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Continue?

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Lyrics:

Why was I born without a storm to weather?
Why was I born into a place where I could see the sun?
Why do the blues seem a greener pasture?
Why is this state such a seasonless one?

Sadness looks better with gray skies and sweaters
The California sun just doesn't match

Can't look so blue with those Berkeleyan hues
Oh
I wish I were sad
Sad in the Midwest

Cue the applause from the one hand clapping
What is the sound of a scene kid crying all alone?
Signal the sound of the left shoe dropping
Where is the fruit of the seeds that I've sewn?

Dance halls are all full in states where the corn grows
The Oklahoma air just breeds despair

Can't sing the blues with these golden gate views
I wish I were sad
Sad in the Midwest

So
Sleeping in storm clouds gets old
Waking at midnight beholding
The light of the
Funeral moon
You have entombed

The dance halls look better
With gray skies and sweaters
The California air don't breed despair

Can't look so blue with these golden gate views
Why can't
I be
Sad
Sad in the Midwest?

Sad In The Midwest

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LYRICS:
Servitude channeled through
Churning black centrifuge
Swallows you whole,
Commodifies your soul

Affinity lures me
Back to humanity
Anchored by empathy
To the bottom of a sacred sea

But we don't face this alone
The parts compose a whole
As planets, oceans bask in the sun
The islands warm as one

Apathy shackled me, fed on my energies
Only let go of me when I heard a voice sing to me

We don't face this alone
The parts compose a whole
As planets, oceans bask in the sun
The islands warm as one

Continent

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Island

Sliver

Ghost

Someday

Bastille Day

Interlude

Ulcer

Nine To Five

Ember

Bones

Second single off our debut album "Continue?", out December 1st everywhere

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LYRICS:
Every path through the past reaches a dead end
My ex-girlfriend's dog is probably dead
Every road through the snow leads to crooked bends
And no matter how fast you turn, you always crash in the end

When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?

Every child that is born will withhold their joy
When their peers wipe them out, I mean totally destroy
Every shred in their head that the world is good
Now they're left all alone writing songs about how they're misunderstood

When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?

Every path through the past reaches a dead end
My ex-girlfriend's dog is probably dead
Every road through the snow leads to crooked bends
And no matter how fast you turn, you always crash in the end

When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?

When I see your face
All I can see is how you will age
Through the cycles of meaningless toil that spoil
Every fleeting day
So why should I stay?

When things will just get worse

Path Through The Past

First single off our debut album "Continue?", out December 1st everywhere

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LYRICS:
Insert a quarter
If life's worth living with anxiety disorder
Stealing every instant
A pained existence for no good reason

Insert a quarter
To sing your blues to the windows voice recorder
A tree in a forest, falling on purpose
WIth no one there to hear

Press start to open
A nice career as a software boy in Oakland
Press some keys and hoard your wealth
Or maybe you could kill yourself
Well you know, it's always an option

I've been trying so damn hard
To pick myself up off the ground
It's one step forward
And nineteen backward
Why can't I just play these songs, please?
And still eat

New game, continue
Your save's corrupted but it's better than what you'd go through
Starting a new one
Too old to waste time, but too young to give it up
So pick a dead end, chill out 'till you die

I've been trying so damn hard
To pick myself up off the ground
It's one step forward
And nineteen backward
Why can't I just play these songs, please?
And still eat

'Cause no one
Will pay me to live a decent life

I was taking a shower, subjecting myself to a typical looping-thought interrogation of my gender identity, when the idea for this song popped into my head. Between the alternating fears of being too queer and not being queer enough, I protested to myself: “well, of all the things I’ve aspired to be, a man was never one”. I immediately started working that into a melody and as soon as I dried off I picked up a guitar and put chords to it. It’s such a direct statement that simple power-folk chords seemed to be the most fitting, and I think what we ended up with feels like an alternate-universe Green Day song about a Sisyphean struggle with gender identity

LYRICS:
Of all the things I ever did aspire to be, well
A man was never one
Of all the holy creatures in a sacred sea
A man was never one

If anything I got so ever tired of being
Such a cast-out sullen son
I cursed myself a faggot and a drama queen
To be such a sensitive one

But if you’re strong enough for long enough
This gender-bending catches up
Like sisyphus I’m sick of it
Let this gender rock roll a bit

For every time I felt that I had someone to be
Full of grit and sports and cum
I’m hanging up the title that was given to me;
A man was never one

But if you’re strong enough for long enough
This gender-bending catches up
Like sisyphus I’m sick of it
Let this gender rock roll a bit

A man can tell you anything he wants to get around
So why have I spent all my life waiting for the sound?

