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released 09 April 2010
Thanks to Yohei Shikano for his generosity, Amber Rhodes for her inspiration, and Jeremy Carberry for his ears.
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Track Name: Our Orthodox
Ground, words hit the pavement hard without a sound
While our blood did circles in our bodies up and down

We might've known our fate if we had perfect objectivity
But who can fall in love and think it out?

Can we make amends for losing interest in our orthodox?
How do you learn to end belief in sight and sound?
I could no more pull apart the seams of what I thought made human beings
Than you could wash your brain to make your faith rinse out

But child, they'll hit you in the head and you'll be bound
To now, see your universe be shaped to fit someone's pleasant town
I'm sorry if it's true that everything soaks into you
You weren't born to have words put inside your mouth

Or set a superstitious wheel in forward motion
Though I'm no conductor that will never let you down
Is it wrong of me to say I was hoping you would lay all your own tracks down?

Your mother could've caught a ride in her direction
Not trade a vision in for something less pronounced
When she wandered from the light I figured someday you might have to make one of us back down

My future lover, it's obvious to me you were born to be a mother
I still know our house could be a place you could come home
Darling don't forget, the doctor said the future isn't written yet
So let's be a little careless
Track Name: When You're Dead
What does it matter if you can't be closer to him
In the way that they say such an unlikely thing should begin?
An affair built on prayer can seem more like a phone not plugged in
But when in doubt do not shout, only look in her eyes; therein lies no desire to sin.

The riddles of life tower five miles high above your head
And there's no one alive who can say what you do when you're dead
But one glance in her way wipes aside any lies you've been fed
There is truth, there is right, there is some to fight to protect when the night closes in

You were tired and lonely and cold
Thought you'd be that way till you were old
If you thought God's been dead all along
It's her face that'll prove that much wrong

Cause with her head lying still on your chest it was clear to you then
How absurd it must be to be hers out of 3 billion men
And if the Lord was just bored and decided to give Earth a spin
Would he spend so much time shaping her lips to mine and my hands to the touch of her skin?

And the meals that you cook by her side will inspire you when
Procreating has died and the children have children to tend
A romantic at heart, there's no part of her you didn't win
I see the note on your grave, happy words of a slave: "It was only for her sake he lived"
Track Name: No Idea
I have no doubt the truth came out from lessons I have learned
With you I knew my future grew into something that burned
A fire in the distance, up the mountain we both tread
With flames that can't be exhausted, in a storm they're only fed
But lately I have come to think your worry's turned to dread
Oh please don't ever let the thought find room inside your head

I recognize the faults that make my candle to be dim
I've no idea what it will take to come closer to him
But Dear you see I'm lonely, scared and frightened just like you
I don't know why people die or do the things they do
But if anything I've said since we both met has sounded true
Please don't forget the words we say right now, I always knew

Just close your eyes and listen to the pain inside my voice
If ever I have hurt you it was never by my choice
I only long to hold you till you finally cease to shake
If all my life needs giving then it's yours just for to take
I do apologize for every misstep I will make
Just know the way I need you is impossible to fake
Track Name: My Records
When I hear any song from our golden age I cringe
It's indifferently cruel how the past never forgives
And I can't bring myself to play my records anymore
Since I found out what it was I really I did

Warm and safe inside my own memory I'd hide
When the music of our love affair would spin
Now it turns my stomach inside out to try and figure
what about your smile I thought that without, I could live

But my road was waiting for the footsteps
With each stride to unload the former kid
It was the single largest sigh I'll ever give before I die
The day I understood just what you had to give

I let everybody know where I thought I had to go
If my plane ever took flight, I never did
After two years had come and gone all without taking me along
I remembered who I used to travel with

And the coat I gave to you for Christmas
Carries more in it of everything that's true
Than the books I try to fill my empty head with ever will
They'll be forgotten when time's closing on the kill

All of our lives, always in vain, all of the ghosts of idols slain
Are calling, “All you need is what you learn too late.”
Giving the human malady a face too horrible to see
When it’s reflected back and puts you in your place

So undernourished like a tree stuck clutching upward hungrily
At a sky that is unwilling I should live
In the silence that is born when all our records have been worn
To disrepair is where I'm bound to wander in

And if my soul has anything worth saving
It's a role that you fought to cast me in
Hope I never let you down the way I did when I left town
I sure would like to hear my records once again
Track Name: No One Told Me
Sometimes I think that I've got nothing left to face the dawn
Each day that I get older brings a night that lasts too long
And winter comes four seasons that won't let go, just hold on
I'm waiting for a day when all my loneliness is gone

I left behind the heart that made all of my blood to move
What made me think that I was someone with nothing to prove
The one who told me with her eyes that I could do no wrong
But I did and it's a wound that bleeds me till my color's gone

It’s a big town I wander ‘round with no direction home
It don’t matter where you’re headed when you’re traveling alone
Cause no one’s selling anything that you would like to own
It takes a lot of thinking to remember where you’re from

I don't try too much to move because I wake up knowing that
It won't matter where I go, I'll only wonder where she's at
I shudder when I think of all the time we won't get back
No one told me how hard a lonely conscience can attack
Track Name: O Brother
What use is a song written by a sinner
That won’t save himself from ruining what fell
From the hem of the garment she was wearing
When she saved him from a lonely sort of hell?

And if he’s no more the wiser when living
In the light all men are looking for since birth
Then it’s so sad ‘cause his horizon’s ever dimming
Into a past where he was something more of worth

O brother are you making your own kind
Much farther from the truth for your own pride?
You’re only wasting your time
You’re only making her cry

Both hands tied, two eyes wide and one jaw open
He’ll masquerade just like he’s living till he dies
The world he’ll hate he helped create; built it broken
You can see it when you look into his eyes

Yes, it’s true the sky is blue in California
Yes, it’s true that what you do is always right
If you were through with what you left behind to get there
Cause if you weren’t you will regret it every night

O brother are you making your own kind
Much farther from the truth for your own pride?
You’re only wasting your time
You’re only making her cry
Track Name: Postcard
Listen to me, can't you tell
I've learned my lesson; learned it well
I wish that I had chose to stay
I wish I were with you today

For the world's much bigger, the buildings tall
But my blood's much thinner, my heart's too small

Out here the rain does a funny thing
The streets get washed, but don't get clean
Now I notice that sort of thing
How the streets get washed, they don't get clean

If there's a way to hate you, I haven't found it yet
And if you ever hurt me I'll probably just forget
I'll hide your eyes from violence if you'll cover mine from sex
I know you'd love a future born from that