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SKULLS

by The Light Switches

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1.
Natty Bo 02:40
The doctor said the dream is dead the yoga waif went home and read the ax man wrote a note that said for a limited time only i don’t know why the FBI is up inside my service provider UFOS, church clothes, juice fast, dance slow I am a witch lighting a fire I am a witch lighting a fire I am a witch lighting a fire lighting a fire Natty Bo’s the beer look into the mirror answer me my dear tell me that your near no one ever told me you’d be so faraway from here Slumlord this is summer summer this is thunder get naked in the sacred lake stay awake and take a number that actress told me don’t go you already know that horror show don’t make me say I told you so don’t make me say I told you so Natty Bo’s the beer look into the mirror answer me my dear tell me that your near no one ever told me you’d be so faraway from here
2.
Cult Leader 03:29
I don’t carry in my pocket a piece of paper with my name and number printed on it maybe I should or maybe it’s good we don’t need to fall in love right this minute we’re just talking I woke up early in the morning the sun was shining in the sky on the town that i was born in back before these vigilantes told the cops that Jesus died and left them California It’s been so long since I’ve been home even though three years ago a lawyer called and said you’ve got one of your own what good is some one’s shelter if one shelters there alone All the way up from Laguna through Santa Cruz to Petaluma I imagined all my friends and I could run away but they don’t feel you trick or treater when your costume is cult leader your wide eyed brides all vandalized my cemetery stones I know there’s places we can’t go I never asked to be followed as if this crazy message was the love we’ve never shown what good is some one’s shelter if one shelters there alone I don’t carry in my pocket a piece of paper with my name and number printed on it maybe I should or maybe it’s good we don’t need to fall in love right this minute we’re just talking
3.
Turn off your TV if you want to kill the zombies Take off both your shoes and go find the nearest beach Open both your eyes and look out for your mother Tell her with your face you don't know how good you look She might answer back I'm afraid that you don't see me I'm everything you are and I'm always changing form I'm a frozen solid lake in the deadly cold of winter I'm an old and tired tree to a summer thunderstorm If only everyone could be at peace with whoever you might be We'd never need to believe or be seen by anyone at all I saw a teenage girl who was bewitched by commercials if you don't get what you want then abandon all self worth She grew up to be old and went to see a therapist It's amazing what today some people do for work Turn off your TV if you want to kill the zombies Take off both your shoes and go find the nearest beach
4.
I don’t need a cult Not a leader of a cult I’m a difficult adult I’m occult I woke up on a dirt floor Like I did the day before Faraway from Baltimore In World War I they made guns Faster than anyone ever had before for a war Go on tomb raiders raise a flag and shoot your neighbors Get your name in space age papers take a wife and tip your waiter the catholic church was an empire at first until the course of greed reversed and the word of god got cursed Repeat first verse I don’t need a cult Not a leader of a cult I’m a difficult adult I’m occult (3x)
5.
La Escondida 03:12
There is no glass inside your windows There is no pavement on your streets and in your eyes I see the look of something wild I see it every time we meet You play your music loud I read by the light of a candle It isn’t easy not to stare You told me baby take the weight of the world off your shoulders I want to take you everywhere I’m playing here right now just waiting for your message I’d be surprised if it ever arrives Go ahead take your shot skull face I still wake up every morning And can’t believe that I’m alive If you want to find me I’ll be all alone out in the open Let the people talk I do not care I’ve seen the bright lights but no one ever told me I want to take you everywhere Dream on That crazy reason that you breath on Can’t even see you’re out of reach sun I keep on preaching like a beach bum Even though you’re far away Away My grandfather’s dead but he looks like the police captain Standing in the moonlight as he waves My father is dead but I can see Ruben and his son together Looking so handsome and so grave And as for you girl I know you have so many choices If you ever choose to make a pair I’m far from home I know it’s bold of me to tell you I want to take you everywhere I want to take you everywhere I want to take you everywhere
6.
i try not to pay much attention to what other people all say whenever you get what you want with a trick you just give it away all that you see is a number nearer or farther from to one the longer i spend to compare them the more that I feel like I’m dumb as the gleam in the eye of a blindfolded child who gets paid by the inch while she looks like five miles that I’d walk through with no shoes across property lines til the end of time do I look like i do what I’m supposed to do i’m the ghost of a dude in business suit on a hook in the dark at the end of a line that I broke from a ghoul in a high priced room with a baseball bat and a mop and a broom in a boat on a lake in the light of the moon
7.
You can’t go back again to that river where the children swim that house where we were living then is just a picture on the wall now the one you love is dead and you’re sleeping in some stranger’s bed that’s twice the price of medicine that no one needs at all It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all at all when leaves begin to fall Who called this rabbi to the wake to teach My sister told him you can’t speak to me You may as well just be an oil sheik Playing baseball against a Jesus freak We went outside to watch the winter moon Our savior rode we did not have to ask him to He cursed the hearse for showing up to soon and he smelled like alcohol It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all at all when leaves begin to fall You can’t keep my love You told me not to leave my love Until I followed where your feet went on an endless summer evening I knew I’d never find myself alone Now I can hear cicadas sing of everything that summer brings that I can dream next early spring will find you right back next to me but if we never get that close it doesn’t mean that life’s an empty hope trapped inside that haunted, holy ghost We poured out of that old motor boat It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all It doesn’t matter much at all at all when leaves begin to fall
8.
No One Else 02:28
