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Hey Oblivion | The Suborbitals

by Heroic Dose Records

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1.
Crazier 03:43
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Crazier Reason is ice clinking in your drink I think because I am so sad About the why’s I used to have Have is, have was, have lost is naught I bought the whole damn dream I thought It was guaran-fucking-teed Believe it or not I thought I was crazier, but I was wrong Believe it or not I thought I was crazier, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong… Who taught who to play with knives? We fooled the fools, we played both sides We sacrificed our lives I believe in all the rules Your little trick proved them true They always ask about you CHORUS Catch a fist of lightning, swing at the ghost Sing a song broken—broken off at the throat Bury all the money, float out on the tide There’s nothing more you need to hide CHORUS Pour me another, pour me another Pour me another and I’ll…
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Easy 03:54
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Easy When I was younger much younger than now it was graveyards and candlewax vows how I'd never be taken alive Now that I've miraculously survived the rites of my furious spring I still cling to my arrows and slings Easy, it's not easy, it's not easy to believe Never is forever better beware if you stare too long into the lair then the beast, it will notice you're there Where have my suicide lovers all gone? Breaking bottles of red bravado over quietly patient headstones Easy, it's not easy, it's not easy to be- leave me now leave me while you still can to my crow and the worms in my wine. So absurd, the things I once wished for in glorious vain I was young and insane. When I was younger much younger than now it was graveyards and candlewax vows how I'd never be taken alive
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Elemental 03:00
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Elemental Yeah, the skies would open wide We’d forget about the time When you walked me, walked me in on Side, we talked about the rain How the thunder came What the weather said about our… Fate ain’t accidental Fate it’s elemental Yeah, you showed me all the rooms In your little cocoon Told me how the ‘burbs was killing you Were lovely, out of place Exotic and ornate Queen of the gypsies, queen of Grace ain’t accidental Grace it’s elemental And afterwards, you wondered aloud Love is absurd, but I can’t live without it Are you your word? I know the sound of Colliding worlds. Why? No need to ask no why No need to even try Love is thunder, love is very High, catch lightning when it strikes The kite is in the sky The key unlocks the rest of our sweet Life ain’t accidental Life it’s elemental Elemental, elemental, elemental…
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The Devil's Dance Card 04:20
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The Devil’s Dance Card Deep within the earth, along the world’s seam The band must play all night, this feverish dream Down here no heroes, only survivors We dance the tango, we are on fire Down here no heroes, only survivors The devil’s dance card is saved for you and I My love, her hair ablaze, her feet clickety-click-clack She dances through this maze, she’s never coming back CHORUS Burning up we float across the dance floor The devil’s counting time and two and three four Our souls as graceful as a fish on fire Damned to sing in this infernal choir Join us we are yours, we are eternal Dancing on all fours, we are infernal CHORUS
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Let's Forget It For A While 05:10
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Let’s Forget It For Awhile Once upon a time I used to die I died for fun, not so long ago This girl I knew she was just as fun as me And we were doomed to wild joy and misery Wicked, sparkly pinwheels in her eyes, She cried, "The end is near!" Paralyzed by the horror of it all I said "And so it is, my dear." All right, things fall apart now the center cannot hold Hold tight, crush the very life out of things you hold most dear Don't fear, we all go out the same way we came in But since we're here, you and I should love each other madly 'Til the bed breaks and we're happy and the dead they sadly smile. Let's forget it for awhile Let's forget it for awhile Hidden in the woods I had a friend I loved this man, a brother 'til the end He'd sing into the telephone at night And write poems with hidden messages. He tied a bungee cord around his neck And left a note that wasn't poetry. He was loved but his body on the floor Well, it failed me as a metaphor. CHORUS Oh Dayn, what have we done? Oh Dayn, what have we done? CHORUS
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Only Half Here 03:15
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Only Half Here Man they call me crazy 'cause I'm only half here Dreams when I'm sleeping are twice as real as The hours I spend lost in this weird machine I wobble through the world like a broken wheel But the view isn't all that bad I always get the sense that it's merely invention The story in my head and this mirror's reflection Afraid I got no time for your intervention 'Cause I got no sense of self-preservation But the view isn't all that bad I smash and grab the very things That keep me on my knees I beg you darling please Forget all the words I sing Just hum the melody Because that's really the only honest thing about me. Sorry that I sound like a broken record Something is amiss but it's hard to measure Whether I'm a mess or it entropy Things are hard to gauge when you don't think No, the view isn't all that bad
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Wise Blood 05:32
