Flight of the Crows

From the album ‘Beneath The Brine’ (2014) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/fam-crest

State your name
State your case
'Cause the lines were drawn
Do you love me babe?

Now you say,
Lover stay
Warm these bones my dear
Light my heart afire!

I know you never mean to say
All of the awful things you say
But oh God, the reason is yours
Oh God, the reason was yours
You smile

I howl to the moon, to the stars
To the way that we were
Howl to the moon, to the stars
When the weight of the world
Is just too much for you

Now I wait
As love and fate
Echo from your lungs
Do you want me babe?

Here you state
That a storm is waiting dear
Turn the lights down low
‘Cause one of us is surely gone

I know you never meant to stay
I know love we weren't meant to be
I know you never meant to go break my heart of gold
But oh God, the reason is yours
Oh God, the reasons are yours tonight
We're smiling

Forever lost together
Forever howling at the moon
‘Cause it's just too much for you

Forever lost together
Forever howling at the moon
When it's just too much for you

I'm gonna kiss, gonna kiss, gonna kiss your lips
I'm gonna make sure dear that my love sticks
I'm gonna shake, gonna shake, gonna shake your legs
I'm gonna make make make make make you beg

I'm gonna make sure that your heart is true
I'm gonna say here, "Darling, I love you!"
I'm gonna make sure that you love me too
Do you love me dear? Do you love me here?

I'm gonna break break break break you dear
I'm gonna shake shake up all your fears
I'm gonna take take you down my dear
Do you love me dear? Do you love me dear?

I'm gonna make make you love me dear
I'm gonna break break you down my dear
Tonight I'll smile 

You’ll howl to the moon, to the stars
To the way that we were
'Cause it's just too much for you

Forever lost together
Forever howling at the moon
'Cause it's just too much for you

Forever lost together
Forever howling at the moon
'Cause it's just too much for you

The brainchild of frontman Liam McCormick, The Family Crest began as a recording project in 2009 with co-founder/bassist John Seeterlin. “We always liked making music with people—getting a bunch of people together and singing. So we put ads everywhere,” says McCormick. “We posted on Craigslist and emailed old friends from school.” The outcome was greater than the original duo imagined, with 80 people credited on the first recording the band produced. From that a seven-piece core band emerged, though the Crest boasts over 400 “Extended Family” members.

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The Family Crest - Howl

Jhariah - RISK, RISK, RISK

Inside a tavern is a man with a cup
And boots of leather
I asked him what’s up and he said
Young man, you have a role to play
My hand’s full of roses
I can give you one
But you’ll have to face the sun

Black hat wearing silhouette 
With a black cat by his side
Ominous with a cigarette
He’s a man that everyone eyes
He’s a king of the quiet things
With a cup that is full of his coins
Toss him one and he’ll give you a rose
A rose that he’ll know you’ll enjoy

The king he told me to hold my rose
To wait for something that no one knows
He told me I’ll face my course
You can't have a rose without its thorns
In a second he’s out the back door
Oh what am I waiting for 

Something to happen
Something that’s grand
When will it happen
I don’t understand
Why’d I spend a coin
For the rose in my hand
If the rose is nothing but
Just a corpse from the land

I can hear the sibilance as the raindrops fall
Staring at the syllabus and the clock on my wall

Inside a tavern is a man with a cup
And boots of leather
I asked him what’s up and he said
Young man, you have a role to play
My hand’s full of roses
I can give you one
But you’ll have to face the sun

Black hat wearing silhouette 
With a black cat by his side
Ominous with a cigarette
He’s a man that everyone eyes
He’s a king of the quiet things
With a cup that is full of his coins
Toss him one and he’ll give you a rose
A rose that he’ll know you’ll enjoy

Black hat wearing silhouette 
With a black cat by his side
Ominous with a cigarette
He’s a man that everyone eyes
He’s a king of the quiet things
With a cup that is full of his coins
Toss him one and he’ll give you a rose
A rose that he’ll know you’ll enjoy

Salesmen Always Lie

Ban This Song

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Video Animation by Scrawny 
Intro/Outro Animation by Madilyn Mei & Scrawny 
 
Lyrics:
I am an alien
My rocket ship is human bone and skin
I’m something smaller staring out the skull
With a panel of wire and
Buttons I don't understand
Spamming every one of them
So, does being human mean pretending to know
What’s going on?!
(Hello?)
What's going on?!
(Hellooo? Fine!)

Take me to your leader
I would like to have a couple words
Get your shit together
How do humans keep on getting worse?
I’d go back to space but they've invaded out there too

We’re doomed
(Will anyone tell me what's going on? No? I'm gonna scream!)
(AHHHHHH! Tell me!)

You mock the way I talk
And I might be a little bit behind
Trends and slang and other ways to fit the box
To not be not liked

Once it gets underneath my skin
It's hard to let anyone in
Again my walls go up
I’m on defense, my solitude is
Safer than having friends
Why do I feel alien?!

I am an alien
My rocket ship is human bone and skin
I’m something smaller staring out the skull
Through two big eye sockets
And I just don't understand
How to become one of them
Does being human mean
Pretending to be something you're not?
What's going on?!

