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Drag

by Coed Pageant

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1.
Our Bar 04:45
wasn't all that long ago surrounded by people we know we could let the days pass fast or slow now desperately we cling to every stupid thing trying to keep the sun from setting it used to be in our hometown that people liked to stick around it kept the lonely feelings down but now they're coming up now they won't shut up... this used to be our bar monday night dollar pbr hide the keys to our friends' cars but now nobody's here to distract us from the fear that we exist then disappear california what'd they do to me heaven all to myself when all i wanted was company going out to local shows haunted by all our closest ghosts and all the songs have different notes and no one knows the words but they sing them anyway and we pretend not to notice it california what'd they do to me heaven all to myself when all i wanted was company
2.
Drag 04:04
be young and then be over it bleed out in this parking lot cough up your remaining cigarettes be here and then be not sleep sweet prince of bad decisions sleep lover of too much love always listening to terrible music and always turning your speakers up always turning your speakers up born on the back road to nowhere on the summer-warmed asphalt and tar if you find any of this worth fighting for please let us know which ones they are please let us know which one it is it's not easy for this chosen lot who dine on the marrow of bones that god and the passing of time both forgot who drive completely unaware that they've each got a one out of twenty-five shot that the lasting impression they'll leave on this earth will be a pair of skid marks on an old county blacktop where nobody ever goes where nobody ever goes you restless fools who drag through the dirt with holes in your work jeans and stains on your shirt wearing your curses so thickly you don't ever really get hurt until you do and then it's over and the white dust settles out on loose gravel shoulders while the wheels finish spinning in the air and the terrible music still blares and what are these crosses sitting next to this road for so give back to god everything he'll still take and return to the devil everything that's his if there's anything left you're still clinging to after that just lie here and try to forget what it is lie here and try to forget what it is
3.
it was colder than we expected still wearing our summer clothes when the sun went down on schoolyard town we stayed out until our knuckles froze listening to the revolutions of tires on familiar roads and the promising glow of headlights being someone we used to know and these vampires will by you drinks day after bloodsucking day too young to be an alcoholic yet but something wicked's coming this way it'll find us at one am in a laundry mat parking lot for reasons we couldn't put into words that would satisfy the local cops i won't miss you as badly as you think i should after the day we set the terms on which we will part ways for good and this town will be standing long after the day that one of us finally makes something that the other can't just wash away
4.
Paper Thin 02:45
utterly unemployable poor and walking home from a party with you spending two dollars and eighty-nine cents on paper thin gloves from a drug store on north grand avenue you say you can't feel your legs and I'm pretty sure you don't want to because we can't take the bus home now though that's what you had intended we do tomorrow will be awful but tonight we don't have to feel anything at all i can go home when we get back to your place or i can stay and get warm it's really your call i never did that much damage when i was young i've been thinking it's high time that i finally destroy someone how about you how about me and this whole frozen ghost of a city get together and write down all the options where next year comes and we're not around if tomorrow comes with strong coffee everything will seem less dramatic you'll tell me "you're not leaving" why would you even think that so totally unemployed and happy to be able to sleep in late because we're nowhere near your house yet and i'm already getting a headache
5.
if i'm being honest i'd do it again the good with the bad part beginning middle and end driving half the night just to wake up on your floor always being asked how long i'm staying and never really being sure because you seem so indifferent to me sometimes in some situations then heat up like a furnace without warning or sane explanation acting like friends and sleeping like friends coming for the night staying all weekend nothing ever changes but eventually one of us might try to force it and if i'm being honest it's gonna be me i could've told you from day one exactly how it would be: i'll start looking for reasons to keep ending up here and when you won't give me one i'll start feeding the fear how you can hold your alcohol while i can hold my tongue how we can seem perfect together without really having fun kissing like friends and touching like friends never firm plans to ever do it again if nothing ever changes we'll do it again just as long as nobody's ever lonely if i'm being honest it's pretty much guaranteed that sooner or later you'll find what you really need and it won't be me and if i'm being honest i'll do it again as soon as you let me i'll probably do it again
6.
tongues too young for poetry and too obviously inexperienced to hide all the genuine sincerity with which we recite all these flawlessly memorized lines i know that we are not in love curse these sap poets for what they've convinced us of if somebody'd warn us just before the plane goes down maybe we could jump off a few inches above the ground and salvage this summer way too young to make any sense of how the passing of time could make the slightest bit of difference or how certain factors might still come into play how brilliance at night might seem stupid in the sober light of day i know that she is not the one and she'll know it too in a couple months when i show my true colors and she recognizes her true taste and all this bad poetry starts to seem like huge waste but if we keep our wits about us and acknowledge our mistakes then it could still be a good summer i know that we are not in love curse these sap poets for what they've convinced us of if somebody'd warn us just before the plane goes down maybe we could jump off a few inches above the ground and salvage this summer

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released October 17, 2014

Written, recorded, & produced at The Palace Flophouse in Chico, CA. Mastered by Chris Learned (chris_learned@hotmail.com)
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With: Jesse W Johnson (extra guitar on tracks 1 & 6)

Art by ROOFTOPHOWL STUDIO (rooftophowl.com)

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