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1.
get meowed 07:02
i feel like my shouts don't make it out make like a fetus and head the hell out get me out of this house i can't stand the stale air let my feet move my mouth, get me anywhere the ball's in your court but you ain't gonna hit it i gave you what's yours but you still just don't get it in between me and the life i've accepted are so many people i've loved and rejected the portraits are hung in the halls of my memory i won't take them down and leave those walls empty it's not that love is beautiful or even enticing it's simply a habit that ain't worth the icing on the cake that i bake with my head in the oven oh come up behind me and gimme a good shove in the hatred you've awakened won't go back to sleep soon i just have to face it. i know i can't keep you from wrapping me in white sheets and what you call a comforter i'll be allright once i'm out of this dumpster the teeth in my mouth have all turned to white marbles though words may come out their whole meaning is garbled and the marbles that i'm losing they all just hit the car like hailstones as you drive me away and i leave you there alone and now it's snowing i feel like my shouts don't make it out is there any way to make this alright? cos i gave and i gave and you took it all in stride and i don't mind how the hell could i mind and this could be the chance of a lifetime the sweetest sack of red wine hot chocolate at bed time but it just wasn't my time.
2.
you don't do it for me no more you don't do it for me no more i got a lot to think about i got a lot to think about it i got a lot to think about i got a lot to think about it you don't do it for me no more you don't glue it to me no more hey you, you blew it with me, y'know? you won't do it to me no more you don't do it for me no more you don't do it for me no more "hey you" don't do it for me don't do it for me
3.
you should get out now cos honey i ain't safe i'm a tickin time bomb gonna go off in yr face you should put yr shoes on and walk right out the door before yr coughin below the smoke, crawlin on all fours all i'm gonna do is ruin yr life the way that you did mine but you could still be fine if you leave right now trust me you don't wanna stick around see how this turns out cos the ending won't be pretty, no, the loose ends won't get tied it's just me and all my problems all blown open wide all i'm gonna do is turn yr heart into a lead weight like i've got you should buy a plot and throw in these memories and heap red, red dirt over the bodies and hope that no beautiful zombies come up from the ground i'll just lay on down and sleep right where i lie tell this whole damn town you saw my spirit hit the sky in concert with the birds and how they flap their wings so hard forget all the words i wrote and bury em in the backyard all i'm gonna do is turn into what you prayed i'd never be it's too late for me we're in a burning house together and both my legs are broken but yrs are still good and you still could make it out this is your once chance, honey, so take it for all yr worth
4.
i will be alive again. i will be on fire again. i will be inspired again. i will sing a song again. feel like i belong again. declare that there's nothing wrong again. i'll have faith in hope again. crack a stupid joke again. feel my body float again. i'll shake the ink off of my wings. i'll escape the dripping pen and fly around the room again. this is not where this will end i will dress in rags once more and carry bags through hotel doors. the sun must sag before it soars. i will be so healthy you won't recognise me. i will be healed beyond belief. i will be alive again. i will be on fire again. i will be inspired again. i know this, i just don't believe it right now.
5.
put yr shoes on tie em up tight we're peacin out of here tonight when the preparations are done we'll get up on our feet and we'll run remember when you said you would do anything i asked of you? well it's time to do a thing or two so when yr boyfriend calls you tonight you gotta tell him everything is alright but it's not, oh no, not quite
6.
there's so much bad blood i think that no good can come of it but if i get cured i'll sing like a bird there's so much green envy and this boy's got plenty or at least enough to curse with a laugh when all that you got is fruit destined to rot and weeds you cannot pull cos the ground holds them tight all you can give is a shank or a shiv the prospects are dismal that things will ever be alright but i wanna get well, get outside of my cellf you'll see me in heaven? i'll see you in hell can you feel my hatred? cos it's unabated. it's pouring like summer rain on your car's front window pane and it's not at all yr fault it's just i ain't worth my salt and i up and run and left things half done i swore i was cured and i wouldn't go back i shouldn't swear mama i know that but i swear to god that i'm gonna leave you should never believe the things i pass off as fact "we're a family band"
7.
every time the phone rings i wish it was you i wish it said you on my caller id and everyone i talk to i wish they were you cos no one can do what you did for me every boy that i see i wish he was you i wish it was true you'd come back to me exactly in the way that you used to be before you got so lost that you could not see a reason to keep being yourself, yourself! everything that i do to take up my time to keep up my mind off of what went wrong, well it helps a little but it don't kill the pain or take it away because this belongs to me like you did but you left and i'm short of breath cos you did what you did what you did! every dream he gave me well i'd throw it away, for just one more day by your side, in your arms and oh my god i hate him because he ain't you no this just won't do when it's you i'm missing missing missing missing bless yr heart, just look at you you fell apart and i did too bless yr art, just look at you you fell apart and i did too
