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    LP on Mustard Yellow wax with Hot Pink, Blue Jay,
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1.
Animal 03:03
The dagger snapped off in my back It's all I can do to react The open road A dead end street It's all the same to me You know what textbooks say about a cornered animal Frightened and potentially diseased It's dangerous To approach and coax out of it's foxhole Frothing and lashing out blindly Unhinged Unglued Confused  The wind blowing on my last match A shot of justice down the hatch The saber-tooth reality A young libertine's shattered dreams You know what textbooks say about a cornered animal Frightened and potentially diseased It's dangerous To approach and coax out of it's foxhole Frothing and lashing out blindly Unhinged Unglued Confused 
2.
I've broken down and I cannot seem to get it started again I'd trade all the teeth in my head for some adrenaline  I've been distraught with loaded thoughts about where this path might end If my shit shape heart can not keep beating If my shit shape heart can not keep beating Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go Let me go, let me go, let me go, let me go, let me go
3.
These brittle bones can barely hold my own Weight/Wait up for me Wait/Weight around Looking down at my old shoes  At the holes the rainwater pours through I'll do what it takes To get me back to you Your eyes are breaking Your eyes are breaking me This Welcome Mat is a fucking landmine And it's cold outside And trash is getting in my eyes Oh la-di-da-da La-di-da-da I am Lost In search of peace of Mind I lost a  Little piece of my Mind This city life feels so contrived Like a flower forced to bloom And the air in this bag It tastes so fucking bad And it's suffocating  Me and you
4.
I'm on a roll Got shit under control I'm sweating bullets and I'm Lying through my teeth And what you see Is no concern to me I know I'll never be Shit compared to you But it's not for lack of trying  And I know that I've been here before What else can I say But Right Now I'm  Stuck In a rut Stuff asphalt in the cut A litmus test for the Strength of my Resolve If I come back Walking panic attack It's not how you bounce back It's how well you fall And I'm sick and tired of trying And I know that I'll be back again The meaning of life is dying Some wise old words I've heard before Fuck It All To Shit I don't care anymore I'm Too High To Cry Too Rare To Care I Give Up
5.
Standby 04:44
I took the last ride in On a standby flight to Charleston And you left me waiting there While you spent the weekend in Bel Air I hope you had a good time there While I was alone and wondering where you were You're the taste of six week old rotten milk That I should have thrown away with the pills I took every night You were gone I can't believe you lied To Me I took a late ride in On a red eye flight to Manhattan  And you left me waiting there While you spent the weekend in Bel Air I hope you had a good time there While I was alone and wondering where you were You're the taste of six week old rotten milk That I should have thrown away with the pills I took every night You were gone I can't believe you lied To Me And who would've thought In your week away That you would've got A brand new friend And a brand new place to stay
6.
Take It Back 03:39
Take it back You know I'm the one you want You can  Pretend to leave Give it back Because I deserve as much  As you Dish out at me And you showed it to me The way I needed to see I taste it on the words screamed at the top of your lungs I waste it on the words screamed at the top of my lungs Give in to the feeling That opiates and never lets you down True star-crossed love Latch on to believing  The ladder rungs that rung your bells for so Goddamn long And you showed it to me The way I needed to see I tasted all the words screamed at the top of your lungs I wasted all the words screamed at the top of my lungs Way down inside Bury the lies And the nights you can't recall Lay down and die Stop taking my hand Taking a chance Wasting your breath On Me
7.
Spinal 02:13
I don't want to drown My legs have let me down There's a crack, in my back And it's working it's way down To my feet, where defeat Is polishing it's crown And I hate myself for Making myself bleed The fear tide rolls in And it's soaking up my sheets Worthless desires open up their doors to me What have I done now? I can't read my set list I can't eat my breakfast I'm fucking dependent/defenseless I cannot exist like This My problems can't be solved My sins won't be absolved I watched it all dissolve  On the night I took the fall My problems can't be solved This never will resolve So kill, pollute, and mass-produce And plant the seed for the next generation And I hate myself for Making myself bleed The fear tide rolls in And it's soaking up my sheets Worthless desires open up their doors to me What have I done now?
8.
Follicles 03:33
Lying on a bed of broken sticks and stones The morning snow is all I have to convince my flesh it still has bones The sun rises, but I cannot I'm thinking things my father thought About all the bets he lost So many wasted nights Fighting fights I'm fighting the fights my mother lost And I don't want to get back up again I don't want to get back up again These things were shaking me And now they're shaking you If we could only breathe Maybe we could shake them too My brother's cancers continue to grow Like answers to questions I'll never know My brother's cancers continue to grow Like answers to questions I'll never know And I don't want to get back up again I don't want to get back up again
9.
My Destiny Revealed itself to me I'm getting shitty and I'm running out of time Alone At Sea Fishing for sympathy Waiting with bated breath but nothing's on the line I Wanna Die Young Mommy Always Called me Ugly Daddy Dropped me From three stories on My Head I Wanna Die Young
10.
Velvet Arms 05:30
Call false alarm You kissed my mouth and screamed Abuse to the river Our Velvet Arms They Locked, They Loved What tragic lives we've had What tragic lives we've led You kissed my mouth and screamed Abuse to the river We were born In the Sunshine We grew up baking in the ultraviolet radiation Of a slowly dying Star This sneaky Rum is sneaking up on me Like a lightning storm in a field of Wild Horses We are  Not as lost As they think we are

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released April 29, 2022

Recorded at Ocean Industries by Jeff Leonard Jr. and Eric Rickert
Mixed by Jeff Leonard Jr.
Mastered by Vlado Meller
Produced by Jeff Leonard Jr. and Jeff Riddle
Cover Art and Design by Austin Lotz

Jeff Riddle - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
William Francis Orender - Drums
Lead Guitar on "Standby", "Take It Back" "Spinal" and "Follicles" played by Jonathan Hernandez and recorded by Andy Clarke at Retro City Studios
Ross Bogan - Keys & Organ

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