• No One In Control is officially out on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and at your local independent record store!  You can also see the new video for “So Red” which is currently being featured via MTV Buzzworthy.

  • Consequequence of Sound is streaming No One In Control in it’s entirety ahead of the May 14th release date.  Head over and take a listen!

    http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/05/listen-to-snowdens-sophomore-album-no-one-in-control/

  • https://soundcloud.com/snowdenofficial/sets/keep-quiet
    Go listen to the new single “Keep Quiet” from the album No One In Control releasing May 2013.  Remixes are available for download from Niva and Savile.

  • The new video for “The Beat Comes” just debuted on Stereogum.  Head over and see what they had to say!

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No One In Control

No One in Control

My oh my how easy I am at a loss
words and shirts and a cross slip right off
middle of a summer night you just go
for a ride and get high and sing Nina Simone

I could tell that there was no one in control
that’s exactly why I liked it and oh how I liked it
it spins so fast that I can’t hold on even though
my teeth are deep as nails in the only part I got

black widows and too much salt in that drawl
from that grin, when you crawl I mumble “oh dear God”
I wanted you to curb your tongue but you would not
now that dirty mouth is all that I want

I could tell that there was no one in control
that’s exactly why I liked it and oh how I liked it
it spins so fast that I can’t hold on even though
my teeth are deep as nails in the only part I got

face down in a puddle of things you left
and a mess from my head I was not ready for all of this
biggest crash of my whole life and outside
your plane and train and car are all on time

I could tell that there was no one in control
that’s exactly why I liked it and oh how I liked it
it spins so fast that I can’t hold on even though
my teeth are deep as nails in the only part I got

So Red

It’s a slow soft syrup of lofty lines
like a dead lover’s tongue through an overdrive
when the room is ablaze just want to get out alive
I could be a poet but we don’t have time

you’re so red that it hurts

It’s a slow soft syrup that covers me when
you model a cache of your cigarettes
they are simple chemicals
and they’re all in my head
when I feed my eyes yeah I manifest ’cause

you’re so red that it hurts

it’s not that simple

Anemone Arms

We are your sympathy and your home
though all those people say we’re not your friends
we hold you warm in anemone arms
and nod our heads to whatever you say

religious to the other extreme
we allow you everything
have all the fun that you want
we’ll catch your tongue if you go too far

we will keep you
we will hold you
warm in our anemone arms
’til your heart dissolves in our anemone arms
dance until you fall in our anemone arms
’til your heart dissolves in our anemone arms

and if you fall onto the floor
and get all over our feet
you are not that dirty
we are not that clean

we are your sympathy and your home
while you are waiting for your man
we sing you songs you can play on your own
and read you poems you can understand

we will keep you
we will hold you
warm in our anemone arms
’til your heart dissolves in our anemone arms
dance until you fall in our anemone arms
’til your heart dissolves in our anemone arms

The Beat Comes

Such a hustle, all the hands in your pie
swallow all of it, wash it down with pride
sending shivers, up and down their spines
save the pulp, save the pulp

macerated down to the bone
almost hate it but I know that you don’t
caught in waves of headless spinning
bet on red but black keeps hitting

bob your head ’til the beat comes
red corvette and lithium
long winter, you went south
there’s no way to go back now

bend a little, get what you can get
all I have won’t cover have of the rent
tried to swallow, but I just couldn’t
save the pulp, save the pulp

macerated down to the bone
almost hate it but I know that you don’t
caught in waves of headless spinning
bet on red but black keeps hitting

bob your head ’til the beat comes
red corvette and lithium
long winter, you went south
there’s no way to go back now

bob your head ’til the beat comes
keep your mouth off the cannon
I shiver down south
there’s no way to go back now

there is no way to go back now
you can never come back now

Hiss

I never lied, I never lied
I never promised or led you on
that I would ever want more
than hold the rhythm and have fun

if you like this sound
if you wanna make this sound
turn the bottom up
turn yourself down

