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Cover of Clipboard Man Is Watching

EP · 2024

Clipboard Man Is Watching

by Safety Pin Saints

Five songs about nerves: driving tests, wedding speeches and standing in line too early.

Tracks

  1. 1. Rush Hour Choir, Window DownStuck behind a bread truck, windows down, the whole road singing. Traffic has never been this fun.pop punk, sing-along punk2:22
  2. 2. Driving Test Tuesday, Clipboard Man Is WatchingSweaty hands on the wheel and a man with a clipboard. I passed, barely, and I wrote this on the way home.punk, skate punk3:03
  3. 3. Best Man, Crumpled Speech, Shaking HandsI wrote my speech on a napkin and it was the best I've ever done. Congratulations to the happy couple.pop punk, wedding punk2:42
  4. 4. Sweeping Up the Empty StadiumGame's over and everybody's gone home but me and a broom. The loneliest fun I ever had.punk, working-kid punk3:01
  5. 5. Nervous Laugh, Front of the LineSix in the morning for an eight o'clock show. We got to the front of the line and laughed at ourselves.pop punk, first-show punk2:40

Liner notes

This EP is for everyone whose hands sweat before something big. We wrote it between tours, between jobs and between weddings, including one where our bassist was best man and read his speech off a napkin. The recording is quick and the choruses are built to calm a shaking room. It's the first thing we made after the world reopened.

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