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soul mange

by jon epworth

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1.
did you get rattled, did you get shook were you looking in the right direction when they caught you with a left hook now don't you get wicked, don't you get mean are you looking for retribution or do you just gotta let off steam this boat don't hold water ebb and flow sisters, brothers this boat don't hold water you gotta let the water hold you i used to think i was the man cause i stood so tall but the taller that i got made me more afraid of the fall and if i didn't look around, then i might pass over you though you might need someone to help you get through i hope i don't miss this boat... we gotta head for the shore, we can do it together just gimme your hand this boat...
2.
come alive 04:02
you laid yourself to rest a long, long time ago tired of all your hard work and having nothing to show buried yourself in a cave and you locked us out but we're in a bad, bad way, and we could use you now come alive, deep dark woman we need you, deep dark woman come alive, deep dark woman we need you more than ever, deep dark woman you curled your thick black mane around your face took all your beautiful wisdom and you slipped away well now it's the same in the jungle as it is in the street and the key to our only salvation is to make you see come alive... if truth is beauty, you'd be the neutron bomb shaving the dead skin off a world gone wrong i can see you now, deep dark woman shine your black light o'er all our imperfections come to light tonight we need you now
3.
no shit 03:01
you say you're tired of your dead end gig you should be soaking up the sun in madrid you wish you had more money than you did wish you had known better back when you was a kid no shit - you want the good life to come to you no shit - you want the same things everybody else do no shit - things seem harder than you think they should be you won't get no shit from me don't try to tell me what you think you deserve i've seen you work and you ain't worth what you earn get it together and come up with a plan if you wanna be some high-fallutin' fancy-dan no shit... no matter how much you whine the stars in the sky won't align with you in mind no no no no some folks are born in designer jeans some folks have never had anything count yourself lucky if your somewhere between the bottom of the ladder and the top of the tree no shit...
4.
happening (free) 03:29
we are a happening waiting for a catalyst are you gonna be the one be the one to shake the chain well if boredom and disorder are the order of the day and destruction is an element of change well we can get down in the muck to claim the fire of our youth and usurp these goddamn liars trying to obfuscate the truth we are a happening... we are all happening today
5.
soul mange 04:23
i dream of torture and being tortured without empathy of being taken in the night, tied up, blindfolded and thrown into the sea i dream of violent oppression, i dream of suicide of being torn to pieces across political divides don't kill the dream, don't kill the dream i dream of random incarceration, vast and unjustified to feel the spectre of surrender permeate every aspect of my life i see a wide and gaping sorrow and its unending tears i dream of unnamed gunmen snuffing out the lives of all who i hold dear don't kill the dream, don't kill the dream i try to pull it from my life, try to blind it with my light try to cram it into night and shove it from behind yeah well the truth itself is brutal and the comfort of our days is surely a lie i am not worthy of this life anymore
6.
triggers 03:17
triggers from an unseen hand words can lose all meaning when they set you off the emptiest of gestures or a facial tick really, really i wasn't taking the piss what have they got you on today what did the orderly say what do you see in me today am i real or just another part of your play triggers got you on the run petrified of everyone and what they might think of you or what you thought they might have seen you do can't remember words or anything you said 'cause you only hear what you might have let slip out instead what have they got you on today... triggers hide in everything can't sleep for the worrying the cause of every trigger goes unknown and the trigger builds a trigger of its own petrified of everything
7.
afraid 06:47
are you scared of the future are you scared of time are you afraid of nothing happening when you die do you pray for forgiveness from a holy ghost do you think that it will turn all your sins into smoke you're only guilty if you get caught feeling get caught feeling remorse do you pray for a heaven out your window sill do you think that if you do that all eternity will treat you well you're only guilty if you get caught feeling get caught feeling remorse but you fear emancipation from tether and from chain wish that you could feel like everything ain't gonna be okay ain't nobody gonna forgive you if you don't go down on bended knee but if nobody forgive you you are still gonna do just as you please do just as you please

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this 7-song EP was written and recorded in various locations. special thanks to the fellas at the hive for allowing me to make some noise in their storage space.

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released December 15, 2011

written, performed, engineered, and mixed by jon epworth

hand claps in 'triggers' - mike belyea, andrew sisk
choir in 'happening' -don murray, dan jardine, matt staritt

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