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Eunoia

by Invalids

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    Finally pressed these songs into HOT WAX; songs are too dumb long to fit on one record so it's a DOUBLE LP BRUH

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1.
Sherman Is Connector (free) 04:14
What are you gonna do this weekend? What are you gonna do with your life? Standing next to a bookcase Standing next to a mirror Standing over the balcony at night Saved up Change for a whole year Clothes in the dryer Bed in the elevator Hands are cold Your breath is cold Is it coming tomorrow? Sleeping in to keep us grounded here Is it over tomorrow? Cause you couldn’t believe it’s still going Said it’s coming tomorrow Said you wouldn’t believe in anything Said it’s over tomorrow What you came to believe in anyway Stayed up late To celebrate we’re still awake Mom found out She grounded us Pen smeared across your palm Showed up naked to class Tossing, turning back and forth Fence you climbed over last fall They put a wire frame Your feet won’t fit inside the holes Now you’d better leave it running You’d better hold it in You’d better swing it back and forth Space, a stray meteoroid Caught the corner of your eye So insignificant, the whole You never felt so small Scribbled down your name to apply Sulked inside Kissed her in the car And she tore you to pieces When she left you, she left you Store we visited downtown Put up a dozen signs We saw them taking them back down Dove into the stereo And cracked your head open Are your ears still ringing now? Spring, you took the jar from the shelf The living room table Was covered up all afternoon When you took it to the bank, You’d saved two hundred bucks You’d never held so much at once before And you bought something nice
2.
How tall can we stand Lean back up on our heels to go Where we aren’t allowed Speak sophisticate, trochee and iamb Honestly, it was our mistake Mutter apologies under a borrowed sigh Read out on our face Waiting for someone to pick you up outside Hidden back behind the row of dimming lights Obscuring half your face, you watch but don’t speak up After all, you’d rather let them be, pursuing fleeting things Squeezing onto hands that don’t squeeze back (Kurai raito ushiro kaoga kakure Kimiha sakebu warera nozoki kiita) Honest, it wasn’t our intention Bending lines and blurring lights, you feel faster If you can keep your eyes from closing now Our faculties as such withstand The will we’ve lost, the wherewithal to let them be now Go ahead, I don’t mind Go on ahead, I don’t mind Lost on the idea of some cinematic close We thought that it would build to something meaningful But dragging through the leads and giving up the ghost Didn’t really leave us much to take home Maybe the lesson was just to be mindful The nothing was ever what we were expecting Maybe the timing would work out if we would just wait And let it work out Gathering up our things away from where they belong Gathering up the courage to leave them flustered in disarray To beat in the back roads, to fit in a better role What we couldn’t see at first, though we struggled That if we’d stayed until the end, everything’s explained, and it was simple It isn’t deeper than we thought, just our approach was wrong, thinking too hard In truth, there was nothing to get, there was nothing to know, it’s just in how it’s told
3.
Diastole 04:30
In time we learned to wait To gather all the leaves Until the last one fell Away from the tree Over my shoulder I saw You looking back over yours How easy would it be now That we know what we know? All this time we spent waiting around Putting off all the issues too big to face In favor of the smallest of things that we could actually do To feel as though we tried something At least we know we did something Hushed by the sound Of your diastole Tenuous the grasp Til we were asked to leave It’s not keeping it so you won’t forget It’s letting yourself believe you won’t It’s not welcoming sunlight through the shades It’s getting yourself up out of bed It’s not realizing just how bad it was It’s realizing just how bad it gets We last spoke about the future And doesn’t it seem naive All the things we thought we’d see? In time we learned to let The closest ones see What we’d been hiding Underneath the fallen leaves Outside my window I saw No one was looking out yours The best that I could explain You finally packed your things and moved away All this time wondering who’d be there If we’d just gone and knocked on the door But we just rationalized that probably you weren’t home At least you know we thought of you At least we know we did something
4.
The best of us believed If we hadn’t stumbled we’d still have a chance To pick up the pieces But just as we’ve seen The gust came too strong and it blew it away And we know it’s not coming back Now we’ve got to behave Now you’ve got to rely on your own arms to drag you across (can we forgive ourselves?) The last straw to break your back The last shock to break your gaze The secret to break your legs How long can we hold it Above our heads? How long could you used to? We’ve all followed someone close to find A reason to have followed We’ve all hollowed out the tile floor To keep safe what we couldn’t bear to lose Take comfort in what no one else knew And when you had stood barefoot You noticed that it had come loose And I said It’s been a few days Since I have seen you And you said Sorry but I’ve Got too much on my mind It got to be too much We did our best to help But our hands stuttered and slipped And all that we could do Was say we’re sorry We hoped things would change We’ve all spent the last year standing still Balance and swallow The lump in your throat All your loose teeth We lie awake To see who’s coming When we die The rest of us believed We would remember exactly how her face Reflected the moonlight But as we began to recall the details The hair was a match, but the eyes, we couldn’t quite get them right How the lashes were shaped How they curved to the sky and arced away ashamed (and the difference it made) Is it better just to wait If you’re coming back again? Will we see it then?
5.
Dragged me up Cummerbund I tried taking you out Showed up on my bike You look lovely tonight And we chased the daylight Guess it got away And I found you looking at the floor Shut out Leaning closest to the door You carry yourself You know all our shoes are leaving marks On the gym floor It takes three days to clean them off I would know, my summer job We carried ourselves well I took you back home under the street lights Waited up all night Asked if you had a good time But you couldn’t lie And you just smiled
6.
Ursine Valor 06:19
