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Before Our Hearts Explode!

by Fourth Of July

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did she take you by the hand and say "he hurt me so bad don't you understand?" did she make the move or was it you was it you was it you sleep on her couch or did she make you a bed on the ground and what happened? some things you don't think you need to defend well you're just a friend of a friend of a friend and to her you're just a means to an end and to me you're just some guy who thinks that he could mend her broken heart not the best way to start, friend! she'll use you like a bridge over the harbor from brooklyn to manhattan more like from me over you to whatever happens thought i heard you laughing in my dreams when i try to sleep and it's not helping so i lie awake and i yell from over a thousand miles away that you're just a friend of a friend of a friend and to her you're just a means to an end and to me you're just some guy who thinks that he could mend her broken heart well if i could tonight i would make her my wife and we'd settle down, get my feet on the ground and i'd buy her a house in the south of france with extra rooms for kids when we felt like it yes i would! and i hope that i never have to see your face and i hope that i never have to hear your name well you're probably ok but i need someone to blame you might say "blame yourself" but i'd say that's not the same it's not the same! because you're just a friend of a friend of a friend and to her you're just a means to an end and to me you're just some guy who thinks that he could mend her broken heart
2.
love what are you dreaming of? you're moving all around and talking in your sleep don't don't wake me up i'm right where i want to be i feel your heart beat and it's so strong such a long pause in between in my dreams i dream of you and what you will do when i leave don't you believe the words i sing and what they mean being alone? it's just that i'm so busy so many things to do on my own well i don't know i don't know i don't know how much i can take! it's not you it is me my decisions to make then we fall asleep i forgot to tell you my dreams then we fall asleep i forgot to tell you my dreams in one i'm falling in one you're crying in one there's nothing in one there's you and me
3.
Providence 04:27
he loved her then he killed her just for lust i helped him clean his hands of all the blood but you can never get it off and she suffered but she knows i loved her once just close friends we never touched and i don't miss her that much his mother she could never forgive her son she cried "i can't believe what he has done" used to invite her over as one of the family and his little brother he held her hand he cried "i just don't understand what kind of brother do i have? i could never be like that" said he'd never be like that she loved him then she killed him just because you'd never believe where he was in a crowded van with all of us in providence and there was nothing you could do got to put those christian roots to some use send him good vibes and half truths like you waited does that help you deal with it? think i'd care even if you did? you're such a courteous hypocrite and next dinner what's your mom gonna cook besides her words? what are you going to eat besides yours? as you think "hey it could be worse..." said you'd never be like that don't be so sure of things not even wedding rings
4.
i don't want to bore you at all i don't want to bore you at all sometimes i'm so tired, i know some things you just can't let go especially when your hands are made of stone and i hate being lonely thanks to you, the one who shows me that i've done something wrong i don't want to annoy you at all i don't want to annoy you at all sometimes i'm so selfish, it's true the things i say and the things i do see i just want my hands all over you i don't get tired of trying or used to being tired of finding that you want to be left alone oh no i don't want to lose you at all i don't want to lose you at all not even when i come home lost not even if you're already gone see i know your heart's so strong i probably couldn't break it and it'd take so long, i probably wouldn't make it and i try so hard, i know you never fake it and i just called, just to say that i know yeah i know oh i know
5.
all you pretty young things barely dressed on halloween same costumes are sold same compliments are told don't you girls get cold don't those cat calls get old no it wasn't me yelling you see i'm not that bold do you want someone to care or just someone to hold someone to treat you good or someone to treat you horrible? well that's so terrible i used to know girls like you irresistable when i didn't have a clue but now you'll never break my heart no you'll never break my heart she could take me by the arm with her eyes just starving say "this is my favorite song i'd love it if you'd dance along" my mind will whisper: "sabotage yourself" the bar will say "hey i could help" before long everything we could have had is gone but i'll keep holding on with my legs and my arms hoping that my will is as strong as you think she'll say "what was that supposed to mean?" and i'll say "it could mean anything" besides the fact we don't talk about those kinds of things so now you'll never break my heart and i'll never break your heart
6.
think of something to say i'll hear right after the delay these thoughts go so fast don't they? i have your number and half of your address written down it's written on the back of this piece of paper i carry around like the weight in my heart pushing my feet into the ground knowing it wouldn't be so hard if you were here right now oh no i just heard that sound i think my phone card's running out the last words i said that went flying across the ocean were "my love..." and this dead air it splits us with a clean cut, not broken my love... my love... think of something to say i hear right after the delay you're coming home to me in may
