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You Can't Have Everything

by Flat Back Four

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This time next year I’ll be living far away King for a day, fool for a lifetime This time next year I’ll be where I want to stay I think therefore I am, believe me I am a millionaire I’ll take you with me, don’t worry There’s no hurry, after all this time You can come too, I promise This time next year, we’ll be happy I am a millionaire Who am I kidding? We’ll still be here No emperors, no new clothes What does it matter? We’re together I think we are rich already I am a millionaire
2.
Fail 03:40
What a man really needs is someone to love If you can’t give him that, give him some form of hope If you can’t give him that, give him something to do If you can’t give him that, then you’re fucking fucked. There’s danger everywhere, I know but I’m not scared As nothing that we do means anything But ‘til my dying day, I swear I won't fail A man’s got to do what man’s got to do Get off your horse and drink your milk There’s danger everywhere, I know but I’m not scared As nothing that I do means anything But ‘til my dying day, I swear I won’t fail
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I look into the mirror each and every morning And quite a few times every night When I’m drunk I pose, sometimes with no clothes And give my neighbours quite a fright Mostly, I like the bloke smirking back at me Ste, he seems to say, we’re alright But today I swear, he shot me quite a glare As if he knew I’d done him wrong Do I know the man in the mirror? Though I see him every day Do I really know the man in the mirror? He looks just like me He’s got the wrinkles etched into his forehead Where he screws his hat down tight He likes to drink, I think, judging from his figure Well don’t we all, I tell myself Do I know the man in the mirror? I know I see him every day Do I really know the man in the mirror? He looks just like me He likes the same old jokes as me He knows what I used to be After all, he is me He sees straight through me Like he always knew me Mirror mirror on the wall Do I know the man in the mirror? I know I see him every day Do I really know the man in the mirror? He looks just like me
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We’re all alone together Indoors – don’t care about the weather In splendid isolation Dutifully manning our station It was a time of love and happiness Not a care in the world, until I said Will you miss me when I’m gone? I’ve had enough, it’s too much Nothing I do seems good enough It’s one thing then another You’re acting like my mother One day I’ll walk, walk away One day I’ll walk, away Will you miss me when I’m gone?
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Unbelievable 02:33
I dreamed a dream of happiness drifting on into the night Having known the pain of loneliness for large parts of my life It seemed so real I did believe that we would be alright Just for a while hope did prevail, that morning would bring light Then the nightmares did return and I knew that I was right I woke alone, in darkness Could be, could be not, I’ve got things on my mind Fighting like a beaver to get my similies in line Three steps forwards two steps back, dodge the landmines on the way Life is like a pantomime, with a matinee each day Then the nightmares did return and I knew that I was right, and I woke alone in darkness The more I practice, the luckier I get What you see is no mystery, it’s unbelievable I dreamed a dream of happiness long into the night Having known the pain of loneliness for large parts of my life Could be, could be not, I’ve got things on my mind Fighting like a beaver to get my similies in line Then the nightmares did return and I knew that I was right, and I woke alone in darkness The more I practice, the luckier I get What you see is no mystery, it’s unbelievable
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I Am One 03:29
Once upon a time I wanted chaos in my life Each day an opportunity to be lived like the last Freedom meant the liberty to choose a different pub To pick my every battleground and decide when to run I am one, you are too Equal in our hearts, with our different points of view I am one, we are two Nothing ventured, nothing gained, each waking day the same The pain remains Freedom meant the liberty to try some different grub Pick my way through battlegrounds and try to stand not run I’m what I want to be I’m what I need to be I’m where I want to be Once upon a time I wanted chaos in my life I’m one at last Freedom meant the liberty to choose a different club To pick my every battleground and decide when to run
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Dear Self 03:19
Dear self I’m ghost of yet to come When all the things you’ve said and done Return to haunt your every waking move And convince you I was right With the benefit of hindsight I warn you must repent Or die a thousand deaths I’m a slice of Dante’s hell This is real, I tell myself You’ve had your second chance It’s the final warning I could take you with me now I don’t have to warn you anyhow I’ve paid for your mistakes What I am, you will become I enjoyed forbidden fruit Stretched my youth until it broke The ties that bound My time misspent I died, my parents cried My end has come, my task: to make you mend your ways Now you are my only hope Lost again, you’re in control Now I live again through you Listen to me now, dear self This talk of hell means nought I tell myself, I’ll live again, in a better place Laugh all you like. I know your type Please heed this haunted smile, I beg My future is in your own hands now Paradise, now lost, awaits my own dear self
10.
Success 03:03
After all this time, have I really come so far? Was it worth the lonely nights, first dates with old guitars? I dreamed a dream of happiness, contentment yet unknown For all the things that could have been, I still live on my own I want success, it’s deserved I surely know If I ever have the chance, I’m not sure I could say no I dreamed a dream of happiness, contentment yet unknown No jealousy - no honestly – I still sleep on my own Success, I want you Success, et tu I want success, at least a part of me thinks so If I ever have the chance, I ‘m not sure I could say no I am success, I know it I am success, I’ve seen it Can you feel it? Can you see it? Can you Hear it? I am success. We are success.
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Recessional 04:11
Every time I explain myself I feel I’m wrong, after all A simple touch brings healing Lest we forget that we belong Sometimes, I forget myself And the promises I made A sudden smile brings feeling Lest we forget that we are one If I should stray far from the path Let each mistake yet be the last Lest we forget that we belong Lest we forget, we’re only human Our time as flesh a passing phase That doesn’t mean there’s no meaning Maybe we’ll find it in the grave You’re not just anyone to me I’ll be the best that I can be, mostly

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Flat Back Four's second full length album, recorded by Joe Fossard in Backburn (with some live sessions in a suitably dingy room downstairs in a pub in Birkenhead) in Summer 2013. Released on Antipop Records.

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released October 7, 2013

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Flat Back Four Saint Helens, UK

Flat Back Four are a punk band from St Helens in England, formed in 2004. They play fast, aggressive songs that combine punk and metal influences, with plenty of melody and sing-along hooks.
They have played more than 400 shows across 11 countries.
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