Joy Zipper is an American indie pop duo from Long Island, New York, made up of Tabitha Tindale and Vincent Cafiso, who are also a married couple. The duo has been playing dream pop since the late 1990s. The band is named for Tindale's mother.
Their songs are underpinned with darker scarred lyrics (suggested in interviews to have been inspired by the death of Cafiso's father) causing them to be famously compared to, 'a candy apple with a razor blade inside'.[citation needed]
Musical influences of the band vary from 1960s rock outfits The Beatles, The Velvet Underground and most associated, The Beach Boys, to early 1990s noise rock pioneers My Bloody Valentine, and The Breeders.[citation needed]
The single "Baby You Should Know" has been featured on Fox Television's The O.C., and "Go Tell the World" was featured in an ad for Nike Soccer, and in a season two episode of Grey's Anatomy. The single "1" has been featured on Cigna's "Go You" TV commercial.
Joy Zipper covered the Pixies "Wave Of Mutilation" for the American Laundromat Records compilation album, Dig For Fire - a tribute to Pixies (2007). In 2008, Joy Zipper covered the title track for the American Laundromat Records produced Cure tribute album, Just Like Heaven - a tribute to The Cure. The Wedding Present, The Submarines, Dean & Britta and Tanya Donelly also appeared on the project.
go tell the world,
tell it i'm on fire,
my wings are burning speak through me won't you please go
tell the world,
we've been here for too long,
and now we're gone, oh so gone,
so tell the world, tell it to go on
go tell it right,
one up one down,
me i'm doin circles and you you're doing lines,
go tell the world,
you stayed awake too long,
and now we're gone,
oh so gone,
so tell the world,
tell it to go on
this is not a happy song,
i wrote it to remember this,
i'm sorry but i have to say that every single word it's
true it's true,
and now we're gone,
oh so gone,
so tell the world,
Everyday
i feel myself
getting thinner
and thinner
feel my arms and my triceps
getting smaller
and smaller
sometime i can't control
this funny feeling
i'm feeling
starts in my toes then in my nose
i get this feeling
I dosed and became invisible
A compilation of my dreams
Exploded in my sleep
Now there's nothing left of me
Psilocybin everyday
Blew my mind in every way
The answer crawled into my brain
Psilocybin everyday
The waves, they brought me here
They never really disappear
For the waves flow endlessly
And it brings me back to this, yeah
Psilocybin everyday
Blew my mind in every way
The answer crawled into my brain
Psilocybin everyday
Psilocybin everyday
Blew my mind in every way
The answer crawled into my brain
I need you more than the rain in
springtime
Love you more than the open sea
Feel you most when I'm deep in madness
Like the way you're always with me
I twisted things in a certain way
You understand my every weakness
(CHORUS)
I love you more than a thousand Christmases
I want you more than any gift I can think of
I need you again and again
You should know I'm always watching
You're doing things in a different way
I feel you now cause I'm deep in madness
If no one listens to you talk to yourself
if one listens to you not to yourself talk
time is filled in on the cardboard cutout
You said i'm unclean
you know i know about those things
shiver in the sun
i like my clothes when they're undone
people gather round
check out the patches on my new jeans
gather round
I ...
i just wanna be god
check out my new jesus
he talks and he walks
if you want him to
nevermind the thorns
they're only there to confuse you
people gather round
check out the patches on my new jeans
gather round
I ..
i just wanna be god
you say i'm unclean
you know i know about those things
shiver in the sun
i like my clothes when they're undone
people gather round
check out the thorns on my new jesus
Since I've been here or what I think is me
I can't remember how I thought it would be
And this feeling I know so well
You've taken it and that's ok
Baby you should know this time
That every thought you have is mine
Thos ideas that I knew so well
You've taken them and that's ok
(CHORUS)
That's what I see when I see in your eyes
That's what I see when I see in your eyes
That's what I see when I see in your eyes
I see right in your eyes
Gained my balance you cut me off
I was falling
You're falling too and that's ok
Baby you should know this time
That every thought you have is mine
And this feeling I know so well
You knew it too and that's ok
Lying naked in the sun
Making eyes that everyone
You're the one
Later on you're sat alone
The lone empty moon
Play your cards son
This is what you were givin
Not some movie from the drive in
It's suprising how stupid we forget the real things we
forget
I'll insist
Although there is no meaning
No seriousness
And like a childs game
Our life is impermenant
Our death is inevitable
There is nothing
There's nowhere to go
Our life is impermenant
Our death is inevitable
I want to roll a big fat pillow
and smoke the feathers
needing comfort and support
i want to cover my body
covers to cover my fear
and hide from my feet
which appear to be as ugly
as the yellow tooth
of the man in my nightmare
oral symphony
outside my door
in the recipe
i should have added more
seasoning is fine
Today I woke up and thought how much
I love the sun and if you go I'll be so sad
if you fly to another planet
Where things are sane
Then it came to me the other day
It was so unreal so mannequin
And they're right the body's just a shell
If you stare hard enough you'll notice
(CHORUS)
The it came to me
From another place
And I buried it
I buried it
Then it came to me the other day
It was so unreal so mannequin
And they're right the body's just a shell
Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"
Soft and only
Lost and lonely
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
Soft and only
Lost and lonely
The time is over
the day is gone now
i spent the day with her
to spend an hour with god
my dream is over
and now i'm sleeping
i heard there was no god
but i just spent the day with him
oh, with him
oh oh
they're not spinless
and grass is greener
i walked the moon with her
to spend an hour with god
i heard there was no god
but i just spent the day with him
oh, with him
oh oh
Lying naked in the sun making eyes at everyone
You're the one
Later on you'll stand alone, a lone empty moon,
with an empty heart in you're empty hands
And the flowers and the trees
All laughing at your bike
And the neighbors kids run and hide
If they only knew you were really one of them
But you're not
You're the one (one, one, one, one, one...)
The one (one, one, one, one, one...)
The one
The one
The one (one, one, one, one, one...)
The one (one, one, one, one, one...)
The one
The one
The one
Could it be we're alone and the moon was full of gold
You're heart was filled with blood and the sun was in you're hands
The sun that burned you then,
Now warms you're empty heart,
People come and go
But you're the one (one, one, one, one, one...)
The one (one, one, one, one, one...)
The one
The one