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Me, Myself and Something Else

by Call Me Malcolm

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C9 My favorite album from my favorite rude boys. An instant classic. Favorite track: A Beginner's Guide To Fighting A Losing Battle.
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LukeSpurs The best ska punk album since Mad Caddies' Duck & Cover, a ripper. Favorite track: Also, Spiders.
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Rudeboy384 I've been waiting for this album ever since I first heard the rest of CMM's music. Fantastic horns, killer bass, bomb ass vocals, and legendary lyrics hit home. 10/10.
Favorite track: Wake Up, The Monster Said.
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batleo This new album is just as brilliant as I was Broken... Deep and meaningful lyrics about some serious topics, every single singer is on his A game (even though I have to admit Lucias is my favourite) and the music is kicking my ass. I've been following these guys ever since I discovered Battleska Galactica and I'm so glad I did. Also, congrats on them Signing up with Wiretap records!
Favorite track: Wake Up, The Monster Said.
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1.
Good Morning 00:29
2.
Wake up, heart beaten but I’m broken in two With a head full of mourning and nothing to do Face in the dirt, I can dream myself to life Alarm bells screaming and the message is clear I don’t think that I’ll fix myself this calendar year Caught in a loop, my esteem declines to fight Trying to get better, but I got no answers Stab at my heart just to cut out the cancer With skin pulled over frail bones stuck within I’ve never been so lonely or so painfully thin Bitter pills to choke, but it’s all that I know when I’m feeding the monster in me Killing off the hours is progress of sorts I dig for words of comfort without checking the source But I wrote the essay, the book and the study of lying and how to conceal What’s killing me? Trying to get better, but I got no answers Stab at my heart just to cut out the cancer Stuck in my head forever after One day I’ll find words, and they will be simple, I swear But these bones have had all that they can bear And my chest is a maze, while my tongue talks itself in knots But I’m not a poster boy for good health, ‘cause I can hardly stay awake and I’m barely holding on Trying to get better, but I got no answers Stab at my heart just to cut out the cancer Stuck in my head forever after One day I’ll find words, and they will be simple, I swear But these bones have had all that they can bear Let’s take a walk down every new nightmare
3.
I’m Charlie Fear, and this is my partner in rage We got the all important horrors today Replayed, all day, from the second you stir Prepare to have your headwashed or whatever my paycheque prefers Lead me far away ‘Cause I don’t wanna be here anymore As I suffocate, now We go round, I’m stuck in hell 24 hours on a carousel Say goodbye and say farewell To the world that you know With pinned back eyes and a rabid obsession to know The indiscretions and the fear they sow I’m bloodshot wise, with hypertension to feed I swallow fear for every breakfast, and hatred every other damn meal Lead me far away ‘Cause I don’t wanna be here anymore As I suffocate, now We go round, I’m stuck in hell 24 hours on a carousel Say goodbye and say farewell To the world that you know There’s no broadcast without smoke What we reap is what you stoke Breathing stories till we choke On the world that we know Pan away from love and zoom in on all our flaws No bulletin has solved more problems than it caused Bad news travels fast but our nightmares travel faster We interrupt our scheduled hell for an even worse disaster With the TV on and your head turned off Trying to figure out how we could get so lost It’s a three square con, and we eat because We’re a country built on shame, and taking pleasure in everyone’s loss Take us far away We don’t deserve to be here anymore Let us suffocate, now We go round, I’m stuck in hell 24 hours on a carousel Say goodbye and say farewell To the world that you know There’s no broadcast without smoke What we reap is what you stoke Breathing stories till we choke On the world that we know
4.
My poor brain won’t eat this time With a little bit of smile and an uncommittal try To wake up, stay present and speak But the melodies playing won’t let me think Straight to the main course, ‘cause they won’t shut up And I pour my sorry from the bottle to the cup So we drink and we talk but I’m deaf to the source I’m a ghost in this house and it’s part of the curse Scream my name, I won’t hear it Reset and start again I’ll scream the words, I can’t listen To the message contained Scream my fucking name, I won’t hear it Reset, just start again I’ll scream the words, I can’t listen I don’t think that I’m OK My poor feet won’t move in time With a little way left, and a brain not right You tell me, I don’t seem OK And you see inside I’m only afraid Count three to the floor, you were right when I swore In the middle of a break, and a little bit raw I promise I’ll listen sometimes If the melodies playing will let me try Scream my name, I won’t hear it Reset and start again I’ll scream the words, I can’t listen To the message contained Scream my fucking name, I won’t hear it Reset, just start again I’ll scream the words, I can’t listen I don’t think that I’m OK Listen. Sometimes I wish I’d never started discussing All the things that left me far from being fixed I spend my waking hours hoping anything And me could coexist Scream my name, I won’t hear it Reset and start again I’ll scream the words, I can’t listen To the message contained Scream my fucking name, I won’t hear it Reset, just start again I’ll scream the words, I can’t listen I don’t think that I’m OK
5.
