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Thank You For Hiring The Mentally Ill

by Collin Kravis

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1.
I can’t sleep ‘cause it feels painless Bash my head on the wall when I’m aimless Bleeding from the wrist Someone less than this You won’t like it when you see who he really is Caved in and giving out We need to stop, but we’re never allowed You break down when I ignore you If you don’t give a shit, I can’t give one for you You’ve done nothing but force feed me If I started to choke, would you even believe me? You don’t give demands You don’t tell me when I’ve got plans And you won’t ruin them again No cure and no remorse When you’re too old for a beautiful corpse My mission is to disappoint you Don’t give a shit? Well I think I’ll join you
2.
Echolalia 05:26
“Wake up,” she said to me After surgery We made the world correct, Fixed your injury Echolalia, my sweet dementia I swear to God I’m not insane I repeat the words I hear ‘Cause no one pays attention The sun is shining through Over bandaged eyes We use our knowledge up And we vaporize These days I’m sticking to myself Nearly all the time I’m staying warm inside You won’t change my mind Plastic bags and paper plates No one cares what they say I just want to disengage It’s so safe in a cage Oh, you don't care Why do you bother? I finally thought my thoughts were important Only when they scared me I’m the only one to recover
3.
Stairs 04:20
I thought there wasn’t going to be another test Talk all you like, but I refuse Waking to the call, walk into the wall And now there’s nothing left to do. People can adapt to live in different ways I just hallucinate for days. Are you uncomfortable? I don’t believe you are. Are you invisible? I don’t believe you are. The future is your fault. I don’t believe you know. Who do you think you are? I don’t believe you know. Am I supposed to be impressed? Are you the darling of the media? I’m well aware of how you can’t have it all You need to get me to a hospital Are you uncomfortable? I don’t believe you are. Are you invisible? I don’t believe you are. Are you an animal? I don’t believe you know. And my attack could come At any time at all. You spoon-fed me my happiness Now all my meaning’s meaningless I hear a million little voices say to me “Obedience got you nowhere but here” Why do you keep on trying to live so long When you devote your skills to hurting everyone? Living in collapse, admitting self-defeat Is just the mantra I repeat. I don’t know what you’re looking for I’m not your suicidal project any more I’m just so dumb and unprepared I can’t stop falling down the stairs I can’t stop falling down the stairs I can’t stop falling down
4.
I will take you far inside Let you see how you’re composed I will cut the center down Little drops into the snow There’s a chemical within Telling me to fall apart And it makes us all behave Like the animals we secretly are There’s a chemical within And it will not be controlled I can feel the surface crack What you’re asking is impossible
5.
Smart boys Get so annoyed with life. All thought Will paralyze your mind. We will be systematic We will find your weakness You will be pacified With comfort and convenience And when you get a taste of waste You’ll want to waste the whole damn thing. Soft eyes and a softer head Just to end the suffering. When you evolve What do you become? Are you more than one? Are you no one? With technology I have everything I am the god you seek You’ll never question me. (Accept what you’ve become Stay down ‘cause we’re keeping you dumb) Smart girls Get wasted all the time Broke down Used and objectified Faceless The masses will imbibe No thought Why would you even try? Your life will melt away As proof of obsolescence The upper echelon Will answer all your questions And if you get out of line We’ve got someone to take your place You’ll sell us all your rights Until you get erased. What you want is not relief. It’s a kick in the teeth. What do you become? Burn just like you fucking wanted.
6.
Step down, don’t embarrass yourself You stumble like an amateur If I put you in a suit, gave you something to do It wouldn’t even register I can tell you what your problems are And you deserve to listen to it all You think slow and insignificant With no potential to be cognizant You’re so pathetic, you’re so pathetic ‘Cause you assume that you can get whatever you want I’ve got the power of the law With the strength of my jaw My will is fully exercised If you ever disagree You can take it from me, Your punishment is justified I’ve got the power of demand With the back of my hand And a million dollars trailing behind With every bone You will know what I own Your life is just a toy of mine Human progress marches on and on And every once in a while You will step in a pile Of shit. Nobody said you were wrong But you know that you’re wrong. And I will be there To remind you of the pain And the way you complain Is just a message you are sending That you assume that you can get whatever you want. Every single person has a price On their dignity. All it takes is time. And I will find it. I’ll discover yours.
