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everything takes forever

by peachfuzz

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1.
sudden glow 03:21
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She came wired and shaking from the street She was spilling broken sound like a radio tuning out About some boy who beat her to her knees She’s begging for something to bring her down That’ll drown the volume out And we were washed out in a flood Laughing hard and spitting blood Give me a night I can remember Give me a moment I can feel Give me some peace of mind that don’t run out on me I could have told you time is wasting Everyone’s out there getting free Chasing that sudden glow that’s lost on you and me There were times when I thought I could see Why she did it to herself: better her than someone else Then again it sometimes seems to me She’s fighting her reflection for the thrill To undercut the overkill And all the cars roared by outside It was a wonder no-one died Give me a night I can remember Give me a moment I can feel Give me some peace of mind that don’t run out on me I could have told you time is wasting Everyone’s out there getting free Chasing that sudden glow that’s lost on you and me Oh God your face is a mess You’re folding in on yourself Exploding out of your chest in a million points of light Hold on and steady your breath Just haul it out of yourself Yeah throw on your favourite dress and I’ll take you out tonight
2.
let's get healed! 03:08
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His father died the day he was born Slowly turning blue in the cold grey dawn But we never talk about that stuff The family called it a heart attack Over time a lie becomes a fact if it’s repeated often enough The hardcore shows, the indie films The summer’s evening gold Middle classes slumming it with girls he used to know All that talk of how we’re all alone Left him dreaming in the dark for something real Don’t take me home This is how we feel Now let’s get healed! When his mother held his hand in church And wept and gnashed her teeth to dirt It was like a birth it fucking hurt Though he’d just been born he was born again And he couldn’t wait for it to end Yeah God bless me but God help them The hardcore shows and the indie films The sunlight through the trees Middle classes slumming it with girls from factories All that talk of love and faith and need Left him reaching out for something he could feel Don’t take me home This is how we feel So let’s get healed!
3.
everything takes forever 03:28
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She said I’m straight just bent out of shape And tired of feeling my heart break again and again Just how many times can one heart mend? Some of us hope and some of us dream But only the worst of us believe every day We’re bent out of shape but that’s okay I’ve been here long enough to know It only seems we’re standing still we move so slow When everything takes forever You’re counting the days down to summer Always hanging around the same rained out town It’s happening soon, yeah whenever We’re slamming the brakes to feel the shudder Because everything takes forever She’s rolling the note he’s carving the line She’s saying it’s only to unwind at the end of the week He’s so fucking high that he can’t speak When everything’s gone it’s seven o’clock She’s saying she feels like getting off She’s phoning a friend Just how many ways can one night end? I’ve seen the morning still your heart Ten million tonnes of sunlight smashing you apart When everything takes forever You’re counting the days down to summer Always hanging around the same rained out town It’s happening soon, yeah whenever We’re slamming the brakes to feel the shudder Because everything takes forever Those endless days alone spent drinking Have left us beaten down and blinking in the light All the clubs and bars are empty City centre’s dark and empty Sweetheart it’s you and me tonight And that’s just fine Cos everything takes forever You’re counting the days down to summer Always hanging around the same rained out town It’s happening soon, yeah whenever We’re slamming the brakes to feel the shudder Because everything takes forever
4.
static on the dial 04:03
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Hey honey wake up something’s going on outside I’ve been aching for a shake-up; it’s a neon Friday night I called the number it’s the same stuff as before It’s the first weekend of summer and tonight won’t wait no more The starlight is confetti on the street There’s music playing out there where the sand and city meet Down here there’s static on the dial Are we still running or just running out of time? I know nothing lasts forever but forever starts tonight Well okay Hey alright I caught the newsflash there’s a riot in the slums You say wait until tomorrow but tomorrow never comes TV’s a blizzard, channels tripping off the air All the satellites are crashing down just off the coast somewhere And all the restless spirits stalk the night Just bleeding from their fingertips or itching for a fight Down here there’s static on the dial Are we still running or just running out of time? I know nothing lasts forever but forever starts tonight Well okay Hey alright Burn the discothèques Torch the multiplex Let the fires twist and rage Oh let your flesh turn like a flame It’s that time again Yeah it’s that time again Time to break the chains, erase the stains Now we are born again
5.
feeling nothing 04:56
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Another year over and what have you done? You blacked out your windows to keep out the sun Leave the message and wait by the phone Same old sickness down deep in your bones There was time it wasn’t like this The rush of white static, the warm endless kiss The bands and the parties, the nights shot with gold When no one was ugly and no one was old And all of your lovers And all of your friends They turned into strangers You turned on yourself And you of all people must know how this ends Another day over and what have you done? The slow empty hours all bleed into one The murmur of traffic outside in the street The soft crimson bloom rising bitter and sweet And all of your lovers And all of your friends They turned into strangers You turned on yourself And you of all people must know how this ends Feeling everything feeling nothing Seeing colours and feeling nothing Lost forever and feeling nothing Feeling nothing… And all of your lovers And all of your friends They turned into strangers You turned on yourself And you of all people must know how this ends Well it seemed okay, there was always stuff And it all seemed innocent enough But they laughed to hear you spilling broken sound When you came up wired from the street With shaking hands and bloody feet Begging some new kid to drown the volume out Then they came in cars from out of town With the windows closed and the headlights out And the scene dried up and the boys turned mean and cold Then the drugs got hard and the beats turned slow There was nowhere else you could really go You said “I’m still that same old girl you used to know”
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yr sons and daughters 03:31
