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These Living Rooms

by Skelatin

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    Two high quality printed art panels on vertical-fold heavy-stock insert with lyrics printed inside. White disc with half-sun printed on it. Artwork by Sean Bernhardt, printing by Atomic Disc.

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1.
Lights 03:55
Wishing the lights would never come back on I could get used to this, you get used to this, You get used to it, you get used Got a lot of water in my blood, And I’m feeling lightheaded, Feel like I’m headed into the headlights When I’m shutting my eyes on the interstate. We can do this by touch, I know this like the Back of my hands But you’re invisible to them, even your friends are deaf You’re nothing but their lookout Your map’s littered with thumbtacks Stuck in places you can’t go back You don’t show up in photographs The dog is chewing my to-do list But I don’t want these notes, I don’t need these notes I can’t pay these notes But I’ve been getting jealous of my friends And how they’ve got no plans or they’ve got big plans Or they think they understand Now I’m surfing in my head again But I don’t hate this land, I don’t mind this land, I can’t leave this land They said you’ll go as far, as far as you choose In any ten directions, but you say it’s been so hard, Hard just to leave these living rooms.
2.
Superglue 05:28
Superglue I believe in my body, it hasn’t failed me in a quarter-century I’ve been to the bottoms of basement staircases and fumbled for lightswitches And I’ve never fallen so hard I could not resurrect myself and steady The clanging of pots and pans catch all the falling glass threatening to bury me And I know you’re mine, but I can’t find you Those things I put away last night are hiding too I could put up pictures of you on the internet but that just wouldn’t be me Instead I’ll eat only leaves, stay clean, and put money into things I can keep Any more cocaine and I’ll be awake endlessly wishing to switch my dreams For some with more promise, cause when I’m being honest I don’t think that I believe the things you used to promise me And I read your notes but I don’t want to as I peel you from me like superglue But If I let go I’m the one falling through this terrible net of forgetting my love for you We’re a failed experiment in alchemy, it’s hard to see our faults when we Are thinking that we are so elementary. Every time I hear you are still loving me It’s hard to say that we can’t be, but now I need you far from me I know you’ve tried to replace me with some strait-laced guy who’s good looking and rich I want to see him someplace, punch him straight in the face and say happy birthday, bitch Cause I know you’re mine, but I can’t find you, as I peel you from me like superglue But if I let go I’ll be the one falling through this terrible game of forgetting my love for you
3.
Porcupine 04:10
Wake up and everything’s where I left it last, never fails to disappoint The house is shivering with echoes of your breath I’ve got a gallon left and the Coinstar will carry me through the week I dream the solutions then I sleep through them, it’s a nightly routine I owe it to you not to do what I do, but I think I’m too cool to pay my dues Whether it’s in or out, we’re gonna make it somehow When I come clean I’ll be unclean to you The city chicks all frown but her lips turn out as the day fades The heartbeat of this town is her footstep, and its blood is painted on the roads I just don’t shave my face when she’s not around It’s getting out of control, my prickling spine, Porcupine Slink back to town with my tail at my feet Stumble through my old haunts I’m the ghost
4.
Stay Away 04:21
So you’ve got me awake now, what did you really want to say now? I can’t help but fill in the blanks in my own way now Cause I’ve been feeling a change now, is it possible That I’m not worth the pain now? Or do I not cause you the same agony I used to? After the overdose, you’re coming down easy While I’m left alone throwing punches with no receiver Because you were just too much for me, but barely And you were almost right on time, but early And I think of you way too much, or maybe not enough You’re too close, but I can’t stay away. You know how I am; I’ve been through worse years, But it feels like I’m watching my mistakes as I make them They’re moving like glaciers, inevitably But you’ve got all the time you need to get out of their way now In another world I’m always punctual, but when I want to be Up in those towers, all I can seem to do is sing about them While you’re facing your fear of elevators without me It’s 5:30am and you’re about to wake up While somewhere else, there’s nothing coming out of my pen now I feel like a volcano; you’re a tidal wave Stopped in our tracks, there’s no going back to our home states.
