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A Carnival Game

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1.
Dizzy 03:00
You hide behind lines, a dust jacket Soon I'll uncover, and read your messy writing So it's time to find the veins of your body If we step through the doorway The world is a bed frame She leads me from mountains to seas Descending and dizzy My head spins around, our bodies at ease Sobered sound Of so burnt out Searching your story, bound together by the spine So it's time to line the veins of your body
2.
They told you some horror stories about the day our summer will subside They're keeping an inventory of every fear we've ever had They told me our frames would rub together and crack And no, we'll never get those bones back They told me the cold would come to end us That the heats just an illusion Our Indian summer Our bones will break They tell me the days are getting shorter These bodies forgetting when they were warmer My hands shake, I stutter With fear that ill never find another I can't ever look inside my own mind It's just gonna lie to me We stand petrified on the ice is it splitting beneath us? Our Indian summer Our bones will break Our Indian summer Will our bones? I will break for you
3.
Serotonin 03:56
We threw bottles at the wall behind your apartment And they threatened to call the police But what rang true with each and every shatter Was that I found somebody outside of myself She would give herself tattoos With a lighter and a ballpoint pen Into my skin it's branded too The night that I'll live over and over again She thinks she's gonna live forever And she probably will Serotonin, it's nice to meet you For once you're real Bottles break, sirens come She grabbed my arm, running from the noise We spent all night running from our ghosts Daybreak left me smiling yet alone She thinks she's gonna live forever Like hell she will Serotonin we'll meet again I know we will
4.
Cascading thoughts Hidden under tired eyes Waiting for salvation But providence never comes And the waters rising I'm wading through... Cascading thoughts Pressing up against my eyes Facing sure damnation One hundred years I waited In the throes of misery One hundred years I wasted To set myself free Floods come rushing in Thoughts collide And I'm trapped inside
5.
Allison 03:27
This is it, we're going blind Out of sight, still in my mind There's nothing left, the bag is dry We turned our heads, the dreams have died I never asked "is something wrong?" You must have thought I wasn't home Calming down the carnival And not to think - impossible Bite your lip, pretend that you're innocuous Pretend the carnival will never close Bite your lip, smile you're venomous Let me taste the poison in your veins We only have dreams So we can give them up For the people we loved But I gave you up
6.
The air is thick with sirens Yet we cross anyways The lights and the drunks they swarm us And my thoughts on the streets in the city will always be Hearts caught in the battles that we wage We thought that the war paint would fade All your loveless friends won't know (your wings are made of wax) With faces painted like warriors (on this side of the green) A neighborhood of hollow young ones And they crawl Hey hey hey hey

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released August 24, 2015

Graham Cooke: Vocals / Bass
Noah Yastrow: Guitar / Vocals
Evan Radkey: Guitar
Evan Linsey: Drums / Vocals / Keys

Cello: Dante Velasquez Jr. (tracks 3, 4 & 5)
Additional vocals: Haley Castuera, Veronica Martin, Kevin Meier
Trumpet: Chris Teti (track 2)

Recorded/Mixed by Chris Teti at Silver Bullet Studios, CT
Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio, NY
Add'l vocals recorded by Mike Levinsohn at Tegmental Records, MA

Kickstarter producers: Dickson Schaefer, Allyson Clark, Sara Silver, Sophie Cisewksi, Phil Yastrow, Mike Lohse, Sherry Laessig, Deb Cooke, Samuel and Marilyn Greenberg, Larry McCarty, Neal Kusnetz, Pat Ma, Mary Helen Waldo, Steve Linsey, Steve & Arna Yastrow, Brent Rockwell, John Haddick

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