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We may not be talking anymore
We may still be friends but I can’t tell for sure
Our phones are bone-dry from this drought of texts
Don’t know if you’ll call or what to expect
Willing to write you half a letter and email the rest
To tell you the songs I wrote about you were my best… they were my best
Yes, my heart was broken at the time
But each heartstring pulled gave me another line
Soon I’ll have a whole album finished
With all these tunes about you written in it
Filling your name into the header, an R on the crest
To say the songs I wrote about you were my best… they were my best
I start punching out lyrics when I’m
Emotional so nine out of ten times
Whatever’s etched on the sheet’s drenched in truth (truth, truth)
This poem’s an extended metaphor
Don’t know what I’m getting so meta for
I’m writing about writing about you (you, you)
Like a straight-A student, we’re on good terms
But our lack of chatting gets me concerned
Are these songs all for naught if you don’t hear ‘em
Or just cures for my gladness like some gladness serum?
I’ve pushed my emotions down again, they’re repressed
Cuz the songs I wrote about you were my best
Based on flowery phrases I’ve used for you, you should have guessed
That the songs I wrote about you were my best
They were my best
They were my best
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Perfection
04:58
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Your shins, your lips, your arms, your hips, your fingertips
They send my head in twists and turns
Your neck, your cheeks, so soft and sleek, your clothes, so chic
Just one look makes my stomach burn
Your brains, your braun, your looks, I fawn, this list goes on
And I just don't know where it ends
Your mouth, I wish was here to kiss with tenderness
It'd lock my place as your true friend
Blemishes and freckles, one hell of a complexion
Webster may disagree with me but you're the definition of perfection
Blemishes and freckles, one hell of a complexion
Webster may disagree with me but you're the definition of perfection
A face so pure, she's soup du jour, a head cold's cure
Makes me better when I see her
There's one key, if she's a queen, I'm a monkey
What she tells me I'mma believer
Blemishes and freckles, one hell of a complexion
Webster may disagree with me but you're the definition of perfection
Blemishes and freckles, one hell of a complexion
Webster may disagree with me but you're the definition of perfection
P-E-R-F-E-C-T-O-N yes that may sound unclear
But beauty's in the eye of the beholder and honey I got the I right here
Blemishes and freckles, one hell of a complexion
Webster may disagree with me but you're the definition of perfection
Blemishes and freckles, one hell of a complexion
Webster may disagree with me but you're the definition of perfection
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Fond of Rhonda
03:31
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See her every day at North Eli High, heard through the grapevine she’s single
My soft cellular heart’s got powerful wifi, walking ‘round her gets me one strong signal
She’s into my music and she wears tie-dye, this kitty gets my motor purring
All of her long hair, it draws my eyes into it, bright tangerine
We got lots in common though she likes sci-fi, I’ve never heard of R2D2
Any other girly would’ve said bye-bye but for now, I think she likes me too
She drives a blue Kia, I drive a dusty Honda
Safe to see I’ll forever be fond of, fond of Rhonda
Middle of math, we’d talk and we’d flirt, always said ‘yes’, never ‘no’ to her
Felt improper speaking like I’d never reach her, sometimes over the line, never over her
Cuz she’s a fraction of me, a piece, the completer, so dividing us would be awful
She wore beautiful colors, I slothed in black T-shirts, she was active, I was docile
She drove a blue Kia, I drove a dusty Honda
You can and will understand I’m still fond of, fond of Rhonda
Don’t wanna settle ‘til this romantic case is closed
Dream about her face, got her father’s gracious nose
Got her mother’s red hair and her mother’s eyes
But there’s an uneasy bird in my ear saying otherwise
You gotta dodge this bullet, you gotta dodge this bullet
She won’t accept you for who you are, she won’t accept you for who you are
If she wants to stay hidden and not open up
If she wants to stay hidden and not open up
Then dodge this bullet, dodge this bullet
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There’s an air about ya, I swear without ya
I’d fare about as well as a broken Ferris Wheel
I’m looking for ya, I’m rooking forward
I’m booking towards a queen that I can steal
You just wanna laugh at me (ha ha ha ha ha ha mess me up)
I can’t stand it when you tease (ah ah ah ah ah ah Jessica)
Got caramel skin, hair’s a-meltin’
I’m aware it’s silky and smooth and delightful
Tan lines, a Foreman Grill coulda formed ‘em
To me, you’re an organ: oh so important and vital
You just wanna laugh at me (ha ha ha ha ha ha mess me up)
I can’t stand it when you tease (ah ah ah ah ah ah Jessica)
Now it’s tense between us and I meant the string of
Compliments I said with good intentions
Oh Jess it seems the problem was me just
Trying to be the center of attention
You just wanna laugh at me (ha ha ha ha ha ha mess me up)
I can’t stand it when you tease (ah ah ah ah ah ah Jessica)
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A la Carte Heart
04:14
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Steakhouse, lake house, me and you can make out
On the balcony when all the stars show up
Two years, you here, can’t believe it’s true dear
There’s nobody I love more, literally no one
I’m more forward than I was twenty-four
Months ago so now it’s time, officially
I’ll share my rare soul like it’s tonight’s fare
The difference is this heart’s got no side-dish, you’ll see
My a la carte heart, a la carte heart, a la carte heart, that and nothing else
A la carte heart, a la carte heart, a la carte heart, just me, myself
Honeymoon coming soon, you’re beautiful and funny too
I’m still in shock that we will be together for life
Experienced fear and stress before my heart jumped in your chest
I’m too weak for love’s games like a damn fortnight… THIS. IS.
