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1.
Routine 02:18
I've been so sick Left to sort out all my thoughts like this And I've been so empty Excavating overstated griefs 'Til there's nothing left I'm writing the same thing - I always do I'm running on empty, just lying to you I'm writing the same thing - it's all I can do It's all I can do Still I can't tell If I'm suffocating inside my shell Or if I'm drowning Drowning myself in a wishing well Weighed down by coins in my pockets Each one a wish long forgotten Things I'm ashamed to have wanted Things that I wish I'd forgotten
2.
Swept Aside 03:38
You left me standing here I haven't moved in at least three years And it's convenient to say I'd be okay if just let this go But I can't let this go I let the ghosts of my past Keep me grasping for the same note You blame it on fate Well that's the problem I face Destiny never went my way I'm dust trying to settle - I waste my time Finding solid earth to lay myself to rest When the western breeze carries me Out to the open tide; I was never anything With these days come and gone I'll think back to when we used to sit By the train tracks And let the day waste away It's become easy to forget All the times that you spent with the people Who knew what you meant when you said, "I hope this night never ends." Don't forget me
3.
Broken 03:16
But it feels okay when I fill my mouth With benzocaine to take the sting of the words away And it'd be alright if I took a bullet To my spine - it'd keep me from walking out of line Just make the feeling go away Broken, and I don't want to fix it anymore This has been writhing inside of me What would you do if you were me? I'm not the same, but I never was the person that you claimed You thought you knew me yesterday So just go on - keep telling yourself To just go on believing Broken, and I don't want to fix it anymore This has been writhing inside of me Broken, and I can't help but not try anymore I know I've given up before Tell me what you see Spilling out my veins onto another notebook page Tell me what you see Just a broken record spinning
4.
Some Place 02:57
I'm losing purpose Can't stop the world from spinning It just seems worthless To do any more than let it spin 'Cause every page on This calendar I forget to turn Is every day gone With lessons all unlearned For just one day I'd like to feel like I belonged someplace Be someone else so I could say There's nothing I regret today So I'd have something to say I've held this all inside myself And I can tell that no one means well I've grown sick of everything I've known I'll stay home
5.
Empty Walls 02:26
Well, this feels more like home Than where I just set my possessions And try not to feel alone That first night staring down an empty wall Well it may well be the monster from my nightmare Dragging me across the hall On the cold floor, warm blood against my pale face I guess that I'm just a kid who's gonna die in this place But I can't get thought out of my mind That home is wherever I happen to sleep at night Like a feather helpless to the wind It won't be long before I forget just where I've been And you may well be the monster from my nightmare Dragging me across the hall On the cold floor, warm blood against my pale face I guess that I'm just a kid who's gonna die in this place I stare long enough for the ceiling to move I let myself drift to the last time I saw you I run for miles inside my head Only to wake up cast in stone across my bed
6.
Letters 03:19
I'm standing on the outside Looking through a window under raining skies I'll get along fine Just know I won't be there, but I know that's alright Left behind, feels like waiting on a call in the middle of the night Saying, "Where were you? What are you doing?" I guess I've been right here... I've stayed home more nights than you know You're branded - I've come to understand it I've watched you come and go Wasted, empty, you'll just go and forget me Letdown you'll never know I've stayed home more nights than you know Telling myself I won't sink so low I've stayed home drinking alone Just to keep my memory shallow I've stayed home more nights than you know

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Some melodramatic songs that we wrote between this winter and summer.

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released June 15, 2013

All writing, playing, recording, mixing, and make-it-loudering by us

Bass-Loaning by Anthony Pultz

Cover photo by photographer, Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky

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Short Answers San Luis Obispo, California

Emo/Pop Punk from San Luis Obispo, CA.

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