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1.
Mayday 01:23
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I would haunt this place Just to keep you safe I hope you'd understand me With that heart chained around your neck Do you feel like you'll begin to sink soon? Remember me As I was young Disappointed in our reign to Forget this state Move north to make your home North Dakota's where we'll never find you (Never find you) If I could be your lungs The ones you kiss with smoke I'd be suffocated Replace your name Forget this state And I'll keep you screaming I've made my home Built upon your ghost A piece of yourself Haunting every bedroom We'd celebrate the end With a parade While you shoot back holy water So soon you will disappear (disappear) Just a photo on our walls (on our walls) So soon you will disappear (disappear) You're just a photo on our wall
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Champion for a Day 03:35
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Another day (another day) That takes us further away From our prime where we used to be We were the reckless youth who owned these streets Are things better now? Have you gone and found yourselves? Did you plant your seeds? Watch the love you make start to breathe One day I'll do the same I'll become one of the saved Still ignited by the songs we used to scream We're wiretapped royalty Move past a jaded view That window never served a purpose What you want, you kept from you The angst that these songs drew from you The fragile frames of the older youth that we've become We're still waiting for the work to make us whole These aging eyes will always look to all of you I'll always find your faces in crowded rooms Here's to the memories that the years, they have become Embrace your truths It's so much better if you do Patience Just celebrate the time we're given To rebuild All that this life has stolen That grave Might seem just too appealing I'd rather wait To return to the dirt a few more minutes Of the stars that remain, I'll look to all of you Any sky that they cast you in could never do Here's to the nights we spent in Andy's garage I'm never getting Over all of you Over all of you Over all of you Over all of you I love you all
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Back at our Beginning 03:11
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You can't regret what's been a long time coming You set your pace just a few steps ahead of me It's never like you to want to give it away A calm composure vs. a cold sad indifference You spent a long time building these resentments Wish I could say you'd speak of me well But I know you won't Please speak up, a quiet storm blows throughout your head Marked you envious (Marked you envious) Please speak up, a quiet storm blows throughout your head Throughout your head So begins the worst of your decay Constructing models of your life to match the one that you hate I've had better friends in acquaintances than I ever had in you Your world is perfect To match this flawless Collective we are Please speak up, a quiet storm blows throughout your head Marked you envious (Marked you envious) Please speak up, a quiet storm blows throughout your head Throughout your head We've heard this speech before First you were so sure, now you're not so sure To build that light behind your eyes Please speak up, a quiet storm blows throughout your head Marked you envious (Marked you envious) Please speak up, a quiet storm blows throughout your head Throughout your head
4.
La Docena 03:22
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My heart was the Sun For the Earth Before it opened up Stitched up my mouth Tied up my hands Oh, I am lost Your song was the air That my lungs could not hold We fell asleep I broke into glass Became your fear I know, I know that it shows ¿Por que, mi amor? Oh, no. So we wrapped you in wire Stole your faith How it left your eyes taped I am the cure That you spit out Lynched on a nail For every stone That we throw How it left your body warm I am the fool Who would repeat And then you'll know I know, I know that it shows ¿Por que, mi amor? Oh, no. So what will you have of me? So what will you have of me? So What will you have of me? What will you have of me?
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Speak Sweeter 04:14
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I thought I felt it change me, baby I could never compete with what was born And I can't always burn bright, baby Somewhere I lost what makes it burn I am not your sunlight, baby My flawless glow went out in a whisper of light Your gift, my curse, our tragic flaw I'm the martyr perfecting being alone Why am I so terribly wrong? With you it's been the same old story Of holding me back from moving on I could never I could never We can't turn it off Whisper your shame lover (breathe love, do not wait) You live like a shadow, you live to escape (you're so careless with that time) I'm not worth the wait (when you leave me, remember I was to blame) You couldn't (you couldn't) Love a mistake Why am I so terribly wrong? With you it's been the same old story Of holding me back from moving on I could never I could never We can't turn it off Can't turn it off Can't turn it off Can't turn it off Why am I so terribly wrong? With you it's been the same old story Of holding me back from moving on I could never I could never We can't turn this off We can't turn this off We can't turn this off We can't turn this off
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Better 03:16
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Is it heresy To say what you mean? I would reshape my life with the grace you bestow From your spoken wealth And yet nothing comes out A messiah with nothing to teach And I am his prophet who's blacked out behind the wheel It's better to stay away than to come home to disappoint My hymn A sad broken reprieve I'd sing with a delicate lisp, I'm stuttering Still tangled in prayer A decade of residing as a saint in the state where you left me Jesus Christ is not the same as I One goes to Heaven and the other just dies Courted by disease, I'll give my air freely It's never been much use to dream I'll never catch up to your ideal me But to validate your hand, I'll fold mine Take the loot and then leave me I keep MRI results as souvenirs Documenting my loved ones' hopes and fears Though my brain is breaking Like a gentleman I'm waiting I'll get better, I'll get better Better Better
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The Sun's Path 01:55
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The blues that strangled my soul Were burnt out by the light that burns behind your eyes You left my smile a wreck 'Cause I've been grinning ear to ear since you set me on fire Sometimes I get so scared I forget to breathe But your voice in my head says, "Babe, shut up and sing" What god did I bribe to ever get so blessed to call you mine? With every fucked up thing I've ever said and done You still kiss me every day, every night I scream my prayers and beg for you to stay My soul mate, my heart given legs I'm on your string It's true (it's true) You'll see (you'll see) Every road leads back to me (to me) Dear we could be The apparitions haunting our loved ones dreams (ones dreams) My dear we are the finest calamity
