Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

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Collapse / Expand

Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

Lyrics:
Is anything out of place
Is anything wrong
Why do you I have a feeling
that this was a close call

My days are in order
Keeping track of time
I'm losing myself
in checkout lines

I've been getting light sleep, cold feet
So far away from the morning
I need to tune out the sound of me
Growing dependent on noise machines

Repeat conversation
until it fades away
Tangled in opinions
I can't think straight

Turned round on my directions
I'm always undecided
A quiet apprehension
that I never invited

I've been getting light sleep, cold feet
So far away from the morning
I need to tune out the sound of me
Growing dependent on noise machines

I've sunken in for far too long
I've let this noise drown out the song
I'll quantify the time that's passed
Lace up my shoes, run twice as fast

Happiness comes from within the mind
It needs constant care, it takes some time
It's possible but you need to try

Noise Machines

Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

Lyrics:

Common composure is walking on thin ice
And everyone knows why
Under the surface, a market of swindlers
reselling alibis

What breaks the cycle? kindness or exile?
I don't have the answers
Flipping a mindset leaves behind bruises
Sometimes the truth hurts

When the problems become pressing
calm and collected begins undressing
Our comprehension is clearly lacking
How can we find out if we're not asking?
It's time to put down the pen and paper
Deal with it right now instead of later
Watching a blowout from the bleachers
We can't afford to keep feeding the meter

Basic assumptions get called into question
Trust but verify
Ration the bloodflow for things not essential
This all can't survive

I don't need progress, I just need movement
Something's gotta change
So can you feel it now as certain as the sun
shining through a summer rain

When the problems become pressing
calm and collected begins undressing
Our comprehension is clearly lacking
How can we find out if we're not asking?
It's time to put down the pen and paper
Deal with it right now instead of later
Watching a blowout from the bleachers
We can't afford to keep feeding the meter

Time's up, tick tock
No more small talk

Feeding The Meter

Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

Lyrics:
Tracing the lines on my hand
Repair the holes in my vision
Are these misfires in my head
The human condition 

Been wading in standing water
Likely exposed for too long
My body is unresponsive
My god just tell me what's wrong

Don't know if this state is a threat
Can't fight with no wall on my back
Where's all of the flashing lights
Helping me stay on track

Follow the heart, follow the head
both screaming out, pick me instead
Wish I could out this to bed

Lately I'm leaving
Half empty handed
My company is telling me that we've disbanded
Can't say I blame 'em
I've been an asshole
I'd try to salvage it
buy it's not worth the hassle
I'm stuck in idle
Can't start engine
Slowly accepting
I can't hold my own attention
It might be too late
To save the embers 
I killed the passion
when tried to kill the temper

A civilized moment to think
Try not to spend it alone
Do anything in my power
To keep me off my phone

These 28 years have taught me
Secrets about myself
No longer can justify
throwing away my health

I am repeat behavior
slave to my tendencies
Waiting for system failure
To put me on my knees

This foregone conclusion
It's too predictable
One of these days will be fatal

Lately I'm leaving
Half empty handed
My company is telling me that we've disbanded
Can't say I blame 'em
I've been an asshole
I'd try to salvage it
buy it's not worth the hassle
I'm stuck in idle
Can't start engine
Slowly accepting
I can't hold my own attention
It might be too late
To save the embers 
I killed the passion
when tried to kill the temper


Leave while you have time
Before I change my mind
You should save yourself while you still have time
Before I change my mind

Temper

Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

Lyrics:
Make another pivot
I'm right within reach
Not certain I can get it
It won't be easy

Screaming at the thunder
till the voice hurts
Some days I wonder
just what it's all worth

Still got a little ways to go
but I don't wanna wait to know
We've tested the water long enough
Familiar paralysis
of never breaking out of this
I think it's time we step it up

Life's moving fast for all the right reasons
Narrow window to hit the peak season
Now's the time to play our cards
Listen to our restless hearts

Another cold winter
Another wet spring
Another dry July with memories lingering

Soon it'll be autumn
when the lights die down
We're gonna be louder when the new year rolls around

Still got a little ways to go
but I don't wanna wait to know
We've tested the water long enough
Familiar paralysis
of never breaking out of this
I think it's time to step it up

Life's moving fast for all the right reasons
Narrow window to hit the peak season
Now's the time to play our cards
Listen to our restless hearts

Still got a little ways to go
but I don't wanna wait to know
We've tested the waters long enough
Familiar paralysis
of never breaking out of this
No I'm not giving up

Peak Season

Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

No lyrics! :)

Collapse / Expand isn't a concept EP, but it is aptly named. Each of these songs survived multiple, heavy reworks and they landed where they are now. The title also comes from the fact that a lot of things seem to be ending or beginning or growing.

Lyrics:
The world seems ripe
For taking on a new life
An easing of its gravity
A calming of the skies
The places of old
Are waiting for the new fold
To settle and get comfortable

Someone bumped the shutter speed
I'm having a hard time focusing
Surrounded by lights that I'm not used to noticing
Up in the atmosphere, it's dry of all the yesteryears
There's no going back from here

Don't wash away the past
Just pass it down the line
The sooner you let go
The sooner you can find your child eyes

Collapse / Expand

Adam Tell