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Wise Blood In between the cocktail hours and the form-fitting plastic I am a mold of your body, it fits fantastic You realize no one is watching, maybe no one ever was I am the wise blood that feeds you, I feed you just because Swing low sister Roll your body down Swing low sister Roll your body… Lay me down in your garden of blown glass—where the beasts have been Lick rain from the heaven inside us, your eyes are votive flames We realize no one is watching, maybe no one ever was You are the wise blood that feeds me, you feed me just because CHORUS To all the nights we burned between our fingers All signs of life we squeezed like little triggers How long? Baby, I don’t know. Nothing lasts forever It comes undone. In between the cocktail hours and the form-fitting plastic I am a mold of your body, it fits fantastic You realize no one is watching, maybe no one ever was I am the wise blood that feeds you, I feed you just because CHORUS
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Klutina 04:32
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Klutina Klutina holds him all night long Klutina sings her sweet black song Dreams of drowning lucidly Klutina, how the mountains weep Klutina, where the waters feed Out to the Copper, to the sea Eyes of light cold heartbeat Rock his body off to sleep Silt and salmon, fast and deep Whisper secrets while they eat Klutina holds him lovingly Klutina flows furiously Dreams of drowning lucidly Klutina’s waters never slow Klutina never lets him go He’s hers now don’t you know And the view from below Nice as heaven’s I suppose Nestled in her logjam hold Swaying gently in her undertow Klutina holds him all night long Klutina sings her sweet black song Dreams of drowning lucidly Klutina how the mountains weep Klutina where the waters feed Out to the Copper, to the sea Eyes of light cold heartbeat Rock his body off to sleep Silt and salmon fast and deep Whisper secrets while they eat Klutina, Klutina, Klutina…
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Bone Tea 04:20
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Bone Tea Sipping bone tea from porcelain cups I try to remember where it was I fucked up The ants will devour all my rose petal lies Let me pour you another for the sake of old times Low sigh sweet, turn the tea she would say Husks of bees piled high on her plate Dipping watches in boiling pots The second hand dripping, squeezed in a knot The leaves are for reading, the future is steam Cast your spell on the sugar to curdle the cream Low sigh sweet, turn the tea she would say Husks of bees piled high on her plate Locust casing tea bags full of witch's breath brew something for the dying and something for you Sipping bone tea from porcelain cups I try to remember where it was I fucked up The ants will devour all my rose petal lies Let me pour you another for the sake of old times
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Hey Oblivion 03:00
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Hey Oblivion I remember now Seems so simple that I Wonder how I could forget We start lost to be found Every time it’s the Same old search round and round Beginning blind we are bound by an unbroken cord cobalt blue, slowly unwound Hey Oblivion When I first walked I was walking towards you Hey Oblivion Now we’re found let’s walk round and round and round and round
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Finding Mnemosyne 03:01
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Finding Mnemosyne Buried in a redwood box Borne upon the spores collecting Sailing cold, dark waters The flow of an underground stream Set the timers, fertilize the crops Let the germ grow inside you On the endless playas The cries of the thing inside your head Finding Mnemosyne, Finding Mnemosyne When you finally recognized that you weren’t alone It already called your body temporarily home Do you remember long before we lost our way, How it seemed so easy, dancing with the demons, Dayn? We left the door wide open and the dancers came to stay How we recognized them, how we loved them... Finding Mnemosyne
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Aquanaut 05:52
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Aquanaut Blind like me, blind like me Dive Aquanaut, tighten your brass-fitted head gear Dive Aquanaut, ensure that your airways are all clear Dive Aquanaut, descend ever-darker atmospheres Dive Aquanaut, to slay for me what I fear most On the bottom it feeds, on the bottom it feeds Blind like me Blind like me, blind like me Dive Aquanaut, spear me my many-armed reason Dive Aquanaut, silence the sound of my sirens Dive Aquanaut, net me my private leviathan Dive Aquanaut, slay for me what I fear most On the bottom it feeds, on the bottom it feeds Blind like me Dredge me free, I’m losing all feeling down here All this fear is crushing my tin can body Dive Aquanaut, we’ll honor your madness and folly Dive Aquanaut, salute the still silent waters Dive Aquanaut, slip a stone-weighted casket Dive Aquanaut, after you into the sea On the bottom it feeds, on the bottom it feeds Blind like me Blind like me, blind like me
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Nevada Shoulder 03:25
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Nevada Shoulder Nevada Shoulder soft and deep Lay the child down to sleep She’s yours to keep out there Softly hold her In your sands remold her Soft and deep Nevada shoulder How have you consoled her? Is she older out there? Gently reap Lay the child down to sleep Desert wreckage sharp and cruel Broken glass and spilling fuel There’s only one truth out here Pinks and blood and blacks and blues Bathed in predawn desert hues Life seeps out and slowly pools Is it me or is it you? Gently reap Lay the child down to sleep Nevada Shoulder soft and deep Lay the child down to sleep She’s yours to keep out there

