Cosmo Jarvis

Released: June 10, 2009

Producer: Cosmo Jarvis

I don’t care what you do,
She says she’s in love with you
But I know the devil wears a thousand faces.

So what you telling me,
That you found love truly
But let go or you’ll forget the basics?

Like who’s your friends you know,
The ones you always told you trusted
But you’re a double agent.

Yes everybody tries,
To run two perfect lives,
But you’ve changed and boy I cannot take it.

Minute by minute,
A love sweet love,
I don’t get why you haven’t had enough.
Second by second,
It wears you away and you’re gone.

When will you just learn she’s got you
Wrapped round her little finger?
When will you just learn she’s got you
Wrapped round her little finger?

We were brothers and
There were no others, man
I told you that all of this would happen.

Just look what you did,
Now you’re a weird kid
And those girlies aren’t good until you have one.

Well I’m not jealous of you,
I’m just a fella who remembers
Before you grew up.

She’s gunna eat your soul,
Leave you with a hole
Needs filling. No-one can fill it up.

Minute by minute,
A love sweet love,
I don’t get why you haven’t had enough.
Second by second,
It wears you away and you’re gone.

When will you just learn she’s got you
Wrapped round her little finger?
When will you just learn she’s got you
Wrapped round her little finger?

I still think that she’s evil and that she will blow you away
And that she will steal everything that your meant to say.
You’re still around but you’re not who you were born,
So why won’t you sit and let reality dawn.

When will you just learn she’s got you
Wrapped round her little finger?
When will you just learn she’s got you
Wrapped round her little finger?

Critic, journalist, sometime musician, onetime actor, and full-time Midwesterner Mark Deming provides a discographic-based biography for Cosmo Jarvis:

“Singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Cosmo Jarvis has earned a devoted following for his witty, often satiric tunes about the foibles of relationships and contemporary life, often rooted in personal experience, as well as his own self-produced videos and short subjects that have given his work a global online audience. Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis was born on September 1, 1989 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Jarvis' family relocated to the United Kingdom when he was young, and he grew up in Devon in Southwest England. Jarvis began writing songs when he was only 12 years old, around the same time he began making short films using a VHS video camera. While Jarvis' early videos were little more than documentation of pranks played with his friends, with time he began constructing more complex narratives, and similarly his songs began to evolve, ranging from folk-inspired acoustic guitar pieces and elaborate pop tunes to tongue-in-cheek hip-hop tracks.

At the age of 16, Jarvis quit school to focus on his creative work, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his debut album, an 18-song set called Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch, which was released by the British indie label Wall of Sound. The album combined Jarvis' observational tunes with a cycle of songs reflecting the emotional turmoil of his parents' stormy relationship. Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch received enthusiastic notices from the British music press, but it didn’t sell especially well, and Jarvis teamed with 25th Frame for his second release, Is the World Strange or Am I Strange? A track from the album, “Gay Pirates,” became an Internet sensation after Jarvis' low-budget video for the song was endorsed in a Twitter post by actor and author Stephen Fry, and subsequent airplay helped make the second album a commercial success. While continuing to tour, write songs, and record music, Jarvis has also been writing and directing a feature film, provisionally titled The Naughty Room. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi"

more tracks from the album

Humasyouhitch / Sonofabitch

From the album

Humasyouhitch / Sonofabitch (2009)

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