7.
Moving On 03:15
she said "i'm done with lawrence, there's nothing there but us - and don't try to kid yourself, you know that's not enough. see, i don't owe you anything maybe i'll do some stupid things like move to new york and start sleeping around. cause you know you ruined us when you slept with that little slut" i said "i'm so sorry love - i thought you were gone." oh wait, you were gone! and you have been moving on since the first time i saw you the day i fell in love fell in love it was the day i fell in love the day i fell in love sometimes i'm a fucking idiot no problem admitting it my face, you can spit in it as you pack your bags if i wait forever love can we be together love? i said "i'm so sorry love i thought you were gone." oh wait you were gone and you have been moving on since the first time i saw you the day i fell in love remember you ran away from me and i ran after you and when i caught up with you i held you in my arms in my arms i held you in my arms i held you in my arms but that was four years ago you're fast and i've gotten slow you're so young, i know i guess thats how it goes and my feet are concrete that's why i can't leave i'm stuck in this place watching you run away just watching you run away i'm watching you run away just watching you run away
8.
Tan Lines 04:00
what's this, you just kissed ? well thank god for that! forgot to mention you were pantless might make it sound kind of bad are you sure you didn't lose your shirt? did he lose his? we all know the truth hurts but it is what it is shut up shut up shut up i'm trying to think about the timeline in between the lines of lies did you close your eyes as he kissed you thighs, did you tell him what you like? i bet it didn't come as a surprise what's this, you're a mistress? thought you were out of reach! well she's asleep, he's got a long leash and a face you can believe wake up wake up wake up cause i am still here in the back of my mind admiring your tan lines will i ever see them again? the lines that divide your golden skin and i'm like oh my god how have you been so this is france these are you friends am i still your man? cause i had a dream they sucked you in and you seemed so different but they were from new york or the jersey shore and they had you but they wanted more and i don't want to fight with all these guys the thought of losing you makes me want to die and i said "love is this true, cause if it is what can i do?" then i woke up after what you said i was only taking up half my bed and in the other half no one slept i just laughed and covered my head after what you said cheer up cheer up cheer up there's nothing you can do so just sleep in the middle of your bed like you used to and i'll sleep with whoever i want to
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L Train 03:15
woke up in a dream state and now i'm trying to call my lover but she's on the L train going underneath the water meet my friend down at freestate he's having one after another not that i can't relate but we need to take care of each other cause it's not getting any better woke up got my mind straight now i'm trying to call my lover but what could i say although we're apart we're still together or no one could ever replace you but that doesn't make it easy then i hear my friend say "you're no match for the city and you know that she's so pretty" yeah i know that she's so pretty woke up with a headache now i'm trying to call my lover but she's on a blind date he's blind to the fact i ever had her and yeah i was out late but i slept alone in my lonely covers she said "no way" i said i guess it doesn't matter it wouldn't make me feel any better would it make you feel any better?
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Crying Shame 03:58
she doesn't care anymore and my heart just breaks so i flirt with these girls just to entertain myself and my friends yeah my ego's so vain or just to pretend that it's all ok but it's not ok! like the sharpest pain or like losing something and never getting it back what a crying shame best thing that i ever had and what's she doing tonight how am i supposed to know that? "i know you called just to spy on me but i left my phone in a car or on the train same thing, still got home ok or i dropped it dancing to oldies at the bar fine, we go out together - me her and her older brother and he's always around except when you're in town and he takes us to dance and he buys us drinks i'm just trying to have fun i don't really care what you think" i know you call just to humor me as i pick up my phone from my bed i love you i said as the phone went dead fall asleep to the oldies in my head i love you my darling i love you so so we love each other what about all the others? i love you my darling i love you more
11.
Come Home 04:56
come home baby please come home i'm so tired of being on my own i'm so tired of being all alone but i know you won't...

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Recorded by Colin Mahoney at the Bull House in Lawrence, Kansas.

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released August 31, 2010

Brendan Hangauer: guitar, vocals. Patrick Hangauer: bass. Kelly Hangauer: trumpet, keys, vocals. Brian Costello: drums, vocals. Steve Swyers: guitar. All lyrics: Brendan Hangauer. All music: Fourth Of July.

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Fourth Of July / Lawrence, KS / Releases on Range Life Records and High Dive Records/ Songs by Brendan Hangauer / Members: Brendan Hangauer, Patrick Hangauer, Brian Costello, Brendan Costello / Past Members: Kelly Hangauer, Steve Swyers, Adrianne Verhoeven, Nick Bergwell ... more

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