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Happy Birthday to Me, I Guess

by The Great Aerodrome

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1.
Slow Poison 02:44
Mind rolls back to the heavy center / Keep the secrets on the back burner / You make my head spin / Most wanted, top ten / Twist the knobs of my brain like a tilting maze. / Keep the silence and the sickness stays. / It’s a smooth drink / And A slow poison / You really know how to play my keys / one note and I’m on my knees / I work alone for a god damn reason / You just ew in for my fair weather season / I really know how to spin my webs / But the bones are on the beach when the tide ebbs / Stick around baby and you’ll see right through / My mechanically awed bicycle built for two / Eyes rolled back / I’m a reckless sinner / Take a number everyone’s a winner / You make my teeth grin / I make the rules bend / Twist the back of my hair like you aren’t afraid / That under the skin I am cold and depraved / It’s a smooth drink / And a slow poison / And when you dissect me / The evil will spread / Spring out of my colors / Till every one’s dead / And if you infect me / I’ll bleed from the eyes / I’ll change all my colors / And live in disguise / Mind rolls back to the heavy center / Keep the secrets on the back burner / You make my head spin / Most wanted, top ten / Twist the knobs of my mind like a tilting maze. / Keep the silence and the sickness stays. / It’s a smooth drink / And A slow poison.
2.
he’s a beautiful mess of distracted distress - what a sight / She’s a cautionary tale of the fall from success - she just got red / Every day I wake up to her sobbing cries - the fatigue of sleepless nights lines her eyes / this place is trash but she swears she cleaned the whole time / Is she just in a funk or is she actually losing her mind? / She’s depressed at her best and paranoid of the rest - that’s her life / And when she’s put to the test, she bombs each and every guess that she tries / Come on now girl you were supposed to be a bright one - you best fess up and tell us is it booze or drugs? / Maybe she’s just faking for attention and it’s all a lie / The whole world reduced to ashes ‘cause this poor girl’s brain is on re / My baby’s going crazy - and you would never know / She was perfectly normal and sane just yesterday / And nobody can help us - there’s no cause or cure - but I wont - let them through the door when they come and try to take - her away to the asylum where she’ll be sedated inside a padded room every day / Things got really strange the day she forgot my name - what the hell? / She trembles and quakes from the mutinous pain - she’s not well / And I can’t do this all by myself - I call the specialists up and I plead for their help / But they’re giving us the run-around and sending us all over the town / Maybe I should have called an exorcist instead / They wont let us leave and she refuses to pee for the tests / to her it’s just movie and the best seats are inside her head / Why don’t they serve liquor at the hospital? I need a sti drink - I need an entire bottle / I’m gonna drown my nerves in alcohol till they’re all dead / ‘Cause these doctors haven’t listened to a god damn word I’ve said / I just want her back - the same person that she was before - her normal self again - I’m not listening to those friends / Saying I should just leave - she’s still here she’s just lost in her head / I’m with her till the end - because that’s love.
3.
Headlights 03:16
Lefttheheadlightsoninmybrainallnight, nowmybattery’sdead./Clickclickgroanwiththeignition,norecollection,norecognition./Who areyou/whoamI,/Givemeajumpstartandwe’lltakeadrive/theroadglowsredwiththebloodofthesun/Re ectedinthetearsofthesky/Head/lights/I see your black tights running / Late / Nights / I see your barrel / Gunning me down / Hatred ows both ways in ts / Disregarding gravity / Evil lacking just pretense / Leaden law no brevity / A stubborn mind is a stubborn mind / Extract the truth leave the sour rind / Your cheeks turn pale when you glance at the atlas, and see what we’ve left behind. / Is your perspective / so superior / Give me the evidence / Sans ethos / you’re just another screeching mouth / Take o ense, / I’m not playing defense this time / My words are tailored to in ame / Your structure isn’t sound / I’ve seen it all a million times / I’ll burn it to the ground / No matter your / denomination / The timbers burn the same / And when the smoke and saviors fade / Only embers heal the lame / I will be king of this hill / Recklessly defend my kill / No reason, no right / to the moral high ground / Sliding down / Clutching shale / The hands will bleed / The voice will fail / But we climbed this far / Maybe we lost track / Are you more afraid of what’s in store / Or more afraid / of turning back? / Maybe you won’t like what you nd tonight / 'cause you’re afraid of my kind / And Maybe if you take a deep look inside / The mirror there will drive you blind. / Push the pedal to the rust / The chassis will return to dust / Drive forever look behind / The world is spent/ please rewind.
4.
Lost Toys 03:23
Hold your applause till the end please / The ride isn’t over / The writers are overboard! / Oh yeah / Your worth can be shown with a ten key / We’re never sober / And we never wanna be / Free but we don’t want to be bought / We want the chase but we don’t want to get caught/ Take a good look at the pressure gauge / The end isn’t here yet / But god damn its coming for me / Try and retreat from a shark attack / There’s blood in the water / And we never wanna be / Killed but we want everlasting fame / We want to win but we refuse to play the game / If we survive the ending / What should we expect? / A crown for all that we’ve acquired / Our world is just a speck / Our blackened sacri ces / And every idol we erect / Won’t satisfy our lust for gold / Or the gods around our neck / And all the lost toys sing a song of freedom from the void/I saw the future / When we bit into the rind / There’s darkness all around us but that doesn’t make us blind / Flaws in the woodwork / Starting to sink / We know were taking water but its worse than we think / This is more than a concept / This is tradition / A sickening masterpiece / Oh yeah / What a disaster / Riddled with atrophy / Where will we nd relief / We wanna run the race but we’re getting old / We wanna take the leap but the water’s cold / Here lies the corpse of a brave new world / Strangled to death with smoke and gold.
