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1. |
High Risk Travel
01:55
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Hi, I’m in town
No, I don’t have a change of heart
I’m picking up every message left on read
Got nothing to hide but a thorn in my side
I guess we could be in touch
Riding around by ourselves
Till we fall apart
Our health and safety is good
Why can’t you tell
It's easy to remember
A day before November
All we had was time
But lately
You been on my mind
And I been acting crazy
Been crazy without you
But strangely
I know I'll be just fine
I’m just another risk away
I push you around
Cus I don’t wanna face you
I fuck up again
Cus I don’t wanna take two
You calling me out
Cus you know what we been through
I’m just another big mistake
But lately
You been on my mind
And I been acting crazy
been crazy without you
But strangely
I know I'll be just fine
I'm just another risk away
Lately I've been acting crazy about ya
There’s nothing to do
My heart is in two places
Lately I've been acting crazy about ya
There’s nothing to do
My heart is in two places
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2. |
Shook
02:29
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Not a single fucking day goes by
Stay messing up a 9 to 5
Water running like the way you cry
I be honest cuz I’m not too shy
But there’s something ‘bout your loving
Got me shook, got me shaken up
I know things ain’t too much by the book
Pages tearing up
Couldn’t even tell if you had a plan
Now phasing in and out of love
If you want stay out
You could only blame me
If you wanna call it off without a trace
But you fuck with me
In case I’m holding out
Rather be chasing broken trust
It’s something ‘bout the way you love
But I’m so tired of the dance and song
Keeping moving at a pace too strong
Too tough to let you go
So I ain’t gotta let you know it’s nothing
So I ain’t gotta let you know
But there’s something ‘bout your loving
Got me shook, got me shaken up
I know things ain’t too much by the book
Pages tearing up
Something ‘bout your love
It got me shook
Got me shaken up
I know this ain’t too much by the book
Pages tearing up
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3. |
Karma & Friends
02:45
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Something ‘bout the way you
Call me when you know I’m doing the most
You know I’m bout to sway through
Coming out the gate dressed navy blue
Karma and friends
I’m not so impressed, my love
I know what you’re after
Strawberry Benz
You can’t even expense my love
I know what you’re after
You been blushing but your veins blue
Could really use a toast
With eggs on the side
You got closet space to waste too
Someone’s in poor taste don’t watch me
Karma and friends
I’m not so impressed my love
I know what you’re after
Strawberry Benz
You can’t even expense my love
I know what you’re after
(the weight of my skin piles high
as an option to be myself)
I’m in cruise control
Lack the flow or sense of space and time
Looking for a borderline now
Or maybe we been losing touch
Like a twisted thumb
Don’t be so foolish with me
No you don’t wanna be alone
(I’m not so impressed, my love)
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4. |
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Other: Hey there.
Self: What’s up?
Other: So do you have any expectations for this?
Self: No, not really...
Other: What—
Self: I'm just... working on myself right now, ya know? Other: So you do?
Self: I’m not like, you know like... I’m trying to stay curious
Other: Is that right?
Self: Cus, as soon as I'm not curious I’m insecure...
Treat me like a model
Treat me like I’m reckless
Cus I’m that nigga everybody
Really wanna eat for breakfast
Drop me off at the movies
Take me to the mall
Poppin’ my collar forward tomorrow
Cus stranger things have happened
The making of the madness of your love
(you can print whatever amount of money you want!)
Said you better not break that hard again
You was looking for light, tryna pick a fight
I don’t really got time for it (oh)
Gucci, Prada, Versace too
I don’t really know which one to choose
You making me think I’m lost
I don’t always gotta be the boss
Burning silence just us two
Black and white so tried and true
Driving round town poppin’ rounds off
I don’t really got much time
[Saba]
But they treat me like a god
Treat me like a villain
Cuz I’m that nigga everybody
Wanna get with
So long as my clothes
Match the pop song’s description
We turned stores upside down
Put the tires on the ceiling
For retail we sell ourselves
Short as a blunt sentence
Splurging a fun feeling
This shirt wasn’t on clearance
She looking at me like me and
Benjamin share resemblance
I spend it because I get defensive
About my entrance
I could be a ma fucka if you want
I could be a ma fucker on the run
Smoking like blue strains or something
Puffing clouds in the night while I’m running
Then I’mma take off
When the going gets tough
But I don't really feel like racing
My head's only got two stations
(you can print whatever amount of money you want!)
