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Grey
01:57
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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"
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2. |
Sobriety
03:59
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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?
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3. |
Friends
03:01
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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.
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4. |
Grace
01:06
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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
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5. |
Hallelujah
04:27
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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.)
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6. |
Alabaster
04:22
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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
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7. |
Wait
04:26
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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.
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8. |
Grave
01:56
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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
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9. |
Closer
03:04
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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
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10. |
Miracle of 91'
07:03
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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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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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