Take me to your leader 
I would like to have a couple words
Get your shit together
How do humans keep on getting worse?
I’d go back to space but they've invaded out there too

We’re doomed!

I don't wanna be here
Don't want a body or brain or thoughts of my own
I don't know who’s there in the mirror
Wanna go home
Where is home though?

I don't wanna be her
Dissociate through another day
I don't know who that is standing in the mirror
Everywhere I look I’m alone

I am an alien
My rocket ship is human skin and bone
I’m over trying to fit in
Guess I’ll always be alone
Cause I just don't understand
How to become one of them

How do I be one of
How do I be one of you?

(Is anyone out there? Over.)
(Anyone!? Over.)
(I’m talking to myself, aren't I? AHAHAH. Over!)

How do I be one of
How do I be one of you?

5. Quarters

(1, 2, 3, 4)
Wish I could stick my memories
Under my pillow for a quarter each
Losin’ em like baby teeth anyway
So give me a quarter please

I just want a gumball at the mall

Here I am in a place I’ve never been
All alone, two decades old
My best friend is a cat who is buried in the yard
Across the country safe at home
Wouldn’t you believe the things we do to breathe?
The things we gotta just let go?
Endin’ up again in a place I’ve never been
All alone, two decades old

And I’m excited for Colorado
But not for the altitude
Got real sick last time I went
So I’m giving Mother Earth some attitude
All alone, watchin’ a movie
In some motel in New Jersey
Nobody here can hurt me
They don't know me well enough to

Here I am in a place I’ve never been
All alone, two decades old
Learnin’ different words for the clouds up over head
But the stars are still the same as home
Wouldn't you believe the things we do to breathe?
The things we gotta just let go?
Endin’ up again in a place I’ve never been
All alone, two decades old

I wanna move and never settle down
But I also want a chicken coop and a thousand hounds
Mind if I keep you in my collection?
I gotta build new friendships, new connections

Here I am in some place I’ve never been
All alone, it don't get old
Learnin’ how to cope with the fact it has to end
When I’m out of quarters in my coat
Didn't wanna leave Willy on the scene
Fig will have to learn to float
Startin’ over again in some place I’ve never been
All alone, two decades old

What’s Going On?!

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Lyrics:
Candle wax on my skin
Blood running down my chin
Cannibal vampire maniac
Oh do I sin?

Cover your neck
My hunger's growing rather quickly
Let's dance together on my dirty chapel floor

Treat me like a marionette
With my seams and my stitches and my black corset
Feed me
I'm so very obsessed
Oh, I know
You didn't expect me to show up

Like a rabbit to a wolf
You're engulfed in my lovely canines
And like a rabid dog
I don't know why I bite

Cannibal vampire maniac
My skin is dripping in candle wax
Let's dance together on my dirty chapel floor

Treat me like a marionette
With my seams and my stitches and my black corset
Feed me
I'm so very obsessed
Oh, I know
You didn't expect me to show up

I can't deny that 
someone is guiding me
Oh, the Devil has my instincts in a chokehold
How he treats me

Treat me like a marionette
With my seams and my stitches and my black corset
Feed me
I'm so very obsessed
Oh, I know
You didn't expect me to show up

Sin Woven Puppet

A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1 is out now!
Download/Stream: https://madilynmei.lnk.to/AThousandSongsAboutItAll
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Produced and Mixed by Scrawny 
Mastered by Joe Hutchinson 
Video Animation by Scrawny 
Intro/Outro Animation by Madilyn Mei & Scrawny 
 
Lyrics:
No time to waste
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they say ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate you
 
No time to waste
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they say ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate
 
I don't know the things I wanna say until I say it
I hate it till I play it
Up on stage and see your faces
Let go of the reins
Now my whole brain’s a one man circus
This has to be my fate
It’s my only sense of purpose
 
Make it a character
You're her but you're not her

No you can’t take a day
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t change your name
You’re our brightest flame, woah!
 
I don't know which way to go
So I continue forward

The pure and utter horror
Realizing I left me behind
I'm lonelier than ever
But I guess that's for the better
Time to kill and bills to pay
And plenty things to write

I’m just a little not myself lately
Too late to contemplate
You chose your fate
Maybe I should
 
Make it a character
You're her but you're not her

No you can’t take a day
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t change your name
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t take a day
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t change your name
You’re our brightest flame

I’m done, I’ve just begun (la la la)
Why am I burning out?
Did I fly too close to the sun? (la la la)
Why am I burning out?
It was just starting to get fun (la la la)
Why am I slowing down?
Why am I burning out? (la la la)
Why am I burning?
It’s burning
 
No time to waste
Gonna be late for fate
I know what they say ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace me
Replicate
AI generate me
 
Gotta keep up
I’m eating my own dust
Don’t know what to do or to trust
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace me
Replicate
AI generate

No time to waste (I don’t know if I can go on)
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate you
 
No time to waste (but I know the show must go on)
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate
 
I don't know which way to go
So I continue forward
The pure and utter horror
Realizing I left me behind
 
I could write
A thousand songs about it all
I've just begun, now I can't stop
Lose your mind
Stay who you’re not
But the brightest of flames
Burn half as long

Sin Woven Puppet

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