New to me, usually I treat myself so brutally
And purposefully keep myself from feeling some other
Emotions so I told my soul it’s time I let those notions go
And make the conscious choice to let myself uncover
Chorus
I want you to know what’s under this cloche is sure to expose every part of me
We’ll never be one unless we open up to each other or just open partially
Blood’s flowing so fast it’s a large fleet of fast ships, these vessels are spastic
Like my arteries
Cuz of all other men, you picked me out and then you threw away the menu
A-la-carte-ly
Chorus
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Over Me
02:58
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You chose him over me now that you’re over me
You couldn’t go for me because you’re over me
See you laughing, see you holding hands
See you giving me eyes while hanging ‘round your man
I’m stencil-perfection, something he can’t trace
How does he feel knowing that he was second place?
I’m not trying to rationalize why you picked him ‘stead of me now
Okay maybe I am but even with clear eyes I can’t see how
You chose him over me, it adds up? Totally
Doesn’t but woe is me, you chose him over me
See you drowning in a burning pond, wouldn’t save ya cuz you’d be so hot you’d turn him on
I’m an eight plus two, he’s me minus six… like a stolen Christmas present, what’s mine is his
I’m not trying to rationalize that you picked him ‘stead of me now
Okay maybe I am but even with clear eyes I can’t see how
You chose him over me, now that you’re over me
You’re a bridge, I’m a stream because you’re over me
Over over over (this keeps on happening) / Me me me (Or is it my imagination)
Over over over (can’t drive me ‘way again) / Me me me (lost your license and registration)
I’m not trying to rationalize why you picked him ‘stead of me now
Okay maybe I am but even with clear eyes I can’t see how
I was tricked into you, fragile China devil, dishing out the pain with a flamethrower
I’m ready to face you in my final level and your game over
You chose him over me now that you’re over me
You couldn’t go for me because you’re over me
You chose him over me, it adds up? Totally
Doesn’t but woe is me, you chose him over me
You chose him over me, now that you’re over me
You’re a bridge, I’m a stream because you’re over me
You chose him over me now that you’re over me
You couldn’t go for me because you’re over me
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Always Gotta Got a Girl
03:04
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I wasn’t always such a magnet, I ain’t the way I used to be
Wouldn’t even think twice if I received a wink in my
General direction, it was no big deal until I hit puberty
Then lonesome with no one became life or death, my brain began thinking I
Always gotta got a girl / always gotta got a girl
There’s no point for the world / zero, none, nada, nil
If I don’t always got a girl
High school, I fooled around a bit during junior, senior years
Then I rolled into college, this matter went from grey to white
Cuz I felt I knew what made me, me, whatever girl was between my ears
Convinced myself my health was in check, just kept repeating and saying I
Always gotta got a girl / always gotta got a girl
There’s no point for the world / zero, none, nada, nil
If I don’t always got a girl, I always got to got a girl
The pain keeps growing, I keep towing this line, it’s just a gut reaction
Hate being alone and not really knowing the line ‘tween friends and true attraction
I feel at home when I hear the Stones sing ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’
Cuz though I’m open I end up broken, it’s time for me to take some action
I’m a bigger man now, no relation crutches holding
I’m perfectly fine standing on my own two feet which implies I won’t
Fall to desire like I have before, the real me is unfolding
I’ve come to my senses and finally realized I don’t
Always gotta got a girl / always gotta got a girl
There’s no point for the world / zero, none, nada, nil
If I don’t always got a girl
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Home Wrecker
03:07
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Say you caught me ogling your girl, I wasn’t staring at her
Got your arm resting around her waist
You’re her boyfriend but to me that don’t matter
I’m a home wrecker
I’m a home wrecker
I’m a home, home, home, home wrecker
Throw threats: I’ll never play guitar again
Break my fingers cuz they’re better than yours
Sorry she’s texting me while you’re still asleep
But I can’t stop her from liking me more
Chorus
I’m a bachelor, you two are together
Far as I’m concerned, my situation’s better
I’m the next hook that’ll come down and get your
Girl, a textbook definition homewrecker
Sledgehammer human tearing down relationship walls
To couples I’m another pair of wrecking balls
Chorus (x2)
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Cry for Help
04:10
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Are you afraid that we won’t like the person you are
Just cuz you lack certain aspects of certainty?
