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Kenny 04:55
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Sitting in a blank room, a white horse, a full moon. I didn’t know the paint would stain It's kinda hard to see past all the broken bats and fatal tasks I'll tell you that it’s just okay Started from a crawl and now we've made it to the wall Maybe there’s something in a break away Red is the colour of his fucked up brother When he told him he should touch the glass He did and now his moms a wreck His dad has had a heart attack Their trophies shattered on the floor, You stupid little __________ Blue is the colour of the only thing he thought was cool, His trendy little power punch with tassels on the top They snatched it from his hands and told him “start to be a man” He was holding out for someone special, But boobs are really nice Every time you fall you gotta add it to the wall It once was white but now its not so find a spot for all the rest Your break away has given you a chance to see a different view There’s beauty in the paint you used to think was just a mess Orange was like a wrecking ball His house, his wife, it took it all Just because he got into a tussle at the bar Green was what the police found When searching through his homeboys pound And now they have him dressed up Like he’s going to the track He woke up from his dream and realized what it all means He knows he’s gotta make a change or else he’s getting something bad He took what life had gave him and he knew that he could make it if his colours had created someone better than his past
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And there it happened yet again, you ripped my knees right off the doorstep So used to being quarantined, my only hope is you won't notice A selfish truth is wringing out all of the joy I know I could have What can I say, that gaze was real, yet still there was a sullen judgement It's so dark that I can't see you Yet in this moment your words are vague Is it just me, or am I see-through 'cause you just know what's coming next Why do you look at them so differently than me? You know they're just so fake and superficial, overrated Yet I'm just another disease I've barely seen the light of day, and what's the use, the sun is blinding When self-control is making up all of the reasons not to do it So take your guilt and take your blame and lock it back where it became an instrumental part of everything we tried to start I SWEAR!!1 I'll give it back to you someday It's so dark that I can't see you Yet in this moment your words are vague Is it just me, or am I see-through 'cause you just know what's coming next I know it's not a choice, I wish that you could see Oh how I would give everything to be with you But nope fuck that I'm just another disease I know you know.
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Swing 06:44
Killing me with contraventions Nothing but some poor intentions What’s the difference in not caring When I lack the will to carry Weight I’ve bore from you at this birth After being one to pervert Everything I’ve ever lusted Truth is now a figment of What I’ve come to own in the last of what was dead So I’m living off of drugs and these promises inept Don’t you think there’s something more when I know that there’s nothing fucking left Well, I don’t know who I am anymore I’ve felt so lost, in a wispy confusion through sore bloodshot eyes And it’s nothing compared to when I was so goddamn manipulated To believing it’s something worth all these broken words’ regrets There is nothing more to say yet I’m pondering what’s left I don’t know what I’m saying and it’s probably nothing but useless shit I know I’m just something to abhor I see me coming round, I see that you You always thought I was afraid of you, it’s so true And still you see me fucking standing there Couldn’t it be any more obvious oh my dear The things they say that cannot be undone Why am I just wandering around waiting for you, you, you I only figured it’s a nice surprise So I’ll just go and say my last goodbyes… Killing me with contraventions I know you had good intentions Why the hell am I still caring When I’ve lost the will to carry Weight I’ve bore from you at this death After you were one to subject Everything we’ve ever trusted Truth is now a bullshit cause And now I’ve lost all hope Oh I think I’m tasting led You will never lift the sin With the voice inside your head I am living the insanity And questioning my very existence I just hope that I’m not your whore
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People of our world you’ll see you’re headed towards hypocrisy Buy it, chew it, spit it out, and claim it’s an emergency. Blame it on the ones you love and bleed it till their bones are numb Killing off and saving never, crows and craft will be forever Stupid hands are full of lies and real people never cry, So cry with me and play pretend that you and me have hope again I’m hoping for a win this time cause one and one and two is four I’m probably wrong, I never thought, they told me not to count Overthrown by everything you thought you owned (The broken poor, The endless plastic machines,) And it’s hard to keep up living here when there’s something creeping up (They’re wanting more, We keep buying them out) I never saw it in the distance, but the way you walked away (So when I scream, and there’s only the world, its thoughts, and me) It was like shock therapy to my heart, and for this I’m so damn sorry I forgot to say (Then I’ll believe, but I’m sorry I forgot to say) But until I find If it works, the world is burning down today The world is burning down today. So fucking stop and don’t agree, you only add to the flame when you wanna be. But take the chance it’s a shot in the dark, When you’re holding the hand of your credit card. I’ve found, your life, Isn’t worth, their pathetic cultivation in motivation for laissez-faire. Is it something for the better, cause nothing’s worth an open letter Written from atop your palisade You aren’t like me, you’re just better Giving for a chance to sever In the hearth of fate that’s slipped away It all falls away So please, see I, wanted only for the honest ones to make it in this life. Now we must try to find it deep within ourselves It’s lost within yourself Overthrown, by all the things I said I’ve done and known (The broken poor, The endless plastic machines,) And still I find myself in here with nothing but a dream (They’re wanting more, We keep buying them out) It was so distant, like forever then until the day we seethe (So when I scream, and there’s only the world, its thoughts, and me) And what’s the worst is that it’s nothing new, it’s engrained in your stupid fucking society (Then I’ll believe, but I’m sorry I forgot to say) To dissuade You repay What you have done to all of me More than what’s at stake What’s at stake? The world is burning down today
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Synesthesia 05:17
Clothes to mourn summer's light Where they sleep and I have died Sometimes snows when it is warm And they lay, quiet I keep the daze of the transcendental thoughts yet to be born Unlike the secrets written on our temples, and adorn the waves And soon the colours will not change if changing me is for the way you crave my hands A midnight in the atmosphere of everything I've come to know It was shale blue like these eyes for you As you said it was more than real - what it was to you I don't think I could outrun the distance we have passed today Those jagged teeth and monstrous glands oozing out the aftermath of joy Yet still I find: a moment's not so useless when the restless yearning ends for all time The colours of the place between the closet and the bed left of my mind The last of orange and the red was there and goes beyond what we define The plays beyond the confines of the palace we will sculpt and then be born Everything I do I swear there's always so much more If you can feel it in me The synapse sees

