and... what's up fuckers you're my mother fucker
15.
Bus Stop 01:22
out the door down the walk onto the street gotta make the bus by 8:15 laptop backpack headphone flatcap i'm thinking that I may have forgotten my bus pass bus stop hop onto the bus and moving to my seat we all sit apart because we all seattle freeze crazy guy eying seats don't pick mine next stop murder stop 3rd and pine bus stop
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Our 2nd LP, we hope you like it! <3

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released September 16, 2023

all songs by wendell, jeff, and ean at chirp chirp chirp music ascap, except “believe” by josh, denny, and ean at super sicko music ascap, and “rise above” at the start of “henry rollins school of menacing” by greg ginn at cohen & cohen cesstone music via affordable song licensing. recorded and mixed by matt allison at electrical audio, except for the guitar solo on “bus stop” by alan the cat at birdbath hq. mastered by justin perkins at mystery room. art by tom lowell at beautiful world inc. visit us at www.thesubjunctives.com buy our records at www.tdrecs.com

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3 nice boys playing fast hooky pop punk ala Husker Du, Snuff, and Stiff Little Fingers.

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