I don’t need your hiss
though they love your lips
though they want your hips
you’re not over this
must it end this way
put your pride away
stay and dance with me
stay and dance with me
and cut the mids

when we swing we’re at peace
we’re like trees shaking our leaves
and they believe that we are lovers
and not clawing at each other

if you like this sound
if you wanna make this sound
turn the bottom up
turn yourself down

I don’t need your hiss
though they love your lips
though they want your hips
you’re not over this
must it end this way
put your pride away
stay and dance with me
stay and dance with me
and cut the mids

Keep Quiet

Is it so much for me to ask

I love how you ride
with your bed empty at night
still you wake up all smiles

I love how you ride
with your bed empty at night
even God can’t get inside

I thought that I could stand
and keep quiet
I thought that I could stand
’til you showed your face again

oh you are so proud
with your hands in your pockets
with your hands over your mouth
you will graduate
when you fall so hard you break
’til then I will pray for rain
while you’re standing over me

I thought that I could stand
and keep quiet
I thought that I could stand
’til you showed your face again

Don’t Really Know Me

Valium in volumes
I thought I found a cure for my problem
where I bleed from sleeves
and it pours on everyone that I meet
I made clear where I was coming from
and you touched me again
so I assumed that you could swim

no you don’t want to know me
’cause you don’t really know me
she said

never, I will never let you go

I am going to be your dog
are you ready to be a god
everything that’s expected of
everything that’s requested of

wait outside of your place
in the haziest state
honey don’t be afraid
I cut you into my leg
don’t be afraid
this is how true love behaves

no you don’t want to know me
’cause you don’t really know me

Not Good Enough

Back to the basement
pack it up shut it in
she used to come around when
the room was full of poison
and pink and white noises

she would sit on my shoulder
and the sound would form walls
up and down reverb halls
now my hair is falling out
broken strings and all
but she will not come here
when she is called, she said

leave your lovers in their warm beds
I don’t like you when you’re content
build us a church out of guitars and speakers
out of the best that you’ve got
your best is not good enough

been a good sucker
still and so quiet
didn’t push or pry it
while she put the touches
on someone else’s Lover’s Spit

she won’t come back to my shoulder
like she used to come around
buried in that wall of sound
I’ll curl up again if she’ll sing to us
but she won’t come if it’s on purpose

leave your lovers in their warm beds
I don’t like you when you’re content
build us a church out of guitars and speakers
out of the best that you’ve got
your best is not good enough

que sera

Candy for Everyone

It’s hard meeting ends
in your chest or with dividends
and you pray in deep breaths
and long pulls from cheap gin

and there’s no shade of red
in a pocket book or sunset
that can clean up the mess
that is made by a lover’s lips

try though you feel it’s not time

come on, there is candy for everyone

it’s hard keeping track
between the breakdowns and setbacks
and there’s no changing the fact
that some strays never come back

and there is no shade of red
in a pocketbook or sunset
that can clean up the mess
that is made by a lover’s lips

try though you feel it’s not time
try and open your mind

come on, there is candy for everyone

No Words No More

Even the laziest devil sits on your youth and you cry
he watches your mistakes until the day you die
and then someone appears to assist you
this one puts a different doubt in your mind

no words, no words no more
no words, no reasons why

some people like to swim in pools under blue sky
some people further down the road than you and I
they like the blue light, the light I always find
some people further down the road than you and I

no words, no words no more
no words, no reasons why

This Year

This year the gravel will hold
when I lay down tracks
aspirations will become actions
when it’s never overcast

if you want I will take you
but we have to go now

this year the time will pass slow
’cause I’m wanting you in New York
more than you’ll ever know

if you want to I will take you
but we have to go now
if there’s a will, I will pay
for your ticket

late to bed and early to rise
I will see everything under the city lights
the miscalculations and great expectations
I forgot to leave at home

so I’ll keep a quarter in my pocket
for when the search can’t keep me warm
and I will break and I’ll call you and wish
I’d never left home
I’m a sucker, I thought I had it all worked out

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