Nate and Barbara certainly love to play this wonderful song by A-Ha, with a little help from Twyla the Midnight Xylophone. Hope you enjoy it!
New Video – Ginger Dizzy!
Ginger Dizzy is an important song for The Repressions, as it tends to make audiences happy and sing along, which is one of the most meaningful things that music can do. It is also the song that inspired the “vaudeville” part of The Repressions’ style. There are quite a few versions out there, Barbara and Ben, just Barbara, just Nate, the recorded version with Barbara and Nate, but this live performance captured this week actually features all three Repressions… the new definitive version…
Sometimes it is better, or maybe a little necessary, to be hazy and out of it, rather than sad… of only for a little while… Confusion you can choose is better than the blues…
New Video – Island Song (Adventure Time Cover)
Wishing you a gentle day, friends… Nate and Barbara cover Island Song by Ashley Eriksson (you know that lovely song on the closing credits of Adventure Time…)
The Repressions are finally on all of the things… (until the next thing, that is…)
Late to some of the party on Instagram and Twitter, but we realized we need to reach out in all of the ways. One of our most important missions as a band is to connect with anyone out there who might be feeling isolated, picked on, misunderstood, or shamed for being different. Being an indie band means DIY, and we are fortunate that in this trek-tech age, we can do so much. So, whatever your preferred way to follow a band, hopefully we are there:
All of the Things:
@therepressions on Instagram
@TRepressions on Twitter… https://twitter.com/TRepressions
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBuerYfBGsCehl9jARzgOA/videos
https://www.facebook.com/therepressions/
https://therepressions.bandcamp.com/
SeeS
New Video – Medicate Me – Dedicated to Scott Epstein
Scott Epstein is a terrific person and excellent musician that The Repressions are proud to call friend. Every little bit helps him and his family in this struggle. Click here to Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/scottepsteinneedsourhelp
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New Video – Trauma Lama Ding Dong
Live performance at The Dirty Wings Farewell Show- November 11
A SONG FOR ICHARUS – New Video
A SONG FOR ICHARUS June 2017
Let me down
I know I cannot hit that high
Bring me down
It’s not a place that I can live
Please kill this climb so fast it dies
Let me down
The clamber can’t be comprehended
Backward space can’t be transcended
Disappoint me now may I descend
We always know the top’s the end
Let me down
You know I cannot scale that sky
Bring me down
It’s not a place where I can live
Please kill this climb so fast it dies inside my mind
Let me down
The undermost should be by home
The bottom rock fell on my head
I’ll burrow in the basic basement
Content a life with no event
Please bury me some more……… Bury me some more
Let me down
You know I cannot crucify
Bring me down
It’s not a place where I can live
Please kill this climb so fast it dies inside my mind before the time
Let me down
It’s safer sinking sliding, let me scramble off your shoulders
I can’t fall fast enough fail fast I can’t let fate fare bolder
Take me below with words you know will mar me
Lacerate me harm me strike me now and scar me
Bust me up to keep me down now
I’ll clutch the ground now
Please bury me some more…….. Bury me some more
Let me down
You know it tore me up to try
Bring me down
I never should have tried to glide
It’s not a place where I can live
My childish strive can you forgive me
Please kill this climb so fast it dies inside my mind before the time will find me rising
Let me down
Let me down
Let me down
Please kill this climb so fast it dies inside my mind before the time will find me rising
We always know the top’s the end.
SLIDING SCALE – New Video
LYRICS:
SLIDING SCALE
This is a sick song
This is a sad song
This is a bad song
Where everything’s wrong
I’m coming apart now
Soul-sick in my heart now
I can’t even start now
So run right along
I’m lying in bed bow
So leave me for dead now
Get out of my head now
I’m not very strong
On my sliding scale of sadness
On my third derail today
You pay for how you play and what you cannot say and what you throw away
Which came first the sick or sad which way… Sliding scale… Sliding scale
This is a sick song
This is a sad song
This is a bad song
Where everything’s wrong
I’m not a machine here
Quit acting so mean dear
I’ll fix it up next year
If that’s not too long
The world’s a bit gray now
it’s just not my day now
Can’t go out and play now
I do not belong
On my sliding scale of sadness
On my third derail today
You pay for how you play and what you cannot say and what you throw away
Which came first the sick or sad which way……………….. Sliding scale…. Sliding Scale…… Sliding scale….Sliding scale
This is a sick song, This is a sad song This is a bad song , Where everything’s wrong
This is a sick song, This is a sad song This is a bad song , Where everything’s wrong
The Repressions 