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for a while I thought that I needed a simple life just like in most dreams for a while the sun was shining so clearly in the sky where vanity lies but then those thoughts went away and I started thinking that I’d stay alone for a while but now I’m old and dry for a while I thought that I was needed for a while I thought I meant something but to my fellow men I’m no proper reason to get out of bed and head for the unknown in the eyes of my God I have a purpose, but for feeble me it’s really hard to see and I have no such courage, as to be abandoned by my fellow men and if I had a wife I’d promise that I’d stay by her side even if I’m old and dry and when she’d eventually start to die I promise I’d retire to spend some quality time with my slowly decaying wife but that’s just a chance of one in a million and I’d rather die than try to live that life
2.
Come of Age 02:52
come of age you’ll want to die and who am I to deny that impulse? a faithless soul won’t realise we are destined just to die in this hell and live as well nothing ever changes for the good, no matter how it should, no matter how you think it could the best of us ain’t here for long and that’s how I know we ain’t a part of that group the living go on to die most of the dead wait for a salvation gone correct me if I’m wrong but nothing ever changes for the good so I pray it would but I can’t feel my faith like I should death is afoot stomping on my lungs and brain my dark and deranged silent side I hate that won’t save you I wouldn’t save you even if I could cos when you were by that fire hearing stories about desires so bad that you could puke it is all true in this world that gets worse and worse nothing ever changes for the good and the love that should exist will one day surely cease to
3.
Acid 02:49
your head cut and split your dreams purposely built you can not forsake me now that I’m all alone your mind lost in acid now you can hardly breathe here where you have no need all feeling lost or plastic you’ll never get out here alive and well all’s well that ends well but this won’t so now you know the truth your future hangs around those things that you can’t even do and if you walk right through that vicious circle you’ll be tied the commoners declare that you are simply out of your mind you’ll never get out here alive and well all’s well that ends well but this won’t just keep on breathing with this beat severe all’s well that ends well but this won’t ever
4.
Solitary 04:23
for one moment in this young boy’s life he felt like he would be alright just hanging with his mind and no-one else by his side for a fleeting second this deceiving lie was the truth for him so he went along just singing his own songs and when it’s like that.. well, you don’t know what you lack it’s so easy to be alone when you only care about your own songs and at night before you sleep there’s nothing in your mind you can be that way forever you and I, we don’t know what we’ve lost for we think about other lives and no-ones ready for what they find a severe concussion, a ruthless strike came along his life and made him realise that the world in his mind has no company and when it’s like that it’s not so easy to be alone when you don’t only care about your own songs and at night before you sleep there’s all this stuff in your mind you can’t be that way forever you and I, we don’t know what we’ve got inside our deepest thoughts and desires and no-one’s ready for what they find there’s no darker place devoid of light how could have he realised that the truth within would be the end of him but when he did he refused to be solitary he refused his lies cos it’s not so easy to be alone when you don’t only care about your own songs and at night before you sleep there’s sterner stuff in your mind you can’t be that way forever you and I, we don’t know what we’ve got inside our deepest thoughts and desires and no-one’s ready for what they find so we refuse to be solitary we refuse our lies or at least we try
5.
I’m forever in my place but you are not in yours I don’t care of my place but you’re content with yours it’s like heaven decided that my fate is pain while you remain in control of your game and you’re good at it too cos when it comes down to it I don’t think I belong in this world of yours where the good succeed and the bad people don’t cos the measure of a man might be hard to understand when we don’t even set where we are born yet I’m not forever hopeless like one might think I put my faith in some other place in some other King it’s like heaven decided that I won’t be alone even amidst all this chaos of the world you call your own cos when it comes down to it I don’t think I belong in this world of yours where the good succeed and the bad people don’t cos the measure of a man might be hard to understand when we don’t even set where we are born and we have not seen the corners of it all we can’t explain the power of a song and even though we’ve tried we can’t make up our minds about the reasons behind it all
6.
