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1.
A mosaic life Each day’s a tessera Interstice, the silent web That holds us in one piece The stars sparkle light dither as night develops Somewhere far away a sun has just come up If I pushed us to the nearest star When could we call it our sun In a collage of mornings Under quilted sheets and ceramic coffee mugs The stars sparkle light dither as night develops Somewhere far away a sun has just come up The sun’s distant light tapers, and blinks at their eyes Somewhere far away in someone else’s sky “If I spun myself around I’d use you as my center And if I fell into a black hole I’d want to see your face before the fall”
2.
Gold Teeth 04:28
Stuck like an hourglass Completely full Never ending outer glance A constant peripheral Fixation period Jolt to saccades It’s not a myriad Of choices Just a hamster wheel slo-mo replay parade And I hear people say the strangest things Like how the hours Can’t keep with the pace Of years gone Like reading a blank page And I hear people say the strangest things Like how what’s ours Is actually theirs How living Just means your life was spared Expert on the future Always speaking With a vast mixture Of rules all disagreeing The present re-balances It shifts its weight Is that what the process is? Erasing collections of all those yesterdays If everything’s easier now Then what’s the problem I wish I could just pay I wish I could just play I wish I could just pray If everything’s perfect Now what’s the problem I gave you gold teeth Now why aren’t you smiling
3.
I could describe My whole life With a single number Encyclopedia on a toothpick Well I was something like Everyone’s smallest problem You said you saw symmetry When you stepped away Repeating mountain range But inside it is constant change But we never break the bond Medium fish, medium pond Skipping stones thinking If I could just do that with my feet Skimming the top of A life with infinite corners Thinking you’ve got it All squared away A world with infinite corners A perfect circle A stone, a ripple You said you lost symmetry When you set your gaze Under clear soft waves Still inside it is constant change Swarming colored fish Other things that live And if my life is rich with time Oh that would be so nice And if the world’s a perfect size Then I won’t think twice
4.
Black Tea 03:16
Your mother said black tea bags Could heal a burn wound And when you put them on my red hands It felt like cushioned seats It felt like I lived at a beach house Tending to a jellyfish sting I steeped in the backroom A gentle infuse Sitting there like I’m seeping colors It felt like time in bloom I felt you like a stream of honey Sweetening in arabesque swirls Black Tea Surgeon, Book OR 3 Doctor, I’m overreacting Jennifer, Let me buy you a coffee Romay, I think I see the future I’m 23 Looking back at me Right now in hindsight I’m sure that in another world I tried hard You weren’t just looking For somewhere to go You liked connecting things With their shadows Well I was good at being Alone back then My shadow copied All I did And this isn’t that song That fixes everything But it’s the one 
I can finally sing Cause even with the gold rush On a Saturday morning You slowed down for me Calling this breath more important Now we’re striking gold Without touching the land Eureka, I found the sunrise It’s pouring over our hands The one thing that stuck to the plan
5.
(Instrumental)
6.
Spot 03:33
I told someone to watch my spot The world turned and I got lost Couldn’t get back to that spot Yeah that’s a tough one to spot You’ve lived everyday Since your birth date You’ve lived as a sleeping baby You’ve spent everyday In the universe Was that a decision that you made? I didn’t I didn’t remember Remember Going outside Of the hospital Or anything prior I must have Waved goodbye To something Or someone I live today I take part in What the universe plans it shall do I go to sleep As a grown adult And wake up just like a baby would
7.
Reset everything to its factory default And if nothing else You can crack open my head Because that is where That’s where the problem is That’s where the problem lives
8.
And if i sang the first line of this song It would’ve had a different start I am sure it exists somewhere Though I did not write it down Even with a missing piece Does it even matter now 2000 ways How not to make... That feeling like you’re waiting That feeling of aging I could read in a book But I could never right it down I could say the same thing over But this time not as loud How does your life fit into the way you And would you be more trenchant If you were someone different Things change Entropy Leaving the white walls empty They still get dirty Things change (Learn about it) (And then write something clever) You're life already started But that’s no cause for alarm This song already started And everything else is still going on How would you describe the thought you're having now?
9.
