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Creased Sneaker
03:56
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Verse 1
It was just
A fleeting instinct
It was like
A tragic film
Posed in a pinafore
Recline and wash away
Inside a glass
You hardly sleep
Chorus
Don’t fold on yourself
Don’t owe me a reason
Caught in spell
You didn’t believe in
Behind the glass, a pain you can’t define
A fractal in your stride
A crease in your sneaker
Verse 2
It was just
A fated instant
It was like
A mourning song
Posed in a pinafore
Recline and wash away
Inside aghast
You hardly speak
Chorus
Don’t fold on yourself
Don’t owe me a reason
More than a spell
You didn’t believe in
Behind the glass a pain you set aside
A fractal in your stride
A crease in your sneaker
Bridge
Chorus
So don’t fold on yourself
And don’t owe me a reason
More than a spell
You didn’t believe in
Behind the glass a pain you can’t abide
A fractal in your stride
Don’t turn on yourself
You don’t owe me a reason
More than a spell
You didn’t believe in
Behind the glass, you shatter slow and fine
A fractal in your stride
Or a crease in your sneaker
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2. |
Fools' Spring
03:48
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rse 1
Troubled sutures sting
A Kool-Aid cure
Now that you’re dying
Water colour scheme
A lure for
Every grift that you’re buying
Bridge 1
Bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
Pre-Chorus 1
Sunken dream
Your world ajar
Chorus 1
Mind your head
On the door
As you take a step in
To the dark
Once again
You’re beginning to shout
That it’s as good as guessing the truth
It’s as good as guessing the truth
Verse 2
Drug-store villains
Bask in the heel of the boot
That keeps us from flying
Long division
Profits the idle
Taking that track that you’re given
Bridge 2
Bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
Pre-Chorus 2
Notions
Keep us worlds apart
Chorus 2
Mind your head
On the door
As you take a step out
Of the light
Then again
You’re beginning to doubt
If it’s as good as guessing the truth
It’s as good as guessing the truth
Bridge 3
Bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
Pre-chorus 3
Bracing for
The grave unknown
Chorus 3
Mind your breath
On the floor
As you take a look out
At your life
Yet again
You lean into the doubt
But it’s gone
It’s long gone
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3. |
Severance
02:48
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Verse 1
You say you’ve had enough
And I’m done undermining
My most important things
Pressed up in unchronological order
Unchronological order
Verse 2
A warm remembrance
Thinking back on the good times
I watch them pass me by
Pressed up uncharacteristically fine
Chorus
Fatal crack
But that won’t do us in
Fade to black
I’ll sever myself in the morning
Verse 3
You say you’ve had enough
But I’m still undermining
My most important things
Pressed up in unchronological order
Unchronological order
Chorus
Fatal crack
But that won’t do us in
Fade to black
I’ll sever myself in the morning
[Damn, those were some good times]
Sever myself in the morning
I’ll sever myself in the morning
[woo!]
Sever myself in the morning
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4. |
St. Catherine
02:56
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Verse 1
Slanted, paper attic walls
Spread the mettle thin
Blackout, insulation glows
But you are the wind
Chorus
In soffit eaves above
Close, crowded in
Familiar ones are far
Stranger within
I know you could walk away
I hope you don’t
Verse 2
Saint Catherine, I once was sure
In someplace unknown
This feeling only you command
Turns dust to stone
Chorus
In soffit eaves above
Close, crowded din
Familiar ones are far
Stranger within
I know you could walk away
I hope you don’t
I hope you don’t
I know you won’t
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5. |
Green Tea Space Heater
00:55
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6. |
Same Devices
03:26
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rse 1
Oh lemon glow
Tumble out of your window
Oh and it gets me high
Amethyst and alkaline
Verse 2
Fell incantation’s sway
Incandescent wax and wane
Oh and it makes me sigh
Another bastard alibi
Chorus
Curb appeal’s
A bitter wheel
Verse 3
Low in the dull refrain
A hidden votive beckoning
Bent to the same devices
Turn to me instead and try this
Chorus
Curb appeal’s
A bitter wheel
Ohh
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7. |
Heated Meeting
02:51
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Verse 1
The fix is in when I arrive
Trade me a swing
Will I survive?
Cut in, belittle, undermine
An empty threat
To cool your head
Verse 2
Convalescent daughters
Run aground and never prosper
Call the first responder
A hurried surgery
To burn away my sympathy
Chorus
It was a heated meeting
Without a word that bears repeating
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
Positively suffocating
It was a heated scene
To avenge in the sequel
Your fingers in a steeple
Verse 3
Adolescent fathers
Rather panic when they falter
Volunteer before the altar
A hurried surgery
A virtue of necessity
Chorus
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
It was a heated meeting
It was overheated
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8. |
Kool Aid Blue
03:07
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Living in sequence
Gets a little uneven
Spin in a fixture
Alight as a stone
Alternative vision
A tragic hair decision
Read in the leaves
That all you need’s a missing page
Glimpse the ether
A mirror figure
It’s just a phase you can’t escape
A sinking feeling
Amber light; a dimmer view
But that sinking feeling
Will dissolve in Kool Aid blue
Slow motion sickness
Wasted in stasis
Another draft begins alone
With three sheets to the wind
You follow it home
A sequined ceiling
In the dark, a clearer view
And that sinking feeling
Will dissolve in Kool Aid blue
And that sinking feeling
Will dissolve in Kool Aid blue
Will dissolve in Kool Aid blue
Oo oo oo oo oo oo
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Alex Kerc-Murchison, Stephen Carl O'Shea, Nick Ubels, & Tim Ubels.
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