baby, how can you say you’ll mess it up either way? don’t dare your maker Launching down on tracks you’ll waste more than I can say let me out puny, soulless doubt withering breeze from the enemy scream and shout puny, soulless doubt I ache to see and I ache to feel but in this land it’s enough to understand what it takes to be a man baby, what’s there more to say? you’ll take the risk anyway bring yourself up launching down on tracks end all longing end all hurt while in this land we can never understand how we begun and how we’ll end let me out puny, soulless doubt withering breeze from the enemy scream and shout puny, soulless doubt I ache to see and I ache to feel give or take a few years, we’ll have a taste and then it will be too late so boast with all you’ve got I don’t think I’ll mind you it’s nothing new so go ahead and gloat it will come to haunt you it’s nothing new
7.
Sin 04:02
we made this world a mess You let us digress You gave us hearts so pure but let us ruin it all at least by some kind of chance perhaps by fate enhanced You turned me around and of Your wounds I am proud they are a shroud over sin, our disgrace and biggest fault impenetrable, strong like a fort only a true God can build sometimes I can see no difference in deities just as intense as this world is and You but You allow me to see You gave us your word made us messengers on this earth so we could be saved and our sin erased people claim it’s hard to reach you people claim it’s hard to see through our bodies and anxieties that Your son is our saviour He is our saviour over sin, our disgrace and biggest fault impossible to clean or to annul at least by human means sometimes I can see no difference in a book about You or about someone else but You allow me to see You give me belief
8.
your heartache dances with every word the struggle’s endless, hope is no beacon for your grind ever again love ain’t suicide sue is lovecide place your trust in sinners for some waste of time there was a beginning, there will be an end to all this suffering the earth keeps spinning its every turn your lungs keep breathing even if you just waste your breath again and again love ain’t suicide sue is lovecide open your heart and return to find a fire there was a beginning, there will be an end to all this suffering and when you go one will stay by your side there where you are lost you are found again and again there was a beginning, there will be an end to all this suffering
9.
the day that I get to heaven I hope that I get to know why all good things had to die, at least for a while and why while in this life you sometimes left me cry and why while married men only live for their wives the loneliest guys sit around and wait for their only God to recognise their pain of being alive ain’t it real enough for you? how many times will you cry seemingly in vain is how many times I will soothe your pain how many times will you shout through the dark of night is how many times I will show you light the day that I get to heaven I hope that I get to know why all good things had to die, at least for a while and why while in this life you sometimes left me cry and why while married men only live for their wives the loneliest guys sit around and wait for their only God to recognise their pain of being alive ain’t it real enough for you? how many times will you cry seemingly in vain is how many times I will soothe your pain how many times will you shout through the dark of night is how many times I will show you light how many times is someone’s chance to help me on my way taken away by my own selfish act is how many times you will lead me back the day that I get to heaven I’m sure that I get to know why all good things had to die, at least for a while and why while in this life you sometimes left me cry and why while married men only live for their wives the loneliest guys sit around and wait for their only God to recognise their pain of being alive, the darkness that’s inside them they need the saviour that originally gave them their painful life
10.
gotta get me some outta dis world you’ll know when I’m gone when I’m not out there now that you know where I’ve gone outta dis world there’s no place like home when your mind is out there now that you know where I’ve gone I’m gonna step on it and be on my way out this town I’m gonna go for it and fly all the way to the sun and outta dis world I’m already lost, why not go out there? now that you know where I’ve gone I’m gonna step on it and be on my way out this town I’m gonna go for it and fly all the way to the sun yeah, I admit I’m guilty as charged yeah, I am yeah, I admit I’m in some deep shit, ain’t I? now that you know where I’ve gone will you listen to my songs?

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released November 19, 2018

Joonas Holmén + The Lossy Codecs
“Sterner Stuff”

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Joonas Holmén - Vocals, guitars, bass & synthesisers

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Codex:

Matti Muhos - Drums
Oiva Ristimäki - Percussion
Johannes Tuovinen - Bass on “Acid”
Tom Holmén - Piano on “Solitary”

String quartet on “Outta Dis World”

Elsi Goesch - Violin
Josefiina Paasonen - Violin
Emmi Hakala - Viola
Aino Hannonen - Cello

Written, recorded, mixed and produced by Joonas Holmén. Mastered by Jaakko Viitalähde at Virtalähde Mastering. Art and design by Ella Kiviniemi. Made in Finland.

Joonas says thanks to: Jonathan Guillaume, Miikka Huttunen, Jussi Karhujoki, Santeri Keinänen, Joakim Keuru, Taneli Korpinen, Niina Lehtonen, Riku Mattila, Walter Metsärinne, Pekka Nisu, Aleksi Rantanen, Antti Samuelsson, Petri Vähäsarja & Joakim Vilja. Also my family and friends.

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Joonas Holmén is a singer-songwriter creating muddy, yet calculated, alternative rock songs. He performs with his band Codex.

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