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Plan of Attack

by Mad Orca

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1.
So, it looks like I'm gonna die And there's nothing I can do I don't get to stay alive Looks like I've gotta follow suit Get's me thinking Gotta find me A rooftop with a bird's eye view So that I can sort out What I'm gonna do I'm getting sick of playing it safe And I think I'm about to crack But, if I run outta the gate Baby, there's no coming back You ever feel like You were born to Do just on particular thing Well, that's me and I've been Waiting in the wings It's only a matter of the time it takes Before I break Nobody on earth can keep his soul alive From nine to five So if you could be there when The cards come down And I look like a clown Then it's alright What makes a guy feel so afraid Is it the monster under the bed Is it just the way he was made Or just a poison in his head I love the stories Where the hero Is just brave 'cause it's what he should do I bet I could be that Brave if I wanted to I sit here and watch the clock devour days Potential fades I've got a deposit of regretted stuff That's building up But, soon it'll overflow And I'll be here To tidy all the fear Then it's alright So, it looks like I'm gonna die And there's nothing I can do I don't get to stay alive Looks like I've gotta follow suit It's not an issue Get me a tissue 'Cause I wine like a little kid But I can let this become The thing I never did
2.
Watchya doin' with your pockets inside out Won't you tell me what this look is all about When did your bank account turn into a charity fund If you read the minds of these crooks you would be stunned Your big heart leaves you wide open An easy target for Mosquitoes who are hopin' That they can drain some more You can't just leave it open They got their Trojan horse When you invest your hope in By then, you've lost the war Whatchya doin' givin' up your John Hancock At this rate by next week you'll be out of stock Read the fine print maybe then you'll understand You lose an arm and leg by moving your right hand
3.
Don't change your mind about me Pretty girl 'Cause it might affect the way the stars look tonight Don't change your mind about me Pretty girl How about remembering the thing I did right Let's get to the point I admit you're a catch And I would be a fool To throw you back But take a good look If you like what you see Then don't hesitate Take all of me Sometimes I can't be subtle Sometimes I only look like trouble Some I'm wrong but Don't change your mind about me Pretty girl 'Cause I bet we'd make such a beautiful pair Don't change your mind about me Pretty girl 'Cause I know although you don't show it You care I hate to be rude But sometimes I don't mind A guy like me Isn't easy to find So give me your hand And follow me home Together we'll be Blissfully alone Don't change your mind about me Pretty girl 'Cause I bet I've got some more tricks up my sleeve Don't change your mind about me Pretty girl You can tell I won't make it easy to leave I hate to believe I'm not a good man I do the right thing As much as I can If I sound like a creep As I'm telling you this Who cares You hit or you miss
4.
Beetlejuice 05:20
Life's on the table It's always a losing game I'm left here naked I'll do it all again Take all my money Park it upon the red One glass of havoc Goes straight to my head It's all in the fire The ignition is Deep inside of your soul When you're losing it Running out of control Keep it burning with Useless things you own When it's haunting you then Just forget about it When I'm feeling cozy And all things are going well It hits me like a Big catapault from hell When I'm feeling shaky This body's not even mine No, it's property of The chaos in my life
5.
Gotta 05:47
Gotta reason To investigate your lies Gotta feeling By tomorrow this thing dies Gotta yearning To unveil conspiracies But I've been learning That the truth won't set you free And I've gotta say There is nothing I could Say to you at all To make this any more or Less dysfunctional I'm not gonna stay You keep trapping friends Inside your horror house I'll pretend to be a Lion not a mouse I've gotta go Had a feeling After freshly shaken hands You'd be someone Making devious demands I gotta listen To this spidey sense of mine It's been working for me Almost half the time I've gotta reject the Sunday blues I'll resurrect my dancing shoes My intellect will have no use For the day I've gotta collapse my fold out chair Follow the maps and I'll be there Time will elapse and I'll lose hair So they say
6.
It turns out everybody else Is just as fickle As I am when I wanna melt Mix, and mingle The pace is fast you never see People slow dance At my age you just don't believe In love and romance Watch the sun touch hands with the moon And switch like a tag team fight You prepare for the battle as you trade Your face of the day for your face of the night See the kids on the town All they wanna do is drown In a place where your feelings never show All your love for your mate Ain't a need to procreate Just your parts and that feeling down below When we lock eyes and reel it in It's so exciting Your runway legs, they guide me in It's so inviting When either heart begins to swell You let the blood out A mis-match never ended well But, now you're thawed out I don't even know what I want
7.
Wake up to the sirens in your head They're screaming to get you out of bed They're smart enough to get the better of you When you're not awake Hot enough to make you Wish that you had stayed Remember a place where you have been It's eating you underneath your skin The kinda place you just discover When your eyelids wanna close The kinda place you know that No one else has known And when you go there you're a hostage to the Things that occur It's never logical but you neglect to Think it over 'Cause in your dreams The world you love is knocking on your door Then it seems The feeling you get you just can't ignore Let go of documentaries in your head Replace them with a comic book instead All your senses could betray you If you shift your train of thought Make you feel you're somewhere beatiful When you're not And you're afraid you might get swallowed up Or squeezed 'till you're blue But then again ain't that a notion you've been Getting used to In the real world you're never there You're obsessed with it So take some sleep-time medication it's a Fast track ticket
