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Casual Friday Spring Sampler 2014

by Casual Friday

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Tajchi Album starts beautiful. But the last, let's say third, is: let me put it this way: you american teenie-bands don't have no groove or funk and the singing is all the same! Just had to say it... Favorite track: Tiger Tank.
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You were indefinitely restless i know I'm not one to talk but I always do the concept is clear and always repeating a constant fear you never could avoid I heard he got you home safe that night you were stumbling through the city he just happened to be driving by I want to fool myself into believing you would of been fine if it were any other night I am dreading this question you wanted to know if it was all worth it I wish that I could of lied I felt the same way I heard The Thermals sing ''So Here's Your Future''
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We’re alive and so much isn’t. We’re alive and so much isn’t. I’ve got a couple paper bags. We could keep our secret hidden. I’m not making excuses, I’m just weighing my anchor. You’re not asking the questions, I’m providing the answers. We’re alive and so much isn’t, But what’s alive in these conditions? I still get sick from darker liquids But I can keep our secret hidden. I’m not making excuses, I’m just weighing my anchor. You’re not asking the questions, I’m providing the answers. When the corners of the earth folded together We laughed out loud and covered it in feathers. Oh, is it time to go? I didn’t know you were waiting up. My left hand never knows what my right hand does. I didn’t know you were waiting up. I didn’t know you were waiting up. I didn’t know you were waiting up.
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I got a secret and it's holding me back, keeping me dragged And you seem like i'm making you mad, hurts me bad Don't say those things, i'll explain another time when i get it right I'm so sick baby I thought just maybe make me fixed baby i've been shy daily I can't leave my house, i can't go out It's nice to feel cared about but I think you've had your doubts I'm not clear on where i stand, touch my hair and hold my hand I like when you talk to me, smile and laugh and kiss my cheek I think things you'd never guess a girl like me just makes a mess I just make a mess I'm so sick baby Can't be fixed baby
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old soul, this feels ugly / quiet skies seem so low with the ring of the rising tide / melancholy feels just like me / alone, not lonely / i think i'm so detached that i don't feel sound for anyone anymore / young soul apricot belly / i just enthrall and disappoint
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If you wanted me to go, why didn't you say so? Cause you're the only thing that's kept me here for days I'm just waiting for some form of closure If you wanted me to stay, then why'd you leave me? You've had me running round in circles these past few days I'm just looking for some kind of answer Those times, they were real Like the way the sun was shining down on you and the way you made feel I'm falling back on the lies, they just couldn't seem to find the strength to hold me up this time If I wanted you to go, I would've said so. You're the only reason that I ever loved this place Seems you'll never know, how I felt so low I always wanted you to stay, so why'd you leave me? I've been running through my thoughts these past few days I'm just waiting for a way to pick myself back up I can't do this anymore Wish I could've been the man you were looking for My hearts been bound by these chains of what we were
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Lost the vision you need To get what you really want You gave it up for something present but small Crippled by a mindset You gave up a heart and mind that would last til' the end I know exactly why You laughed at what I said It played out the same way in my head Tracing actions back to the root Of what shapes the way you feel how you do But you're only safer in numbers When you know they're watching your back With the only life that they have I need to find a future that I can see myself in A warm home to feel genuine Surrounded and comforted by The things that we choose to see The things that remind me of you The things that remind you of me
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Who knew it would come to this? Old and boring adages The poster that you've been staring at on the bathroom wall As inspiration for each day of the week To get you started on the path to prosperity There's nothing like a shot in the arm of fake optimism To distort your vision... When you're on, no one can stand When you're on, no one can stand I'd like to share my thoughts But then I'm just another interruption You're just a holdout from another time The yes men around you keep your head high Out on a ledge again
 Self-referential and effacing... You might find, you might find That I could see, I could see Something that could never hang on a wall Worth a thousand words of useless praise A lifetime worth of accolades There's enough hatred around To paint this whole town or burn it all down How long could your patience hold out From the bottom of the pile?