Cus stranger things have happened
The making of the madness that's your love
Gucci, Prada, Versace too
I don’t really know which one to choose
You making me think I’m lost
I don’t always gotta be the boss
Ride in silence just us two
Black and white so tried and true
Driving round town poppin’ rounds off
I don’t really got much time
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5. |
Box of Bones
02:14
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Don’t look at me
I’m in my head
Don’t want to talk
You get the soap
I’ll take the box
Don’t look at me
I’ll burn a bridge just to prove I’m lost
I’m in my head
I’m in my head
Mmmmm I’m in my head
Alright whoa hmmm I’m shocked!
Oh what’s that
I’m in my head
Don’t wanna talk
I’ll burn a bridge just to prove I’m lost
Then I’ll make new friends
Like my name was Ross
Ahhh mmmm
I’m in my head
I’m in my head
Ohhhhh there’s something about us
Ohhhhh there’s something about us
I’m in my head
I’m in my bed but I’m in shock
I’m in a phase a deep romance
Don’t look at me
I’ll burn a bridge just to prove I’m lost
I’m in my head
Mmmmm I’m in my head
Ohhhhhh there’s something about us
Ohhhhhh there’s something about us
Ohhhhhh there’s something about us
Oh you’re nothing without us
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6. |
Agreeable
02:15
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What I want falls
Shorter than perfect
But better than earnest
Do better next time
When your life wasn’t worth it
Don’t wanna be nice
I just wanna be right
I don’t wanna break bread
How much better would it be
If we had to start fights
Doing anything and everything possible
If you start a fire, stop, drop and roll
I don’t need your thoughts
I don’t wanna know
What you’re offering
Don’t need posturing
There’s no doubt in my mind
There’s no worries on God
If you’re taking my side
I don’t wanna know why
I don’t wanna know why
Arms open and wide
I’m entitled I lied
If you’re taking my side
I don’t wanna know why
I don’t wanna know why
Money is cheap so I talk too much
Low hanging fruit so I pack a lunch
Every time that I press my luck
I know it’s worth more than enough
Doing anything and everything possible
If you start a fire, stop, drop and roll
I don’t need your thoughts
I don’t wanna know
What you’re offering
Don’t need posturing
There’s no doubt in my mind
There’s no worries on God
If you’re taking my side
I don’t wanna know why
I don’t wanna know why
Arms open and wide
I’m entitled I lied
If you’re taking my side
I don’t wanna know why
I don’t wanna know why
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7. |
Dying in the Subtlety
02:19
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I can see your breath in the window
Written “I’m sorry”
You’re fogging up friendship
I don’t wanna say it back
Do I need this stress or a symbol?
I don’t know, probably
The fate of my conscience
Never thought much of that
Could be easier than drive you back
Like I’m Jason Statham
Do I know how to keep it all intact
(no...)
I think I’m dying in the subtlety
Lying ‘bout the worst of me
I just wanna stay on track
Crying like it hurts to be
What we wanted initially
Why don’t you just cut some slack
Like peaches, apple pie or strawberry cream
It’s like you haven’t tasted pain and suffering
To drive it home in words easily explained
Love is just a passion
With a four letter name
Could be easier to make you mad
Just need a little more pressure
The indecision couldn’t make you crack
Like it was now or never
Would you pretend to see the pain I lack
Just for the simple pleasure
Could make a movie out of laughs we had
I think I’m dying in the subtlety
Lying ‘bout the worst of me
I just wanna stay on track
Crying like it hurts to be
What we were initially
What don’t you just cut some slack
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9. |
Artificial Irrelevance
02:07
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Yes I want the sun
But I only wanna rise on occasion
Yes I’m feeling numb
Knowing that they’re feelings I created
So maybe we should talk
Really spend the time that we’re wasting
Like nails on the chalk
We’re broken and disruptive
But I don’t see this ending
Cus I’m the one you confide in
I’ve got no doubts or questions
I’m the one you can hold
I’m losing sleep over days left to chance
Breaking bad on plans made in advance
I smile much more than I laugh
I’m working on myself
Will it ever be enough?
In this life
I wanna be helpless, selfish, terrified...
