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Love Always, Leviathan

by Icarus The Owl

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    Tracklist

    Side A
    1 The Hum Of A Ceiling Light
    2 Nuclear Towns
    3 What We Had Was Never Love
    4 Tear Down The Mountain
    5 Peppertree
    6 Conversations With Dirt
    7 Tag! No Bases.

    Side B
    1 Rinse And Start Over
    2 Frog In A Well
    3 Swimming With Weights
    4 Chemicals And Flesh
    5 Love Always, Leviathan.

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1.
For years I have sworn I was done gloating about the souls I haven't crushed. Sinking. Feeling too much like a wolf; howling at the night sky. I am torn- floating on. Is this what you call love? A giant diamond ring. I have seen enough to know that faith is flawed. I thought I was seeing red. Can't count them on my hands Anything, i'd do anything to change. I’m out of breath to catch It all happened so fast There's nothing here and there's nothing left to break. It's impossible to look upon your face again and not think of what you did to your friends. Locked in a cellar down below the house. The sound of music was the squeaking of a mouse. The hum of a ceiling light will bid me good night.
2.
Are you with me to come undone? The first one of us is dust. Can you fly down from above and be the second one? All we are is tumbling in the wind towards a better fit. Can't get ahold of ourselves. I thought for the very first time that our childhoods could be re-lived. What's a place without a designer? Is it emptiness? What defines truth without a liar? Is it irony? Is there nothing there at all? There's nothing here and there's nothing above me, but this rooftop. There's no sea to part, and no wine was ever water. Come with me and i'll try to show you consequences. She was not alone. A child without a father. The sea is a whirlpool You're plummeting down You are a man of the sea. Prisoner of Davey Jones Dinosaurs walk among us in small nuclear towns
3.
You and I are moving on. So don't act sad; just move along now. Are you squirming all around just wishing I had not left your bed? This was a mess that you made you thought you could make waves in my way. Now that you've got no one are your dreams slightly less real? And everyone will laugh at your shortcomings Like everyone at your workplace did to me. You had thought I got in your way. I got in your way The truth is that you've been replaced. You've been replaced. Stop nervously laughing every time someone comes near- you can bare to live with yourself , and feel life in your skin- pale and begging to break someone's heart. What we had was never love. I was mad. I can tell you how it feels when no one has got your back. Are you thinking of me now with your sheets all in a mess? Your legs are moving all around wishing I hadn't left. You were with him loving and sleeping. I was moving from city to city. A liar will burn up someway or another. I've learned a lesson: only pay with buttons.
4.
Oh this is strange. How did we end up here? Oh this is weird. We're always going somewhere Oh my head crawls- without the time, we cut it off. “You don't belong here.” Take me further from this place. Everytime I close my eyes I see the words you wrote. I know I don't belong here. For several years i've tried to tell you why. You know I don’t belong. Oh no. You've done it again You've fallen again We can't pretend You've done it again Tear down the mountain.
5.
Peppertree 03:41
Collect me in a jar and shake me up. i'll be your talisman to be your any man at all. When you're cold, you can let me out to hold. When you need a friend, my shoulder is yours. I wish that the blink of an eye would bring you here. I'd be twitching myself to sleep. I'll make the biggest rubber band to sling shot myself over snowy passes and highway traffic We are states away but those are just dotted lines on a map Miles are the enemy when I need you closer to me. I propose that trains go faster. Let's spend the day just wasting away. I know we would never leave this bed. I wish when i had skipped a rock it would turn into a island for us to live on And we could paddle out in a canoe made for two- Just me and you. We could live off water and coconuts. I'll protect you from all the pirates too. and when you're tired of the sand I'll tell the tiny rocks to leave our land. If you want christmas i'll make it snow if it's too dark i'll make everything glow. You're everything that I need Before you can resist me, just appear so I can melt like a glacier in the sun My eyes are yours and yours alone. When I'm with you I feel at home. Just appear so I can float like a boy who fell in love.
6.
've been seeing grey ever since you went away Don't believe the shit that they tell you. You can have my heart- I don't care if they rip it apart Just as long as you are right here with me. All this means is you're done with me Every night you were right there by my side You're gone. I'll visit you when you are away I've lost the only one that meant anything to me. Six feet in the ground is where you spend your days I would dig you up just to hold you. I've been telling lies just to make it by. I could never tell you the truth. I blame, myself for letting you get into your car. The brakes, the pavement was wet and you were so scared. It's going to be a bad day. The sun won't show off it’s ugly face today. Let me try, let me send messages through the dirt to your casket. When you sleep, when you dream are you thinking of me, do you wish i was dead?
7.
Your body is sinking again Someone call the paramedics Looks like I've been dreaming of you Someone put an end to this nightmare. You'll want an end to this Just tell me when to stop I've made my bed this time and I’m coming unglued. Never ever thought I’d see you call it off so soon. I’ve wanted this for so long But now that i’ve got you I’m crawling on my knees from you hoping I’m caught soon. Stand. shake, we've got wars to make Pretend we won't do it again. Concern: I've got none of it. Dream on, killer in me. Born and bred to see you again Feeling tired of no good desire.
8.
