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what is loved will never die

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1.
january 01:00
2.
I’ll know you by your shape so please dont forget my face and i’ll recall you to this place like i’ve marked the spot with tape We’ll talk for hours about good news the proper flow of information And you’ll be warm and you’ll be patient We’ll watch the clouds clear up When the sun goes down and see the high grass grow And cover the whole town Our home out here gets cold at night But should I ever push too far it will return us to where we are And the clouds clear up When the sun goes down And when our paychecks all go through We’ll cover the whole town
3.
saw you at the octagon saw you along the grey side-wall you wore the sun like a cover-up you wore the sky like overalls saw you in a motor home saw you put up on cinder damp walls, piles of packing foam pinecones, dead since the winter you set ablaze the room with what you planned to be i swore I’d tell no one the things that you told me saw you back in the summertime saw you lit up by sparklers we were singing Sweet Caroline we danced between all the parked cars saw you just a week ago saw you after a few years all eyes adjust everywhere you go you look like you don’t belong here
4.
into the sun 01:41
giving in to the sun sun on your hands perfect and golden living into the sun sun on your eyes on your side ooooh
5.
Someday the moon will start retreating and the California coast will erode away and all the video stores that went out of business will live the holy age of the rose parade I just want to hear you breathing one more time I just want you here to stay Who can say if the moonlight is receding if not the friends you made when you rode away but there are no full stops or seasons greetings just the hole you made when you rode away I just want to hear you breathing one more time I just want you here to stay It’s a phrase that ain’t often worth repeating but the things I love always go away It’s a phase of the moonlight on the ceiling when I was running out of the novocaine
6.
february 01:00
7.
were we ever living life so high and it’d never be a pain to die in the summer of the 2.5 in the spirit of the edelweiss you were everything i needed just to get me to the afterlife we’re forever incompleted you had freckles underneath your eyes i’m so stunned by the passage of time and the wind and the sea sharp rain on the orange trees but we’re staying inside on the ancient advice that what is loved will never die
8.
[spooky whistling]
9.
you won’t be ready every time I come around you’ll choke, and you ain’t got no way home you ain’t got no way home
10.
get disowned 01:08
I feel like I'm a snowman in the south I feel like I’ve got cotton in my mouth And I feel like i’m the only one who knows But no more no more I feel like I’m a piece of shit sometimes I feel like I only want to die And I feel like it never ever shows But no more no more no more, no more
11.
there’s a passion in the words behind the laughing there's a passion that you twisted like a type of local taffy you held your own heart in your hands once you held your own heart in your hands once but that was long ago when you were young and until the day you die, you’ll drink your almond milk and say, through the spittle on your teeth and through gritty bits of clay: “There’s an ancient art to sweet self-loathing. There’s an ancient art to sweet self-loathing. And someday, when I learn to fall asleep, I’ll fall asleep."

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a selection of songs written and recorded between October 2016 and February 2017, mostly in Brendan and Warner's apartment, but also in Ben's Rochester dorm, a practice room in Wooster's Scheide Hall, Ben's parents' house in Nashville, and in Ben's truck, outside a Jimmy John's, at 4 AM.

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released March 2, 2017

Music by Ben Pierce, Brendan Youngquist, Warner Brownfield, Jess Awh, and Beau Williams

All words by Ben Pierce, except for into the sun, by Jess, and all eyes adjust, by Jess and Ben

Produced and mixed by Brendan Youngquist and Ben Pierce

Recorded by Warner Brownfield, Brendan Youngquist, and Ben Pierce

Cover art by Devin Delaney

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1999 Nashville, Tennessee

i’d like to make an argument for the good in ourselves made out of the bad in ourselves

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