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    Originally Released Summer 2009

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1.
Violinism 02:20
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Instrumental
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Driving To The Airport 04:16
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When they go, the summer months tip-toe discreetly And the clocks tick-tock for no one else but me In the blanket of my sense of self-reduction Letting go of everything you let me be I don't have to drive my car There's nowhere left to go It's pointless without you I don't have to sleep or dream I've seen it all before It means nothing without you Driving to the airport Clinging to the seconds that remained Stopping traffic like a funeral behind us Honking horns were scoring soundtracks to my pain 'Cause I'm only at my best when I'm beside you I only see the sunlight through your hair The grass is only green beneath your sandals My heart would only beat when you were there I don't have to find a job There's nothing that I need It's all stupid without you I don't need to wash my hair or floss or brush my teeth I'm nothing without you Last year was the best that I ever had...
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Anyone Else But Me 04:04
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Let's pretend We're in bed And the world's gone nuclear war Would you rather be Dead biology This won't hurt anymore (This will be the last time I let them tear us apart) Don't get comfortable Don't feel wonderful Don't hold hands with anyone but me Don't get glamorous Don't act amorous Don't make plans with anybody else but me I suppose You would go If the keys to your cage were dispensed What calamity Took your heart from me Nothing makes any sense (I simply wanted a chance to be everything to you)
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Dora 04:20
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Well if I told how much I need you to stay Will you still go anyway? Would it sway you either way? Or if I bought you flowers, would you take me too? Could I mean that much to you? Tell me what there is that I could do... to get to you If two and two was five and day was night instead Would you love me then? Enough to take me back again If I was Fred Astaire, well would you even care About the clothes I wear Would you still be happy in the air... if I was there This is how we let things go There's nothing that I wouldn't trade for one more fucking second in your arms Oh no, I spoke too slow You'll see the world and everything will help you to forget about me Am I another heart left in the bitter wake? Another cute mistake? Just a consequence for you to date? I swore that there was more to what you said to me About eternity And how it's only long if you're alone... I can only sigh and watch you go
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Interlude: Paris, 1939 02:35
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A cup of coffee in a quaint cafe Miles away from yesterday A stranger sitting in a corner booth Looks like you the things you'd do Examining my methods of letting go I won't act so Confident now that I'm on my own That way we'll stay Separate but equal in the scheme of things Let me be, please Forget the colors of my favorite clothes Let them fade, slip away A cigarette that doesn't ease the pain Grey and blue it tastes like you I heard them saying on the radio the war's begun and no one's won Reflecting on the way that I packed my bags Was that too brash Could I have ended things tastefully? Would you let me? Your letters go in the fireplace I can't read that Your feelings for me are a cross to bear I don't care This is where it stops
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Tremolo Girl 03:22
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Oh god, here we go Just another night out with the tremolo girls and the gay boys they call their own Everybody's looking for someone to Trade names and URL's The sun comes up but you never can tell 'Cause it's so bright beneath the lights of the iPhone screens Left hands with champagne flutes All the movie stars take pictures of you As a complacence sets in me This isn't where I want to be 'Cause I'm with you, this much is true Though you wouldn't know from the rounds you do I just want a date that doesn't roam I guess that you could say that I'm just a little bit bored in this digital world I'm double-clicked and sick of this shit that never makes me happy I want a place to go where I can be alone And leave the sound of mounting parties somewhere far behind me Oh god, here we go The night's on fire for the tremolo girls As your narrator takes his time with calculating his goodbye 'cause I've lost patience with your friends and I wouldn't waste my time again I'll just show myself outside the door and find a bottle to implore One day you will go through your inbox and suddenly realize that Everything you wanted was once Asking to see you Inbetween festivites He foolishly believed that you were something worth saving
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I've Forgotten Everything 05:49
