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1.
Y.S.A. 05:48
Wasting friday nights Chasing girls we would never find Hoped to cross their paths With nothing to say not ready to act There was something in the air as if she’d even care As if she’d even talk to us while she was with him We were learning how to live We were stupid valley kids Sitting in a car Planning the night playing guitar Wrote a song for her She’s coming toward me No time to rehearse There was something in the air as if she’d even care As if she’d even talk to us while she was with him We were learning how to live We were stupid valley kids Cheap beer soft drugs Anything to mess you up Big plans heartache Never got past first base All the girls that come and gone We stayed dumb while they grew up They married boys with better jobs We stood still while they moved on There was something in the air as if she’d even care As if she’d even talk to us while she was with him We were learning how to live We were learning how to live and love and die again with every girl we ever met We were learning how to live We were stupid valley kids All my friends are gone or dead
2.
This party is kicking cause everybody's doing drugs Some of us are livid and some of us are falling in love And I see you there with your auburn hair in the dark With a simple look you sink your hook in my heart The music is playing half a mile away The stars in the heavens are totally on display And you’ve followed me with your gentle pleas to my home But you disappear and I’m standing here all alone
3.
Tell me dear what you are thinking Or at least what you've been drinking Cause you'll need something stronger to carry on You and I well we've been talking About the hints that I’ve been dropping But you're still here with me carrying on In all my life I've met my wife several times Called a cab and now we wait You want to show me to your place So we can sit and wait for the sun Check your purse I freshen up When I come back you are gone It seems that someone else had caught your eye In all my life I've met my wife several times A valley kid through thick and thin 'till I die
4.
Morning coffee I don't drink The dishes fill the kitchen sink And I'm still trying you're still trying too I slept on it it kept you up You're working on that second cup And I'm still trying you're still trying too You used to say to me That we were built to dream Leave for work without a word Much easier than it was at first You're still trying and I’m still trying too Call me up to chew me out You tried to make it all about What you had said You used to say to me That we were built to dream
5.
She said It was killing her like a cancer Plans that we made Spat in our face That winter And she's dying To show me her new life And this guy that she's met He's good for half the rent In the winter Does she tell him About all the crazy stuff And the way she used to love The houses where we grew up Does she tell him About me How we were crazy About the baby Does she tell him She said Killing her like a cancer Like a cancer
6.
Valley Kids 04:51
Do you think of me as you're falling asleep Thinking of us and what could have been I think of you and your body How it’s caused me sleepless nights You made me leave your place Was it something I said I may have been replaced But I'm still seeing red I tell myself You wanted me to stay But the truth keeps getting in the way You made me leave your place Was it something I said I may have been replaced But I'm still seeing red
7.
Been waiting by the ocean Been waiting by this tree Till the wind it blew so hard Came crashing down on me Woke up in a hospital With you by my side Must have been hit so hard It was messing with my mind And I get cold When I'm all alone I get cold We were lying on the beach Fighting off sleep I thought I heard you call my name As the ocean took you away And I get cold When I'm all alone I get cold You were calling You were calling For me While I was asleep And I get cold When I'm all alone I get cold
8.
15 02:16
The rain Is playing my favourite song If I am lucky I can sing along These words all about you Every whisper it’s true All my friends are gone or dead Listen close they're in my head I walk all night just like them All my friends are gone or dead And I won’t fight no I won’t fight These words Oh this rain keeping me insane I’m sure All my friends are gone or dead Listen close they're in my head I walk all night just like them All my friends are gone or dead
9.
