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Adaptation Station

by John Flinchbaugh

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well the world's a bit much right now an endless tidal wave and we all try to make it work but we swerve and can't go straight no cooperation only frustration it's not how it's supposed to be well the world's a bit much right now well the world's a bit much right now oh
2.
when your heart relies on air to breathe and the world won't stop spinning around do you need to find a sense of peace to hold you over? do you feel inadequate? do you feel like you're a shipwreck? well that's not true, that's not true but it sure feels like it is when your lungs are filled up with some bullshit from a corporate structure do you feel like you can never speak your mind and you're just a robot? is this just my destiny? is my mind playing tricks on me? "shut it down, let's go home" send me to a quiet place where i can relax and be in the present and take a break from the hell i create it's all my fault the hell i create it's all my fault the hell i create it's all my fault fault the hell i create it's all my fault the hell i create it's not my fault there's just more to it than that
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Catastrophe 02:29
catastrophe's a state of mind oh catastrophe's a state of mind i made up my mind i've convinced myself i'm a catastrophe everything is the worst i've been convinced myself it is the worst catastrophic thought after crippling thought i wish i could buy some time but it was already bought smoke clears turns out a lot of those thoughts were lies turns out a lot of those thoughts were lies i've made a return if only i could burn that way of thinking one more time, one more time turns out a lot of those thoughts were lies turns out a lot of those thoughts were lies i've made a return if only i could burn that way of thinking that way of thinking
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Adapt 04:26
thinking about how we got here how do we survive? how do we make it through day by day? what makes you slip? what do you get caught up in? what makes you slip? what do you get caught up in? phase out, fade out (x4) we're a resilient species we learn to adapt one day you're on cloud nine but the next you can't get back one day you're on the moon but then you can't get back to earth how did we get here? how do we survive? phase out, fade out (x4) if this is where we are and the place that we will be i get caught up in shit but about what it beats me i am resilient you are resilient i will adapt we all adapt we all adapt
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victory is sweet chemistry is neat i've been lying across this island on a golden sea nothing ever crosses my mind i admire the landscape and think of the other places that i could be could i be in mulitple places at the same time? refrain for the last time we reign for the first time it's hard to pick yourself up but you figure it out and then you start again and then you start again i've been lying across this island on a golden sea nothing ever crosses my mind i admire the landscape and the waves of the water and the sand at my feet i'm in multiple places at the same time we reign we reign (at the same time) we reign (at the same time) we reign (at the same time) fuck refrain for the last time we reign for the first time it's hard to pick yourself up but you figure it out and then you start again
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Shift Key 04:17
days turn into weeks weeks turn into days am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? the truth is it's not that different the truth is it's so much different am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? got your back got your back got your back if you've got mine we've been helping out each other since the beginning of time got your back got your back got your back if you've got mine the only way i wouldn't have your back is if you threw me on the street left me out to dry left me out to dry left me out to dry left me out to dry how's the ol grand experiment going for ya? writing a song is an experiment ya hey, ya hey the truth is it's not that different the future is so much different the future it's not that different the future it's so much different am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? got your back got your back got your back if you've got mine we've been hanging with each other since the beginning of time got your back got your back got your back if you've got mine the only way i wouldn't have your back is if you threw me on the street left me out to dry left me out to dry left me out to dry left me out to dry am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? am i losing my mind or is my mind going insane? shift key
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In a Funk 03:04
in a funk i guess in a funk i guess around and around on a merry-go-round in a funk i guess in a funk i guess around and around on a merry-go-round well i guess i'm climbing up a hill man that hill is steep i'm fighting off the noisy bees even in my sleep in a funk i guess in a funk i guess here we go again nobody here can console me not even a friend well i guess too many people talk sometimes people suck i guess too many people have opinions and sometimes those opinions suck in a funk i guess in a funk i guess around and around on a merry-go-round in a funk i guess in a funk i guess around and around on a merry-go-round well i guess too many people talk sometimes people suck i guess too many people have opinions and sometimes those opinions suck in a funk i guess can't get out of the funk (x8)
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summer air, summer breeze in my face (x4) i used to think that summer was such a bummer and now i think i can't get enough july to august, so fucking modest you go back to school and you get even hotter now in pandemic, the system's systemic august springs eternal into a fall of false hope winter is coming, the birds are humming the world is warming, and i'll just swim (never sink) summer air, summer breeze in my face (x4) anxiety approaches, it hunts and torches the souls of those who enter august humidity's burden, the heat index rising A/C is cranking, the people are cranky the days are longer, i pace i wander i walk, i hope, i accept, i give up i soak, i sweat, i cringe, i collect inspired i become one with the warm hot wind summer air, summer breeze in my face (x4)
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Meditate 02:58
meditate.
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Stress Head 03:11
stress head, ahhh how do i work it out with you? stress head, ahhh you're playing me for a fool what's the point when no one's listening? i know that i'm better than that i know that answer me a question, too many a problem it's a better to have something than nothing at all believe in yourself that's what i tell myself you can make a difference go get yourself some noise-cancelling headphones so you can cancel out the noise (x8)
11.
took a ride, took a train it doesn't matter either way fighting gravity, killing time when there's so much on the line i will pretend everything's okay (x4) another meeting, another hour notification, drowning, drowning, drowning i come up for air there's so much happening up here but i'm just scratching the surface pretend everything's okay (x4) hold my breath, and go back under (x12)

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released November 29, 2020

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