8.
Double Fiction 03:25
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Our bond is our blood But you two make it hard to claim A life out of LA is one I would help you jump At the chance to help you escape But the ink on your skin Represents a family you would rather die with Don't make your daughters feel they mean less to you Than the hood that you claim Little sister I see through the evil you try to hide behind Though your horns may be bare To me you're a light that keeps me safe at night Two years to be locked up Is better than having to find a place where you would Be laid to rest No matter how hard you try, Little sis you'll be just fine Big sis, You were supposed to be someone I looked up to With everything you do being someone else's fault How could we blame you? All your choices seems so much better when inebriated Carry on as you do Live your life like you have no one to answer to It's all about to catch up Drafted four children into your war of Meaningless apologies and excuses that sum up who you've become I know you're somewhere in there buried beneath all the pain and hurt I brought my shovel, I'll dig all day and night No matter how deep, I'll try and rescue you And any chains That are holding you back Are fitted for you Addicted to this life of escalating addictions First step: start to grind your teeth Second step: you feel crushed under broken dream Third step: start to realize whatever substance you worship doesn't define you Pulling strength from a bottle Panic at thoughts of making amends If the good word can't save you Abandon the children make our parents repent All the flesh that they gave you marked you a sinner A convenient alibi Embellished and complacent If God can't judge, who are your kids to even try? Addicted to this life of escalating addictions
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Dear Calamity 03:57
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Are you the cancer that hangs around this town? Every cigarette gets chased with liquor, quicker Loosen up those lips Before the end comes that we're patiently awaiting To feel your heartbeat against my chest Well, that's just perfect Stick to what you know and If that time comes, make damn sure that it's worth it Tighten my grip on your wrist Begin beating this romance back to death I find it clever how you keep our hips together Almost poetic in the way you've got me pacing Patience, patience Such a vain harlot whose sheets, they whisper "You're not the only one who's been here" I was an addict for the way you kept me begging Until those veins ran dry Oh you pathetic romantic any way you paint this Not so devoted Hide your hands 'cause they're shaking So debonair, so apologetic You look graceful with that broken jaw So what's the lesson? Is it typical of a gentleman's apparition to be elegant and promise that You'd be forgiven? Your eyes set alight Flash like fire, but it serves no purpose We were repetitive in hopes of enduring this transubstantiation But baby, you'll need this We'll paint a target on your back And we'll open fire I find it clever how you keep our hips together Almost poetic in the way you've got me pacing Patience, patience Such a vain harlot whose sheets, they whisper "You're not the only one who's been here" I was an addict for the way you kept me begging Until those veins ran dry Oh you pathetic romantic any way you paint this Not so devoted Hide your hands 'cause they're shaking The time it took and all the times they could not fix me (This is another sick addiction to add to the list) The awful sounds that came spilling out of my mouth (This is another sick addiction to add to the list) Such an anxious man, press him tight into a coffin (This is another sick addiction to add to the list) But you know as well as I (This is another sick addiction) You are not alone I find it clever how you keep our hips together Almost poetic in the way you've got me pacing Patience, patience Such a vain harlot whose sheets, they whisper "You're not the only one who's been here" I was an addict for the way you kept me begging Until those veins ran dry Oh you pathetic romantic any way you paint this Not so devoted Hide your hands
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Prizefighter 02:53
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What's the point of being scared? My bloodline contains more than disappointment It carries my father's name Thirty years of this life spent getting by Thirty years of this life spent waiting I dig in deeper in this trench and smile at this war of mine Darling I can't recall feeling anything but numb I will not be persuaded, there'll be no compromise There will be no begging or pleading, a man has got his pride Though amongst the undefeated the prizefigher inside Might go down If he does I'll bow out graciously Accept this grave as my new home Take comfort in knowing I I had a good run You'll find me asleep In better company Embraced in a disease One that's spreading, eating me A cold hopeless machine One that pays to breathe For an antiquated belief Resembling the life I had before What's the point of being scared? What's the point of being scared? You'll find me asleep In better company Embraced in a disease One that's spreading, eating me A cold hopeless machine One that pays to breathe For an antiquated belief Resembling the life I had before I had before I had before Resembling the life I had before
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Carcaci 04:47
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Here tonight this new holiday It would keep you Breathless and hopeless Tied to another You're so unsure that you're meant for something better I'm just like you The less I hear about it, more I want to know about it all Be still A peace absurd to which we're used to I'm used to Dependent Relying on their words to make you whole A problem One you can't resolve, another means to keep you here and warm And safe, dear Raise that glass, we'll toast to your depression Sing to me from the beautiful rhetoric you compose We are the same here Strangled by our lives' revisions Composer vying with the sheltered from the sun These notes are empty, documenting one's digression We're digressing Regardless, I've got this Regardless, I've got this Regardless, I've got this Regardless, I've got this I've got, I've got this The less you hear about it, better off you are without this all Be still A peace absurd to which you're used to Feel the comfort from one's arms you barely can afford No need for alarm, dear Sleep in the comfort that is this collective You're accepted

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released April 10, 2020

Brian Vidal - Vocals, Bass
Keith Allen - Guitar, Vocals, Drums, Programming, Synthesizers
Chad Christensen - Guitar

Mixed by Scott Sellers.

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Artwork by Kiera Vidal

Additional Musicians:
Scott Sellers - Backing vocals on Carcaci
Kiera Vidal - Vocals on Speak Sweeter, backing vocals on Mayday
James Dewees - Keyboards and synth on Speak Sweeter
Atticus Allen - Backing vocals on Champion for a Day

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Keith - Guitar, Vocals

Chad - Guitar

Cecily - Bass

Atticus - Drums

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