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Keep Their Day Jobs (Remaster)

by The Disabled

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I always kinda liked you so I'm not going to laugh But it's hard to listen to you make a myth out of my past and I know it's hard to keep Out of that easy lie about how much better Things were for us once upon a time But I remember sitting drinking On a long, dead day Thinking I don't give a damn About what they say Cause that is never gonna be A place for me And maybe I'm just bitter cause I was never part of it but your scene Looked kinda empty from the outside In it was mostly punk rock coat racks With 60 minute hair who were too Fucking self involved to see the ending in the air
2.
I can't believe those days It seems like such a haze Of cigarette smoke and alcohol It was hard to leave it then Now it's just idol wind And you were there to catch my fall I wasn't a dream or even what you need But I promise to be it now If you decide to stick around I don't need to be So damn angry To fend off, all these enemies Now I finally Don't have to be the life of a the party To know there is someone who cares for me Oh how things have changed And even you just has to be amazed You decide to stick around I don't care of the longevity of Kodak high fidelity I don't need plastic memories bombarding all my walls Let's through them all to the floor and tomorrow make one thousand more If you decide to stick around
3.
Standing in the corner waiting for My marching orders sometimes I wonder Why I bother getting up in the morning But it's just another dirty job A mile that needs traversing Just another bridge I crossed that's Calling out for burning singing Where were you when I saved the world Where were you when I got the girl and Where were you when I figured out my life Where were you when I took my turn Where were you when I got burned Where were you when I was running out time And where were you Now the working day is done I get to wrestle with the devil Bad decisions that I made keep Coming back to bite in the ass At the end of the day I just gotta laugh Because I finally found the straw That broke the demon's back singing
4.
It wasn't all that long ago When I got drunk and you got stoned We had had some swell times back in our prime In 1999 When everything was brand new But you were so hard on yourself I swear you were set on self-destruct And there was nothing I could do This isn't what I wanted when I said i had to go I wish you never had Got so low I wish you never got so low I wish you never would have got so low I hope you're not i to deep I hope the ground still touching feet If you find a better place to call home I wish you never got so low I wish you never would have got so low I hope you find a better place to call I wish you never would have got so low I wish you weren't such a dirty hoe I wish you never would have got so low.
5.
My girlfriend broke up with me (x) We played this show in Green Bay,Wisconsin I met this chick she was totally awesome I took her out to Wendy's and then Taco Bell Then we went back straight to the hotel My girlfriend broke up with me (x) Her name was Cindy She use to date this total fucking douche bag I guess he use to spend all of his money on her And do whatever she wanted then she totally left him for me Because I'm totally awesome. Yes I am. I'm totally awesome. This band that opened up for us had this sweet-ass bass player He had a bass coach. That bass coach taught him some sweet ass notes!
6.
Somethings are best left unsaid Most times I would rather not know All these things we talked about I will have no control On your twenty-one Twenty-one Twenty-one When it's all up to you I wish I could steal a rocket ship Go a million years into the future Where they already have the antidote And fly back home with your cure On your twenty-one Twenty-one Twenty-one When it's all up to you
7.
Do you remember when? Do you remember when everything was so dark? We were stealing then. We were stealing then from anything with a spark When the skies open up and the cloud roll away and I'm left with nothing to say I will never return to my yesterdays It gets so cold here. So cold I fear I'll never be warm It's different here So different but who's to say what's right or wrong When the skies open up and the cloud roll away and I'm left with so much to say I will never forgive my yesterdays We were free then So free but still so angry I had you and you had me But it just wasn't what we need When the skies open up and the cloud roll away and I'm not sure what to say I will never regret to my yesterdays
8.
She stood there and watch the building burn with a voice trapped in side She was too scared to even try and be burned alive You don't under stand and you don't care “what difference would it make” You got the jacket and the spiky hair “what else can I say?” There is something in those sullen eyes that reminds me we're in... Paradise, Paradise, what difference would it make Paradise, Paradise, what else can I say You told me you would watch them drown with nothing they could do Because if they had the chance they'd do the same to you There something in those sullen eyes Paradise, Paradise, what difference would it make Paradise, Paradise, what else can I say
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10.
Looking back now I guess I can't define But we never thought we'd live see a better time And looking back now I'll never know why But I lived and left that world behind Sometimes I feel like I left you to die Like I let you down when I moved on with my life And I remember better times Back before you lost your mind This is how it looks when our town dies Looking through a bottle at another bloodshot day Strange to think that drunk and unhappy Would be the way you'd want me to stay Guess you got your life And it's fair to say that I got mine That is how it looks when the past dies

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There are few things less necessary than a now defunct punk band, one who at their height resided in the margins of the marginalized, reissuing one of their albums. One of their poorest received albums, at that. Ignoring common sense, The Disabled have remastered our sophomore album: Keep Their Day Jobs. This album proudly displays our lack of recording know-how, our shoddy equipment, hastily built studio that only allowed for two tracks to be recorded simultaneously...To try to preserve a 'live feel' we recorded ourselves playing together with indiscriminately placed room mics and then proceeded to record over those randomly tempoed tracks with isolated instruments...with varying results...Often when an album is re-mastered the result will be louder than its predecessor, but in this case the re-master is actually quieter! We cooked the first release pretty hot and it was done on speakers we found in the garbage...In spite of all this, the album is full of our go-to live songs, personal favorites, and the beginning of our future creative direction. What is presented now is much more defined and dynamic and has had it's low end diligently pulled out and made more prominent. We also removed some of the album's more cringe-worthy moments. We would like to say that the world has changed and we are rising to meet the moment and everything. Mostly though that stuff was pretty indefensible at the time. We were not the first people to mistake being jerks for comedy, but it turns out there is nothing keeping you from learning that lesson, if you want to. Today the Keep Their Day Jobs re-master is streaming everywhere and we couldn't be more proud. We look back on these years fondly and though years and miles separate us we cherish these little documents of youth and friendship. Except for Nick, becaus

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released August 7, 2021

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The Disabled La Crosse, Wisconsin

Established on New Years Eve 2004, The Disabled started life as a no thrills punk rock trio who would develop including influences from the indie and experimental worlds.

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