about

"Wickedly tight burlesque strip club music, the kind you'd find at a gentleman's club on the wrong side of the tracks, rife with deep tones from the sax and theatrical vocals." -Popdust

"The smart, clever alt-folk band Suborbitals is led by a born storyteller who projects plenty of character and wry humor." - Music Connection

"The Suborbitals are back as a recording band with outstanding results and Hey Oblivion! is quite unlike anything else you’ll in modern popular music today." - No Depression

"I wouldn’t think The Suborbitals ever get compared to anyone else. It’s a unique sound...and dark. It’s really wonderful.” - Sleepy John Sandidge, KPIG

"The Suborbitals never demonstrate need or desire to flash their virtuosic credentials and over-indulge their egos. Instead, the songs on this release are invariably cut to the bone, layered, but never cluttered or meandering." - Music Existence

"Alongside all of this is soul, poetry, subtlety and power cleverly intertwined. It’s an unexpected and beautifully enjoyable sound, and the concept is as bizarre as it is interesting." - Stereo Stickman

credits

released June 29, 2018

Lead Vox, Guitar – Ryan Masters
Bass – Heath Proskin
Baritone Sax, Flute, Percussion, Backing Vox – Ben Herod
Drums, Backing Vox – Fendel Yonkers

Featuring – Keith Bruecker: Backing Vox, Guitar on Devil’s Dance Card; Backing Vox, Piano on Let’s Forget It For Awhile; and Alaina Musich: Backing Vox on Bone Tea, Wise Blood.

All songs written by The Suborbitals except for The Devil’s Dance Card, which was written by The Suborbitals and Keith Bruecker; and Crazier, which was written by The Suborbitals, Bobbie Sullinger and Andy Carlyle.

Produced by The Suborbitals and Jesse DeCarlo
Recorded and mixed by Jesse DeCarlo
Mastered by Scott Craggs, Old Colony Mastering

*Part or all of Let’s Forget It for A While, Wise Blood, Elemental and Nevada Shoulder recorded at Substandard Studios, Pacific Grove, CA and a hidey hole deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

This album is dedicated to the memories of Susie Winn, Krist Anderson, Jeremiah Miller, Tripp Oakley and Dayn Schulman. It is also for the loved ones who urged us to keep swimming, despite the depths to which we had sunk. Finally, it is for Bob Johnson, who always kept it cool even when things were at their heaviest.

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