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The Perpetual Optimist

by Luke Lalonde

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    Nov 22, 2019 Paper Bag Records

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    Nov 22, 2019 Paper Bag Records

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1.
standing on the corner giving the stink eye to every car that goes by every car that goes by I spit on the ground, put my hands in my pockets trying to keep warm the cold sun hits my eyes I’m waiting for the light to change waiting for the light to change waiting for the light to change ch-chain ch-chain ch-chain ch-change, uh huh well I never did much dig the morning when the sun poured in my window and woke me awake hugging my pillow with my eyes shut tight trying to block it out trying to feel okay trying to feel okay just waiting for the light to change waiting for the light to change waiting for the light to change ch-chain ch-chain ch-chain ch-change, uh huh but the light won’t change while you hide away no it’s always gonna burn out in the same old place you always get mad at a world you can’t face always in a mess that you can’t arrange one more... singer stuck on stage with a spot light pointed at his sunken face words just won’t come out wishing for a window or a trap door below him just to open up get himself out get out he’s waiting for the light to change waiting for the light to change waiting for the light to change ch-chain ch-chain ch-chain ch-change, uh huh
2.
Poonchie 01:36
3.
I wake up and feel alone party full of people and I’m all alone you never felt that way before out of bed running when your feet hit the floor I think the flavour of life is dull just one bite and I feel full you got an insatiable appetite always got room for one more bite I hear a train coming down the tracks plug my ears and turn my back you hoot along on your vocal chords run alongside and climb aboard I see it goin’ one-way bound got no choice but the next stinkin’ town you are the perpetual optimist get no reward if you take no risk and I’m pouring out like a big, dark, stormy cloud but you’re my raincoat shielding me from doubt and self harm well I’m pouring out like a big, dark, stormy cloud but you’re my raincoat shielding me from doubt and self harm
4.
Dusty Lime 02:48
I was sad as a Christmas tree in February high as the eyes of the Great Khali had the look of a book at the library that's been checked out one too many times and I’d given up being given up spent the last of my time waiting on the world from the back of the line just another slice of a dusty old lime with no more juice to squeeze squeeze it ‘til it’s dry squeeze it ‘til you die I'm a consumer of consumption another user on the grid baby boomers got the gumption to say: “look here kid if yer business ain't growing then your business ain't shit they don't sell your brand no more” and the last virgin wood has been found and cut down now I'm selling my soul just to live in this town that was built to the hilt sky scrapers to the ground to squeeze the last drop dry so squeeze it ‘til it’s dry you gotta squeeze squeeze it ‘til you die all your life is the point of an arrow as it's pulled from the quiver with ease pulled back, swift softly released and plunged into the reckoning squeeze so squeeze squeeze that sucker dry you gotta squeeze squeeze it ‘til you die
5.
Ru 01:37
6.
Go Somewhere 05:00
I was up in my room when you heard me sing I was strumming a chord on my six string you saw how I took to that guitar but words of advice you’d not done so far you said: see how I work my fingers to the bone and there’s no chords in ‘em when I come home so boy if you don’t wanna be like me start writing down everything you see go somewhere don’t leave a trail to come back here go now, run don’t follow me, go out and be someone so I found a place deep in the woods and I saw my face in that neighbourhood and I’d lay there at night as the coyotes howled I’d think about you and say “look at me now” wherever I went I felt alone so I’d write about people to keep me warm and I make a living I pay my bills and I’m gonna be someone someday I will… go somewhere don’t leave a trail to come back here go now, run don’t follow me, go out and be someone well then you got sick you told your son in your chest, in your heart, in your throat, in your lungs said you caught it from songs you never sung how they stuck to your insides to the walls they clung you said: get em out! Show everyone the things that I told you when you were young and never hide nothin’ from anyone let em out and be done go somewhere don’t leave a trail to come back here go now, run don’t follow me, go out and be someone
7.
Any Day Now 03:14
any day now I will learn to play the piano any day now I will take that trip to Morocco any day now I will be the most sensitive man who is there when you need a friend any day now I will go with you to the end any day now I will put this plan in motion any day now I will walk across the ocean any day now I will know all the things that I don't I will be all the things that I'm not any day now I will use all the things that I've got any day now I will fix the things that I broke any day now I will wake up filled with hope any day now my eyes will stay open and bright I will shine like a star in the sky any day now I will love you 'til the day that I die any day now my eyes will stay open wide they will shine like two stars in the sky any day now I will love you 'til the day that I die I will love you 'til the day that I die
8.
the tenderness, the violence the symphony of silence humanity becomes a bore a symptom of a plague a chore suspended on a wire, in a hurricane ...and I walk the same wire high above the same fire happiness and peace, my balance rod the arbiter is the storm love is the eye, so warm some have the nerve to call it God and in the same breath the force of Coriolis what's left, what's right, and who can tell? the fault line splits through the mantle, lava pits some have the nerve to call it hell but it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! no it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! oh no it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE!what do you do with the mad you feel? do you store it up until it bursts out, purging like the rain? do you do the same with love? pour it out in buckets of trust. lust. over rusty pain I get it wrong too I gravitate to panic. fear half empty bottles. waste but I know in my heart these two sides shall never part some have the nerve to call it faith but it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! no it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! oh no it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! the tenderness, the violence the symphony of silence humanity becomes a bore a symptom of a plague a chore suspended on a wire, in a hurricane but it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! no it's... NOT MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE! oh no it's... NOT MY SPIRIT-SPEAR-RITUAL GUIDE!
9.
la terre n’a pas besoin la terre n’a pas besoin de moi donne moi une raison le monde se termine la terre vivra ouille!
10.
well, I play my uncle’s guitar because one day, he died did not know too much about it first time I saw my dad cry comes and goes like a river flows lied out, dried out on the bed I suspect every one I know is gonna meet the same damn end every day your ears pop pop from the blisters in your brain hammer nails into your head and flush it down the drain don’t look down at the news too much or it all gets far too real yeah, the world is filled with animals you gotta fight for every meal so just lie back amplify that sound you gotta turn it up so loud BECAUSE ONE DAY YOU'RE GONN' DIE 'CAUSE YOU JUST DO AS FOR ME, MYSELF & I WE'RE GONNA DO IT TOO!well we're a lying, crying bunch of people who say we been done wrong but it's two minutes to midnight, honey and they're playing our song I’m gonna wrap you in my arms so tight and hold you oh so near when it all starts burning up all around be no need to shed more tears so just lie back amplify that sound you gotta turn it up so loud scream it out! jump up and down! you see... BECAUSE ONE DAY YOU'RE GONN' DIE 'CAUSE YOU JUST DO AS FOR ME, MYSELF & I WE'RE GONNA DO IT TOO! YEAH ONE DAY YOU'RE GONN' DIE YEAH, YOU JUST DO BY AND BY AND BY AND BY WE'RE LIVING PROOF
11.
brush it off start all over again winners celebrate because you have lost again so, dust it off try and try again us losers can relate how we all pretend when we sing along with "We Are the Champions" so wear it out scrape the bottom of the bucket the rains will come again and if not, well, fuck it you gotta dry it out droughts bring the fires fires bring the fuel for all of your desires so let them play it cool while we sing "burn it higher!" so wear em down try and try again us losers can relate how we all pretend when we sing along with "We Are the Champions"

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Full-length album from Luke Lalonde
Nov 22, 2019 Paper Bag Records

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