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Everybody OK?

by The Wendy Birds

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1.
Future Boy 02:41
You up there on the screen I'd be your future boy My big eyed bird in the movies I'd be your future boy Cause if that is what you need A cinematic boy like me To come along and set you free Don't fear Superboy is here It feels good to me As the wisdom runs A boy should know his limitations I've talked myself through less Can I be your future pest Cause if that is what you need A sycophantic boy like me To tell you things you really don't need Oh joy I'm your boy It feels good to me Don't fear Superboy is here It feels good to me
2.
Ascend 03:36
Sitting on the floor She dreams of her disaster Outside the city moans Unaware of the coming storm She closes her eyes And goes faraway She’d like to ascend But she knows this is how the world ends The world is cruel But she’s got echoes of a better time With the sun on her face And her feet on the waterline She closes her eyes And goes to that place She tries to pretend But she knows this is how the world ends How did it come to this? How did it get this far? Maybe with a mother’s kiss The lights wouldn’t be so dark She closes her eyes And knows not today She’d like to ascend But she knows this is how the world ends The world ends Sitting on the floor She dreams of her disaster
3.
I know it's crazy the way that I feel only a ghost of myself every now and then we all fall apart every now and then we all fall short and why can't I move on don't leave me here thinking that it's all my fault every fight we ever fought everything I ever thought was real was not I'm moving I’m moving along in retrograde
4.
I could feel it in the air Climbing up the walls Smell the cigarettes Filtered through the alcohol Never felt so good Can't describe the high of moving at the speed of light Up above the Earth Waving as the world goes by Never felt so high Never knew I could feel so alive We can't turn back Come too far Out of the black All the stars are out tonight and we're Hanging from the satellites There's a beauty in the innocence beneath the skin Bulletproof Raise the roof Now the show begins Never want to stop Whatever it is that we've got We can't turn back Come too far Out of the black All the stars are out tonight and we're Hanging from the satellites Hanging from the satellites I hear them coming now They're here to shut us down And in my dreams we play on and on Until all the stars are gone We can't turn back Come too far Out of the black All the stars are out tonight and we're Hanging from the satellites Hanging from the satellites Hanging from the satellites
5.
Every wall is painted black Stick on stars react And light up your face As we quietly collapse What if we just jumped right now And leave it all behind Maybe we would hit the ground Maybe we would fly Silhouettic Milky Way We make our great escape And leave the world outside Until it slowly burns away What if we just jumped right now And leave it all behind Maybe we would hit the ground Maybe we would fly Can we make it to the sun? Can we stay awake all night long? Can we find a way to hold on? Hold on We live We die Who cares tonight Nothing is impossible What if we just jumped right now And leave it all behind Maybe we would hit the ground Maybe we would fly
6.
God knows I didn't need anything I just wanted to be with you Sometimes I felt like an acrobat Swinging round and out of view And you should know I'm letting go Strike another match Toss it on the bridge Watch it burn and laugh at it I can't believe my eyes The panic and the sting So much pain in pretty things You thought that you were exceptional For a second so did I This kind of love is not rational Out of body, Out of mind And you should know I've let you go Strike another match Toss it on the bridge Watch it burn and laugh at it I can't believe my eyes The panic and the sting So much pain in pretty things When you lie awake at night Do you try not to sleep Cause when you dream you see me? Strike another match Toss it on the bridge Watch it burn and laugh at it I can't believe my eyes The panic and the sting So much pain in pretty things So much pain in pretty things So much pain in pretty things
7.
So you and I could live forever-after here tonight It’s cold outside The ghost of California on my mind And when the world comes to an end Was I the man I could have been Or was I just irrelevant Like a day without you And when your eyes Reflected underneath the Christmas lights I could have died and that would be the best day of my life And when the world comes to an end Was I the man I could have been Or was I just irrelevant Like a day without you Without you Without you And when the world comes to an end Was I the man I could have been Or was I just irrelevant Like a day without you So you and I could live forever-after here tonight
8.
I watch the world explode Outside of my window Everything is spinning around me I want to lose control Do you know what I mean? I come apart at the seams I want to live like a big world pop star I want to hang like the man on the moon I want to live like a big world pop star Just like you I try to catch my breath But I just lose my head Sometimes I feel like I’m in a movie That just never ends Do you know what I mean? Replay the same old scene I want to live like a big world pop star I want to hang like the man on the moon I want to live like a big world pop star Just like you Do you know what I mean? I can’t wake up from this dream I want to live like a big world pop star I want to hang like the man on the moon I want to live like a big world pop star Just like you Just like you
9.
You don’t have to say you’re sorry I already know I just hope that you are happy out there And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think of you sometimes We could begin again We could live again All we wanted to be A little extraordinary Tell me where you think we went wrong I would love to know Are we only sentimental machines? The universe is littered with a million stories Just like ours We could begin again We could live again All we wanted to be A little extraordinary Have we suffered enough? Have we suffered enough? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) We could begin again We could live again All we wanted to be A little extraordinary
10.
You were like a razorblade The way your eyes could cut through me And I would happily bleed out For the whole wide world to see And maybe we're better off apart Maybe I'm lying Maybe after all that we've been through The least that we deserve The last kiss on earth Claustrophobic in my skin I was always stretching out You could always drawl me in Your intentions upside down And maybe we're better off apart Maybe I'm lying Maybe after all that we've been through The least that we deserve The last kiss on earth The last kiss on earth And if the sun burns out without a sound Put your lips against my mouth Hold your breath dear No one's left here And maybe we're better off apart Maybe I'm lying Maybe after all that we've been through The least that we deserve The last kiss on earth The last kiss on earth The last kiss on earth....
11.
Hello? Is there anybody in there? Nod if you can hear me Is there anyone home? Come on now I hear you're feeling down I can ease your pain Get you on your feet again Relax I need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where it hurts? There is no pain you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you say When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb I have become comfortably numb Okay Just a little pinprick There is no more pain But you may feel a little sick Can you stand up? I do believe it's working, good That'll keep you going for the show Come on it's time to go There is no pain you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you say When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone I have become comfortably numb

