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Funeral Tropicana

by Lesser Strays

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1.
Ouija 04:06
You never harm nobody, that’s what you want to think And for political bodies, you call yourself the head shrink But there’s a many shade of roses where the world begins Who is this modern Jesus you hold within? Well babe, I think you’re caked in sin You never learned about an honest heart Hide behind your walls of phony art And you always run away when I say “Let’s play Ouija” Oh but you know what’s right and you know what to believe Let’s turn out the lights and play on the Ouija If you’re so convinced then show me the ghosts you see Who do you impress with tattoos and ill fit clothes? Stop pretending liberation comes with those There’s a million different arms where I could have gone and I admit now yours felt so wrong But honey I just played along And you always run away when I say “Lets play Ouija” But you know what’s right and you know what to believe Let’s turn out the lights and play on the Ouija If you’re so convinced then show me the ghosts you see
2.
Winter Moons 04:39
Still I dream of the summertime Sanctuaries to unwind December month felt so cold Hearts were born then grew old Your summer eyes are like winter moons Will the sea freeze you to soon, too soon? In the morning we’ve gone too far Where dreams fade with the dark Well damn you for stealing everything I believed in Your summer eyes are winter moons Will the sea drown you too soon?
3.
Thrown in dreams that are not mine I see in color part of the time Smoke stained ceilings and nursery rhymes Drown my true heart in valleys of wine Shelf the ruin of your birth The rusty chains upon this earth Swore I loved once, swore I lived Who will remember what the world gives? Light my candles, speak magic rhyme I’ve built my churches out of bottles of wine We all die just how we’re born There’s always darkness before the morn’ Shelf the ruin of your birth The rusty chains upon this earth Swore I loved once, swore I lived Who will remember what the world gives?
4.
Passionless 03:20
Opened your door for a heart of gold, but there was nothing Passionless And every soul that you ever loved, did you treat so? Passionless And I try not to be cruel, but I wanted to keep you And I try not to feel blue, but your feelings were untrue Do you remember the good nights? I remember the good nights The air in the bedroom felt so light But the timing was not right An empty bed, an empty heart, how it feels so Passionless I took you in my confused mind. Now that you’re gone I’m Passionless And I try not to be cruel, but I wanted to keep you And I try not to feel blue, but your passion was untrue.
5.
Liaisoneers 03:23
I’ve lost the thrill of this city Circus tents just hit the ground She has a curfew at midnight so her man don’t know what’s going down I lose her every night—never “happy ever after” Fairytale are out of sight—give me champagne and laughter So run away, fly away, swim away, it’s okay I say she just needs to be free Well can’t I be your liberator? The world’s swallowing slowly all your wills, all your wills—don’t fall asleep coldly So freedom or protection? What will your life be? And when I speak of perfection try to believe me
6.
Cry 04:14
She was knee-deep in the water, skin paler than a shell I didn’t know it then, but all my other wants would go to hell No I didn’t understand it, she caught me by surprise The first time she made those tears come from my eyes I said, I wish I never met you Oh my girl, you make my heart so blue Sail me across the ocean Sail me from this commotion I never wanted both of us to lose control Especially not me, the heartbreak was mine to give to you on your dime I knew you never could be true Oh my girl, you make my life so blue Why do you make me cry?
7.
Sea of Love 03:47
If I could go back, you know I’d do nothing the same If I had the chance I’d change our faces and our names My bitter love, my bitter heart I damned us both from the very start Now it’s a game, it’s a knife right through my brain I’ve thrown my love into the sea Sea of love drown me tenderly I was waiting for your submarine but the ghosts of sharks got the best of me If I had the spell I’d change the apples of your eyes If I could my dear, your world I would hypnotize My bitter love, my bitter heart I’ve damned us both from the very start Fold the masts, this ship will sink a lonely heart filled with ink I was one, you were not one to rest your arms with the setting sun. Roll away, roll away roll your eyes like the rolling waves I’ll die in lies, die in truth Either way I drown in you And I’ve thrown my soul into the sea Sea of love drown me tenderly I was waiting for you submarines but the ghosts of sharks got the best of me Yeah they did.
