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God Forbid Anyone Look Me in the Eye

by Two Steps on the Water

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1.
I’m a little bit scared I’m a little bit scared If it’s on my sleeve it’s in the air I’m a little bit scared But I want you to hold me tonight My funny skin in your clutches so tight Our queer girls’ lips reinventing the terms we were banned from ‘cause you’re too femme and I’m too firm Oh, not tonight You say that I’m beautiful and I think I know you’re right Oh, equals in fright Will I still be beautiful even when I leave your sight? I’m a little bit scared I’m a little bit scared If it’s on my sleeve it’s in the air I’m a little bit scared But I want you to find me out Pull on my tit and spit in my mouth I feel childish like we’re rolling in dirt An adult from 14 years old so I guess I’ll have just dessert Oh, oh tonight You say that I’m beautiful and I think I know you’re right Oh, I grow in your light Will I still be beautiful even when I leave your sight?
2.
My Medusa 04:18
The whole outside world is my medusa God forbid anyone look me in the eye ‘Cause I’ve got places to be I’ve gotta find air to breathe and I’ve got smoke in my face from your fire Jump in, jump in Just ignore my existence I’d love to be invisible to everyone but a few No room, no room Lest I hold my body twisted Unless I hold my face until my breath turns blue Don’t look me in the eye I need to breathe Don’t look me in the eye Blue denim jeans over a hot pink skirt The coldest July in 20 years I’ve internalised all of your loathing No disconnect between body and clothing and there’s no smoke in your face from my fire Jump in, jump in Just ignore my existence I’d love to be invisible to everyone but a few No room, no room Lest I hold my body twisted Unless I hold my face until my breath turns blue Don’t look me in the eye I need to breathe Don’t look me in the eye
3.
Baby slices down side streets Circle, triangle, circle, gone The sun beats down fists of fire Baby’s got her pink skirt on And there’s singing in her ear And there’s new love in the air And her heart’s as fast as a red car Red circle, red rhombus, red square I don’t wanna talk about what I am I just wanna throw some shapes around I’m not always happy with what I am Some times I wanna be wind, wifi, or sound Just leaving the house is political Baby wants a form that’s neutral Her king’s forehead and her queen’s lips Sometimes the mirror is brutal But on the bike that keeps her safe She can ride as fast as she wants And you can watch Baby fade away Until your finger no longer knows where to point I don’t wanna talk about what I am I just wanna throw some shapes around I’m not always happy with what I am Some times I wanna be wind, wifi, or sound
4.
Shaving Cut 03:00
You asked me if I was wearing blush It’s just foundation in my shaving cut You asked me if I was wearing blush It’s just foundation in my – 1, 2, 3, 4 You asked me if I was wearing blush It’s just foundation in my shaving cut A constellation of dark red dots It’s just foundation in my shaving cut You asked me if I was wearing blush and I was in fact wearing blush You asked me if I was wearing blush It’s just foundation in my shaving cut Can I kiss you, will you kiss me back? Forgive the prickle on your lip Pin me down with your porcelain claws and captain my body like a ship And it’s so sexy to not give a shit And if only I could just exist Without a body, without a hitch As if, as if, as if
5.
YoYo 03:11
When your face was forming and the world was reddened mud All around you felt like all inside you though I guess it always does You’re like a YoYo that glows in the dark What makes you special makes you dangerous I wanted to write you a song So I pulled a few apart and made them into this one When the sky was falling and you couldn’t ask for help You were sure there was one person to blame and that person was yourself You’re like a YoYo that glows in the dark What makes you special makes you dangerous If the world don’t love you then the world is wrong If the world don’t love you then the world is wrong You’re so sad but so damn strong If the world don’t love you then the world must be wrong It must be wrong
6.
The eighties live on in my shoulders
 I don’t know how that happened Born in the early nineties I was a scrawny little teen Pushing purple fists through plaster I was furious sad and so scared Unaware that my walls would fall into a decade of disrepair A decade of disrepair A decade of disrepair Nine nights Burned in my memory Nineteen nights Burned in my memory Ninety-nine nights Burned in my memory When I was sixteen or seventeen I opened a bottle of champagne A celebration of walking A hundred meters in the dark, and Trauma can live as a silent beast Mine avoided naming for seven years And on my very being it did feast But I’ll starve the beast to death Now I’ve got a handful of stories I’ve got my personal mythology and I recognise the gods that sheltered me through a decade of disrepair A decade of disrepair A decade of disrepair A decade of disrepair
7.
When I see someone that looks like you Do you see someone that looks like me? Ships in the night, the water's on fire Out of the frying pan and into the sea But I'm told this is what I want This is love, beautiful love I don't wanna be in I don't wanna be in love I don't wanna be in love anymore Am I loving you? Am I loving you? Are you loving me? Are you loving me? When I see someone that looks like you Do you see someone that looks like me? Ships in the night, the water's on fire Out of the frying pan and into the sea I don't wanna be in I don't wanna be in love I don't wanna be in love anymore
8.
You put words in my mouth 
I wasn’t hungry You put words in my mouth (x 2) Scrunch me up like an onion skin and throw me in the compost bin Leave the tabula rasa Every word a lie, a sin I was called a teenage boy I named myself a girl You tore me up, buttercup I was a threat to your whole world CHORUS x 1 Your taxonomy has failed me All the bones you found were fake I’m the scraps in the adjacent lot Leaving flora in my wake And I’ll lie here forever And anybody can come in Just leave your eyes, your ears, your mouth, at home Every word’s a lie, every word’s a sin Every word a lie, a sin On the library scrawled in paint Blue letters on a red brick building Blackened matches at the base And June Jones is sat there sobbing Crying not just tears, but words “If I could be one simple thing I’d be the compost in the dirt” CHORUS x 2
9.
My mother's birthday I cried in her arms Just like the baby I said I wished I was My mother, lifegiver First forest, first river I am so sorry for the nature of my thoughts Sometimes I think about death Even when I sleep I don't rest It's just something I need to confess Sometimes I think about death My mother's birthday her self-centred daughter said "Why can't I be clouds or dust, a tree?" My mother, spark lighter I sob louder and I hold tighter Sometimes a human is a terribly sad thing to be Sometimes I think about death Even when I sleep I don't rest It's just something I need to confess Sometimes I think about death