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I've forgotten everything about you 'til someone says your name I've forgotten all the reasons I loved you 'til someone tells me that you rang The memories are hazy now I don't recall at all there's nothing, there's nothing there just me and I don't understand why I can't recollect my feelings 'til someone mentions that they saw you I really don't remember all the things you said 'til someone shows me where you live Why is everything so hazy now I don't recall at all there's nothing, there's nothing there just me and I don't understand why I can't recall your smile the touch of your hand holding mine and I can't remember why holding you seemed so right The memories they're hazy now I don't recall at all there's nothing, there's nothing there just me and I don't understand why I've forgotten everything about you 'til someone says your name I've forgotten all the reasons I loved you 'til someone tells me that you rang
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Until The Twenty Seventh Of June 07:09
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I. May Eighteenth was the day that it started And by the time June Fifteenth had departed All of the beautiful things that we started had gone away You had an aeroplane ticket to ride with Put all those stupid emotions behind it Something inside you spoke up and decided to dislocate I had a crush on you when we were younger Broken in two by the spell that I'm under All I can do now is sit here and wonder what I did wrong Distance would never have made this thing harder That was what I told you when we first started Left broken hearted in places where there was just nothing at all Don't understand what I did to deserve this Wondering whether the good times were worth it All of the love in my heart is dispersing without you here Wishing that I had the courage to hate you Want to go backwards in time and erase you All of the places you took me are going to disappear II. I can't get over what I'm over with with you... Blonde on blonde My coffee date Don't make me face the twenty eighth alone III. In response to the way you hurt me You won't hurt me now I've trained my heart to hate you I've pulled your needles out In regards to the way I loved you I won't love you now I've taught myself to loathe you I'll never let it get this far again IV. I'm not some fucking doll for you to play with I'm not some fuck you're going to forget I'm not some fucking dream that you can wake from I've got nowhere else to go, I'm stuck with this Left with this
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I'm Not Singing To The Angels 04:33
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I'm not gonna talk to any girls I'm not gonna smile or wink at Send mixed signals, make them think that I'm not gonna ask them out on dates Shudder under fathers gazes Take them out to fancy places I'm not singing to the angels I'm not gonna fall in love again I don't want to kiss you anymore I don't want that happy feeling Makes my brain go through the ceiling I don't want to call you on the phone No more throwing stones at windows Splitting blankets, sharing pillows I'm not singing to the angels I'm not gonna think of you no more I don't want to hurt myself again Won't go through the way that I felt then If there was one thing I could invent I'd go back in time and stop myself I'm not gonna think of you at all I won't cry, I've learned my lessons Even at my most defenseless I'm not gonna talk to any girls What's the point in cheap romances I'll be fine, I'll take my chances I'm not singing to the angels I'm not gonna fall in love again
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Crashing 05:04
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Crash with me We've had too much fun and now that everybody's gone The trains don't go to Brooklyn Stay with me Fall asleep beside me, let me hear you breathing We don't have work tomorrow Crash with me Take my shaking hands and make them do you justice The room is slightly spinning Sleep with me Maybe when we're old we'll both know what it felt like I'm not frightened anymore Crash with me Even if tomorrow things get complicated I don't care about it Touch my face Lie and tell me how you'll never, ever let me go Because I'll believe you I always do Crash here with me

about

Summer. I had a crush on her when we were younger. She wrote me a letter. I wanted to know her. We both liked coffee. I liked her. She looked different. She looked beautiful. Still. I couldn't kiss her. She invited me to a party. I came. I got scared. I went home. I talked to her all night. I told her my heart was stapled to hers. I told her I was dying to kiss her. She dared me to try. We went to the movies. We kissed. We held hands. We cried together under the glow of the screen. We watched movies, we watched television. We touched quietly so the others wouldn't hear. She walked to my house in the morning. We shrank out of our clothes. I was scared. She pretended not to care. She stopped answering messages. She vanished into thin air. I cried. I cursed god. I saw the longness of my life without her. I begged her not to leave. Not to let me go. She did. And then there was just me.

This album is a document of hurt. It's about something. It is quick and real. It is not professional. It does not rock. But these songs came from actual places. They were not written, they were felt aloud.

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released July 3, 2009

Brett: drums, guitars, samples, synths, etc.

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