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Winter Heart, Summer Skin

by Reunions

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1.
My grandfather’s blood swirls around my veins It's not for the best and I know that more or less My own father raised with a sense of guilt and worried shame But I’m still living more or less Spin around, spin around, dissociate Another time another place A chemistry explained A shaky anxious brain can’t sleep at night, but dying in the light Never could shake this impulse to ruin all I love Regret fits me like a glove One for the ghosts that climb the wall One for the battles lost and won One for the light that you left on One for the dark place in us all Those nights you shook but didn’t break One for the ghosts that climb the wall One for the footsteps in the hall One for the battles lost and won One for the light that you left on One for the dark place in us all Those nights you shook but didn’t break
2.
Backlit by the embers of an empire’s dying light Scatter tomorrow’s ashes and sing in revelry Born on the outside Dirt in hand under an empty sky Born on the outside A match, a rag, an academy of lies From up here the lights all look like little flames If we get high enough we can watch the city burn From up here the lights all look like little flames Back then the words all fit but the voice could not be found Frozen still like deer eyes in headlights Born on the downside, a quarter till a dollar short Born on the downside, a rounding error, sand in the gears A whisper sent, a promise kept And it won’t be long now We never belonged here It won’t be long now
3.
Unmoored by shifting ground Deaf to sound I’m a tick in the sea I’m fat on failing Interred by a rising sun Vampire fangs still fit me I’m losing all the rest of who I am Like coming to in blackout rooms But void in my hands, my feet can’t find the floor Like coming to in blackout rooms But void in my hands and crawling for a door There’s no gravity Faithless and weightless I’m unbound Adrift I’m erased This is catching up I’m out of breath, bad karma I’m a winter storm Short breathing, all subconscious All leaving with no witness Lungs flood with fragments of a life in parallel Lights running dry
4.
Tried to stay gold but the ring went green and I went gray Pony boy turning hair and bones Fictions get buried in brighter days When all my truths lie in ghost notes They’re muted and faint, and just off the beat In endless miles dead empty In hours pregnant with silence I’m in the back room, turn it up Down in the basement, turn it up To eleven Point the speakers at the sky, a fist lifted towards heaven No need mention, yeah I know we’re gonna die Let feedback be our reference Living life like a reminder A blurry photo postcard, you’re staring out of frame Minutes before daylight, passing like a ghost A shadow of a life sliding off the page Tie a note around your wrist Wrap your arms around my waist I won’t take this for granted I won’t fall back on sentiment
5.
A light in a western sky cut the world open I let it engulf me A wave in a southern sea crested above me I let it wash over me Life by degrees I sway on a string Life by degrees Exhale and release A western sky A southern sea An endless night A century Let it engulf me I’m going to haunt the streets of this desert town In my father’s hearse with the windows down
6.
Faster Still 02:50
We’re falling faster still We fly just like an arrow cutting through the wind Target the ground below We’re digging with bare hands. Neck-deep in iron sand Immune to all the ways There’s no bottom to these days We’ll never walk the halls of rarely slept in homes The margin’s thin and thinning every day The only constant amid the rising rent Is truth be told, we two are all we need I’m asking for a ride out of here tonight There's one way out and if I jump, will you please break my fall I’m asking that the night closes around us tight We’re cloaked in secrecy. Got our own code you and me One knife in my back Bleeding on buildings A corner bar closed down A time we’ll remember Can’t move because the weight So we now call this place our own
7.
Lean my head against the window, it’s cold against my skin Won’t stop raining Spill my guts in foggy breath but hands keep on deleting My thoughts so transient There’s no back then, no heaven sent Just a feeling softly fading There’s no back then, no heaven sent Your history is dying Just let it leave Just let it die Just bleed it out Another gilded age Sky rusted metal gray Monuments to excess Another shortest straw Praying hands rubbed raw So much waiting I want to crack the chest Expose the heart that pumps only war In the wages, war In the factories, war In the silence at the end of a gun
8.
Slow Fade 03:30
Let the chorus rise in swells like water to my chin Crash me ‘gainst the rocks again Or sink me to the bottom of this lake Stumble around in a day drunk haze in these towns we grew up in I’m a winter heart in a summer skin, burns hide the evidence Let the axe fall at my neck Spit in defiance Set fire to the might have beens Eulogize the never wins Half a life away in a slow fade
9.
Distance is relative A fold in the map Connecting the scars A “V” in my arms A phrase turned inside out Distance is relative A line between stars an inch in the sky, the blink of an eye A forgotten name replaced A wave goodbye This is me, incomplete At the first sign of light The desert’s so desolate you can get lost Been out digging graves most of the night, but she says that’s all behind This is me, incomplete at the first sign of light A song just out of tune, but the melody’s all right All of these pages stuck between stages of a soft suicide You’re sleeping next to me, I’m trying not to breathe Pretend I’m anything but like me, incomplete
10.
We take a lot of liberties A selective editing as we storyboard our backstory You be the narrator I’m unreliable and lack discipline Be the anchor at my waist Harness for my dumb stunts I’m freaking out again Synaptic conflict in a medicated mind I flicker like a light Scribble with shaky hands Unreasonable demands Half a half-life Let you down every time I need an editor I need a structured prose I’m a sea of mixed up metaphors I weave in and out Sleep in between double yellow lines Heart taps off rhythm out of time I’m freaking out again Synaptic conflict in a medicated mind I flicker like a light Scribble with shaky hands Unreasonable demands Half a half-life Let you down every time I’m freaking out again Don’t break when I bend Be my mirror

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Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Scott Goodrich at Nutone Studios.

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released June 21, 2019

Eric Saylor - Guitar & Vocals
Nate Serdy - Guitar & Vocals
David Langer - Bass & Vocals
Shane Hendry - Drums

Additional instrumentation by Becca High and Scott Goodrich.

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