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Amiable Monster

by Andrew's Ether

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1.
you see me out here, day by day, I'm looking for whomever cross my mind I'm looking for a better, better way day by day I'd settle for a little more this time I'm looking for some better, better pay maybe a mask I'll never find maybe the wasteland is the shrine I'm coming up dirty, laughing, wise you can on the other, other side have you ever seen the other side? ever kill to keep your dream alive? have you ever died inside your womb? have you met the one who carried you? is the water deep, is the water full? is the water deep, is it wonderful? there's so much noise, confusing place I'm picking my eyes up off the ground I'm picking at the wires of the cage confusing place I'm walking my circles 'round the sun I'm doing my time out of the shade not easy to reach the other side I'm pulling up dead weight mile they tell me it's right outside my door but I'm gluing my forehead to the floor now, keep that head up and keep that arrow straight no one said it would be easy to face no more golden sun, holy father only rising roads and breaking waters is the water deep, is the water full? is the water deep, is it wonderful? the dream is alive here, have you seen her? nightshade on the windowsill and mold in the mirror keys, percussion: Will Harbison lyrics, vocals: Kellie Johnson keys: Calum Foster-Bayliss guitar: Sam Harbison pipa: Chris Stephens
2.
Mild mannered, coffee dumb how you’re feeling matters none sentimental and too young up for whatever, down for love, for love you’re so gracious when you’re buzzed you don’t have to spill your blood we turn water into wine we can save you for a price so kick your shoes off and watch the skinny people fight the cops (2x) if god is real his humor’s fucked modern apostles in four door trucks poppin xannies staying high the joys of burning subsidized by foreign weapons and saudi ties keeping christmas warm and white pump out the toys for the others guys then sleep the coke off while jesus drives sleep the coke off (jesus drives) how bout some smirnoff (jesus drives) now fuck your gold cross (jesus drives) turn up my punk-pop I’m sorry grandma I’m a nightmare I’m sorry stranger I’m no friend I’m sorry lover I’m in love with everyone pretend I’m sorry judge I shot the sheriff before I fucked the deputy I’m sorry dude if you’re embarrassed because you’re so attracted to me we’re so smart that we’re retarded we’re so tame we’re avant-garde we’re so open that we’re guarded we’re so soft we’re getting hard we’re so out there that we’re pop art and we’re so brave that were afraid and we’re so vacant that we're OCCUPIED all the same and we’re so crazy that we’re sober we’re so in your face we’re so self-aware we’re blameless we’re out of our minds and we’re in your brain we’re so underground we’re famous we’re so rich we’re underpaid we’re so well-read that we’re jaded we’re to privileged we act like slaves we’re the voice of a generation welcome to the information age I got a job to go on vacation became a priest to get myself laid drums: Will Harbison lyrics, vocals, keys: Calum Foster-Bayliss lead guitar: Sam Harbison lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass: Kellie Johnson
3.
waiting for you to come downstairs I was wildlife stalking my stars I was just listening for blasts (3x) shocked my senses to come inside drowned my ego to fall in line I was just waiting for the past (3x) I ride patient and stormy sands left my lightning with your dead I was just digging up the glass (3x) bass, lyrics, vocals: Kellie Johnson guitar: Calum Foster-Bayliss drums: Will Harbison
4.
Psalms knelt before me and I bowed, talking to witness lines founded upon choking and lip stains white aisles and french braids and whom did they all kiss? another girl in stolen hysterics I give you images to clear my mind alleviate the space your witches are my humankind but I've got that in spades so be uptown in make-up at half past 17 so I can finally shake one loose you pretty little thing I've been okay, I've been sleeping in I've been learning how to resent my friends, hey I've been okay, I've been writing a lot I've been telling lies and I've been getting caught sing, swallow me whole, swallow me whole my mama taught me how to get sold (2x) stay tiny and sober, marigold shoulders oh, what to do with me just another girl trying to get young and married so now you say that you've got a man and you like to keep it clean but you murder when you wash your hands don't play that shit with me I got a right mind to suds you up front and back so you can grin and squeal when you feel every little death swallow me whole, swallow me whole my mama taught me how to get sold (2x) white lily, black tea, lentil, salt, whiskey bass: Calum Foster-Bayliss guitar, lyrics, vocals: Kellie Johnson drums: Will Harbison
5.
REFRAIN: haven't you wrung me out? haven't you heard me sing? haven't you cried for more? haven't you cried for more? there is no underground we are not anything why don't you cry for more? haven't you cried for more? { said the vining in the tree said the vining welcome me old oak tree said the vining welcome me } limp off the scene and wise from its meaning you'll pay the price the judging isn't seeming to look twice for alibis in the dark laughing and waving, a poster of ravishing motion abysmal the timelines are hemorrhaging so which of us stays in the car? come on and show me the way I decided to leave all the crazy for love unrequited and didn't I sleep and die hard? REFRAIN keys: Calum Foster-Bayliss guitar: Sam Harbison lyrics, vocals: Kellie Johnson gratitune, other percussion: Will Harbison
6.
Icon 04:18
take your time now sweet in bitter asking gestures hope your questions pose to kill isn’t this still the target for your market smart but desperate I got breath left to steal you should come take the wheel or come take a seat watch me dance on your screen make believe with me and let the world watch itself burn in my eyes I am an Icon I am an H-bomb I am a light on in the dark you are an ocean blue with devotion you are an angel with no heart the secrets that we keep keep us passive in our acting cool for present company your tongue is stuck between your teeth still half laughing, love is fashion tell me who’d you wear this week I catch you wincing as we speak loose lips sink bigger ships than these your heart is on your sleeve but that don’t mean that it beats or bleeds the same as others do but I don’t need them and I don’t need you because, now hun I am an Icon I am an H-bomb I am a light on in the dark you are an ocean blue with devotion you are an angel with no heart well everybody feeds from the media's reflection who am I supposed to be? my dreams all read like magazines empty, polished, clean idolized perfection there’s no secret meaning see the young are fiending for the new and trendy the poisonous but friendly o dear god and MTV am I righteous? am I chic? live to you by satellite you can watch me day and night I’ll keep you company explain the things you see when to shit and when to speak when to piss and brush your teeth who to kill and why I’ll put you to sleep at night I am an Icon I am an H-bomb I am a light on in the dark you are an ocean blue with devotion you are an angel with no heart lyrics, vocals, guitar: Calum Foster-Bayliss backing vocals: Kellie Johnson percussion: Will Harbison