Don’t try to say ‘no’ cuz we can see you are
And that’s insecurity
I made a mistake going for you once
Not gonna make the same error twice
Don’t wanna fight or argue just so you can shout over me
As tears well up in your eyes
You need someone by your side all the time and I’m
Sorry I can’t be them
But I can’t stand to see you broken and acting like it’s fine
I’m sure someone can… yeah I’m sure somebody can
You’re a cry for help, used to be my hon, now you’re just someone I
Tried to help, I don’t hate you girl, it’s just how it unfurled, mind is
Fried to hell, you start grieving right after I leave and I think
‘Might as well’, you cry for help, you cry for help, you cry for help
I ain’t like the boyfriends you’ve had before me
How many times do I have to remind you?
You fell for me, got into me but I’ll avoid you if need be
I’ll simply step away from behind you
So next time you seem me and avert your glance
Don’t crawl back afterwards like we’re cool
If you know the choreography well, do the dance
And don’t treat me like a left-footed fool
Pre-chorus
You’re a cry for help, used to be my hon, now you’re just someone I
Tried to help, I may be C.R. but what you need is another
Y to spell what you are, lustrous, just a cry for help, cry for help, a cry for help
Chorus
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Wonderland
04:31
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Oh roll your eyes one more time, is that just you getting off?
If I said to you half the shit you say to me I’d get my head bitten off
I’m calm and collected but get disrespected just cuz we’re from different generations
Your rage is not cured, you need a doctor then maybe take some of their patience
You’re always in your own head, you never escape outside of it
You attempt to make your own bed and make other people lie in it
Cuz god forbid you sleep in it, you’ll wake up on the wrong side of it
Keep on thinking about yourself, you’ll never fuckin’ understand
Everything’s a dream because you’re stuck in Wonderland
Hate me all you want, yell yourself hoarse, more horse than you already look
Why the long face? You take so many L’s on this board, you’re the knight, I’m the rook
Cuz I try to be straightforward with you yet upstairs you don’t have enough sense
To pay attention to your surroundings so it comes at my expense
Chorus
I’m not gonna stop being me, oh go tell, tell someone else
I ain’t my personal physician, oh no; I can’t help myself
I’m not gonna sugar-coat everything just to watch for all you wish
Cuz although I may have my heart on my sleeve
I’d never put your feelings on my wrist
Chorus
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A Reptile Dysfunction
03:26
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I own two birds who love to sing
A fish that can hop through a little ring
Three dogs, all of which vary in size
My old dog Bowie’s got different colored eyes
I love cats but I’m allergic
So I only own four cuz the sneezing is worth it
There’s one glaring issue ‘bout the snake I bough
He won’t slither or do any snakey things; I got
A reptile dysfunction, my snake won’t move or nothing
A reptile dysfunction, even though I’m giving him most of my loving
I went to the pet shop to get an answer
Or at least some help and they said “we can’t sir”
Bought toys and treats for hundreds of bucks
Anything I could do to cheer him up
Tried to get him to play with his field mouse friends
He just sat there and didn’t eat any of them
Nothing worked so we went the place we hadn’t yet
Got him in his cage in the car and drove him to the vet
A reptile dysfunction, my snake won’t move for nothing
A reptile dysfunction, even when I give him a special head rubbing
When I met with the vet he gave my pet a set of medications
He said to me “there’s nothing else I can do”
My face turned red cuz I’m already in debt from spending on pills and treatments
Although I’m fed up I still fed the meds to
My slithery, scaly, reptilian child
But nothing changed, not his demeanor or style
He’s limp in the grass, we’re down in the yard
And on top of all this…….. My penis won’t get hard
Chorus (x2)
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Roadkill
05:35
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I love you baby and I don’t want you to go
Want you to say yes but all you’re saying is no
I love you baby and everything is alright
Cuz I’ll be thinking about you when I’m asleep in bed tonight
Well I’m just roadkill on the side of the road
Something you pass by when you’re on your way home
I love you baby and don’t you ever forget
I’ve felt the same about you since the day that we met
You were glowing, I was going insane
You were blowing my brain like a bullet
In front of you I was cool, business and relaxed
‘Til we partied in the back like a mullet
But that was years ago
I was subject to a love-wreck, hit and run
What happened now, it’s all been said and done
Could continue reminiscing but why would I do that?
Cuz I like it, cuz I like getting hurt
Like my face in the dirt: masochistic
I’m dead to you, I’m an alleyway cat
Who’s pinned down on the mat like your lipstick
I’ll still be here, I ain’t going nowhere
Like a play by Moliere, I’m feeling sick
But it’s probably just my imagination
A sad amalgamation of heartache and wishes
Bridge
Chorus
I was no one, you were growing a vine
I was slow and my spine was too heavy
Saw me struggling, yeah you saw me sinking
Your very first instinct was to help me
Chorus
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Ronoc 'N' Roll Boston, Massachusetts
Ronoc 'N' Roll was born and raised in Maryland. Almost immediately after his exit from his mother’s womb, he was introduced to rock 'n' roll by his father. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie, R'N'R's music is fun, electric and powerful, just the way rock should be. ... more
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