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the AMPERSAND EPs (Triple EP)

by (Samuel)

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1.
Rags 03:19
don't think i can process the science fiction about you and stop me if bleeding from my heart all over you will infect you with my defects i intended to lose before i'd fuck you memories of times before you'd lure me in a way that hooked me so bad i couldn't catch my breath —did you see which way it went? avoid it before you hear what i swore i wanted more than your heart a second chance would be nice if i could spend it in your pants so i guess i don't deserve it when a cold wind blows in the city and the leaves move to show you through the blinds watching tv i'll remember what i wanted to stick inside of you before my conscience killed us. do you know how much i never loved you? i never loved you.
2.
Slow Jams 03:04
cucumber eyes!!! —what a devilish disguise! i also wear my hair that way! new roommate, new favors —but you say you won't date neighbors [!?] why aren't you following your heart? you'd better or you'll fall apart!!!!! i heard your ex call you fucking-lunatic but thru the wall i thought he'd caught you sucking lunar-dick so i spent that night on the roof with a telescope and a preverted [sic] hope to catch you doing what i now know is as crazy as the way you is ~ as crazy as the way you is ~ don't you think you and i may be okay to try and see if something might exist between us if the timing is obscene enough? cuz i've seen enough have you seen enough?
3.
[we all spent summer with…] & we all spent summer with the trees straight loving us if Mother Earth was young enough i’d try to consummate a scheme to protect this green so our kids could see how similar they are to baby goats and we’d hate to all grow up without you even though i wondered if your breath stung back the yellow jacket when you screamed (credit card to scrape the smell of spring off the spot of the sting) THANK YOU GOD FOR ALL THIS BLING! Where would I be without the bloody diamond ring I had to buy for her to prove that I’m in love? ~ DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER ~ danger? what? is this a warning of the danger we will find if remain to live pretending we are blind to the suffering of every living creature and The Earth? no! not at all! it’s just an invite to a party to rock the planet and to die before we’re forty! HEY! it’s BYOB, so let’s get fucked up! if i’m awake, you’ll find me shitting in the ocean! or smoking mad trees — burning that shit to the ground! yo, ashes to ashes! well look what I found: under this spot that yesterday was just a nature preserve there’s a nest of baby eagles and they all got burned! and they’re still squirming and tweeting; party animal extraordinaire! “Hey, Joey’s passed out — stuff those birds down his underwear!” WOW. I don’t remember anything from last night. Ugh, jeez… well, I’m all out of cash and this place is trashed, so I’m guessing that I had a good time. There’s vomit on my collar and the sea is covered in black, so I’m pretty sure we had a great time. So there’s a haze in the air and you can’t breathe out there, that’s how you know you had a good time. If the trees are all cut and there’s magic marker on your butt, that’s how you know you had a good time. If you have a mouth full of blood and a brand new tiger-skin rug, you’re pretty certain that you had a good time. You splash your face in the sink and recall your pets are extinct, that’s how you know you had a good time. A kangaroo stuffed with birds? Holy shit that’s absurd! I guess we really had a good time! Can you believe all we did? After a party this epic, I guess no one else can ever have a good time.
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don’t say you love me again because I heard you twice and i’m still not sorry don’t say you love me again because something inside me died without you whatever made you promise him an opened casket bloodied up and smelling like our almost-last kid has made me reevaluate the cold you’re blasting your fingertips were sexy til they froze me flaccid don’t say you love me again don’t say you love me again because i heard you twice and i’m still not sorry don’t say you love me again because something inside me died without you something inside me died without you something inside me died without you something inside me died without you something inside me died without you something inside me died
6.
Sunfood 02:09
7.
you said a million filthy prostitutes won't have me? oh i'm so sure. i'm gonna prove to you you're wrong with each and every whore it's not that i'm angry i'm just fucked up kind of regularly it's not a choice or an obsession like you it's the way my body aches when i'm thinking of blues so don't try to test me i can't even pass shit that's not bloody you are not my best friend you are my soul i'll drown a million filthy prostitutes' babies to prove that you and i are all alone i watch you undress your boyfriend wow, what a tiny cock i can give you fifteen more minutes of privacy but you could masturbate quicker without thinking of me. i'm just that piece of the puzzle that doesn't exist but your search lasts hours til you're red in the piss oh no wait that's me — i guess my kidneys got stoned when i hotboxed my organs in my body all day long you think i give a fuck? i'm not addicted to what? don't judge me so quickly: i'm not a cop killer i turn off the water when i brush my teeth i never use the word 'faggot' and i wear sunscreen at the beach i respect all animals and i don't respect BP in fact, i fuckin’ hate BP i'm a feminist in most regards i've been to prison once but i was falsely charged i'll smack a kid if he has it comin but only cum in you if you want it, honey i’m a gentle man, sometimes a gentleman and it's you i want so leave your mother out of it i'd light your dress on fire just to get you out of it [arsonist’s interlude] i wasn't ready to see you go but i understand god gives and takes the only way he can your funeral telling so few people there i said a few words and um no one really seemed to care saw your boyfriend there that piece of shit had his head on your sister's shoulder asked me who i was like it was his business that smug charmer so i lit his car on fire just like your dress and he burned up screaming just like you but i laughed this time and enjoyed the view you are not my best friend you were my soul i’ll never forgive myself for this but your sister’s kinda cute