about

The Wendy Birds is Matt Mocharnuk.

We are off to Never, Neverland and this is where I make landfall on the primordial shores of my songwriting journey. “Everybody OK?” is a collection of covers, rarities, and demos.

“Future Boy” was spontaneously recorded live at Earthtones Studio (Greensboro, NC) with Benjy Johnson. I was in the studio that day to record a few new Bittersweet Machines songs and during a moment of downtime I just launched into an acoustic performance of this Catherine Wheel song. Fortunately, we were recording the vocal and we spent another 15-20 minutes layering a few esoteric guitars around it and all of a sudden we had this very cool and accidental moment archived.

“Ascend" is a song that I co-wrote with Singaporean pop icon Kevin Mathews. I've been a fan of his for years so the chance to collaborate with such a prolific and gifted artist was a real joy. I remember listening to the instrumental track over and over while on a long walk through the woods. The story unfolded before me as the lyrics and vocal lines revealed themselves in full by the time I made it home. The story of a young woman’s unraveling as she struggles to keep her nefarious impulses from spilling into the streets below. Every night she wins a private war... until she doesn’t.

"In Retrograde" was co-written with Dutch soundscape artist Marcel Agterhuis. He sent me this beautiful piece of 2 minute ethereal piano and it moved me to compose the lyric and vocal performance. I love that it's a song with no chorus but instead a free flowing loosely tethered construct.

The remaining tracks are demos that I recorded before starting up Bittersweet Machines. I wrote and recorded tracks 4-10 at a home studio in 2010. "Comfortably Numb" was produced there too; during the same sessions.

It’s interesting for me to reflect on these songs. They give me a better sense of where I was from a songwriting perspective before formally starting my independent career. The songs feel a bit like walking on wobbly legs; they are just about working properly but maybe not confidently and gracefully. If I was a bit more arrogant I might even refer to this release as a sort of a collector's item (although I’m immediately cringing as I write this sentence). I never returned to these songs because I always felt like it was important to move forward and create something new but I also think it's a lot of fun to look back at where I started. This is a part of my development process that seemed to be worth archiving. Maybe not the best part of my story but definitely a necessary chapter. Even with all of the flaws, blemishes and little monsters scratching below the surface of these recordings, I'm still really proud of them because without these songs; I most likely would never have found the confidence to soldier on and build out the Bittersweet Machines catalogue.

credits

released October 31, 2021

The Wendy Birds is Matt Mocharnuk

Track 1 written by Dickinson and Futter
Track 2 written by Mocharnuk & Mathews
Track 3 written by Mocharnuk & Agterhuis
Tracks 4-10 written by Matt Mocharnuk
Track 11 written by Waters and Gilmour

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Bittersweet Machines Greensboro, North Carolina

Bittersweet Machines is Matt Mocharnuk

2022 - Edge of the Nocturne Sea
2020 - Disco Volante
2019 - The Stars & Ground
2018 - No Bad Horizon
2016 - Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
2014 - Momentary Lights
2012 - Solituda

Bonus:
-Stripped of Starlight [acoustic]
-The Wendy Birds: Everybody OK? [rarities]
-And Diamond Stars Shine Glitter Bright [EP]
-Seraphina [single]
-Stumbling with Grace [single]
... more

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