Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (often abbreviated CYHSY) is an American indie rock group based in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was self-released in 2005.
The band, whose members met years earlier at Connecticut College, formed in the beginning of 2004 and played shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They are notable for achieving their initial fame and commercial success via the internet rather than through a record label. Shortly after the release of their first album, they received attention from numerous MP3 blogs and a favorable review from Pitchfork Media, who gave the band a "Best New Music" commendation. The ensuing demand for the album was so great that the band was forced to repress the CD, as the initial production run was too small. They garnered even more press after David Bowie and David Byrne were spotted at some of the band's shows in 2005
Origin Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genres Indie rock; Indie pop
Years active 2004-2008
2009-present
Labels Wichita,
Associated acts Uninhabitable Mansions, Radical Dads, Flashy Python
Website clapyourhandssayyeah.com
Members Alec Ounsworth
Sean Greenhalgh
Past members Robbie Guertin
Lee Sargent
Tyler Sargent
1. CLAP YOUR HANDS !
Run the lip off sunshine shore
Betray white water
Delay dark forms
Slap young waves on wooden bones
Don't touch the laughter and away we go
Away we go
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
But I feel so lonely
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
But it won't do nothing
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
But I have no money
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
Are you up to something?
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
Where's my milk and honey?
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
But I just look funny
CLAP YOUR HANDS!
I'll just wait awhile
As time alone stands still for some
Stuffed sailor up with eyeball sun
And if by castle ship should stray
It has like you no chosen fate for
It's tongue-tied caboose that leads
This ragged lad, this finger-flipping
Mom and dad (for what is worth some
Aimless steer?) And should mouth
Confuse my foggy mirror and reveal
What is not there I shall take this
Unbound train away...
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2. HYSTERICAL
Here comes the newest apparition
To set fire to all the flowers
Now I should have known it was you who would call
When vainly I escaped into the ever-changing rapids
To your boat with a sign which read “get in and hold on.”
Hysterical
Calls for luck
Heal the weak
We should just grow up
And so I hid behind the dishes in the night
Until you woke to find me trembling like an emasculated dog
There is no sense in even trying to track the weather pattern
Is it better to leave than to blindly hold on?
Hysterical . . .
Let me out
Of the rain
Let me down
I want to make my last mistake
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3. UPON THE TIDAL WAVES OF YOUNG BLOOD
Now that everybody's here
Could we please have your attention?
There is nothing left to fear
No, now that Bigfoot is captured
But are the children really right, all right, all right?
But are the children really right, all right, all right?
Now are the children all all right?
There is danger in the night
There are things we can't control, but
Will we give ourselves a fright
When we become less than human?
There are people who say why, oh, why, oh, why?
Now there are other ways to die, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why?
But upon this tidal wave
Oh, God, oh, God
But upon this tidal wave
Oh, God, oh, God
Of young blood, young blood, young blood, young blood
Young blood, young blood, young blood, young blood
We are men who stay alive
Who send your children away now
We are calling from a tower
Expressing what must be
Everyone's opinion
They are going out to bars
And they are getting into cars
I have seen them with my own eyes
America, please help them
Now, they are child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars, child stars, child stars
Child stars, child stars
With their sex
And their drugs
And their rock and rock and rock and rock and roll
Hey
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4. UNDER WATER ( YOU AND ME )
Some songs see us sailing away
Navigating foreign borders
And climbing the waves
Someday your secret will be revealed
Am I the one you're thinking of
When the sun goes down into the water?
We're struck by the still of the moon
Hanging up there in the sky as though a balloon
Anchored by an astronaut's patriot tune
We will buy a ship and fly
To the land that would be rediscovered
We'll design a clever disguise
Or retreat to the bottom of the sea
We were destined to live out our lives
Underwater you and me
We'll escape beneath a violet sky
Clouds come
And night falls
You seem different
Oh my my!
Upon an endless trail of moonlight
They'll never realize that we have gone
We have dropped right out of
Out of sight
We'll design a clever disguise
Or retreat to the bottom of the sea
We were destined to live out our lives
Underwater you and me
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5, THE SWORD SONG
There's a man at the home where we are
Just a man like I am
Human head, human heart, insane
Armageddon in the same small step to heaven
He's gone too far, too far
Now can you remember the last day
When no one had nothing left to say?
And everything stayed just the same
Stayed just the same
Your little mission wasn't helping nobody?
Uh, didn't it help you?
Well, now
Tell me father, don't you bother now!
Here's my head, here's my sword!
Don't you bother, don't you bother now!
Here's my head, here's my sword!
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6. OVER AND OVER AGAIN ( LOST AND FOUND )
I heard it from a friend
The Revolution never happened
Sigh
A little die
No more a child
Goodbye
Now where's the woolen sweater
You mentioned in the letter?