8.
my dad left me on a carousel when i was six i found out later he was buying methamphetamines my mom spanked on an elevator in front of kids i heard her later on the phone laughing about it my older brother used to lock me underneath the stairs and still rubs peanut butter in my nose hairs my best friend in junior high stuck a sign on my back i never found out what it said but still no one talks to me so i’m kind of huge mess now as you can see thank the lord for imaginary friends thank the lord for imaginary friends Stormwater Calhoun always texts me back and he loves my joke about the neighbors at Chicken Shack Lucy Dove Angel is so god damn hot and she lets me feel her up like any time i want Mick Lowrider Snackburg Longfellow Unifluxion is the actual name of this one — isn’t that hilarious!? thank god for imaginary friends my best pal out of the ones i made up is a dude named Cecil Turnip Truck for my birthday last year he gave me an imaginary pigeon that i used to send messages to an imaginary kingdom but one day while i was least expecting it i got an imaginary message from an imaginary penguin chick i couldn’t understand cuz i can’t speak bird but me and Cecil couldn’t stop laughing! so the moral of this song is: fuck everyone who’s an asshole to you cuz even in your head there are better things to do you’ll always be better than your methhead father and your gossiptrain mother and your cocksucking brother if you don’t sink to their level and just chill with good old Cecil MMM, MMMHMM! you are important no matter what anyone says! and you’re awesome too! no matter what anyone says to you! this is kind of a motivational son, I guess so I hope it motivates you i guess
9.
you're really pushing the envelope this time i don't think about you often, okay i do, fine wines that you can't drink is 21 not older than i think? i won't alarm you but you're standing in my only view of my self before i knew any one else so move thank me? no, thank YOU i am thankful for my girlfriend for my best friend for my badness for my good tendencies can't you see i'm tending to these fucked up dreams fucked up dreams
10.
my cost of living is nothing compared to your cost of living. who do you think is the smarter person who will die of her bleeding? oh wait my heart appears leaky okay i guess that it is me my cause of dying is bleeding and that's alright sometimes i wonder if you're lying to me sometimes i wonder if you're trying to be i know you love me. you don't have to say it again, okay? (x36)
11.
your hands are cold like winter your fingers leave my bitter you poke me like a splinter let go of my hand you're dying just to hate me i'm living for a prom queen potentially... ...potentially yours. get your feet off the floor. ... this isn't what it seems i'm not the one who screamed i'm not the one who fell apart for absolutely nothing i don't imagine you think like i do imagine that you're starting to drink like i do imagine that you're starting to stink like i do i imagine that you're starting, too. saw your two very new best friends. wondering when you'll eat them.
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Ghostriver 01:46
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mylittlenopy 03:23
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How many times will the universe split before your tin man heart is all alone in this? Your problems don’t show you’re lonely yet. You probably have time to lose your shit. Heart-broken mystery, uncovering the misery: Your boyfriend / Your best friend I’ll give you something to think about: Your brain’s encumbered, like it’s a coverup, but I swear to you it’s not [It’s not] hard to be Honeybee, drip sweet on me i don't need saving
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solvents 02:01
17.
Unsensitive 03:13
while peeing upstairs i thought to propose to you an improvement to your life; we can both be happier tonight. i wasn't through on my bike but i'm way too high to start a ride if smoking cigarettes'll kill us sooner maybe you and I could try quitting together because everything i want is you so i'm completely out of things to do i don't remember when i fell for you. beard? or Sobe? what time is true? when Dinosaurs Beginners are dying off with the flu and i told myself i'd miss you-- no, i didn't want to miss you i couldn't find myself alone. nothing matters nothing matters any more cuz i found you
18.
Shaledown99 03:31
i wrote these words while i was trippin balls and made the moot point to show you in like you didn't already spend the time of your life sleeping by my side do you remember on what side of the bed she soiled her love it wasn't mine babe no it wasn't mine babe i'll give up everything to be her constant sober treat you have grown and changed and evolved into this bliss that holds me now. how could i ask for more? a thousand neon blue tetras a school of magic intention that breathes and glows and beats and goes now now is just a word for always [i don’t know if i’m gonna be alive, so i’m begging for time] you’ll be hard-pressed to find a single love that won't lessen your soles to a single one but with you i know i’ve found one [tangible/consistent/fun]
19.
Katelyn 04:22
"Some of us have jobs to go to, you know," You said to me
~ and some of us are trying just to snore ~
[so fuck the bee]

