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GIVE UP GIVE IN

You gauge it out before it’s ever ending.
Chances are you never meant to lose.
Consequence that paid something for nothing.
Never seems to work out like you planned.

So don’t back down, before you’re found…

Give up give in,
never again,
when everyone wants you,
when everyone wants you bad.

Children sing don’t hang your heads, get to it.
Time is only several years away.
Pages upon pages, meaning nothing.
For paying tolls before your ever through.

So change your mind, before it’s time…

It’s hard to tell when you cant let go.
It’s easier when it feels like home,
but you will never know,
no you will never know…

When everyone wants you,
when everyone wants you bad.

MIDNIGHT MOON

Don’t be disturbed now,
I won’t settle down.
You need to trust yourself,
while I try to find the time.

I hear you knocking, but I won’t give in.
I feel you breathing, but I won’t pretend…

Midnight moon, sees straight through,
everything, everything’s okay, it’s okay.

You, should try to find another way,
save the best for another day.
I'm just another one,
lost and lonely cause I’m young.

I hear you knocking, but I won’t give in.
I feel you swinging, but I won’t say when…

I’m not the one,
to tell you to your face.
You won’t believe,
the side of me that fakes.

I, need to find what I have lost,
so, I don’t tell you off…

FREE TO FLY

Should have never wrote this song,
but I just did it anyway,
so I hope you hear me out.
It seems to me, that you have seen,
another sacred memory,
you’re feeling better than the best.
If you want to let it go, let it go…

It’s crazy how the night descends when you’re around,
and I’m free, yeah I’m free to fly.

So watch your step, before your mouth,
so you don’t fall back down again,
leave the talking up to me.
Cause you and I, we both have known,
I say just what I want to say,
cause there’s nothing holding back.
If you want to let it go, let it go…

Cause I wanted to know.
How far should I go?
If you figured me out,
just let me in.

And I’m free, and I’m free...

Should have never wrote this song,
but I just did it anyway, so I hope you heard me out.

SUNDAY MORNING

Early Sunday morning
I just jumped into my car,
to find a place to rest my head
no matter if it’s far.
The weekend has arrived
and I just put her down to drive,
forgetting what I've done before
and I just let it ride.

So what if I came to your door in the morning?
Would you help me to find my way home?

Cause everybody’s crazy in the mornings,
trying to find a way to carry on.
Cause everybody’s crazy in the mornings,
and I urge you to sing along.

Looking out my window thinking
“how can I complain?”
A man around the corner was just
begging for my change.
I gave him what I had and said
“I hope you’re doing fine.”
He looked at me with bloodshot
eyes and said “I will survive.”

So what if I came to your door in the morning?
Would you help me to find my way home?

So here’s our revolution, from angles
measured far from home.

DO IT FOR YOU

I don’t know what you mean,
maybe I just look to far in to it.
It’s not what it once seemed,
I guess I’ll just be on my own.
Underneath this tree,
it’s casting thousands of other shadows.
It’s making me believe,
that now I can see on my own.

So don’t jump to it, take it slow,
pack your things before it’s time to go,
and if you do, do it for you.

This traffic seems so slow,
only the core of the heart that matters.
No better way to go,
then watching your dreams as you die.

So don’t jump to it, take it slow,
pack your things before it’s time to go,
and if you do, do it for you.
They could leave at any time,
grab your things before you fall behind,
and if you do, do it for you.

Cause without you, you,
it’s not easy, its not easy.
Cause without you, you,
it’s not easy, its not easy.

GOOD DAY

Listen here, have you ever felt that it’s weird?
To make sense of what has appeared?
When you thought you gave it away?
Hold it tight, don’t forget to tell her goodnight,
lay around to know that you might,
if you step where someone belongs.

Playing records all night long…

I’m straying from the things I used to know,
you’re winning but I’ll never let it show.
It’s going to be a good day,
it’s going to be a good, good day.

Meditate, while you campaign for your escape,
get the highest approval rate,
then you let out what you designed.
Make believe, until someone else gets it free,
convince everyone that you see,
as you’re tearing pieces away.

