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Apartment Living

by Father Mountain

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1.
Grey 01:57
So let's start this out at your grey apartment building Where I spent most nights Conversing with the ceiling Then fractured the time that shattered our expectations While we cross every line That the cross taught you not to cross a second time So let's take the time To write songs to our ex-children With due diligence it might Default them up to heaven And the playground lights Keep bouncing off the building I'm too distracted to fight And I can't fall asleep with them shining in my eyes Now I'm lost inside of your grey apartment building Where you're hiding your thoughts But your facial expressions Are giving me light Into the current situation "I've wasted my life" & "I'm not sure I'm ready to mess up a second time"
2.
Sobriety 03:59
You’re lost in thought And words keep sticking to your tongue You'll swear it weighed a ton Don't worry about it You've gotta find yourself Apart from these party animals They've divided your worth You're bruised But not cursed Don't worry about it Oh no. When you finally taste the blood that's in my mouth From the tongue that I've been burrowing down I guess it's time you start to wear the crown Cause it's far too heavy and I don't want it now Where did you go when the death tone rang out Did you get my message To give and get over it. It's been 16 minutes since I left your place Confusing your voice for the look on your face Said I’d love you forever But loved you in haste I’m leaving this town And leaving the state "But that’s alright!" That's alright I gave sobriety up for lent And the shame that came with it You’re surprised to find sin doesn't exist The way you thought it did So co-write the pages I'll be contained in; The black and white paper fences that consider your pallet as payment why’d you color me in? Where did you go when the death tone rung out? Did you get my message? To give in, get over it. I've been worried sick since the day I turned 18 And it's still a part of me Are you surprised to find I'll never exist in the way you thought I did? So I'll pickpocket back to where we left off On a quicksand beach Without shoes off You were the balanced greyscale To my broken clock. But where did we leave things?
3.
Friends 03:01
I keep hardly any friends So I can't be held accountable Of flying off in the end To be replaced with ease Then I got stuck in your web And placed you into the story To take apart all my limbs That you'll digest with ease So I'll keep hardly any plans My desperation is palpable All my addictions I can't seem to kick And you keep worrying I’ll pass them down to our children I’ll never say you did this on your own (I didn't want you to. I didn't want you to) Do what you want, not what you're told So I keep hardly any friends Did you believe in miracles What’s the point in the end If we end up with need? Did you pack it all in? To end up like our parents? You said you need a better man Someone so unlike me.
4.
Grace 01:06
Hear your doldrum’s speech From where you’re standing on dry land Being blown by the wind And changing your mind Until I can't trust you With what you say you'll do You're always stopping through Trying to find a way back home Now I'm locked outside Of your grey apartment building Where you're faking your loss And ignoring the complications Of hiding a life Beneath your baggy clothing I know I've lied once or twice But it’s hard to react with you looking in my eyes
5.
Hallelujah 04:27
Let's trade our pious ways For profane ones Let's call out father And wonder who's considered son? I've been looking for an answer To a question that I never thought I'd ask I've been running on empty for a while now I've been waiting to tell you Since the night the TV couldn't calm me down Fake displays of their happiness make it real This doesn't come in my size You've been sleeping in countries Speaking a language I don't really understand I've been running from empty for a lifetime now (Take deep breaths, and let it go) Lately we've been drinking a lot so our hopes, might hopefully last. As the angels joined in To bring up the past We couldn't couldn't help but laugh Ha ha ha hallelujah Feels empty now. You compare the afterlife To an empty womb I've tried to call you but you occupy this whole damn room I've waited up Enough to see what this was (Take deep breaths, and let it go) Lately we've been drinking a lot so our hopes might hopefully last. As the angels joined in To bring up the past We couldn't couldn't help but laugh Hallelujah Now everybody knows I threw the first stone (Come, come whoever you are. Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times Come, yet again, come, come.)
6.
Alabaster 04:22
