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Verse 1:
It’s so hard to fight this condition
A condition defined by the lack thereof
Man, the fuse blew out
There’s no traveling here
The city feels so down
And my brain is the dark streets
Nothing is ever straightforward
When I’m trying to write it down
Maybe close but no cigar
There’s no traveling here
I can’t shut my eyes
And my nerves are the lightning
Pre-Chorus:
Trying to fit a round hole into a square peg
Chorus:
Stuck in the silence
Why can’t it be simple
Like we used to do
Stolen and disfigured
Like we used to do
Verse 2:
I can never appeal to the chorus
It’s all the Tappan Zee when the bolts give way
Not one for cover-ups
There’s no traveling here
And London Bridge burns down
How the page looks so empty
I need a friend to test my thoughts on
No, there’s no traveling here
In self-pitied rage
And the words are kinetic
Bridge:
Kaleidoscopic
In confusion
Comes description
Comes creation
But it ain’t good anyway
Chorus:
Stuck in the silence
Why can’t it simple
Like we used to do
Stolen and disfigured
Like we used to do
Stuck in the silence
Why can’t it simple
Like we used to do
Stolen and disfigured
Like we used to do
Outro:
Like we used to do
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Verse 1:
Meet with me, in the dark of the street
There we'll start believing secretly
Utopia
Freedom in the inner cell
Look for me with a beak
A cloak adorned
Scent of leaves
A void between
Foul stench of those above
Whispering "inner cell"
Pre-Chorus:
Dance of the dead
Will descend on his head
And extend to the
Families' hubris
Chorus 1:
From under the skin, insurrection
From hollow logs, from shallow streams
And drying seas
Verse 2:
Let us walk through the night to a place clandestine
Free your mind
Disregard all you know
Infiltrate the inner cell
You must not accept his sick version of life itself
Disrespect everything
Multiply the inner cell
Pre-Chorus 2:
Dance of the dead
Will descend on his head
And extend to the
Families' hubris
Chorus 2:
From under the skin, the flesh has rotten
Poison has spread, through words unsaid
Anemic rule, now hear me say
Our time has come, transcending us
Above the one, to ego death
For now he sits inside the fire
Oblivious that we will keep
Him in the spire, have found resolve
And our own crimes to commit
In cold blood as he did his
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Verse 1:
She's a burnout
Smoke and ashes, no tears
The destroyer
She's in the shadows
Staring into oblivion
Her wildfire taken over
Chorus:
She's when the water meets the forest fires
That's all she was
That's all she was
She is the smoke that shields the dark from light
That's all she was
That's all she was
Verse 2:
Can't take the shield down
Can't peek at what's underneath
It's a mystery to me
She burns deeper
What's left when the mist clears?
Her elusive, hid in embers
Chorus:
She's when the water meets the forest fires
That's all she was
That's all she was
She is the smoke that shields the dark from light
That's all she was
That's all she was
Post-Chorus:
...was
That's all she was
That's all she was
That's all she was
Bridge:
Will she strip away the city and turn everything to dust?
Will she make the light go from her eyes?
Or will she return the life that we tore apart?
Will she be the one we needed and despise?
Chorus:
She's when the water meets the forest fires
That's all she was
That's all she was
She is the smoke that shields the dark from light
That's all she was
That's all she was
She's when the water meets the forest fires
That's all she was
That's all she was
She is the smoke that shields the dark from light
That's all she was
That's all she was
Outro:
That's all she was
That's all she was
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Verse 1:
A loss
Last goodbyes
Through the snow and the sun's final rays
A fault
One mistake, three past Christmas Day
I only wish that, maybe, time could be changed
Our beings preserved
Our endings erased
Maybe one day...
Verse 2:
The shine of a lonely heart
Climbing high into mine
Climbing high into the burning void
A well-oiled life with a memory of rust
For a matter of fact, the oil you spat is but two pricks on my tongue
Quiet hate from turbulent eyes
It will take you again
Pre-Chorus:
Look what you've done
You've put a bag on your head and expanded your lungs
Chorus:
So let me out and let me stay so true
Open your mouth
And let me climb away from you
Let me out
Verse 3:
And so I’d wait by the telephone
My whole brain is invested
Congested
Just let it go
We’re still friends, but does she really care?