5.
River 05:45
Where did we leave o - years ago / The time moves quickly past us / Is your conscience clean - is your heart full? / Or was that all washed away? / Tried swimming back to you-fought the current- but no up stream progress/You look so forlorn stripped of your essence/You struggle to make your way to the banks - I’m swept further down - and we’re both claimed by the river / Don’t succumb to the amnesia - distance and time - measured in waves between us/ keep your head above - Don’t just give up the last shred of us / How the torrent carves / Sculpting our shapes / erasing our features / Save for the scars / and the heartache / which weigh us down in the water / Tried reaching out to you / Did you see me? / Think the tide pulled you under / Is the dam- age done? / Have you surrendered? / Should I bother to take / this last desperate breath? / Would it be a mistake if I saved you from the river? / I can’t help but wonder - what our lives would be like - had you not drowned / And I can’t stand the timbre of this ticking clock, I hate the sound / The noise of rushing water is a constant reminder of my loss / I think the dam is breaking and I don’t believe the flood can be stopped / It can’t be stopped / The strongest bonds can be broken over time / It dismantles and drains our eroded lives / What a god damn fool - that I was even surprised / that I even imagined our neglected love could survive / Maybe I was wrong - and you’re alright / but the years have been cruel - and I’ve realized / If I hold out hope I’m just begging to be denied.
6.
Flying Low 03:58
ately I’ve been so low / All I can do is think of you / Are you still ying solo? / Tossing, turning, tangled in my sheets / I’ve struck a killing blow/Wait/Don’t turn and walk away/We’ve got so much to say/Can you feel it/Hey/I’ll put it on display/I don’t know how to play/With the other kids/Pray/ It’s hot and plain as day / I love the way you fray / Lets burn and see it / Grey / And I can’t find a way / To bring the color back / I’ll stay in my imaginarium / Where everything is just the way that I want it / I’ll be flying low / So I can see your flare when you light it / I took my turn, I took my chances / I’ve run amuck in my romances / Frustrated and confused / I’ve been loved and I’ve been used / If you took a moment to look through your tears / You’d see that I was crying too / Great / I’ve come around too late / I Guess it’s my mistake / Fucking classic / Rain / Call o this bloody game / Lets move it to a day / With no weather / Stay / I’ll eat your perfect brain / I love the way you say / We are endless / Pain / Is like an evil stain / I can’t keep it at bay / It fades in my imaginarium.
7.
Zombie Bride 04:39
No one throws funerals for zombies / They’re rather dificult to bury you see / and they tend to make quite a scene / some repulsive eulogies / Not to mention their poor hygiene / These days a co n can be pricey / Just think, give it a day at tops a week / And her grave will be empty / Zombies took her away / Thought she was gone but now she’s back from the grave / And there’s nowhere I can hide from my reanimated bride / Her death was tragic to me / but she belongs in the cemetery / And my arms are getting so tired from digging holes six feet deep / that she crawls out of with ease / Let me be clear I’m not the monster / Be- fore her death I never wronged her / And I played no role in how she died / We lived a pretty average life / Now she wont give me any space / She stands crookedly outside my place for days / I’m fed up with the constant chase / And her decaying face / Zombies took her away / Thought she was gone but now she’s back from the grave / And there’s nowhere I can hide from my reanimated bride / Her death was tragic to me / but she belongs in the cemetery / And my voice is getting so hoarse from beg- ging her to rest in peace / But she can’t understand my pleas / Tighten her blindfold and light her cigarette / It’s time to truly put this to an end / No family or former friends / Just the ring squad and the undead / She has no last words she’s incapable of regret / Just don’t forget to aim for her head / I cant watch - I’m too upset / and I wont pretend that my heart will mend. / Run as fast as I can - she’ll never be / Far behind - to haunt my mind / Over the crypt and the bodies / Against the gate / Her sudden weight / Her teeth sink in / My mortal skin / is wearing thin / It feels so strange - after the bite / A numbing wave creeps up my spine and I / Seem to be having trouble recalling all the reasons why / I run away / But now I’m not afraid / I’m finally free from all the pain / If you can’t beat em why not join them / It’s pleasant feeling no emotion - At last / Now that’s all buried in the past / This wasn’t my ideal solution / A gruesome excuse for a conclusion / Oh well - it beats an eternity in hell.
8.
Mad sun party for a hundred days / You think of love in very strange ways / Frothing at the mouth with a thousand strays / You set me aflame /warm your hands by the blaze / Eat me, Drink me / Swell out of your clothes and cry me an ocean / Shrink down to nothing and drown in your sorrow / Love me / Leave me / It’s what I want with you so cut me wide open / Think nothing of me and don’t call me tomorrow / Mad sun beauty you’re a tough act to follow / With a love so full that you leave me hollow / I just saw the queen of hearts and she wants your head / She’ll have to pry it from my hands when I’m cold and dead.

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released September 23, 2017

All songs written and performed by The Great Aerodrome
Recorded and produced by Jared Meyer, Felipe Patino, and James Anderson
Mastered by Jason Livermore
Album cover photo by Ivan Brovkin (www.flickr.com/photos/ivanbrovkin/)
Album visual design/back cover by Justin Maul

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