We don't talk about ourselves Only everybody else And the things they do to us That are wrong And how we're up all night With these thoughts We're so great and they are so wrong We only have time to side With those we see eye to eye Cause everybody else They’re so wrong And we stroke our egos with petty talk All this talk won't ease the pain You look at me I feel the same We're so great and they’re so bad Yeah we're so great and they're so bad We were learning how to live We were stupid valley kids And your silhouette’s the best I’ve ever met I think I’m probably good for half the rent All this talk won't ease the pain You look at me I feel the same We're so great and they’re so bad Yeah we're so great and they're so bad I can’t break your heart But I’ll do the best I can to do my part You were like a stone But I tore you up Before I let you go I can’t break your heart But I’ll do the best I can I’ll do the best I can All this talk won't ease the pain You look at me I feel the same We're so great and they’re so bad Yeah we're so great and they're so bad We're so great and they're so bad
10.
I am waiting in this hall I am waiting in the cold Oh the floors wearing out Oh the floors wearing out It’s wearing through my soul I've been waiting for my time I've been waiting all my life Oh the floors wearing out Oh the floors wearing out It’s wearing through my soul It’s wearing through my soul
11.
Here I am what can I do I don’t know it’s been so long since I’ve gone down this road I’ve tried to hide what could I do I don’t know Here I am my skin’s crawling As I stare and stand where my mother once did People say is that who I think it is I haven't seen him since he was a kid A heart so big it finally gave in On that day I made my way back into your grace It took a call to change it all again
12.
We're a sinking ship Just off the coast And we’re taking on water With no lifeboats Our northern crew Have lost their minds But they're holding on With no supplies Come on We're taking all their lives Killed a culture Now trying to forget By keeping silent It's what we do best Come on We're taking all their lives We made a statement With all this progress Come on come on We’re taking all their lives It’s alright It’s all lies
13.
Yablonski 04:17
And I know this is horrible But I know this feels very real And I feel a strange headache Then I’m standing alone in a field Am I here alI alone I don’t know I feel like walking but can’t move my feet So I lay here alone in my thoughts Is this the end of me I can deal with that And I remember not being scared But I remember being very confused My mother I saw her standing there So many people such a small room Am I here alI alone I don’t know I feel like walking but can’t move my feet So I lay here alone in my thoughts Is this the end of me I can deal with that I have no use for the rain these days I hear it calling but it never plays my song Some notes washed out with the mud Is this the end of me I can deal with that
14.
16 08:31
All my friends are gone or dead Listen close they're in my head I walk all night just like them All my friends are gone or dead Down by a river by a rainy road I settle down I make a home I lay on top a bed of stones Down by a river by a rainy road I've been lying to myself I'll never get my help And I'll never make it home No I’ll never make it home I've been lying to myself Lying to myself I was the girl with the pretty eyes Scrapes and cuts running up my sides Here I lay looking at the sky I was the girl with the pretty eyes I've been lying to myself I'll never get my help And I'll never make it home No I’ll never make it home I've been lying to myself Lying to myself

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The Houses (Where We Grew Up) :
Rob Wikstrom & Sean Schneider

All tracks written by Rob Wikstrom & Sean Schneider
Except track #12 written by Rob Wikstrom, Sean Schneider
& Darren McDade.

Produced by The Houses (Where We Grew Up) & Matt Di Pomponio.

Recorded, engineered & mixed by Matt Di Pomponio
@ Echoplant Recording Studios, Port Coquitlam.

All tracks mastered by Ryan Morey
@ Grey Market Mastering, Montreal.

Photography by @dorsiaphotography.
Design & Layout by Mike Coulter.

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released February 14, 2019

Rob Wikstrom: Lead Vocals // Electric Guitars // Acoustic Guitars
Sean Schneider: Drums // Keys // Electronics // Backing Vocals

Additional Gang Vocals by Matt Di Pomponio & Brian Carew

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The Houses (Where We Grew Up) Kamloops, British Columbia

Based out of Kamloops, The Houses (Where We Grew Up) are an Indie Rock & Pop Duo, blending in elements of shoegaze and noise rock.

Described as "if Radiohead decided to have fun with loud amps again", "Canadian Slowgaze" and "noisy pop with idiosyncratic quirks".
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