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Progress / Merchants

by Dérive

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1.
Thousands of rats huddle beneath an overpass And all of them refusing to move and wondering to themselves Oh man is life really like that When you listen closely you can hear whispering and screaming and singing and talking and whistling and piano playing and secret telling and backwards glancing and guitar strumming and silent humming and banjo picking and everyone seems to be saying I'm doing it wrong. There must be a place inside my soul all made of songs from long ago There must be a place inside my heart made for all those songs to fall apart Am I doing it wrong? Let's put an end to boredom Let's put nostalgia to bed We toil in obscurity I think there's a place inside my soul where all my favorite memories go But I think there's a place inside my heart to tear everything I love apart And forget old romance and failed plans and gentle dreams of autumn scenes i think there's a place inside my soul where all my favorite songs can go But I think there's a place inside my heart to rip every single chord apart And forget older rhymes from older times and let's move on There must be a place inside my soul - there must a place inside my heart I'm doing it wrong There must be a place inside my soul - it always sings loud but lately everything comes out grey and tough I can't hear the words but it sings of things I've always loved.
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Yeah we're the kids - gagging on plastic bags With skin made of dirty rags With eyelids hung from price tags I sold my soul for a filthy flag i take the image of your favorite blouse to the back of the midtown slaughterhouse We tore it to bits - it was covered in shit Make no mistake I'll make a mess of it Yeah we're the kids I replaced my heart with a credit card Yeah we're the kids I replaced my skin with a tip jar I want to hit, haunt, spit, snare, and I want to do it everywhere I take the image of your favorite blouse - tonight there's a party at the slaughterhouse.We're chopping up blogs and dumping them in the streams. We'll set fire to every rock star magazine. you found your own picture in the centerfold so you fingered the crease and then wiped up the mess with the pages from your press release. And all the kids are going lick lick taste the sweetness of the sale while your scream scream keep up the same old scene and gag gag keep sucking off the camera flash and cry yourself to night into the pages from your press release. Can you hear one thousand kids buying back their youth? Can you hear one thousand songs singing backwards truths? Can you hear anything over the sea of bells and catchy hooks? Can you hear anything over the din of ancient rule books? I want to hit, haunt, spit, snare, and I want to do it everywhere If you smash the guitar then I'll burn the strings. Let's hang our lives from this church door's rusty hinge.

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This is only available as a digital download, or on 7" lathe cuts (20 pressed of each song) only available at shows.

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released November 10, 2014

About the lyrics:
"Progress Is Everyone's Business" is inspired by "The Things Our Fathers Loved" by Charles Ives.


Justin Belden - Bass, Vocals
Paul DeGrandpre - Drums, Vocals
Greg Nahabedian - Guitar, Keyboard, Accordion, Vocals
Paul Schmelz - Guitar, Vocals

and extra vocals on 'Merchants of Youth' by Armen Nahabedian.

Recorded in June 2014 by Paul Schmelz at an elementary school in Agawam, MA, a house in Westfield, MA, an apartment in Amherst, MA, and a house in Hampstead, NH.
Produced and mixed by Paul Schmelz and Dérive.
Mastered by Tyler Bisson at Audio Geography - Bethel, CT
www.audiogeography.com

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