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pocket symphony

by the primitive shine

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1.
Random conversations in the other room Doors slamming louder than they’re supposed to Corny moneymakers showing on the TV I wake up in the morning way too early You’d better ask someone else You’d better thank the good lord I got ink on my fingers looking for a new job You wanna get a pizza, how much cash have you got? I’m sick of getting transferred to your voice mailbox If I didn’t have the patience I would miss you a lot You’re putting words into my mouth And thoughts in my head I’ve already got too much in there To hear what you said I never knew the answer 
but I wish that I had If you ever have a question 
you’ll know who not to ask 
 Go for a stroll remote control Do what I’m told It’s the way I roll Plausible goal Don’t feed the troll Newspaper soul In a sixty foot hole
2.
It’s Saturday night in America and I feel like a native son Stuck on prices, stupid vices, problems you won’t outrun On Valentine’s Day down south get a flower for a gun And plant it in the holy ground when the day is done This body pit called Michigan is croaking out a curse it gives a final death rattle and waits to hear the worst if I could find and then divide the things I want and need I wouldn’t be down on my knees regretting everything Don’t fall in too deep Jealousy Desperately Hopefully We’ll be at war the rest of our lives I found a job and it gets me by I’m mired in virtual addiction I’d start over if I wasn’t in debt God we need some new material Every day I feel nocturnal I try to say something rational it just dissolves into worthless babble human life is cheap it shouldn’t be Desperately Hopefully Count your blessings Let me sleep Desperately Hopefully
3.
Can’t believe, can’t stay upset All the boys that she has met Save me this, faint music Sand on toes, raindrop kiss Falling upward, feeling fine Lemon bright with summer wine Laughter in the hammock swing Petal soft and shy May you find your way back home She strides lines in sunshine Tapestry stitches and seams fawns over illustrations celebrates some Bradbury Muscles sore in this slow ache Tangled sheets as the storm breaks She’s alive and she’s awake She walks by, the whole world shakes May you find your way back home In the dark with the curtains drawn against the light of impending dawn May you find your way back home
4.
a little off 03:17
He’s looking for a fight And she feels eyes on her every night He wrote her a poem And she made him drive her all the way home she’s not that kind and he says honey that’s not right he wants to get high but his pockets are running dry You ain’t my girl No, you ain’t my girl Just try walking out the door And I’m sleeping alone tonight He still lies awake Fretting just for fretting’s sake He won’t say please When he knows that nothing is for free how about some advice when you’re on the rocks hey, man, how you feeling Hey man, how about a little off He won’t be the first to leave Just ignore the space between He won’t be the first to leave Just ignore the space between
5.
None of us is best at this Spare my ears the sell-out riffs Don’t care if you don’t like it Don’t care if it gets heated Invocation argument save it, brother, just save it authority that you dispense I don’t need no more bullshit Going to work Going to work because I said so Going to war Going to war because I said so
6.
vonnegut 02:49
divine engineer shrouded in glory everyone’s the hero of their story with footprints proclaiming we were here can’t have any jokes without any fear Notice your happiness Say if this isn’t nice then what is so it goes go to the city and meet your rival The human brain’s a poor scheme for survival You are whatever you pretend to be Cause everything else is just dead machinery Time is liquid, cat’s in the cradle And in the water I am beautiful So it goes
7.
Every memory you have is stuck in your head Different every time you remember them Looking over the fields and highways atop the nearest hill See the towers standing tall along the earthen hem The world you grew in Oh no no Not like that Don’t give me the grief to carry around because Every time I come back My heart is away and my head is down I’m leaving this town Spent my time in the highest places facing east and west Tried a million ways to hold it all Somewhere on the horizon I saw smoke rising up Something’s burning down and the world is getting smaller Smaller and smaller Smoke rises on the horizon Since September stole my love Smoke rises on the horizon Since September stole my love
8.
played i got 02:00
you treated me badly you treated me cruel I wanted to possess you I was just a fool One after the other my Heart’s counting down It’s the look on her face It’s the look on his face When they’re in an embrace Happiness on display And I’m wasting away Brought it on myself I admit She said she was thinking bout letting me in Falling for the usual shit She said she was thinking bout it I guess not I guess not Played I got Got, got, got, got
9.
Get ready to have it Get rid of your habit Get treated on a park bench Busking for their change Trying to make it rain A word of advice As you begin your ascent If nature has been kind to you Don’t let it go to your head The majority is not that lucky We might try but we know We’re not going anywhere going anywhere
10.
Out of many comes one Out of many comes one Leave the light on when you’re done Out of many comes one I appreciate your consultation I’ll take it as a sign Forever held to first impressions I can’t justify Who I am, who I was, and who I will be If you ever get back to that place we were at You know where to find me Tomorrow takes care of itself Tomorrow takes care of itself Take your time, calm your mind Tomorrow takes care of itself

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Recorded at Pearl Sound in Canton, MI from May 2016 to May 2017.

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released May 18, 2017

Alex Bergslei: Vocals/Guitars
Mike St. Antoine: Bass
Melina Chiatalas: Keys
Chuck Alkazian: Drums
Josh Karpowicz: Percussion

Album cover: Ben Berg

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