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Is he here? Are you making out? I can you hear you guys on the couch Shut up. Make out. Do something already. I'm waiting After reading that text from your friends I start losing all my confidence So I'll stay tired, I know soon I'll be bailing Then you, you ask if I gotta leave, And I wish that I could say no My head is on the verge of exploding No amount of aspirin or pizza could help this from hurting And now I'm turning to you scared shitless Hoping this song goes well Can we hide like the fact that My mouth smells like coffee and garlic The five cups I had this morning are getting to me I gotta go I got the worst fucking spins Then you, you ask if I gotta leave, And I wish that I could say no But we’re so caught up in the moment And I just need a second to catch my goddamn breath To hell with the spins I'm staying There's no good reason why I should leave your bed tomorrow We can watch planet earth and brain storm tattoos To hell with class I'm skipping Lets order food and sleep in I've got so much to do But it's ok cause whatever, forever To hell with the spins I'm staying There's no good reason why I should leave your bed tomorrow We can watch planet earth and brain storm tattoos
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One too much, I think I'm done My head is spinning, my lips are numb How about one more, it's just for fun But I can't stand and I feel dumb Because it's hard to say no, yeah it's hard to say no Think you'll be ok, but you really should have known And it's hard to say no! It's hard do say no! Because you think you'll be ok, until you're laying to the floor. (x2) One too much, I think I'm done My head is spinning, my lips are numb How about one more, it's just for fun But I can't stand and I feel dumb Because it's hard to say no, yeah it's hard to say no Think you'll be ok, but you really should have known And it's hard to say no! It's hard do say no! Because you think you'll be ok, until you're laying to the floor. (x2) Shouts: Watch! Me! Crawl across the floor(?)! One too much, I think I'm done My head is spinning, my lips are numb How about one more, it's just for fun But I can't stand and I feel dumb Because it's hard to say no, yeah it's hard to say no Think you'll be ok, but you really should have known Yeah it's hard to say no! It's hard to say no! Because you think you'll be ok, until you're laying to the floor. (x2)
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there was something in the way we just sailed on through those days. never wondered what was next, never guessed it'd be like this. never thought we'd feel this weight, never thought it'd fade away. and even though it's there, it never will be anywhere near where it was in those days. you are so close but far away. even if we're in the same town you're in a different place. how'd the time go by so fast? i watched something that i loved just turn into the past. i can't lift this weight, i don't want it to fade away. and on the walls i wrote that i would never forget what happened in that place. is it over now? is it? never thought it'd fade away, never thought we'd feel this weight. even though i try i just can't get it out of my mind, how much it meant to me. it's not over now. is it?
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Everything I do is so rushed I wish that I didn't care so much I miss this more than I can touch I wish that I didn't care so much Everything I love is dead Kill my heart, kill my head I'll be here lying in bed When everything I love is dead Open up your eyes And you'll see me for the first time Everything I love is dead Kill my heart, kill my head I'll be here lying in bed When everything I love is dead
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Woke up dreaming from another place in time Write my mind a letter to get things in line Goodbye and enjoy my jacket Too close too fast The tread won't let us hack it you say you will, but you don't say you will, but you don't say you will, but you won't you say you will, but you don't say you will, but you don't say you will, but you won't i know i know you get it you go i'm just a pacemaker you're just a peacekeeper i know i know you get it you go i'm just a pace taker you're just a peacekeeper so i walked slow, looking for another place to fly by the time i'm up i'm just down - good goodbye to old news and bad bad habits too much too fast i know i couldn't have it you say you will, but you don't say you will, but you don't say you will, but you won't i know i know you get it you go i'm just a pacemaker you're just a peacekeeper i know i know you get it you go i'm just a pace taker you're just a peacekeeper
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i'm no good at the city you are very pretty i'm just a ditz won't you kiss me on my hips what if i'm not what you expect what the heck let's get intimate what the heck i'm just a kid won't you kiss me til i'm dead
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Was it my teeth or my tongue that said "Glue shut your lips, let us take a rest" Oh my mouth is a factory for every toxic part of speech I spew Late, languorous and afraid to ask Caught my reflection in some sea-washed glass Oh, my face is unable to convey how very awfully I'm doing Laugh out of habit at the lump schematics I smoked my senses, it made me so demented I see me and you in the kennel cough, Signaling the sleuths of the trail we trot. Expansion rattles out this old lump. Bats get bristled; the imps heat up Spoon out the sweet stuff for streetwise smut Oh, my gut absorbs the fiercest blows You never thought you'd have to throw Laugh out of habit at the lump schematics My psychic tenses make me so defensive I see me and you in the tiger tank Swimming as they yowl; soon they're tearing us Limb from every limb to the kennel cough Limb from every limb to the Don't even care if they take my legs I've limped before, I can limp again Though my limp is not able to display How very awfully I'm doing
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I lost the meaning in the fire It's like it's something I was never meant to find I've called and they say that there's no use But it's been using me up Split my actions three directions Looking for something outside my mind I've always found myself outside your house at night I've always found your fingers snarled into mine And now you're walking with no shoes on Down a dirty street in Allston I ask you why you left me And you're saying that you didn't My belief in you Shakes and stirs But it will not ever dissolve
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Treacherous, empty Alert on the backseat Visiting disgrace Each dull face or first name You scan the AM for "Coast to Coast" And I'll try to embrace the lows We lay at night Cursing our stage fright Or leading our own lives Into the empty night When you've indulged every reckless whim What is the weight of all your weakness
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Do you find me beautiful? Do you still want me around? It's hard to read your thoughts when I fall asleep next to myself. You gave me Emily, I gave you movie screens. Asked you to marry me. I wasn't thinking clearly. I'm not a martyr. I'm not a saint. I never said that I was perfect, never said you were to blame. I wrote you poetry about the way we kissed. I guess its been a while. I just write grocery lists. Can you please get these things on your way from work? I wanna cook us dinner and make love afterward. I'm not a martyr. I'm not a saint. I never said that I was perfect, never said you were to blame. "When that which is. And that which was. Apart, intrinsic, stand" I'm still loving you the same.
