Tofu Stank by Ryan Caldwell

This is a piece of music written about a couple dead friends of mine. I'd been sitting on it since starting it in 2019. Working on it like it was some kinda masterpiece. There aren't any masterpieces though. It's just one release after the other, riding the waves of experience, honing your skills. These days I feel like one of the musicians on the Titanic just trying to get a few more licks in before art's completely dead. So I hope you enjoy it. I hope it makes you feel something in a world that feels little.

Tracklist

1.	Tofu Stank	20:03

Lyrics

I'm on the edge
The outer crust of the suburbs
Just McMansions and acres of beans

And if we are the road
I'm the gravel on the shoulder of
the American dream

And if we are the road
if everything means nothing
what happens if nothing is your kink

Why are we here
When attractive young people could
be feeding us drinks

Well some people say
it's not going to change
It's better this way
it's better to stay

But like 3 am with the stoners
the points gone away
It's gone away
it's gone to stay

There's something that we talked about
a message that was sent
you picked up the phone
we talked it out
but you were already dead

Credits

released July 5, 2025
Ryan Caldwell: Songwriter, Composer, Producer, Engineer, Programer, Drums, Banjo, Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Samples, Voice, Organ, Mandolin, Ukulele, Percussion, Mixing, Subliminal whispering (don't listen for it, you won't be able to hear it)

Dylan Schweitzer: Composition (Calculator Pentet), Electric Bass

Ryan Worthy: Guitar

Reggie Watts: Not suing me yet

Justin Birchard: Mastering

In loving memory of:
Charles Grimse 1994-2019
Mary Adrian 1961-2019

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