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I Just Want To Be Wild For You

by MAITA

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tulianontroppo
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tulianontroppo Ugh. Maita. You had me at "You Sure Can Kill A Sunday, Pt. II". SWOON. This album is one of the best albums of 2022. Favorite track: You Sure Can Kill A Sunday, Part II.
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skeggox76 'Sure can kill a Sunday' rules for sure....so catchy, but 'Honey Have I Lost it All' was what first drew me in (after hearing it on station breaks on Xray during Thom Hartmann!). The show in late Feb of 22 at Mississippi Studios was excellent!
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gejarrett Fantastic songwriting, great rhythms, evocative singing. So glad I found Maita--my new favorite band. Favorite track: You Sure Can Kill A Sunday, Part I.
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fstkq road song! hell yeah! im sold! Favorite track: Road Song.
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1.
Out of the restaurant, onto the pavement I caught my own face in a window arrangement Before I could pose, tilt my chin, rest my lips I looked pissed; it’s no wonder I was left alone Back in old Kyoto I pedaled my bicycle Stared at the windows, hoped for a miracle Wove through the cars, paused at convenience stores Fucked my own journal, paper and pen Oh Friend, where’d you go, where’ve you been? I spent years on your arm, I spent years in your bed Cursed your name at the ground, clung to you in a crowd We were always so close, a house and her ghost And where are you now, babe? Flipped through the pages, oh the things I said Lists and commandments, thou shalt not have it Sipping and guilty, beer down the sink I never could manage to drink alone Laying on the futon I listened to rats in the wall How they’d scuffle and fight through the night I feared like a child, something dark was waiting To do me some harm and the nights were so long Oh Friend, where’d you go, where’ve you been? I spent years on your arm, I spent years in your bed Cursed your name at the ground, clung to you in a crowd We were always so close, A house and her ghost And where are you now, baby? And where are you now, babe?
2.
Pastel concrete, boardwalk peach A condo named after a town in Italy Sea spray parking, you can cross beneath the overpass To reach the sand, that still is free A film, a feeling A reel, I feel a part of something shining Dreams we still can see Ooh and we may still get paid for it Ooh and we may still get paid for it I can’t afford your love I can’t afford your love I can’t afford your love I can’t afford, can’t afford Your love Lonely morning My European clock tick ticking me to wake up in LA A place of mourning I land upon that checker square so tall it catches all the crimson air I do not know you, but I do know your fight I hope the casting goes alright next week Ooh, and I hope you’ll be paid for it Ooh, I hope you’ll be paid for it I can’t afford your love I can’t afford your love I can’t afford your love I can’t afford, can’t afford Your love
3.
Help me, help me help you Give us something to keep us going Your day ruins my day Your gray colors my face You turn your back but say good morning I say I love you, you say you’re hungry Have you read the phone? There are people dying in another country and it’s our fault Touch me over coffee, show me somehow what you want I am the fire, you’re the freeze, killing flowers in their sleep Drink up, drink your pride, drink your boredom I’ll do the same It’s like a dream, it’s like a door knob Turn it once, turn it off Tell me all about your pain What I did to earn it, and say it loud You grit your teeth, you make that face You look down, I could lose my mind Kiss me ‘fore you leave and let me tell you how I’m sorry You are silent, I hear sirens chasing off some light in me Tell me I am greedy, tell me something I’ll believe Because you sure can kill a Sunday like no other I have seen Now don’t you talk about the weather, make me take another number Gotta get on stage tonight, we got two hours to make it right And you can sing all of your songs about the way I did you wrong And they’re all gonna clap for you and I’ll still crawl in bed with you So help me help you So help me help you
4.
