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Trash Planet Waiting Rooms

by The Acid Rains

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1.
All My Friends 03:03
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All my friends Met their ends With doors that were closed to them And I could have opened them And I didn't I can let you off this hook But you will look And burn and hang And dangle and squirm I guess I'll hear you when it starts to hurt All my friends End better than their beginnings At least they had a choice One by one they all were called By that dirty voice I can let you off this hook But you will look You will burn And hang and dangle and squirm I guess I'll know when it starts to hurt All my friends Don't have to pretend anymore All my friends Washed up on the shore
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Kill All Your Friends 03:16
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Well you can hide a lot about yourself but honey what are you gonna do And you can sleep in a coffin but the past ain't through with you Cuz we're all a bunch of liars Tell me baby who do you wanna be And we're all about to sell it Cuz it's tragic with a capital T Let it be, let it be Cuz we all wanna party when the funeral ends And we all get together when we bury our friends It's been eight bitter years since I've seen your face And you're walking away and I will die in this place Sometimes you scrape and sink so low I'm shocked at what you're capable of And if this is a coronation I ain't feeling the love Cuz we are all a bunch of animals that never paid attention in school So tell me all about your problems I was killing before killing was cool You're so cool, you're so cool We all want to party when the funeral ends And we all get together when we bury our friends It's been eight bitter years since I've seen your face And you're walking away and I will die in this place Cuz we all wanna party when a funeral ends And we all get together when we bury our friends It's been ten fucking years since I've seen your face round here And you're walking away and I will drown in the fear ba ba ba da da da
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Forgot to Breathe 04:00
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Those great whales Just forgot how to breathe You said if you're going out alone to take these What kind of life What kind of town is this If these are the friends you need John and I had nothing to do in the heat We got all caught up and forgot what it means to freeze Caught up in the gasoline But we remembered to breathe Get in the car Keep your eyes on your knees Don't trust anyone But if you have to trust anyone trust me I know it's slow back there in the back seat And those great whales Just forgot how to breathe
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Your Man is Gone 03:16
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Your man has gone I'll you how Somebody kicked the windshield out One more time with feeling now Oh I bet you're feeling it now He fills you up To siphon you out And clowns like the devil you know Laughs like an angel out in the snow Holds you in darkness and threatens to let go He loves you like the man you know And hates you like the one that you don't Your man is gone I'll tell you how Some poor soul kicked your windshield out One more time with feeling now Oh I bet you're feeling it now How I bet you're feeling it now
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War Horses 03:51
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The country star's car was all lit up With empty cans and cigarette butts Some said he was dumb some said it was just dumb luck Some even said he was a genius on his way back up In honest truth it was none of those things He did what he did because somebody somewhere owed him some wings He felt soon the end would be passing through And he needed some help to make this old wreck feel like new And the horse you rode in on Is big enough for two We get together now and then Bare our fists to the blue We get together now and then Shake our fists at the news Well on his dash was his whole stash Pine scent Christ and a wad of cash A book of poems, a book of matches Photographs of his biggest catch He called me up from nowhere special He said his hands felt just like the devil's He said I need somebody like you Because when I hang with myself I regret everything that I do And the war you were fighting It was nothing new You'd think after all this time We'd learn a thing or two You'd think after all this time We'd learn what not to do What not to do But still after all this time We raise a hand to the blues You gotta hand it to the blues He says it helps when you shiver to know Someone out there's shivering too
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Push the Poison 06:26
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It's been too long At this point most folks would agree I need surgery Just to breathe It's been too slow At this point most folks would just go Go home Line by line Day by day I push the poison out of my veins It's too late To be stuck in a stall Oh the pains of total recall I got too far in I missed out I've gone to ground, I've gone to ground And now I've heard That awful sound Ringing in my ears Has gotten too loud Line by line Day by day I push the poison out of my veins Lie by lie Days gone night I push the poison out of sight How far would you go beyond a reasonable double And if it was true wouldn't you know it by now And if it was you wouldn't you want to find out Truth be told I don't remember How it got this way I'm still waiting to remember Something I could say Like watching someone else destroy what you've built You do all the dirty work me I'll take all the guilt Line by line Day by day I push the poison out of my veins Life by life Days gone night I push the poison out of my sight And every day I push it away And every night I'm afraid That the shades are more black than grey You can ignore the bleeding You can't ignore the blood Maybe I'll see you when the sun comes up If the sun comes up Line by line Day by day I push the poison out of my veins Lie by lie Day by night I push the poison out of my sight Line by line Day by day I push the poison out of my veins
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Nothing Man 03:14
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i don't remember how i felt i never thought i'd live to read about myself in my hometown paper how my brave young life was forever changed in a misty cloud of pink vapour darling give me your kiss only understand i am the nothing around here everybody acts the same around here everybody acts like nothing's changed friday nights we meet at jake's barbecue the sky is still that same unbelievable blue darling give me your kiss come on and take my hand i am the nothing man you can call me joe buy me a drink and shake my hand you want courage? i'll show you courage you can't understand pearl and silver resting on my night table it's just me lord pray that i am able darling with this kiss say you understand i am the nothing man i am the nothing man alright

about

this here is the second of 3 releases (following Trafic Island Inferno) that i consider part of a cycle, though they aren't really connected in any way besides the titles. which are all essentially terrible Dante puns. besides that, i think each sounds a bit different. in order i think they're: lofi/noisier>downbeat->a mix of the two.

a couple of these tracks are hard for me to listen to, because of what i was writing about and the circumstances i wrote them in. i considered not releasing them, worrying that they might be too obviously a sort of "therapy through songwriting" thing. that said, i think they're solid enough, and they won't mean to you what they mean to me.

two covers on a 7 song album? dubious, but i think i did an alright job there, though covering springsteen seems like a pretty obvious choice for me. i picked one that meant quite a lot to me and that i think fits the record, tried to do it my own way, so forth.

it's a slow record, no doubt about that: that's why i kept it about as short as possible. the previous one (not including Queer Quotes, a total one-off) had lofi hijinx and potential noisy annoyances, the succeeding one (for i'm writing this after its release, having forgotten to write about it when i put it out) has at least a bit more variety.

i think you'd need to be in a certain mood for this one. i know i would. but for all its slowness and rumination, i think it's fairly tight for what it is. maybe excepting that Long One.

the cover is a picture i took sitting on a bench outside a hotel at 4am, a cross i drew with the end of my cigarette.

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released December 30, 2018

all songs written by james edward schier except:
kill all your friends - my chemical romance
nothing man - bruce springsteen

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