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Armchair Politics

by The Digital Pickup Line

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    Originally Released Summer 2008

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Tart 04:12
Runway, walking in a line Our hearts turn off from time to time Catwalk, go and strike a pose The sadness sings before it slows I am making my way and I live to repent another day She makes me nervous I make mistakes in her eyes She don't deserve this My fear, my compromise Tonight has made me ponder all the pretty clothes she's under And when I need her I need her in a way that no one knows And when I feel her Everything that isn't in her eyes is immaterial to me She knows what I am thinking and every time she brings me to my knees Without permission I know this love is madness But it's better than the sadness That I felt from never knowing what she tastes like in the morning
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MOVING TO THE CENTER, FOUR ON THE FLOOR I know somewhere there's something more TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE, LIGHTS GO DOWN There are girls with souls still in this town EVERYONE'S A STRANGER, GUNSHOT WOUND I could die if I don't find her soon THERE IS A TIME & A PLACE FOR POLITENESS EVERYBODY GET YOUR FUCKING PAWS ON THE DANCE FLOOR This is how I feel when I see you come through It's how I kneel when I'm dealing with you And when we touch there isn't much I can do This is how I feel and I feel it for you SLIPPING OUT OF FOCUS, STARS COLLIDE I'm floating out, I'm with the tide SHOW ME YOURS AND I'LL SHOW YOU MINE I pour us both a glass of wine LIFE IS DANGEROUS, ARMCHAIR POLITICS I can't pretend to love you more BEFORE THE NIGHT IS A SIGHT IN THE GALLERY EVERYBODY BRING YOUR FUCKING GUNS TO THE WORLD WAR
3.
Moving through the maze Of lonely days and empty evenings Leaves a bitter taste Displays my weakness like a painting I don't want to know Where she goes without me 'Cause I... I can do things by myself I just never thought that I would be Taken down, walked around so easily It's a feeling that I can't recall Wanting you at all... this desperately Every place we'd go Is now a graveyard for my memories Lay them in the ground The seed becomes a tree for me to climb away in I don't want to know All the things she's done since then 'Cause I'll be back to normal any day now
4.
I keep my records in the basement Under lock, under key I keep my shoes in the closet Where my lovers used to be I watch the war on the TV I see the tanks in the street There's a hole in the ozone Where my church used to be I call my girl from a payphone But she never is awake I never know what the answers are But I never hesitate And I throw my two cents in I put my vote in the box I close my eyes to the world around me I pretend that it's not And when I dream it's in color And when I come it's to you And when I speak it's just words and phrases pieced together Saying what I think you want me to And when I trip it's cause I'm patient Patient with the way you let me go Dreaming of a world that we could change if we were still together Dreaming of the things I'll never know Every war is a candle Every bullet is a cloud Every body in the ground is a teardrop Every country is a crowd And every girl is a pane of glass And every boy is a stone And every love is a bomb with a target Just waiting to explode
5.
I had always been afraid of keeping windows down when I drive around People looking in, seeing where I've been She advertised her pain My fingers always bleed from these dirty magazines Pieces in my hands, never meant to last She's my glass magazine There's nothing there to see She's my deaf symphony That is all she'll ever be She's my glass magazine There is nothing there to read She won't open up to me so I'll stick to the magazines
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Not 05:50
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about

This album was recorded between October 2007 and the summer of 2008. "Want You At All" was the first song made, as a reaction to my break-up with my then ex-girlfriend of 18 months. In the time I was working on this, I was together with another girl and then that ended shortly after. The Suite at the end is still my most favorite piece of music I've ever written and it was (roughly) designed as an outline of the highs and lows of a relationship... how somebody you love can be both a "beauty" and a "beast." Until recently I was very certain that this was my defining statement. It's very dark, but in a graceful sort of way. I still (mostly) think it's the best of the Pickup Line albums.

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released August 23, 2008

Brett Warner: drum programming, vocals, samples, electric and acoustic guitars, synthesizers
Selina Troesch, Karen Bileski, Tricia McSweeney: voice mail

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