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Download Our New Single "If I Mean When" Here For FREE!

Added 2019-07-08 19:05:40 +0000 UTC

Beloved Patrons! We are making our new single "If I Mean When" from our upcoming album If/When available as a FREE download for you all!

Our new album is coming on July 30th. If you haven't already, you can pre-order it on Bandcamp at this link!
https://digital.theteaclub.net/album/if-when

I wanted to share this press quote with you all that I gave about the making of this song:

“I felt bombarded by hopelessness and cynicism from all directions. It felt like I was being attacked, like I was trying to maintain hope but I was being beaten down. So I started to come up with these lyrics that were like a caricature of that extreme hopelessness. Yeah yeah, we’re all gonna die and life is meaningless and everyone knows it, so why bother. It was my sarcastic way of pushing back. And I think I accidentally wound up saying something really sincere with this song.”
-Dan McGowan

Here is the single cover artwork:

And here are the lyrics:

I'm just being realistic, I'm not hoping for a cure
Soon there'll be no time to laugh away our sorrows anymore
There'll be nothing else to live for if we're fighting to survive
I say if, I mean when

I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when

There's a buzzing up above me and I don't think it's a bee
I'd like to know what it is there for, but then again it's only me
Someone says they fucked up good this time and left behind a clue
But it's recently outdated, then again, what else is new?

I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when

And I swear we clung to every word, believing it was true
But it's recently outdated then again now so are you

So are you
You

I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when
I say if, I say if
I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when
I say if, I mean when