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Well, God, I guess I seek your advice, You see, I've hit what they call, "rock bottom". And if you happen to reminisce, Of the things that I daily miss: Your front yard, your front porch, and your house, Are things I'll have to do without. What's even worse? Is that you're not here And if you had to choose, Between something and me, I hope you'd choose that something, And quickly forget me, Forget all about me. Well, winter's here, I'm stuck in your rut, You'd think by now, I would've shut my mouth, Can this get much worse? I'm really hoping so, Then you'd finally see, What we've become: Something short but so long lasting, It's just so frustrating, Realizing you've becoming everything to me.
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you drank coffee in college and I did the same 9 o' clock is when our session starts the taste burns deep inside my tongue newspaper articles are useless we have each other and to let you know Tom you have refilled more than just my mug a lost child at the playground Mom's gone and there's no one left to play along your imaginary best friends are all whose left to push you on the swing set all my comfort is in the water my bloodstream runs deep in our 10,000 lakes but sadly i forgot how to swim. my confidence has left my head but i promise i'll get it back it's just like a chameleon with my tail cut off but i promise i'll get it back bigger and stronger than ever before someday I want to die in your bed alone at night counting sheep hoping that they'll take me far from everything hoping that they'll take me far from you and me it's time for me to grow and to understand what life is but i feel as if it's already to late waking up when everything is everything you wanted waking up to be. age 20 years young i suddenly cry myself to sleep (you have so many years ahead) i know but if it weren't for you i would be sleeping in the van with Bill like a slumber party just without the fun
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call me at night, i'll wake up for you but when the mornings come, you know i won't remember call me at night, i'll wake up for you but in the daylight my voice just wastes away it gets so easy to go through the motions spend my days in the comfort of failure i'm finding shame in the ways i've tried leaving drawing paths from the distance created I lied I lied to myself about the words we left unspoken about the breath i've been holding these minutes i spent waiting
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You carry an illness and practically know it by name. it seldom speaks for you but you learned to tune it away. But it wasn't easy. I was fond of your writing. It allowed me to see into you. You hid behind the similes like fractal light in all shades of blue pebbles and mirrors. I'm just jealous because I tried mapping out your mind's inconsistent ways. Tangled and untied I watched your ends start to fray. You felt buried from the start. It's tearing you apart, constricting the free-beating of your heart. I knew your postcard would say, "Wish you could stay wish you felt the same way." Asked to be admitted and they put a lock on your door. Subdued, medicated, face to linoleum floor. And you tried to break away painted window panes/bars behind the glass/molded to the frame you saw yourself in those days. You felt buried from the start. It's tearing you apart, constricting the free-beating of your heart. I knew your postcard would say, "Wish you could stay wish you felt the same way." I am tearing up pieces of old news to mend the leaks in my open wounds, protect your pressure points I refuse to press against. Let your self renew. Project the voice that I found for you. Pull up the weeds from the ground you grew. Feel soil under your toes. It's you you have forever. Felt weaker when I bent, beaten to the end. Folding on myself, too damaged to mend. I couldn't hold all the weight. You felt buried from the start. It's tearing you apart, injuring yourself dragging from my arm. I knew your postcard would say, "I know your new heart still desires to play and who would I be to keep it all for me." Wish I could stay wish I felt the same way.
