Name: I was an Oligarch
Duration: P00H02M29S
Description: I was an Oligarch is the second single from The Bees, the new album from Frog Eyes out on Paper Bag Records on April 29th.

I was an Oligarch

by Frog Eyes

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I was an Oligarch is the second single from The Bees, the new album from Frog Eyes out on Paper Bag Records on April 29th.

lyrics

Radio’s sound is the slam of the gate

Is the creak of the stairs as we dance up to the stairs

I was an oligarch

19 years stashed under my (white) belt

I cut my hair I cut my pants I rolled them up so I could dance and now I’m pulled apart

We want to freak out yell right on and scream

The angles the angles the medium means:

Rah Rah Carey you’re a wayward son

You’re a billionaire of fan you puked into a paper bag

And called it Pokemon

You were brave you were dumb you were salt in the sun

You kicked the dinner off the table and embarrassed everyone

When you were 21

We want to freak out yell right on and scream

The action was heavy the mother-load mean

Oh the Monarchist’s seam: that’s not what I mean

All the ___ and the steam: that’s not what I mean

Oh that youth can be mean: yeah wow wow you’re the voice of esteem

That is all that I can hoist: my voice and my blood that is mean

Bounce bounce bounce: it’s an essence an ounce

I felt the riches of the world in the firmamental dew

I was an oligarch

credits

released March 8, 2022
tw: @frogeyesband
shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/the-bees

The Bees was written in 2020 and recorded in two sessions in spring 2021

John Raham engineered the sessions at Afterlife Studiosfrhyme

Carey Mercer engineered some guitar overdubs and the synthesizer parts

Harris Newman mastered The Bees at Greymarket Mastering

Cover image is Horse and Rider (2021), by Janice Nowinski, courtesy the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.

Frog Eyes is, on The Bees:

Carey Mercer, vox, guitars, organizing/mixing/engineering, composition

Shyla Seller, synthesizer, organizing/editing/sound manipulation

Melanie Campbell, drums, editing, composition

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Frog Eyes Vancouver, British Columbia

Frog Eyes are back with a new album, The Bees out April 29, 2022 via Paper Bag Records.

tw: @frogeyesband

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