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Cheaper Than Therapy

by Baggage

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1.
Flint 02:36
Walking down Saginaw St. I can hardly make it. With all the ice beneath my feet, I can barely feel a thing. Now I’m heading down the block and I’m starting to feel safe, but I know I’m probably not. Why do you stay in town? Is it pride or are you just stubborn now? So I’ll keep asking around for anything going on downtown On Saginaw, the boarded up windows are businesses that fell apart. And fast forward fifteen years, see police on every block only for a mile down the street. They forgot my friends who got robbed twenty feet away The police, they never come. So I pointed to my palm and I said, “This is the city where I’m from.”
2.
Safety Net 03:24
I’ve been listening to the waves again The cold sand beneath my feet And in a way I’ve learned to be at ease with my mistakes Drowning out the sounds of doubt in me But help is what I need This time I thought I had it all figured out Like what went wrong, and had to the time to work it out I knew you, now I don’t know you at all The safety net to catch my fall If it’s a crutch, I’m leaning a little too hard On my weaker side these days You want the truth? I feel like I could never change the world Growing up I thought I could But now, I figured out It’s not the way you feel It’s the way you deal with it This time I thought I had it all figured out Like what went wrong, and had to the time to work it out I knew you, don’t wanna know you at all The safety net to catch my fall It’s OK I know that things have changed There’s no use to complain about the ups and downs When I still feel the same
3.
I can’t help you forget Things you want to say From your hospital bed Another time Another place I’ll help you to annunciate I never got a call The things you want to scream With no voice at all Another time Another place I’ll help you annunciate A better life A better way For me to feel again I have this pain in my chest Distracted by the things in my life that make it a mess You’ll never know how it feels After twenty-something years it’s way too real It’s way too real Now I found a way to breathe Or it’s something in between I have this pain in my chest Distracted by the things in my life that make it a mess You’ll never know how it feels After twenty-something years it’s way too real It’s way too real
4.
So I guess I’ll throw nostalgia out the door But it feels so good traveling back and forth To another world, like the one inside my head You remember me? No one ever did What do you want? What do you want from me? It’s a waste of time when you pop your head inside the door You’re a stranger now, we don’t keep in contact anymore Don’t care where you work or how many kids you have We’ll forget the past and just live our lives instead What do you want? What do you want from me? You want small talk again? These days I can’t relax I feel my time has passed And I’m wasting breath But I hope you’re doing well Oh wait, I still don’t care It’s my transition year Get away from me What do you want? What do you want from me?
5.
I promise I’ll put my phone down Distracted and I’m losing sleep now I notice the miscommunication I’m calming down as I speak out Would you rather be sad? Or feel nothing at all? Would you rather know that There’s a choice that can wipe the pain away Level out chemicals that made you feel so cliche Is it my genetics? Am I bored and reckless? How the fuck did I get this? Answer me Would you rather be sad? Or feel nothing at all? Would you rather know that There’s a choice that can wipe the pain away Level out chemicals that made you feel so cliché And I know that I won’t be closer than I thought To ending it If you listen Hope you listen to me I wrote these songs because They’re cheaper than therapy So I’ll find a way To make you feel, feel OK like me Now I’ll never say you’re feeling strange Feeling strange like me So I’ll find a way to make you feel Feel OK like me Won’t you feel OK like me?

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This five song EP is available as a PAY WHAT YOU WANT download!

Writing these five songs was very therapeutic for me. After a lot of life changes, anxiety attacks and just being overall unhappy, I quit my day job. I focused on my love of writing which opened up a lot of time to work on music. As awkward and strange as it was at first, I made a positive change in my life and used everything negative as fuel for this EP. I feel better and I hope this helps you too.

"It's not the way you feel. It's the way you deal with it."

-Jonathan / Baggage


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released December 16, 2015

Produced and Engineered by Marc Jacob Hudson at Rancho Recordo in Fenton, MI.

Album artwork photograph by Lance Nelson.

Album artwork layout by Michelle Lukezic.

Music by Jonathan Diener and Baggage

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