Alabaster

from Apartment Living by Father Mountain

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lyrics

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

credits

from Apartment Living, 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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