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Live @ The 8x10 (February 8th, 2014)

by Unstable Heights

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1.
A Wall 04:03
The pans clattered on tile floor When the door slammed shut. He lies staring at the ceiling, holding her picture up. He always spoke in absolutes, but black plus white makes gray. If truth is truth why does she feel betrayed? Screaming - screaming love, no matter what it’s called. They can’t hear it through the wall. The rearview rattles; the radio roars. Missed her exit, still reeling - still sure the words were true, but not the meaning. He always spoke in absolutes, but black plus white makes gray. If truth is truth why does she feel betrayed? Screaming - screaming love, no matter what it’s called. They can’t hear it through the wall.
2.
The walls are blue now and they replaced all the doors, but the carpet under my feet feels the same as before. I'm glad you came, even if it's not the same. Hearing you breathe is keeping me sane. The house always made sounds I never figured out; I used to think they were footsteps, but now they're only doubts. I know they're not here - I got that loud and clear. And this wind may not be whispering, but like his voice it calms my fears.
3.
Red Rock 03:45
She threw you away so callously. She found her words but lost her way. If I may say so, it's time to go, love - at least it's time enough. Or time again, I just don't know, but I'm finished my drink, so off it goes. Rolling Rock in the water, you should know I found your daughter. She says Speak and Spell taught her all she knows. I know what you wished for, but that's all she wrote. Rolling Rock, oh Rolling Rock, it's a warm afternoon laying out here. She's sweet as Honey Moon, but hits like Everclear. She was raised on Black Snake fireworks. They left her in tears. Now she feels no fear - She says she'd keep Acmes behind her ears. Rolling Rock, drifting softly, life is costly like Sony TVs. You should see the love live off me - off this dock oh Red Rock, they can't touch this - your clamshell wrappers and Louffa sponges, a bustling reef of what we coveted. Red rock.
4.
My dad won't say why you can't stay later. Your hand weighed on my head and your voice didn't waver: You said I needed to listen - open up to reason. None of this was your fault and I believed it. my father won't hear you out. You wanted me to help him understand it, but you sewed these seeds of doubt between us - so reap what you planted. He saw the card house you were constructing - fortifying trick by trick - but your split-tongued hiss was still just slick enough to inflict your lies on me. So lie to me. Don't try to stand by, just lie to me. Maybe through repetition you've convinced yourself these lies, but your split-tongued hiss was not quite sly enough to hide the truth from me. So, ruthlessly, you used me to worm your way back inside.
5.
Copper Lake 04:51
It's cold up here. I lean into the wind and see the peaks so clear. I peek over the edge, down on my knees, at where we were two days ago looking up at the trees. Not far up ahead, my lone companion is searching for the trail. Where it ends, the snow begins. Dark clouds are rolling in as the sun rests on the horizon. A harsh light from a bright bulb on a soft night as the winter dulls. Spring came, but the snow stayed. We laughed and waited for a new day. So we soldier on. Our boots crack the icy ground. Can't see through this fog and the wind is howling now. The rain comes in a wave and the path's erased. We keep making our way as the light leaves this day. A harsh light From a bright bulb On a soft night As the winter dulls Spring came but the snow stayed. We laughed and waited for a new day As we top this ridge my legs give in for my one and only wish: the bluest a lake's been.
6.
A Switch 07:20
Flip a switch in my head and starve this clock that I have fed. I can't tell which fear I've fled - the one I saw or the one I said. These words that I've said: are they from my heart or from my head? Watch these words fall apart. Were they in my head or in my heart? This word and this breath: an echo will be all that's left of this heart and this mind. Which did I choose to leave behind? I watch this watching clock built from guilt and hard as rock. I have tried, but these hands don't stop counting up and ticking off. These words that I've said: are they from my heart or from my head? Watch these words fall apart. Were they in my head or in my heart? This word and this breath: an echo will be all that's left of this heart and this mind. Which did I choose to leave behind? All you'd have to do is not think it through - not stop to think. No one's stopping you. No one's stopping you No one except for you No one's stopping you No no No one but you.

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These songs were recorded on February 8th, 2014 at The 8x10 in Baltimore. The performance was mixed and recorded by the incredible Justin Rockett. The recording is a stereo board feed / room mics with normalization, eq, and compression. All songs were written and performed by Unstable Heights (all rights reserved).

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