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Maiden Lane
00:38
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(Instrumental)
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High Life
02:51
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Don’t keep out eyeballs in the same place
Don’t get stuck inside a sentence together
I wasn’t staring I’m just so spaced
A mental stumble and then tumble forever
You look like someone I should know
Never spoken so it really don’t matter
Would be rude to say hello
In the underground there’s no idle chatter
And it’s a long way up
Till it finally feels like I’m moving
Or just watching my whole life go screen to screen
I don’t know what I’m doing
Always running out
It’s a game and baby we’re losing
How could such big winners know what that means
Like liquor it’s bitter but soothing
To finally be alone
Wish I had an elevator
Daydream on the phone
Skip right to later
How do you strike the perfect pose
When you feel the sinking surround you
Tell me something that I didn’t know
And I’ll throw confetti all around you
Cause ideas turn into gold
And it’s a sight to see, a tragedy, the alchemy they undergo
Just try to tear me from the glow
I ain’t gonna worry about anything I can’t
Control
And there’s nothing I can’t control
Control
No control, no control
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3. |
Temporary
02:50
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You inherit the land, then you inherit the fall
And we’re about to find out that there was no land at all
Take a deep breath before you step outside
The whole world was ending while we were here getting high
There’s no putting to order all the creative horrors
When you overturn your life and see its size
I’m counting millions and billions for international villains
I’m just happy they allow me to survive
It’s only temporary
Nothing but a day jaunt
Highway turns into an endless shopping mall
The only permanence is parking lots
Walking a fine line
Staying on the timeline
I don’t know who else lived here but it feels like I’m down
On my knees packing my things and leaving their house
It’ll be like I never lived here just a few days from now
I know that these walls won’t whisper when I’m not around
Leave just a hint of me
Two inches of graffiti
Thin magic markings, I was here
Every other fact eventually will disappear
So I will sleep easy
It’s the crime of the century
Back to the basement
I am complacent
Don’t let me hate it but
Don’t make me fake it
It’s only temporary
Circles round the old haunts
In the dirt I find a plastic crystal ball
Yeah I gazed the future on that spot
Walking a fine line
Staying on the timeline
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4. |
Fourth of July
02:06
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Our little house
That empties as I come back to my senses
My big dumb mouth
That hastily declares its independence
How do you fight
For a feeling you can never fully harness
Fourth of July
The hardest thing to keep’s a simple promise
The Red Coats don’t plot any sneak attacks
They just gather right outside your window
On the orders of a nosy widow
Would the gentlemen with contraband come to the back
What you really need is a parachute
Would you settle for a brand new pair of shoes
Are you just running laps round a cul-de-sac
An empire retreated to a dead-end street
Lots of white stripes and stars but the blood is so discreet
And if I don’t make like George out of Hackensack
By the end of the summer season
Impotent anger turns into treason
And they come around, prattling on about taxes
Our little house is the biggest blight
On a little town on its biggest night
Suspended in time in your father’s yard
Classic rock from classic cars
Are you still waiting on the whites of charging eyes
You were a watcher and it was fight or flight
Each bottle rocket is some dying star
If you’re gonna burn out better leave a scar
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5. |
Movie
03:28
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I don’t care if the morning whizzes right on past my head
Screw my friends, have some bacon, eggs and tater tots in bed
Watch a movie about a big misunderstanding
Try to think it’s funny, but I always think of bad things
I’m so bummed I can feel it in my toes
I was there, so I don’t really have to hear the story
It was boring, there wasn’t any trace of glory
Fall all over my footsteps, avoiding glances in a tiny space
Buddy we don’t have to do this, there’s a time and there’s a proper place
Fuzzy and fragile, looking small in my old flannel
Clumsy nostalgia, reach in my pocket and change the channel
It’s not like the movies, it isn’t funny when it doesn’t work
But it’s still so amusing, I don’t care if I’m a total jerk
Cause it sure takes one to know when and you can’t help who you know
I’m so over the plot by now
How aren’t you
Phasing out the space around
The slow collapse of human pounds
I finally got it figured out
That everything’s a part of everything
Except for me everything’s cool
So I’m leaving the party now
Wish you would too
Cause every kind denouement is a cliché
It’s hard sometimes
To tell which lines are real
And which are from the movies
We’re copying the movies
The kind they make for TV
That leave you with the feeling
