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The Cradle

by Ducktails

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1.
The Cradle 02:34
2.
Detention 04:31
Need you to pursue me Let’s go see a movie All things a distraction Place me in detention What happened to me? I used to be carefree In my head screams a banshee Walk through all the debris Everything is so dumb (done) I forgot what to become Never did my homework So I’ll be in detention Why you never write me? Barking up the wrong tree Embarrass my classmates They acting like primates Everything is so dumb (done) I forgot what to become Never did my homework So I’ll be in detention Need you to pursue me Let’s go see a movie All things a distraction Place me in detention Place me in detention
3.
Embarrassing 03:11
I’m covered in dirt Don’t want you to see me It’s embarrassing It’s embarrassing I don’t even know your name Why you have to play this game? Inside there’s a voice you hide Suffocate and let it die I’m covered in dirt Don’t want you to see me It’s embarrassing It’s embarrassing I don’t even know your name Why you have to play this game? Inside there’s a voice you hide Suffocate and let it die Won’t give up without a fight Even though my wallets tight Need you to be my side I’m covered in dirt Don’t want you to see me It’s embarrassing It’s embarrassing
4.
Forever 02:19
I just want to be with you forever All I really want to do forever When you’re laying next to me forever Feels like I’m on ecstasy forever I feel lonely when you leave forever Wish you could just stay forever Well you might think I’m a creep forever Doesn’t matter much to me Forever, forever Forever, forever Forever, forever Forever
5.
Just admit you got psy-opped It was all an illusion Company used your views It’s all a lie, it’s all a ruse You are exactly what they want Someone who wants what other people got Don’t matter what It don’t matter what Caroline At a rest stop on the turnpike Waiting for your reply It’s such a waste of time Hit the jackpot again Gotta cash it in Nothing better than freedom Hit the turnpike and speed up I know what it feels like to win Cause I lost more than you ever did It don’t matter how much Caroline At a rest stop on the turnpike Waiting for your reply It’s such a waste of time
6.
Anthem 02:38
You could tell I’m lying My eyes show the world In disguise I’m crying Like a candle burns Why’s the light still shining? No time to discern Can’t escape who I am In my uniform Guess this is my anthem More like I’m at church In the room with Father I’ll die with my truth
7.
I’m waiting for the right time To explain I haven’t done a crime Hopefully it will just go fine Never know until you cross the line Always waiting for a pull back Like every time before a pull back If it goes well she will be mine Looking for the right words to rhyme Every time feels like the last time It’s a steep hill that I always climb Always waiting for a pull back Like every time before a pull back Always waiting for a pull back Like every time before a pull back
8.
Dealer 03:45
Leave me here Let me disappear Got inside a church I would be the first Underneath the dirt I bury the cash Earth will stain the bag Worms eat the remains Dealer
9.
The Truth 04:35
A new day a new lie I have to tell Don’t want to keep it to myself I keep looking for a reason not to try It burns a hole in time We’re hanging out tonight It will be the third time I keep looking for a reason not to try In bed I waste my life You don’t try You don’t know why It passes by The feeling dies I am looking for a reason not to try In time I’ll change my mind You don’t try You don’t know why It passes by The feeling dies Don’t you know the truth
10.
Unattainable 03:05
In elementary school I was in love with you You were unattainable then My heart it broke Rachel you made me blue Wish I was cool enough You were unavailable then I wonder now Why don’t you say? What’s on your mind? How about today? If not tomorrow You never say What’s going on How about today kid? If not tomorrow

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Ducktails - The Cradle

The Cradle is a collection of ten recordings made in my apartment between March & May 2023. I was thinking about when I first fell in love with music in the late 1990s and played in my first emo / alt rock bands in high school in New Jersey. My friends were going to the Warped Tour, putting stickers on their guitars and dying their hair blue. It was a pretty cool time and I was introduced to so much energetic, catchy music. I saw Weezer, the Get Up Kids, and Ozma play at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on March 5th, 2001 and it changed my life. The crowd was so jam packed and excited that during the first song my glasses fell off and were trampled on and smashed. I couldn’t see the show at all but it was really cool. My Dad drove my friends and I back to New Jersey and thought I had gotten beat up when he saw me. This album is a departure from my previous work… I hope you enjoy it. - Matt Mondanile Oct 1st, 2023

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released October 5, 2023

Written, recorded and performed by Matthew A. Mondanile in Athens, Greece from March - May 2023
Mastered by Anestis Psaradakos at Athens Mastering

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