7.
she was an apathetic cynic but her heart it wasn’t in it took the five to the line then she sat there a minute the sun came up like yesterday, do tell how it fell when these business men are finished they’ll kill the daily grimace with a cocktail and cock-tease then with rat-race as jockey back home to wife or mistress where they can sit up in their thinking how we take comfort in our hell help I don’t want to live just another person help I don’t want to live without a purpose I don’t want to be just another fish in the sea I don’t want to have to believe when she was a child she believe in a god amongst the trees and the sod, the white porch facade time stood still in the missouri heat daddy pick me up, now baby brush your teeth well daddy was a military man because his daddy was a military man went off to shoot the japs in vietnam flew around the world in a tin can her tin can was a telephone no one called when they brought his bones help I don’t want to die just another person help I don’t want to die without a purpose I don’t want to be just another fish in the sea I don’t want to have to believe she knew who she was by who she could please strippin in clubs going down on her knees for drugs sometimes for currency the two of which the line thinned between said "give me something I can stick in my vein I want to know a God who takes away the pain at least detox is a devil that the doctors can name" and heroins a father who stays help I don’t want to live just another person help I don’t want to live without a purpose I don’t want to be just another fish in the sea I don’t want to have to believe acoustic guitar, vocals, lyrics, keys: Calum Foster-Bayliss electic guitar: Sam Harbison backing vocals: Kellie Johnson
8.
Baba Fururu 03:20
Baba fururu ore reo okanyenye eleyibo eleri fao basi ba sawo eyiborere basi bawo enuaye yawalo eyawaloro eleseo kaan guitar, bass: Sam Harbison drums: Will Harbison vocals: Kellie Johnson
9.
Blow Me Away 04:54
talk is cheap don't you speak your eyes are wide but you're not sayin a thing talk is cheap so you don't speak but you look alive for the boy of the week you're his girl and he's your world you take him to town then you give him a whirl be my girl , daybreaker and blow me away blow me away blow me away they say we don't fight we place nice we keep our fences occupied we don't fight we just name the price they want this dog to bite I'll burn their flags alive so can your christian skin be my sacrifice before they blow me away before they blow me away before they blow me away there's not much time take my hand don't leave me cold in a militant land there's not much time they've tied my hands oh, stars of love in darkened days say you'll watch me detonate they want my blood she's on her way talk is cheap so we don't speak our eyes are wide no need to say a thing when we go down resistance rising so you can blow me away yeah you can blow me away go on and blow me away acoustic guitar, lyrics, vocals: Kellie Johnson drums: Will Harbison bass, keys, electric guitar: Calum Foster-Bayliss
10.
The Way Out 08:11
I am the writing on your wall I am a checkmark I am a bloodstain I am a music and I am a curse I am your pretty bird I am hunting way out, way out there goes another one along the path short-sighted fellow naked in the grass here comes another time gone til its end oh, make to the gate and back again back again you should sell it with a sharp shot of novocaine the kids’ll tell it like they live long to know the pain and chase the credits with a hey man I know that name we could all be erased well she’s an actor but she doesn’t like her face today well he’s a captive but he likes the size of his cage the bartender makes her tips off charades but they will all be erased sweet jesus and a bloody mary I woke up in the obituary a half a sentence with a picture of my face but they will be erased my heart is heavy as a hand grenade my body’s been around like a cheap cliche I promise my promises break and you will be replaced when I was younger I would worship what they praise now that I’m older I’m the person that I faked on the shoulders of my father on the shoulders of his it’s kinda hard to hold the world when you’re just a little kid well you know you gotta work cause you know you gotta live cause you know you’re gonna die but you know you gotta give your best today, just like everyday wake up, pour a cup, shave a stranger's face drinking blood at my dinner table sitting across from a crooked angel it’s kinda strange to confuse fear with faith but I guess we make mistakes once i knew a lady in a cardboard house when I wouldn’t play cards she kicked me out and the city was big and all the same street signs like fingers pointing up at names well from way way up we’re just a blip in space a spec of dust on a razorblade all our monuments and their graves are soon to be erased well heaven’s gate has got a doorman too and guess what kid he’s better dressed than you showing up late in your birthday suit out of the blue, out of the blue a god ignored is a demon born both gods and demons take human form so be careful which you adore are we bored? are you bored? a god ignored is a demon born both gods and demons take human form so be careful which you adore are you bored? are you bored? both gods and demons take human form a god ignored is a demon born so be careful which you adore are you bored? are you bored? electric guitar, bass: Sam Harbison lyrics, acoustic guitar, vocals: Calum Foster-Bayliss lyrics, vocals: Kellie Johnson drums: Will Harbison

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written/recorded in three weeks flat in
Will's bedroom in
Columbia, Missouri in
June 2016.

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released August 10, 2016

Sam Harbison - guitar, bass, keyboard
Calum Foster-Bayliss- vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, lyrics
Will Harbison- drums, percussion, keyboard
Kellie Johnson - vocals, guitar, bass, lyrics

Pipa on The Other Side performed by Chris Stephens

All tracks produced by Will Harbison

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