Folding letters through the day…

I’m straying from the things I used to know,
you’re winning but I’ll never let it show.
It’s going to be a good day,
it’s going to be a good, good day.
Believe me when I say that I won’t go,
promise that I’ll never say hello.
It’s going to be a good day,
it’s going to be a good, good day.

What a drag that you left here,
this could never be worn,
I could never,
I could never see…

It’s going to be a good, good day...

GIVE ME A SIGN

Make what you want from what I want from this,
cradle the lies that you could not admit,
it wasn’t all that I wanted,
it’s all that I needed instead.
Sing to the music till you lose your voice,
pray for forgiveness till you have no choice,
it wasn’t all that I wanted,
it’s all that I needed instead.

So why cant I just get this through my head?

Give me a sign,
give me a sign, I want to know.
Give me a sign, before I decide
to let it all go.

I said it’s 30 when I’ll stray from this,
no sense in waiting if I’ll never miss,
it wasn’t all that I wanted,
it’s all that I needed instead.
When immaturity gets in your way,
of what you want and what you can’t display,
it wasn’t all that I wanted,
it’s all that I needed instead.

So why cant I just get this through my head?

Cause I know,
it’s gonna take it’s toll, on me.
When you say,
“no longer is there vacancy.”

So why can’t I just get this through,
why can’t I just get this through my head?

WE ARE

I’d never thought that I’d be here.
I’d never thought that I’d be,
but then the blink of an eye.
I’d never thought that I’d be here, after all…

We are,
so far,
from where,
we need to be.

We need to make it together.
We need to make it the same way that we
built it all up.
We need to make it together, after all…

Cause I don’t ever think that
we’ll ever change our minds.
Cause were hanging on to
dollar bills and one-two lines.
When you’ve made your proposition,
now you’re out of time.

TRUE LOVE (WILL FIND YOU IN THE END)

True love will find you in the end.
You’re gonna find out who was your friend.

Don’t be sad, I know you will.
Don’t give up until...
True love will find you in the end.

This is a promise with a catch.
Only if you’re looking, will it find you.
Cause true love is searching for you too.
How can it recognize unless you step out into the light?

True love will find you in the end.
You’re gonna find out who was your friend.

ORDINARY TOWN

Hello stranger, where have you been,
for so damn long?
I haven’t found anything
that turns me on,
I've seen it all…

Don’t settle down,
in this ordinary town.
Don’t settle down,
in this ordinary, this ordinary town.

All day, day dream, can you believe,
it’s over now?
Taillights flashing, make me believe,
it’s on you how,
I can’t recall…

I can’t believe, that I,
have waited for so long, for you,
to tear me down,
when I don’t mind.

HOTEL LOBBY MAGAZINE

This town is empty now
and everyone’s alone.
Besides the flat lined ones who
never made it home.
I’ve got this feeling that this could be
a long, long time.

There’s no truth and there’s no
comfort in this place.
Besides the locked up things we’re
keeping just in case.
Those things aren’t really real unless we
want some fun.

I’m just warning you before I have to go.
Farewell to all these streets and everyone I know.
From shallow waters to the deepest of the seas.
I hope I’ll never have to live a scene from a hotel lobby magazine.

Evolved from something but we
just can’t point it out.
Death, love, and happiness is
what it’s all about.
I’ve got this feeling that this could be
my final cry.

I’m just warning you before I have to go.
Farewell to all these streets and everyone I know.
From shallow waters to the deepest of the seas.
I hope I’ll never have to live a scene from a hotel lobby magazine.

This is why I’m falling,
this is why I’m falling.
This is why I’m falling down.
True love mixed with pleasure,
when my heart’s not together.
This is why I’m falling down, again...

I’m just warning you before I have to go.
Farewell to all my friends and everyone I know.
From shallow waters to the deepest of the seas.
I hope I’ll never have to live a scene from a hotel lobby magazine.

All songs written by Cord Carpenter, except for “True Love (Will Find You In The End)” written by Daniel Johnston.

Produced by Daniel Duerr and Rich Williams for ECEG Records.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Rich Williams at Paradise Recording in Santa Cruz, California. Edited by Daniel Duerr and Kevin Thayer. Photography by Dina Scoppettone. Artwork by Engin Korkmaz. Manufactured in the United States by Recordpressing.com.

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