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pink elephant

by gracie folds

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harper 03:48
she comes from a fake butter family in larchmont i was glad to be in a place where things went missing easily i bet she's in a restaurant under the heat lamp she had moved she hates the sound of time passing she never reads the articles, just headlines and she tells me all the things that i told her yesterday and suddenly it's different because now she agrees with me she's always drowning in the water that she doesn't drink she wears headphones to go to sleep but she's not crazy unless her mother tells her that she's crazy she takes pills for all the things that aren't wrong with her just to play on her strengths she puts herself in other people's shoes and she gets blisters she will fill a silence quickly and completely she just wants you to always be happy but she's not crazy unless her mother tells her that she's crazy she plays the same three chords faithfully and at the same time longs for more variety but it's better than being alone better than being a bore better to do what you think you must love than be happy she deserves real answers and clarity which incidentally is exactly what she gets she just loves to misinterpret it cuz she's so scared of being along so scared of being a bore too scared of doing the things that she loves to be happy
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emily 04:34
if there was a way i could help you without enabling your chronically bad behavior without giving you someone to show off your arm and the scars you think made you who you are helped you make art i wish i could show you you don't need a reason to make what you want to make or a list detailing a long history of abuse or a tendency to self destruct i know, i know i know it's not fun to be the things you're supposed to be and i know it's not funny to me when you say you'll die in the blink of an eye you say no one will notice you say no one will notice you say no one will notice but me i wish i could make you put on your big girl pants but you are incorrigible i can be sucked into that whole constantly on my phone in case you decide tonight's the night and you want to say goodbye i know, i know i know you'll get better if that's what you want to be and i know you can be successful, dead, or happy and i can't be here to watch you go in any of those directions i can't be your protection i can't be your protection decline call.
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nathan 03:59
if you stutter, shhh, and listen things will happen and you can hear them what will happen if you're never famous? you say you'll cross that bridge if and when you come to it back when comic sans was cool i'm pretty sure that caring was too and i wasn't a finger tip away sitting alone on the pavement you wait for your older friends to save you picking at the holes in your pockets you'll lose so many others before you break and patch it back when comic sans was cool sleeping was easy and eating was too and i wasn't a finger tip away i wasn't a finger tip away burning holes in your hands with cigarettes you feel like a person you've only just met showing up at two in the morning you know that it's late you just wanted to see me back when comic sans was cool i'm pretty sure that caring was too back when comic sans was cool sleeping was easy and eating was too and i wasn't a finger tip away
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kevin 02:39
didn't see it coming cuz i wasn't looking in the right direction i was not expecting this to be com ing from you every day i'm scared that you will figure out that this song is about you i don't know what to do to make you feel less at home i'm sorry, i know, you're a very nice guy but i find it strange that for such a nice person you and everyone else has to keep reminding me just how nice that you are funny how some people just let themselves in put their feet on tables ask personal questions i can't imagine being that confident i'm sorry, i know, you're a very nice guy sitting on the sidewalk waiting at the bus stop listening to your album there was no escape route you say you respect me but you don't if i say not now then you will ask me when and if i say nothing then you will press and press and we have far too many mutual friends for me to not ever they say, 'it's fine, you're moving cross the country,' it's just my luck that he is moving with me and if la is too small massachusetts won't be big enough i'm sorry, i know, you're a very nice guy if you think that this song just might be about you, stop.

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recorded in seven hours and fifty nine minutes

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released August 19, 2016

carson dtf and micah doucette: album cover
ben folds: hand claps
dave way: recording and mixing

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gracie folds Los Angeles, California

i make up songs and i write them too

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