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Trafic Island Inferno

by The Acid Rains

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1.
Without a Name 02:18
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this song isn't for you it's for all the times we put ourselves through don'tcha know? people look at you just to get by something about you caught their eye with our makeshift friends and our bootleg enemies and one of you someday you will be the dead end of me and i'll see with eyes that no one sees and beg on broken knees i want to fan the flames i'd like to pass the blame i want to die without a name i hardly got to know you i hardly said hello before they buried you in places where they knew i couldn't go but i just kept on digging digging through the snow the blade so keen struck something i had finally hit a ghost and it told me leave it alone leave it cold i wanna fan the flames i'd like to shift the blame i wanna die without a name i'd like to fan the flames yeah i'd like to pass the blame i wanna die without a name
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sucker for a martyr 01:35
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its been a real long time but ive been here before cackling in the dark they say youve made it once the sun goes down but thats really when it starts cuz all the shapes go change inside my head when i find myself alone and so i scream your name like an epithet cuz i know youre always home so go ahead eviscerate me go ahead eviscerate me watch me bleed out on the floor you drive me crazy but it’s nowhere that i haven’t been before you’re a sucker for a martyr and it’s the closest thing i am to really seeing what i’m made of when you’re cutting me in half so go ahead! eviscerate me eviscerate me eviscerate me.........baby
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Actor Out of Work (Fast) 03:23
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i used to play dancers i used to play princes they measured me in starring roles rather than inches i used to sell tickets i did box office business now there's pictures of me hidden in the thickets they said you should be in pictures can i get your digits hey man i'm writing a play i want you to be in it but now i'm just a jerk actor out of work move along, nothing to see here just an actor that you once loved in yesteryear i used to play kings i used to play nobility rubbed shoulders with shakespeare and his whole company i used to drink champagne now i only drink beer i was the good kind of insane the good kind of weird i used to play prophets i used to play templars i taught at acting seminars and centres used to be the main attraction now i'm on the edges used to look good now i been looking at them ledges just a jerk... i used to be eccentric i used to be a genius now i can't get a mugshot let alone a screen test i used to do tours i used to do vegas now i drive a beat up car i'm rabid and i'm reckless they said you should be in the pictures can i get a headshot if i'd have known it would turn out like this i never would have set a foot on that lot just a jerk... an old woman took me aside when i was walking outside i thought maybe she needed a light she said hey didn't i see you in that thing boy back then you could really dance boy you could really sing i said you might have dear but that was so long ago back when i knew the score and the screens were still silver back when stars like us were still gold now i'm just a jerk...
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Artschool Cowboys 02:55
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she called him over to her apartment 'do you want anything some water?' 'i see you've got an interesting assortment of nazi paraphernalia' and we booked a one way flight all the way back to australia she called him over to her chateau 'do you wanna bump and grind or just some blow?' 'i guess you left your rat skeletons back in toronto' 'i couldn't take them with me on the plane even though i desperately wanted to' im sorry for the king rat whose tail is twisted i'm sorry for the times i aimed and i missed it i read your letters but i just couldn't subsist on them tampering with the mail is a federal offence but i just can't resist your bully bones are fully grown and i want them in me your eyesight is so sharp you can even see me 20/20 vision and god gave it to you all for free the illuminati couldn't ask for a better pyramid scheme i forgot myself i know that you're pissed honest mistake i didn't know i'd be missed
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Who's Your Pain Today? 01:49
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i won't ask you for your sign i will ask who's your pain today? if you don't answer i don't mind who's your pain today? this will make more sense when i'm away this will make more sense after a few days my friends won't recognize me i don't have a say they'll have to get creative who's your pain today? mirror baby on the wall what is waiting for us all i got no more reasons than i expected to have who's your pain today? and whose is the best you've ever had? i get no more response than i expect ask who's your pain today? and you forget who's your pain today? who's your pain today?
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Off the Grid (Hard Hearted) 03:33
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when he lived in the city he was always just a little bit scared after these years living there he never really had any friends there he thought his life was just too small for anyone to care and he never bought extra beer so he wouldn't have to share and he moved up north to the middle of nowhere off the grid off the grid it was like he always wanted since he was a kid when he sat alone in a meadow and skim-read walden but it wasn't as great as he'd thought it might be the power poles up there were rickety just like the trees and the trees were much worse off the grid off the grid now he's alone he's fifty years old he doesn't let anybody into his home not that anyone would come he says to himself that talking and carrying on all that stuff's for the young and then he grabs his gun off the grid off the grid off the grid
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On & Off (Hard Hatted) 02:12
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everything hurts but that ain't enough i beat myself to see if i can toughen up in my mind i find i can never really hide from the things left behind when you go and it's on and off and it really never stops keep your eyes too wide look for any sudden drops and you know it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow everything's the worst but it's never bad enough the sky could really fall you could really fall in love and in my mind i find i can never really hide from the things you left when you go on and off and it really never stops keep your eyes too wide avoid any sudden stops and you know it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow and in my mind i find i can never really hide from the things left behind when you go and on and off and it really never stops keep your eyes too wide look for any sudden drops and you know it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow it's almost enough to pray for the ice and the snow
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Pretty Tox 02:00
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we're too close, don't you think we like too many of the same things too similar in taste and dress chasing the nearby exits hold them dear hail mary a brand new play at the nearest taste of fear gaining a double trouble calls grin like an aperture and take the fall pretty tox but you're no good for me pretty tox but you're no good for me pretty toxin but you're no good for me i'll see you with this pretty toxic melody double exposure we all want closure hang a left here left me for dead and i'm in the clear pretty tox you're no good for me pretty tox you're no good for me pretty toxin but you're no good for me so i will see you with this pretty toxic melody
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I GOT LOVE!!! (Alternate Mix) 01:39
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i've got love i got it in my chest cavity down deep i got love somebody just take a scalpel at me i got love if we don't amputate i can't sleep i got too used to saving people now i'm hooked on this stuff your tears are like the sweetest drug and on your blood i get so drunk next time i won't wake up but i got love you can keep i got love and i can't sleep and i got love
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Love the Chaos 03:51
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somebody’s stomping around upstairs but i’m not scared anymore cuz we already opened that door and me i swallowed the key you’re gonna have to hit me in the past if you wanna get it back and i'd love to love the chaos and i'd love to take the day off but you know i can't whatever you do to me now somebody gets you back honey show me your moon shine and i’ll show you mine before the sun cuts out in no time you’ll be not mine don’t double up on me what hit you was only the breeze & i'd... im cold and im cold and im cold and im cold and im wondering is this how you get old and i'd love to change the events of the past but i simply don't have the time whatever you do to me now i don't mind i don't mind
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Drinker's Peace????? 01:38
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at times i wish i were dead busy people spinning all round my head this i value with every move they make and i'm rewarded with real bad headaches i get a contact buzz can't remember what the problem was sometimes i feel it's hard to even care life was too real before you got there my life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner reduced my felony to a misdemeanour when i'm sick you're my antibiotic organized my life that was pointless and chaotic i get a contact buzz can't remember what the problem was find it hard to even care life was too real until you got there i get a contact buzz can't remember what the problem was i find it hard to even care life was too real until you got there
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Wake Me Up (Sleepthru) 02:19
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he got kicked to the curb he was slurring his words the barkeep said you better keep out he had borderline enough to drink and too much to think about wake me up i don't wanna slumber anymore i wanna call you up i don't have your number anymore every borrowed thing i own is on your floor score one/teen/team for the home team the queen's never coming home but i must ask you one thing don't this rain ache in your bones doesn't it leave you cold? he was trying to learn he knew all the words but his fingers grew numb on the keys he'd wanted to burn but it seemed more convenient to freeze we're gonna backslide all the way to heaven with our chargers and super 8s don't be out late she said our resurrection will be captured on tape keen eyes wind up the clock a marionette that never talks waiting for the day we try the door and find out it was never locked wake me up i don't wanna sleep through this one wish you luck every good gun you know is headed for the door