I guess it’s better than feeling alone
So you don’t see this ending
Cus you’re the one I confide in
Confide in
I’ve got no doubts or questions
I’m the one you can hold
The perfect time will never take place
Watching, waiting, wanting space
But I’m the one you confide in
Confide in
Mildly open and insecure
Who has the answers? I’m not so sure
But you’re the one I confide in
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10. |
Whoa
03:00
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I’m on my way to lose control
Feeling kinda crowded
All these emotions got me low
Exactly what I wanted
When I’m alone
Feeling like I see everyone
The moment I know
Exactly what you’re taking me for
But I don’t wanna find my phone
I just wanna write it down
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm just trying to make it home
I don’t wanna think about
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm feeling fake and underwhelmed
But the nerves will keep me grounded
My mistakes I’ll sing aloud
Exactly how they sounded
I’m just taking my time
Sipping that strawberry wine
My friends never knew
Really what I been going through
But I don’t wanna find my phone
I just wanna write it down
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm just trying to make it home
I don’t wanna think about
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I think I'm gonna take five
Cus I don’t wanna be here, no
If I don’t need to
But I don’t wanna find my phone
I just wanna write it down
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm just trying to make it home
I don’t wanna think about
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
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11. |
Wildfire
02:31
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Your eyes are like weapons
Your lips could teach lesson
Don’t use them so reckless
Cus for you I’m helpless
Gotta take caution
You know that I’m all in
The chance of me falling
You know that it’s often
But if you don’t wanna stay
Then please stop moving this way
You’re starting up a wildfire in my heart
Hope it’s what you want
Not just what you do
You’re starting up a wildfire in my head
Hope it’s what you meant
Not just what you do
This love is so costly
It’s killing me softly
Don’t know what to call it
This thing that you started
You make it look easy
The way that you lead me
Into the fire babe
Are you coming with me, yea?
But if you don’t wanna stay
Please stop moving this way
You’re starting up a wildfire in my heart
Hope it’s what you want
Not just what you do
You’re starting up a wildfire in my head
Hope it’s what you meant
Not just what you do
(Hope it’s what you want
Not just what you do)
Hope it's what you meant
Not just what you do
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12. |
Spinner
02:01
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I just wanna spin the truth
About the ones I care about
All in the name of suffering
But I'll see this through
There’s a slowdown
When nobody is around
You can hear it for its best, but you really
need the worst now (get it over with)
When you’re living for your dreams
Dreams
It's never quite exactly what it seems
On screens
When you’re living for your dreams
Dreams
I don’t know exactly what it means to me
So when do you wanna give it up
When do you wanna stop
It's all up to you this time
You don’t gotta go anywhere
I'm in a slowdown, and I can’t hear a sound
If you done your worst
Then I guess I’ll take your best now (get it over with)
When you’re living for your dreams
Dreams
It's never quite exactly what it seems
On screens
When you’re living for your dreams
Dreams
I don’t know exactly what it means to me
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13. |
Roots
02:52
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From atoms up to comets
Life is never promised
You could make me wanna lie
And be dishonest
The simple things they mean much
Just stay a while, be in touch
I’m clocking out at eight
Let’s get tacos and the red punch
But you got your eyes down
You say you’re gonna leave
Gotta clean house
Just another rinse repeat
On life, and love
Life, and love
I really miss the feeling
The confidence in silence
The simple things they mean much
It’s never been a science
So you gotta trust it in the process
Cus nothing lasts forever anyway
Got my best advice
From a broken screen display
But you got your eyes down
You say you’re gonna leave
Gotta clean house
Just another rinse repeat
On life, and love
Life, and love
Don’t know what you’re thinking ‘bout
In patterns you’ve been speaking out
Can’t remember meaning
Lord knows I’ve been reaching
It’s harder cus the roots run deep
A smile says what I can’t see through
I guess half the way I’ll meet you
But you got your eyes down
You say you’re gonna leave
Gotta clean house
Just another rinse repeat
On life, and love
Life, and love
(Life, and love)
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14. |
Bump Stock
02:51
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Feel like I hear you miles away
Forty-five or an eight