Of all the things I ever did aspire to be, well
A man was never one
Of all the holy creatures in a sacred sea
A man was never one

A man was never one
A man was never one


A Man Was Never One

This is by far my favorite song I’ve ever written. It started as sort of a pep-talk to myself, but ultimately became an ode to all artists and sensitive people. For me — and I think for a lot of creative people — everyday life can be excruciating. Your sensitivity can make you want to sequester yourself away from humanity and never share yourself or your art with anyone. But I want people to know that, despite how painful it can be, it’s always the right thing to put yourself out into the world

LYRICS:

You carry a tune that’s never been spoken
Water your hopes, promise something will bloom
Carry your heart out in the open
Never feel broken, ‘cause nothing is doomed

You ferry a light that’s never been shone in
Kaleidoscopes hoping to cut through the gloom
Blind to the sight, some shudder and whimper
Saddled and hindered, by something to prove

But it hurts, don’t it?

Stumble through nights where no no one is listening
Brooding and bristling and feeling alone
There will be times where bitterness slips in
Moody and missing what makes your soul whole

Yeah it hurts to, but it’s
Something you have to do, own it

You carry a line that’s never been written
Inspired and smitten, there’s millions to move
Carry your heart out in the open
Never feel broken, ‘cause nothing is doomed

It hurts, don’t it?
Even though it
Hurts you, share it
Hurts to bare it,
Hurts

Hurts, Don't It?

Lyrics:

Don't walk away from me
Unless you got a place to be
But if you gotta catch the bus
I understand
Go if you must

Don't walk away from me
Unless you got a place to be
But if the BART's about to start
Just get your ass in the front car

Where does that screech come from?
I don't think it can be good

Don't walk away from me
Unless you got a place to be
But if you're out there on your own
Let's just go home

So I've been talkin in my sleep
About velocity and speed
About the price of a used car
Or maybe just a Honda lease

Don't walk away from me
Unless you've got a place to be
But if you're out there on your own
Let's just go home

Don't walk away from me
Unless you've got a place to be
But if you're out there on your own
Let's just go home

It's coming, it's coming, it's coming
The train is coming

Don't walk away from me
Unless you've got a place to be
But if you're out there on your own
Let's just go home

Don't Walk Away From Me (BART song)

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LYRICS:
	
So I think you're the bad guy 
So far I'm sober 
It's over, and over, and over 

So far, sleeping in my car, 
Next to the ocean 
The ocean 
The ocean 
The ocean 

air spray, 
Rusting out my bike chain 
Bare foot on blacktop 
Is burning and burning and burning 

Mickey's, 40s, shattered glass around me shows me 
Just what I could be 
If I let you into my life 

So you've taken my daughter 
But I can't blame you 
The monster got darker and darker 

Now that I think I'm better 
You don't know who I am 
Just the mania and opiates and 

Air spray 
Rusting out my bike chain 
Bare foot on blacktop 
Is burning and burning and burning 

Mickey's, 40s, shattered glass around me shows me 
Just what I could be 
If I let you into my life

Sober

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LYRICS:

I'm colorblind and tone deaf
Everything around me is a
Shape I can't escape, I can't escape

It's over and it's under and it's
tearing me asunder 'cause it's fate

I'm colorblind and tone deaf
Everything around me is a
Shape I can't escape, I can't escape

It's over and it's under and it's
Over and it's under and it's
Over and it's under and it's
Over and it's under and it's

I can't escape it now
Synapses tangled up with doubt
Mouth agape and cheeks are blues
Hippocampus a torn up canvas too

I'm manic and I'm panicked and I'm leaving all these planets all behind me
I'm spinning out of orbit and these uppers and these downers won't align me
I try to make it better but it's going to my head and if I
Touch it it will crumble I will pummel it instead
Madder than a hatter could you save from the lead it's gonna
Poison me

I can't escape it now
Synapses tangled up with doubt
Mouth agape and cheeks are blues
Hippocampus a torn up canvas too

Can't escape this one now
I'm going down

Colorblind

Remastered (by a professional :D) and remixed version of the very first Super Cassette song. We loved this one too much to leave off the first EP. It's the same recording as the original, but I think it sounds way better.

-Max

LYRICS:

Lapping up the past like jungle juice slipping through my fingers

Don't tell me what you think you saw
See what I see, know that you're wrong
Don't tell me that you think you're right

Doubt's contagious and I've got the bug
I tried to sleep it off but woke up drunk
My head is pounding and my eyes are glazed
I'm givin my days

Lapping up the past like jungle juice slipping through my fingers
Frozen for the future
Lapping up the past like jungle juice slipping through my fingers
Frozen for the future
And the flavor of it lingers

The sun is shinin on my unmade bed
A ruffled pillow for a knucklehead
Alarm is blaring but I just hit snooze
And there's no color but the back-then blues

My tongue is tied up to the future tense
And though I've been where I've been where I've been
I'm popping addy then some sleeping pills
And I'm not staying young

I'm staying still

Lappin up the past like jungle juice slippin through my fingers
x
x

Ferment the past in the bath
But porcelain will crack
'Cause memories have mass

I'm giving my days to the daze
x
x

Jungle Juice (EP version)

