"There’s no use in watering it down: At some point in 2022, we were hit with the weight of the unrelenting progression of Time. Coming out of lockdown to meet wars, inflation, civil unrest, prefab streaming narratives, and the general slog of the content plantation — the world was open for business again and the sheer madness, beauty & absurdity of the entirety of existence felt torn back open. Or had it always been this way? There arrived a subsequent feeling: that, in some way, there is nothing new to human history and we have no choice but to move forward with grit and wit."

"Time Sukkin is part pop, part journey, layers of glammy synths, scuzzy tonal underbellies, murky head-bobbing grooves; it’s driving into the night while keeping a buoyant resolve — we’re not getting out of this alive so we might as well dance."

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Christmastime Is Here (I Want to Kill a Tree at My House), is a song borne from the long tradition of freewheeling Christmas pop music. Sonically drawing from all eras, the song casts a whimsical eye at some of the often difficult ways we go about celebrating the holiday season.

LYRICS
I want to kill a tree in my house
I want to kill a tree in my house
I want to cut it down in the woods and strap it up with lights
I want to kill a tree in my house

I want to wait in line at the mall
I want to wait in line at the mall
I want to lose my friends and family and look for them for hours
I want to wait in line at the mall

Christmastime is here
Gonna do it hard this year
Gonna wash it down with good cheer
Gonna do it hard

I want to give a gift card in a bag
I want to give a gift card in a bag
I want to spend more on the pretty bag than I do on your gift card
I want to give a gift card in a bag

I want to see all of my family at once
I want to see all of my family at once
I want to hide in the laundry room when they ask me about my job
I want to see all of my family at once

Christmastime is here
Gonna do it hard this year
Gonna wash it down with good cheer
Gonna do it hard every year

Winter snow falls down seeming to beckon me:
"You can get out of this — steal a car, drive real far, get a new life working at an airport bar."

I want to kill a tree in my house

Christimastime Is Here (I Want to Kill a Tree in My House)

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Music & Lyrics: Glass Taxi
Mixing: Glass Taxi
Mastered: James Auwarter, Coda Room Chicago/London


LYRICS:
You promised me the world said everything was mine
You tied me to a bed and took a text outside
Invite me to a club then made me wait in line
Then you opened up your heart but it was just a mind

Been vetted
Been bedded
Been fed it
Embedded
Indebted
Pathetic
You keep me waiting
Ask if I can hold then keep me on the line

You bred it
You bled it
You said it
I get it
I dread it
Regret it
Intoxicating
Take me out for drinks then show me where to sign

And all along you wanted in my head
You wanted in my bed
But I went out instead

Hey, who'd leave it up to you?
You never tell the truth

You promise me the world like nothing here is mine
You promise me the world when everything is ours
You promise me the world like you have all the power
You promise me the world but everything is ours

It's ours

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Good things come to those who wait. Is that so? Or is this something a system sells you early to keep you spinning so your time, energy & life can be extracted for the benefit of the system itself? Many tacitly assume money, attention, or algorithmic validation equates to power and truth — when every person's claim to life on our planet is intrinsic. And that's no lie. So we deliver the Truth in exuberant electronic enveloping bliss — shimmering and defiant. 

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"Tell the Truth" by Glass Taxi is an exploration of the chasm between promises made and promises kept within the landscape of personal relationships, echoing the broader societal disillusionment in an era of digital immediacy and emotional commodification. The song deftly articulates the feeling of being ensnared by empty vows, set against a backdrop where physical presence is often substituted by a fleeting digital fog that allows for the emotional unavailability that pervades our times. "Tell the Truth" is a critique of the superficial connections and societal hierarchies that leave us longing for something more substantial than the hollow offerings of power and prestige, and the gatekeeping they involve.

Backed by shimmering, moving synths, the song weaves through broken promises and the deft maneuvering of the narrator, before finding a lush, dreamlike reverie where finally, Glass Taxi defies the very power dynamics they critique, asserting our intrinsic claim to life as living beings. "Tell the Truth" marks Glass Taxi's ability to distill complex emotions into powerful, anthemic, and honest songcraft, urging listeners to reject manipulative narratives and embrace a collective truth that acknowledges and honors our interconnectedness.

Glass Taxi - Tell The Truth

Glass Taxi is an experiment in intuitive music helmed by songwriters M and M, who live between Atlanta and rural Poland. Haunted by wanderings, strange taxi radio stations, music of the past, bus station speakers, TV commercials, local pop, and those faint songs that fade into static before they can be shazamed, their 200-song Wunderkammer songbook project is borne of a desire to disregard genre baggage and bite back at the music omnivore's dilemma by opening the gates to songs of all forms — distilling memory, intuition, and all the curiosities encountered wandering this strange planet of ours into song, visual, and experience: Nothing off the table. An exploration and journey open for surprise and wonder. Travel with us.

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