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Apostrophe Catastrophe

by Griffin & The True Believers

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1.
Long Distance Funk 02:47
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make you miss your plane i'll lash you to the raft with your arms pinned and heavy clothes that take in rain make real sure that we can't swim your head is full of spoons hear them rattling around we are hungry but no one gets inside there no one gets inside there again breathe sure if you breathe at all walk sure if you walk at all oh, stay. what kept us afloat was just the water itself it didn't know how the cold compass of my lungs the wild logic of my skin reads now but the streets still hold that high note that says the train is coming breathe sure if you breathe at all walk sure if you walk at all oh stay. don't move they can hear your weight don't move they can smell all movement stay.
2.
For Chris Hondros 05:08
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friend of a friend was shot dead at war taking pictures for newspapers freshly split church doors high and hungry church ceilings the ritual of what they know as wrong and right (vs.) the ritual of what we know is right now freshly spit out from the train, wearing their suits casualties of good stock fill the room with famous people look away from the body you can go fast you can go slow you can go "hey, it's worth it" we all go friend of a friend came back from war 200lbs all 200lbs terrific view from here but it makes people ill try not to think about it it doesn't have to go like this, does it have to go like this? TRY terrific view from here but it makes people sick there are casualties for good stock photos wrestle it down, catholic, make it stick look away from the body you can go fast or you can go slow singing or screaming we all go back home people talk about it waiting for the bus, people read rub their hands pink rub their hands casually on their jeans, red what's the wait, what's the wait, what's the wait for? what's the weight, what's the weight, what's the weight for? don't have to know now. don't have to think of it now. don't have to know now. don't have to think of it now.
3.
Spoons 02:27
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we had run out of spoons on the day when someone i barely knew died we had run out of spoons i called you once and there was nothing at all when things get too precise fill the sink up fill the sink up fill the sink up this is as big as we are we are once and then there is nothing at all i am very attached to the things that i am very attached to i am very attached to the things that i am very attached to we had run out of spoons so i turned the radio on, i turned the laundry on, i turned the sink on and i did the dishes i am very attached to the things that i am very attached to i am very attached to the things that i am very attached to til i'm not
4.
Hello Is There Anybody In There? 04:40
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I SAW SOMETHING I SHOULDN'T HAVE SEEN I DID SOMETHING I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE (i fear the bottom's so bright we'll think we're swimming towards air i've got a bad sense of light and direction so i'd better be sure we're going up) JUST DON'T EVER BE AFRAID AGAIN (i won't)
5.
Huge Lorry 03:20
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kiss the fingers that will touch the light so the light touches them clean down to the leaden marrow, spine like flares that we share with our heavy eyes (x3) pay your tiny tributes to your friends (your friends! your friends!) if they are myths, call them myths if they are friends, call them pay attention the argument of lawyers and birds your feet on the stairs you say we never pay for it all but we pay for it all, we pay for it all i said i'd move before the library got built and then the library got built IT'S STUPEFYING stand still! stand still! if i'm gonna be fine, i'd better be fine if i'm gonna be mad, i'd better be mad there is no smile that breaks my teeth there is no sunset but the city there is no smile that breaks my teeth there is no sunset but the city goes red (redder than you'd believe) no. this has nothing to do with me. this has nothing to do with me. no. no. this has nothing to do with me. this has nothing to do with me. no.
6.
Tardis Blues 03:32
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small town arkansas new years eve four thousand little bodies rained down by the monument east berlin nervous rabbits gather we all witness this as best we can until we're swallowed we all witness this as best we can much like solitude it is uniform and smooth it makes gravy go wild like a noisy crowd it is terrible and loud but it sings just like a lost and lonely child you can't hold everything all at once in your hands, my friend, your hands most things they just fall apart in your hands whole centuries groan and give in your hands, my friend, your hands time cracks, time lives five hundred years from now dust and silt they will find all our shopping lists and think "how beautiful, small, strange and religious we once were!" five hundred years from now rabbits and birds will gather, will sing of how terrible we were oh, and you... you will witness this as best you can until you're swallowed you will witness this as best you can you will witness this as best you can, then you'll be swallowed you will witness this as best you can much like solitude it is uniform and smooth it makes gravity go wild like a noisy crowd it is terrible and loud but it sings just like a lost and lonely child well, you can't hold everything all at once in your hands, my friend, your hands most things they just fall apart in your hands whole centuries groan and give in your hands, my friend, your hands time cracks, time lives la la la la la la keep our heads about the water la la la la keep us afloat la la la la la keep our heads above the water la la la la keep us afloat
7.
Might Not Get Better 00:41
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it might not get better for a long time, if ever but you're going to get used to it
8.
Gone Gone Gone 04:54
