Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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THE WEEDS

Calling out to pull me in 
Undress your dirtiness
A wreath around my neck
I’m collared down 
Celebrate on hands and knees
Owning up to whoring out our laughter 
Didn’t heed the warning 
And laid to sleep beneath the weeds

No one’s left to pull me 
Inside their toxic memories
Killing time with kindness 
Reserves your bed beneath the weeds

Caught the lie, changed the tune
Lost the time, played the fool
How mistaken
Broken wide, sing the rule
Spit the poison, keep us cruel
No one will pull us from the weeds

The Weeds

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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TAKING SIDES

Cut me some slack
I’ve been gone a long time
Blinding my ears from my eyes
Dressed in distortion
And flattering lights
Up on the hill taking sides

Carved out a place
Filled it with hate

Forgive my recklessness
I’ve been in vice
Up on the hill taking sides

I’ve been made Teacher’s Pet
And I’ve been taking the wrong bets
I could stand to fall from grace

Forgive my recklessness
I’ve been in vice
Up on the hill taking sides
Choked on my welcome
By swallowing pride
Up / Left on the hill taking sides

Taking Sides

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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MEMORIES

v1
Take me by the hand
Haunted fingers, empty threats 

pc
There’s enough clouds and shapes
Caught in great escapes
We’ve gotten soaked with fireworks and flames

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Beautiful robot/s, switches and tin
Heavenly bodies, and the Devil within them
Swing marionettes from life and limb
A needle buried in stacks of pins

v2
Tuned for trembling
Wired for kissing machines

br
Calm down, we’re fine for now
Gathered here in a burning house

Memories

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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TYPECAST

v1
Exhibit: yours truly,
Echoes and vice
Bad habits tear through me
Muscles and mind

pre
A time for everything
A place for everyone
So lovely stuck/placed beneath our thumbs

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Tell me a story I’ve heard before
One where I know the ending
Show me the moves I’ve loved you for
But nothing else, nothing else
Bring me back to times passed
A wish for the well you’re digging
A brave and leading typecast
But nothing else, nothing else

v2 
A scripted romance is
Half full of heart
While pinning both arms back
Reach for the stars

br
Letting the blind lead the pack
Kicking a dead horse that kicks back
Setting me up for another attack
I’ve had it

I’ll leave us broke beyond repair
Terrorize our safest thoughts
I’m not what you think you love
You’re looking for a ghost and you’ve gotta give it up

Typecast

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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PULLING TEETH

v1
Out with a bang from hide and seek
Climbed into a cannon, fell asleep
Waking up in flight is for the birds and bees and kites
But for now, I can see everything 
I see a pack of lies and liars
Selling us water while starting fires
Hope is hopeless 

ch
Finding real’s like pulling teeth
I spy  wolves and they’re in sheep’s clothing

v2
A crash through the trees had wrapped me in 
Sap, thick as thieves, on paper skin

ch
Finding real’s like pulling teeth
I spy wolves and they’re in sheep’s clothing

br
Come out Beelzebub, our wicked winged vice
Lash silver tongues from blackened lungs
Breathe fire from the flies 
Hollow crowds in love with loud, jealous all the time
Throw us out of sight, out of mind

ch
Finding real’s like pulling teeth
I spy wolves and they’re in sheep’s clothing
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Pulling Teeth

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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BETTER OFF

I didn’t know what we had started
I couldn’t see the pieces then
Pulled us closer, found us toxic
How misleading it had been

I know that I’m broken hearted
I know that I’m aching on the mend
I know that I’m easily abused
And that we’re better off friends

Caged in safety, waste away from it
Hope has starved us both to death
We’ve taken flame and burned contagious

Better Off

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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SMILE & WAVE 

v1
we broke the wedding bells to make the rings 
we burned the list of our favorite things
we laid the flowers out, petals and thorns
we smashed the bottles and kept all the corks

