SCRATCH THAT (demos 2021-2023)

by banzai florist

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1.	welcome to the party!! (demo) 01:44	lyrics	buy track
Welcome to the party And you’re all invited too Welcome to society And you’re all the members too
2.	hey wassup (demo) 02:13	lyrics	buy track
Take your time Hurry Up Maybe we’ll get there eventually I wanna give you up But I can’t give up the empathy The push becomes the shove When you calculate the entropy Your tug felt like a drug And your drugs brought out the best of me I know And you know I know you know it too What’s the point? Lick the joint Forfeit all of your opinions to the void Such a joy Now you’re free of inhibitions and a boy A shitty boy Who had all the wrong opinions Was a bundle of convictions We should cast him as the victim here I know But what do you know? And what do you forget When you forgive and get like this? Take your time Hurry Up Maybe we’ll get there eventually But we don’t have to rush When you’re always sitting next to me I say hey what is up Yeah, I say hey what is up Yeah, I say hey what is up Yeah, I say Hey wassup Hey wassup Hey wassup Hey wassup Hey wassup, hey wassup Hey wassup, hey wassup Hey wassup, hey wassup Hey wassup And you know I know you know it too Hey wassup And you know I know you know it You know I know you know it too
3.	too high (demo) 03:36	lyrics	buy track
Goddamn I don’t think I’ve been this fucked up I think it’s time for me to lay off the blunt Baby, Don’t you think you’ve had you enough? Did you know there’s more to life than bud? Can you tell that I am freaking out? I don’t know why Inside my head I feel like I am gonna die or explode Is it kicking in Oh, will you hold me extra tight? Oh, baby If you unplug me I think I will vaporize or float away I’m too high I’m too high, too high I’m too high Too high I’m too high I’m too high, too high I’m too high Too high Can you tell that I am freaking out? I don’t know why Inside my head I feel like I am gonna die or explode Is it kicking in Oh, will you hold me extra tight? Oh, baby If you unplug me I think I will vaporize or float away I’m too high I’m too high, too high I’m too high Too high I’m too high I’m too high, too high I’m too high Too high I’m too high I’m too high, too high I’m too high Too high
4.	rosy (demo) 04:05	lyrics	buy track
A bit of the sunlight A bit of those hazel eyes A bit of the salt beneath my feet I’m sick of pretending That you couldn’t feel this way I just gotta see Should I tell you all about me? Should I smile through my teeth? Should I tell you all about me? What’s it take to make you rosy? I got time, I got money I got anything you like Do you rock, or do you roll now? Anything is fine And now I’m so low I’m singing all the afternoon songs I know I’m so low I’m so low The typical moonlight The saltwater burns my eyes I’m feelin the earth beneath my feet I’m over pretending That you’ll never feel this way I just gotta see Should I tell you all about me? Should I smile through my teeth? Should I tell you all about me? What’s it take to make you rosy? I got style, I got rhythm I got multicolored ties And do you walk, or do you run now? Anything is fine And now I’m so low I’m sitting in the afternoon glow I’m so low I’m so low I’m so, so low So, so low
5.	welcome to the party (reprise) 00:52	lyrics	buy track
Welcome to the party And you’re all invited too Welcome to society And you’re all the members too And I, I won’t go And I, I won’t go
6.	year of glad (demo) 02:34	lyrics	buy track
I hope you wouldn’t mind if I lie here And blaze away the days Til my year of glad This mortal coil fits like a noose It’s snug around my neck I don’t mind it that bad It doesn’t really matter to me So long as I can be free From my eternal malaise What’s the point in being honest with yourself anyways? It doesn’t really matter to me I’m still just a freak “You gotta imagine sisyphus happy” She tells me while I lie With my head in her knees She fetishized just being alive so We chugged the blood of christ Til my eyes were helices It doesn’t really feel like a breeze More of a disease To be entombed in a body What’s the point in being honest when I choose not to be? It doesn’t really matter to me It doesn’t really matter to me
7.	blue in the face (demo) 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Hate your always working overtime Makes sense, Americans don't need no life Got your voice to keep me up at night I got the rest of u tonight I know that u were killin’ it before you met me  (It’s not like that) Why are you lookin at me like I’m Morrissey? (It’s not like that) Gotta give it to you baby Gotta give it to you all day Save a spot for you on the train It’s the least I could do for my lady  God, I love being your baby It’s like stealin from the safeway I can't take all of these feelings She got me feelin like I’m blue in the face I love the way you always smoke outside You love my garden of earthly delights If you unplug me will I vaporize? Or will I roll over and die? I know that u were killin’ it before you met me  Why are you lookin at me like I’m Morrissey? (It’s not like that) Gotta give it to you baby Gotta give it to you all day Save a spot for you on the train It’s the least I could do for my lady  God, I love being your baby It’s like stealin from the safeway I can't take all of these feelings She got me feelin like I’m blue in the face Gotta give it to you baby Gotta give it to you all day Save a spot for you on the train It’s the least I could do for my lady  God, I love being your baby It’s like stealin from the safeway I can't take all of these feelings She got me feelin like I’m blue in the face (Yeah)
8.	breakfast of champs 00:48		buy track
9.	it's fine (demo) 02:48	lyrics	buy track
Well, oh well I guess it’s fine I’m pretty tired anyway from all this sitting inside And you know it ain’t half bad The feeling when you say something you know u shouldn’t have I want to be here for you baby that’s for sure But how am I supposed to know what you’re thinking without reading your mind? I guess it’s fine It’s fine Tell me it’s fine Well, I guess it’s fine
10.	throw me a bone? 01:06	lyrics	buy track
(2,3) In a body In a body No, I could hardly fit inside a body It’s beyond me How the nothing Could feel more intimate than in a body But how could I have known? I’m just a bag of bones Who’s lost and so alone Without atonement Could anybody throw Would anybody throw Would anybody throw me just a bone?

