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Before I Got Fat EP

by Outside Your House

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1.
Limbs 03:20
Cold-sweat-sleeping my way across the South-West feel like I could slip through the cracks in the pavement nothing makes me tear-up like a brass band or David Attenborough's broken sentences It always stayed just out of my grasp like trying to remember a smell it always strayed just beyond my grip like loose-limbed dancing and your finger tips I'm riding 'round on flat tires a guitar with two strings winking at the priest from the back of the christening I live for snatches of your morning breath and no one speaks ill of the recently dead "write about loss" and steal lines from your friends I've misplaced half the things that I've owned like the Decepticon car stolen when I nine that I innocently thought vanished in the grass I've got hair growing in places where it wasn't before wanna be recognised by more than my dental records I could've been a star of marine science but the lies on my entry form got spied on co-incidental, like how his initials are a virulent disease I somehow got your attention without resorting to Plan B and lying down in front of your mini I was all limbs from five driving deep beneath the bedding you said you didn't mind but your big eyes were pink and tired working a sixty hour week will never leave you at your peak and for all the time I sit about I'm always left with chest pains on Thursday and Friday nights At the Great Museum of the North they've got mammal skeleton's hung on a board they all look more than a bit like you and me a cat, a whale and a chimpanzee and if/when I heed the call of the sea donate my bones to osteology there's a vacancy for my species to scare, pin my arms in the air You were all limbs from five twisting yourself up in the bedding I really didn't mind my brain had been racing for a while creating a fictional crisis that evaporates when i get up to wizz come back cold and wake you up just to hold you It always stayed just out of my grasp like trying to remember a smell it always strayed just beyond my grip like loose-limbed dancing and your finger tips Two AM at the supermarket chiller you just take my hand and lead me away
2.
I barely remember all those nights in Sheffield before I got fat I'd happily intervene in night club dust ups to restore the calm shaking the bouncers off my arm but when she went away I'd refresh my emails twenty times a day the dial-up tone's an alien tongue the biology of anxiety cortisol, ACTH, the reason why my stomach aches (when this world began, it was heavens plan, there should be a girl, for every single man) Always request read receipts check inbox, check inbox Sometimes you can live too close to a beer-off calculating ratios of percentage to pounds sweet memories of spooning in a room half a world away but how soon will it dawn, what you missed while you swooned? The terrace rows look like skyscrapers felled from the bowling green snow where I sprawl surrendered after a few drams too many cos you've told me the distance has grown further in your heart and the nothing i have to offer you is no longer what you want. (when this world began, it was heavens plan, there should be a girl, for every single man, to my great regret, someone has upset, heavens pretty programme)
3.
Late Nights 02:35
My ribcage is the shape of an inverted heart from my perspective it is the bones that hold us and it keeps swelling and creaking with each tired and nervous inhale head rushed with too much oxygen to ever fail fortified wines from fortified islands flood through my veins and dismantle my defenses Feline friends with tiny minds watching while i sit and cry and I have learnt the distance when it's your turn to call Buy me a glass I need to unwind I need a cigarette, do we have time? Those things will kill you, they are a curse while i think that life will get you first (Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay, where you die I will die) I never got a reply from the TV company re: the sitcom that I half-wrote about you and me suppose there were problems with the denouement when she left through the window you don't build characters if they keep fucking off and leaving I hope that I am happy I know that I'm to blame People always stay the same age they were when you first met them still with the hopes they had when they first met you Buy me a glass I need to unwind I need a cigarette, do we have time? Those things will kill you, they are a curse while i think that life will get you first (Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay, where you die I will die)
4.
What have I achieved since my twenty-third year? Just some self-obsessed songs that nobodies heard made i sign for my music room that reads "You've accomplished NOTHING" Found a girl who likes to cuddle made a motivational mix of songs and fell asleep in the bath til the grubby, saline water was cold Work, sleep, hold you tight work, sleep, sit in at night pretending to read as my eyes slip to the screen Just a few months and now everything seems changed you feel the nerves creep up the back of your knees colours more vivid but everything's lost some value even your old friends When you're happier, you wanna drink less so why've bought these nine pint mini-kegs? I'm developing, now when I'm nervous I still scratch my penis, but no longer sniff fingers Help a stranger down a flight of steps with a pram then run off with her handbag Maybe Cotton Mather was right and there's evil circling our homes at night Just a few months and now everything seems changed you feel the nerves creep up the back of your knees colours more vivid but everything's lost some value even your old friends I look embarrassed but say it's sunburn when maybe I'm hiding some lethal guilt and the suspense felt by Dr Crippin on The Montrose caught by a pyjama top as Ethel parades in his wife's clothes Woke up with a big man's beard like snakes pouring out of my pores like fear Even though it was only onion tears i put my arm round you and I held you near What have I achieved since my twenty-third year? Just some self-obsessed songs that nobodies heard
5.
Toughen Up 03:04
I've gotta toughen up don't take it lying down Why am affected by the slightest change in your facial expression? As the sadness rots my stomach and you blink in Morse code and chew your nails off and on again I've gotta toughen up don't take it lying down Our bodies hold their own memories involuntary interlocking and raising hands to cheeks and I've stopped remembering my dreams I couldn't tell you whether I'm happy or sad right now I've gotta toughen up don't take it lying down Tasting all the metals dissolved in your blood when it's this quiet I swear I can hear your skin breathing living the life of a sedentary animal stabled and dry lying face-down on the carpet as the cat pounces at my twitching toes but tonight we're both totally all alone although I make you laugh I know that's not enough

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Before I Got Fat EP is the debut release from UK Barely Rap combo Outside Your House.

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released July 1, 2014

Nearly all the music is by Jonathan Swift and almost all the words are by Faithful Johannes. Our friend Erika Sedge sings on Kingfisher Dave. Thanks to Bronia McNay for putting the cover together and generally looking out for us.

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Outside Your House UK

Outside Your House are a two man operation.

Faithful Johannes is part spoken word poet, part folk singer, part laid-back rapper with an eye for detail.

Sweet-singing Jonathan Swift‘s musical scrapbook of vinyl samples, live instruments and cut-up beats delivers the pop backdrop.

The melancholy of brass bands, chest pains, beer-offs, weight gain & David Attenborough
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