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Lonely Metal Box

Nothing Left

Jungle Juice

Hypochondriac

Happy Obsolete

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Lyrics:

You were my brother but we
Killed each other
Now we’re sinking to the bottom with the 
7th world wonder

Born together, then it just got worse
Cause everything is better
Everything is better in reverse

I wish we were unborn
I wish we could return
To simple times when
Human beings
Were just proteins being formed
Let tape re-furl
Let it lift this human curse

Cause everything is better
Everything is better in reverse
Everything is better in reverse
(you try, you can’t rewind)

I watched a movie backwards 
About the manufacture of the
Weapons we unmake and disassemble ever after
The shrapnel was interred into the earth
Cause everything is better in reverse
Everything is better
Everything is better in reverse

Better In Reverse

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Lyrics:
I spent a lotta time just waiting for a sour face to sweeten up 
But buttercup, there’s no such luck 
I shed a lotta tears just taking on the fate I’d earned 
But lessons learned, I guess it wasn’t yet my turn to suffer 

The ouroboros swallows its own tail 
The symbiosis we have built will fail ‘cause 

You don’t 
Love me 
Like I 
Do you 
I won’t waste my time being abused 

You don’t 
Love me 
Like I 
Do you 
You don’t even love me do you? 

There’s comfort in the panic wondering 
Who is coming home 
Will it be you? 
Or just some monster I don’t know? 

I wasted love, I wasted life 
I wasted every day 
But now alone 
I think I’m better off this way 

Codependent cycles slither on 
Habits form a poison equilibrium 

I don’t love you 
Like you 
Do me 
‘Cause I don’t 
Treat you like you’re less than me 

I don’t love you 
Like you 
Do me 
I don’t even love you 
Do I? 

No 
I don’t 

I go backwards 
Ever after 
Retreating to the place 
I knew when I was eight 
Yeah mom and dad, they scratch and bite 
But this is love I know it right 

So please 
Don’t 
Go 
Please 
Don’t 
No

Ouroboros

Lyrics:

I showed up for school with my soul in my pocket
The teacher was wearing a cross and a locket
And a grimace that told me I'd never be welcome
That Dungeons and Dragons would send me to hell
Some kid in the bathroom, between the bells ringing
Shared with me how he made peace with the demons
The advice that he gave me was written on paper
Passed between him and another tenth grader
Six simple words

Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan
Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan

The principal asked me how I had achieved it
I turned it around from a dunce to a genius
He wondered if I had been bribing the teachers
Or copying homework down under the bleachers
I told him that I had found God in my own way
In tablets, and horns, and the boys in the hallway
The head of the class, and I'm writing a speech
It'll be the best one that you ever did read and it's
Six simple words:

Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan
Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan
Beelzebub
Is full of love
Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan

My family's gathered in a circle
I'm 95, and I've lived a good life
My grandson, he hovers around to my bedside
He asks if I have any words of advice for him
And I do, listen in closely
Come on in close, I'll speak it softly

Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan
Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan
Beelzebub
Is full of love
Be gay
Do drugs
Hail Satan

Be Gay, Do Drugs, Hail Satan

Lyrics:

Five years
and I’m clear
I don’t remember anything I did that year
But I think fondly
of being unhappy

Why do lilies
smell so sweetly

Woozy, wounded, lovesick and sappy
So why am I
Nostalgic for a time when I wasn’t even happy

Useless teenage blues
I don’t miss you

Ten years
And I fear
I’m nowhere I wanted to be
I got student loans and a stupid career

But I miss hurting
Or feeling fucking anything

Clutching at coals, flagellating my back
Burned me and turned my heart black 
So how come
I still want that

Woozy, wounded, lovesick and sappy
So why am I
Nostalgic for a time when I wasn’t even happy

Fooly Cooly

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Lyrics:

Midnight and the air is warm
We’re back in town for the summer
With a Neutral Milk Hotel CD  blasting
We sang the whole thing through

12:10 when we pull it out
Gotta baggie full of treats
And we knock ‘em down
Now we’re coming up crooked in my childhood bedroom
Just picked up our

Invincibility stars
Immune to all forms of harm
Yes a dream comes true
When you take a little molly with your crew

Talkin crazy in a puddle of love
We tell each other that we’re talented and oh my god
We’re made of meat, we can’t believe just
How strange it is to be

Anything, but a kid in this room?
What are the odds that I’d run into you?
I don’t know why we have to decay on this earth but
I’m glad it’s with you

Invincibility stars
Immune to all forms of harm
Yes a dream comes true
When you take a little molly with your crew

Release me
Of everything
I wanna be
I wanna be
I don't want to go now
I don't want to go now
I don't want to come down
I don't want

Invincibility star
Immune to all forms of harm
Yes a dream comes true
When you take a little molly with your
Invincibility star
Immune to all forms of harm
Yes a dream comes true

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