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Soon The Spring

by The General Slocum

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1.
Paint Chips 04:07
Take that mask off and wipe the blood on your shirt Take a look in the mirror, you gotta try to find what this was worth You paint your hallways yellow, but your closet's a dirty green The paint in your hallway's cracking, what's underneath can now be seen. Oh what a terrible fight. It didn't have a reason, and it didn't have a victor Despite what they said, oh no, just bruises and anger and paint chips on the ground Oh no it didn't have a victor because of what was found underneath The yellow
2.
Forever Feel 04:25
There's a summer that we spent, there's a window that was left open There's this image in my head, and a promise that was made but broken And in every minute since then, I'm like an addict in recovery scraping for a token. I'm broken, on the mend fearing the relapse that will steal this progress of emotion Scraping towards forgetting you Oh and it takes a while These things take a while Oh it's gonna take a while because...it takes a while I'll forever feel the weakness but they say that it numbs with time I've never learned the secret of what makes the time go by
3.
This is a recipe for the worst disaster hike up your pants don't let your feet sink in the shit Call off your dogs muzzle them leash them to the ground and bite your tongue in preparation for the awful sound it's bound to make, and we'll make it out unscathed We cover the injuries with the sex and the laughter the fight of your life wasn't what you dreamed it would always be The night is gone your fumbling through your apologies and your head it pound with memories of all the awful sounds your mouth creates and this may have been the one that breaks us. It'll be a long time 'til you feel this way again about another man but you'll find another man and he'll be strong and he'll be kind and he'll say all the things you need to hear and goddamn will he say them right but he won't be me This was a good one We had a good run.
4.
Ember 03:11
I've built a fire that can't be dimmed stoked by the love and lives of all of my friends a gorgeous ember that burns within a glowing pyre without any end You can't put us out No the wind can't snuff us and the waves can't quell us, no You can't put us out We're the envy of the stars
5.
These blankets don't understand what they'll do to cover the sins and secrets of these two as they writhe and their eyes won't ever meet to deny that there's any love between these sheets And this stereo will never know the role it holds to drown out the guilt she feels on the ride home see the enemy is anything that makes her feel that "there's a better me I'll never see, she isn't real"
6.
Anna Louise 04:39
It's a small town love affair gone horribly wrong a father's daughter, this beautiful girl and a boy who did wrong He left a trail of those who cared for him in his wake as if to say "I'm leaving this town behind" He's burnt the bridges to everyone that could understand what he's going through This girl is haunting his mind, this girl she haunts his mind He found a bridge that could be useful after all Anna Louise, she's the cutest he's ever seen around these parts Billy Eugene he will die when he's 23. And nobody will miss him. (She was so young her father was so in love and so proud of the girl) Oh when his body goes missing (He couldn't know when he met the boy that he would destroy his world) With a knife he found in the kitchen (3 lives were taken) On the night that he swore she would kiss him (the saddest night that this town's ever known) They both found out the only way to leave this town Billy Eugene he went to clear himself of all of his sins Anna Louise she's in the ground And if her father sees him, he'll tear him apart (he'll tear him limb from limb, show him just what he did) but he was searching for a way out of town when he found a way to drown Anna Louise she's the cutest he's ever seen around these parts Billy Eugene he couldn't handle that she wanted nothing to do with him Anna Louise received a funeral fit for a queen, Billy Eugene was never seen. And nobody will miss him (he took a leap tried to get clean of all the sins that he'd done) But they'll miss Anna Louise, ahh the queen (her father wept and wished that he'd had his very own son) Just so he wouldn't grow up like him (First lost the mother, now the daughter now he's losing himself) a father's epitaph of life and love and death (Mr. Eugene and Ms. Louise oh what a story to tell)
7.
Oh How 03:20
Oh how I'd love to be a vampire and gnaw away at your neck curse to eternally be wrecked by a lust for flesh Oh How I long for you, my beautiful I'll suck the life out of you, it's all I know how to do I'm a vampire, and I'm coming for you I'm a vampire, eternally cursed Oh How did I miss (I've been waiting so long for it) my chance when you were near? (my one chance my only chance) It would take just one kiss to keep you here As the dawn it breaks, in my eyes and in my mind Oh How my heart it aches, I'm no vampire. I'm no vampire
8.
Wasting our Sundays, drunk under streetlights, laughing Passing these nights away, and it wastefully feels so perfect. We got nowhere to be, we've got no one to answer to but you and me We've got nothing to show for the hours we've spent on the floor but we're happy. I know they can't understand why we're so in love with this sort of life and we'll never contend that we're lost in love and drunkenly lucid I can't understand why they're so caught up in other people's lives I just gotta remember that there's nothing wrong with being, lost in love We spent the last 3 days, in the comfort of your comforter and this lazy haze we're not leaving for anything, except to maybe get some more to drink cuz we're alone and we're in love and it's the perfect day to snub the world out there And we'll make love and sleep and forget about the things that they want us to care about. I know they can't understand why we're so in love with this sort of life and we'll never contend that we're lost in love and drunkenly lucid I can't understand why they're so caught up in other people's lives I just gotta remember that there's nothing wrong with being, lost in love
9.
To Deny 01:49
These blankets don't understand what they'll do to cover the sins and secrets of these two as they writhe and their eyes won't ever meet to deny that there's any love between these sheets And this stereo will never know the role it holds to drown out the guilt she feels on the ride home see the enemy is anything that makes her feel that "there's a better me I'll never see, she isn't real"
10.
Threaded 04:59
No one can see the best in you the way I do No one could ever be threaded to you the way I am For all that you are I need you to know that you're the best that I am and all the threads that make you up I'm weaving 'em all into the best that I am to make the rest of what I'll be You turned to face the sun and you were oh so stoic as you stood I watched you cast the longest shadow that you could The rays they framed your frays so true, the end of threads I'm clinging to to help to weave a life worth floating through There is no way yet to convey all the gifts you've given me you are a spool ever-unraveling The best of you is woven through every fiber inside of me You are the art, the artist I strive to be
