Cosmo Jarvis

Released: November 16, 2009

Songwriter: Cosmo Jarvis

Producer: Cosmo Jarvis

Sometimes people can’t see certain things
Apart from when they’re looking down at you
Gonna make you well pissed
It is easier for them to make their judgements in advance
They’re not for you, not really what you wished for

And in the rain, you are the same
You both are wet and cold again and you’re both just girls
And you can multi-task and stuff and sometimes
People find it hard to mingle with the different folk
They lock their doors living with opinions is tough

You’re just an idea that your parents had one day
You’re just an idea that your parents had one day
Being here might make you happy
Being here might make you sad
But it’s still a damn good idea that your parents had

Passing on this fictitious divinity to all their kids
And their kid’s kids and it will never end
And I’m still working out with sugar babies
The most pretty out of all of them and then I work it out again
Because they are attractive young ladies
Admit I copy their CD's but I like track 10

Juggling their heritage with single bedroomed families
With one toilet, gonna get on your nerves
And we don’t live in the capital so all we do
Is have sex with our relatives, we get what we deserve

You’re just an idea that your parents had one day
You’re just an idea that your parents had one day
Being here might make you happy
Being here might make you sad
But it’s still a damn good idea that your parents had

Maybe if we all did as her majesty we all would die
Of being bored, our bones would seize up
Public places act as waiting rooms till we can get
To where we really are and then we get beat up

Brushing shoulders with a stranger
Has become less frequent now as time goes on
'Cause I might have scabies (Love you, dad)
Who has made these lines across the seating plan of life?
Because it wasn’t us, we were all just babies

Now we’re just annoying roommates
Sharing one big lump of planet every day
And it is getting harder every second just to say
What we would like even if it isn’t right and this is all our land

People cannot look at you, relate to anything you do
They nod their heads pretend they understand
Well, the fat man might not be a pig but that female judge
Has a stupid wig and they’ve never met but they think alike
Hello, the forties, here I come 'cause I would rather be a bum
Back then than now, I think it sounds all right

We’re nothing that we need to be so drown that whiskey
Like it’s tea with vodka in and get yourself to sleep
This will make itself much worse as generations learn
The way their parents were, 'cause words are what you keep

The only girl I ever loved took twenty minutes to download
But she was worth the wait, she never moves
If life’s a fight with baseball bats and handbag slappings
I know that we’d all just fall, we’d always lose

And being here might make you happy
Being here might make you sad
But it’s still a damn good idea that your parents had

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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Humasyouhitch / Sonofabitch