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I don't mind if I bruise my knees to ask your hand
But you always lift me up so I can see every part of me
Will you be my gemini with me all the time
I love that you're always the first to dance
I love that you're always the one around to say it's okay
I hope you know even my friends feel the same about you
I can't believe it's been 8 years
You used to leave and disappear
You used to even have red hair
Will you be my gemini with me all the time
It was always your love

Gemini

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You told me I'm the best
You're just like the rest
I don't want to put you through all the things I left in you
I'll wear it anyway, you know it's felt like a thousand years
The entire crescendo, it's all in my head
Now I'm dressed in all black
Sometimes I mouth the words 'I'm falling behind'
How do I make it right
Well it might be time to try
I can't undo this feeling of you
But aren't you just like the rest
The entire crescendo, it's all in my head

Corners Pressed

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Can't you see the ice beneath starts to bend when you condescend the way I try
She turns everything upside down
With you I feel like I'm skating on thin ice
Will it bother you if I don't want to hide
Can't you see the ice beneath me starts to bend when you defend the way he tries
Will you use the same words to hurt me again
She says she only spins for you
Do you remember all the words you used to hurt me
Are you giving me a test to make me a mess
I'm ready to hear what you whispered in his ear
I'll hold my breath until the conversation's clear
I'm falling again, I'm falling upside down again
She spins even when I'm in the room 
She spins like she's waiting for my doom
I feel like I'm skating on thin ice with you

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She Spins

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Do me a favor and look away
You trace the lines right on my face
Do you want to see me clutching my chest again
Look away, I think it's a picture of me
I'm only pretty when I'm breaking everything
I know I'm so easy to predict, it's just like me
Do me a favor and look away
You trace the lines right on my face
Do you want to see me clutching my chest again
You can't see me crumble
It's so hard to pretend
I should face the consequence
I'll take a stab at it or maybe I'll wait until retirement
Look away, I think it's a picture of me
I'm only pretty when I'm breaking everything
I know I'm so easy to predict, it's just like me
I was almost fool enough to think that wasn’t me

Self-Portrait

Self-Portait

Curl

Kisses

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Wherever you go, I’ll take the hit for you
Wherever you go, I know you’ll take it too
Wherever you’d go
Watch me turn and self-annihilate 
I have to have my house in order to be happy here
I want to be yours, and every time, well that’s of course
I know you don’t care, you tell me that it’s not fair
You round me out now but will you use the sharp edge on my head
There’s something inside, self-sabotage
I have to keep my house in order to be happy here
I want to be yours, and every time, well that’s of course
I know you don’t care, you tell me I don’t compare

Softly, Bravely

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Are you afraid
Will you meet me halfway
I'm on to you, but will you see it through
Now you’re on me and who I try to be
I’m so scared of new ground, did I let you down
Your eyes swell in mid-day
I know you want to rue and slip away
Will you meet me halfway
I know you want to be the first but I’d never let you go
You're so scared of new ground, did I let you down

New Ground

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Did you put up a concrete wall cause you finally found someone
I try to run across but the meaning is lost
I want to be so close to you and catch you standing there
If you fall I’ll catch you sideways spinning in the air
Will you ever go away
Do you always have to play it safe
Unturned but she’s the world and she follows you down
I want to be so close to you and catch you standing there
I just want to be there breathing your air
Did you vanish in love
Did you manage to run
It’s all a mistake, it’s all a compounding error

Gorgeous

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Gorgeous (The Meeting Places Remix)

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Letting Up Despite Great Faults
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Corners Pressed (Slow Magic Remix)

Official audio for "Halfway Crooks" by Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Taken from the EP 'Crumble' - ORDER CD + Cassette: https://lettingup.bandcamp.com

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I've been dreading the next part
I know you’re caught between
I know your revery
I know your apathy
When I come home I wonder who you’ll be
Are we halfway crooks
Sugarcoat my looks
How can you be free when you’re only half the things
You have one foot out the door
We could have been so much more 
You have one foot out the door
I know we aren’t cool anymore
Your elastic heart in your little kingdom
Never there
Never tears
Never seems to care
You have one foot out the door
We could have been so much more 
You have one foot out the door
Why do I come back for more
It’s the way you move me

