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Long Live Merritt (2017)

by Toxic Sunshine

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I used to feel like I was the only one who had the ability to recognize that we are getting old now and we've got a lot to realize. But I'm trying so fucking hard.. When you feel it in your veins and you gotta make it count if this is what you want for happiness. That's all we are waiting for. Now I feel like we've got everything where we want. Every box is checked and marked. And I feel like there's no place like here right now. And I'm never giving up. We're never giving up. There is no place like here right now! When you feel it in your veins and you gotta make it count if this is what you want for happiness. That's all we are waiting for. There ain't no place like the place we're at right now And I wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.
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If I could have changed the way things worked out that night I'd have done anything to get you home safe. I'd ask you to stay, don't go.. Please just wait. I'd do anything just to get one moment just so I could say.. Please don't go home. I never thought that would be the last time I'd see your face. Don't let this be the last fucking song you will ever hear. Then I read what the paper said.. It made me so fucking sick to see what they had in fucking print. Those stupid fucks.. They don't even know. You are not the kid they wrote. But for you, you'll live fucking long! Don't let this be the last fucking song you will ever hear. When your car went off the road on your way home from our show I saw the ambulance go by. I remember the chills down my spine. You may have died listening to our songs, but I'll make sure you live through them too.. Don't let this be the last fucking song.. Don't let this be the last fucking song you will ever hear.
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I feel like I'm still trying. I'm trying my best just so I can try to stay afloat. I feel like I'm still drowning. I'm trying my best to speak with the water in my throat. I've got no hope. Nothing is in my mind. I've got no hope. I can't shake away the fear that's in my heart. I can't wipe away the tired from my eyes. I can't ease the sudden pain that's in my soul. I can't seem to find my way to get back home. I feel like I'm still trying. I'm trying my best just so I can try to stay on course. I feel like I'm still drowning. I'm trying my best to live with the failures of my past. I've got no hope. Nothing is in my mind. I've got no hope. I can't shake away the fear that's in my heart. I can't wipe away the tired from my eyes. I can't ease the sudden pain that's in my soul. I can't seem to find my way to get back home.
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I will throw my songs in the fire and watch them all burn away. You can throw your art on top and we'll watch the embers dance around my face. When your face melts off I'll tell you it's alright. I feel like I have known you since before we even met. I feel like I know where this is going without knowing where we've went. Paint me a car and I might drive it off a cliff. Paint me the ocean and I'll watch the tide come rolling in. Paint me a world that isn't built on gender, race, and stereotypes Paint me a world that's just you and I. Until then paint me the bullets to shoot the stars down one by one. It was a dark night on a swing set where I learned your story and you learned mine. I would love to relive those moments one more time. If our bones start to splinter I'll tell you it's alright. I feel like I have known you since before we even met. I feel like I know where this is going without knowing where we've went. Paint us two cups and we can toast to the rest of our lives. Paint us the means to escape so we no longer have to hide. Paint me a world that isn't built on gender, race, and stereotypes. Paint me a world that's just you and I. Until then paint me the bullets to shoot the stars down one by one. Paint me a world that's just the two of us in love.
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Another mile to go and a song is stuck in my head. I can't even see down the road. Another mile to go and I'm sticking to this seat. I really wanna get up and go. Another mile to go and I need a cigarette. I feel like I'm going insane. Another mile to go and I'm sitting here alone. I wish I would have stayed at home. I can't see straight. I can't see straight at all! Another mile to go and I'm looking right outside. I swear I've passed this a million times. Another mile to go and I'm feeling insecure about all that's in my mind Another mile to go and I can't even think straight. I wish that I wasn't even here. Another mile to go and I need that cigarette before I rip off all of my skin. I can't see straight. I can't see straight at all!
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about

In Memory of Tyler Merrit.. We miss you cutie pie.

Well, we had talked about doing an acoustic version of our 2011 EP, Long Live Merritt, for fucking ever.. So why not just do it? Here it is in all of its glory. I stripped down the songs to their basic bare bones original versions, sort of how they were when I first wrote them.

Aside from the original 3 songs on that EP (Not including Hollywood, because I hate that fucking song), I also added Painted Bullets because we had been playing that song around the same time. We never recorded a proper version of it, but I figured an acoustic one would sound pretty cool. I also did an acoustic version of Stop Texting Me, Tyler Merritt because that was a song on a previous release that we tossed that "working title" on and it just stuck. Nick said Tyler would text him all the time to remind him if it was 10:56PM so it became a song title.

I also did an acoustic version of Bonzo Goes to Bitburg by The Ramones because Tyler fucking loved that song.

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released May 10, 2017

Jimmi Buskirk - Guitar + Vocals.
John E. Knep - Bass + Vocals.

Dedicated to Tyler Merritt.

Recorded by Jimmi Buskirk.

All songs written by Jimmi Buskirk. Music by Toxic Sunshine.
Except Bonzo Goes to Bitburg by The Ramones.

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