Columbus Ohio’s
Yard Sign (Pop Folk / Acoustic Punk / Singer-Songwriter)
Releases New Single “Bookstore”;
A Mix of Yearning and Bittersweet Emotions, Embodying The Complexities of Love and Connection Through the Lens of Literature.
“Bookstore” was Mixed and Mastered by Pedro Aida (member of The Iron Roses, Fire Sale, ShotClock) at Audio Verite in Richmond, VA.
Yard Sign is an online punk rock band, one-man folk punk act and Tik Tok Emo from Columbus, Ohio. They specialize in songs about life, love, loss and Star Wars. No matter the incarnation, Yard Sign is a variety of musical outputs led by Scott Marks, an elder millennial punk rock Swemo originally from New York, but calling central Ohio home for the past decade.
Coming of musical age in both the New York hardcore and pop-punk scenes, Marks played all different instruments for all different bands before settling into middle-agedom in the Midwest.
After 10+ years of musical semi-retirement, Yard Sign emerged from the pandemic, churning out full-band punk rock (and adjacent) anthems on the internet and leading sing-along kazoo parties across Ohio and beyond in their one-of-a-kind-one-man pop-folk-punk shows.
Stream Here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/yardsign1/bookstore
Quote from Scott Marks of Yard Sign:
“‘Bookstore’ is kind of a Frankenstein of different song ideas. I always wanted to write a song called ‘bookstore’. I’m a big reader and fan of romantic comedies, so bookstores are kind of a sacred place to me. Movies like ‘You’ve Got Mail’, ‘Notting Hill’, ‘When Harry Met Sally’, all about bookstores! Then one day I was scrolling through the internet and was presented with a meme from one of those ‘words are my porn’ kinda pages that said “someone telling you they read the book you recommended is the ultimate love language” or something like that. So the idea for the song was basically the opposite of that; someone NOT reading the book you recommended to them. I picked up the ukulele and the line ‘had an idea, but it was stupid’, just came right out. The rest of the song kind of wrote itself from there. I wanted it to feel like that middle act in a rom-com where the two leads breakup/fallout/get sad at each other. Sad, longing, but maybe also a little hopeful.”
Lyrics to “Bookstore”
Had an idea, but it was stupid
I had a thought, but it was dumb
I had a plan, thought it was foolproof
Turned out that I was the foolish one
I read a book, thought you might like it
I made a playlist of sad girl songs
Made a mistake, thought you’d forgive me
We could look past it, but I was wrong
I was pretty fucking wrong
And sometimes I think I’ll see you at a bookstore
Looking for that book I said that you should read
And everybody tells me that I can’t think those thoughts anymore
But thats just advice I’ll probably never heed
Like that book you’ll never read
Just like that book you’ll probably never read
I had a dream, it was lucid
I tried to stay there, but I woke up
Had an idea, but it was stupid
I had a thought, but it was dumb
And sometimes I think I’ll see you at a bookstore
Looking for that book I said that you should read
And everybody tells me that I can’t think those thoughts anymore
But thats just advice I’ll probably never heed
like that book you’ll never read
Just like that book you’ll probably never read
Just like that book you’ll probably never read
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