Bridge:
If you love something you learn to let it go, while you drown in a wave of fire
And she meant nothing at all
And she was kind to a fault
Verum est
What to do?
Turn to blue
Chorus:
So let me out
And let me stay so true
Open your mouth
And let me climb away from you
Let me out
And let me stay so true
Let me out
Watch me run towards someone new
Let me out
Written February 2019
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Verse 1:
So there’s this girl
Known her a year
She hit on me
She had no fear
She didn’t mean it
Didn’t try to
I was taken
Now I’m not
Time is limping to a stop
Feelings that I sent to rot
I wish she’d hit on me again
I’d take her up this time
There’s a normal person here
Too overwhelmed and too unclear
No motivation
No sensation
Run so fast, but getting caught
Shooting past on fleeting thoughts
Anxieties they’re yet to spot
Thought they’d end up in their prime
Look how they’re holding up
Pre-Chorus 1:
Look how they curl away
Look how they ricochet off the wall
Off the wall
Look how they steal away
Fading Again and again and again and again and again and a—
Chorus:
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why we stay inside the lines
Verse 2:
So there’s this girl
Known her a year
We hit it off
It was so clear
Satisfaction
No attraction
Just a deal
Just having fun
Never play with loaded guns
Don’t think too hard
It’s one and done
Still I’m always wanting more
When will I have enough?
Yeah, there’s a lonely person here
It’s been two years since all the tears
No design
Can’t make a sign or stand in line for all too long
Need to keep the cameras on
Play your music all night long
Spotlights flashing on the mark
Can you all see them now?
Pre-Chorus 2:
And gives their heart away
Sits waiting night and day
For the call
For the call
Screaming in the shade
Fading again and again and again and again and a-
Chorus:
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
We stay inside the lines
Bridge:
Giant steps I take for my little paws
Give me some way I can redeem myself
Giant steps I take for my little paws
Staying the course
And it won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
Giant steps I take for a little pause
Give me some way I can redeem myself
I’ve taken a reborn child to the end
And I will fight for this boy
Until your blood turns from blue to red
Chorus:
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why
It repeats when in distress
The calling back and forth inside your head
Won’t ever change
Forever chasing why we stay inside the lines
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Intro:
You are the sun and moon and stars are you
And I could never run away from you
Verse 1:
You are the sun and moon and stars are you
And I could never run away from you
Verse 2:
You try at working out chaotic things
And why should I believe myself, not you?
Verse 3:
It's like the world is gonna end so soon
And why should I believe myself?
Coda:
You, me and everything
Caught in the fire
I can see me drowning
Caught in the fire
You, me and everything
Caught in the fire
I can see me drowning
Caught in the fire
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Verse 1:
Kill the sun
Blood for fun
Bring forth the fog
Too many smiling twos these eyes have laid upon
Verse 2:
Error code
Text not found
Too much exposure
The blue light keeps me up
From gloaming till break of dawn
Chorus:
Free this ghost of mine
So I may return home
To that caring paleness
The strands of gold and stone
An uncommunicative embrace
And the flicker of the cathodes
Verse 3:
Suffer
Suffer
A light that flashes behind my closed eyes
The crests and troughs
That will make me drown
In these gooey, disgusting, romantic remarkable thoughts and sounds
Verse 4:
So you kill the moon
Caged like a beast in a zoo
Throwing shit through the platinum gates
While I sit and wait for someone new
While I stare out from rose tinted glasses
For Juliets that’ll never happen
Locked in time
Four months ago
20 months ago
That last touch ago
The parts I still find in my clothes
The repeating chords that helped me to conform
Jam:
Kill the sun
Kill the sun
Kill the sun
Kill the sun
Chorus:
Free this ghost of mine
So I may return home
To the strange embrace of someone else’s hopes and dreams and robes
A loving, warm dilate
And the flicker of the cathodes
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This is volume one of what will likely be multiple compilations of live recordings of Supermarket Parking Lot. These recordings are sourced from multiple shows and full band rehearsals (recorded from the soundboard, using iPhones, and using various field recorders). We hope you enjoy. Follow us here on Bandcamp and at @supermarcoparkinglot on Instagram for release and show updates.
We will upload this to major streaming services if enough people buy the EP here to fund the release costs. So consider this a fundraiser of sorts.
