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On Which To Build A Home

by A Solid Foundation

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1.
Groundwork 03:19
If the sun burned down your pathetic little card house would you just build it back up without a second thought of the skies above? Start somewhere new Give yourself something to build on Give yourself a chance If the rivers rose To flood your home Would you just dry it right out and never consider moving to higher ground? If a land slide buried you And everything you owned Would you already have arranged For your family To mark your home as your grave? Your life is a house you build with what you've learned To protect you. To keep you safe from the world. But you're picking up the pieces from every failed design And forgetting them deep in The back of your mind. Your mistakes lay the groundwork It's up to you to build and improve.
2.
I'm neck deep in my inability to leave I'd run away but I can't seem to see my feet. I can't breathe I'm sweating more and more in this heat. The pull in my chest has now itself been pulled west And Portland's just as far away As Boston used to be. No rooftop has ever seemed shelter enough to keep out the storms in my head I've never been brave enough to run away and I'm too much of a coward to stay
3.
Anchors 04:04
We've moved through These past few years With anchors on our feet And the sidewalks have been worn down by the soles of our shoes. Like tires do to the downtown streets When it rains those ruts fill to the brim and these anchors drag us under, They drag us up to our necks and still we move. I shouldn't have to feel fixed here like the trees I climbed in years I've left so far behind. With my roots dug deep against my will My limbs sway in the wind Reaching For a shovel to dig myself out of the ground. To fall and be free, or decompose Both are a means of escape Like wolf in a trap I think I'd rather bite off my leg then die in this place It's like my life is a glass house I can see the way out but I'm locked inside and there not a single stone to be found. Beating my oars against this current, well I might as well be beating a dead horse. Cause I'm getting I'm getting no where I haven't been before. I can't be the only one. I guess I'm the only one So many parts of me are dead now. That what growing up Must be about. So many parts of me died long ago.
4.
A vein feeds loneliness through every of inch of me And it runs deep under the stone layer I call my skin, right down to my cracked and dried out finger tips, that I'd be using to reach out but its desert as far as the eye can see barren And lonelier Than a tumbleweed. But there's not a bone in my body that I'd trade to have you back. Not a bone in my body that I haven't cracked when my joints start to ache while I dont even notice all the thoughts that used to drive me insane. My head is a cavern filled with Nothing but echoes. Memories that are dead to me. Those echoes should've faded with time But no They just continue to deafen me Red eyed and ready to call it a night. I am awake and I will be for a while. Bracing myself for an onslaught of reasons to leave No rooftop has ever seemed shelter enough to keep out the storms in my head And every town that I've seen Had mazes of streets Designed to help me to leave. I've never been brave enough to run away but I'm too much of a coward to stay. So run away run away run away There's no reason to be afraid You'll be doing yourself a favor I'm scared shitless The world is daunting I'm terrified of everything But I can't take one more minute of This place I'm leaving without a note or a trace left behind. It's not about the people who don't seem to have a genuine bone beneath their skin It's about the empires of towering thoughts that collapse and pile up on me When I think about spending the rest Of my life standing still feeling myself crumble and break just like them. A mountain is strong But An An avalanche would destroy me I'll take my chances I'd rather be buried alive Than erode and decay
5.
I long to live in a place Where the days and nights are equally colder Than the set of flawless shoulders you gave me For the duration of the last 3 Months Where "speaking terms" was a term for the lack of better words For me spending all my time trying to talk to you. More like me fighting tooth and nail for a shred of truth from you just to fail. At the time You wouldn't make a sound I guess I know now You were silent For a reason We planted those seeds in Eachothers hearts way back in December 09 and they grew like vines, hands intertwined, until strangled with weeds, hollow and dry we pulled apart With no water I tried Reaching for the skies But without you it's damn near impossible To survive I though you wanted to grow together I thought you wanted us to thrive Those petals, once perfect Fell off one by one Like dead sunflowers Withered in the sun. Like the nicest bouquet I threw myself at your feet. And there I laid trampled In the blistering heat.

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We will have CD's available at A&M Theatre on 8/28 for PC's Summerfest 2016! Left-over CD's and tapes (coming soon) will be available on this page after Summerfest.

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released March 4, 2016

Justin Premo- Vocals
Stephen Washburn- Guitar
Matt Guidry- Bass Guitar
Andrew Giles- Drums

Christopher Eubanks- Featured Vocals on Track 4

Recorded by Javan Irving at the A&M Theatre and Little Room In Florida Studios.

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