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"Stairway to Evan"

by Evan P. Donohue

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Quinn Auyang-Tyler
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Quinn Auyang-Tyler So much fun Favorite track: Pleasure without the Pain.
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Travis Button I first heard Evan when he was traveling with Kopecky Family Band as sound engineer and he came on stage and played this song "Tell Me, Sara", and that was it.... One song, and then he was gone. So glad to finally have this song in my collection and the rest of his new material! Favorite track: Tell Me, Sara.
Jeremy / HI54LOFI
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Jeremy / HI54LOFI new Evan P? yes please. Favorite track: She's Mine I'm Yours.
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1.
My Mantra 04:28
I gotta go home I'm so uptight Meditation helps if the Mantra is right Rocky take my calls and I'll return the favor If I survive the ride on the elevator My horoscope said I need a long vacation In both the local and state publication Said an effort when just will be rewarded and sinister men will be one day thwarted I called to see if you were alright I had a bad dream about you last night I can't keep on living this way: waiting by the phone The Mantras you have given me they help me when you're gone But they're not helping much I miss your tender touch I just want to know if we'll be together this time next year I just want to know if my mentor's home I go there when I feel most alone I've consummated prayers and my will to starve by eating my lunch in the courtyard it was one ripe banana and an english muffin every verb is a nail pried out of my coffin chorus
2.
She said she's in love with me said she's mine and will always be she is gorgeous young and sweet but you are the one that I want to hold I am yours heart and soul I love you till the stars grow cold She is mine I am yours Solemn words yield no reply baby I'll love you until I die I am not hears but she is mine terrible nights of dark remorse falling down drunk on kitchen floors come beside me I am yours She is mine I am yours She called me to say it's over said she changed her mind thats when I dropped the phone to realize that I changed mine you are beautiful you are tan but she is a true american too bad she'll find another man She was mine I am hers hers
3.
Tarot Cards 02:25
I'll be your pet while Jesus wept you can't stop the party if the feeling is alright can't mash potato if watusi's your birthright find in the morning what you searched for all night Don't get your tarot cards read in chicago my mind is made up I'm gonna kill until she comes home I stole the money you hit in the mattress I burned down your car and pissed on the ashes I cut the head off of john the baptist Don't get your tarot cards read in chicago so won't you take take me back I wanna know that you'll be around I love you so so much I know that I'd be lost if you weren't around call me back call me back call me names I didn't know I had all for love god country and a night with emily
4.
I am just another white man I have never seen a funeral pistol in hand I wander the yard I'm an elderly woman I am living with dementia I go to the park to rip up the grass at old mill river you cover the clover a second is over on an autumn day I'm the mental (metal) eraser some old picture of winter would you look at that kid have you seen him before I am each and every morning the real home video what I see in my sleep I see in memory more at old mill river you cover the clover a second is over on an autumn day
5.
1 Glance 03:20
1 glance a steel tip to granite 1 night the quarry full of stone let's meet beneath a starry blanket sure beats feeling lonesome all balled up at home suffered I have many nights beneath the weight of the rock above me but in the calm I have wondered could she love me 1 kiss the candle's wick to darkness 1 raven sent before the dove I am the ghost of what I cherish I want to find the spring of tears and put my lip to the cup chorus let's lift our gaze past tears of sorrow I want to see my ship come in to port bathsheba I could be your david like him I would have your husband killed to see you naked chorus
6.
Yellow Eyes 03:32
A quilt of smiles and a book of poems waining health is spoiled wine terror formed and its taking over cause I'm in love with yellow eyes a pocket of posies and painted tea cups she doesn't get ill around other guys every body is keeling over cause I'm in love with her yellow eyes face time with survivors both hands in the fire I am sick with desire are you alright? life is fragile love is fleeting we are happy we're alright take my money my independence let me keep those yellow eyes chorus If God Hates the way that I keep my head above water why special sounds when I'm in bed with a leper's daughter I ask nothing more than to be saved a place
