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Structure in Relief

by american splendor

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1.
Soft Light 03:01
why don't you touch me? why can't you love me too? its not that i can't believe, we've just never been introduced i don't blame you mama i could never quite sit still, its just this restlessness i can feel as the pedals wilt. can i scream my way for more time? does it work like late night carnival rides? well give me one more spin and the beauty in the bathrobe, she ran screaming through the town she was certain all the blue was falling down. i don't think you're crazy i think that you're just scare i just can't believe we could've ever been less prepared you'll never get what you need if you're holding your breath but if you bleed long enough you'll sure catch your death. so give me one more spin oh darling, you've always known best. keep your secrets locked behind your cold, closed lips. but I'm still here waiting, I'm shaking at the gates who's gonna let me in, its late. we're all alone. i know we're all alone.
2.
Pittsburgh 03:53
i think I'm losing touch these deep breaths, they don't feel like enough caution's capped the rapturous thunder of you, but the box beneath your bed remains full imbued with your smile, your laugh and your memories past, "if you're leavin', we've got some speakin' to do." i think you're giving up potential is never enough. fraying fast the fabric you've cut to extend, while you're burning down the wick that you've lit from both ends. is the cold conversation, still wearing your patience, for the cold? that sticks to your bones and follows you home. well you can't cast shadows here they'll leave you alone out on your own. you search, for something to chase. while we stretch the spectrum in place your gallows gathering dust.
3.
Judith 03:52
baby bottle blue, you've let your colors molt away in a trade for love, its never to be true. while your sister's sleeping softly on a balustrade of silence ask your questions, i doubt she'll answer you. cloistered coffers cluttered with a litany of lovers just to cauterize the craters punched in you. will you wait? for the fortune casting candy striper talking tongues in children's cypher idol babel biding by your bedside. while broken bound and bludgeoned with your heart preserved in traction its just a fraction of, the fortunes that you're due while we're straddling the states along the edges i can wait for the fold to bring us in, our hopes resolve. will you wait? for the fortune casting candy striper talking tongues in children's cypher idol babel biding by your bedside. for a glimpse, a gasp, between the misers forging lovers into lifers. manic masses moving through your insides. but Mary your fatal flaw you see, was you tried to love us all. you set the seed to soil and swore we would live forever. darling, you'd never know just how far these arms could row for the glow beyond the bay of slow surrender. for a taste, a touch, a timid talking a clearer course, out towards the crossing. clever conversation by the wayside.
4.
"caution crept between the words," she said. a sort of quiet conversation between myself and my own patience for myself itching through the last of what's left the shed. burning bathtubs bubble violet, just a taste for some peace and quiet. summer sands, they're slipping through your hands. braces your knees to catch your catapulted kin. we're all just waiting to begin. massive melting megaphones corrode. mix the silence and displace, patient structures rust in place. while stumbling we're all left crumbling, to a comfort caught put gently in it's place, young hearts all grown beneath the weight. and I'm not trying to let go but these hands aren't yours' to hold waiting, wishing someday isn't so. now break your broken bender, save what's to remember American Splender, on letting go, you'll find your feet. all the mistruths we'll learn to sleep through. calipers stretch and sweep, through the distances we'll learn to see though.

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released March 15, 2016

american splendor is:

jon graber - vocals, guitars, prepared piano, electric piano
reed wolcott - guitars and vocals
declan desart - bass guitar and grand piano
kenny schwartz - drums, percussion and prepared piano

gang vocals - american splendor and eva reistad

stories provided by - anita graber, christy barker, jp kohler, christine mahoney, declan desart, katie williams, jon graber and kenny schwartz

produced and engineered by jon graber, adam lasus and eva reistad.
additional engineering by brent ulrich
recorded at kingsize sound labs los angeles, ca and fireproof los angeles, ca.

mixed by jon graber at the ship los angeles, ca
mix assistant was pete novoa

mastered by roger seibel at sae mastering phoenix, az

songs and lyrics by jon graber

artwork by christine mahoney and katie williams

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