Get all 16 Seth Adam releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of So Nice To See You (single 2023), Fits and Starts and Stops (album - 2022), At Different Ends (single 2020), East Rock (Remixed and Remastered) (ep 2019), Anytown (single 2018), East Rock (ep 2016), Sampler EP Vol. 2 - FREE Download, Steel Tempered Pride (album 2013), and 8 more.
1. |
Fraud
04:22
|
|||
|
Fraud
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
Do unto others as you’d have done to you
That’s just a promise to walk out the door
When you abandon all the fools you can use
That’s just an avenue to finding more
You need the admiration
like a fiend needs to get his high
Then you deliver empty words in return
so superficial just to pacify
Fooling all the people with your magic
Floating in the air like you’re a god
Wrapped up in your patriotic plastic
Underneath it all you’re just a fraud
You sell the promise of a fortune to those
who would believe your every word
A hollow figure on the stage of the world
A phony savior to observe
Some charlatan proclaiming
he’s the greatest that there is
You testify what’s black & white without a light
You’re just a grifter with an audience
Fooling all the people with your magic
Floating in the air like your a god
Wrapped up in your patriotic plastic
Underneath it all you’re just a fraud
You’re just a fraud
|
||||
2. |
Where Is Your Heart
04:08
|
|||
|
Where Is Your Heart
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
Silhouettes of selves
carving captions on the wall
Counterfeit courage
makes the message look so tall
In your armchair you can look away
from the dreadful things you say
Oh my god man, where is your heart?
Shambles and shadows
children chided for their skin
Empty empathy
passive prayers from fake Christians
Vitriolic words full of disdain
How can you be so inhumane?
Oh my god man, where is your heart?
Have you no compassion
in any of your reaction
Brother, what’s done you so wrong?
Oh my god man, where is your heart?
|
||||
3. |
The Trouble I've Been In
03:31
|
|||
|
The Trouble I’ve Been In
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
They say it’s hard when you’re fixing a life
Trying to pick the broken pieces up, time after time
and every day you spend looking for some parody line
Oh yeah it’s hard trying to make it all work
with a crash that’s hanging overhead and it’s gonna hurt
or get some unsolicited advice from some kind of jerk
You don’t know the trouble I’ve been in
You don’t know the trouble I’ve been in
Hanging in the distance, I’ll take it for the win
You don’t know the trouble I’ve been in
Sometimes it’s hard trying to leave it behind
when habitual consensus keeps me running the light
I’ll take it to a future place on a carousel ride
Oh yeah, it’s hard trying to make it alone
When I think I know better than the sorrow I own
I’m just a harbinger considering the struggles I know
You don’t know the trouble I’ve been in
You don’t know the trouble I’ve been in
Hanging in the distance, I’ll take it for the win
You don’t know the trouble I’ve been in
Make it alone or make it alive
Everybody’s got their sacrifice
I’m just trying to make it through mine
|
||||
4. |
||||
|
Out of Touch (Please Listen)
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
Rust is in the field
the ghosts are passing by it
Slow motion scenery
Not long ago this was a vivid animation
for all American of dreams
Days aren’t always kind
they burn through hesitation
Leaves you holding hollow years
And before you know
another winter’s over
But the spring is never here
Out of time is just on the horizon
Out of luck is harder than it seems
Out of work, I wouldn’t say to try it
Out of touch is what I’ve been
Please listen
We practice our routines
in daily preparation
for unknown anomalies
And still believe in
some goodness of a nation
rife with conspiracies
Now we’re steeped in fear
unfortunate misfortune
And we’re all just standing still
I just want to work
providing for the family
I wonder if I ever will… again…
Out of time is just on the horizon
Out of luck is harder than it seems
Out of work, I wouldn’t say to try it
Out of touch is what I’ve been
I’ll never take so much for granted, I promise… I promise
No, I’ll never take so much for granted again
|
||||
5. |
The Blood, It Runs
03:11
|
|||
|
The Blood, It Runs
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
Another story for the day
contemporary news
Someone shot their gun again
Someone got to choose
to take a life not of their own
take somebody’s breath
A second for the bullet
is a lifetime for the rest
But it’s too soon to talk about tomorrow
And it’s too soon to talk about today
When they all fall down folding one by one
The blood it runs from all the damage that’s been done
Fuck your guns
You say to me just let it go
it’s a goddamn right
Offer up your thoughts and prayers
Habitual replies
“Be silent in the moment, son
the Lord will help you see”
Yeah, I tried to talk to Jesus
but he ain’t listening
But it’s too soon to talk about tomorrow
And it’s too soon to talk about today
When they all fall down folding one by one
The blood it runs from all the damage that’s been done
Fuck your guns
Where is the solution?
What is the compromise?
Politicians take the cash
yet say their hands are tied
While mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
pray for empathy
The culture of the violent
Propagandize their beliefs
|
||||
6. |
Heavy Rain
03:55
|
|||
|
Heavy Rain
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
We got a heavy rain
Looking out the window and it’s all the same
We’ll put it back together when it’s washed away
We can make it better in time
See the sky is clouding over
There’s a storm coming in
So find yourself a little shelter
from the haze upon us again
You want to talk about destruction?
