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Thisway

by Benno, VA

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2.
Icy 02:16
Take off, at once From everything you thought you knew before The curse, caved in the world and left you such a bore He said your laugh Could always light the dimmest rooms But now you’re avalanching down into the ground Where’ve you been What’s your name What’s the word Whose to blame
3.
Confide 02:07
I confided in you Because I thought you wanted me to But that just pushed you away, away And when there’s Nothing left to say I’ll throw away Everything that reminds me of you, Of you
4.
Nosebleed 02:02
All of your old boyfriends Said they’d love you If you could just be true And you said I won’t trouble you, oh no Because I need desperately To be true to me And don’t you love me? From a nosebleed
5.
So I spend these long years waiting For some secret melody Path that’s paved with broken fingers Pointing crookedly at me “And then you’ll see” And do you stay up at night? Waiting for cracks in the walls To sing you to sleep Towards some hole in the floor And I Scream, but nothing comes out Cus I’m sleeping now Yeah I’m dreaming now
6.
Eggs 01:15
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Wake up Wake up Wake up Your best friend got into a car crash You were the emergency contact But you’re high, you’re useless, You’re undepdenable You stand in line For the best years of your life And then you die You’re out of time You’ve been waiting for the moment To let yourself feel alive I could never really know what you’re going through But take it from me, you’ve got nothing to lose If you spend the rest of your life In bed alone forever you’d be dead
8.
Kiss Me 03:08
Summer secrets softly spoken out To the wind and to the roaring crowd In your head, in your bed Kiss me quiet in the dark of night Kiss me loudly in the bright sunlight Hold on tight and never lose your head The snow is coming I won’t let it in Drunken slumber in the afternoon Napping soundly as you leave the room A gust of smoke and then you’re gone Directors cut you stay too long
9.
Love 02:20
It could never be me Got my name on your shoulders And my kisses all over your knees I got a bruise from my keys In my pocket all night With you pressin up against me Layin in the backseat With the stars on the ceiling In a parking lot idling Like a cloud full of rain You drenched me all over Til you soaked through everything But don’t you know, don’t you know You’ve got time to fill in All of holes in the road It takes time, it takes all The meanings of the stupid words that you know could mean love
10.
Thisway! 01:36
Listen to the city All the lights are screaming shitty
Worthless thoughts onto the pavement Nothing you haven’t heard before, but There’s nothing to be scared of But the cold and dead and heartless Pumping blood to push the subways The MTA can just fuck off Hold my hand and let’s look pretty At the burning of the city

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All payments received today 6/19/2020 are being donated to People's City Counil LA and 714 Mutual Aid


Songs mostly written & recorded while quarantining
Austin called this one "mid-fi" which sounds sort of like being stuck being a rock and a hard place but either way Big Thanks to Austin for helping to make this one extra special
Thanks to Sem as well for collabing w/ me all the way from the big apple


Guitar, piano, trumpet, mandolin, singing, and violin by Ian Hall
Drums & bass on tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, and 10 by Austin Jenkins
Saxaphone and trombone on track 10 also by Austin Jenkins
Vocals on tracks 8 and 9 by Sem Azhak
Mixed & finalized by Austin Jenkins

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released June 19, 2020

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