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She don’t recall much at all about the hardcore show at the college hall Just the skater kids and the shower stall They seemed okay they had some stuff and it all seemed innocent enough But in the shower stall it all got rough Now her friends want to know where she was that night They all want to know though they think they might They heard some things that can’t be right (yr sons and daughters) Sometimes you’ve just got to understand that some nights just get out of hand The lights, the heat, the crowd, the band (yr sons and daughters) The skater kids forgot the name of the college girl with the ankle chain “If no one speaks we don’t get blamed” But it’s a small-town scene and words got scrawled On the locker doors and the toilet walls Then someone started making calls And her friends want to know where she was that night They all want to know though they think they might They heard some things that can’t be right (yr sons and daughters) Sometimes you’ve just got to understand that some nights just get out of hand The lights, the heat, the crowd, the band (yr sons and daughters) They came in cars from out of town With the windows closed and the headlights out And they beat some kids til they were almost dead No one made the big connection We didn’t pay that much attention Everything was pretty old by then But now they all want to know where she was that night They all want to know though they think they might We hear some things that might be right (yr sons and daughters) Sometimes you just got to understand that some nights kids get out of hand The lights, the heat, the crowd, the band (yr sons and daughters) There were tinfoil stars in a velvet night And her skin glowed chrome under sodium light In the sudden rush it all felt right And they sit by the phone in the silent house With the TV on but the sound turned down Because their little girl should be home by now
7.
that summer 03:31
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She woke in the subway With some skater whose name She could not remember All those kids looked the same She was thinking of changing plans Heading out somewhere else No matter how far you run you’re always just yourself That summer The parties in car seats, those reservoir nights Always started out funny but ended in fights It switched from just drinking to powder and pills Sometimes momentum is a powerful thing That summer There were whiteouts and blackouts and twelve hours stands Laughing and shaking the blood from her hands Hanging around with the boys from the hardcore bands All those bands That last night of that summer at the factory yard There were kids in their hundreds all kicking it hard Some kid said he saw her there Dancing naked and alone That last night of the summer she never came home That summer That summer That summer
8.
you get what you came for 04:26
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We came out dancing we came up hard It started out at the factory yard We ended up in some random car just circling college town Someone mentioned a hardcore show they heard about on the radio We made the turn and then rode the flow The sun was bleeding out Hey some nights go on too long Then some nights just last forever When the high kicks in too strong And you know you should know better Take your chances ‘cause it don’t matter who takes the fall You gotta dance with the one who calls your name or not at all Time advances and everybody must take the floor No one goes home lonely Everyone gets what they came for That college girl she could barely stand She glistened wet as a newborn lamb A butterfly in a killer’s palm, an empty shower stall She just bit off more than she could chew She bit her lip and they formed a queue There was nothing that we could do They nailed her to the wall Yeah some girls come on too strong And some boys ain’t much for talking Sometimes things just turn out wrong If you’re wise you just keep walking Take your chances ‘cause it don’t matter who takes the fall You gotta dance with the one who calls your name or not at all Time advances and everybody must take the floor No one goes home lonely Everyone gets what they came for
9.
are we broken? 03:02
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Office jobs and long weekends Separate wardrobes mutual friends Cracks untended too old to mend Are we broken? Shattered love and blasted pride Hearts exploding into white Burning clean raging bright Breaking shackles Wedding pictures in tarnished frames Frozen faces forgotten names It all seems like yesterday Are we broken? Shattered love and blasted pride Hearts exploding into white Burning clean raging bright Breaking shackles Drunken fighting desperate calls From the bedroom down the hall Headphones cranked up to drown it all Are we broken? His knuckles are skinned and his shirt is torn And her bottom lip is split A bloody handprint on the fridge Next to the shopping list From cruel words to open palms From fingernails to fists How did it come to this? How did we come to this? Our sweet daughter our precious one Please forgive us what have we done? Our best was never good enough Are we broken are we broken are we broken?
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for the children of judas 05:29
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On the streets of your hometown Where the twilight trickles down There’s a radio playing from an upstairs window Where a young girl stands alone in a wedding gown And the summer’s in the air On your lips and in your hair So bittersweet that you can almost taste it An itch too sweet to bear This one’s for the playground stop-outs Who still love rock’n’roll Passing round that last slow cigarette To hold off going home This one’s for the children of Jesus Staring up at the wall And all I says is I love you, I love you, I love you Like you could care at all In the darkened factory yard On the backseat of his car She’s stopping his heart with her fingers Letting him know that he took it too far Still she knows he’s bound to come After fingers, tops and tongues In a moment of silent confusion She smiles to know that she is undone This one’s for the playground stop-outs Who still love rock’n’roll Passing round that last slow cigarette To hold off going home This one’s for the children of Judas Huddled under the tree And all I says is I love you, I love you, I love you Like you’d remember me In blackened clubs and bars They’re drinking to the stars And singing love songs soft and low With morning’s hollow glare They’ll vanish on the air Like footprints under driving snow Still we know there’s something else We just haven’t found it yet And we’re too young to question the shape of the world But too old to think about changing it Still we could be millionaires If we could get out of bed There’s a radio playing from a broken window And summer is rolling round again This one’s for the playground stop-outs Who know they’ll never grow old Passing round that last slow cigarette To hold off going home This one’s for the children of Judas Barefoot in the field And all I says is I love you, I love you, I love you Like you’d remember me Do you remember me?

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released April 1, 2010

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