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thank you, janitor. thank you, scientist.

by true apothecary

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1.
philly 03:44
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call it strange a couple screws loose i can't change you can tighten my noose but let go of my reigns because it's time to go give it up i do not know how with my wings cut it's keeping me grounded but i stay above over all that folds heel to toe one step at a time is too slow i'm starting to climb and count impossible as the thing i want i think it's time to go past our reasons why and let our heart and soul lead us blind call me brave or stupid as they come i can't say or take any longer i'm getting my break if i have to break it off is this enough to make you see stars? just look up it's written in the cards and the bottom of every cup we're as good as gold give me chances so that i can show i've got everything else that you could want if those flashing lights ever come get me
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high noon 03:25
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compliment my way under your skin i ask you girl give this a try never took a second thought or whim just gave myself up and resigned to something that i cannot answer for i can't control and i can't fight swept me off my feet and from my world and i never questioned why because i know it's the way that you hold me and never let go it's the way that you know all the things i don't and your voice when you talk is the closest thing i know to the one i hear from god when he says this is home falling like a movie magic fool tripping over all i find holding on to everything that's you and leaving all i know behind
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the last crusade 03:46
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i keep my feelings locked inside a vault one that's got more than lock and key it's got combinations and a way to walk like you see in Indie's movies but when you get close i play hero fight off demons to make it open for my damsel and her halo i see two wings and devotion let's keep this interesting and just a bit odd like King Arthur before he got his start and live our fairy tale like we forgot how to grow old, like it's never gonna stop it was a long time drifting like a breeze while my dark heart never saw anything but when the wind picked up and blew me back from sea oh i did see it was a shoreline reaching out for me (and i saw it) like a godsend if only i believed and you can call me a convert because i followed it to be with my wife and family break my heart and wrap it around yours so i can hold you closer than i have before
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bob really phones it in 04:57
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an empire is slowly taking hold with a foundation spreading like an open soul and bleeding over all the wrongs and reconfiguring the things i've known so get in line or step aside like you stepped away and out from mine i've been dying to tell you i've been alive since you fell through motion: well it's all i know if you can't move forward then i can let go focus: it's our only hope i've been dying for it since the day i learned to grow a fading out and drifting off and some convoluted reasoning of loss because change is not an alibi just a poor excuse and reason why i've been dying to tell you... fate is slipping from your arms i see the one i saved but it doesn't look anything like i thought strange that you should cast me off like a cape and feign a curtain closing a scene to be lost
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walkin' around money 05:17
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i can't forget where you used to live it stays a part of my childhood i'll always miss how it made the family gather and crowd inside your space but since you've gone it's emptied out and i wait the last i saw you were heading out of this place i've always hated hospitals and the way they always seem to drag you down but in this case i think you can finally walk on your own i see your wife less than i would like to but she's great and talks in ways i can't describe to you but i relate and as it turns out your daughter grew up to be a saint so much so that i changed myself and my name before you left us i found you in pain they said you'd be fine but you were falling from grace and i can still your face
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joy distributor 04:46
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i threw my tirades to the wind so i could roam through the whitest snows and gave up my sense of failure and its throne i'm not a king alone then i tried to take you with me and bestow some simple joy and hope since when have you ever known me to be so wrong? or has your faith been lost? i pushed a little too long on this hurt and now i gotta let it go i got so dazed but your weakness are you brave? goddamn you got a coward's soul so i left myself wide open for your call a second chance to talk but when the third and fourth and fifth left me appalled i had to cut your loss gave up so i could get on my way since you have withdrawn any semblance of our home don't say that it's been too long it's past anything that i've known and i've been waiting all along goddamn how do you get on? i'll never understand how i came to be on my own i found our carnage laid plain in stone a gorgeous heartache that i've never known it haunts the part of me that shows your bold impression and takes its toll
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welcome to the next battle 04:23
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past the rhythm when it broke pass the oxygen because i got so alone the fever spans just like a road and goes in circles like the only thing that grows i don't know, i don't pretend to know give it up and tell me that i'm lost keep up the silence and the void at any cost let the pretense break apart our vast charade and say it dear over loud and clear over (don't you ever miss this?) kept trying to get back to the start before indifference defining who we are i prayed to god like i forgot and bargained up and down the things that i could not let the pretense break apart our vast charade and say it dear over loud and clear over (don't you ever miss this?) let our hearts grow cold as this gets so damn old and say it dear over loud and clear over take in all my lost ones and tell them all that i have done i cannot fix the problem if it is the person she can cry defenseless and you can me selfish but i'm alive for once

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released September 6, 2011

mixed by justin gerrish*

drums and bass engineered by sam stauff* - port city recording
assisted by jared mirel

on this record true apothecary is david brooks & jared garcin

drums by anthony defalco

mike waschenko and david brooks engineered guitars on high noon, last crusade, walkin' around money & joy distributor

*mike waschenko engineered drums on walkin' around money

sam stauff engineered guitars on philly and bob really phones it in

david brooks engineered guitars on welcome to the next battle

*walkin' around money mixed by david brooks

photography by lindsay blackmon

logo by stephen brayda

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It's hard to define our sound in a sentence or two, but if John Mayer had a love child with Circa Survive we'd probably hang out with that kid on the regular.

Based out of Yonkers, NY

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