Vocals/Guitar/ Bass/Lyrics: New Era Punx
Guest Vocals: Nick Brockmeyer
Music Written By: New Era Punx & Nick Brockmeyer

Zoning Out (Acoustic)

Written By: Sleeping with Sirens
Performed By: New Era Punx
*don't know y, cant get u off my mind

Stomach Tied in Knots

Written By: New Era Punx (Guitar, Vocals, Bass)
*drums from loops

It's OK Not to Be OK, Dear

Memphis Master 2

Helium Master 2

Written By: Tj Pemberton (Vocals, Guitar, Bass)
*drums from loops
Produced & Mastered By: Aaron Rigg

Abandon All Ships (REMASTERD)

Performed, Mixed & Written By: TJ Pemberton
-All Sounds Created By Vocals & Guitar


Life In A Doll House

Vocals, Guitar, Additional Bass, Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Written By: TJ Pemberton
Vocals, Bass: Nick Brockmeyer
Percussion: Tom Sutton
Background Vocals: Jon Suwarna

Wait, idly biding your time
In your castle, my dear
Fighting off fear
It's been 20 years, give or take a day
You've been trapped in here
Had a couple knights on white horses
Try to come to your tower
To steal you away
But they weren't your true love
These guys where just
Ogres in disguise

So you sit there
Waiting inside of your locked room
Hoping someone will come save you
From this monotonous affair

And I want to be the Prince Charming
That you dream of in your sleep

Here I ride in a suit of armor
My sword drawn
Ready to fight
Because chivalry ain't dead
It's more brains over brawn
I have traveled far and wide
And sought my fair share
Of castle-bound dames
And the one thing I've learned
Through all my pursuits
Is I can't catch a break

So I ride on
Hoping one day that I'll find a love 
That is worth all 
Of the pomp and circumstance
That I brought with me

And I want to be the Prince Charming
That you dream of in your sleep
And I want to be the happily ever after
That I know you hope for in your dreams

Storm the gates, charge the stairs
And slay the dragon
Burst into your room
To find nothing but a chair
I guess you stopped trying
As I walk away from that castle of stone
That you once did call your home
I notice you there
Ripped dress, red hair, waiting there
Holding your own
I walk up slowly
To the place where you stand alone
Take off my helmet, rest it on the ground
And ask you what's wrong

You say, "Nothing, I escaped from that prison so long ago
I'm not waiting for a man to control
My life and rescue me. From what?"
I say, "Princess, I won't waste time
And I can't stress how much you leaving
Your tower suggests that you are the one for me."

Princess

 I’ve been at this party about half of the night
Uncomfortable just doesn’t seem to describe it right
No one seems to feel me, like or hear me
No I can’t keep breathing
Don’t feel like leaving
But I know I have to go
It’s not the music; it’s not the bass
It’s not the booze because I’m not faced
With the reality, impurity
The possibility of losing the race
Now I’m leaving for no reason
I wish I were a chameleon
At least then I would be able to deal with it
 
Sip a drink; puff a smoke
Have a snort or take a toke
Or you won’t be feeling the kind of dope
The kind of things like diamond rings
The brighter things in life
Won’t make you choke on the smoke
Of the hoax that you’ve been joking about
I’m broke, not stoked
Kind of low key wanting to go
So I’m leaving, not staying
Because I can’t really be
Any place with this feeling
 
Let me paint you a picture
With the words from my mouth
And hope you don’t miss out
On what I’m saying or how I’m conveying it
No one ever hears me complain
About this kind of pain or shame
Awkward, weird, balloon deflation
Kind of bad at keeping conversations
Duration of a nation under God
Indivisible, invisible is how I feel
Wall to wall and reel to reel
 
Deaf, dumb and blind
Won’t you run and hide; defy
To find me on the other side of a spectrum
Not the victim of the system
But a pendulum swinging from the end of my rope
I don’t belong here; I don’t belong there
I don’t belong anywhere
Too queer too square
To fit in anywhere
You see I’m not what I appear to be
There’s always more to every book you read
 
I don’t know where I’m going
But I know it’ll be better than here
I will break through the other side
And I hope I just don’t disappear
 
Sometimes the noose on my tongue is pulling tighter
Making me feel like a bit more of an outsider
I’m more of a lover, not a fighter
“Stay gold, Ponyboy” & hand me your lighter
Cop a bit of an attitude
I tend to come off as rude
If everything I say is so crude
Why don’t you make a move?
Can’t sit still
Can’t pay attention
Insubordinate insurrection
Detection of an inflection
That is falsely representing
 
Repent and repeat
Attack and retreat
But never admit defeat to the beat
Of the drum that pounds inside my heart
Under my thumb I fall apart
People tell me that I’d go far
If I would just put down the fucking guitar
Focus, unfocused
The hocus pocus
That keeps me in between
The different cliques and scenes
The type A’s and type B’s
I never wanted to be like them
Because labels don’t own me

Nothing Good Ever Happens After 2AM (Demo)

Vocals & Guitar, Written & Performed By: TJ Pemberton

*Inspired by the suicide of a student at my old high school*

Another empty chair
Another soulless stare
From the eyes bulging out
No one could ever care
Falling straight to the floor
You throw open the door
As you watch him gasp for air
For only a couple seconds more
 
This life is so temporary
How can I rewind time?
Is this the ending?
 
Sobbing uncontrollably
As the priest reads the rosary
In a black dress
Surrounded by distress
Standing over his body
Closed casket funeral
And a eulogy ripped from Poe
Dropped down below
It hits you all at once, so slow
 
At the end of the day
There is still some love in this pain
Go forth from this and fight
Focus on preventing the same
In his final moments
What could he have confessed?
Was he nervous or did it hurt him?
I can almost hear what he last said
 
"God, I'm screaming to you
I just don't know how to live life anymore
Why did you create me if no one can save me?
Was I a mistake
Because I have decided it's so"


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