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february album writing month 2019

by ness lake

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1.
slow down 03:18
slow down everything is fine now so far gone so far gone everyone everyone decomposed i watch you now midnight all day long now ever since we found out everyone feels down now everyone everyone decomposed i watch you now
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i'm going i'm going
3.
yellow semi man of war mantis minnows fighting for ice and ash peel off quick razing daunting, ask to lick the batter from the whisk the latter from the list of all the things we used to love now we sip tea and drive too fast i've got a job, insurance plan if this car barrels into the ditch i'll either stay alive or we'll be rich and do whatever you two want move away or stay inside
4.
puddle jumping lights on in the daytime forgotten switch, oh midnight stepping out stranger stories, never told falling asleep fully clothed the lights still on, your eyes are gone, i won't get up the cat's out of the bag and of the house standing in the doorway having doubts is it too cold to wear what i'm wearing? go back inside and layer up pulling lips- revealing mouth winter's death sentence on our knees the snow it sticks and sticks and mutes our pleas if i'm gone and i probably will winter wind closed windowsill will still stay closed until it's warm out if i'm gone and i probably will winter wind closed windowsill and we'll both have time to thaw
5.
i feel soggy now silver bullet cloud rained out, werewolf prowl
6.
waking up in the morning kinda feels like purgatory spinning out on empty roads the death it goes and goes and goes and goes until it stops at a place where i feel loved going to sleep before you're back too late to play guitar too early to fade to black I lay and lay and almost pray for warm displays, us fully flayed beneath duvet, i almost pray i almost pray
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linoleum 04:20
you made yourself clear suffocating, cheap veneer linoleum mausoleum how did we end up here? everybody here is what you're talking about comparisons contrived they've all got it figured out oh everyone i know is dying faster than me got me messed up my brother's eighteen catch him if you can catch him if you can
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the walls can close in hold me closely hold me up, the ceiling close in, close in quickly when everything you've ever done makes no sense to anyone you'll say you're sorry you won't know why you'll say you're sorry you'll say you're sorry we'll go until we're empty hollow chests beat loudly when all that you have's not quite enough you'll wish you were drowning
10.
tinnitus waves come and go rest your eyes blow your nose cryptic cursive thought dispose stand up and stretch encourage growth machines they're working pistons churning when all you have is what you've got you'll be happy
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you dont wake up when you want to i want to want to be there for you you dont argue when you want to what's left unsaid becomes reality instead if we never talk you can say it's all inside my head i don't go out when i want to i hide from all the friends that i've got left and what they all value i don't tell the truth when i should what's left unsaid becomes reality instead if we never talk you can say it's all inside my head
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drape myself over the center console i'm yours and yours alone i'll be on both shoulders i'm yours and yours alone drape myself over the center console cup holder heart console rpm to beat to beat to me to me when i'm alone things just feel much differently when i'm alone i pretend you don't miss me and i feel consumed it feels like i can't move except to wait for you except to wait for you whenever i feel good i take notes in my pocket elegies of all the times that i feel too nostalgic to move, inside i feel gone you said i'm on one every song's one, online encapsulate my mind
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if i didn't know better i'd think that i was dying and not for a lack of trying i can only fall so quick throwing to the wall till it sticks days can only come so fast hmm hmm "i'm sorry" echoing empty body, trains crossing bedroom catacombs singing there's words to describe everything but when you can't think of any hmmm hmmmm
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drone 1 09:56
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depressant present empty past futile future come in last when depression crushes us both we'll both be flattened holding hands confidence honing a collapse Emmett's bursting through the back of my head seems like every day's harder than the last yeah we were friends in some distant past winter's death sentence on our knees the snow it sticks and sticks and mutes our pleas If i'm gone and i probably will winter wind closed window sill will still stay closed until it's warmer out we'll both have time to thaw we'll both have time to your body's wilted broken stem It's crossed with me repeating REM an intersect so fast and calm it's when you and i can be friends again you and i can be together again together again you and i can be together again
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yaicbta 02:41
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shark circling the drain if i stopped would i feel the same flames creep across the surface god's sleeping on my floor

about

february album writing month is an exercise where you try to write 14 songs in 28 days. songs are in order by date of creation.

this exercise prompted me to try writing different genres, collaborate with other folks, and really experiment with my production abilities.

a piece of me went into every one of these songs. i hope you find something that you like. album cover by Alec Moore (@AKindofLimbo)

thank you for collaborations from my friends in Shortly (@shortlymi), Great Expectations (@gr8xpect8ns), and Daddy and the Long Legs (@kissyourfriends)!

countless other voices went into the song "if i stopped"
thank you to:
Formerly Bodies
Pancho Villa's Skull
Former Critics
Day Gold
@ikudmi
Daniel Zasadny
Trent
Austin
Tyler
(I got a ton of submissions for this from lots of random e-mails and I used all of them! If you submitted and I didn't credit you, or didn't credit you properly, please shoot me a message and I'll fix this!)

all songs were recorded and produced by myself in my bedroom aside from "even" which was done live at Marco's studio.

thank you for listening!

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released March 2, 2019

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ness lake Ypsilanti, Michigan

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