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More Fun

by Panther and the Zoo

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1.
Wake Up 03:37
Wake up now you're wasting time you have no hope, you can take mine I don't know what's in your head but I know what's on your mind. You woke up feeling not yourself, but you don't really want to be anyone else and you're sick of this and you're sick of hearing how that won't change a thing. The panic that is in you and all around you it won't last. Forget all that it's told you don't hold on so tight to your past 'cos this moment is getting better by the day and if you don't believe it will anyway. You're looking for someone to show you things that you already know to calm yourself with stories of the life you thought you had. You've either finally turned the corner or gone entirely round the bend but if you cannot tell the difference what's the difference then? The panic that is in you and all around you it won't last. Forget all that it's told you don't hold on so tight to your past 'cos this moment is getting better by the day and if you don't believe it will anyway. 'Cos this moment's getting better by the day and even if it won't just believe it Just believe it anyway.
2.
Do Whatever 02:32
When you're working hard to make it happen and you're happening to come up short. Do whatever you want, all of your plans are made up. When you've always been an exhibitionist but you've never managed to get caught. Do whatever you want, all of your plans are made up. Do whatever you want. Well I'm working hard to be an optimist and it's working better than I'd thought. Do whatever you want, all of your plans are made up. Do whatever you want.
3.
We've been sleeping on a lot lately. It doesn't make for the most therapeutic sleep. But I don't know what else to do with everything that occupies my waking mind so completely how can I make it all just let me be? Everything, everyone, everything, everyone, everything, everyone It all just slips my mind. It all just slips my mind, this time. Your way of speaking, so understated. Your way of thinking, so abbreviated. Your way of drinking, so inebriated. I only hope my looks will get me by okay, 'cos I really don't have a thing to say. Everything, everyone, everything, everyone, everything, everyone. It all just slips my mind. It all just slips my mind, this time.
4.
Don't Think 04:30
I just don't think I'm in a place for this kind of thing. Surely you have other mistakes you could me making? Dirty looks on friendly faces, something we both know. I don't think that you have a clue where this is going to go. But if we don't think twice, this will take half the time and we can both get on with our lives. You just want to talk, but we don't really get along. Turning out the lights doesn't seem to turn you on. What exactly was I thinking? I can't really tell. I don't need this, you don't need that. It's working out well. But if we don't think twice, this will take half the time and we can both get on with our lives. I wonder if you know where this is going to go I wonder if you care as much as I'm beginning to think I do without thinking through all the things you'll do when you just want something new. I just don't think. I just don't think. I just don't think. I just don't think. But if we don't think twice, this will take half the time and we can both get on with our lives. I wonder if you know where this is going to go I wonder if you care as much as I'm beginning to think I do without thinking through all the things you'll do when you just want something new.
5.
Why do I seem to want you in a way I can't explain? I don't want to do anything recognizable with you but it just continues to plague me. I can't stop thinking of what I can't picture in my head. Can you blame me? I don't believe you can. Whose idea was this? You took my advice, I think I might want it back. When you said you would act on it I didn't realize that meant that you were going to go and quit. I think that's a little drastic. Strictly platonic and perfectly honest we're friends without benefits whose idea was this? All these lines that we're never going to cross. Draw enough and we'll trip over them eventually so Strictly platonic and perfectly honest we're friends without benefits whose idea was this? You want more than I want but more than anything I want this back to the way it was when it was just the way it is. What seemed quite easy before has been a little difficult lately You asked if we could just not talk and I pretended to agree. Strictly platonic and perfectly honest we're friends without benefits whose idea was this? Why do I seem to want you in a way I can't explain?
6.
I want you to know I don't want to go around anymore without being sure of the things in your head you left so unsaid before. Well you know what I mean you just don't seem to think it means anything you're just so serenely untouchable now and that's just how it is. Maybe you get what you want or maybe you get what you were asking for if you can't complain, you've nothing left to say. Tell me the truth tell me you want to believe in it too. Tell me whatever you're thinking I might want to hear. When we are good we can do anything it's understood that nothing can stand in our way but us the way we do. Maybe you get what you want or maybe you get what you were asking for if you can't complain, you've nothing left to say. We know we know what we want this is what we want. We know what we want we just haven't got a clue what to do with it.
7.
I really want to do this with you but we only just met we only just met Well that's ok to be honest I'm still hung up on my ex and I'm afraid what we might do next I wouldn't be at my best But I like how it feels when you're touching my neck and I think if I weren't so obscure you might just keep me here But I have no real sense of the things that I want Are the things that I want just the things that I've got? I'm tied up and then I'm tied down again. I'm tied down again. Your rooms like an office no external windows and I can't tell the time or quite where I am and I've no idea what my business is here but it's well after hours so I don't think that really matters. Why are you shaking? Why are you shaking? Well why aren't you shaking? Why aren't you shaking? I have no real sense of the things that I want Are the things that I want just the things that I've got? I'm tied up and then I'm tied down again. I'm tied down again. Well it seemed connected, but it's gone away. But I still think I'll be ok. I'll get mine another way. My alarm wakes me up makes me wonder if three hours sleep is enough to call this the morning after? Or enough to drive home on it's quite a long way is one night ever enough to call this anything?
8.
I asked you what was on your mind I didn't want to know. You said that you just needed some time this was a while ago. The things you think are so important sometimes turn out to be. If you don't believe me, well believe me you will eventually. Sometimes I feel I could do anything at all And it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to the wall that you've built between us. This isn't about getting you back it's just about revenge. And I know I should move on instead or I could just pretend. I always had my reservations you still won't let me stay. I guess I will just move on but probably not right away. Sometimes I feel I could do anything at all and it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to the wall that you've built between us. Well we've been through this and back again.
9.
More Fun 03:19
I've been dreaming of your friends I've been trying to make amends for things I haven't done. When I try to talk to you I realize I just don't want to and that's why it's so hard. Lately I've been thinking this could be more fun. Lately I don't think I've been the only one. I can't help but be sure that I've no idea where your intentions have got to lately. And the shape of things to come is of no use for either one if we both don't want to see it. Lately I've been thinking this could be more fun. Lately I don't think I've been the only one. It's not necessarily you but it's definitely not me. I don't want to be the one who comes undone and ruins all the fun. Don't think too much. Don't think too much. Think too much. Lately I've been thinking this could be more fun. Lately I don't think I've been the only one.