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You’re beautiful, I must say
I’m head over heels 
Clicking my feet three times
There’s no place….
If I hadn’t gunned straight for the sun
We’d want answers
It’s better to know than just to 
Show up, smile, and wave 

v2
Displayed our renegade for cheers and looks
Liars stab shiny pins - and tiny hooks in what might have been
Stealing memories taking form 
From fairytales never born 

br
While they’re building love on fault lines
Castles made from sand and mud
We’ll fill our glasses with the tide’s wine
Rising higher with the flood

Smile & Wave

LIARS // Out 5.18

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LIARS

Breaking out of here in hives
Nursing time bombs to life
Finding locks in burning leaves
Hiding keys in gasoline 

I took your hands so you couldn’t keep me
You broke my legs so I couldn’t wander
Liars have read our lips and called our bluff
Two heads to one's a waste, crack it open
Pour out our brains, our thoughts better spoken
Damage ourselves to not fall in love

Plastic actors faking thrills
Stealing lines from silent films
Buried hatchets, hard to find
Breath on fire, guiding light

We went to strange places
Searching for old faces 
Rose colored glasses of dust
Dig us from old graves
Dancing on dead weight
Love is deranged and fear’s a crutch

Liars

Hidden Hospitals LP // Liars
Release: Independent
Vinyl on Spartan Records
Produced + Mixed by J. Hall
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RAZOR BLADES

v1
Lost my fingers when I found my fist/s
Flashing hazards, stuck on safety pins
Eyes wide and wasting wish bones broken in
I want it all but everything won’t fit

ch
Cut through the noises we know
Killing our darlings 
We’ve got a choice to make
Safe at the end of our rope
Missing our calling
Rush to the razor blades

v2
Empty boxes squeezing us to death
Haunted crosses breathing down our necks

br
A thousand cuts have the last laugh
I’m a mountain, you can’t pass me up

Razor Blades

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HOW AMAZING

i could let our song play out of time
and let our mouths make up our minds
paint in the numbers, say “we made it” (for now)
wood isn’t the leaves in mounds   
roots aren’t the trees underground
call us divine, make us deranged

so divided - how amazing 
how could i, how the hell?

i could beg the exit for a sign
dress up the wounds, cover(them), call it fine  
swallow (chew at) the anchor and the chain
 
the air is sweet but sucked out
i’ve stubbornly denied it
the air is sweet, but i’ve denied it


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HERE LIES

Lifelike / dead wolves (mouth to mouth)
In other words: we’re safe and sound
A blinded songbird scared of heights
In other words: in other words

We came the right time but had the wrong door
Said the right words, and played the wrong chords
In every way we’re showing up down

I never loved “here lies” - If it were up to me
I’d bury all the headstones and show the lovely people
Make it worth their time while they turn to seed
Bury all the headstones and show the lovely people
 
Lighthouse / heavy (set for life)
In other words: turn wrongs to right
Now we’re always showing up down


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I WON

skin-thick stuck to the covers
blades fanned out for each other
cut through lips and touching salt

wasted time to the rescue
touch turns solid and see-through
old is gold but it rubs off

nothing lost, nothing to find
no one to dig us up
let it rest and let things lie
blown wide open and shut

code-switch to bone, oh the frightened
blood taste of iron, chewing diamonds
I once had a voice but it’s gone soft 

pull me in the fold. dark can drag us 
both over the coals but it’s left you 
fired up and it turns me off
  
I lost it. I won.

hands, hang them on a wreath
pines for remembering
alive and a liar
dance in a fire 
ashes ashes we all fall down


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DEATH X DEAR

woke pinned under glass
what couldn’t happen, happened slow
i’m playing to snakes 
charming a heart shaped chokehold

write me your versions of wrong
sing to me in severe, answer calm

death x dear sweetheart
all the false alarms
only i’d know - as k me

broke-handed intact
where’d all the mindless moments go? 
let’s be erased, deaden our unsung echo

right me your) versions of wrong
sing to me in severe, answer calm

death x dear sweetheart

arc isn’t flash
bright isn’t broken windows
fuse isn’t blast
and we’re not the light that gets to glow

write me your versions of wrong
sing severe, answer calm 

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