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Beware the Water

by Adler Hall

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eliahnebb Love the layers in the arrangements and vocals Favorite track: A Semi-Lucid Dream.
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1.
Teresa 04:03
I’d grow tired of these one-way conversations here Tired of the fortunes you seem never to appear in You smile at me, your teeth stained gray with the wine that I poured for you “Though it’s nice you ask it won’t change anything I see You didn’t come all the way to this place by the river of fire and the edge of the sea To ask me about my habits ask me why I never leave I’m not here for consolation Or for stories of my former life You paid for my direction So just set yourself right here” So you take my hand and place it over the Tarot You sigh and scratch your stubble, lift your dress a little higher Say I would’ve thought that you’d learned down here There ain’t nothing above worth a bit of your love and Though you could beware the water you’ll have nothing else to see I’m not here for consolation Or for stories of my former life You paid for my direction you’ll go right, right, right, right back here Right here where I’m waiting I’m here with the curse that will chase you down back. down. here. I’m ready to see you I’m ready now
2.
After Paree 04:56
Let me go first get through this thing I’ve half rehearsed a hundred times for you I knew you’d make it harder be there waiting at the far end of the field where I last saw you You’ll twist the knife invite me home that very night to a party of a thousand old acquaintances You make your toast you raise a glass and just say “home” I’ll wait for more for all those other ways you’ll find to hit me even harder than you did before Last I recall I was just east of Avignon I wasn’t far from you She brought me to her place and taught me harrow taught me every way to take her Taught me how to say her name, asked How I’ll keep it up in that city I don’t love “Now that you’ve been down on me Cause I can tell you can’t afford to live this well” While I wait for more for all those other ways you’ll find to hit me even harder than you did before Is it my turn now to talk? Here’s your mistake, you think each reference that you make is worth the reverence you’re been trying to replace and I’m not sure that you felt a single word But I’ll wait for more for all those other ways you’ll find to hit me even harder If I’d gone first got through the thing that I’d rehearsed ten thousand times for you You’d know that I’m not here to make it hard or watch you kneel or hear you ask me If I have to use your name You’d know I came just because I couldn’t wait Just to see you from a distance coming back to me and I’m not sure if you can hear a single word I say
3.
Incognito 04:24
Late last summer I remember sending you to sleep You were trying to decipher more Of Grammatology I heard you whisper how you hate just how dumb you turned out to be I heard you try so hard not to call for me But you cried out Called for me by name The one that I had made for me What if I offer What If I wait Whenever you tell me You might remember half this place I wouldn’t dare to you Get in your way Oh I would let you run Let you leave me on my knees Let you forget all of the things that you'd have done to me If you call out Call for me by name Tell me you can come with me If I offer If I wait Whenever you tell me You might remember half my face I wouldn’t dare to you Get in your way I would let you run (run) fast, forward, back, or over me I’d let you run while you’re asleep
4.
You’re my half creation Know you’re alive Right now - cause I made you But I’ve learned to tell when I’m dreaming Just to bring you back just to see you Though I’m not sure it’s right when I can’t even tell you why I’m trying Or why we’re back here Back in my old room waiting Trying my hardest to move away But maybe this time I’d make it Make it worth throwing in the sky just to save it For me It’s a petty thing To bring you back Just to slip your shirt strap off your shoulder And kiss your neck in my sleep Trying to guess what you’d be like on the edge of my teeth I can’t even tell you why I’m trying Or why it’s so easy to bring you here If we were awake You’d tell me of I know it’s not right To bring you back at all
5.
6.
Late Arrival 03:43
I think I’m sure I should tell you what I heard That the one who brings you sleep Has a twin who’d bring you down beneath the earth So I’ve been asking every time I hear you moving in the night in my room Are you here to lead me down or through the night? How can I be sure You’re the one I have met before Not your brother - who looks just the same When we both know there’s nothing he can’t take from me I will ask you one more time you’re half darkness half the night in my room But are you here to lead me down to The water I can’t remember now Just what you call it Will you tell me right now I am not my fucking brother I won’t leave you in the night with all the ghosts of your desire that’ll leave you in the light Don’t you remember your elation With your skin against the knife Or all the times you fell to pieces At the edge of some great height I am not my fucking brother Half the darkness half the night I’ll help you find your father’s mother hear her tell you it’s alright again Come now let me lead you to the water then I'll leave you be When you say it’s what you wanted That’s enough for me
7.
D/V Karen 03:46
Pass me the coin that you found in your mouth when you woke to my face It might be the carrot or maybe the stick you’ll be hitting me with Out on the water will you lose your shit will you tear at my pockets Tell me I’m not worth the metal or your spit God I’m used to this shit I would prefer a much quieter kind who’d just ask about the currents - maybe the tides - Or point out the plovers and ask what me what kind are they semipalmated or something you only find down here? Nah they’re only down here They’re all I have All I have for my way back Waiting for me there I’m not sure If the crossing with you’s harder Or my return Maybe just this once we can stay out I’ll ship the oars we can drift on the tide out of the sight of both shores bask in your favorite reflections All your best recollections They’re all I’ll have but maybe you would dare to ask If I could take you back? I could take you back. I’m not sure If the crossing with you’s harder Or my return
8.
Burst 01:26
9.
Go on try something narrow like the pin oak in the garden I grew up under just to start Now something harder like the time that she turned towards me told me If you want it’s yours to take (take) Back. Or leave with me Oh you take all I had and play it back for me I know It’s like you told me I would end up in the water Hear them calling ‘cross the waves for me But maybe I will see some rescue coming Fuck the thought is more than I can take Take back - and harder to believe You would take all I had and play it back for me when you’d come you’d torture me Is that all I have done here? you whisper “Sein zum tode” to me Like I don’t know it Will they follow me under Start to hear the voices calling For me ‘cross the water Just pull me out now or under You show when turned she towards me told me It’s not love it’s harder To Take. Take back. To take away from me. Oh you take all I had and play it back for me.

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released October 5, 2018

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Henry Hoagland: Vocals, piano, synth, guitar
Spencer Inch: Drums, percussion, marimba, vocals
Kyle Joseph: Guitar, programming, vocals
Ryan Kershaw: Guitar, vocals
Robin Buyer: Bass

Produced by Kyle Joseph
Mixed by Kyle Joseph at Perimeter Recording

Recorded by Kevin McMahon, Kyle Joseph, and Robin Buyer at Marcata Recording, Perimeter Recording, and Pulse Music

Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

Artwork by Nick Pope

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Ryan Kershaw

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