Didn’t know it was fate at the mall
It’s like you been through it all
You going for a ride today
No questions or pressure
You signed on the ledger to pay
Now you racing away
And now we’re saying sorry for
Someone else’s mistakes
When is too soon if once in a blue
Once in a moon was today
I don’t wanna love
I don’t wanna hate
I don’t wanna feel anymore
I don’t wanna love
I don’t wanna hate
I don’t wanna feel anymore
I felt like living
You felt like taking
Bump stock
Raised the stock up
New man in the making
When crazy is normal
The rest is informal
No chance to
Relate where I lay
The words never change me
No way to repay me
That skin off my back won’t
Push a thing more than flowers
You know I’m fit for the hours
Then I’ll work till the white of the bone
And now we saying sorry for
Someone else’s mistakes
When is too soon if once in a blue
Once in a moon was today
But I don’t wanna love
I don’t wanna hate
I don’t wanna feel anymore
I don’t wanna love
No I don’t wanna hate
I don’t wanna feel anymore
I don’t wanna feel
I don’t wanna feel no
I don’t wanna feel any more
And now we saying sorry for someone else’s
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, mistakes
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15. |
Rapture in Blue
02:24
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Oh sorry I’m taken
Taken out the trash
Taken broken glass
And ripping this cardigan
Cus I don’t wanna be safe
I guess I’ll wax the moon I’m poetic
Drive me write off a bridge for aesthetic
I don’t write the script I just take the trip
No I don’t wanna be safe
You’re running in running in circles around me
and I love it I hate it I want it I made it I need it all
(need it all)
No I don’t wanna be safe
I don’t got nothing to prove when around me
and I love it I hate it so complicated
It’s what I want
It’s what I trust
I got drama in my life on purpose
It matter so much then it worthless
Where’s the line?
I could draw it time after time
Cus I don’t wanna be safe
We always go too far then we turn it into art
I don’t write the script I just take the trip
No I don’t wanna be safe
You’re running in running in circles around me
and I love it I hate it I want it I made it I need it all
(need it all)
No I don’t wanna be safe
I don’t got nothing to prove when around me
and I love it I hate it so complicated
It’s what I want
It’s what I trust
(sax solo)
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16. |
25/8
02:38
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I been thinking bout you 25/8
Never been good at showing restraint
Could never say I believed in fate
Cuz bad decisions always making me late
You’re level headed and you don’t like shade
Sunny side in the city you stay
Purple pink yellow red, no gray
You never settle no how no way
You still hard on yourself
And I don’t know why
You never break a smile
‘till you know what you like
But maybe it’s irrelevant
Follow what you feel
You don’t need to overthink
Nothing
If love could talk it’d be a blanket statement
I just wanna stay in bed these days
Wanna tell you ‘bout the fucks I gave when
I couldn’t tell you if you’re feeling the same
We treat each other like basket cases
Throw all my money at your birthday cake
You must be wondering why I’m so anxious
Just need somebody to share the pain
But maybe it's irrelevant
Follow what you feel
You don’t need to overthink
Nothing
You still hard on yourself
And I don’t know why
You never break a smile ‘till you know what you like
But maybe it's irrelevant
Follow what you feel
You don’t need to overthink
Nothing
Maybe it's irrelevant
Cuz you know what’s real
But you don’t need to overthink
Nothing
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17. |
Butterflies in August
02:37
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Oh hey
Yeah, I heard you right
I need space
7 Hours of the night
Oh you don’t say
No, I don’t got a light
Lookin’ for a place
Where it all feels like
It’s perfect
I know it’s worth it
One in a billion
Closed curtains
No I’m not certain
What is this feeling
Butterflies in August
If I’m being honest I
Don’t know what to call this
No words can describe
Butterflies in August
If I’m being honest I
Don’t know what to call this
No words can describe
I’m taken up space
To a degree
I don’t wanna see reality
But that’s when I feel the most alive
How easily we divide
There’s no way
I can take the time
To find the words
I wanna say
But it’s perfect
I know that it’s worth it
One in a billion
Closed curtains
No I’m not certain
What is this feeling
Butterflies in August
If I’m being honest I
Don’t know what to call this
No words can describe
Butterflies in August
If I’m being honest I
Don’t know what to call this
No words can describe
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18. |
Patina
02:29
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I knew a side of you that loved
The thought of being somebody else
Your eyes are the color of rust
From too much of never enough
I could say I need a moment
I just wanna know I’m not the only one
When my body is still
As a rolling stone
The color of patina
I need ya
