D.D.Shock’s debut album
Released Oct. 5, 2021
 
Produced, recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording and Production in Metairie, La.
 
Danielle Crider (vocals)
Neil Heusel (bass, vocals)
Emmett Mayer (guitar, vocals)
Beau Blalock (drums)
 

The record store
was my safe haven
You smiled at me,
and asked me if
I liked Van Halen
But I was all about
The Ramones
It was then that
we should have known
 
We weren't meant
for love that day
Tried to make it work anyway
 
I thought you were mysterious
But now I'm much
too much of a realist
It doesn't work, never did
and I'm not afraid
Like The Smiths
and "All Good Things..."
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
 
You don't need
this love anyway
We both know it's really
much too late
 
So please, let me leave
Believe it'll be ok
And maybe, I'll miss you
But we've both seen
better days
 
But you need me, to go away
 
music: Emmett, Neil, Beau
lyrics: Danielle, Emmett
 
 

There was a time,
a time before
you had to go away
When I think of you,
forever more,
oh why didn't I say...
 
Oh this wicked life,
of apathy and strife
With diamonds made of clay
No more can you see,
what you meant to me
Oh why didn't I stay
 
I never found love,
I never tried
I didn't understand
Now that I've lost it
I can't deny
I'm on my own once again
 
My love is real, nothing more
And I've got to find a way
I'll fight the lights,
to see the stars at night
Holding on to yesterday
 
music and lyrics: Emmett
backing vocal: Emmett
 

I watch him talk
to the lepers everyday
Watch him talk them
right out of his way
And though he views himself
a king...
One false smile
and he becomes one of them
 
The emperor
is wearing no clothes
So he strolls up and
straightens his tie
He tells him a joke,
offers a smoke
Now they'll be friends
'til they die
 
Damn!
He makes so much money
So much Goddamn money
That I like him, so I'm like him
I will become him
 
I watch him wink
at the losers every day
I watch them swoon
as he walks away
He says all the right words,
in all the right lines
While shamelessly
robbing them blind
 
And on Sunday morning
though I don't believe,
I'll pray
With the church-going folks
I’ll pray
And on Sunday morning
with their church-going kids
They'll say,
once they’ve prayed
 
Damn!
She makes so much money
So much Goddamn money
That I like her, so I'm like her
I will become her
 
music: Danielle, John Dandry
lyrics: Danielle
backing vocal: Emmett
 
 

I'll wait for you
My love is true
 
You say you needed space
Room for us to grow
It hurts me now to think
You're really gonna go
 
Our time will come
You and I, our love
 
You say you needed space
Room for us to grow
It hurts me now to think
You're really gonna go
 
You were my everything
I've planned my life around you
Now I can't see tomorrow
Don't think I really want to
 
You were my happiness
I've lived my life around you
Now I can't see tomorrow
Don't think I really want to
 
My heart is held by you
 
music and lyrics: Emmett
 

Just because you think
you're happy
Doesn't mean that
you're not sad
I've got a special something
Curled up inside my hand
 
Take it, take it... take the happy
Take it, take it... slug it down
Take it, take it... oh so happy
You can feel it, going down
 
I assure you, you're not crazy
But just in case you are
I've got a special something
Swirling 'round this tiny jar
 
Drink it, drink it... drink the normal
Chug it! chug it!... chug it down
Drink it, drink it...
numb&normal
You can feel it, going down
 
Don't worry
My lovely
I will save you
I will save you
 
And when the world gets ugly
As the world is known to do
I've got a special something
To pretty up the view
 
Take it, take it... take the pretty
Take it, take it... slug it down
Take it, take it... oh so pretty
You can see it, all around
 
music: Emmett, Neil, Rich Gossen
lyrics: Danielle
backing vocal: Danielle, Neil,
Emmett
 
 

I like the rain
He likes my brain
When we're together
It's strange, so strange
 
I feel his pain
Get on the train
I wear his sweater
It's strange, so strange
 
Deaf to the sirens
Blind to the signs
Screaming "run!"
Screaming "hide!"
 
Cataclysmic
Combination
Cataclysmic
Confrontation
 
I liked the rain
He liked my brain
One last refrain
It was strange, so strange
 
I learned his name
He found me insane
Shredded his sweater
He gave me the finger
 
Cataclysmic
Combination
Cataclysmic
Confrontation
 
music: Emmett, Neil, Rich Gossen
lyrics: Danielle
backing vocal: Neil
 

Song originally recorded by Seal and released in 1991 on his debut album Seal.
 
written by: Seal, Guy Sigsworth
vocal: Emmett, Danielle
 
 

Song originally recorded by Concrete Blonde and released in 1990 on their Bloodletting album.
 
written by: Johnette Napolitano
 

Danielle Crider (vocals)
Neil Heusel (bass, vocals)
Emmett Mayer (guitar, vocals)
Rich Gossen (drums, vocals)
 

Recorded by Hugo Miranda
and Emmett Mayer.
 
Mixed by Duane Simoneaux at
OCD Recording and Production
in Metairie, La.