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Genuine Attempt

by Josh Ford

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1.
Lie 02:45
Lie to them cause all you really want, it's out there and I know what you're going through, and it's not fair so find out where you're headed, and take me there And lie to everyone, lie to me and all the people you used to know in the ages since you've been home You'll wear my clothes and hide them in a song that I don't know the lyrics aren't beautiful, they're cold like stone and close your eyes and hear the music does it play too slow? And lie to everyone, lie to me and all the people you used to know and try remembering why you need all those reasons to be alone oh, why leave anyone, why leave me? is it better to be on your own? and go where you need to go? And lie to everyone, lie to me and all the people you used to know in the ages since you've been home
2.
Ethan's Song 03:28
"Kiss me" she said, but she kissed like a stranger while history warns you're the picture of danger still chemistry claims you are not like the rest but it's all too familiar this hole in my chest "I'm sorry" she said, but I never did find it guess i'm not acquainted with how you define it "please tell me what's wrong," "darling never you mind it" if love is a contract, you never did find it and I'm trying, but you don't respond when i call out your name it's like I'm dying, to be what you want although you don't want anything you say, oh, you say it's not personal, dear, how could it not be? how could it not be, this way? Maybe I'm wrong, I'm just being too sensitive taking a small thing and getting defensive you gave me your love, oh but where is the rest of it? where is the rest of it? well, "I'm sorry" she said but I'd never have known it if I hadn't walked in the room at that moment would you have gone on as if nothing had happened? was I just the footnote while he was the caption? I'm trying, but you don't respond when i call out your name it's like I'm dying, to be what you want although you don't want anything you say, oh, you say it's not personal, dear, how could it not be? how could it not be, this way? And I've been trying far too long to conjure up the perfect song to calm the storm that's raging inside you and love should be the first of things that we declare the worst of things to write about pretending that they're true I'll never believe it until I receive it from you
3.
Best 04:46
Take my hand walk with me and see the sights although we try so hard to get it right this time so far, so fine Run like hell run from me if thats the way that love should be i guess youve wasted love on me, i guess and though we might forget what we've learned tonight to love me right was so fucking close, but oh, not quite, you tried your-- take my hand is it true that loving me is killing you (repeat) and though we might forget what we've learned tonight to love me right was so fucking close, but oh, not quite, you tried your--
4.
I don't want nothing to do with you no I don't want garbage that seems like new goodbye to those years don't cry, no more tears only truth I'm giving back all your blues, starting over claiming youth, getting older and I'm sure that we will meet again someday but it'll be some other way I wish that my words could be the truth I try not to be so hard to see through and soon we'll be nothing but lessons learned and scars on our hearts that we know we've earned goodbye to those years don't cry, no more tears only truth I'm giving back all your blues, starting over claiming youth, getting older and I'm sure that we will meet again someday but it'll be some other way How do I begin to be myself again but without you I don't want nothing to do with you no I don't want garbage that seems like new goodbye to those years don't cry, no more tears only truth I'm giving back all your blues, starting over claiming youth, getting older and I'm sure that we will meet again someday but it'll be some other blues starting over claiming youth, getting older and I'm sure that we will meet again someday but it'll be some other way oh oh it'll be some other way oh oh it'll be some other way
5.
Help me understand how to be alive in this great big universe of mine i feel so small so easy to fall, so easy to die but you help me on my way and there isn't much to say in this great big universe that we've made so quick to decay, so hard to survive but you melt me, I've never felt this way before yeah you melt me, there's no one else I'm longing for oh you melt me, so I'm knocking at your door and this is how it feels I'm scared of just how real your world's become and nothing is the same I'm scared of how fast it's changed Will you stay, until I run out of time? and you make me feel like im alive and will you say, I sometimes cross your mind? in this great big universe of mine, whoah
6.
Your heart will be open and I will be waiting for you cause my heart is simple and yours is a ticking atom bomb I tried to feel broken cause that's what you wanted, baby you thought I was shallow cause I didn't wish that I was gone But that's just not the way I'm sure that's not the way that love should be you begged me so I gave I guess that you could say I'm your giving tree But I was not the same and you should be ashamed and soon you'll see all my promises have all just gone to waste I wasn't yours to promise anyway Your time isn't over you still think I'm sleazy, don't you? your story's still going but I'm not a part of it at all But I was not the same and you should be ashamed and soon you'll see all my promises and all the time I put into this and years from now, will you still know the contours of my face? I wasn't yours to promise anyway
7.
Pick me up, dry me off put me on the mantel or the pillow by the fire that you got in the mail signaling the soldiers dressed in white from the annexed life you tried so hard to fight ooh your faces is cold, it feels like fire you missed a date across the wire the marble man says, "relax, you're gonna find another better other half who's more my style" but you just can't see it now, boy fill your heart with lead they'll never notice, never notice I'm joining the fight, against the notion that my life has only been, could ever be, more of the same come join my cause, make it yours, do what you want fall in line, follow suit of future kings and down with this sort of thing, oh I'm never gonna let them know just what I did to make you feel at home take my by surprise do you feel everything caving in? no matter what you do you're never gonna win but it's all just petty lies and you just can't see it now boy fill your heart with love they'll never notice, never notice I'm joining the fight, against the notion that my life has only been, could ever be, more of the same come join my cause, make it yours, do what you want fall in line, follow suit of future kings and down with this sort of thing, oh
8.
Too Late 03:30
9.
Polite 01:30
I used to think people didn't know how to talk until they started up talking to me I used to think I was just a no-good-for-nothing till I gave away my love for free oh, it's not easy to lie when you know life is passing you by so much faster than it used to go oh, it's not hard to be polite, and it's not wrong to know you're right, so darling please don't tire of me *whistling break* oh, it's not hard to be polite, and it's not wrong to know you're right, so darling please don't tire of me oh darling, please don't tire of me
10.
CocoBeet 03:07

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Josh Ford's First album of original music, "Genuine Attempt". Please enjoy it with your ears, or whatever body part suits you.

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released May 28, 2015

Special thanks to Will Nellis, Ethan Thomson, Austin Ciezko, Jeffrey Packer, Will Adwar, Zaj Vidal-Burgie, and Molly McQuilkin

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Josh Ford is an independent musician currently living in the back seat of your car

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