You took your shell off And you glowed You left it on the floor next to our clothes With the lesions on your neck That helped you to stop believing In the miracle of life and All it's simple secrets Or "am I the monster?" The doctor called and He’s saying that you’re sick again Reserved to a fault They don’t know I never feel it Did you expect me to wrestle alone in what you dealt with? Get married to a cause I never truly believed in? So we'll lower our expectations To play catch and release I've been looking through old definitions To research the lines and find a technicality The weight of it all Finally buckles through your skin But Johnny was okay Until Johnny found our mescaline Now he's speaking in tongues that the Angels say can't be penned. As he's seeing things that he swore couldn't ever exist Now I'm fielding reports that my sister's only half my kin And how our blood is only blood, if the stain is half of it So we'll lower our expectations To play catch and release I've been borrowing old definitions To redraw the lines that defined what it meant to leave. So we'll lower our expectations To play catch and release I've been borrowing your definitions It's only an affair if it feels unfair to me
7.
Wait 04:26
Could you stay up past the talk shows If it's not too late to speak of science And Of your brain, and of it's make up But I guess I'll wait Wait Where did everybody go I built this wall up on my own Now I can't see them Wait I can't do this on my own Cause pure is not an honest term Mistook cum for connection You've been feeling two foot tall With your hair held back and forth In a bathroom stall Did you think this through at all Or were you hoping to feel it? Then you wake up You're paralyzed But face it It's no longer what you need "But I've been dreaming of some terrifying things" So let's face it It's borderline complacent To obstruct, and then to plead to a God we thought we never thought we'd need Now I gave up I learned a lot from patience Learned lessons from the pavement Will you clue me in on what you think you need, oh. Can you get up? Learn lessons from the pavement Become far and out of reach Become wise enough to find a way to leave.
8.
Grave 01:56
Who was the father To your family That you started When you were 19 without me You held the map I've been folding And molding in spite I heard Satan speaks In the language you’ve been learning And God, it seems To haunt us while we're sleeping Give up give up Give up what you were earning Give up give up Don't give up what you've been learning Now you've changed the locks On your grey apartment building And you're calling the cops To escort me from the whiskey You're distilling in your mind To sing the song of melancholy So I'll move once or twice To be sure I can see you around the other side
9.
Closer 03:04
Let's call it news I've been struggling with rent And I owe you A better explanation of why I lose Control of my temper And you Let's call it new A perfect situation built for two Forget the complication that's eroding through The banks surrounding truth How do we choose When we're staring through a lens of darker views? A better understanding of the words you use To help you to see this through Where are you now? Your brother found you heavy across the sound Of the sirens exclamation that's been ringing out In the silence between our shouts We've managed to love an expectation we thought was truth Was only ever prison If good is everything Let's not believe everything is good Everything is good Everything is good Everything
10.
Your life's not the punctuation You've tattooed upon your wrist As if our time could mean anything Like it held your sense of significance While you trade your sense of home For a life you live alone Did you say that you’re stopping by here To collect up all your shit? I'm too scared to try to answer I’m scared I might actually mean it When I found you standing still Your replacement hands concealed But tell me Do you still believe them when they tell you who you are? And do you still see yourself As what you think they think you've done? Oh, I still need it I know I still need it Can you please sit down Your footsteps are ringing out The neighbors downstairs Have called twice already Would you please calm down Because you're starting to scare me now You've got words prepared Do you think that we’re ready As you open your mouth To let the words come pouring out I didn't know There is peace in not knowing Wake up dreamer It's time to get up I know that it's tough And I know that my voice keeps on changing So forgive what I've told Before our bones grow too old My foundation is thin You can tell I've been faking So I'll pick up the saw To build an ark out of straw I can't keep holding my breath It's time to come home We swore to never go to bed angry But I woke up still teeming at you The smoke collecting paints us pictures I was worrying hard I don't know about you

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released November 10, 2017

Engineered and mixed by Matt McClellan at Glow in the Dark Studios; Atlanta, GA.
Mastered by Jesse Cannon at Cannon Found Soundation in NYC.
Cover photography by Liz Moore.
All songs written by Father Mountain.

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Father Mountain Nashville, Tennessee

Having become known for their dynamic tone and their vibrant live performance that toes the line between light and dark, Father Mountain finds their stride. One foot firmly placed in the aggressive indie tones of their predecessors, the band balances on the other; exploring elements of folk, pop, and math rock. ... more

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