11.
The Ship 06:37
It's a secret thing so you'll lock it away, but won't forget it a broken promise that will haunt til the end of your days, and you'll let it you wanna feel the shame, you wanna feel like you're defeated so you can make the change, know this mistake so you won't repeat it You know you're better than this you know you say it all the time to yourself and everyone around there must be something you missed there's something buried in the ground or in the air you can't get your fingers around you're gonna drown in this the captain's going down with the ship you built you're choking on the guilt You're gonna burn for this, unless you really learn from it. You let the weakness reign you let it set fire to all you created and you watched you got caught up in the waves, you came off course while you were sleeping, and you lost it. now you just can't be saved, the current's too strong and the wind is raging And as it fans the flames you wonder if this mistake's the last you'll be making You know you're better than this you know you say it all the time to yourself and everyone around there must be something you missed there's something buried in the ground or in the air you can't get your fingers around you're gonna drown in this the captain's going down with the ship you built you're choking on the guilt You're gonna burn for this, unless you really learn from it. And as you learn how to float, you'll find there's a better you that you'd never known because he wasn't real, no he wasn't so until you unburried him from deep beneath what's broke So you'll give it your all, you'll dig and you'll claw, you'll fight and you'll crawl to come back from this fall and though your ship is in ashes at bottom of the sea it went up like a book full of matches, it stranded you but it may have set you free cuz it's the things that you lost, that you wanted to lose whatever the cost, because somehow you knew That Soon the Spring will wash everything and they'll shine and they'll sing and reveal the man you thought you'd be.
12.
Artifacts 03:54
The sunburn on the top of your shoulders after we've left the beach tired from making love The warm embrace if the weather ever gets colder and you scared to reach from underneath your blankets love. Boxes stacked with black ink letters telling you where to put them Ancient artifacts of a time before we knew each other before we wanted each other before we lived for each other Although these things may never be It feels as though they've already been So many things I've yet to see But I'm already in love with them You may be a wonderful Mother I may make a hell of a Dad And we may place rings on each others fingers One day you may be a bitter old woman I may become a grumpy old man but we'll still have rings on each others fingers And although these things may never be I cling to them and I sing for them All of these things I'll never see Well I dream of them and I scream for them
13.
Not To Sleep 06:42
We took the longest way we knew would take us home to bed but not to sleep hand in hand we listened to the city streets accompany us as we hid from city spies They walk our beat they haunt these streets and so. We took the long way home. I left you there, with a promise that we'd speak again and I left more there than I ever wanna leave again, anywhere I've spent so many shitty weeks on other city's streets and I know New York is where we should be because it's such a long, long way home when you're so far from home Well it's broken I broke it We make these promises in confidence that our hearts will never change but a promise just isn't a promise anymore when there's no one to keep it to San Francisco's so far away and I've got no one and nothing to blame but me I was searching for magic and passion in 3rd and 4th chances before I had to leave, and before we got to see if this is the love that you read about if these are the things that you dream about if this is the drug you can't do without and if this is the love that you'll never doubt
14.
The Winter makes her broken the coldest months she spoke in nothing but dirty words I've seen the Spring do such amazing things to her off demeanor, and I was pleased to meet her She's so kind through June and July, in the sun she sings of beautiful things In the middle of September she feels the weather coat her skin and she settles in as Autumn ends I do my very best to tell her winter isn't all for sinners and you've done amazing things, all through November but please remember your altruism when Winter comes She takes her clothes off and examines the scars left by knives and by speeding cars she's clothed in guilt for escaping from harm she leaves reminders of lives on her arm As the sun kisses her skin her scars begin to fade and she measures her life by the things she gives away She knows she can't atone for the lives she took that day But she strives towards it She would die for it She lives with such regret But when Spring comes she does the very best that she can When the mercury drops and she can see her breathe seems her good deeds aren't enough to fulfill her debts As she's scraping the frost off of her windshield again Her hands remember and the tremble removing the rest Her blankets bundle her up and it warms her chest The heat's not deep enough, her heart is as good as dead The Winter freezes her thoughts in hopelessness she says "This is it for life, this could be as good as it gets" But please know that this won't be as good as it gets Soon The Spring will clean this mess Please remember your Altruism.
15.
Bit by Bit 04:16
Once our mothers told to us, that everything happens for a reason but they're wrong And once I gave into lust, and I'm perfectly certain it ruined my truest love But it wasn't what you would think, not some mindless trangression you wash yourself of in the bathroom sink no this was permanent. And it brought us both to the brink of the measures we'd take to change what we made and destroy everything even though we created it. And it started a war, where either side was unaware of what the fuck they were fighting for, or that they were fighting And it cut to the core of my beliefs of what it means to be in this wonderful world and if I deserve it. So I stood on the shore and watched the waves proclaim how the change in the tide is like change in our lives The ebb and the flow of it. And I shouted for more, for some clarity, some purpose, a reason for what all the pain is for But I'm better off not knowing it. Are we just stones on the shore watching waves washing pieces of us away, stealing us Bit by Bit No I'm not a stone, not anymore, I'm not a stone And if a man falls to his knees and there's no one there to see it is he a man? Does he feel it? Is it real? No I'm not a stone, not anymore Not anymore.

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A labor of love long in the making built to be listened to as a full album.
All instrumentation, lyrics, and production was done in my home. With a world of help from those who inspired and helped craft it to completion.

Born in 2012, growing ever since.

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released May 26, 2019

Chris Mitchell and Mike Nagy

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