Leave the Party Early, by Sleeping Jesus (2024)

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Get up, get on, forget them all, stay in tonightTime after time too late to call to say goodbye

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Driving back, everything how you rememberSullen kids, all the things you took for grantedDaylight comes, try to take you home, make you feel betterBack alone, it’s hard to love someone who’s always leavingWhat’s left after this?Bite your tongueMomentary bliss, here and goneFall in for a while, sh*t goes southFind yourself a job, settle downFalling out, dizzy dead-end days of summerRunning bout’, nothing lasts forever, babyShut my mouth, jump the fence and swim into the moonlightMorning comes, calling us back home like nothing happenedWhat’s left after this?Bite your tongueMomentary bliss, here and goneFall in for a while, sh*t goes southFind yourself a job, settle down

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My life, wasting all of your timeMy love, know it don’t matter in a yearIt just gets harder to…Calm down, it’s morningThey only wanna get you downgive up, give in, nobody wins anyway Out there, it’s callingA sea out on the interstateunravel me, make me feel the way I didMy life, wasting all of your timeMy love, know it don’t matter in a yearIt just gets harder to forget yourselfMy life, wasting all of your timeMy love, know it don’t matter in a yearIt just gets harder to escape myself

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Fast asleep, I never even caught your nameDays to weeks, ain’t it how it’s always been?I’ve been alright, sleeping in a strangers bedOut on weeknights, losing track of everythingThis time next year I’ll be goneSave your prayers for the New YearCall me back, it’s quiet on the interstateWhen I get back, I could sleep for daysI’ve been alright, sleeping in a strangers bedIn on weeknights, losing track of everythingThis time next year I’ll be goneSave your prayers for the New Year

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Tell me what you’re intoSleeping at your best friends houseCrawl in through the windowKiss me now no-one’s aroundI’ve been gone two weeks without you, losing sleep, talking to myselfCall me up, when sh*t feels alrightSpend the night, come for the weekend(we’re) Running backwards, babyLosing track of weeksTake me to your bedroomTell me all those sweet lies tooSpending all your weekendsSwimming in your best friends poolI’ve been gone two weeks without you, losing sleep, talking to myselfCall me up, when sh*t feels alrightSpend the night, stay for the weekend(we’re) Running backwards, babyLosing track of sleepI’m running backwards, babyLosing track of sleep

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You’re lonely all the timeTheir words don’t mean a thing to youCrying on the phoneJust like mother said it’d be, gone todayDon’t it feel like another daydream, darling?Don’t it feel like another daydream. yeah.Spending all your nights, watching strangers pass you byAnd all your friends have gone, but you don’t give a damn these days, anywaysDon’t it feel like another daydream?Don’t it feel like another daydream? darling?Don’t it feel like another daydream?Talking to yourself, it’s how you dealNothing means a thing anywaysCrying all the time, just to feelHigh every night

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Now there’s no one left hereNow there’s no one left to take you homeAll your friends are leavingWorking 9 to 5 and driving homeLonely every nightCall me up and we can drive aroundFriends off getting highAsleep in the backseatEvery time the same thingDrag yourself back home when the party’s throughCall one of your exesSleeping all alone’s been killing youLonely every nightCall me up and we can drive aroundFriends off getting highAsleep in the backseatSweet talk your way out of everythingAll of your life is a lieDamn all your friends who aren’t sleeping inSundays at home getting high

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Friday nights have been so lonely nowHalf of our life wondering if all of this has meaningI won’t be longTurn down your lightsDrive me aroundAnd I’ll feel alrightNothing like you used to beAll our days behindUnfamiliar faces left in every roomOverstayed our welcome dear, let’s leave the party earlyI won’t belongTurn down your lightsDrive me aroundAnd I’ll feel alrightNothing like you used to beAll our days behindI won’t be long, I won’t be longI won’t belong, I won’t belongI won’t be long, I won’t be longI won’t belong, I won’t belong

released July 25, 2022

“Leave the Party Early” was recorded by Sleeping Jesus in Winona, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee from 2019-2021 with Producer and Mixer, Mike Noyce.

Sleeping Jesus is Nick Elstad, Tyler Steinley, Andy Bauer, Seamus St Clair, and Dante DeGrazia

A huge thank you to Zoe Manville for performing additional vocals on “Calm Down, it’s Morning” and Devin Drobka for playing additional percussion on “Coupe”.

All tracks mastered by Mike Bozzi
All artwork by Nick Ohlo

We are honored to present to you “Leave the Party Early”.

The biggest thanks possible to our friend and mentor Mike Noyce for sticking with us during this entire process and for pushing us past our musical boundaries. Thank you to Jaci for letting us take over your home during the recording process. An endless thank you to all of our families, friends, and fans for sticking with us since we started this journey in 2016.

All the love to my wife Leah for being a constant source of inspiration and keeping the boys and I fed and housed on so many occasions.