No one else can do it for you You’re the only one who can There’s no one left to try and stop you You’re the only one who can Let go of your dumb ambition Let your sad reflection pass Reactions are all what we’re missing Go blind forget them The dead the living Goodbye forgive them The dead the living The only one you’ll ever know The only one you’ll ever know The only one you’ll ever know The only one you’ll ever know
9.
Muhammad Ali 02:07
I’m too old for heroes I’m too dead for ghosts and though God doesn’t exist I’m sure if she did she’s probably just laughing at you bro Go on howl little preacher tell everyone you know of the love so profound So precious and proud that it clowns this whole Mexican coast there’s no words to describe her Nobody can see the holy grail of your heart alone in the dark by the grave of your broken beliefs the grandstands are empty You’re fighting for free but there’s no quit in you son and there’s nowhere to run until the day that you wind up like me Muhammad Ali / Muhammad Ali (6x)
10.
Pearl Street 02:52
Woke up in the morning and stretched out on the deck The right side of my ribcage ached from the rest of last night’s wreck I was rendered over confident from San Clemente rides I was deadly dark and lonely watching ladies passing by Laguna Beach is Disneyfied my father said before he died That charming voice inside your head sure sounds like suicide Alice came to visit me we smoked in the hot sun and talked about her marriages you know you’re not the only one to strike out far away from home and give your family up Sometimes I take a beating and still can’t get enough Down the stairs to Pearl Street Beach to drown the dying light That charming voice inside your head sure sounds like suicide
11.
Chuck Berry 03:32
Chuck Berry is a dead and buried and his songs are in outer space but if he was here right now I know just what he would say The sun is shining down, the fruit is juicy and ripe But it’s too late in this town if it touches the ground You’ve got to climb up and take a bite Stop acting so precious there’s no good time to decide Stop acting so precious Go on make a life My taxi driver ever since I arrived here tells me boy you got to be a man Tonight I told him that I’ve fallen in love w/ the lady from the produce stand He said hijo vultures are circling You might as well tell her tonight You can wait if you like but if the money’s not right You better show up and show them the knife Stop acting so precious there’s no good time to decide Stop acting so precious Go on make a life She has a tattooed sleeve that’s easy to read and an Indian ring in her nose that she took off and put in your pocket then you went and lost it now everybody knows she said you’re like an old man you know how i know that I can see your will is strong but every will gets broken You might not believe that you’ll never catch me but you’ll never do it til you die in your sleep Chuck Berry is a dead and buried and his songs are in outer space but if he was here right now I know just what he would say The sun is shining down, the fruit is juicy and ripe But it’s too late in this town if it touches the ground You’ve got to climb up and take a bite Stop acting so precious there’s no good time to decide Stop acting so precious Go on make a life Go on make a life
12.
Black Buick 04:13
I know it’s dumb but I’ll never admit it that movie made me cry I don’t know if you’re still listening but I’ll try and tell you why you and I’ve both been to prison and I suppose we both broke the law but the only time I’ve ever been sorry I never did get caught We sat outside in the frozen old forest like outlaws often do without one word I heard your story and now I know that it’s true I shivered and said we’re young and reckless and then one day we’re not You said when I am cold and breathless somewhere the sun is hot It’s foolish to seek out recognition for any of the work that you do When i was young I didn’t believe you now I know it’s true One summer night you were supposed to be working as the moon was rising high Our friends and i were at Oregon Ridge drinking staring at the sky We heard the sound of a roaring engine we got scared and prepared to escape but the ride that arrived bore us no evil and the driver was hiding his face with a crazy skull mask that made us all laugh and everyone asked how you knew I know it’s dumb but i’ll never admit it and now you know it’s true
13.
I miss my dad I miss my dad you’re the very best friend I ever did have Why’d you have to go like that I miss my home I miss my home I don’t know where else to go but once you’re gone you can never come back I miss my girl I miss my girl She left me alone and treated me bad but you’ve never seen a girl like that I swore that I wouldn’t be defeated I’m not retreating as sure as I will die But now that I a am so alone in desperation I can’t remember why I miss my friends I miss my friends they say one day we’ll be together again I guess it’s true but I never know when I drink too much I drink too much I spent my life digging holes to fill Now all I do is just fill them back up I swore that I wouldn’t be defeated I’m not retreating as sure as I will die But now that I a am so alone in desperation I can’t remember why I miss my dad I miss my dad you’re the very best friend I ever did have Why’d you have to go like that
14.
Good bye Josefina I'll probably never see you again I'm on the road to Norway now and I don't know where it ends Your father was a writer, I wonder if you write like him If it's anything like what I see in my mind I'd read it over and over again You asked me what was the matter, I didn't know what to say You looked me in the eye, I looked the other way Tal vez, pero, no sabes lo que se Josefina that was yesterday today is today Josefina you're so patient, when I mix up this and that Even though I'm not latino, I bet you I can make it back No desea nada, que usted no desea dar Si necessito apprendir, quero que ensenas For years I was so serious, I told everyone I hated cake I arrive on time, you are always late I don't know who you think I am, I can't believe I'm on a date with a girl who bought a donut, and told me that it tasted great Good bye Josefina, I'll probably never see you again You lose a lot more often than you're ever going to win I learned that from the ghost, who saw his ship come in And threw his baby in the ocean just to teach him how to swim

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Recorded at Studio Jane in Ypsilanti, Michigan in the fall of 2017. Produced and mixed by Eric Kuhn. Music and lyrics by Michael Musika. Mastered by Paul Oldham.

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released August 30, 2018

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The Light Switches San Francisco, California

1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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