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the colors and the kill

by sad accordions

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1.
sweep me off my feet what did you find in the back seat, officer? i can explain myself what did you find in the back seat? i offered her a slow go around on your lopsided waterwheel spinnin' out forever caught ya - spit it out and don't let me ever find you falling back on that bad news we all heard about your... everybody knows about your... (but you're in good company) cos i was high at the top of the hill when that call came at me in flame my legs were shaking but that voice was so still and now its got me stretched out over all of my names all of those dusty dusty paragraph hyphenated, downstream overrated concubine alibis - upstaged and confiscated heat blastin' gutter spouts death dodgin' desert trout got my shit all scattered about because i'm secretly an... bet you never took me for an... don't you wish you'd never seen my... can't forget the place i found that... raise it up and wave it like an... bear it with you back into the... once more, dear friends now with me... lay it down again and again again again and can you hear me when i...
2.
i can't look anymore i won't read what you wrote i can barely live my life is it already night? i just woke from the last one not long ago does this ever start to feel right what are you standing there for? got your face to the window and your back to the door is that a good way to die? i have read the reports i have heard the stories of how the cancer grows till you can't stand upright so please don't show me any more i don't want to see clearly what my fears already know that we will never survive with the devil outside you can't hide (from the devil outside)
3.
fallen czars 04:24
they're filling all the houses in with sand they're trying to erase all memory of the man he didn't necessarily do anything wrong but he spoke his mind, yeah he spoke his mind he didn't necessarily say he wasn't on their side but he spoke in rhymes that confused their minds he tried to stick it out and make amends but when shit got tough caught the first train to east berlin he got a place with a couple cabaret stars above the besirk mitte bordello called "the fallen czar" they'd drink all night, they'd sleep all day they'd make love in the back of a corner cafe he didn't necessarily do anything wrong but he lost his mind, yeah he lost his mind so he sips his tea with a rag company all the sons of fallen stars so properly obscene
4.
Savage 07:35
i walked to the city's edge i climbed atop the high cliffs i looked out across the sea as the sun rose to meet the water, i held my breath and waited for the face of something a little savagery's all i need and the night came and the stars fell and my eyes shown and the deeps swelled with new life and cold fire high city walls protect us from the waters' arms bring me my love in earthen jars but see my child is safe and warm the wind speaks up terrible the winter waves are far from meek but i have spoken with the gulls and they do not intend to rescue me a little savagery's all i need
5.
inside out 05:22
shake yourself apart into shapes that will not hold hold this sacred heart safely till i go away from here again down that line that winds around the bend forever at my door! forever at my door! pointing into the horizon like and open wound i pour myself into, i've torn myself in two i've worn myself right through and now i'm burning from the indside, buring from the inside out they say every grain of sand and every little star knows the master plan that's hidden in my heart but my heart is like a dance floor - boom boom boom looking for a miracle, an empty tomb to be hung over in from drinking at the fountain of my youth wasted on beauty, waiting on truth waiting on the night to come alive! waiting on the gods to take this fire from me and put it to use i cant' take you in the summer i can't face you in the sun i can't be led to the water just to watch the water run i can see you from the tower of my shame i can make out the words, but i can't say your name i can stand here forever if you think i should i'd dance with you if i could love, but i'm still burning from the inside out
6.
see the river run run into the hills cuts a line between the colors and the kill leaves them torn apart separate and flanked by the sky, lit cold and stark unfolded like the face of our arid unmarked parts i will often wake in the thicket of the night with an open wound inside my heated mind where a certain voice has sway over any peace or bliss and she will see me hanged for all my dead promises for all the days that i tried my love take off your shoes we don't need them to run meet me on the roof on the surface of the sun where we will always burn and we may never learn but we will never turn no we will never turn we will never turn we'll stand our ground and burn we'll die and then return then our love will be true and my Self will be through and all my old ways will be new and my "i"s will all be "you"s in my darkest breath in the longest hour in my time of need my holy desert flower

about

Some time has passed since the Austin based 5 piece outfit Sad Accordions have released any recorded material, but the band is now set to release the follow-up to their full length A Bad Year For The Sharons. The 6 song EP titled the colors and the kill will be released digitally on March 1st, 2011 with limited edition hand designed CD's available from the band and at their shows.

Recorded and mixed by Andrew Hernandez (Balmorhea, Tiny Vipers, Sleep Whale) @ Premium Recordings in Austin, TX, the 6 song EP finds Sad Accordions delving into a songwriting format not previously heard recorded. A recording that will begin to define the evolution of the band and its collaborative songwriting style as each track passes. Slow building rockers that collapse into sonic landscapes cohabiting with delicate looping acoustics and moody lyrical intensity.

"To us, this record feels like the beginning steps of becoming a different kind of band than the one that we have been. It feels like a collective growth, one that we've all experienced and participated in together. We're very happy to have it out in other people's ears, and we're looking forward to seeing how we continue to grow and to change, as individuals and as a band." -Seth Woods

credits

released March 1, 2011

arranged and produced by sad accordions and andrew hernandez
recorded and mixed by andrew hernandez @ premium recordings, austin, tx july 2009
mastered by carl saff @ saff mastering, chicago, il
painting: ben lance
design and art direction: joy gallagher

sad accordions are: joy gallagher, nathaniel gallagher, lee kitchens, ben lance, seth woods
additional vocals on "inside out" by andrew hernandez

all songs:
music by sad accordions, lyrics by seth woods, © 2011 sad accordions/firemarshall productions,
except:
"sacrificial chumpsucker diatribe" music by ben lance, lyrics by seth woods © 2011 pillbox publishing/firemarshall productions;
"fallen czars" music and lyrics by ben lance © 2011 pillbox publishing;
"the holy desert blooms" music and lyrics by seth woods © 2011 firemarshall productions.



and if the duty of my dejections
takes me into the sky, no one
must follow me. Not mother
made of balsa wood, not father,
the plinth. Even you, my love,
must not get covered with that ash.

Why am I so afraid of nothingness?
My soul is a baby wolf.

- from "the new savagery" by dean young

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