5.
Español 04:17
I keep going for the types who invite themselves inside I guess I’m not the sweep-you-off-your-feet type guy This one’s got a vintage camera she may never shoot strapped around her And I never want to work because I can’t buy back the time I’ve been wasting every day underneath fluorescent lights At the light, I see you in the coffee shop and I’ve got to stop cause I’ve got to know if you’re as good as you look Can we talk about our favorite books, though we haven’t read a word in months? Maybe you can get me back into drugs, maybe you can be a placeholder You were cool until you started ditching me Now you’re out like a light that’s been burnt for centuries At the bar your friend teased, “se besaron?” She didn’t think I spoke español But sometimes telling’s better than the kissing Sometimes I really am that superficial I’ll be on an outbound train, you’ll be showering my memory away She’s got recurring dreams of wrecking somebody else’s fucking wedding She’s had a little trouble blending herself into her story’s setting When the rich get divorces, do they split the dogs and horses? When your lover gets deported, how will you ever be supported? In the mornings sometimes I’m not really there When shes telling me she loves me just to fill the air She might get an arrow inked into her wrist, yeah that would be cool I say when you leave home there should be a wrecking ball behind you
6.
Die Slow 04:12
I hope you hear this while you’re cooking and you’re crying a little bit Don’t know why it’s so pleasant just to know you can still feel this I couldn’t count on you to make me happy, but you’re the only thing I know for sure It doesn’t solve my situation, but it’s a start We’ll die more slowly than we ever thought possible I never wanted to go into space, just fall off the face of earth Into the safety net of my color and my wealth Am I just a consumer whore? I always thought I’d amount to more Will we get to see the end of the world, or just another year after year in review? Before we die more slowly than we ever thought possible I wouldn’t hate myself if I lived in California wilderness, Or anywhere that the people don’t speak my boring language And I’m making a vow to be better, after I get this next thing That’s preoccupying me out of the way And then die more slowly than I ever thought possible
7.
Control 04:01
I want control of things I can’t know, like what’s in your mind When you’re twitching at night? And I can’t relax until you’re staring back When I exhale, it’s an animal’s breath, For once not obsessed with survival, at best. You make the predators rest in me Kill the ambivalence, nobody’s innocent I’ve never been fearless; I’ll shatter that image Don’t get upset, don’t get obsessed Give it a rest or get cut again You make the chemicals settle in me You bypassed the obstacles, told me it’s possible We can abandon it all on a houseboat in Canada The weeks, they bleed, the seasons, they sneak A garden of weeds, a carpet of leaves Can you make the sedatives last in me? Can you make the chemicals settle in me? Can you make the predators rest in me?
8.
Pills 05:36
Let’s drink some beer and take some pills Like in the winter, things were simpler then. Let’s not say how we feel; I’ll throw up Thanksgiving dinner again. Do we have nothing to show for this? I brought you coffee and I kissed your lips Show me the evidence, I still think of you in the present tense A sunrise in reverse, retracing all the turns Of the earth spinning backwards A sunrise in reverse You’re saying give me something, but I just can’t control my greed Another day my stomach’s grumbling. It’s not a feeling I can feed And high school was half my life ago, but I just can’t seem to let it go I need a new youth, a new you, I need to believe in something true Decide on a device Devise a compromise I might be in a dangerous place, but I am blind so it’s hard to say My distaste for mistakes despite my appetite for chaos I know the things that you dream of when you pretend to be having fun The satisfying crunch of all their bones breaking at once

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released March 3, 2017

All Songs written by Sam Levine and performed by Skelatin
Sam Levine - Bass, Vocals
Corey DiBiase - Guitar, Vocals
Cody Smith - Drums

Keyboards on Lights, Die Slow, Control, and Pills by Jake Gold

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Neil Parsons
Produced by Neil Parsons and Sam Levine

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