I tried my best at being honest But ended up breaking my promise I’m a fucking fraud, a mistake How can I know just what you’re missing When my monster never listens? Choking on the words you give away I know the air’s not always clean here If you fit in, you disappear Your demons or mine tonight? I’m tired of saying goodnight To best friends I just met I know I said I’m fixed, but I’m still beaten The crippling melancholy Just hasn’t killed me yet We’ll keep on fighting, and I’ll keep on trying, until I don’t need breath I’m sick and bored of being victim I’m dying up here, I don’t fit in Morning blazing sun in my eyes You make me feel like you have got me I never felt so fucking lonely Bones are screaming for a friend, I need you I know the air’s not always clean here If you fit in, you disappear I’m done here, I’m done I’m tired of saying goodnight To best friends I just met I know I said I’m fixed, but I’m still beaten The crippling melancholy Just hasn’t killed me yet We’ll keep on fighting, and I’ll keep on trying, until I don’t need breath I gave my heart to you, spoiled and unopened You took it in, ‘cause I was haunted and broken I let you down, I wish that I could do better I couldn’t fix your problems or take the pressure Waiting for last call Hold on to what was Waiting for last call When you can’t walk You just crawl
6.
Don’t ask me, I won’t tell you I’m a silent devotee I’m mute ‘cause my words pollute And I’m scared that you will breathe me Don’t ask me how I’m doing The knots aren’t worth undoing I hang tough for a little bit of love And a happiness that will be Don’t tell them anything I couldn’t talk, I was a burden from the start Didn’t speak and I had my reasons Every word that parts is a knife in my heart Every syllable leaves me bleeding Don’t ask me how I’m hanging The vines aren’t worth untangling I couldn’t share where the monsters stare Or the pain that they are breeding Don’t tell them anything I can’t talk myself from the basement I made So leave me shallow under here I can’t speak myself out of this one Don’t tell them anything You gave me everything So genuinely meaning I can’t say anything I can’t say anything yet
7.
Every step we take is a rule we break And we’re ever only moving backwards But we push on more, ‘cause you always swore That we never even meet your standards Forgive me, I am sorry, but these wounds won’t stay unopened When I say, believe me, the most beautiful people are broken This self doubt means that we shout But the void is always full of voices And they echo back everything we lack But we never know what the choice is This day plays out like the first, with a little more pain and a little more curse Believe me when I say that the most beautiful people are beautifully broken Killing us with a thousand cuts, conquer and divide us It’s all a game that we have lost too well Can we get a little charity? Can we get a little empathy? The joke’s on you, I only hate myself It’s a war, with a prefix score ‘Cause the front page is permanently airbrushed We abide by the rules, like naive fools But the game is always fixed against us Screaming at our souls you whisper everything we’re not With every swipe, a sponsored snipe, ‘cause honesty can rot Killing us with a thousand cuts, conquer and divide us It’s all a game that we have lost too well Can we get a little charity? Can we get a little empathy? The joke’s on you, I only hate myself Killing us with a thousand cuts, conquer and divide us You rigged the game and now we can’t push through Can we get a little charity? Can we get a little empathy? The only thing I hate more than myself is you
8.
9.
3, 2, 1 with a loaded gun, and my head will take the streets With the launching codes, and a debt that’s owed, to make this mess all neat You see a passing word and my mind hits “work”, unpacking everything a little untoward A beat for you is a week for me, and my day is keeping score So hit that trigger like a nuclear button My brain shuts down and the rage comes, summoned Take cover till the beast is gone Give it a name to find your flaws and count them Give it a name but it won’t solve the problem I think I despise myself ‘Cause there is nothing else I could be more, but I’m ever the less A to the Z and my head agrees that the answer is more sleep So get in the hearse, kill the light ‘cause it hurts, this is gonna take a week I tried tuning in by naming this, my mind fought back by playing all the hits “You’ve got no worth, no place on this earth” and “you should call it quits.” So hit that trigger like a nuclear button My brain shuts down and the rage comes, summoned Take cover till the devil’s gone Give it a name to find your flaws and count them Give it a name but it won’t solve the problem I think I despise myself ‘Cause there is nothing else I could be more, but I’m ever the less And there’s a life I try to hide I spend my days, dreaming of a place, where me and fear can coincide But there’s a problem with this answer There’s no tool suitable to cut this cancer 1, 2, 3 with a quick apology that I can’t come out to play ‘Cause my weapons grade disorder said the last rites for my day I know all the words, but not how they work, in my head there’s a beast and it feeds on the hurt ‘Cause I assumed that we were happy but I guess it never was So hit that trigger like a nuclear button My brain shuts down and the rage comes, summoned Take cover till the freak is done Give it a name to find your flaws and count them Give it a name but it won’t solve the problem I think I despise myself Cause there is nothing else I could be more, but I’m ever the less
10.
Snap out of it Don’t be so proud of it Stop feeling sorry for yourself You’re acting like you love it You will survive when the end of the world comes ‘Cause it’s all in your head It could be worse because you could be dead or deader I don’t know why you look so sad You should get well or weller Try a smile so you don’t look depressed Losing all the friends My disease will kill or cleanse What’s the cost in the end? And where do you draw the line? You put us here Praying we would disappear It’s not the end of the world It’s just the fucking end of mine You don’t look sick How are you judging this? You never told me you were ill What’s your yardstick? Have you tried any meditation? Have you tried a new brain? Take a bow, kid To furious applause There’s no shame in feeling bad I got sad once You’re welcome for your validation Losing all the friends My disease will kill or cleanse What’s the cost in the end? And where do you draw the line? You put us here Praying we would disappear It’s not the end of the world It’s just the fucking end of mine Hit the snooze alarm kid, gimme five more minutes here We can fix your problems in a little under two more years My smile is breaking down, decaying with me in the earth Tell me how much time you think we’re worth Losing all the friends My disease will kill or cleanse What’s the cost in the end? And where do you draw the line? You put us here Praying we would disappear It’s not the end of the world It’s just the fucking end of You and me, you and me and this disease make three, I’m sorry Please help me, I wanna be better than this, I’m better than this me