I need you now, now, now
Smoking like sativa
I breathe ya
I breathe you out
I’ve got a sedative
That said I was relevant
In sickness and health
Color in the lines and tell me that you find
the same for yourself (was never enough)
You see the sad
You fumble the bag
With a four letter word
On a double notepad
I could always make it worse
‘cus I know what I’m missing
It’s changing the way that I feel
It’s always a thrill ‘till it’s over
Guess you could say that I’m home
My body is still
As a rolling stone
The color of patina
I need ya
I need you now, now, now
Smoking like sativa
I breathe ya
I breathe you out
The color of patina
Smoking like sativa
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19. |
Shook (with Strings)
03:17
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Not a single fucking day goes by
Stay messing up a 9 to 5
Water running like the way you cry
I be honest cuz I’m not too shy
But there’s something ‘bout your loving
Got me shook, got me shaken up
I know things ain’t too much by the book
Pages tearing up
Couldn’t even tell if you had a plan
Now phasing in and out of love
If you want stay out
You could only blame me
If you wanna call it off without a trace
But you fuck with me
In case I’m holding out
Rather be chasing broken trust
It’s something ‘bout the way you love
But I’m so tired of the dance and song
Keeping moving at a pace too strong
Too tough to let you go
So I ain’t gotta let you know it’s nothing
So I ain’t gotta let you know
But there’s something ‘bout your loving
Got me shook, got me shaken up
I know things ain’t too much by the book
Pages tearing up
Something ‘bout your love
It got me shook
Got me shaken up
I know this ain’t too much by the book
Pages tearing up
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20. |
Whoa (with Strings)
03:01
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I’m on my way to lose control
Feeling kinda crowded
All these emotions got me low
Exactly what I wanted
When I’m alone
Feeling like I see everyone
The moment I know
Exactly what you’re taking me for
But I don’t wanna find my phone
I just wanna write it down
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm just trying to make it home
I don’t wanna think about
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm feeling fake and underwhelmed
But the nerves will keep me grounded
My mistakes I’ll sing aloud
Exactly how they sounded
I’m just taking my time
Sipping that strawberry wine
My friends never knew
Really what I been going through
But I don’t wanna find my phone
I just wanna write it down
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm just trying to make it home
I don’t wanna think about
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I think I'm gonna take five
Cus I don’t wanna be here, no
If I don’t need to
But I don’t wanna find my phone
I just wanna write it down
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
I'm just trying to make it home
I don’t wanna think about
All these feelings that I got right now
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
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21. |
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Don’t look at me
I’m in my head
Don’t want to talk
You get the soap
I’ll take the box
Don’t look at me
I’ll burn a bridge just to prove I’m lost
I’m in my head
I’m in my head
Mmmmm I’m in my head
Alright whoa hmmm I’m shocked!
Oh what’s that
I’m in my head
Don’t wanna talk
I’ll burn a bridge just to prove I’m lost
Then I’ll make new friends
Like my name was Ross
Ahhh mmmm
I’m in my head
I’m in my head
Ohhhhh there’s something about us
Ohhhhh there’s something about us
I’m in my head
I’m in my bed but I’m in shock
I’m in a phase a deep romance
Don’t look at me
I’ll burn a bridge just to prove I’m lost
I’m in my head
Mmmmm I’m in my head
Ohhhhhh there’s something about us
Ohhhhhh there’s something about us
Ohhhhhh there’s something about us
Oh you’re nothing without us
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22. |
Wildfire (with Strings)
03:19
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Your eyes are like weapons
Your lips could teach lesson
Don’t use them so reckless
Cus for you I’m helpless
Gotta take caution
You know that I’m all in
The chance of me falling
You know that it’s often
But if you don’t wanna stay
Then please stop moving this way
You’re starting up a wildfire in my heart
Hope it’s what you want
Not just what you do
You’re starting up a wildfire in my head
Hope it’s what you meant
Not just what you do
This love is so costly
It’s killing me softly
Don’t know what to call it
This thing that you started
You make it look easy
The way that you lead me
Into the fire babe
Are you coming with me, yea?
But if you don’t wanna stay
Please stop moving this way
You’re starting up a wildfire in my heart
Hope it’s what you want
Not just what you do
You’re starting up a wildfire in my head
Hope it’s what you meant
Not just what you do
(Hope it’s what you want
Not just what you do)
Hope it's what you meant
Not just what you do
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