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Animals (Organ Morgan Remix)

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01. Animals (Organ Morgan Remix)
bears are back and broke in june
in walks a dog with a man tattoo
i must say i'm a little confused
what you doing just hanging in the street
i'm a sloth who'd you think you'd meet
john titor in the southern heat

everyone i've met has a spark
a grizzly bear in their wild rampant heart
a frantic rabbit that's running
running through the dark

i'm a deer that ain't been shot yet
i'm running clear through my disappearing forest
infinity is not for the best
i get the drift that i might be off
i seen a look and i heard a cough
there's no animal that could make me stop

Demos

We are currently in the demo process for our first full-length album, which is yet to be titled. Keep checking back for tidbits, snippets and morsels of all sorts as And the Relatives continue slaving over our soundboard and behind our instruments. Slated for release in 2009.

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01. Bereavement (Demo)
let's have a seat in the baseball dirt
swat at the june and scope out the skirts
my my how we've grown
it's on and on and on

meet the man at high noon
he breaks a switch
makes the kiddies swoon
the mothers fawn so predictably
it's so vanilla that it must be seen
to believe

bereavement
of the top of the pyramid
oh what a pity
bereavement
of your personal identity
oh what a pity

i said
don't look at me like you own the sky
and then he pulled out the papers

get to work
lose your will and your mind
don't do yourself any favors

now it's 1985
all we're seeing is black and white
all we're hearing is stars and stripes
all we're wearing is black and white
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02. Not The Passion (Demo)
wheelies in wheelchairs
hardwood floor
scuffed

we own the moves
if kind hands and holders
bring the buzz
minus abuse
air sucking boulders
rolling down clenched molars

(trumpets and shit)

can a pacifist make love
to a fisticuffs struck dumb
and still remain with his cause

outside
warm in the whiskey sun
leading the troops
spotted broken fools
with bleeding hearts
crying martyr martyr
soul's on fire
joan of arc is rolling over

well i guess it comes natural to some
takes a pity gallon to make them done
i guess it comes natural to some
takes a pity gallon to make them come

can a pacifist make love
to a fisticuffs struck dumb
and still remain with his cause

could you stop that screaming
it's just that ears are steaming hot
it's not the passion i mind

Animals

Engineered, produced and recorded by And the Relatives in 2007 and 2008 at Mustache East in Nashville, TN. The artwork was designed by Kyle Scudder. The first pressing was released in November 2008. Hard copies can be purchased at Grimey's, The Groove and at And the Relatives' shows.

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01. Cowboy Jazz
not another day
in this feral place
i wanna go to the east side
brighten my face

take my ass away
from this flat indulgent plane

there's got to be another way to make a funny face
there's got to be a better way to make a funny face

hyperbole is just a place i go
a phalange on my totem pole
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02. Animals
bears are back and broke in june
in walks a dog with a man tattoo
i must say i'm a little confused
what you doing just hanging in the street
i'm a sloth who'd you think you'd meet
john titor in the southern heat

everyone i've met has a spark
a grizzly bear in their wild rampant heart
a frantic rabbit that's running
running through the dark

i'm a deer that ain't been shot yet
i'm running clear through my disappearing forest
infinity is not for the best
i get the drift that i might be off
i seen a look and i heard a cough
there's no animal that could make me stop
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03. Dixie Cups
gimme i
need it i
finicky i
need it want it no i don’t
i can’t remember what i owe the world
when there’s an air-conditioned jacket

here use my license i don’t care
have a drink have five while you’re there
relax in your apartment
imagine maid service talk shit
sing a song to yourself
about how much you love your fingers

what kind of person names a neighborhood plantation
kick all the bigots involved in organization
i’ll have a smoke and be on my way
through the heart of suburbia a flaccid day
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04. Marie
with shoes well-worn follow these steps
into oblivion
i miss your face your fists your shape
but stay away from forlorn

go where the sun is shining
free from chains of binding
the powers that be are no more

last friday your birthday i saw you were walking
little stone carvings my friends and i were talking about
some kind of peace from the ether I felt in a dream
it was neither naïve nor completely blown steam
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05. Lower Case
i’ve seen the sun melt the night sky
i’ve seen the deluge fall on the mightiest of mighty
i ain’t seen no almighty

i’ve seen the caps turn into lower case
i’ve seen a polar bear with sad face
loungin’ on the beach
he ain’t seen no almighty

heat bombs fall on you
making you old news
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06. Spoon Daddy
simple ways simple crimes
simple people in a similar time
a simple song so soothe and croon
a miner’s tune left beneath the moon

convincingly simple people with simple eyes
when thought out loud composed surprise
there will be no merit without first a doubt
no room to build when you’re sold out and proud

Talking To My Fingers

Produced and recorded by And the Relatives. Engineered by Jim DeBlanc and And the Relatives in December 2006 at Beaird Music Group in Nashville, TN. One very limited pressing was released in the spring of 2007 with handmade packaging and artwork by And the Relatives and Kyle Scudder.

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01. Mule
old lady left me today
it's been 8 years
3 months and 7 days

and i ain't got nothing to say
except this smile been wiped off my face

said to leave her alone
you better take your shit
get out of my home

(reading lots of important magazines)
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02. The Castle
drop drop drop
there's a leak in the block
just keep on abusing
buzzed page perusing
you're a book
i'm noting cliff's for the vault

knock knock knock
at the door it's a cop
no it's not
it's just some kid
but come and see what he did
there's a burning bush on the lawn

more cryptic things have been done
when twilight's sprung

shrug it off
adjust and cough
close the door
lightning bolt the lock
forget it
the dude's got shot
and we've got silver bullets to stop
any wolves that come in here
any rock man that comes near

low level lighting
fumbling
ash on the floor
stumble into the ward
nasty's treading hard above
keeping castle walls crumbling for fast love
playing more and more

(do do doobidy do)
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03. Oceanic
baked salty skin
is my impression
of you in the ocean
an even lick from the sun

when did i go
come back to me
or please
let me be

i can see it in my dreams
i can feel it in my dreams
i can hear it in my dreams
i can taste those sultry beams

you scare me like dark water
getting hotter and hotter
harder to resist a dive

the tide is all i see
in ink blots and concrete
even though we've never been

you know you can now
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04. Sleep Waltzing
i hope you sleep well tonight
hope you don't need it
hope you dream heavenly flight
hope you repeat it

i'll try not to wake you
with loose loving hands
i could never break your silky landscape
no chance
or cut all your strings
with my fiery demands again

hope you don't forget the good things
and make peace with the worst
hope we outlive this trifling
don't think the world's going to end first

give me peace like deep sleep
with loose loving hands
never break the sanctity of anything
with your plans
or cut anyone's strings
with your fiery demands again

these are my wishes
just to let up on the stiffness
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05. Killing Machine
this feeling's not over
dark feeling's not over

this feeling's not over
your hand on her shoulder
veil catching the tears
staring down at the mother's dead soldier

gave his life for combustion lover
lost his wife for a puppet government

by the time that everybody knows
it's too late because they started the show

this feeling's not healing
sick feeling's not healing

this feeling's not healing
she was only 14
they chose to rape
and play the role of the vikings

stuck inside of the killing machine
fucked our freedom now we'll never be clean

by the time that we've all learned to stick
in our boundaries
we're all stuck in the thicket

(jammin on the 1 baby)