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The Quiet End of the Space Age

by A Relative Term

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1.
Undiscovered Light from the far side that an object common gives truth under described, or the space age on its last legs with a limp exchanged for the sight of a message posted on a wall for kicks and called connection like all the two line comments in the world could catch the imagination's eye, dilated from replaced florescent skies and your complexion sullied on the tail end of a message impending Dust awash in ice, call it crazy, call it anything, just call it undiscovered light, so quietly the space age laid to rest Undiscovered light, so quietly the space age laid to rest
2.
All you are is a shard of carbon thrown far from logic and into the dark sea of yourself where people trade places with names and voices growing thin as if given in to this sarcastic measure of time Into the night we'll burn so bright All that direction serves is to remind me I am falling into this vast and approaching nothing and everything colored with the shapes marking diverging paths in our lives Into the night we'll burn so bright From this great height, I'm blinded by line of sight but I see all my mistakes Into the night, this precious night, into the night we'll burn so bright All that matters is your wish made light of my body
3.
A Promise 03:59
In my hand there is a promise in Hollywood there is a starlet I dream about East Los Angeles she don't sleep so she won't dream of forgiveness Streetlights seep in through motel curtains drawn tight rolling wheels of the passing truck sweep through the night and I lay awake and pretend none of it's real it's just a punch line for a joking politician; popcorn stand in the carnival made for children In her hand she holds a notice addressed from someplace back East all but forgotten and she thinks about the river grass in Memphis but she don't read so she won't feel it's kindness In my hand there is a promise in Hollywood there is an actress I dream about Los Angeles she don't sleep so she won't dream of forgiveness
4.
How I imagine you alone in your room and how we left it that I'd be back home soon but maybe I can't but I hope that you know that I forgot to mention that I was lost in the spaces between your voice and the sky calling up How I image you had thought of me leaving as a way to distance myself of the strain and maybe I was but not for that sole purpose and I forgot to mention that I was planning this as my last flight, for our new life I had been saving up To be imagined as a comet bursting to be imagined as a flicker of acetate to be imagined by any other name and I forgot to mention how I'll love to say your name in the coming night, down the sky of dusk and I forgot to mention how I'll love to imagine your arms surrounding me as my last thought
5.
Indications 04:05
Stop sign side ways headlights display fear that breathes in darkness turn right then straight sharp lines blurring and your voice cracks like glass about to break you open up the drawer where you keep your silent contentions and I see your hand tracing her picture, going on ten years or so and so what Indications all read like it's the same but maybe not The curse under your breath's that nothin' ever changes and we go out to a bar dressed like it was some kind of event Some living And we empty out our pockets for what is nothing but a scam and I hear that you're wasted and driving yourself home again Same old same Same old same Same old same
6.
Compulsion twists a knife in us so as to see the world twist back or to laugh Composed and drowned in self applause conditioning uncommon thoughts spun around Though my hands be swift may I provide, in absence keep a blazing fire Opposites seem like enough or closer to the randomness turned precision and laughter is a pricey cost, an order of self imposed, questioned thought Though my hands be swift may I provide, in absence keep a blazing fire
7.
To Let Go 05:30
As you cross this town in your memory remember the parts of ground that made you feel safe and enjoy it although you'll never be apart from the feelings that hold you inside of your head I can't help believing in you if only just once, you've ever been right and I can't help believing this world, it's spin and it's course, the dizzying plain and you fight this although you'll never win cause it's only a part of being a part of it's never ending spinning I can't help believing in you as if you were the gravity holding my place and I can't help believing this world, it's spinning in change But I'm not about to let go I'm not about to let go and I'm not about to let go I'm not about to let go ...not about to let go
8.
Days in Fire 04:30
Sure I felt it as the rock slid against my palm with a burst so loud and intense it's echo flickered the stars Days we gave to fire all we had, in fire all we had to lose Sure I felt it as my hand detached from my arm with a reaction so intent on anything but giving up Days we gave to fire all we had, in fire all we had to lose At best the colors of this warm blooded animal might contrast the cold and dark endlessness to follow and change this canvas untouched with one last stroke, turn it beautiful At best we'll be this all, at worst we'll just drift apart from days we gave to fire all we had, in fire all we had all we had all we had in fire
9.
Destroyers 06:16
We are all points of light in constant revolution pinholes shot into the sky as we try to relate to one another while our identities the darkness demarcates Don't we laugh it off we can, we can, we cannot hide we build destroyers of light and we fake it all we can, we can, we cannot hide our fascination with our own lives and we believe it all we can, we can, we cannot hide under a conscious daylight and we laugh it off we can, we can, we cannot hide our faces branding constructed time and we laugh it off we can, we can, we cannot hide we built this night just the way we like and we feel it all we can, we can, we cannot hide we build destroyers of light but we belong to one another, one day we'll find we're all we have in this endlessly spinning sky
10.
What If 04:51
Said of this life, the best of what you could make and pretend like it wasn't what you believed In a house built of walls turned a shelter made of what ifs Blink like it wasn't what you perceived Gone unnoticed in memories turned to mirrors wished let go And what if you're not what you wanted to be and what if you're not what you wanted to be and what if

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The interconnectedness, space, distance, and time we experience with one another.

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released November 6, 2015

Mark Longolucco: acoustic guitar, drums, vocals, electric guitar, glockenspiel, keyboards
Jake Bernhardt: electric guitar, keyboards
Peter Williams: bass, keyboards

Bill Sack performs the steam ocillator on tracks 1, 10
David Adamczyk performs the violin on track 3
Emily Pumm and Kayla Rizzo perform the backing vocals on tracks 8, 10
Josh Elford performs the piano on track 6
John Longolucco performs the backing vocals on track 6
Grant Koepka performs the organ on track 7
Vic Lazar performs the additional electric guitar on track 4

Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

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