8.
I've been stumbling 'round this dusty old town An older man is telling me to get out He says it's ugly and the smell sticks around And there are a million things to cry about Come to think of it when I look around Everyone seems like he'd rather be dead Too many rules, not a smile to be found But I think I might catch one if I stand on my head I'm not wasting my time for this I'm not standing in line for this, no I'm not wasting my time for this I'm not standing in line for this, no Every moment I've been watching my back Trying to figure out a plan of attack Big brother doesn't knock at my door He wants a battle but he's getting a war Paranoia is what drives my life It's like a man behind my back with a knife I'm not one to go down without a fight But he's saying he'll stab me if I don't get it right I'm not throwing my life away I'll start doing my job today I'll jump hoops and I'll go to school Learning loopholes to every rule I've found something that never ends The lineup starts on the left, my friends Come one, come all, see me now I've become something else somehow
9.
Giving punches Getting lunches Follow hunches He looks slim I just might pick him Winking black eye Back on track guy Hit me back I Want to keep this Cycle endless I need you around You want me, too Let's knock it down Our skyline view If you're tired Of catching fire Then don't retire Burn your funny Pension money If you call quits Then bet my wallets That all and all it's Death of vengeance End of sentence Come closer Candy for you Sinister rendezvous I will keep you close
10.
There's a girl You want her and she's probably wanting you as well The problem is that there's no simple way to tell You're diving head first into an old wishing well You either splash or splat, so what the hell Although, it's never quite as simple as it seems to be 'Cause loving her could violate the chemistry Of all your friends and after all she could just be Too nice to ever tell you you're a creep You better get the girl off your mind You better leave that infatuation behind You better get your mind off the girl She's gonna wreck each part of your world There's a girl You spent a little time with her and now it's done She'd say she's heading over, but she'd never come You fell in love though it was supposed to be for fun You wanted all her love but you got none You see, she's quite a selfish suzy and though you were kind She won't return the favor, not in this lifetime So sweep the memory dust out of your filthy mind Then mop it up and maybe you'll be fine Some days you want to fall apart But you've gotta learn to leave it all behind Some love will never leave your heart But you can try to make it leave your mind
11.
Walking out in the sun Tripping over my feet again 'Cause clumsy is back in style Today I opened my mouth Ran a race with my tongue again And tripped on every mile I wish I had some more friends Who understand I'm a lunatic But I've got feelings too My disposition depends On what I have to look forward to I'm telling you The real me Is buried under layers of crazy I can't decide On how to let someone inside Everyone might be better off Unexposed to me and my insanity With every person I meet I grow a new personality It's twisted I guess but it's true I like to lie in my bed Contemplating reality When I've nothing else to do These little oddities are Just embelishments of a mind That's otherwise perfectly fine I'm not that sort of a guy Who will do what he's supposed to do I'm telling you It's not so simple to solve But it's a challenge I'm up to take Just give me the steps and I'm good I always thought that a man Could live the life that he chose to create And I always thought I could I guess if I feel alone It's just 'cause I don't get out enough So tomorrow I'll open the door And pretend it's a good world For only a little while 'Til it transforms
12.
Kape 04:06
Never once have I had confirmation That the the pieces I arrange would fit Never before have I faced contemplation Of the fact that I'll never get it Simple things can make me happy But when they go away I am left with the thought That I'll never see the day They come back my way And is it taking up my life It's summertime and the sun's looking cool Under sunglasses he's winking at me He says, Go ahead now don't be a fool The world is yours for the taking, take what you need I don't know where I should go But I know that I'm free From now on I will treasure the way That the pieces don't fit They dissolve and decay And is it shaping up my life
13.
Bleak 06:34
Words will come when they approach the tip of my tongue Clouds dissolve when they're afflicted by the sun The sky turns black on the brink of an ice age Promising a nice day back at home Birds confused I thought they knew just where to go In the corner lions tortured by the snow The sea splits up at the dawn of a cold day Bringing back the old way to make it home So tie your shoes What's left to lose Have you read the news We're going home At a time like this It's good to have you here We have both become Victims of the weather Now I do insist You swallow all your fear And drink the sun because It won't be here forever On the days when light is flooding every plane I grab the big remote to keep it all the same But the batteries die then time moves onward Listen to the songbird sing the verse Life is struggle, tricky puzzles, rainy days It's only bleak if you are weak enough to say I can't face hell not even on a good day I don't think I should stay, I'm a curse If you and I just had our memories left Would that be enough

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An intensely complex and diverse soundscape underscores the story of a young man struggling to find purpose and romance. Catchy melodies, flourishing guitars, colourful synth textures, and refreshingly candid lyrics are abundant.

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released October 23, 2016

All music and lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass guitar, drum and synth programming, ukulele, banjo, recording, production, mixing, and mastering by Devin Mackenzie Hemmes.

Artwork by Valerie Evalyn Watson.

Recorded in Devin's Closet, © 2016. All rights reserved.

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