11.
Bury me then I’ll never have to see All the pain you’re consciously suspending Three feet deep in a dirt bed sleep Laughing but you’re only just pretending This pain comes again, you never explain That you can’t wake up in this way Keep your broken dreams Hit the light when you see your ghost You don’t want a definition Lock your door so no one knows You’re not your condition When they can see and you think you’re blind A broken soul is just a dislocation, trust me When they can taste and your tongue’s left dry The bad dreams are just hallucinations, just be You are more than one scar, you came this far It’s my turn to hold your crushed heart Take a hand from me Hit the light when you see your ghost You don’t want a definition Lock your door so no one knows You’re not your condition Hit the light when you see your ghost You don’t want a definition Lock your door so no one knows
12.
Look at my smile, and my lifestyle, while I fall apart to pieces Because I lost my head as I stockpile dread and my heart rate increases Listen to my glee, ‘cause it guarantees that I barely ever breathe in I’m missing, in part, all the strength in my heart and it cannot take the beating Used to be, I’d be safe in my dreams Now I’m afraid Goodbye, sunshine There’s no fix to report There was a shame, that I couldn’t rename And a sadness that you couldn’t support Goodbye, sunshine It was never your fault There was unrest, that you couldn’t have guessed Left me broken and a mess by default See my heart, as it thwarts my restart every day I’m still here Because the two of us couldn’t heal the cuts, and we never had the all clear So touch my soul, I need damage control, ‘cause I can’t explain the readings Just sit back, relax, let me lay out the facts and know I had my reasons To be safe from my dreams, ‘cause I’m afraid Every day Goodbye, sunshine There’s no fix to report There was a shame, that I couldn’t rename And a sadness that you couldn’t support Goodbye, sunshine It was never your fault There was unrest, that you couldn’t have guessed Left me broken and a mess by default I can’t stop smiling ‘cause it’s all I ever have To carry on surviving and to keep the horrors back But they know where I live and where I try to hide Please know that I did my best And I genuinely tried Yes I genuinely tried Goodbye, sunshine There’s no fix to report There was a shame, that I couldn’t rename And a sadness that you couldn’t support Goodbye, sunshine It was never your fault There was unrest, that you couldn’t have guessed Left me broken and a mess by default
13.
So we’re trapped in our third act This turning point is where I fight With neck snapped, coffin packed I think that maybe I’m the bad guy My dimensions start to show What I keep is what I sow I start to rot I understand now everything I’m not Hey, that’s life With more explosions and cool spies I don’t see why A little bit me, a little myself A little bit of something else I live with such disgust My narcissism self-destructs We’re not alone, too many dicks And egos fighting for attention Don’t ignore all their tricks This story’s ramping up the tension I’m exhausted dawn to dusk Nauseous, my heart filled with rust My sense of self-worth is defunct A bitter word thrown, I figure I’ve shown my soul’s corrupt Hey, that’s life With more explosions and more spies I see now why A little bit me, a little myself A little bit of something else I’m nothing but disgust When my foundations turn to dust My heart will never be complete If I can’t get back on my feet You name the time and place I’ll go and dig my grave It’s all that I can do My front conceals untold defeats ‘Cause I never get back on my feet Cash me out, life is cheap I wish that I could sleep It’s all that I can do I only dream of you
14.
Back in bed, and one day older Another chance dead, and another day slower Call the doctor, get the priest in quick Nobody move so nobody gets sick With a one track mind and a cold vendetta ‘Cause I wanna get well and you make me better Turn the light on so the scars stay seen This house, our souls, are clean Filling my grave with all the hope I held together Don’t wanna change I want to stay this way forever I cross my heart and hope to die a little happier Closed hearts will never be Please wait up for me With a mind too blind and the beast devoted You came back and I guess you showed them Eyes wide, let the rain soak in We’ll be ok, let the roof cave in Send a valentine to our shattered hearts We can sign it together as we’re tearing apart Come with me, see where we bled I missed you every step Filling my grave with all the hope I held together Don’t wanna change I want to stay this way forever I cross my heart and hope to die a little happier Closed hearts will never be Please wait up for me Filling my grave with all the hope I held together Don’t wanna change I want to stay this way forever I cross my heart and hope to die a little happier Closed hearts will never be Please wait up for me You’ve had the monsters on your shoulders since forever So take my hand and we can fight that shit together Let’s cross our hearts and hope to die a little happier Full hearts will never lose I’ll wait up for you Send a valentine to my heart to mend her Dream a happy ending for my disaster Trying to get better but I got some answers I’ll wait up for you
15.
Goodnight 00:37