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I’ve had enough of your experiments I want to drown for an audience Your patience I can’t understand Seeing how ungrateful I have been I know you’re a subscriber to the feeling of loss And you practice your compassion without any cause Always holding your hand out in clemency Hey I know it’s poison Who do you think you are? You can’t fool me. You have no higher power Who keeps you from repeating All your petty little errors You just resort to cleaning up When little pieces of your head fall out And little pieces of your mind fall out The damage is inevitable, Irrevocable The mission is a delicacy, So permanently defined Get on the line. And I’ve been there And I’ve seen the place Your dreams went to die And you’re frivolous and pointless And you’re always denied I would rather be pretending Because I’m better without All the spasms, the amalgam Of neurosis and doubt You are faithful till it’s painful Like a dog on a leash I can watch it slowly kill you You’ve been grinding your teeth They have given me instructions I cannot understand We will stand in line for judgment And the fall of the hand If you are living lost in a sea With no energy And if you are deluded enough To believe it works out all right Get on the line. I know exactly who my problem is. I know his name and where he fucking lives. The resolution is self-evident. I have to give myself the punishment.
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I was young and vibrant Nothing left to learn Had no will to defy Because the world was mine Now I’m an old man With a dead-eyed stare Watching summers freezing up And dry to nothing Making friends with my disease It’s all I need Now I’m an old man With a dead-eyed stare It’s our fate to be related Taciturn and sated With the purest inner sanctum In the houses that we came from Shaking hands and stumbling thoughts And the inner peace is gone On and on, one by one Someone’s at the foot of the bed And she hides her face I believe I never loved her But I don’t want to remember
 Sorry I can’t do more for you Here it comes Did you really think we’d make it? Taciturn and sated And the life I live is heinous With the eyes of the insane
10.
Opener 04:39
Take a picture while you’re here Make sure you never forget Give the crowd just a little bit Speaking in tongues, covered in sweat Little fingers get inside Through the fence and through the walls Through the mouth and down the throat When they know you’re being false The water expands And opens up the cracks in your hands It kills me to know I’ve got nothing to show I can light myself on fire Some excitement for the eye I would sabotage my body If you didn’t think the scars were just a lie I gave in to my frustration Just to stop the endless smile I can live in purest ecstasy Just as long as you remain in denial The feelings distort I’m living just to hurt myself more It kills me to know I’ve got nothing to show This chemical burn Goes on until I’m ragged and worn You’re all I can lose I’ll be nothing for you It kills me to know I’ve got nothing
11.
Dollar Pills 04:49
Stop now and give me back all the secrets that you took I’ll keep it off the record if it keeps me off the hook I’ve seen your crowd control; I don’t like the way it looks Who says I’m missing out when I won’t participate? I sleep beneath your seat and avoid the face-to-face I’m relaxed I’m detached You’ll be lucky if you see me intact. And as I build my castle to the sky I wonder why The clouds have got so low today And roll out with the tide I'm watching storms from the other side. With your illicit imperfections taking hold You will be the second part of me that I can’t control I see everyone slow me down I see the flaws in the system. When the TV shows all scream your name Who the fuck are you to pretend you don’t hear them? And with these dollar pills I buy my life, The pesticide That kills the thoughts that ruin And destroy me from inside. I want the day without the night. And all your problems, they just slow me down. Watch my troubles get so far away.
12.
Shield the children’s eyes Do not let them walk along the dotted yellow line. A shadow clutched a chain link fence Along the asphalt drive He doesn’t seem alive In the field where you once found me In the growing dark I’m left behind There is nothing left to do Except apologize I wish you believed in science I wish I believed in anything I wish our reality was not so prone to turning into dreams No surprise I feel so anxious Everything just moves too fast for me I didn’t see your lips What did you say? Like the acrid taste of metal Shocking yet familiar the pattern presses in Closely guarding all my secrets Walled behind my cold unfeeling skin I will let you all discover Leave behind your ignorance Time to grow up, time to think Pressed upon the fence
13.
The Concave 06:30
What a mess What a goddamn mess this has become We’re ill And no one knows just who we are This is all The one time I say I’m sorry So get out Get out before things get ugly And if it feels strange I bet it feels stranger on the next wave I bet you’re not a stranger to the concave With everything reflecting in the wrong way And I watched you ruin all that you’ve been given And I swear to God, some days you look subhuman I’ve found The very last way I can go I didn’t realize I’ve felt all this before Give it just a bit more time I’ll get it right All wrong this time. No more questions Nothing left to learn You take what you want I will only bring you down And if it feels strange I bet it feels stranger on the next wave And if you get a glimpse into the floodgates Then this will be the final thing that I say.

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After nearly two years, the first full-length release by Collin Kravis is finally complete. Features 13 new tracks that invite you to get lost along the way - break out the headphones in a cold, dark room and treat yourself for an hour. This Bandcamp edition features an exclusive 12-page digital booklet including lyrics and original artwork to complete the experience. Additionally, the Bandcamp release is the ONLY one taken from the original studio-quality files - audiophiles rejoice!

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released November 20, 2011

Mixing and mastering: Kevin Sharpe for Metro 37 Studios, Rochester Hills, MI

Art direction: Marie LaRose

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