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Wet From Birth

by The Faint

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1.
was it more than attraction and a physical lust? her loins my imagination that first inconceivable touch that i was planning, i mean wishing how embarrassed i'd been if you knew what i was thinking and whoa when it started my first thought was love and not just lust cause when i heard you speak i felt warm in the evening i saw you you were warming the bass up your hair covered your face up i was acting indifferent at the merch booth putting on makeup we met up at a party on a swamp on a yacht i spun the helm but we were docked i cross my fingers but i didn't beg cause i knew you knew cause i knew you knew i liked you but i figured desperate guys never had a chance with you close to you wishing we're conjoined at the tongue can you hear me thinking i should stop i crossed my fingers but i didn't beg cause i knew you knew cause i knew you knew i liked you i knew you knew it but i figured desperate guys never had a chance with you
2.
introverted boy you are not interesting boy you think you're intellectual but no one's talking to you now i might be an introvert to you the shallow fashionista deep as any paper plate dressed just like the girl beside you how could i forget a waste of cloth of course i do remember on the back deck drunk and awkward i think we accidently met i know you've got someplace to get to? and i REALLY got to get some place remember when i said that vincent had some tickets for me yeah..(laughing snottily a bit). how could i forget a waste of breath? of course i do remember all the things you said were pointless now you go on dropping names but i kind of dig you.
3.
I Disappear 04:07
i disappeared i lost control my body's moving all on it's own i watched myself walk away a foreign spirit took my place an empty stare it's eyes are dull stole my essence it's riding my pulse burst of black breath of smoke i disappeared i lost control i disappeared how could i resist? it's all i wanted now i guess i've got it why it happened i don't know hope this doesn't last forever
4.
scarlet boots the kiss of death patience and the end of it blended angels whispered love countdown til it's gone for long velvet voices haunting slow darkened notes with bright decor georgian femmes are gone for weeks southern belles in london sing i'm staring down the epply gate 2 more days before the plane arrives and you'll be standing here with your smile i'm carving up the lobby seats i'm pushing down the caffeine drinks checking the arrival screens for yours a hundred feet above the landing there's a girl gliding down she's floating toward me now her sleeves are all stretching out and the jet is following behind london skids a grinding halt last night left to spend apart your bags are packed by now for home stories of the tour unfold the booking agents broken nose butting heads with creeping dolts georgian femmes are gone for weeks southern belles in london sing
5.
Erection 02:45
it's the scene from a movie it's an isle at the store it's the view of a canyon the sound of a sword it's an orchard of peaches your wife in the shower while you wait for appointments or as you walk through the bar oh, uh oh. erection you know it's not only love dear that can flip the switch up you know it probably should be maybe god fucked it up oh, uh oh. erection boiled up like a tower a monument in the park its the cock of a rifle a memory in the dark you tried to keep it a secret but know the worlds gonna know you tried for perfection but then, oh, uh oh, erection
6.
the news has got me paranoid papers and the news reports casualties of every war the anchor people keeping score the weapons now are chemicals in water and in air above in circulating envelopes in powder through the postal routes the threat of a disease is here we nipped it once without a cure it took forever 'til it stopped through mandatory needle shots they gave us all a little dose to teach our bodies how to cope finally when we had it licked some terrorists are back with it the propaganda's working now i'm falling for it hook and reel i'm stocking up on medicine buying tape to seal us up in paranoia paranoiattack paranoiawar paranoia sinks like a bomb paranoiathreat paranoiaffects paranoia drops bombs paranoia
7.
1,2,3,4 5,6,7,8 viscous counter pop erosion revolution 101 dropkick the punks we want a change blaspheme the pop call out the freaks pay off the jockeys then call the cops queue up the news reporting company trucks hoist the antenna pirate the waves dust off the tables and broadcast the plates amp the fly trap plant called venus and jab a cold fork in the speaker ah we're force fed pop culture's shit were staying up late thinking "what the fuck is this?"
8.
Phone Call 04:02
i've seen you a while now long enough to be close there are some things about you i should know i still don't with all the questions we didn't ask our conversations could never last our moments alone were scarce and few it was just easier to hide the truth if all of our secrets were exposed would we be sharing the same bed how about if i broke the silence first could i hear what you're thinking in your head? i need to be talked to i need to be touched i need you to hold me i need to feel loved and if i could open up to you maybe i could open you up but instead i got the phone call just thought i'd call to let you know i want to be alone all night again phone call just thought i'd call to let you know I think I want to be alone all night again with all the questions we didn't ask our conversations could never last i need to be talked to i need to be touched i need you to hold me i need to feel loved and if i could open up to you maybe you could open up to me we do all the things that lovers do i've been meaning to tell you how i feel
9.
don't admit you're sick let your fit body bury it the faintness that you feel is nothing permanent don't buy the sickness on T.V. you want your health they want the fee you see the ads and start to think "i feel it coming on" no no target market television telepharmavangelism symptom finger i'm gonna shut it off gonna down all the power i'm a doctor today i'm curing viewers by thousands don't admit you're sick let your fit body bury it the faintness that you feel is nothing permanent you open up and let them in it's nothing conscious what is this? i feel a burning in my eye it's from the television lights slow, slow it down, wait now decide okay, i'm gonna shut it off down all the power i'm a doctor today i'm curing viewers by thousands do you have to get the shit they sell? the pills that fix the way to feel now that they've shown you what to get you feel it coming on low, low, lowdown high paid primetime capsule maker sickness lover i'm gonna shut it off down all the power i'm a doctor today i'm curing viewers by thousands
10.
Birth 03:19
in the beginning there was semen in a deep mouth of flesh at the crest i travelled on a wave of fertile mess through a tunnel of mucous and on toward a vault with tourists and traffic i just paced myself. not "I" as my whole self just the half that i had before greeting the rest of my better half. a connection was made through the shared love of science and vows were taken a seed was hired a cavern of fluid brought shape to my hide in the months that remained till the time of my life. i thrashed for the reason of spilling from the crack to the palms of a doctor to a towel full of scraps my brains wouldn't fit through her organ of sex an incision was made with a scalpel and masks i should have noticed the beauty and not how it hurt wet like a cherry in the bloodbath of birth.

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released September 14, 2004

2004 Saddle Creek

all songs © grammar out of context (sesac) • administered by Bug

Wet From Birth written and performed by The Faint with additional help from:
Nate Walcott - string and horn arrangements, trumpet • Tracy Sands - cello • Clark Potter - viola • Kim Salistean - violin • Donna Carnes - violin • Nate LeFeber - trombone • Scott French - tuba • Maria Taylor - vocals • Orenda Fink - vocals

"How Could I Forget" and "I Disappear" contain an interpolation of "There Goes My Love, There Goes My Life," written by Hatch, Clark and Ballay. Published by Welbeck/Sony ATV administered in U.S. and Canada by Universal Music; rest of the world Sony ATV.

"Southern Belles In London Sing" contains an interpolation of
"Rememberance Day" written by Steve Hovington as performed by B-Movie. U.S. publishing by Robert Jo L.L.C. rest of the world publishing by International Music Network.

Artwork/layout by The Faint except the girl and fetus by Seth Johnson

recorded, engineered and produced by Mike Mogis and The Faint at Presto! Recording Studios and The Orifice

Mastered by Doug VanSloun at Studio B in Omaha

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