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by Valaska

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1.
Spring 04:11
I no longer beg the question of what I was before or the platitudes behind what Ive done cause Im not even here and Im not even on the way up I no longer fuse your movement with what I want to say or the feeling that the worst is yet to come cause you're not even here no you're a step behind the notion cause with simple words you spring but I'm banal in your details and all your riddles I concede, hold nothing for me but you already know I no longer hide myself in the closure of the known and Im still rubbing the sleep from my eyes cause what Im seeing now is not the same before I shut down
2.
Hold Me Back 04:50
You went too far alone that now you've worn down and you're not where you thought you'd be you're inside out and it all spells out the same no matter what you say like a morning fog that dissipates with age so wont you hold me back love just keep me away from all that ive become and wont you hold me back love with tinier seeds waiting for the sun I dissolved in a walls design just like I always do despondent hues in a never ending room and I don't need what you have cause it was instilled in my hands like a nervous tick that everybody knows
3.
Vessel 02:54
Hold your tongue cause you're more than just anyone but then a man comes along with steady pride now I stand between you and a better fight and like a misplaced wedding ring my heart's still with you like paralysis in sleep and in my dreams as well cause if I try to be someone else I fail extolling all my callouses from chewing down my nails and I want to say that someday we’ll stop trying to figure it out and we’ll be happy but optimism was never me Settle down all your panic, Ill dilute it down so you can see it wasn't me that helped you out cause I'm a tiny vessel tucked inside your mouth and in ten years time ill be far more constricted and I wont be of much use even on a micro scale
4.
Violence 03:04
I am everywhere I am everywhere you have been Now you're peering down the scope already feeling like you're far too old but you'd never know you dont want to leave here where the quiet reigns heavy with a violence I dont feel sorry for what you found prying all your thoughts again In other words you find pieces of yourself in others words but you know the outcome too well now you're hiding from the same things crawling up your own sleeve and all this violence has no meaning if they cant see what you feel
5.
Ghost 03:47
it started faint, without a name sprawling arms of subtle waves and now its got a hold of me and as you go and learn to breathe and all your traits become the creaks tip toes and still this house, it speaks cause Ive been running out with ghosts to feel like my old self cant leave whats gone in the air with all that I have exhaled cant wait for you and your sound with a patient ear to the ground steps ascend to a place Ive been settled dust, again I miss the cue the faces change but the storys the same how can you prove something you claim to love when every creak in the floor seems far more tangible how can you prove something you claim to love when the pictures on the wall are just a frame of mind
6.
Sad Bones 03:41
When you're alone do you feel the world spin without you and are you afraid your voice wont reach over the turning but as you hide away and every single one of your sad bones sliver in bed you say you carelessly left your candles burn into the sunrise when you're alone coiled in your lust you're unencumbered and thats how its been and it seems like every days written in shorthand but as you lie awake just trying to recall what keeps you on this side of the glass you say your days are killing time and you're a creature born within your own moonlight
7.
Sun Dogs 02:13
Are you on my side cause my arms lived to settle you are you holding onto something revealing most of what we’d never say when it feels you're turning it my way and if it's your love then let it go and I’ll hold my hand to those precious eyes
8.
you had some happiness waiting at home the warm fire in the blizzard storm so you let it go and blame the ebb and the flow its not the way it was supposed to go pack up your dreams in the back of the yard and, play it off like you know who you are, you haven't looked in a mirror since all your friends disappeared you say you're fine with pretty eyes swelling up with tears and remember when you said you wanted to quit but there's always something new you need to forget so you burnt down a bridge cause you felt up for the swim and the waters warm but now you're lonely and drifting and now that I've fallen sick with the human condition where life's better with both your eyes close or whatever gets you home its perfect circles when we're setting it straight but you lost track of us in all your chakra haze and the sex on your breath, a minor bedside effect at this point I'd even settle as a consequence can't really say that theres a lesson I've learned cause I'll find a way to get my feelings hurt so keep me in the loop before you tighten the noose these are the dog days of my unstable brain.
9.
Minor 04:11
Im letting go of all thats been with me I’m tired of the seldom wind and now that you don't have to be here anymore than I could be the breeze wont return with me I dig down to find something frail and I hold onto you just like dirt under my nails and im walking on wires till i fall straight into the eyes of the one standing tall would you save me still if I told you of my faults now my eyes are tired ravines cutting down the core in anyway and all this silence brings is the hope that someone else will sing Im the minimum of everything I could have Now Im manic cause I just dont want to understand my actions and all they ever tried to be cause admitting that you're wrong never helps so when the time is right then breathe and if you're here now thats where you should be cause my eyes are tired ravines so come a little closer and sing
10.
Sleep 04:19
Did I run myself away, am I lighter now, cause I held on its threads and now its coming back for more Did I breathe for its pride, cause it lived in my eyes well, Ive been wrong I’ve been waiting for the sun to give in and you know I couldn't help but think that it did so let me sleep it off and wake when Im new when its slow enough and night opens up then ill forget what Im not and become what I want cause all these words dont relate anymore I tried to hone in the sights in my periphery, I tried resisting the silence but I couldn't let it be and now Im wide awake with truth and Id swear on it for you but ive been wrong and ive been waiting for sun to give in and you know I can help but think that it did

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released June 14, 2016

All Songs Written by: Valaska
Produced by: Valaska
Engineered & Mixed by: Matt Holmes
Mastered by: Doug Van Sloun @ Focus Mastering

Matt Holmes: Drums / Rhodes
Zach Porlier: Bass / Vocals
Dave Valdez: Vocals / Guitar / Piano / Keys
James Young: Guitar / Vocals

Artwork & Graphic Design: Keith Vlk

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