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Recorded 2009 - 2011 at Frisbee Studios in sunny New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand.

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released August 29, 2011

Graham Panther - Vocals, guitars, bass.
Hayden Eastmond-Mein - Bass, guitars, synths, sax, vocals.
John Parker - Drums, vocals.
Alistair Deverick - Drums.
Anthonie Tonnon - Vocals, guitar.
Geoff Maddock - Guitar.

All songs by Graham Panther, with some help from Hayden Eastmond-Mein

All tracks tirelessly produced, engineered and mixed by Bob Frisbee.

Mastered by Olly Harmer at The Lab.

Artwork by Henrietta Harris.

Thank youse:

Nikki Castle and Sam Muirhead for their moving pictures, Ryan McPhun and James Dansey for their sound advice, plus crucial input and support from Mimsy Cable, Marty Jones, Geoff Maddock, Alistair Deverick, Tim Neale, Lia Kent Mackillop, Matthew Crawley, Judith Carnaby, Louis Olsen, James Milne, Charlotte Ryan, Marco Vidaurre, Jan and everyone at Native Tongue, Ben Howe, Casey King, Jonathan Bree, Murray Fisher, Bo Christensen, Jony Gabriel, Frank Gibson, Savina Kim, Djeisan Suskov, Damian and Josh at Thinkt, Bob’s neighbours at Frisbee Studios, Adele Hunter-Higgins, Amelia Hunt, the Panthers, Eastmonds, Meins, and Parkers.

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