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Me, Myself and Something Else is a story about finding hope in a world bristling with hate. Having explored their internal battles with mental health issues in 2018’s I Was Broken When You Got Here (“A saving grace of the genre.“ - Vinnie Fiorello: LESS THAN JAKE), Call Me Malcolm turn their attention outwards, and weave a narrative about what it is to live day to day when suffering from depression and anxiety.

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released May 15, 2020

Call Me Malcolm are:

Bone/Vox - Lewis
Sax/Vox - Mark
Guitar/Vox - Lucias
Bass - Trev
Drums - Chris

Friends of Malcolm:

Keys - Jonny Barrington
Voice Overs - Elisabeth Hopper and James Northcote

All tracks written and performed by Call Me Malcolm
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios, Folkestone
Produced by Oz Craggs and Call Me Malcolm

Album Art and Design by Mark Bell Illustration
Voice Overs co-written by Jason Jillings

US Album Release by Wiretap Records

For more Malcolm check out:
www.callmemalcolmband.com

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Razor-toothed, harmony infused, delicately ferocious ska. British 5-piece Call Me Malcolm exploded onto the Ska Punk scene in 2018 with a record described by ska legends Less Than Jake as "a saving grace of the genre." Malcolm's genre blending mastery and intricate songwriting has since crafted “some of the most special, unique, ambitious music in the punk underground.” (BrooklynVegan) ... more

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