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The City of Woe (Bonus Edition)

by Owen Muir

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Aliases of our Lovers Down by the riptide The decisions Blackbeard made Float past my rock Though ownership of such Is very much in doubt A hurricane is coming Leave your fridges running A storm surge A foundation drowning (Chorus) We were the aliases Of our lovers We were the aliases of our crushes (Cut) (And the places they left their hearts At the direction of science, The runway of their arts Became the silence of violence) Down by the coastline We built our hopes on stilts A hurricane is always Is always coming Ghost crabs drowned And the locals say escape A hurricane is coming While we were left untouched All my Sundays fall away All the beaches ebb, flow, sway All the rocks will be crushed some day Sand is eternal As the waves wash the days Sand is eternal Sand is eternal
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The scrawl dissolves The trap doors I’ve been digging The cipher evolves The rattle crack crackle rigging Holding the ceiling to the floor Running in the door And an analgesic lure For the memories that need succor And the unfortunate who want So badly to remember to forget Drag me Down Am Invitation To argue while you drown Drowned, evaporated and done Victims are in demand To show off their stuff The fall season of human misery Bold red hues are all the rage And staunchly ignoring the sage Who prescribed simple penance For all my sadness and sin Flies gather around for the public show The flaying Flogging crying out The scrawl dissolves The trap doors I’ve been digging The cipher evolves The rattle crack crackle rigging Holding the ceiling to the floor Running in the door And an analgesic lure For the memories that need succor And the unfortunate who want So badly to remember to forget
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Flies don’t gather Trees grew along the sidewalk on the street the used to run by my home I was a child, and mild, once And would walk with my grandfather Flies they don’t gather on me It’s hard to remember Not that I can’t you see Clear recollection just Burns away at me Flies they won’t gather on me I don’t know my father Not that we didn’t live together But His mind was obscured No matter the weather Flies they don’t gather one me My sister never escaped her head 20 years of suffering there in Discarded, annoying, discounted No wonder her veins filled with Something to warm her blood I have some regrets The flies do too I have more regrets And the flies, they gather round you I should have told them all I should have told them all I should have told them all I wish I could have understood Flies they don’t gather on me
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The snow never falls anymore Hey Just pisses rain all year Nothing to hold me back Nothing to keep me in My insides are wearing thin Don’t tell me we’ve seen the worst of it Don’t tell me more lies Chorus Look me in the eye Tell me how can Iq Keep walking straight When every ambivalence Rides away in an ambulance Verse The ocean level rising Come wash away my sins Misery is buoyant While my hope is made of lead Tease me with a blue sky Tease me with an Indian summer Tell me another story That’s not such a fucking bummer Chorus Outro Tell me My friend death How much is enough to learn my lesson Tell me My friend death How much is enough.
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erse Your arguments Your arguments and your dissents Your arguments Your arguments and your dissents Your father is dead And the eulogies have all been read You’ll just have to learn to see It was his choice to be or not to be Prechorus Something’s eating you up From the inside of your guts x2 The pain made you be Someone trapped in their own body I know freedom isn’t free That is what the gravestone it told me Chorus Made peace with me Made peace with you I made peace with myself and With what you thought you had to do Verse Thing you like about the Seasons changing Is you can feel the change in yourself too Your father never had that luxury His moods would only shift from blue to deeper blue Did you expect him to keep going like this Like holding far too long ice cube against your lips Frozen kisses, your arguments That trigger pull was his last dissent Chorus
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A long walk We take to a Series of circles One inside the next One inside the next There is a warning On the way Down Please don’t take that Path with any guide Other than me By your side A dead neon sign And a fair warning Through me you enter The city of woe Bridge with circles and counting. It’s been here a long time (And eternal I remain) And longer still till the cracks show (And eternal I remain) Good advice is a welcome friend And setting expectations A charity So I tell you with all sincerity Abandon all hope Ye who enter here There were one Two three four (Circle upon circles) Five six seven (Circles on circles) Eight and nine Begging you Don’t leave me behind Hell is where I want to be If it’s where you will be too Forever is not enough time If none of its with you (And eternal I remain) I won’t leave you No matter how deep we go Hell is where I want to be As long as you aren’t Left alone

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Originally Released under the pseudonym "Jason Finch", this full length version plus BONUS instrumentals tracks.

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released January 4, 2020

Owen Muir: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Ukulele, Modular Synths, hand claps

@John Vanderslice: Lead Guitar, Lexicon delay fx

www.Johnvanderslice.com

Jason Slota: Drums, percussion, hand claps

Robert Shelton: Piano, B3, ARP Odyssey, Korg Mono/Poly, Rhodes, Various Synths

@James Riotto: Bass, Fender Bass VI, Guitar, MiniMoog, MS20, Backup Vocals, Hand Claps, TR-808, Various Synth Drums



Recorded at Tiny Telephone Studio A, on 2” tape at 15ips, and mixes to 1/2”.
www.tinytelephone.com

Engineered, Produced, and Mixed By @John Vanderslice

Mastered By Owen Muir

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Mental Health Clinicians who grew up on grunge, emo, and punk rock and now do doctor things. Listen up! Side effects may include increased curiosity about the mind and decreased confidence in the healthcare system as we know it.

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