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NAM WAYNE

by Nam Wayne

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1.
Friend Crush 02:16
How did we never meet? You come out when I go to sleep I see you standing on the corner Gotta let you know I like your persona You’ve dropped out of the best high schools, Smoked a lot of drugs and been abused That’s why I want to be friends with you uhuh How did we never meet? We grew up on the same dark street I see plain clothed hippies outside your house I see smoke rings from a car seat couch You come from where the sidewalks bend Where weathered boots and dry leaves blend Where decades don’t divide or end uhuh People who say they don’t want to be cool They’ve never had a friend crush like you They’ve never had a friend crush like you So What I’m gonna do is be friends with you How did we never meet? You come out when I go to sleep I see you standing on the corner Gotta let you know I like your persona How did we never meet? We grew up on the same dark street You come out when I go to sleep uhuh I’m gonna be your friend I’m gonna be your friend I’m gonna be your friend I’m gonna be your friend
2.
Feelin' Fine 03:04
Walking up the street feeling obsolete like a comedy about Gerald Ford And I’ve been down to my last life ever since I reached the second board I’ve been locked in a toll booth. I’ve eaten nothing but Crispix all day I’ve got wolves and reindeer on my shirt but I’ve still got something to say I feel fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fine! Evil satirist came along and corrupted all my files And I spent my last Euro on orange juice and it tasted like bile And just before I blanked out the doctor said he felt odd Like Jesus or a centaur half man and half god I feel fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fine! Saw a dead unicorn. It was lying in a roadside ditch And I’m still re-labeling high school demo tapes while my friends get famous and rich A thousand agent Smiths are at the door and I’m like, What do you want? The worms on the street spell out my name in Times New Roman font I feel fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fine!
3.
Eighth grade enchantress won’t you come and dance with me Like the satyrs of the woods and the mermaids of the sea Eighth grade enchantress won’t you come and dance with me I watch you move in plastic diamond studded jeans I watch you move in plastic diamond studded jeans You’re the cutest woman that I think I’ve ever seen Summer time through the golden woods you run Fevered skin in the freezing autumn sun Eighth grade enchantress can I be your half-day man? Like the satyrs of the sea and the mermaids of the land Eighth grade enchantress can I be your half-day man? Scissory whispers hungry girls in crowded halls Scissory whispers hungry girls in crowded halls In your sunny laughter all their whispers will dissolve Summer time through the golden woods you run Fevered skin in the freezing autumn sun
4.
We go out walking with some flowers in our hair See blossoms open in the warm December air Provincial voices stir emboldened for a fight Nylon flags are flapping in the metal halloid light It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness We saw some livestock in a parking lot tonight Beneath the watchful eye that rules by divine right The streets are full of shouts and laughter everywhere The dead and living dancing in a village square It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness I pledge allegiance to the star striped license plate Let superstition guide the swords of every state Flow gentle opiate. The air raid sirens scream Let levies crumble and let ignorance reign supreme It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness It’s been a decade of darkness
5.
Talking old school crossing ninth street by the barricades Street life lit by headlights moving in parade Sixteen years and you resurface. All we knew is swallowed like So many nameless snowflakes falling on the waves Sidewalk handout, It’s the ending of the world So I say I always loved you when you were a girl As a boy it seemed to me your eyes had seen a thousand summers In our English class trespassing through the week Stern angelic eyes cut me so deep I tried to reach you so many times Heaven knows I tried At least in my mind Well you got some nerve to come to me so late All grown up and teaching seventh grade Standing like a poison blossom denim jacket faded dress We join the crowd like snowflakes falling on the waves Small beneath the moon and battlements above We laugh among the ghosts of thwarted love Talking about the world we knew of public phones and space rock albums Hungry souls in feral houses fade into the streets we crossed today
6.
Oh the summer time has come And the leaves are sweetly turning And the wild mountain thyme Grows across the purple heather Will you go lassie go And we’ll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All across the purple heather Will you go lassie go If my true love does not go I will surely find another To pull wild mountain thyme All across the purple heather Will you go lassie go
7.
You’ve got me running round the ceiling and bouncing off the walls You’ve got me feeling like a boy who wants to play with dolls I see you like wearing socks. I’m a sock person too What can I do? What can I do? I’m just a mad mad carrot eating fool on drugs and in love with you I’m just a mad mad carrot eating fool on drugs and in love with you I want to sleep all through the night and hear your breath I want to wake up to a pillow drunk frenzy of death Sometimes you tape up boxes and they fall apart But there’s always extra tape guns in my heart Cause I’m just a mad mad carrot eating fool on drugs and in love with you You’ve got me running round the ceiling and bouncing off the walls You’ve got me feeling like a boy who wants to play with dolls I see you like wearing socks. I’m a sock person too What can I do? What can I do? I’m just a mad mad carrot eating fool on drugs and in love with you I’m just a mad mad carrot eating fool on drugs and in love with you
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9.
The day calls out your second thoughts begin again again What you invade in the invader heart my love my love In the end her second thoughts begin again Her second thoughts begin again In mid July, July the river keeps its bounds But in the cold the ices reach beyond the bank and blend into the snow In the end her second thoughts begin again Her second thoughts begin again The sun goes down. The sea unravels at it’s hem The day calls out. Your second thoughts begin again
10.
And the staff called out of work And a birds called in your sleep And we sat up on a roof In the same dream the same dream Reading shiny recipes Stealing phrases where we can Finding vehicles and faces In the sand in the sand Calling back the marching sky In it’s great candescent band How your love had slipped away From my hands from my hands Who can hold the shifting light I would keep it if I could Though they tempted me with evil And with good and with good