Your parents look at you For the first time Echoes off her body Display on the ultrasound The second that I started dividing Set on automatic In separate wombs (rooms) In attached houses Underground When I of tried To be 100 different people Did I become myself? Or was it something more like Grendel? Your organs sit in the dark Surgeon saves the heart a spot Did I put myself together? Your thoughts perched there like a lark You haven’t erased what you claim you forgot Am I taking it all apart? And I know each breath Is followed then by the next Echoes off the wall Hear the answer I wanted And when our eyes meet There is that strange greeting We’ll show each other parts We’ve personally never seen Your organs sit in the dark Surgeon saves the heart a spot Did I put myself together? Your thoughts perched there like a lark You haven’t erased what you claim you forgot Am I taking it all apart? Playing God doesn’t make you sound smart And if you give an answer or not You’ve still spoken “Well if everyone saw it And everyone thought it And everyone bought it And everyone says that it’s true Why isn’t it clear till it happens to you?” Anything that you say Anything you do You can latch onto And dance dance dance dance Cause your life is over No more Saturday’s waiting In rain in the afternoon
10.
Vietnam 04:52
Wherever you go Wherever you get to There’s this person You share Direct contact If it doesn’t feel like Your eyes see mine And vice versa The other side Is the one you're not on Two places at once Isn’t harder than One place at a Full Stop Then, go Full Stop Then, go “Well don’t you go away” When I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I Can’t take the credit It is more like The book wrote itself The city’s already finished And I'm stuck on the F train So I get off and Walk down your street Feeling less brainy Cause even if I thought I moved This whole time I’ve been sitting sitting Waiting waiting sitting in the waiting room Wherever you go Wherever you get to There’s this pattern Of good advise Like moral letters Or a reading from Dr. Seuss Fictional silence The past and future Halting at a Full Stop Then, Go Full Stop Then, Go “Well don’t you go away” When I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I Can’t take the credit It is more like The years lived themselves And I don’t know what I’m seeing When you tell me to look It’s like flipping my eyes To see thoughts form It’s like I already know This is not how I’ll feel When I’m old No matter which story’s told I’ve got 80 years Peering out the window The tape speeds and slows Till it snaps
11.
Summer’s gone But I still feel it Burning on the back of my neck Like a wave is coming But I don’t want to get wet I can see it like the sun touching the sea Slanting shadows move on the beach till they’re short, then long Till eventually they’re gone Summer’s gone But I still feel it Peeling off the front of my chest Like the sand in the house You track in with flaky footsteps You can see it as annoyance or a pest Or be reminded every foot placement Have you’ve forgotten your days off Summer’s gone But I still need it Baking red into My closed eyelids Till I open them and squint at Where the times went I can feel the seasons moving to the coldest Dim light purview at the solstice sunset You might have 60 summers left    You might have less Til it’s gone It’s gone, yeah it’s gone away
12.
Hours 04:28
I feel my neighborhood When I walk barefoot around my block Landing on the twigs and the rocks My neighbors they write out their address With a similar likeness to mine I hit a wrong digit when I dial And get someone different I apologize in Spanish Maybe you’ve already been to the place where you’ll die I’ll be barefoot in a suit With my necktie set loose And everything still on queue Crop circle fingerprints Look different from the aeroplane My voice sounds strange When I give “personal” information away To view these hours as ours They’re not minute minutes Unless distraction hits the second second They’re worth something even before you add them It’s like a lot of little rain in a plain field It’s like the smeared lines blurring the windshield Who is going where? The number on my social security Who comes next in the chronology? Something I’ll never know I breathe the air you’ve just let go Outside my window I’ll be barefoot in a suit With my necktie set loose And everything still on queue Crop circle fingerprints Look different from the aeroplane My voice sounds strange When I give “personal” information away To view these hours as ours They’re not minute minutes Unless distraction hits the second second They’re worth something even before you add them And it’s the start of another moment you live I’ll tag along And it’s the start of another moment you live It’s here in the Sol

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released October 22, 2020

Track 5 was recorded by Marcus DiLauro and Will Salwen.
- Sax performed by Marcus DiLauro
- Backing vocals performed by Will Salwen

Everything else was written, recorded, produced, mixed, and master by Randy at home.

Album art was taken by Kelly Michalak

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Randy's Got a Playdough Face Queens, New York

Having almost always recorded in a full band setting, Randy has allowed every instrument to mature with each release using influences that lend to the indie rock sweethearts like Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Slint, Sunny Day Real Estate, R.E.M.

Randy has a heavy focus on the “album” format, long chord progressions, and suspending song structures.

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