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there’s a difference between the things that we say and we mean so take a deep breath breathe in through your chest and you’re lying face first on your mothers floor saying “oh dear God what’d you do that for?” now you’re lying face first on your fathers floor saying “oh dear God what’d you do that for?” you’re trying to be brave and you’ve been brave before i’ll help you clean out your basement and fall asleep on your floor and i know you really wanna make it out alive and i know you really wanna make it out alive and i know you really wanna make it out there’ll be a clash between you and the you that’s staring back but kid you’ll be okay you get better with age and kid you’ll be okay you get better with age remember that you are a snail in every pinch your shell may get heavy but you’ll push through every inch and i know you really wanna make it out alive and i know you really wanna make it out alive and i know you really wanna make it out and i know you’re really gonna make it out
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There is a pain in my chest And though I had pretend to finally know it It's time tied on my tongue A thousand words repeating like a pendulum Maybe it's just me versus jealousy But god made so tempting to say Give it a rest, I shouldn't have to say this But now I struggle to recognize you You can always consider me a friend, Just strictly in the past tense. Maybe it's just me and hypocrisy Still I'm just trying to say Give it a rest, I shouldn't have to say this But now I struggle to recognize you Give it a rest, I shouldn't have to say this But now I struggle to recognize you You've indicated That I'm nothing but a friend you hated You've indicated That I'm nothing but a friend you hated I'm sorry that I haven't said Give it a rest, I shouldn't have to say this But now I struggle to recognize you Give it a rest
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I don't think you're serious enough These things seem so tedious to me Say what you want, but you're influenced by everything Head first dives and sympathy set free (Nestled in the grave I helped you dig Finding comfort in these kinds of things You still say to keep an open mind My voice gets quieter every time I try) Try to find another way to get out Tracing your steps but you still find yourself blaming me You're listening for the sounds that I have gone away Folding myself in half but growing all the same Trying to organize whatever still remains I just don't think you're serious I'm getting tired of feeling this of hearing this I'm moving myself further away from the edge, and I'm hoping I hope but I doubt you'll ever find out The dirt above your head must be getting to you by now As far as I can see from my footsteps is probably as far as I'll get This place seems emptier without you, or so I thought
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It's the weight of the world And it's resting on my shoulders I'm in the market for new shoes Or a new life Or a new way I'm disconcerned with the word Unbelievable, mainly 'Cause I believe that it's real It's warned me, it's warned me. Not again, not I I thought my will found a way It's escaping the curl Stay on the straight and narrow Stay weird, stay cool, stay you It's escapable Unbreakable Unmistakable I didn't mean a word I said My brain is melting over everything I own You could beat me up and we could mosh it up At home Or we could fight for the last hit of what I've got It's all the same to me Not again, not I I thought my will found a way.
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I'm under your skin and I'm tearing up everything that you've been I do it so gracefully you don't realize all these changes we could have it all you would be the first to fall once you change direction you would be the first to fall you're a book I've read a hundred times I know your twists, your turns and I've learned all the curves of your spine I know the way it goes all these changes we could have it all you would be the first to fall once you change direction you would be the first to fall we can't tell anyone about it now cause you would be the first to fall you would be the first to fall
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i remember when I was just a boy. I would hold your hand, we'd go to the park you'd push me on the swing. You'd take me out for food, you always ordered dessert. You always had such a sweet tooth. Now you're done and gone away from all of this You're finally done feeling all the pain from all of this. When I was just turning 18 you left me, you couldn't have held out until I graduated? Those last three months I felt dying, I woke up every morning with tears left from the late night crying. I don't wanna lose more sleep over you. I didn't mean for it to end this way, I still miss you every single Sunday. You were actually 92, I just never thought of you like that like that. You were always there for me like my grandmother ought to be, I'll see you on the other side some day. I'll see you on the other side.
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Where else can I go? I'm seeing old houses in row stretching past the banks of snow. Am I no better than those who dwell between their walls? I am one of them after all. The city collapses into sprawl and all the kids are plastic dolls. They crawl along the street like monsters dancing next to me, and we sing. What a price we pay for things we will only throw away. They pile up but they're not enough to make a charming display. Pride can get confused, you say "a pretty face should wear pretty shoes." You're doing you for you but that's a sad excuse, it's more like self-abuse. If there is evil within me then there is evil within everybody. That's nothing new to you. Bless this sorry mess that you have created in your chest. I swear you're not depressed you just feel bad at best and you're a little remote. But my fingers and my toes are aching over every note. It's like my frame is composed of paper, glue and hope so I hide it all under clothes. But there's still love somewhere in me, so there must be love in everybody But that's nothing new to you.

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Casual Friday 2014 Spring Sampler
Artwork by Dan Brenton and Madison Warchol (thanks so much, you two!)
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released April 1, 2014

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