← more from
Mama Bird Recording Co.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Blue Pilot

from Extra Medium by Izaak Opatz

/

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • 180g "Extra Medium Cheddar" LP (+ Album Download)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    First pressing on limited edition heavyweight 180g "Extra Medium Cheddar" colored 12" vinyl variant in a handsome matte-finished jacket. Package includes download card, lyric inner sleeve & bifold poster.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Extra Medium via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    First pressing on heavyweight 180g classic black 12" vinyl in a handsome matte-finished jacket. Package includes download card, lyric inner sleeve & bifold poster.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Extra Medium via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $22 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    On ye olde compact disc in a handsome matte-finished jacket with a lyric booklet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Extra Medium via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

lyrics

For Christmas, you gave me a leather-bound journal
And a Blue Pilot G-2 10
As I looked at the innocent ink in the reservoir
I thought I knew what it would spell out, then

Looking at you cross-legged on the carpet
Underneath the Christmas tree
I felt as full of love and hopeful for the New Year
As I’d ever had a right to be

You can take your bearings from the present
Try to guess if she’s in love or just smitten
But there’s no way to know what the next page is gonna say
Until it’s been written

At times, I take my daydreams for the future
Forgetting that time is like a river
You can paddle like crazy
You can swim for safety
But it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference
No, it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference

As I fanned through those blank, unlined pages
I could almost see the songs I’d write
Odes, love songs, and sweet dedications
Private entries of tender nights

I’d been so long whining and complaining
About love that fizzled or fled
I filled a lot of Moleskines with discontent
I was gonna fill this one with love instead

At times, I take my daydreams for the future
Forgetting that time is like a river
You can paddle like crazy
You can swim for safety
But it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference
No, it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference

Just one week into the New Year
Just a couple happy pages in
You tore me out like a bad idea
I started writing sad songs again

I might never have filled that notebook
If things had stayed the same
Because love can be a little boilerplate
But the heart breaks a thousand ways

At times, I take my daydreams for the future
Forgetting that time is like a river
You can paddle like crazy
You can swim for safety
But it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference
No, it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference

credits

from Extra Medium, released April 29, 2022
Written by Izaak Opatz
Izaak Opatz: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Trombone
Malachi DeLorenzo: Drums, Backing Vocals
Dylan Rodrigue: Bass, Keys, DG-10, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Izaak Opatz image

Izaak Opatz montana

Lullabies for single people.

contact / help

Contact Izaak Opatz

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Izaak Opatz, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now