People are filling the streets, infecting the air that we breathe. We've waited long enough to realize that we won't survive.
Clenching my hands in your hair, so frigid the fold starts to tear. Icicles hanging down.

We've lost touch; everything falls apart. We can't rush forward so unprepared. Warriors born on the field today. When it's won, cowards will run, but heroes will stay.

(The bravest of all have given everything they could to keep this dream from ending so soon. We dream to fight, but mostly we're wide awake.)

Everyone down on the floor, keep still and nobody gets hurt. Don't make any sudden moves and we'll let you go peacefully.
Attention this is the police, surrounding and armed to the teeth, here to negotiate. Fight fire with fire.
Please, these people all have families. Don't you agree that this is much more trouble than it's worth, and you'll never see the daylight again.
So please put it down. Get up off the ground and file out. Give it up.

When we came there was nothing left past the rubble and grief for newborn warriors slain and heroes made.

Wide Awake

Originally by Gem Club: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IHQ5xq1zaY

252 (Gem Club cover)

Invalids - Top Secret Area EP

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December 2013

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Satellite (feat. Ellie Price)

This is an example of how my recordings have progressed in the past ten years.  The first version was written in 2001 when I first got my digital 16-track recorder for Christmas, the second was re-recorded in 2005 after I got my first condenser microphone and an Antares auto-tune unit (which I no longer use), and the final is from 2011, now that I really know what I'm doing.

2001 - Pete Davis - And so you exist no more.

2005 - Pete Davis - And So You Exist No More

2011 - Pete Davis - And So You Exist No More

Re-recording of the track from my 2005 release, "Emergency Response."

Lyrics: Here's an anthem to mourn
An ode to a tragedy
We look slant like displaced
Figurines on the wall

So look, we hear that Father's coming home
And goodly Sister's hanged the draperies
Now to see that Mother's been awake
We've been away for too long
To stand up straight with all our nerves aligned,
Give it time.

I told you that you musn't wait up, I'll arrive late tonight.

Read the lines in my hands.
Breathe my sighs with pretense.

(Take it slow...)
I'll bring flowers to dinner, tread love through the snow
Calmly piece together this sweetly sorrow
(we've moved on...)
All the neighbors are gone, they've since passed away
But new neighbors came to settle on their grave

And ours will stretch out toward the sky, the gods will set by our side
The mountains and tall trees will stand in our way no more

This place is full of moving shadows
That no one sees when no light shines through

Pete Davis - The Mountains



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"...who looks inside awakes."

"Who looks outside dreams..."

"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."

"In all chaos, there is a cosmos. In all disorder, a secret order."

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How many can fit through
Before the light turns back to red
We stayed low
And watched it passing overhead
Would the image fade forever
If you couldn’t keep from blinking

Taking time to gather what’s inside it
It’s lost, we’ve lost
Careful sleight, inherent machinations
On us it’s lost

To lead back, all back around
Over turning back around

And it fell for the past seven days straight
Undisturbed save the tracks and the shapes we made
Wanted to make sure it froze strong enough before
We tried to take our first steps out across the lake
But we couldn’t wait

Lights in windows
Some bucolic visual
A careful, crafted scene
Heightened will of
Some historic ritual
Careful not to be seen

We’ve tried, we’ve tried
To retain forever
What we couldn’t keep from sinking

There were lessons to learn from inevitable faults
Some exact approach
But we fashioned a framework of comfortable corners
And were never called on
So there we sat
So there we stay
(a cull of all concern)

Called to come out once the sun had shown
By light, how slick the surface glowed
We followed, quiet, right up to the edge
Each step evoked a sound
Of fissures fanning out
A crack and slowing groan
What we would always doubt
Pierced the silent shroud
Continued on across
One foot after the next
Like we were always taught

Change to new clothes, stage an upright pose
It wasn’t good enough
Tired of passing by, all the ends, all the turns
On all the same roads
Feeding back, listening until we hear something
That sounds like what we spoke
Giving in and weighing all the things we’ve missed
Against what we’ve actually done
and wanted to do
But just couldn’t move

Telephone Explosions

Re-recording from Emergency Response (2005).

Original: http://petedavis.bandcamp.com/track/what-would-it-take-you-to-drown

Lyrics:

What would it take you to sleep
You've been up watching windows all night
And I'll be the first one to say
That the yard there outside never changed.

The grass it only grows in lonely patches here and there,
The blades are worn and bent from the trampling through the years
But if we were among them, I'd brave a million footsteps
To sprout from the ground next to you

What would it take you to breathe?
Your head's so full of worry that it's clouded up
And clotted are the vessels that keep you around
But I'll be here to catch you so that they won't all spill out

Have you lost your mind?
Has she lost her pulse?
This is life or death
I'm right here beside you
Can you hear me, I'm speaking, I'm screaming your name.
I'm shaking you so hard, I'm running my veins
Of all their strength so that you can gain it back

Breathe deeply
So peaceful
Breathe deeply
Steady as you go

What would it take you to drown?
A tide that floods the cities, or rain that falls down?
But I'll still deflect it even indoors,
'Cause luck isn't much a concern anymore.

If you're still sleeping,
If you're still breathing
If you lift this heavy heart
If you make it back

What will it take you to stay
I'll do anything when the options arise
I'll set til I'm stone or old enough to be
Envelope your hands until I feel you squeeze
And I won't let up til you wake up for good

What Would It Take You to Drown?

Re-recording from "Passing It Off as Art" (2002)

Original: http://petedavis.bandcamp.com/track/easy-big-fella

Lyrics: You've got a wish that you couldn't say, but don't tighten your lips or you'll suffocate and pass out. And when you come to I'll be standing there biting my nails to the bone, and dive on you screaming "I could have sworn you were a goner."

And you've got just enough strength to say "easy, big fella, I'm not going yet," and push me off onto the ground and knock me unconscious.

Simple did as simple was but that's over now and forgotten and put out with my grin and trash cans and streetlights and alley cats singing; plastics and boxes and Hoover blankets waiting to hold me and warm me up 'cause this bath water's getting cold.

Just one time again. Tell me those words so forced and overused, dripping with truth and draining my resistance and I'll say the same notes funning through my head all day until they're glued down and stuck in yours forever and ever.

Easy, Big Fella

Vocals by +Pete Davis, +Cayenne Linke, +John Phillips, +Amy Rothstein, +Duncan Ellis
Written by Pete Davis
Pete Davis: guitar, banjo, accordion, cello, drums, glockenspiel, ukulele, piano
John Phillips: drums, bass, accordion, auxiliary percussion


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