Holding my cold hands, cover up my mouth again Rising from the bed, I wish to pull you up I leave instead The carpets are new but the sheets are older than me and you I bought extra pillows, extra towels, picked a room to house two I tried to tend you like a garden Water and a soft hand Peel you like some fruit I cannot trust Before I put you on my tongue Holding my tongue as it holds everything and nothing steady You want to kiss me ‘fore you leave, I leave my hands on my knees I’m not ready Let’s take us round the block, the sun is bright and shining Oh the timing Read to me the morning news I’ll sleep somewhere where you can’t find me I tried to tend you like a garden Warm you in your soft bed But you will burn a free man And I’ll become a freezer Won’t you ask me what is wrong And press me when I lie I know just how hard you try
5.
Road Song 04:09
Let's drive this highway List a few cities Like every other road dog In every other road song You're the only man in this van Tell me something I don't know Five more hours today I hate to DJ Twenty more days to go My songs are getting old You're the only still thing now Tell me something I don't know They've got no room for us But call us lucky ‘Cause the beer is free tonight And maybe wine Could you reach across the table And find a way to give me something Hey babe I've got this feeling Have we been to this one before The register in front And the coffee by the door Well I couldn't agree more Then again, it is a chain Your guess is my guess It's all the same to me We just wake up, drive, get to the bar, drink talk to strangers, soundcheck, try to sing, try to sleep We wake up, drive, get to the bar, drink talk to strangers, soundcheck, try to sing, try to sleep We wake up, drive, get to the bar, drink talk to strangers, soundcheck, try to tell me Something I don’t know
6.
Ex-Wife 03:27
Don’t think I don’t know How I seem to the suits in your hall I know they ask you Everything and nothing at all Oh my geography Here is one road I knew I would take Nothing easy, but pleasing Now take me out on vacation one more time You’ve stacked the days Pick the place, take the wheel and steer the way I’ll slumber here in the passenger seat Keeping my feet On my side I’ve nothing to say On my side I’ve nothing to say I know she’s waiting A golden woman on the ocean Looks nothing like me She busts you right open Lingering phantoms A friend you had, you loved, she was the one What a shame, she made beautiful sons Oh what a tragedy, all of our money and no one is hungry, no one is hungry In the morning in our bed I wanted another, wanted another Cradling your sleeping head I wanted another, wanted another You could never quite forget You wanted another, wanted another For all I did and all I said I wanted another, wanted another, wanted another, wanted another, wanted another, wanted another, wanted another, wanted another Someday I’ll drive to the ocean and scream
7.
Who are you? Who’s your god? I want a piece, break one off Where’d you find your light? I wanna be a music box You hold the love, it bathes you Rose and cerulean They believe, oh they believe, oh they believe, oh they believe They believe, oh they believe, oh they believe, oh they believe Baby, have I lost it all? There was honey dripping in these walls Dry, I licked and burned my tongue I was hasty tearing towards the sun I see the same patterns written in everyone I write the same pages sitting alone in the corner of a Bar in a town of folks I’d hate to know Tell me is it real enough? Who are you? Who’s your god? I want your every word Where’d you find your light? I wanna be a singing bird Talk of how they shared your cup What an honor, caller number one Would you fall for me, oh fall for me, oh fall for me, oh fall for me Fall for me, oh fall for me, oh fall for me, oh fall for me Honey, have I lost it all? I tried to tease that sugar from every thought They pushed you ‘round, you rose above Now they twist their hands and call it love I would be one of them, I’d rest my head Cradled by something better than anything Bitter, spreading out across my tongue Tell me, is it good enough
8.
Tell me I’m clever, tell me I’m pretty Who is it that loves me, who is it that likes me One more piece of kibble to outrun the hunger I’ll stay with you, light of my life Give me three in the morning, someone is still listening I’m lonely, convince me I’m above being lonely The world is so old now, it swells and it sweats Salt cracked in the pavement, salt staining the bed If you’re dying I’ll heal you, if you’re dead I’ll replace you You’ll stay with me, light of my life The world changes, I change But you’ll stay the same New body and face, youth clings to your frame Pull me up from the dirt, pull me out of the dirge Tell me I’m still pretty, that I ache more than her Tell me all I’ve done wrong, there are things I should quit It is three in the morning, my back feels like shit Tell me I’m still worthy, tell me I’m still young Lie to me light of my life I love you, I hate you, I need you, where are you I’ll tear up the floorboards to hold you again I’ll cradle you soft, in my two loyal hands Until they are sore and broken and cracked But you’ll be still beautiful, you’ll be still young And you’ll show me all of the things that I’ve done Yes, you’ll be still beautiful, you’ll be still young And you’ll show me how I was beautiful once I am yours, light of my life Always yours, light of my life