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you've already jumped nothing shattered touch your chin, your jaw your constellation face you're intact a solid that we never knew anyway packs up, leaves us rattling around impossibly small, stiff teeth noiseless here are your hands, your pants, your pants pockets, your hands make use of them WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRUST THE GROUND IS GONNA HOLD US the tenderness that you reserve for pictures of yourself very young the time you showed me garbage, saplings so so many birds we were very, very young seeing faces of the people that you used to know in everyone else keeps them looking young the song, the sound, the frog in mud asleep all of them, very very young the fall that you have already begun make use of it WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRUST THE GROUND IS GONNA HOLD US the house you feared, though fire in it's closet - GONE the shadow of a baseball card collection in the basement - GONE the mother of your friend who spit out all her teeth one afternoon - IS GONE the signs we saw, we surely saw, all of us are - EVERYWHERE GONE take a candle light the way climb up take a candle light the way climb up WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRUST THE GROUND IS GONNA HOLD US (x3) these walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound you will not know what you have lost until it's already been found roots you have, they have already been planted in the dark, cold, thin, wet ground everyone's a voyeur and they're watching me watch them watch me right now WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TRUST THE GROUND IS GONNA HOLD US it's gone gone gone gone gone gone it's gone it's gone gone gone gone gone gone it's gone.
9.
Alma Avenue 04:01
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maybe there is no softer landing i mean right down at the source what we have might be unpleasant just truly unpleasant maybe there is no better contract the figures all shake out the same there is a foot or two of ice here that's all the difference i know a lady who swallowed a bottle, a brown horse, a fly and a bag i know a lady who swallow a birch tree, wet concrete and died of WHAT WE LEAVE LYING AROUND try pretty hard do what you can try pretty hard some of us just aren't gonna make it everything looks as if it's sleeping if you look from far away and if we fall, may we rise dripping defeating and angry, but glittering this may be our one great triumph this may be our only triumph if we fall may we rise very hard defeated and ashen, but glittering i know a guy who could swallow the seasons, the joints between never and when i know a guy who could swallow his own arm and still manage a grin AS IF BY MIRACLE try pretty hard do what you can try pretty hard some of us just aren't gonna make it
10.
For John Connor 05:27
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find all of my tiny holes and plug them up put on my socks and my shoes and leave the house hope that the lotto goes up so high take off my shoes when i come home (hum along anyway) i will need to learn the same things over and over and over i will need to learn the same things over and over when the air is so thick that it's soil, i might finally notice when the air is so thick that it's soil, i might plant something you said sing something simple you said sing something simple you said sing something simple to remember you said sing something simple museums i fear we will become museums i fear we will become museums i fear we will become a house on top of a lake on top of a city on top a house on top of a lake on top of a landfill let's not look for how this got started to find out how it might end and not look for how it got started in how it might end (hum along anyway) today i will feed my old answers to the winter today i will pull everything out but the weeds if it grows back let it grow back pull it out again let it grow back if it grows back let it grow back pull it out again when the air is so thick that it's soil when the air is so thick that it's soil when the air is so thick that it's soil plant something simple museums i fear we will become museums i fear we will become museums i fear we will become i had a friend. here's what he said. he said, "you learn all these things in hopes you might know them. because at least when you know, you know. and the sooner you know, they say, the better to fight it. the sooner you know, the better the fight is." but i think the sooner you know is just the sooner you know it. the sooner you know is the sooner you know.
11.
Less to Say 02:12
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if everything is happening happening and all we are is loosening loosening bones if we leave a mess of cooking and cleaning up when we go for all our friends, the cleaning up then i have less to say more ways to say it there's a story of a kid and a dog and some friends and they stick around here earthbound for awhile that's the sentence, the punchline, the joke and the papers and pens that's the letters that make the words i have less to say more ways to say it if i have to go anytime anytime then i want to haunt all of your practical things that's the burners, it's also the forks and the knives i want to linger as a smell or a tune i want to talk less i want to learn how to talk less 'cause i've got less to say
12.
Bad Wolf Bay (actual) 03:25
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an oboe of a man, tall stands at the shrillest beach, looking at his watch then at the clean expanse of rock first his watch, then at the clean expanse of rock all that he sees is the inside all that he sees is the inside all that he sees is the inside of how he got there in the first place fruit rusting on the vine, oh everything's gone metal, oh no fruit rusting on the vine, oh everything's gone metal, oh no decisions. you've got decisions to make. an oboe of a man braces the cruel departure: every moment mostly memory ends and then begins again the cruel departure: every moment she will arrive and then she'll go unless you see it backwards, oh no she will arrive and then she'll go unless this is a fixed point, oh no decisions. you've got decisions to make.
13.
The Perks of Being a Doorframe 03:42
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if it is coming coming fast let's wait for it in all the brightness turn every light on in the house wait for it in total brightness the doorknob really doesn't mind the dishes will not say a thing and i have waited already so long all our shiny neutral things ..... and i have waited already so long when the earthquakes come i will be useful then when the earthquakes come people pass through in and out and out i am sturdy, loud and crooked i can't hold the nothing nothing back i am sturdy loud and crooked and i can love you fierce as caking mud easily as everywhere but i can't hold the nothing nothing back i am sturdy loud and crooked when the earthquakes come i will be useful then when the earthquakes come if it is coming coming let's wait for it in all the brightness turn every light on in the house wait for it in total brightness la. la. la.

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released June 14, 2012

recorded by: Ryan Newell, Sean Reany, Richard Laviolette, Mike Cacciatore, and Aaron Burns.

mixed by: bryan lyin and Ryan Newell

mastered by: bryan lyin

album art: maresi starzmann

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Griffin & The True Believers Toronto, Ontario

Griffin & The True Believers are Griffin Epstein, Aaron Burns, Mike Cacciatore, and Andrew Epstein. We live in Toronto, NYC, Los Angeles, and Athens, GA. We grew up on musical theater, anti-folk, punk rock and leafy greens.

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