7.
Felix 04:19
I had 18 crumpled up dollar bills and I couldn't pay rent till I had twice that amount so what do I do ? - That's what I did. A man in a miata with a wife or girlfriend pulled into the lot I was parking cars at. their top was down - yes it was should I move? should I stay? Austin let's me park here usually. what was your name? Love is a lecture love is a dream love is a dirty magazine a glass of shiraz and a glass of pinot I'll be out in an hour here's $20 -- my name's Felix A valet in november in a valley of fortune a bar-back recommended I call Felix a cab he's at it again - yes he was $600 in wine sales alone, he and his lady have moved on to sangria should I call him a cab ? I guess I'll ask Should I move it? should he stay ? that guy in the miata, what was his name? Love is a terror love is confusion love is the problem and the solution I'll be out in about half an hour here's $20 btw my name is Felix
8.
Atom Bomb 02:19
I call you Atom Bomb despite your stratosphere being bright and clear I wanna block out the birds and the sun you are my Atom Bomb well I had never been to higher highs nor down to darker lows I stuck a little shovel down and put a hole in the ground I gotta hide the love that I've won you are my Atom Bomb Do you remember that lonely night when everbody moved to the hills leaving oil spills and in the morning our houses were gone you are my Atom Bomb A. T. O. M. B. O. M. B. ATOM BOMB! Across America by the sea she is waiting alone in a fallout zone singing the words to our song you are my Atom Bomb
9.
Momma stole the words out of Shakespeare's mouth make you come alive with your tongue hanged out Daddy was a preacher in a house of sin Momma stuck around cause she loved him they gave me a bill for the debt I owed on the day I was born up a back woods road pleasure without the pain momma take me back to the golden grain I want the pleasure without the pain never gonna work but still get paid I want the pleasure without the pain I cheated and I lied and I tricked my way up by flipping a bible or two each day curbed my thirst with the wine and the beer stole a Cadillac as a souvenir drove to Florida M I A M I in heaven or hell I don't care The girls in the bathrobes out on the porch moaning in passion to pass the torch get yourself lit and be a guiding light stick a little pin in the ass all night never had a place that I made my own till a dirty little street corner called me home chorus like a flickering light in a coming storm I was damned to rot on the day I was born I know I'm gonna die in a prison tonight the preacher came late to read last rites asked to repent and I held his cuff I said I didn't get drunk or laid enough lurking in the mud for fourteen years I dug my grave when I got here more pills more blow more heroine more vomit and blood on the linoleum I spread my foul wings high and wide I am the reason why good men die I was born in the valley of the shadow of death with Frankenstein Dracula and Macbeth when you're lost and you're weary and things are unclear I am the wolf that your shepherd fears if Jesus saves I hope he spares the rod because I am the man who stood apart from God chorus
10.
you're such a funny little drink of water a little boiling makes the night get hotter I'm a fool for wanting to stay here longer cause I'm kept warm by you but it makes me softer tell me, sara tell me tell me tell me that you really love me tell me, sara tell me tell me tell me that you're praying for me tonight I'm filled with pain and heart ache and tomorrow there'll be devils when I wake am I as noble as the promise I break are you as real as the pleasure you fake chorus at the foot of the bed I wonder where the lightning strikes when I hear thunder what's this putrid spell I'm under that leaves me poisoned broken robbed and plundered Sara, you're my original obsession I'm your trunk of lies and deception If I was ever damned you'd be my one protection If you were ever evil I'd be your darkest confession chorus

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released October 12, 2014

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Evan P. Donohue Nashville, Tennessee

Raised in NY & hailing from TN, EPD, co-founding father of Nashville punk outfit, Diarrhea Planet, finds a niche within the chamber pop library between Beck and Elvis Costello. Fans of EPD note wit in his lyricism & the raw gravity of his live performances. Listeners will fall under the spell of Nashville pretty boy's ability to create garage-pop which blows a kiss at Squeeze & Harry Nilsson. ... more

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