Remember when the hurricane blew against your door? And the next morning everything was out of place? Remember when you had your back up against a wall? All the blocks you couldn’t break down, you’re breaking up We built it up, waited for nothing But it began to fall, put the pieces in place But it wasn’t the same Said to us “oh, you wouldn’t know the difference” Straining sight Stepping back to stay in focus Still to us Even though we never listened Guess we just Want so much to prove it right All the things we said With no doubt would come true Is it clearer now? On the windows Written in the dust Washed but never went away All of the words carved In the base of trees It burned down But still can read The last letter She ever sent You threw it out But still can’t sleep Hold back Every breath you take Hold your head Up above the lake You’ll tire your arms out Hold your quivered voice Having trouble breathing cause your Tongue got in the way When’d you start believing saying out loud Will really change your fate Even though all the lights are on Everybody knows you’re gone And every night we want you back Maybe next time But next time never comes Left out in the sun And the road was freshly paved To escape your feet, despite the asphalt When you lie down It’s there that you shall stay Remember she said It’s there that you shall stay Wake up now Remember the wind shook the shutters and howled against the door And I was knocking but you couldn’t tell the difference Remember the wall towered unscalable but after all The softened stone, you dug a tunnel through it Spent half a day putting it all back in place And by the time it was complete you said you like it this way better Even though you hadn’t planned it and you Spent so much time working how it All fit together, you became so thankful For all the destruction of everything you cared about And we finally realized that what matters most is not The outcome of the requests we submit to be receiving Head on your shoulders and lungs full of air But our hearts need something that our blood cannot supply
7.
Timed it with the pulse Coming up again The time you knew you couldn’t shake it Still rest to watch it now, Still chest, and it comes out This is the sound you couldn’t save Is it perspective? Is it just knowing where to run? From far away, cranes look like carnival games We’ve been behind, been inside Wanted for nothing but the cold We let it go, it would come back, Waited but nothing ever came And it was uphill, yeah it was uphill all the way home And I walked the outside, memories we tried to place Coming back to your house, your younger brother, he wasn’t home yet Eyes on the floor, heartbeats, Finding ourselves somewhere we should never have been found Keep in touch, let me know how you’re doing From far away, clouds look just like anything I wrote down all the answers Just ordered them wrong I offered to come with you But you refused So hard to explain its entirety So now what’s important, so now how could we do nothing? We used to think that magic things could really happen And when we stepped out of the tree We knew we couldn’t fly, but still we’d set to prove it with our blood Focused to fall to somehow regain some control
8.
Steinborgium 05:53
Once we admitted we knew nothing There was a place back home We all went to find what we’d lost Let the table and its chairs All lean the way they will We lean the way we Will most easily Let ourselves fall Headlong, it showed to us there Long over the ground Cracks in the windows Cracks in the street The line in the sand Last night you dreamt you were holding something But it wasn’t holding back Last night you would ever let something like it Fool you ever again Wanted separate eyes for the little things you could barely see Wanted separate strength cause your tired set of lungs could barely breathe Drifting off to sleep And when you timed how long it takes for it to finally make a difference And it’s not your fault (did you see the ending?) It was faster just to learn you wasted your time (coming by now) When you waited for the net below to save you And it’s not your fault (it’s completely empty) Cause we held it high but didn’t pull tight enough And by that time you couldn’t raise your arms to brace yourself the right way You’re right, it was all our fault And you may have lost the war, but still fight losing battles When we felt the room was burning down around us You’re right, it was all our fault Swollen heads and muscles We let it fill our lungs without a struggle Could you write us all about it Still knowing how it sounded? We admitted we knew nothing Fell headlong, the ground was closer than we knew We treated a separate set of palms
9.
Come downstairs Your dad won’t be there Drive by her house Emptied out the back All the times you ran your mouth Now suddenly you’re quiet The broken yellow lines Swallowed by the headlights Done pushing around Talking behind (y)our back Dug up the ground Asked you to lay down No other sound Asked you to lay down Whatever it was, whatever I’ve done I swear I take it all back When it was done, when it was done It never really went back ---------------------------------------------------- Showed up early for the train Jerking into motion And you jumped across the cars Rushing towards the back And you can’t work it out On your own And now you've got to work so hard To stay in the same place The engine and the iron rails Will win it either way All that’s left behind Its only saving grace There’s nothing close enough to tell Just how fast you really go Take the early evening flight Packed your bags so long ago You don’t know if you got it right What you need and what you left behind How bad is it? How bad can it get? You wash your hands In holy water They’re stained with blood Done with digging holes To just burry your shovel Done with tying rope So high that you can’t reach it How bad is it? How bad can it get?
10.
When you say it back in reverse Do you hear your own voice Or the Devil’s? Sit down, keep your feet on the ground Keep your eyes on the clock hung on the wall Tongue against your teeth Cold air, it gets dark sooner now You knew that if we found out You sat with a cloud above your head The oak tree outside the window It bothered you how long the leaves stayed green Even though we insist It’s deciduous You wouldn’t wait for it To fall down Honest health bred honest hands A dull circuit repeating Just the same your heart was settled A full subset depleting Tried to walk down the shore Tried to swim overhead But the tide wouldn’t take us anywhere Tried to close both our eyes Tried to focus to divert Our senses so it would sound better this time When you scream it out As hard as you can Do you feel your own chest Heave beneath you? An ironed shirt And I studied all night It came time to recite And I couldn’t stand still We fall down We suck young blood Our deceptive cadence And we raised it well But we couldn’t name it And when it finally went to sleep It just went to sleep Leaning up against the open door It’s all empty now, we moved it out And our reluctance to shut it once more And leave it shut, and leave it, we left it And the swollen boards rose up from the floor And tripped you when you tried to walk away Stop blaming yourself It means well, but we can never give it back We can reach the ladder to climb back down, take it step by step, Or we can reach the precipice but we don’t know which is the better one The ache, the toll, the loss, the secret, The choke, the flinch, the cast, the scar, The steps, the porch, the flowers, the time bomb, The sound logic not to, the urges that got through, The lines in our palms and the lines in our foreheads, What we let go last time so this time we’d save it, Resisting motion and holding to slow it Did we miss the last bus or is one still coming? I think it’s coming

