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DPARTURS [2017]

by N.T. Bullock

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1.
Supercoil 04:33
We’re not all the same, but we’re mostly scared Fear makes us lie, but mostly to ourselves Will you help us? We will only tangle you Supercoil Help us. One bad apple can ruin our orchards We won’t last long if we just stay still, blind leading blind We won’t last long if we just stay blind A danger to ourselves Helpless beetle on its back Grabbing at the air, designed to fail, and play along
2.
Blank 03:15
You're telling me it's full Tell me there's no more Page is written and it cannot be revised Look into your eyes See a story there Even though the stare your giving back to me is blank Resuscitate me bring me back to life We do it over Round and round we go And I don't know to say it clearly Clearly from my bones Unless we leave the page we've written blank Think about it none Think about it all You'll do it, but don't do it on the day you die Finish what you start Start something to begin Don't leave me standing next to someone blank like me
3.
’Cause you’re confusing me again, yeah Perplexin’, flexin’ my brain Even though I wanna know, I feel you judgin’ me the same And I know no matter how much I try it’s my only brain It would take a million of me to understand you You’re perfect in every way, up on a pedestal Do I need decoder rings to understand you? Tell me everything, and I’ll just nod Your words break me again Can I hear it a million ways? ’Cause you’re confusing me again, yeah
4.
Invisible 04:02
We are the perfect thing that we’ll never have Nothing unrequited. Everything unspoken. We can’t. We won’t. We shouldn’t. I silently agree. We only whisper to ourselves. In this time and in this place there is only risk, only disgrace. We’ll never come to home to one another. We'll never have a life as one. We are the perfect thing that we’ll never have, and I can only hope you know. Tell me as the train pulls away, or tell me as your plane lets go of earth. I get a sinking knot in the back of my throat. I been in a dark place that I wouldn’t trade with anyone. Some love is invisible. Slipping through the air, nothing to grab, holding onto things I never had No disappear, nowhere to go, holding onto things I never showed, but I'm holding on
5.
Give me every little thing that I want And if you don’t give it to me I walk I don't want to be the one who bailed But If you don’t give it to me I'm walk, walk, walkin’ away Ticking tocking like a broken clock Torn up ten ton shoes I can’t take off Solving rubik’s cube inside my head And Dalí paints time pouring out instead Can’t let “can’ts” outweigh the wants in me A new condition with more fight than flight Self-ultimatums simply should be taken seriously Small grains of sand, slip through my hands Self-serving, out of control - in control but out of
6.
Interval 01:55
... you were the sun, my galaxy, you are the one that escapes, you are the dream before I wake
7.
Your gravity don't leave no slack Bruises from pushing back, scars on my feet Zip-ties digging in my wrists Shackled by the neck, but holding the keys You can take me all around, all around, all around town Tell me it's a long ride down Every little thing you do Can't help adore you, your every move ignoring prudence to its face If I'm disease, the cure surely is you I know I slow your every move But I wouldn't leave you, even if I could
8.
Got It Wrong 03:31
Take my hand, follow my every word I'm a natural born leader, so "in my steps" Sheepish, crowd-like marches in my name Together through all of this we are to blame I'm your country right and wrong "Patriotic" got it wrong Got it wrong It's on your plate and you have to finish It's a different world now and you have to defend it The cynics will have to wait, swallowed is the bait The power of a few needs the hands of many
9.
Touch & Go 04:32
Lay my hands upon the earth I push, it pulls, I fall I won’t be a part of it I can’t, lift up, my chin I won’t lie again to you I did, I lied, again I won’t be there when you wake - I can’t, I won’t, I’m running out of time, I’m running out of lies Where them angels fly? The soul believers. Why go bother them? Well I ain't no one, no, I won't do it. Please don’t, please don’t go away Touch and go, touch and go When it strikes me down you’ll know Strapped in, ready, to go Hear it secondhand about someone you used to know I won’t be there when you show So say, it all, right now Pastures filled with broken clocks - they tick, they tock, we wind up and we stop, we’re running out of time I'm not, a soldier, put me, front lines, of life, and tell me, I'm headed home Please don’t, please don’t go away Touch and go, touch and go But keep me with you
10.
Badlands 03:49
Tell me not to drive fast, but i know we don’t last, so what, we die young anyway Forget the plan, it’s 86’ed, it’s over now, forget the future I can see it in the rearview, I bet this thing can fly We die young fast - get me outta here Fever dreamer A million miles an hour, only feels slower, wide open, punch it to the floor Die young fast, take the medicine, die young or take your medicine Fever dream, i won’t wake all night long
11.
When I lean, where’s my strength, when the weight comes I don’t mind the pain But just how much can I take, when the weight comes And it surely comes Weightless There’s gotta be an downhill ‘round the bend Because I’m dancing figure eights again Guess I shoulda listened, life’s gonna be hard Been carryin’ this weight too far Willful children, grown up and aged Can we handle ourselves with grace when the weight comes And it surely comes Carry on
12.
The End 00:48
You can't stop the end happening You can't control everything

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DPARTURS is a collection of new and unreleased tracks recorded between 2005-2017.

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released April 7, 2017

All songs written & performed by N.T. Bullock
Mastering by Prahlad Strickland
Album Cover based on photo by Manny Pandya

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