about

so last year i announced my first real lp, which ultimately got incorrigibly stuck in development hell; rather than let the material rot in perpetuity, im leaking this collection of demos, roughly corresponding to the final idea i had in mind for the record albeit unpolished, unfinished, unmastered, yada yada. some tracks intended for the project ive either saved in order to flesh them out to the bitter end (as future releases and whatnot), some tracks ive already released as singles and were thus disqualified from this collection (dayshift, death in drag, get back baby, etc). all I ask is u go easy on these and listen to them for the ideas they are; if ur looking for some highly polished commercial product, ur in the wrong place bud!!!

this leak is not just for all those folk on Soundcloud who have begged me to actually release some of my hidden demos, but also for those peeps who worked hard with me on this vision; I think this leak is mostly for them as they’ve seen their labor gone unnoticed for all this time

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released August 18, 2023

Songs produced, written, and performed by Banzai
Welcome to the Party performed by Banzai, Leech, Zoë Fenn, Griffin Fisher, Matthew Martori, Brain Tan (Bob Arbelo), Damien Verrett, Elli Dean, James Lockhart, John-Lewis Anderson, Michael Poggioli, Sean Ghedi, Brennan Leeds, Logan Moseley, Garret Bray, Kyle Enneking, Will Roberts, and John Ostermueller.
Track 1: Mix by Brain Tan (Bob Arbelo)
Track 2: Mix by Jake Cheriff, acoustic guitar performed by Kyle Enneking
Track 3: Mix/additional production by Brain Tan
Track 4: Mix by Jake Cheriff
Track 8: Volcas by John Ostermueller
Track 9: Mix by either Jake or Bob [ I can’t remember :( ], additional guitars by Kyle Enneking
Cover Art: Molly Wheat
Special thanks to Damien Verrett for working on some of these songs w me in Sacramento :’)
Recorded in Fayetteville, AR and Denver, CO, 2021 - 2023

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