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Hit or Miss

by Alexander Biggs

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1.
Low 02:49
Ainslie Chirps like a bird Howls when she’s hurt Speaks to me stern Teaches me words Thrives in the dirt Spills her red wine Ruins my shirts Bloodies my nose Lips like a rose Somewhere to go When I’m low Ainslie Magical mouth Sleeps on the couch Gone somewhere else Comes in and out Whistles me tunes Sings me the blues Misses her youth Drinks 80 proof When she’s blue And I’m low ‘cause she’s hot And cold ‘cause I’m young And she’s old And I’m buying And she’s sold
2.
I want you to love me ‘til all I can do is hate you To kiss me til you bruise me To touch me til it scars And I want you to hold me Til my mind has eroded Til all my bones are broken Til everything goes dark To suck my blood and fill me up With memories of you I want you to fuck me Til I can’t say your name For fear that it will crush me underneath it’s tiring weight I want you to wear me out Just like you wear my clothes To sew your smell into my sheets To wreck the scent of roses And I want to be there Until I hate my birthday ‘Cause I can’t stand one more day Growing old without you To hold me til you drop me Just like a screaming baby To love til we get lazy And lay down on the floor
3.
I stay up late now rise with the sun head in a vice and a phone in my arms I was trying to call you to say what you want I was trying to call you sick to my stomach I got your psychic postal address and I sent a postcard straight to your head I hope that you get it I hope it makes sense I thought of the ocean thought of your legs I rest my head You stumble in Roof's getting damaged hail's coming a meteor shower rattling tin I'd say it is soothing the world could be ending 'least I imagine call me John Lennon I got a paycheck straight to my landlord house that we wanted we can't afford it beats where we last were house made of cardboard in the city busy and bored
4.
Madeleine 03:00
I wanna see you fight for the hell of it Pulling out your knife in the street light Shining so dull on the glitter that flickers like lightning Bouncing off the back of your blade I wanna see some blood on your fingernails Clawing at the club lines vanity There’s a pretty face in there too smart for her own good You’re bound to put her in her place And on the short ride home, we’ll k-hole in the taxi I don’t wanna feel a thing at all I’ve been losing all my lovers Is this what you wanted, Madeleine? I wanna get fucked up like a holiday Spending half my night in the pouring rain Oh I wanna numb my fingers and numb my brain Til I can’t feel anything at all I wanna stay this drunk, wanna celebrate Moving bar to bar like a slow parade Oh, I wanna ride like lightning and crash like thunder Riding down the tracks in our brain I got that sick, sick feeling to hurt somebody Babe, I think there’s something wrong in my brain I’ve been losing all my lovers Is this what you wanted Madeleine? And the sun has been out since I’ve been coming down I don’t know how much more I can take I’ve been lost I’ve been found asleep on the couch Just waiting for the light to fade And I’m trying to work out our wandering doubt Oh loving you is hard somedays I’ve been losing all my lovers is this what you wanted, Madeleine?
5.
Miserable 03:53
We parked your car down the street in the dark Can’t remember where that was You were kissing me a lot We had sex In a yellow tent With the ocean by the front door In a trailer park Am I hard to love With a heart so tough You could cut me And I wouldn’t feel a thing Do I make you miserable I never changed I just learned how to quit As the water slowly boiled I just got used to it I’m glad you stayed ‘Cause my demons did A tiger in a cage Eyeing up a little kid Do I slow you down With my heavy frown If you floated I would sink like a stone
6.
Snakes coil in the radiator hissing out their heat crawled out to the pavement scraped my knees on the concrete and if I said it like I mean it If I stopped to act my age I would feed myself on fireworks and burn as bright as day tongue tied wide eyed at your door rough hands big plans used to talk it's all I know all my days are wasted now I spent them all on you now my time is running out not knowing what to do and every time I see you my eyes are tight shut closed just thinking of you shining like a violent star on show tongue tied wide eyed ghosts recede rough hands big plans over me you're all I know you're all I know A spec of dust in the soft glow you're all I know you're all I know and I'm born into no choice at all you're all I know
7.
All I want's some quiet got a head spin I've been hiding you were gone like lightning ain't that like us? can’t deny it I've been holding onto you for way too long I've been tryna give myself a shot at moving on I've been keeping out of sight, just hiding in the dark I've been trying to keep my mind from running circles all night long something wasn't working took myself out for a few drinks coming, going, so soon just a quick light in a dark room I've been holding onto you for way too long I've been tryna give myself a shot at moving on I've been keeping out of sight, just hiding in the dark I've been trying to keep my mind from running circles all night long
8.
Laundromat 03:55
Wednesday night you took me to a magic show The same night I said I was gonna leave Secretly I hoped that there was something up your sleeve But I don’t think I believed it Bright as day the morning came to leave our place We joked that you would come in my suitcase Dreamed you kissed me as I boarded but you only smiled and waved I’m just glad that you made it I’m not asking you to change I’m not asking you to change I’m just asking you to stay still Cleaned my room took it all to the laundromat Watched the clothes spin round my little head Wondered if my pants could ever wrap around my legs And walk me interstate Sold my things to try and win the lottery To make my money back and find some peace Didn’t have the guts to steal your heart but you sold it to me cheap Something tells me you just leased it I just wanna hear you speak I just wanna hear you speak In the same room as me To wish you well’s a wishing well a Hopeful waste Rather throw my money down the drain To think of you as happy is a burden on my brain And I don’t think I can take it But I hope that you’re okay Oh I hope that you’re okay Dancing on my grave
9.
you are a full blown pasta bake and I am a macaroni necklace you're good anytime and you're warm inside and I'd look pretty around your neck dangling, covered in glitter bring out the shine of your hair endearing at first but nothing is worse than getting that shit everywhere and I wouldn't lie to you I got all that stuff pretty cheap but when you're hung over, when you're tired at least you'd have something to eat you are a high speed car chase and I am just two beers deep getting pulled in to a DUI checkpoint when I just wanna go to sleep you are a high class street sweeper and I'm just a dog on the road and I wish you'd go soft but you're just doing your job besides, I could use the ride home and if you haven't killed me by the time the night is through we'll talk in my kitchen to cover our tinnitus blues and if we finally run out of poison to mush up our brains my local's open 24/7 and they practically give it away
10.
I feel like I'm in a movie walking out into the rain in my exit from your bedroom stealing more than I can take I feel cornered when I hide every sad muscle in my face trick is knowing when to shut your mouth I feel shameful when I kiss you I feel low and I feel high I feel heavy, like I'm drowning when I wake up in the night I feel like I used to know you and now I don't at all still I let this stranger in my house mostly I feel nothing when I'm crawling into bed when I'm curled up right against you with your hands combing my hair mostly I have disappeared receded to my head as you cradle me so gently everpresent, ever there and your eyes are getting heavy while mine fix on the ceiling I know you still got your hooks in I still feel you reel me in I feel like I almost shook you but that habit didn't quit still I scratch at you until I bleed peel back all my skin until I'm just an empty skeleton mostly I feel nothing my mind idling like the car waiting in a Westfield parking lot for an argument to start I am somewhere in the middle not quite near and not quite far and I'm running for the exit in a burning cinema and you're staying for the credits know exactly where you are
11.
Hit or Miss 03:02
Spin me around the old car park my eyes tight shut in a shopping cart take it real slow and then fuck me up I am overused but still so in love as if all we did was just hit or miss morning came slow in a gradual twist put a hand on my heart one around your wrist I'll never know why I kissed your lips I forgot your name why we started this as if all we did was just hit or miss