8.
we made a splash on the screen but we're just a flash in the pan so come on baby and take my hand and we'll laugh so hard about how we hardly matter to anyone and anyone is welcome to join in laugh it up, laugh it up it's real funny so funny i forgot how to laugh at it but i'm laughin now cos i finally remembered how we were makin a music so mad to be made that a sudden stop was the only way to save us from shuckin all the songs that we sang about everything we started to sing about nothing but everything and everything that everything isn't and everything is what it was and it's been and it will be again, someday, someway, and somehow i'm thinkin about it now cos i finally remembered how we could be doctors of disco if we moved to san francisco got it goin in a way it'd not been you say "miracles don't grow on trees" well look at these that i picked for you without you having to ask me to i spent some time and i signed a dotted line waiting for the bus to take me one more time to the town where the lost feel found on the dirty grounds that they're around, and they've a right to be around we were painfully shy, but believing the lie that we shouldn't be, we tried so hard to speak up but our voices ignored, oh we angrily swore that we would keep our mouths shut forevermore well didn't you get mine open a little while? i wish you still did but i guess you still do cos i'm thinkin of sayin all this to you but it wouldn't do to bother you we were sweet sacks of red wine eating chocolate at bedtime til the money went and away i got sent to the factory where they got jobs to spare so menial well i do declare that i don't want no memorial for the little i've done oh it sure was fun while it lasted and you'll be the last one i let leave so easily because now i see that i was so arrogant about that we made a splash on the screen etc...
9.
i can't face you but i can't erase you it seems such a waste, you know, to feel so inconsolable so i'm out celebrating cos i got too damn tired of waiting but i got a heavy weight inside like i was carrying a great thing that up and died so i'll be leavin it here tonight cos i don't know how to believe right although i've tried and tried, it's so trite to say that i want to burn out bright i can't recieve you for want of the right way to believe you cos i been told a million dirty lies by so many wolves as sheeps disguised so i'm in hedonist trainin in hopes i'll escape those draining thoughts i've gone to bed with Satan and i don't regret it, not at all but if i wake up tomorrow to find i've been put on death row well i really hope they take it slow so i know who i am before i go i can't please you cos i don't wanna appease you i wanna seize you by your holy throat and wrestle you down into pure white snow, screaming "what do you want from me? "cos all i want is honesty. "tell me what i can believe "and what i need to tell to please leave me alone" somewhere in what my mom says loud shouts and simple silences it's hinted at in the books I've read it's meant by my grandma's quiet prayers it's in the whispering wind's breath it's in the summer's noble death it's in the ocean's murky depths it's in the mountain's highest crests i know that i can find you there i can find you everywhere hallelujah we're growing up we're moving on we are progressing open your mouth and taste that air breathe in the fresh and quiet air
10.
here's a puzzle to solve, fit the pieces together you can flip em or revolve, but they'll fit like a fetter it's my body that you want and it ain't my heart and it ain't my soul so darlin, why shouldn't i give it to you? cos i surely don't need it at all but all you'll get from me is an apology found an egg on the ground from last easter, it was hiding there waiting to be found so i set it back down so it could bring joy to a child in the coming spring it just doesn't add up, those mistakes that i will never justify no matter how i try two god-given years of my life, i spent them lovin on a drgonfly and i don't know why all you'll get from me is an apology all you need from me is an apology "I'm so sorry!" i don't have no words left cos i wasn't listenin it's yr life at stake it's yr life at stake! all will be well come easter i'll get better. i'll get stronger i'll be so healthy that you won't recognise me i'll be bitter no longer them days are all behind me i have been healed i won't go back
11.
it's just music. rather than tuning the guitar to the piano i tried to bend the strings the right notes, and it came out kind of sounding like there was a fiddle on the track.
12.
holidays 03:02
holidays are murder in a can for people with a displaced sense of family

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recorded fall to winter of 2010 at what became the shredquarters when it was just a haunted house on briezy's haunted computer. it was my attempt to make my own "whatever and ever amen" the twelve tracks all mean something

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released February 2, 2011

drum set, guitars, piano, accordion, xylophone
played by adam
jess helped sing on track 11
briezy and jess laughing on track 8

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falling off a building Columbia, South Carolina

this act began in 2004 and just turned fourteen years old. it's been surviving on the fringes of interest since the day it was first conceived. it's worth doing. it's that thing of realising you are your own best friend and you need to take as good of care of yourself as you possibly can and in so doing you learn to take care of everyone else. ... more

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