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wherehouse eternal

by Dark Tones

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1.
i sing this song and i'm alone there isn't anybody home write down some books i'd like to read i'm taking stock of everything (it's not hard) i found your figure in the dark all the silence and all the noise i couldn't recognize your voice walked by the lake and saw myself and the empty branches jutting out
2.
Fog Song 04:54
i was driving and i wanted to stop to take pictures of the reservoir but it all just looks the same I guess i’ll drive to Kane’s “what was it that you possibly saw?” just trees rippling in the fog - things i won’t remember and there’s a song you wrote when you were ten years old and you didn’t know a whole lot about how the world works and maybe your ten year old self and who you are right now will finally meet one day shake hands and walk away but what i saw, in the fog let me in, or so i thought i'm afraid that nothing will come of the pictures that i took in the mist or my songs and i don't wanna open my mouth how hard can i make things for myself? i don't remember and maybe we just don't know and we're all just staring out of windows watching those feelings go away maybe we'll meet back with them one day and i brush my hand through my hair snow falls through the air and then it dies well let's just let it lie
3.
i had a dream about effortlessness i had a dream about effortlessness there was nothing that i thought was worth asking about that i didn't already know i had a dream about effortlessness i had a dream about effortlessness i could take a walk in the open and not have to worry about where i stood and i wouldn't have to try anymore i had a dream about effortlessness i had a dream where i didn't exist but i could summon myself in an instant (not that i actually would) and i wouldn't have to hide anymore i wasn't afraid of my own perception, i could see the world for what it was worth and i don't want to try anymore
4.
i've seen another ghost, another castaway i've seen another ghost, another castaway they used to ring the bell, now they just look on they used to ring the bell, now they just look all day long walking down 7th ave i'm nothing heaven would have if you find me will you let me know? i can tell you i will come to i'm counting down the days until i come up for air i'm counting down the days until i come up for air i dreamt that lewis died, died without his share i dreamt that lewis died and no one even cared it's hard to tell you the truth when you don't know what you do if you find me would you let me know? i can tell you i will come to
5.
Blood Flows 03:35
don't do it, jimmy don't blow your nose in the shower you know what happens your blood will run down your face but it's relieving to know your blood flows its relieving, and ohhh sooo stressful but i could never hope to figure things out the wind blows and i'm standing still on the sidewalk i’m at the punk show and i feel my feet on the hard cement i'm in the crowd at silent barn and i'm all too aware of all of the space i'm taking up and the way my body is made up and the water is still pouring and the bloody tissues still line the trash but it's relieving to know your blood flows it's relieving, and ohhhhhhhhh soooOOOoooo stressful but i could never hope to figure things out at all
6.
Am I OK? 04:20
as long as i'm still breathing and all my skin's still on me held onto for safekeeping and my shoulders are clear and nice for once in my life been awfully suspicious that i'm no longer ambitious the light inside keeps dwindling and i'm asking myself as if it's never been am i okay? am i okay? am i okay? am i okay? if you say it's still distorted how long can i ignore it? my words are so misleading but no one will believe me i'm afraid i won't stop needing all the things i put beneath me but you say that i'm still breathing like all good things are leaving am i okay? am i okay? am i okay? am i okay? there's nothing on the shelf but a lifetime of feeling bad for myself whatever you had told me it's something i'm still holding there's nothing worth unveiling and it seems like no one's scared of failing i think the rips in the seams are now showing i'm going nowhere and I know it when everybody's all so easygoing it feels like i'm just wasting away it's like that scene out of potemkin where the people are all running and it goes on for forever and it doesn't really hold together at all am i okay? am i okay? am i okay? am i okay? i kept the things that didn't help without a thought as to how they felt for you, for sure there's nothing awful anymore but the lights still go off in the day am i okay?
7.
Comets 03:22
pull the skin off my lip settle down, take the trip i wouldn't make it easy for me now the stars don't align no need to ask, i feel just fine i think i'm gonna go get a chocolate milk old christmas lights flicker off in the night i think there might be something to me now but i can't tell for sure you think you know? you don't at all comets hurdling through the sky are just a bunch of rocks that caught on fire
8.
i imagined a snowbank frozen in ice and a person in a house, frozen inside songs never heard, films never seen so many words, suffocating heat i imagined a ghastly feeling on the back of my neck and a menacing hovering voice telling me not to forget so forget i won’t, this is all i could be less than unknown, suffocating heat i imagined a house that everybody knew and everybody played and everyone came through but there's never been a scene and there won't ever be it's only ever me falling underneath you're on your own see what you've been shown you're all alone a broken telephone you can't repair
9.
friday night i'm finally free do you wanna see a movie with me? el topo's playing at the IFC there's nowhere else i'd rather be kicking all the dirt off of my shoes walking across town to you the sunshine's playing dazed and confused way over on second avenue fences rusted over from the rain and i'm still scraping off the paint if everything i know and don't is the same then what do i even have to gain? stayed up late again watching halloween staring in the dark at a small TV screen i'm so tired of cutting my teeth everything's like nothing i've seen
10.
i stared down a hallway and i couldn't see the end all of the doors were suspended in air just out of my reach how could that be fair? i stared down a hallway thinking, "nothing could be important here, why can't I stay forever? take time and pull myself together, or maybe just look on? at whatever comes past?" solitude's forbidding, look around and maybe try to touch the ceiling and say "it doesn't have to mean anything" (regarding the hallway) and now i'm here, staring down this hallway waiting for someone to stumble upon it, come and pull my dumb ass out, hardly making a sound while i stare the fucker down emptiness permitting, feel around and reach some sort of end and fall off floating in unbounded nothingness and who then is to blame for it?
11.
Sunday Sun 03:39
i hate the sunday sun shining down on me like a storm i could be the only one but the way it hits me just makes me feel so small held on to a lot of things, held on to so many i just couldn't let them all fall waking up on the saturdays wondering just what the hell my problem is at all i hate reaching for the stars just want them to fall on me like i know they will the way they are seems so bizarre and it’s just a matter of simply sitting still i don't know why every time i write i can only focus on all the ways i haven't changed sometimes when i'm alone at night, i swear i almost hear someone calling out my name, saying "James, you're not alone in this anymore" but i wanna see them fall i hate the sunday sun shining down on me since the day i was born i know now i'm the only one but it's way too big and it won't leave me alone it's so hard seeing eye to eye when you hardly feel like you should even be in sight waking up on the finer days i get so down when i see the light outside i just want some clouds in my life

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written throughout 2014/2015, recorded jan-sept 2015 in a basement in saugus and a dorm room in new york

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released November 13, 2015

thomas biery - saxophone on 9
seth fatouh - vocals on 1, 2, 8, 10
chris masih - vocals on 11
zoe zelkind - vocals on 2, 10, 11
everything else by j malzone

thanks to chris, shaun, zoe, seth, thomas, brian, dan, abby, everyone from boston hassle, any1 else whos been really cool/nice+who make things i like. yeah


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