credits

released February 3, 2021

Recorded and produced by Alexander Biggs
Mixed by Matthew Neighbour
Mastered by Jesse Oberin
Photography and scribbling by Alexander Biggs
Design by Sebastian White
All songs published by Native Tongue Music Publishing

Special thanks to Sabrina Robertson, Matthew Neighbour, Jesse Oberin, Courtney Jewell, Tamsin Wilson, Will Cuming, Sam Burtt, Jess Ellwood, Alexander O'Gorman, David Western, Jackson Phelan, Joe Orton, Dustin Tebbutt, Michael Vince Moin, Maddie Corbin, Sebastian White, Charlotte Abroms, and Matt Tanner, Jaime Gough and the team at Native Tongue. Thanks to my family and friends, and to everyone who continues to listen to my music.

All I Know written by Alexander Biggs and Tamsin Wilson and recorded by Alexander Biggs
I've Been Holding Onto You For Way Too Long written by Alexander Biggs, Sam Burtt, and Will Cuming; recorded by Alexander Biggs
All other songs written, produced and recorded by Alexander Biggs
Additional vocals on All I Know recorded by Tamsin Wilson
Additional vocals on I've Been Holding... by Will Cuming
Drums on Low, Postal Address, I've Been Holding... played by Jess Ellwood and recorded by Alexander O'Gorman
House-quaking by Alexander Biggs, Alexander O'Gorman and Jess Ellwood
All I Can Do Is Hate You and Mostly I Feel Nothing feature tape samples from "Tape Haze 3 Sample Pack' by BlankFor.ms
Wilsen appearing courtesy of Secret City Records

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