Crumble

Halfway Crooks

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Let’s jump the fence
It’s the vow exchange, why can’t you just say
I know you’re gunshy with me but I’ve seen you dazzle
Why can’t you believe I’d wait an eternity
I know you’re gunshy with me but I’ve seen you dazzle
Let’s smash them into bits in matching outfits
I know he’s not the one but the ceremony is almost done
Why can’t you just say I’d wait an eternity
With a scratchy throat, I’ll share my feelings with you
Please don’t come undone
I know she’s smiling but will she forgive me  
In a pathetic voice, I’ll share my feelings with you
With a scratchy throat, I’ll share my feelings with you
I know you’re gunshy with me but I’ve seen you dazzle them

The Do-Over

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Why do you have to pretend to stab me in the back
Why do you have to beat me at the one thing I’m good at
Let’s put a label on us so we know what we were destroying all this time
Maybe it will ricochet, I swear it’s not just another line
Are you mine or am I yours, will you let my hand go
Your bravado is so hard to follow
You know I don’t like answering the door
Is everything just a game to you
Do you want to settle downI’m melting but what for, I don’t get the metaphor
You have one foot out the door

Ricochet

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We used to take everything to heart
We used to be club kids, we used to be nothing
Will you ever forget I still owe you half the rent
The creative math I found will show how I let you down
As I enter my descent, I know I’ll soon forget
I never reach the fence, I know I’ll soon forget
It’s unstoppable, I got your laser eyes on me
I never know why I take your blows
Who will you be when you see me crumbling
Do you have it all mapped out
How am I even standing, disintegrating
Will you put me away, will you split me through
I’m trapped in this tiny room but I’m only homesick for you
The last chapter goes faster

Vanity/Losing

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Lyrics:
I'm comfortably wrapped in you
I can feel your lungs, I can hear you too
I'll follow you as you're breaking new ground
Hazy memories
I'm still wrapped in you but they might sweep me away soon
Will you follow me now out of this lonely town?
Be a gun to our mistakes, we'll be wonderful this way
Every new word I say makes me so afraid
Hazy memories
So far I'm still wrapped in you but they might sweep me away soon
Who cares right?
I'm wrapped in you
Don't get swept away, I'm not running away

Neon

Wrapped

How do we split
How do we fit
How do we delicately burn  
Remember so so long ago
Remember when we used to float
Purity feigned close but I let it all go

Eyes 
Can’t be your eyes 
You see my disguise
In your eyes I see my disguise
You’re so delicate when you break my skull
You’re so delicate when you shred my soul 

We should be off the charts now
You’re covered in your disguise 
but I can see your ocean eyes
The ceiling in my head
The disappointment instead 
Why am I so obsessed this time

Little divorcees
Little paper turnkeys 
Is that all we get to be
Mediocre silhouettes
You’re so delicate when you break my soul
I can’t resist

Cherry Splits

I'm showing you no one here ever leaves
I'm telling you this is how we'll ever shine
You can bet on me this time
You're invincible
You can bet on me this time
I'm with you all the time
You can bet on me this time

Gleam

You keep saying we’re no longer kids 
But can I still have this
Can I still dream
What age do I kill that part of me
I can only hope you’re all mine
But you can only love the pretty side of me
I’ve been writing a lot
But I still don’t know how to say 
You only love the things pinned to the ground
My lungs collapse
I’ve lost all sound
I forget all the words

Powder

If I add more to your weight will you still float away
The bolder I get the longer you stay
I show off hoping you’ll stay 
I show off walking through flames 
Melting in front of you
If you want me to draw, I need to know who you are
And why you want to destroy him 
Do you want to destroy me too
I show off showing my counter intuition phase
I can’t believe I’m melting away
I’ll show you can put your weight on my shoulders too
I just want to be swirling into you

Swirl

Do I have the strength to pass this up
Phoebe even said I’m not strong enough
I guess there’s no guarantee you’ll be everything to me 
Look, it’s so easy to leave  
You’re a past romantic
Do I have the strength to patch this up
I guess there’s no guarantee you’ll be anything to me
I think I’m not fool enough
I think you’re too cool for us 
Here we go, we’ll cry to the end
We’ll crush again, We’re a past romantic