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(lyrics for every song available right here on the page)

Here's a set of song that is a mix of old and new songs, old and new recordings. A lot of it is considerably lower in fidelity than what I've previously done. Partly it was me getting into that sound and the flirtatious idea of mixing noise with (hopefully) tunefulness. The other part is that much of my equipment experienced rapid entropy and much had to be recorded on the Even Cheaper.

You could see this, sonically and perhaps in terms of writing, as a mix of DEVIL MUSIC and It Never Rains, maybe.

Some tracks, as in the salad days of '11-16, use only one mic, leaving little opportunity for mixing. At least two are phone recordings, and one was straight-up recorded on a built-in MacBook microphone. I'll let you figure out which is which...

sucker for a martyr was written by Kat G., a very talented poet and musician. If you want more of her music, that's unfortunate, because she's not a recording musician. But if you want more of her writing, check out katgiordano.com

It's never good to try and predict too much, but this EP should be followed shortly with two more, that will complete this cycle of releases. The next one is a moderate increase in fidelity, but also rather slow and melancholic, and due to that nature I've worked on making it shorter. The third one will maybe be longer, and filled with songs that might fit more recognizably with songs I've done before, in case you were into that.

Music videos may follow, in some form. I was going to do a covers EP but it might cost too much money. Various collaborations are up in the air. I'm tracklisting a compilation of outtakes and "rarities", old and new, which I think is funny and that may come out as a coda to all of this. It might even have a couple good songs on it once I've trawled through the hard drives.

After that, I might take a break. Lean into my strengths and try not to fall back into my weaknesses. Get a drummer.
Maybe learn to sing.

xo & happy holidays from the Acid Rains

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released December 24, 2018

all songs written by james edward schier except:
suckerforamartyr - kat giordano
drinker's peace(?????) - bob pollard

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