My friend, this is the one
Arguments and turbulence
and a deluge of distraction
We got a heavy rain
Looking out the window and it’s all the same
We’ll put it back together when it’s washed away
We can make it better in time
When we’re feeling mighty broken
in these torrential of times
We find refuge in each other
We’ve got to sympathize
Because the water line is rising
from all the fury above
Before we’re caught in the wreckage
we’ve got to liberate from the flood
We got a heavy rain
Looking out the window and it’s all the same
We’ll put it back together when it’s washed away
We can make it better in time
How I long for a sunny day
when the orange and grey give way
to an atmosphere of love
We got a heavy rain
Looking out the window and it’s all the same
We’ll put it back together when it’s washed away
We can make it better in time
|
||||
7. |
Vermin
04:22
|
|||
|
Untitled I or Vermin
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
See how they run, see how they hide
when they’re uncovered by a little light
Once revealed, they look for dark
To stop the panic in their dirty hearts
When we pull the curtains up
There are villains we will find
Like the vermin that’s been hiding
in the shadows of our time
Look how they run, look how they hide
Witness the grifters become terrified
When they’re discovered, notice the fall
They traffic in the filth of criminals
When we pull the curtains up
there are monsters on the stage
Like the vermin that’s been hiding
In the shadows of our days
The damage is done in darkness
Under the cover they reside
We are the disinfecting light
See how they run, see how they hide
When any good in them has gone and died
Heartless creatures without a soul
They grip the power until they’re exposed
When we pull the curtains up
There are villains we will find
Like the vermin that’s been hiding
in the shadows of our time
When we pull the curtains up
there are monsters on the stage
Like the vermin that’s been hiding
In the shadows of our days
|
||||
8. |
||||
|
You Ain’t Gonna Drag Me Down
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
I am waking from this haze
dreamt of more forgiving days
where the burdens of my fear lifted away
I’ve been unseen and forlorn
shredded cloth that’s been outworn
and my silence will no longer be the same, oh no
‘Cause you ain’t gonna drag me down
You ain’t gonna drag me down
no more, no more
I am walking trepid steps
filled with ordinary breath
and the scars that decorate my weathered soul
Kicked around and tussled up
Bore the brunt and had too much
in a life that’s always bent before the fold
You ain’t gonna drag me down
You ain’t gonna drag me down
no more, no more
Wasted time and constant sadness
A broken body left in ashes
All I wanted was to feel alive
You ain’t gonna drag me down
You ain’t gonna drag me down
no more, no more
|
||||
9. |
Pages
03:25
|
|||
|
Pages
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
I don’t need no words from no Bible
And I don’t think that you’d understand
Take all your pages of contradictions
and crumble them up in your hand
I’m alive on God’s green Earth
I try to be a light in these darker times
So what I’m different from what you believe
You’ve got your mind made up
Don’t you go passing your judgement on me
or damn what you know nothing of
I don’t need no words from no Bible
And I don’t think that you’d understand
Take all your pages of contradictions
and crumble them up in your hand
What I’ve seen - pain in the hearts of those
that try to be the expectation of the only ones they’ve known
Welcome transgressions, allow them to bleed
They become one with the Earth
Manmade decisions of morality
forget what a human is worth
I don’t need no words from no Bible
And I don’t think that you’d understand
Take all your pages of contradictions
and crumble them up in your hand
All that’s misread, missed the message
Love your neighbor, do unto others no harm
I don’t need no words from no Bible
And I don’t think that you’d understand
Take all your pages of contradictions
and crumble them up in your hand
|
||||
10. |
Lennon's Song
04:04
|
|||
|
Lennon’s Song
Music by Seth Adam
Lyrics by Seth Adam
© 2022 Seth Adam, BMI
You came to us in early morning
On the wings of September in the dawn
We’ve come undone
Our lives have now begun
A little stranger, yet familiar
Your eyes look like mine, your mama’s in your face
but not the same
you wear it your own way
today and every day
And now we know our love has grown
This time is no longer our own
Joyous the day you came along
as you begin your song
The most innocent of wonder
Splashing puddles with such spirit in your eyes
It makes you smile
Rainy days are worth the while
And I want the best for you my child
May life give you everything it can afford
to give to you
May you always live your truth
Put your heart in your pursuits
And now we know our love has grown
This time is no longer our own
We’re so glad you came along
as you begin your song
And now we know our love has grown
This time is no longer our own
We’re so glad you came along
This life is all your song
|
||||
Seth Adam New Haven, Connecticut
Singer/songwriter Seth Adam writes compelling, genuine songs with honest lyrics. Taking cues from artists like Counting Crows, Tom Petty, and Jason Isbell, he creates his own brand of edgy, Americana rock & roll.
Seth Adam recommends:
The Backyard Committee
by The Backyard Committee
One of the most honest records I've heard in a long time. There is a "boy-ish," teenage experimentation mixed with a solid, mature knowledge of songwriting skills. A must have for alt-country fans.
go to album
Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!
by Aaron Lee Tasjan
One of the best current artists out there! I've known Aaron for some time now, and he's one of the most creative, hard-working cats in rock & roll! This album is a prime example.
go to albumIf you like Seth Adam, you may also like:
Downey to Lubbock
by Dave Alvin
Soulful guitar interplay form the heart of this lovely Americana collaboration from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
go to album
the happiest man on earth
by Michael VM
Rollicking roots music from Michael VM, “the happiest man on earth” is equal parts grit and soul.
go to album
Echo Dancing
by Alejandro Escovedo
The legendary Alejandro Escovedo returns with another country-rock scorcher.
go to album
24th Street Blues
by Tom Heyman
Tom Heyman documents life in San Francisco circa 2023, refusing to succumb to easy characterization & instead capturing the city’s nuance.
go to album