about

Excerpted from The Skinny Magazine UK -

Nam Wayne is a Philadelphia tape-rocker and reverb junkie of Scottish Vietnamese ancestry. Wayne began writing his self-titled debut album back in 2005, intending to give it a rough charm by finishing the entire thing in one week. But a number of factors – including tape equipment failures, a drummer’s coma and convalescence, the economic downturn, the recent vinyl manufacturing bottleneck, and Wayne’s meticulousness – delayed its completion by twelve years until now. As it turns out, the delay is just long enough for Decade of Darkness, the album’s resident Bush-era protest song, to become a period piece that is ominously relevant once again.

As a result of the lag the album traces the changing times. Falling on the Waves captures the moment when it became clear that public phones were obsolete, Feelin’ Fine is a post-market-crash survival song from when Wayne was scraping by serving hors d'oeuvres to Donald Trump and Arianna Huffington amid the inescapable strains of corporate pop music. Eighth Grade Enchantress, which features a medieval crumhorn sampled on a Casio SK-1, was inspired by a young prodigy who became a lifelong friend.

Wayne constructed the recordings like musical versions of Star Wars props, composing the lyrics carefully, deliberately, but then figuratively slopping them with dirt and partially obscuring them with shadows and motion-blur. He did much of the recording in altered states but edited the performances with surgical sobriety. The drums were recorded on two inch tape but everything else was recorded on multitrack cassette, for a haloed, disintegrating feel.

“I want you to hate this record and then love it,” Wayne tells The Skinny. “I want you to badmouth it to all your friends and then suddenly realise months later that there's an empty space in the universe in the exact shape of this music. I want you to have to take sides against your own better judgement and your opinions about the world in order to embrace something more expansive and problematic. My goal was to make a record with teeth, something free spirited in a real and committed sense. That's what I think rock music is about.”

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released February 9, 2017

Recorded:
Nam Wayne: vocals, guitar, bass
Tim Monaghan: drums
Spiff Wiegand: guitar
Frank Basile: guitar on "Decade of Darkness"

Nam Wayne: home studio producer
Mike Kutchman: engineer at KUTCH 1 Studio
Noel Summerville: mastering

Live:
Nam Wayne: vocals guitar
Tim Monaghan: drums
Jamiel Cornelio: guitar
Mike Sanders: bass

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Nam Wayne Lambertville, New Jersey

Nam Wayne is an American cassette-rocker and reverb junkie: loud, lyric driven, lots of tape compression.

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