about

No picks were used in the making of this album.

All guitars are in open tuning (example, low to high, open E: E B E Ab B E). Bass is in standard tuning

Ursine Valor is the only song in which both guitar tracks do not use the same capo placement (left guitar capo 5 in open E; right guitar none, detuned to open D). The bass on Ursine Valor is detuned to D-standard.

Every song has some sort of allusion or Easter egg referencing another song, be it from popular music or from friends of mine.

Invalids tabs:
[.tbt] www.tabit.net/tabs/list.php?f=5655

[.txt] dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2148281/Invalids%20Tabs%20Complete%20Mar%202015.zip



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released January 31, 2012

All music written by Pete Davis except track 9, written by Stephen Navarrete and arranged by Pete Davis.
All lyrics by Pete Davis.
Guitars, Vocals, and Drum programming (via Tabit and Addictive Drums) performed and recorded by Pete Davis
Bass performed and recorded by Nick Shaw
Additional vocals on track 8 performed and recorded by Nick Steinborn.

All music mixed and mastered by Pete Davis.
(c) 2012 Invalids

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Invalids started as the bedroom project of Pete Davis (with remote internet-based collaboration with other musicians). As of March 2015, it has grown to a proper four-piece band with the addition of Joe Scala, Raymond Bonanno, and Blair Benzel.

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