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released April 29, 2016

Michael Craigen: vocals, guitars, bass
Jose Cruz: drums
Julian Thompson: vocals
Matthew Trujillo: bass
with Evan Bernardy: tenor saxophone on track 5

Produced by Nick Hutchings and Michael Craigen
Recorded at Red House Studios, Walnut Creek, CA, and Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA in February & March 2016
Mixed by Ryan Ellery

Music by Michael Craigen
Lyrics on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7 by Michael Craigen; track 3 by Julian Thompson; track 6 by Julian Thompson and Michael Craigen

Cover art by Oliver Reyes


Thank you to all the following awesome people for supporting us in one way or another:

Laurie Craigen, Paul Craigen, Ollie Reyes, Saint Mary’s College Public Safety, Lauren Lorge, Nikole Vendl, Marysela Padilla, Benjamin Rehm, Carlos Torres, Amanda Ramos, Marty Rokeach, Sonia Trujillo, Richard Trujillo, Jonathan Trujillo, Kathryn Gärlick, Nick Saxton, Kevin Hernandez, Conor Maher, Lorenzo Luna, Percy Fountain, Amelia Chantarotwong, Courtney Utter, Kelly Lynch, Sofia Burille, Yvonne Cruz, Joe Cruz, Jon Cruz, Jay Cruz, Cheryl Untalan, Ching Batimana, Audre Rae Mcauslen, Kenneth Rettenberg, Alejo Santos, Issa Santos, Lawrence lizama, Scott Milne, Sean Tartaglia, Sawyer Boigenzahn, Adam Buckley, Mitch Varley, John Bruce, Brian Emmerson, Dianne Thompson, Pat Nuemann, and Luke Pabich.

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4 dudes. Boisterous sounds. Cheap Mexican food.

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