Imply
The other guy
And scandalize the lion
A clean shave in the morning
And a full beard with no warning
Time has gotten by on alibis and wine
Success is so forbidding
But it makes me think I'm winning
Quiet
Dim the lights
Adopt another lifestyle
Come come come on
Come come come on
Come come come on
Come come come on
Come come come on
Come come come on
Come come come
Over and over again
You look like David Bowie
But you've nothing new to show me
Start another fire
and watch it slowly die
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7. IN A MOTEL
And so I left when I was just a boy.
I swore I'd simply do it all over again.
And now up the hill with snow-bit,
blue-tipped fingers, blood from falling,
but I can't go back there no more
In frozen poses, venues lined with pillows,
Atlas shouldered some silly blunder or other
You ask for more than this,
but I don't know what more than this is.
Is it a motel,
with a fashion magazine,
in between towns?
I was thinking about my mother
and I wished ill upon myself.
Rachel don't come around here no more.
I hear she's living in Montana
with her brother. I wish her the best,
and I hope she can forget me.
But the ghost that comes around
is a dead-ringer for her.
I see her in my nightmares,
discussing modern literature
with her hands around my neck
in a motel
with a fashion magazine
in between towns.
I was thinking about my mother
and I wished ill upon myself.
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8. IS THIS LOVE
You're so much different than me
This I know
And I'm my only enemy
Pain is all that I can see oh
I see you're climbing a tree
And I know
That it's easier to be up high
In the air than on the ground
REFRAIN:
Is this love?
Yes it's love
No it's love
Must be love
(5x)
It is love, no there's no doubt
You say you can't say anymore
You've already said it before
In a million different ways
Which were all not quite right
The rain is loud on the ground
Yes I know
And I don't even make a sound
When I come around oh
And you say I'd be better off dead
Well I know
But there's no use hiding
This pretty head in the ground
REFRAIN
We can do the Zarathustra
We can do the broken fist
We can tear down all the borders
Or abbreviate the list
And when finally the finish line
Emerges from the mist
We'll sound a soft alarm
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9. INTO YOUR ALIEN ARMS
Strangled caravan
Frustrated world-receiver
Space shuttle set down
In front of my mobile home
Where's the city plan?
Right there, undocumented
Our first encounter
Was criminally left off
I've fallen into your alien arms
I've never felt so good, so lost before
Do you remember when
I had that fever?
The walls were crumbling
The wheels were coming off
Let's just get some sand
Now I'm standing naked too
With your parachute billowing around
all our unborn thoughts
I've fallen into your alien arms
I've never felt so good, so lost before
What is my motivation?
To find some modern lover?
It seems that human nature too
swallowed me whole
What is my motivation?
To find some modern lover?
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10. LOVE SONG NO. 7
Now that you're here and see
Everyone of us seem to take the wrong way home
Now that you're safe with me
Trying to get a handle on the neighbor's lawn
Safe and sound, so safe for now
You're safe and sound, so safe for now
Safe and sound, so safe for now
We're safe and sound, so safe for now
How does it taste to be swinging away for the night?
(As you walk away, it makes you feel sweet, warm)
Doctor said, "Son, you should carry a gun (for to) be alright"...
(For you didn't say what was but our soul)
But it's the way that you talk and it's the way that you move around
(No, not near, not a part to hear)
Gravity's one thing and Gravity's something, but how's about coming down?
(The sounds we feel and the words we fear)
There's a time and place in which to be alone
but lately it just don't seem so alluring
You're no good not around
Your elevator skipping all me best-dressed floors
Safe and sound, so safe for now
You're safe and sound. so safe for now
Safe and sound, so safe for now
We're safe and sound, so safe
Weird but you're back talking
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11. IDIOT
A comet's tail, a hairy star
You swimming to an island
peeking through the sea
On a quiet night,
you left your devoted husband
and ran around like you was young again
But the devil don't care what you do
The only one who cares is you
From a cirrus cloud
You got so far away and how could
you have expected me to see you?
The sun will go down
and as surely as the day ends
you will lose control again
But the devil don't care what you do
The only one who cares is you
Damnable
My impatience is unforgivable
You better escape while you can
but uncertainty it has tied you to this rock
Now the needle draws no blood
But the devil don't care what you do
The only one who cares is you
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12. SIESTA [ FOR SNAKE]
Human shit and cigarettes
and weekends away in the city
Far too far gone to well-say
It seems today's like any other day
You just call me up to tell me
you're gone when I already know
You couldn't stand it any longer
A Mexican engineer
who told me I should do some running
before it gets too goddamn late
now stealing cars in Guanajuato
The drag queen comes to the window
She says I'd been told you had already gone
Why don't you stay a little longer?
Shutting
Shutting
Shutting down
Closing up for awhile
Shutting
Shutting
Shutting down
Forget me now
Human shit and cigarettes
And weekends away in the city
Far too far gone to well-say
It seems today's like any other day
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