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The House Leaks

by One Fell Swoop

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1.
What happened to the 1990s? What happened to the kid I used to be? Adolescence wasn’t what I thought It would be when I was fourteen It doesn’t make sense Was it just another fucked up dream Clear thoughts now black and white The world’s so bland and now I see My guardian angel all along has been Just heaven sent, lifelong embarrassment My testament is neither old or new It’s just the opposite of everything I thought was true It doesn’t get better It only gets harder to get back up Can’t remember a time where I felt like I was in control Of the world around me or the way the Future would unfold Insecurity, tainted purity Disillusioned with the illusion of safety Been thinking about that lately And the mess it’s made me Growing up wasn’t what I thought it’d be What happened to the kid I was What happened to me Don’t belong, anywhere to anyone or Anything, I don’t even care if I don’t Have nothing to prove I Don’t belong, anywhere to anyone or Anything, I don’t care I’ll always Have something to hold on to My thoughts won’t change, just rearrange I can’t rewind, stop or eject my mind If “all grown up” means “all fucked up” Maybe I’m a grownup after all
2.
Can’t walk, can’t talk with your foot in your mouth Got cold, my hopes all flew south This shame will stain your face forever The guilt you built around my life A wall so tall it blocks the light All I needed was a reminder That dreams don’t come true They just beat you black and blue ‘til you wake up shaking and confused In this life we lead, you can’t write with lead And the ink it bleeds onto the paper from the pen Can’t erase your mistakes Cross them out but you’ll know what they said Just skip a line, indent, begin again Thousands of dollars in the fountains, wishing wells Trying to buy something the world could never sell A penny saved is wisdom earned When will any of you people ever learn Wishes don’t come true They just beat you black and blue Water filled with rust and residue Always colored outside the lines Now my artwork looks like shit Never paid attention to the signs Now I’m wandering directionless Now is my life worth hanging on the fridge And can I keep living crossing every Unknown path and broken bridge Their words were never true They just beat me black and blue And the world keeps spinning on without a clue
3.
Kitchen Sunk 01:33
Why do I watch this stupid fucking show When I can’t sleep at night Could be looking for a million ways to feel alive It builds up anxiety, fear of the world outside And how easily today could be The last day of your life One day will I wake up And feel like this never happened Like life is something that I’m not trapped in I’ll just leave I’ll just leave it up to Who I’ll be when I wake up tomorrow To finally grow up and let it go High hopes overdosed and became ghosts When I needed them the most
4.
Here I stand with idle hands What does it take to be a man Can you ever help me understand Every day, face the world With tired eyes and scrambled words Can’t seem to get a hold My hands can’t take the cold Already twenty years old The man in the mirror Don’t seem to familiar Every time I try to speak He starts talking over me Stop walking with your head down, kid Stop running from the things that you did Wake up from this half dream and Start seeing someone else but me
5.
Never know what to say, you say it anyway Learn when to bite your tongue and shut your mouth Let go that so when the time comes you’ll know what to expect You’re in a fishbowl floating in the sea You’re in a birdcage hanging in a tree But when life leaves you bloody Broken nose and broken teeth With your back against the wall You’ve still got room to breathe A selfish coward is all you’ll ever be Until you learn to let go and set yourself free “I’m trying my best,” that’s what you said to me But you were lying through your teeth I know you always wanna look around, go slow Times change, you’re not the same you were before Just know life’s a dead end path sometimes You constantly claim that you’re In the wrong place at the wrong time It’s sad to say that your excuses are what Keep you far behind You’re right on track if your plans are little or nothing So straighten up or no matter what You’ll never amount to anything
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Taken from the safety of my seat Thrown under the bus in the cold street Who let them steal control of the wheel And speed through our lives Before we grew and learned to feel They made life seem surreal And now life seems so real Tune the world out of my head Turn the dial to reinvent Our half hour set, walls soaked with sweat In a basement with my friends These words and sounds are the only ones That don’t let me down So I’m not sorry if I let you down You work Monday - Friday 9 to 5, And you call yourself alive If I led that kind of life, I’d call myself a lie We can’t stop time from making us grow old But time can’t stop us from never growing up The only way we survive is working jobs that we hate So many floors to be swept, too many tables to wait You’ll spend your life at a desk, I’ll spend my life on the road Don’t have to grow up just because we grow old

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released June 13, 2013

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by A.J. Chiarella.
Music and lyrics by One Fell Swoop.
Photographs by Candice Marie Alcantara.
Artwork Design by Sal La Rosa.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us. We love you.

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One Fell Swoop Yonkers, New York

Guitar/Vox- A.J. Chiarella
Guitar-Brandon Florich
Bass/Vox- John Rodriguez
Drums-Frank De Santis

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