this song is wild man, maybe im retarded but I listen to it on repeat for hours

Ive played this song about 1,000 times in the past 5 minutes

I listen to this song on single repeat so I probably account for at least a tenth of the listens at this point. My favorite of yours so far and I can't understand why it isn't more popular.

This kept me alive for a month last year. Its unbelievably good

flatten out ur brain and prepare for reality again

little town flirt

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Too Far Gone

Lyrics:
This world will gonna kick you in the face
Sometimes It's best to know your place
Put your head down and get on it

This world will prey upon your dread
Some days you'll wish that you were dead
But you're told that's how it's s'posed to be

The stress will go straight to your head
If you're lucky you'll get ahead
But if it doesn't work out for you
You'll have breakdown in your own living room

Everything's a stymie
No strength to keep on fighting
There's no point in trying now

It's Over
It's Over
It's Over
It's Over
It's Over
It's hopeless now

It's Over
It's Over
It's Over
It's Over
It's Over
There's no way out

It's Over

i'll show you everything you've done
no point in trying to explain yourself
can't help it now
no words can leave your mouth
you'll reap exactly what you sow
it doesn't matter if you understand
the seeds will grow
they'll eat you up alive 

kiss it all goodbye
you'll be dead and in a coffin
you can wish that you knew why
but in the end you'll have forgotten
all these people drawing lines
parallels and intersections (partitions and connections)
crossing bridges between lives
tying strings into the other side

death never asked you for consent
forever is a moment's rest,
upon you now
breathing your own pollution
the blooming flower of your pride
has a weight so insupportable
it has to die
the stem cannot sustain the burden

(i am a man, a match, a burning mass, a billow of a flame
i am a soul a coal a fullness i'm unable to relate
my name is dream, my flesh is grass, and i grow older every day
my name is words, my flesh is dirt, my name is carved into a grave)

parallels and intersections

greaser

can you hear it baby?
its the other shoes, theyre dropping
now im running out of options
and rediscovering my problems 

maybe i shouldve learned from it
from the last five times that i tried this shit
cuz not all keys are forged to fit
(yeah)

guess who ruined it?
im king midas starved for touch
guess who ruined it?
ozymandias reduced to dust
guess who ruined it?
benedict arnold i broke your trust
guess who ruined it?
the one of us whos not fit for love

five/fourteen

40 litres of gasoline

ray lees blue lantern lounge

Niku No Hoshi

80 bucks and I'm strapped up now
Laser sight in the dark pointin' you out
9 millimeter yeah that's the title 
Give a fuck if I'm suicidal
I won't be here in a while

Kickin' ass yeah
With my Hi-Point
Huffin' spraypaint
With my Hi-Point

In my waistband 
Is my Hi-Point
I got nine rounds
To prove my point

My life is nothing but problems
And I got some something to solve 'em
Don't give me no fucking revolver
Hi-point is my problem solver
It was only 80 dollars

Do a kickflip
With my Hi-Point
Cough syrup
And my Hi-Point

In my waistband 
Is my Hi-Point
I got nine rounds
To prove my point
Girl don't touch my Hi-Point

My body was made for the tomb
Ever since I was in the womb
Gun violence, that's what I crave
I'm on a skateboard straight to the grave
Cuz all I do is misbehave

Do a drive-by
With my Hi-Point
No survivors
With my Hi-Point

To my forehead
Is my Hi-Point
I got one round 
To prove my point

Hi-Point

They say that being scared
Is part of growing up 
But even if I was all alone
I'd still be throwing up

No one seems to hear me
No matter how much I've said it
Every step's a mistake
On the path I am headed

Someone please take the wheel
I think I'm too young to drive
When things are getting a way too real
I wonder if I'm too young to die

Cuz I

I've got no guts
My soul is dull and lonely
I've got no guts
So don't act like you know me

I've got no guts
And I'm never gonna make it
I've got no guts
And there's no point in fakin'

I cry and say I feel bad
When I run from my problems
Because if I didn't do that
Then I'd have to try and solve them

I'm not strong enough to change
And I'm too lazy to care
I reach out for a friend
But I know no one is there

We feel things for each other
But every man dies alone
There ain't no future for me now
But that's something I've always known

This planet's filled with despair
And loneliness everlasting
So I'll pray for a world
A world as empty as me

I've got no guts
My soul is dull and lonely
I've got no guts
So don't act like you know me

I've got no guts
And I'm never gonna make it
I've got no guts
And there's no point in fakin'

No Guts (I Got)

horse

tank

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About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

When It Was Now

If So

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I don't wanna go home 
I don't wanna fight 
I just want to stare (tear) into your eyes 

I don't wanna give up 
I don't wanna try 
I don't wanna be here 
Stuck in a new year 

I don't wanna get drunk 
I don't wanna get high 
I just want to feel some things sometimes 

I don't wanna grow old 
I don't wanna die 
I don't wanna be here 
Stuck in a new year 

I'm stuck

2013

2014

i lay awake at night
'cause i don't feel alright
i'm not gonna get any better
not now, not fucking ever
so i curl up into a ball
try to forget who i am at all
then i'll just stare at my bedroom wall

3 am and i'm sad again
i just want this pain to come to an end

tears start to fill my eyes
no one is here to see me cry
oh why do i deserve this?
i feel so fucking worthless
nobody lies by my side
can't see the hell i try to hide
as i sleep inside my cell i dream of suicide

horse

spree

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