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Wasteland Flaming Sun

by The Rift

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1.
I was looking up at the willow trees Man, it's my kind of night I heard you asking for some xannie bars I said, "Girl what are you doing with your life?" I had cocaine confidence and bloodshot eyes I hadn't eaten in a couple of days What am I doing with my life? A crowd of people on a dust covered rock Were singing songs about the truth All I could feel was sick and tired Of everybody in the room Well it's easy sometimes, child To forget the things you love Feelings that can bring you down Or raise you high above If I never see your face again Or tell you how my day was If I never get another kiss If I forget what your name was Earth keeps inching slowly Round its circumference And I'm over it Though I may have lost it just once Or twice I don't like the ice But baby I don't mind the snow Just let it flow Just let it go Still a hundred miles to go But just take it slow Just let it go I felt a dose of hormones Burst in and go Now I'm alone
2.
I said your hair is a highlight On the audience's paper Wish it was now Instead of later Running into the daylight But I'm not ready for tomorrow Are you feeling alright? Yes I thought so Right there opening your window I can see you pointing to a bird Up on the lightpost Isn't it a shame how there's no way To feel it all? Cop cars are pulling in my driveway Red blue light waves Said "I ain't your man" Well you're damn right you're not I better leave now So I don't end up staying Because you truly don't know What you're saying Must be pretty in love To get married so young You've been in my dreams You've been in my REM, hon This time it's a little different When I took a look You were not where I expected I make all these walls inside my head And you walk right through
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The Hand 03:28
Is everything alright With my eyes, and my ears, and my skull? Because at first it was pain But now I feel nothing at all Your hands are shaking All of the time There's no explaining Just what it's like Graveyard cold fingers Gripping your spine Some evil waiting To salvage your mind Your heart is racing Daylight is fading I know you're on fire But it seems to be raining Must be a time when You were laughing and learning But you can't remember when I've never been higher Than I am right now There's pieces of bone Falling out of my mouth Smoke rings are curling You wait till the morning Vision is double Your throat is burning Remember when All that life you were holding Slipped right through your hands?
4.
I been eating little pieces And I'm feeling pretty bent But if I can make you smile I'll consider it time well spent What a beautiful mess that is Lying there on the carpet And what a wonderful problem you have I can't believe you almost lost it Lately I think maybe Love is just something you give Whenever you can Did you hear what I said? Because I won't say it again Not ever I saw her in the parking lot When we were both too young to drive A funny thing how fate seems like It's real from time to time And I said, "She's pretty hot, but I don't know her name" A few years later Had her locked up in a cage And baby you can't get away So when the walls start caving in Just think of it as some New decorations Just because your patience runs thin Don't mean you're getting any Closer to the ending
5.
At the end of the world What kind of song's gonna comfort you? When you couldn't say that love will save us Nothing we can do If we were all gonna die at the same time What would be the tune To bring peace of mind to me and you? I say sing about what you've learned And how you're wiser than you were Sing about the people You're so glad you knew Sing about how much you grew The crucial feeling of not knowing what to do Because I feel sad and I feel happy too And I'm sitting in the courtyard While the rain picks up the pace I can't help thinking of your face And when the sky is turning purple And starts raining acid You will probably also turn purple From inhaling all the CO2 And I'll be doing my best To sing through my burning flesh Singing about everyone we knew About how much we grew And I hope you'll be singing too Like there's nothing you'd rather do Than die singing your favorite tune All your brothers and sisters next to you
6.
Reckless Such endangerment Bloodless Drained out every bit Her knife Dripping wet I licked off All the pain It cut my tongue off Leave one of the fuckers alive So he can tell the others What we did here tonight You can struggle, you can try Sooner, later you will change Or you will die Do you think that there's another side Different from the one you're on? I won't do you no more harm No more hexes, curses, spells, or charms I will treat you like my own Every place you go becomes your home Never have another little crush on a stone Splintered little pieces of bone Where am I in your master plan? I was alive, I was undead Well you don't seem to understand The devil's children roam across this land And you raise your kids in a haunted house The jungle screams that tribal sound, singin I can take this I can take this all night If you felt it in your heart then I guess That makes it alright I can't believe we're having this conversation In your mind must be so many frustrations Because I've got mine But it's like a difficult equation Must be an error in my computation All in time Are you alive or are you just breathing? Who am I to see the distinction? Who are you? Mistake Know I made it So close Almost tasted it Looks like War is over Who won? What did they win?
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8.
Background to the back of the alley Mama said I don't need no money It's kinda hard when you're poor and you're hungry And life's a joke, but it isn't really funny Another pebble in the sand How much of what you're saying is true When people try and talk to you? Is your favorite thing to do Sitting in your point of view? Reading the evening news? Believing what they tell you? Strung out on my love of the devil White pearls on the wings of an angel Too late but too awake And this feeling's getting pretty strange I can feel it in my bones What could it be? What I see? Blinded by the morning star I woke up in a stolen car It's been fun, but all my money's gone Another pebble in the sand
9.
Tell me this ain't Some psychotic obsession Tell me it's just normal infatuation Is love really supposed to hurt As badly as this does? No one knows the answer to these questions I met a girl who looks Just like a fountain She talked with me For hours on end She spoke to me in whispers In a velvet, picturesque style Which danced before me Just like pirouettes She said, "My baby wandered out To California In search of someone That he used to know His eyes were jungle water And his smile was my soul And he still ain't found What he was looking for" Tell me I can Somehow fill this gaping Cavity where My core used to be Won't you tell me that it's nothing But an ordinary case Routine observations from A point in space Time and money Gather and then vanish People change And never really plan it We're all refugees in desert scenes That wasteland flaming sun They got rubber bullets And candy coated guns Well if you think Someone out there will save you I don't wanna Tell you that ain't true But patience dies And feelings lie There are no exceptions You might be sprinting In the wrong direction So if you fall into The trap of hoping Don't put someone's Smile in your soul She said, "He still ain't found What he was looking for"
10.
Nature doesn't have a tempo And that should horrify you There is no protection From the things you know you do And when all the food's been poisoned Will we eat the oil rigs instead? When dollar bills are worthless Who is gonna pay your rent? It won't be me It was bloody cold this morning It was piercing to my bones Nature had me in a stranglehold And when she grabs you You will never know Nature doesn't have a tempo

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released March 30, 2018

Kai Rogers- Guitar, vocals, drums, percussion, sitar
Colton Turley- Bass guitar, double bass, otamatone
Spencer Woods- Piano, synth, backing vocals on tracks 3 and 4, lead vocals on track 8
Engineered, mixed, mastered by Max Erskine at Erskine Sound
Track 7 Mixed by Danny Fields

Produced by Max Erskine and The Rift

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