2014 demo of "you" recorded to tape at Basement Star Studios

You - 2014 demo

Bus - Voice Memo

an excerpt from Neglected Ambient Works
Volume 1.

October Extinguished Itself

Recorded April 25th at Basement Star Studios.

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Drinks - &sh; Shocking Twist

off the "pop" side of Neglected Ambient Works

is it a city that you work in? I'm not ever certain
sure if there's a steel pole it might be a lamp post
so get yourself some real clothes, buy yourself a go-pro
the world's outside your window, I'm sitting home by myself
you forget about my problems, it makes you feel alright

now the punks down on van brunt street are busy with their daydreams--burning lots of sage, getting ready for the stage reading, long as they get paid, wonder "isn't life amazing?"
when you meet someone real they look at you like you're crazy
oh my, it happens all the time
still surreal that I'm alive, to say the least

and your worth isn't whole, it gets smaller each day
you're at work, then you're home on a bus or a train
and your words and your goals aren't always a race
you can run, it gets further and further away

so you start a conversation, just to say some vain shit
sudden motivation, feeling so complacent
he could be enough, but only when you're fucked up
she could make you blush but only when you're fucked up

sentimental excess
called a friend of mine wasted
he knows a thing about regret

face it--more facts glisten in the bottle that you're sipping than you got up in your hat, underneath your intuition
like a trap star in the past, driving drunk on the lower level
you could use some help, man--don't you think you'll ever settle?
headed towards a hometown existential breakdown
throwing out your phone, now I'm lying on my front lawn
a gin and tonic to vomit or chronic alcoholic thoughts like a faucet? feeling psychotic, its symbolic!

me & the psych ward chauffeur
sitting in the courtyard
I wonder if we've lost it
call us the bergen pines prophets

I don't know where weeks went in september
but I've been looking out for myself

Eric Holsten