9.
I went jogging around your neighborhood once to kill time Oh I circled the pale cul de sac a few times to kill time The lawns were cut clean, the trees were trimmed neat The rocks were made of polyethylene They didn’t fool me, perhaps they would fool someone Now we find ourselves living in the kind of home we can make perfect You know, a porch and a yard and room enough to make ourselves perfect We talk of our hopes, pretend to buy homes In the neighborhood we couldn’t dream to afford And hope the nights clear up in time for the weekend ‘Cause the air smells of pine Burning sap in the night Oh I can’t see the sky but I bet it’s beautiful Would you sit just for now Catch my breath on your brow Oh the blue has gone gray But the sky looks beautiful, beautiful today Now lay with me still in our bed let us listen to darkness A dog in the distance, the cans rattling from the park block The pulse of my thumb The pulse of your thumb ‘Cause the air smells of pine Burning sap in the night Oh I can’t see the sky, but I bet it’s beautiful Would you sit just for now Catch my breath on your brow Oh the blue has gone gray But you sure are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
10.
The blood it always leaves my fingertips My hands, they tend to stay like this But with them I can cool your hot head No one’s beating at the door for you Sometimes I synchronize our breathing Try to slow my pace to yours while you’re sleeping and Listen as you stop and start and stop Until you wake up gasping Good morning baby, Quick, before you forget Where were you baby Oh what I’ve dreamed Oh what I’ve dreamed Hey where do you go when you’re not here You are a fragile room, I’m a one way mirror I lay your past out on a jewelry counter And look at it I dream that you betray me once a month I hold your resting hand while I play it back It isn’t that I wish to be unfurled I think I just want to burn I think I just want to burn Good morning baby, don’t you wonder about me Good morning baby, ask me something Ask me something Hey where do you go when you’re not here You are a fragile room, I’m a one way mirror I lay your past out on a jewelry counter And look at it Hey where do you go when you’re not here You are an empty room, I’m a volunteer I trace my fingers round your cracked veneer And pick at it You let me pick at it
11.
Wild For You 04:48
I’m cleaning our place Cutting out nightshades and doing what pays Today I long to run wild with you It’s been half a year But the chairs are still warm from what was once here I fear I’ve still got to go wild for you Winter fruit tastes like water, I don’t even bother We earn and we order I yearn to run wild with you. ‘Cause If we should follow every rule We could pin ourselves down, wings to the ground Tar weathered backs pasted to glass What a beauty was found What a beauty was found I don’t weigh a thing Bear down like the October rains For shame, I wasn’t kinder to him Because the ugliest names took up the worst kind of space Enough, no one’s a fuck up. Still I can be darling, I’ve just authored my warning Hold your ground or I’ll take you down There are tales in the woodwork I’ve seen dreams I can’t unlearn One hand under your collar I’ve had you since summer, don’t wander ‘Cause you’re seated before me and empty Your clothes they just hold your shape And when I am here you miss me And when I am gone you stray And when you are here you’re nothing And when you are gone I crave ‘Cause there was a day when you latched onto me When we wrote others off with no ceremony We have two thousand words on an LED screen Now I want to go wild for you Cause the blackest of ink in a deep, dirty sink Washes out like the mold on our bathroom ceiling Well it always grows back, but I love the attack The part where we make ourselves clean And I can’t forget anything that was said Any reason for exile or embarrassment Here’s the easiest thing: I wake, you are here, I’m relieved Now wake up and run wild with me Wake up and run wild with me I just want to be wild for you I just want to be wild for you

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released February 18, 2022

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"I Just Want To Be Wild For You" available now on Kill Rock Stars.

MAITA uses her songs -- bursting, overflowing with language and sharp turns of phrase -- as a forum for unvarnished expression."- KEXP

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