It's everything to me It's too bright to see I don't want to brag but I've opened up. When we start to melt a ray of the sun beaming on your back will tear you apart. Wasted- our lives Crumbling- in the sun. Fall is coming to shed your skin And rain upon us and wash away everything. She's begging, “take me on the run” Disappearing into the sun The clouds are churning and looking grim to rain upon us and wash away everything. I think you've done all you can for now But every time you open your eyes it's gone. Listen to your echoes in the dark They are bouncing back at you-you're lost This bitterness is thriving through the climate change and words imbued Are we uninspired or growing old? The light is gone and darkness grips a hold of your life and threatens it. Can you overcome this and see again? All it takes is being complacent it gets worse in September. Much worse in September. When all I see are lights and i'm shaking It's much worse than expected. much worse then remembered.
9.
t's impossible to learn right from wrong and where we all come from. What if i depend on the conduct of a man? Oh my god. Betrayal comes expectedly Failure comes because you wrote it down. Oh, it's all I ever wanted to be for me. Sad, that you will never understand or be here, in this selfish solace i've made. And I love the way i can talk in circles to you. Goodbye. I don't know if they're bad intentions or a warped sense of pride. Take a step backwards to see progress- to see the ship move. Move forward please. Don't ask why I can’t breath True progress reeks of failures. I'm all in now forever.
10.
Every two years the tide washes you away. You're my Jane Doe with no trace DNA. A body that's meant for the sea was never meant for me. Like a Lizard sheds its skin, someone else appears on my shore again. Am I lost myself ? All you can think about is the ground and never leaving this place. Every single day I put on a new face. My brain stays the same. I'll never change. while the world is asleep I change shapes I'm talking to the moon, and steadying my own pace. You wanted me to pull a rabbit out of my hat - to make things happen by the next sunset I've warned you that there is no coming back. We are a rocketship headed towards outer space You have to keep pushing 'till the moment avails. No one is going to help you. You have to keep looking 'till your eyes are gone. No one's going to stop you.
11.
I understand that a baby left alone might not survive but you know better. You're just cowardice, dishonest, abominable- we let our baby die. you pleaded and begged me to let the Earth be flat to disregard Galileo. Just look up at the sky and pretend the stars are cold and that one would ever know if you took one down tonight. Did you think we'd make it this far? Did you think you wouldn't get caught? I'm in a event horizon-not even light can escape it's grip. Now astronauts can't orbit endlessly. at least i've got our memories to laugh at. Now that you've tied me in knots, thinking I'm someone i'm not The truth is a much scarier thought. When I'm with you all of my hope lost. It's exactly what I thought it would be until you changed me. I thought for a moment we were more than chemicals and flesh. You told me to believe in fairy tales- that objects fall to the earth at different speeds, because our hearts beat faster than them all. you told me that the wind in our faces was just god cooling us down- giving us some air. I can't picture your face or i'd turn to stone. Medusa, you mythical, mind tricking gorgon. You got away with murder by moving me what you get isn't always what you seek. Agreeing to be naive is the same as falling in love. We all cheat and we all take things that are not ours. Taken from me was my dignity and a chance at breaking your heart. Lastly, you are lucky enough to have entered my world.
12.
'm watching the wind take everyone off of their feet and place them upon cars in the middle of the street Lights flicker on and off but they never seem to go out. They'll burn the brightest when no one is around. Throw your flares into the dark sea We'll swim and search until we find thee Buried beneath the coral and the sunlight. We'll try light the way. No Riddle nor rhyme can ever explain why the conscious mind when it runs dry. The conscious mind has nothing to hide. When left alone, their crawling around in me. Go on and be gone. Drift undertow. Sinking down and further from what I was once. Reaching up and grabbing air and hoping no one sees me scared to death from being grown up. I am gone and looking down from every ceiling. You can laugh all you want. I'll find myself on top of the world with a lightning bolt in the palm of my hand ready to strike over and over again. I'll bestow upon you the burden of love and it's unkempt malevolent teeth just smiling down at me. It’s taunting me. Why didn't I leave? The problem with compromise is that one of is never right. The vanity of human heads will kill the world's occupants You are quivering when you speak. I know you're scared so follow me. I'll lead us out of misery. When the ground begins to crack, just know that I will have your back. There are ashes now where people were. The greener grass is brown like dirt. Apocalypse has reached its end, it's time to begin new again

credits

released June 21, 2012

All music written by: Icarus The Owl
Lyrics written by: Joey Rubenstein
Vocals performed by: Joey Rubenstein
Guitars performed by: Joey Rubenstein
Bass performed by: Joey Rubenstein and Stephan Hawkes
Drums performed by: Rob Bernknopf
Additional guitars on track 11 performed by: AJ Stacher
Additional instrumentation arranged by: Joey Rubenstein
Mixed, mastered, and recorded by: Stephan Hawkes @ Interlace Audio
Female vocals on track 4 recorded by: Hailey Slepika
Artwork by: Sam Kaufman @ East Fork Studios
Band picture taken by: Stephanie Frommlet
All Songs Copyright © 2012 Icarus The Owl

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Icarus The Owl is a Blue Swan Records artist from Portland,OR. They are known for their frequent time signature changes and tap-guitar lines in otherwise sing-along pop songs.

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