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Bottom of a Lake

by tasru

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Exhale 1 00:30
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Worst Words 04:05
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smoke from the past fills my lungs and i exhale a cloud of the worst words i've ever heard now that my song has been unsung you can rip out my throat feed my tongue to the birds and i won't do a damn thing about it i'll surrender the spark from my eyes in a million ways this is the best day that i've ever seen think that i'll call it a day self-ejection abroad is the american way fall asleep to the sound of the waves won't be taking any credit for the way i behave and you can't do a damn thing about it playing dead under reptile skies in a million ways this is the best day that i've ever seen blue you don't have to wait you don't have to stay up waiting all night for me i'm doing alright locked up in a lighthouse waging war with the light
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Come Closer 03:30
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devoid of any symmetry i crawled into your family i was tired of living by myself crackles on the radio tucked away where i cant see burnt, blacklisted VIP im restless and its nothing new like yellow stains on my tennis shoes ive been driving around at night a lot doing shit i shouldnt do a lot (set aside) ive been waiting around for you ive been running around at night a lot hardly sleeping in a parking lot (set aside) ive been waiting around for you losing track of what comes next i do believe you know whats best but sometimes i get turned around buried under higher ground play it cool play it tough the danger wont seem so dangerous you can blame it on the internet but the best part hasnt happened yet ive been waiting around for you come closer
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Exhale 2 00:51
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Bottom of a Lake 04:11
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if i missed your graduation ceremony would you ever speak to me again? if i skipped your funeral for a birthday party would you still consider me a friend? would you trust me if i told you the whole story? it'd be the best you'd ever heard and i do trust you'd tell me your side of the story not a whisper from a mockingbird where's your color have you lost it all? washed out behind some waterfall you're so dull couldn't pierce through a paper wall i won't forget what you said the last time you called there's no up and there's no down anymore i saw you going the wrong way if i'm to be the one protector of my world i'll leave it shining at the bottom of a lake the game that you're playing is not a lesson in love it's a waste of time
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Native Phases 04:02
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it's enough to make you stand up and call my name i do always think the way that you've been thinking it could use a lil rearrange but i don't really care anymore it's enough to make you stand up and call my name right through this phase are you A or are you B now? only you can make me feel this way and i don't understand it's enough to make you stand up and call my name another day do you hear what you are saying? would you really treat a friend that way? i don't really care anymore
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Language 05:00
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the kid lights another cig he's lying to himself again cuz he knows he'll be forgiven in the end i'm lyin on the floor waiting for the phone to ring expecting bad news from a friend i wonder what they all must think of me i wonder if this is where i'm supposed to be i take these thoughts to paper in a language you can't read yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah a day like any other day he's lost inside his head again where the world is always luminous and new have you ever really looked out on the island before it rains? how often we mistake the two there are pieces that i don't want you to see like a poison wind you can taste it on the breeze i'd like to prove to you the things you refuse to believe yeahyeaheayehaeeauheaushefaksjdhafkj i wonder what they all must think of me i wonder if this is where i'm supposed to be i take these thoughts to paper in a language u can't read yeahyeahx
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Exhale 3 00:53
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Rattlesnake 08:00
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in a smoked-out club a hundred ugly girls are buzzing from the bassline an inch of blood on the floor before they spill a single glass o' wine then the king walks in (hello) he's got those boots with the leather shiiiine only comes around on the weekend when the air is (somethin') turpentine everybody stops and turns around to see what he'll do but he hardly says a word and when he does its never nothing new he's got eyes like a lizard tongue like a RATTLESNAKEeee he'll tell you 37 lies for every syllable of truth you take everybody wants to be his friend he has not the time he floats around the night performing patriotic pantomime he's really just a shadow follow you with or without the sun he says he'll make you famous but i really wouldn't wish that upon anyone NO! we were introduced one night last spring (april to be exact) i could have sworn we met before// but my memory is another thing took me by the hand with a ttoouucchh my skin: it turned to scale in my constriction i was drowning in a "DOUBLE WHISKEY GINGERALE" with a knife, slowly and ever so carefully carved a lil hole in my reality completely unaware of the strings that were attached to me i broke ONE HUNDRED hearts and became the father of ONE THOUSAND suns/sons if i could show my face in town again, a fraction of what i've become in a smoked-out club a hundred ugly girls are buzzin' from the bassline a pool of blood on the floor but they're only drinking white wine then i walk in i got those boots with the leather shine i'd probably leave them at the door if i could only travel backkkkkk in timeeeee NO!!!!!!!! do do do do do do do do do do do do

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released November 26, 2017

2017 [OTA] Records
All songs written, performed and produced by Thomas Grathwol.
Recorded in the Haunted Shed, Niigata, Japan.

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