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Break The Kettles and Sink The Ship

by Johnny Mainstream

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1.
Audrey Horne 03:35
when she feels alone she has a keycard to my hotel room it's very simple honey, red means stay away and green means go a soft metal click, break the kettles and sink the ship i've gambled away everything i had, she bites her lip no one's gonna love you like a telephone baby keeps on growing until one day she blows there are no voices in the static no matter how hard you comb she's cautiously coy, you almost hear the waver in her voice turning every second thought or reason not into white noise the damage is done, you're far too young to not believe in love she likes the way that sweat prevents her skin from ever really being touched no one's gonna love you like a telephone baby keeps on growing until one day she blows there are no voices in the static no matter how hard you comb and everything comes crashing in a tidal wave draining the pacific in a teenaged haze some things last for ever while some blow up in your face i only fall in love with leading ladies and i promised you the part now you only fall in love with leading men and i know it's both our fault i never was i hate to say this but no one's gonna love you like a telephone tearing through your suitcase in a frantic hope but no numbered cocktail napkin will stop you from getting old and everything comes crashing in your tidal wave knocking down the buildings on the coastal plain i'll leave a keycard with the front desk if you ever decide to stay
2.
i was caught up on the shoreline island bus i took it to the circle line then on to charring cross suddenly i was lost in a crowd and sudden pacific crashed pretty loud i was caught up on the long end of your love didn't know what else to do but sit and wait for you to come i suddenly heard that terrible sound sudden pacific burned to the ground you tell me you're leaving on a boat bound for brooklyn in the summer and i'm a fool for believing that you would stay one more winter when the staleness of our love had settled in to your bones and left it like a ghost it will be months before you hear the news in time we'll all see the humor in this
3.
you stay up late drinking aged red wine i stay in bed almost all the time and i'd call you up, but i don't want to be a bother you go to work in your fancy car i sleep till noon then i bike to bars and i'd invite you out but i don't think you'd ever come here 'cause you like real high class clubs and i play in dive bars you go to galas in the city with rich movie stars but if you wanna hang out i got a show and i can put you on the guest list you own a house in the french country side i got a rent two months behind and i'd invite you up but i don't think you'd wanna stay here you go for guys with investment plans i blow my money on gear for the band and i'd write you a song but i don't think you'd wanna hear it 'cause you like real fancy things that i can't afford but if you think you've got enough and don't need anymore and you wanna hang out i got a show and i can put you on the guest list
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BTKASTS 00:32
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The Warden 03:53
i knew the warden she used to run with my best friend she kept a key around her neck on her chest that beat in time like a name on a donor list or like scratches in a sentence it's a metaphor but for what i'm not too sure you stay up drinking in your room from the fountain of the youth but you didn't know what to do with all that time so now you wander across the land searching for something you had at one point but since got lost along the way so there you stay i had a key made i cut the teeth like a cityscape i know that notch is the spot where we met for the first time like a dream that i just can't shake parole that i had to break now they're trailing me like i'm a flight risk escapee in all my failed attempts at grace and then trying to save face i fell in and our of love in record time and it's not cause for an alarm just with age you lost your charm and you'll never get it back as long as you're looking for it i know the warden she runs around with my ex best friend now the key dangles so close that i can almost reach out and grab it
6.
took a photo of you on the train you fell asleep listening to the rain on the window tap, tap, tap on the window i've tried so hard since to make this frame spring into life or to pull me in but it's wasted, just some light on a paper i'm sorry i don't get lonely more often that i let you believe there was something here to protect you when the hurricane came through i left you all alone end of school daze in an upstate town you left me note on a paper towel said call me if you ever want me to come back around i keep it with things that i can't forget a box in my drawer, in a song in my head to remind me why i can't settle down and i'm sorry i don't get lonely more often that i let you believe there was something here to protect you when the hurricane came through i left you all alone last thing i heard you moved out of state met a new man and got married and i blew it you don't think i know that i blew it? they say that we all have one true love sometimes i fear we don't all match up if it's true then, i'll just have to happy for you then and i'm sorry i don't get lonely more often that i let you believe there was something here to protect you when the hurricane came through i left you all alone
7.
Mystic 05:04
drove myself to mystic blinded by the rising of the sun from the moment that i met you i looked for reasons not to fall in love it's a city underwater it's a play about the surging of the tides i'm sorry about brooklyn i was broken, i was out of my mind i went to new york city from a window seat i stared out at the coast in a box full of people it's not hard to feel completely alone i thought maybe i'd see you i practiced exactly what i'd say i apologize for texting you that night it was a mistake i built a ship and loaded it with everything i own set the sail and pushed it off into the long island sound but this one won't sink, i charted my course like blood in my veins and a beat in my heart and i won't return, i won't cut my sail you said you don't love me, that you never will i headed up new england buoyed by my new sense of resolve searching for some solitude the gentle calm embrace of the fall i thought i was an island i thought i stood apart from all the rest but i'm not sorry about what i did it was true, and it had to be said i wrote a play and filled the stage with everyone i knew then cut each scene and every role until it was just me and you the hero won't die, he'll just peter out like air from my lungs and the words in my mouth and i will sail straight, i charted my course like blood in my veins and a beat in my heart and i won't return because the last thing you said was that you still love me, that you always did and i don't want to come home to find that it's not true anymore for all the things you said you saw so clearly from where you stood on chelsea pier for all the things that i can see so clearly i watched the ships, they disappeared when i wake up in the morning two hundred miles east with a pounding in my head and a flutter in my chest i close my eyes and wonder, try to conjure up your face i'll know that you meant something but won't remember what it was

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released June 23, 2015

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