And I am wondering if Tetris is the metaphor
For just how good you are
To people who you care about
People like me

But please just let me be.
Let me be.
Let me be so hundred, please.

I must have died a little bit the day I met you
Because I tried to send a message I never sent you
Can you believe that six years later
You would be the perfect dear
And your freezer's full of deer

Thanks for all the things you've done
And the things you'll do for me
I can't believe you find me this deserving
Please just let me be
So hundred, please

New Years Eve
When 2013 was supposed to suck too
But it didn't suck, because of you

Every day I lived after 29 I only lived to tell you this.

~ and to think I can make soup without knowing what the soup is ~
20.
Fixing Good 03:13
everything about you screams. everything about you screams. everything about you screams. everything about you screams ‘perfection’ i’ve given up on looking for a new rejection day and night never looked as good as you everything about you screams. everything about you screams ‘perfection’ day and night never looked as good as you keep me from this awful weather hold me in your arms, forever
21.
You & Pingu 03:41
22.
save the restaurant week Alchemy for just a week who said that squash won't keep? i'm looking in your oven for more pancakes but there's only mice and a passive-aggressive neglect will you clean yourself of that? or continue to stink of rumplemints and putrid reeking pussing dripping stuffings that i left in you? jk, when I say "ew" i'm saying "ooh!" it took brains to make you into mine Marble this, and marble that. I loved when you said I'd need a map, but there's no one else I wanna be than lost in your eyes infinitely. Teaching me the art of the waterfall bong, I'd like to share with you how you saved this song [grocery list]: you got a bag of lemons, six limes for three dollars, F Wegman's, we're getting them from the Asain grocery from now on if we can; a bag of juice oranges, a box of clementines, a bag of apples, a bag of pears, four rambutans, five kiwis, three green peppers, and a small bag of Roma tomatoes
23.
your tiny love is big enough for me
24.
hair down for miles i followed crumbs until i'd not be seen and nothing on our bodies was clean but all my thoughts were sparkling i don't even think no body had to go back when i was looking for you even if you don't believe me then you gotta at least see me when i want to see you see you see me me when i want to

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~ the ampersand eps ~

This triple EP release is a collection of (Samuel) songs written between February 2013 and March 2014. The songs have been divided between three 8-song EPs. The physical release of this collection will span 3 physical dics, but for the ease of a Bandcamp release, all tracks have been uploaded in one 24 track sequence.

Tracks 1-8 are (Samuel) songs
Tracks 9-16 are (Samuel) songs personally meaningful to me.
Tracks 17-24 are songs of/about/inspired by my sweetest love, Katelyn.

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all songs written and recorded by (Samuel) 2013-2014 with the exception of "Earth Day Celebration", a collaborative effort with Vom Vorton, who does the beautiful work found here: vomvorton.co.uk

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released July 7, 2014

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who inspired me during this process. Thank you thank you thank you to my few fans; you fit in the first category as well. I would be doing this anyway, but knowing that someone else enjoys my art is more than I could have ever wanted and I see its value increase exponentially. Thank you.

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