about

God Forbid Anyone Look Me in the Eye is a collection of 9 emotion punk/heavy folk songs whose lyrics deal with themes of trauma, transness, violence, sex and sadness.

It was recorded between February and April 2016. Recording took place at Bakehouse Studios in Richmond with Simon Grounds, at RMIT with sound engineering students Bonnie Knight, Jonathan Baird, Lauren Squire, Nathalie Pavlovic and Troy Sheehan, and at Simon’s studio.

The album will be released digitally on July 29th and then as a vinyl record (edition of 300) on August 19th.

Album artwork by the incredible Lee Lai (lee-lai.tumblr.com)

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released July 29, 2016

June Jones sings and plays guitar on all songs, and she plays bass on Shaving Cut.

Sienna Thornton plays violin on all songs but Dirge (where she plays viola), and sings on all songs but Baby and the Bicycle.

Jonathan Nash plays drums on all songs, bass on Baby and the Bicycle and Shaving Cut, organ on Ships in the Night and YoYo, piano on Decade of Disrepair and Words in My Mouth, and sings on all songs but A Little Bit Scared and Baby and the Bicycle.

Charlie Woods plays trumpet on A Little Bit Scared and Baby and the Bicycle.

All lyrics written by June Jones between 2015 and 2016. Certain lyrics have been borrowed from various sources, most notably the beginning of the chorus of YoYo, which is taken from the song Cloudbusting by Kate Bush. The song also features a recontextualised lyric from Paul Kelly’s From St Kilda To Kings Cross.

All mixing and mastering was undertaken by Simon Grounds, who was an active participant in the making of this record from start to finish.

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Two Steps on the Water was an emotion punk band working on Wurundjeri land (2014 - 2018)

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