Past Romantic

I know it looks nice on you
And I don’t want to kill the mood
But isn’t that the same dress you were in when you left
Are you sure you want to wear that dress to my funeral
It’s all a blur when I’m with her
Do you really need to remember me that way
Do you really want to wear that dress
Just so you can wear your Sunday best
Just so you can show your sunburnt neck 
Even when you’re freezing to death
In my defense I didn’t think you’d come
Do you really want to wear your best to my funeral
Now we’re going around the subject now
Now you’re tearing your dress apart
If you’re tearing it apart, are you tearing me apart

Dress

Wait, are you going to be there for me
Wait, are you going to break so easily
You feel it on the ground, clutching now
Wait for my sign, I can see you bowing out 
If you stitch me up right here 
Will I be sewn into your fears and your ego
Your doubts and my fears cutting me down to size
Your doubts are sewn deep into my wounds
In December we’ll go there 
But the summers will drive you crazy
Now you’re all dressed up 
Did you want to look pretty for me
I’ll be the one who stuck it out
I’ll be the one for you

Embroidered

Alexander Devotion

Pageantry

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Lyrics:
I can't find me anymore 
but I'll breathe faster this time 
now that I know you're ahead grabbing me from the flames like drowning quicksand 
I know you're hiding in this spark
Will you stay with me until they're gone? 
We're so close 
Wait, I'll watch the time, we're so close, your spark makes me drive 
I don't mind waiting for you to say hello
I know you can take the day off, will you spend it with me? 
I can't find me anymore, new corridors 
I can't find me anymore, blank ammo swords 
But at least I found you

Untogether

Visions

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Lyrics:
You talk out of line 
Will you take me tragic this time? 
In time you'll try, somehow you brought the ceiling down 
In time you'll lie, don't let it weigh you down
Step outside, divide the shake, you're vanishing harder in every way everyday 
Come ride with me out of this scene, it's on repeat, you won't feel a thing
I still want to know how you brought the roof down, how you turned the lights out
Will you take me away?
Everyday I want to stay, in every way I want to stay 
I'm finally clear

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Lyrics:
In my head I know your side but I'm lost in dead divide 
I'll bear your stares for one last taste of who I could've been with you 
In my heart I hide in gray, I mistimed, I lost today 
I feel undressed on this occasion where we're breaking everything
There's no single burn that can drag me back in 
It's time for me to dream again, I'll try to find you a postcard in June
In my eyes this round is yours, I know you know 
Stuck like glue, I thought you said you were warming up to ideas of me 
Now I burn and you burn, postmarked for another turn 
The lights are on but I can't believe you said those things to me

Postcard

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Lyrics:
Would you break me down? 
I'm bulletproof now
I can see every word bounce off you and I realized I spoke too soon
If I fold, will you take me out? If I fold, will you take me down?
You'll never find your way back
I'll never find my way back
Blindfold me so I won't know where to aim
I can't reach you now

Bulletproof Girl

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Lyrics:
following emergencies we might feel the same
only silhouettes are left now, even when we're down
you're too early june
i'll always try to move with you
i can hardly wait for our second fame

Letting Up Despite Great Faults

In Steps

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I’m tied. So, now I’m tied, she said with a perfect smile. When did you fade and forget I’m right? Let down your guard. Forget you’re tied and I’ll forget why I won’t try again. Stop finding faults in everyone you fear. I said, I forgot why. She said, I hear you drowning but I’m tied.

Movement

I Hear You Drowning But I'm Tied

💘 indie/dreampop 💘
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Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American indie dreampop band from Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX. Making their mark with their acclaimed debut album (self-titled 2009) and Untogether (2012), they carved out a little corner of the dreampop world with their take on electronic shoegaze and indiepop jangle. After taking a hiatus which songwriter Mike Lee hails as their time to "become real adults," they came back to their familiar form with IV (2022). Gearing up for their next release, Reveries, we hear them push forward and further like never before, exploring new sounds and structure with a mature patience and confidence emblematic of "real adults." Now inspired by vastly different genres from drum 'n' bass to post-punk to K-pop, their version of dreampop has become larger and simultaneously very refined. Meticulously mixed by the amazing Melina Duterte (Jay Som), the new album Reveries yet again shows Lee wearing it all on his sleeve.

Touring U.S. in Spring 2025 and Asia in Summer 2025.

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