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Los Angeles punk trio Moonraker have released their new single “Don’t Forget You’re Here Forever” today. The track, a personal and heartfelt song about what it takes to pursue a life in the arts, appears on the band’s forthcoming album on Punkerton Records, Me And The Bells, out October 9. 

Drummer/vocalist David Green says, “I was listening to Marc Maron’s interview with Colin Hanks on WTF. He was talking about the moment he told his dad, Tom Hanks, that he wanted to be an actor. He said that his dad watched his work and sat him down and told him, ‘You know, you’re really good at this. If you really want to, I think you could have a career in acting. But you have to know that sometimes that’s gonna mean wanting something more than you’ve ever wanted something and feeling more rejection than you’ve ever felt when you don’t get it. If you think you can handle that a lot of the time, sometimes years on end, and are still able to put yourself out there, then by all means, go for it.’ Something like that.”

“It really resonated with me and made me think of my, at the time, newborn daughter,” Green adds. “What would I say to her if she ever told me she wanted to do what I do? Honestly, probably something similar to that. I guess this song is sort of a love letter to my daughter and also to the guys in my band and to anyone attempting the Sisyphean task of pursuing a life in the arts and to anyone listening.”

“There’s an old episode of The Simpsons where after quitting his job at the nuclear plant, Homer is forced to go back to work there after his daughter Maggie is born, only to find that his boss has hung a big sign above his desk that says, ‘Don’t forget you’re here forever.’ He covers up a lot of the letters on the sign with pictures of Maggie and him so instead it says, ‘Do it for her.'”

Me And The Bells is a 12-song collision of anxiety, self-doubt, resentment, survival, and the strange determination it takes to keep showing up anyway. The melodic punk trio have always had a talent for making failure feel funny right up to the point where it hurts, and Me and the Bells pushes that balance even further, pairing explosive hooks and relentless punk energy with lyrics that are anxious, sarcastic, painfully self-aware, and unmistakably human.