That everything’s a part of everything
Except for me everything’s cool
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6. |
Julie
02:29
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Julie shows
Me her favorite place like a secret
Cause she knows
If you’re not quiet it won’t make a sound
Until I get home
I try hard not to repeat it
But I told
Julie something that was not allowed
And she doesn’t have an answer
I could look at her forever as if I’d never spoken
We don’t have a chance here
I would follow her wherever I don’t care where she’s going
But all the freedom in the world
Will never save us from ourselves, save us from the doldrums
So I don’t have any questions right now
Julie’s grace
Leaves her face when I come to see her
It’s a one act play
She blocks my path, she barricades the door
And I’m to blame
If I won’t ever believe her
When you wake
Julie I can’t be here anymore
I want to believe
I want to believe
But I think I better leave
I gotta leave
Cause I don’t have any answers
I just look at her forever as if I’d never spoken
We don’t have a chance here
Would you follow me to nowhere, you know that’s where I’m going
Cause all the freedom in the world
Will never save us from ourselves, save us from the doldrums
So don’t ask me any questions right now
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7. |
Doom Loop
04:00
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What’s been holding you back is also holding you up
Yours is a palace stacked from empty plastic cups
It won’t be long
And I can make you feel safe but I can’t change the force of gravity
And this is never gonna work if you stay mad at me
I’m not that strong
The decisions you make, the weight could break you in a minute
Because you never know what’s happening when you’re in it
Until it’s gone
In the minute it takes do you think that you’ll regret it
When you added up the debits and the credits
Were you wrong
I know it isn’t easy to escape the traps your choices make
Here it comes
Here it comes
Here it comes
You’re trapped inside the loop
Of never ending doom
Gonna leave the light on
Never leaving you
Not along anymore, if you find the better world where
Nothing changes so nobody’s ever hurt there
In your head
Hide yourself on the floor so the viewers on the avenue
Cannot catch you when they cast the neon gas on you
And paint you red
It’s an apparition in your room that makes the curtains move
And it comes
And it comes
And it comes
You’re trapped inside the loop
Of never ending doom
Gonna leave the light on
Never leaving you
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8. |
Transit
03:19
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Blinding bright headlights fly south on the Parkway
All in reverse, I will leave it in drive
I’ve got to get away up north for a while
Am I on 287 or traveling time
As we’re tongue-tied and twisted and out of our minds
Trying to name all the stars we can see in the sky
And I don’t know which one to navigate by
So we’re lost on this island as oceans collide
Oh will I find my way home
Or fall through the cracks in the road
I’m lost in transit the state I am in
You know you are the best thing that I’ve ever been
Look how they cluster together like atoms
I don’t know why I dematerialized
Why my matter transcends into energy spent
In the loneliest hours of difficult nights
Ran out of gas on the Tappan Zee Bridge
Stopped to admire the big city lights
Come out and find me alone in the world
As the traffic talks past itself, debating the time
Oh will I find my way home
Or fall through the cracks in the road
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9. |
Oregon Trail
04:33
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Pioneers and gold rush stragglers, restless hippie kids
Someone really should’ve warned them, when they get there, it no longer exists
It’s gonna take a little patience if you destination is a myth
I think this land’s a metaphor and my coffee’s getting cold would youse tell me what it is
Some spirit held it together, crossing fingers, across a great divide
And if the road don’t hold, if it comes untethered, know who I want on my side
No signs of life in the desert, just traces of a real good try
It takes a friend to smile, it takes a brother to laugh, her cowboy poem made me cry
Even the river left town
All that’s left is private property
A stake in sacred ground
Please, no flash photography
When I reach the sound
Of the wall-to-wall electricity
It’s gonna bring me down
Back to somebody else’s reality
There will be no Oregon Trail
There was never empty space
No piles of rocks in need of names
And I would certainly fail
Far away from all the places
Where they say if you could make it
There, you’ll make it anywhere
Cause there’s something ‘bout the mountains makes me think that they won’t change
And there’s something about sitting still that’s driving me insane
But if I could watch the world spin I would stand right here and wait
Cause the thing about the mountains is no two things are the same
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Pennants Brooklyn, New York
Formed in 2018, Pennants is Devin McGinley, Rory Masterson, William Peluso, & Ray Furlong.
Our debut album, "Clumsy Nostalgia," was released in November 2019. Thanks for listening.
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