Christmas Eve Can Kill You 
by the Everly Brothers
from the Hometapes holiday compilation, A Ride To Anywhere. If you like this, please download the 14 track compilation from Hometapes for whatever you can. All proceeds are donated to a charitable organization. Further information at the link below.  

https://hometapes.bandcamp.com/album/a-ride-to-anywhere

Christmas Eve Can Kill You (Everly Brothers cover)

1st Single from Whites, the 2nd full-length album by Leverage Models, releasing Oct. 26th, 2018 on new label Anachronisme.  50% of proceeds will be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). 

PRE-ORDER: https://leveragemodels.bandcamp.com/album/whites

LYRICS

Shove me around. I was in charge. It’s all my fault. Again. Bandage her up. Do you think that she'll come to?
Tell me it's all right. Show me how to ask for something bright (or hit me 'til I smile).

Here is my uncle:
He asks me, in the rapture, where I'll land. Asks if I'm a man.

He says:
"You're hardly at the age where you can say that you know precisely DICK about what pain is. Let it go, and think on this:
When the lights go out you'll have to make a fire. You will have to be a Boy Scout when the power lines fall. As the cities get cold we'll have to make a fire, when the lights go out all over the world.

"Turn around. Bodies are facts when they can be used. And you're a tiny sprout…a simple pale of shit and sentiment flailing around. Don't you tell me you know…you DON’T. Your mother was strange, she held you too close. I used to think that you was strange, but now I want you to know that here, together, in this hunting blind,
well…*I* can see where you'll go (what a man knows, when the lights go out):

YOU’LL HAVE TO MAKE A FIRE…”
&c.

Whites

A Scout's Prayer (What a Man Knows)

02 - A Scout's Prayer (What a Man Knows)

03 - Dark Pools (Music Will Not Save Us)

Written, Recorded, Produced by: Shannon Fields
Additional Vocals: Alena Spanger, Andrew Carlson & Dave Scanlon
Bass Guitars: Andrew Carlson & Rob Lundberg
Drums & Percussion: Jeff Gretz, Max Jaffe & Anthony LaMarca
Guitars: Dave Scanlon
Soprano & Alto Saxophone: Joseph Shabason
Baritone Saxophones: Jon Natchez
Additional  Recording: Jim Bertini, Galaxy Smith, Brooklyn, NY; Additional Recording & Mixed by: D. James Goodwin @ THE ISOKON, Woodstock NY

LYRICS
I am a raft on the ocean with undocumented eyesight
And I feel the Gulf Stream
High on that kind of mid-morning sunlight, 
the kind of light that sells a lie.

And you feel “alright”.

Okay, so, 
We made coffee on the hotplate
We ate ramen in the hallway
We identified the exits (just in case).

I know you don't do this most days, 
And you're falling for the ‘wrong kind’,
But does it feel all right? 
Do I remind you of your dad?

When you were born your father wondered what kind of drunk you would be

We have spoken up and savaged
I'm an [Object]
You're a [Measuring Tool], 
an [Instrument For Shaking Down a Government in Turmoil].
I have left my body.
You are breaking someone's bread for “Progress”.

I am a [Raft On the Ocean]
You are an [Animal Skin Rug] 
I don't expect you to embrace this 
(and we're both drunk).
If not tonight, maybe next year I'll aspire to something better – 
maybe a butcher or a driver –
and I will fill my lungs with you.

When you were born your mother 
(glittering, mad to see, neurologically lost),
wondered what kind of Senator you would be.
  
We won't speak up
Our language fails to find a hold
Sincerity slides, as advertised 
our brothers joined their fathers…sung for banks
And this is not our protest
This is just the end of Progress.

07 - Senators

There's nothing to respect in how you started from the bottom
now you're animals and stars
enough. they write the mystery out of us
enough. tonight your aspirations dies
stuck on the ground, we speak the language of the fluently down
here's where they sell a public service to a private hotel
very small people have fallen
and very smart people are often wrong

06 - Very Small People

Kate Bush cover released Feb 2014, on "Running Up That Hill: Kate Bush Covers For Reproductive Rights", a fundraising tool for reproductive rights organizations, low cost abortion clinics, and other pro-choice advocates. https://runningupthathill.bandcamp.com/album/running-up-that-hill-kate-bush-covers-for-reproductive-rights

The Morning Fog - Leverage Models (feat. Alena Spanger)

Leverage Models' cover of Party Fears Two by The Associates (Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine). Originally recorded for the Cokemachineglow.com Fantasy Covers podcast, 2011. I'm posting this today in tribute to Billy Mackenzie, who committed suicide on Jan 22nd, 1997 at age 39. An inspiring artist who still hasn't really gotten his due. 

Party Fears Two (Associates cover)

MP3s from the debut Leverage Models LP, to be named, to be released, to be judged by god and womankind. 

07 Sweep (feat. Sharon Van Etten)

New LP WHITES | OUT NOW on ANACHRONISME | ORDER: https://leveragemodels.bandcamp.com/album/whites
avant-pop. lyrics matter. 

https://www.passionweiss.com/2018/10/25/young-white-christians-doing-active-shooter-drills-in-school-an-interview-with-leverage-models/

https://www.popmatters.com/leverage-models-whites-review-2615171722.html

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18604-leverage-models-leverage-models/

Leverage Models makes pop songs about transubstantiation, ritual abuse, political apathy, divorce, white collar criminals, poverty, white liberal guilt, anxiety, & self-harm.   with roto-toms.
 
http://www.whyleveragemodels.com/

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