8.
Lying Heart 04:20
Cut up your love, I’m a fraction in the past All your other boys, you’re a liar to say it would last All your words, I don’t believe them True love, you can’t conceive it I know your lying heart Our world tears my flesh I hate you for owning my dreams And every night in my bed, your kisses are never what they seem Real touch, you don’t give it True love, you don’t live it I know your lying heart You’re fading in the world I’ve fought for so long I’ve lost you, I’ve lost you. You’re gone. All your words I don’t believe them True love, you can’t conceive it I know your lying heart And though you’re the devil I keep you in my head Though you’re the storm, I’d swim in your bed I take you with the harm, you lay chains onto me I’m a sailor of the world and you’re haunting every sea Every sea.
9.
Cold water runs through me It waterfalls over secret caves I’m dying, she’s smiling doesn’t know the misery Who’ll be the one to fight it out? Who’ll be the one to leave? I’m on the bridges, I’m on the knife’s edge Waiting for courage to set me free. Singing “ladadedadada” “Ladadeda” into the sea I said you were silly for believing in ghosts But now I see one in front of me Haunts my mirror, haunts my bed sheets I know it better than the dreams in me. I’m begging you to leave the old world behind It’s a sand trap over the grave We can talk about Los Angeles each night But first we got a burning ship for us to save. Yeah I lost you before we were babies Yeah I lost you before we were even born Now all these words seem so silly Just like all the emotions we brought on during our war Give me the lights of L.A. Give me an easy love Who knew we’d float so distant? The mighty winds killing our doves?
10.
When the rain of the country kisses your cold shoulders In the eyes of stone will you find no embrace? If our hearts go hungry tonight will you feed it with our history? When your eyes were always in sight, but we were falling to misery You hurt like an ocean crashing on boulders The tide moves with the eclipse of your face If our hearts go hungry tonight will you feed them with our history? When your eyes were always in sight. We were falling in misery. Was your heart in ruin? Is that so? And it wasn’t hard to let it go away? When the rain falls warm on your dark eyes And the old soul wants to see again If our hearts go hungry tonight will you feed them with our history? When our eyes were always in sight, but we were falling in misery When the rain falls warm on your dark eyes And the old world wants to live again But there’s ghost everywhere and they’re in disguise There’s nowhere but the past to find a friend.
11.
What must I say? What must I bleed? When I talk loud and they walk from me. All who I know, they walk like sheep all in someone else’s dreams. If you call in the afternoon, I’ll sing you a sad simple tune. One of magic mystery in an autumn night and a singing moon. All I wanted, oh it could never be true. We’ve just wasted time, all of us wasted fools. All the damn books I ever did read were always caked in tragedy. So if you must go, please wear a frown. Show me that I’m going down. All we wanted, it’s too much and more. Anyway we’re evil. What do you think we deserve more for? All of the love I ever did need forgot to crawl out of the sea, walk on the shore with opening eyes, feel the wind, see the sky, evolve into a fantasy, now dream the dream so tenderly.

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©2015 Lesser Strays
She leaves before spring has arrived. The lesser stray replaces the right side of the bed with red wine that costs more, but hurts less. How much more time he has now to record a new album, which is a thousand worded musical insult to the passionless love pretenders he’s met in the west. “I’m making a new record,” he says. (They are half interested or have heard that three times this week from other sons of bitches with a keyboard and Garageband.) “What’s the sound?” Tropical gothic 80’s revival. Long live synth marimba and delayed congas.

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released June 26, 2015

All instruments, composing, lyrics, recording, and mixing by Joshua Petroni.
Album Cover: Maggie Shiple

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Lesser Strays San Diego, California

An indie rock project founded in 2013 by Josh Petroni; Lesser Strays has released 4 EPs, 2 full-length albums.
In 2014 Lesser Strays' first show was played at the Hawthorne Theater in Portland, OR and has called a variety of cities home from San Diego, Portland, Milan, and Nashville.
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