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The Dacks

by Arms & Lanes

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Enjoy your lives and thank you for the kind words In the summer of beauty, underneath the trees in the grass I'm walking down the block to get a drink, not thinking about anything I’m smoking a cigarette that I made while on the Mexican desert land No, I’m not a cavalryman though I wish I were sometimes Just with a nice bed and not a gunshot through my head (Your life shot down from the sky to you) To see through the prism of beauty there’s no need to enhance So lay out your blanket before you to bask in true romance
2.
Staying in on a Friday night away from the city kids Finger snaps and low head bobs replace “Who’d you come here with?” But boy I miss the girls standing in the hallway Despite their peppered nose and vapid waves of talking Staying in on a Friday night away from the city kids Under my headphones
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Bear Mtn 03:20
Up Bear Mtn we will climb With the snow bridge, and the river below, and the falls Boots as big as ice cubes crash down through the tightrope On the yellow, red, blue - I try to navigate my night and the night and the night and the night Up Bear Mtn is where we climbed With the snow bridge, and the river below, and the falls and the falls and the falls
4.
On your couch with the push and pull demonstrations And a stomach full of Old Style at the end of my vacation On your stereo some new and inspiring tunes But just as I settle in you are off to bed too soon The hows and whys led to tight-lipped goodbyes Chicago, Mexico, and now Jericho! I would pick you out of a lineup Cause your positives are distinctly positive and your flaws I can't seem to think about Even while you are telling me how you’re confused I know these things are not for sale and its time to go The hows and whys led to tight-lipped goodbyes to Chicago, Mexico, and Jericho!
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Electronic translucent love makes its presence known like a vibraphone I’m not afraid of bears much less apocalyptic hallucinations Cause maybe there lies human potential resonating I walked into the pits of black expecting to find coal, but I walked out into the rays of light holding gold You turn off the volume and delay, freedom and choice remain Between stimulus and response there’s a space, within it lies electronic translucent love It’s easy to get overstimulated by it all, but it’s always there! I walked into the pits of black expecting to find coal But I walked out into the rays of light holding gold
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Freezer Blue 02:40
Here is my heart on a platter for you to eat! It doesn’t matter at all to me; you could throw it against the wall for all I care You could step on it, use it for a punching bag - just in case you get mad Or you could pretend that it’s just a rock despite the blood and slow tick-tock That’s the kind of guy that I’ve become chivalrous and mostly numb People have to punch me in the mouth just to stop me from passing out And I owe the thanks all to you for making yourself that freezer blue So go ahead and be how you like it’s of no consequence to me anymore
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Noogenic 03:48
I am working towards the antithesis of head clunk sound I watch the leaves go to work with the ground Are these strategies? Are these principles? At what price? Do you find the light within yourself? It's quite particular Head clunk sound Maybe some are good while others stray Might a man be built on what’s he made Now some will steal and others die Though not always to the eye Potential has no ceiling high so get to the plus side Head clunk sound
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There’s a scientist who walks to work in the morning Passes by people riding, strollers protecting children Once he gets in his building, puts on his white lab coat Sits down behind his desk with coffee, charts, and journals His hypothesis always cuts into vacation Through multiple designs and confounding implications During his lunch he goes by the pond, throws out some breadcrumbs and wonders, “Where did I go wrong?” He started out as a boy with dreams he couldn’t pinpoint And now he’s ended up here with solutions he can’t locate His fists are often a purple-blue from pounding them on the table And some days end before they start if he’s not even able But he always tries to focus on the future, writing in his notes, “I can’t keep hashing on my failures.” Cause a good scientist must work every day and hope that the answer is out there somewhere

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Recorded in Highland Park, NJ 2008-2009

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released July 21, 2009

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