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Stay The Same

by tragwag

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    navy blue design on a heather gray, bella and canvas shirt
    features lyrics from the song Rinse Cycle
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1.
Rinse Cycle 03:22
I have access to all the sorts of lofty dreams that I never had before and I’ve begun to make all sorts of new mistakes, one step that way leads out the door you can’t just wash and rinse a feeling, from the strands of hair on your head and you can’t just dry and fold a feeling, from the cases on the pillows of your bed. I spend too much time alone, you try to keep up with me I never asked to make that choice. I’ll walk around the block, to clear my head I’ll say, I’m just trying to dull out the noise, it never goes away. It’s hard to say the fault’s all mine, I know we’ll learn it all in time, play it out like we have always done. I’ll play the feeling over twice the hindsight is my only vice, just wanted to connect it to someone.
2.
Another Life 02:21
I just can’t have these tears rolling down and staining my off white punk rock tee. Ive tried to escape these dreams coming down from the depths of my memory. It’s another life but it will never happen for me, it’s another life for the person I could never be, it’s another life that lives only in a dream, the memory of a dream. What I learned this year that I’m capable of mistakes I made especially the ones I never meant to make. It hurts to accept, I had too much to work out and I’m sorry it fell on you I had no plan.
3.
Outlook 05:03
Who’s lost hair and who’s gone gray? not me, I show my age in different ways. I wear my disconnect proudly and extol the salad days loudly. I don’t think I’m ready for it to always be this way, Ill change the words thinking the meaning will stay I can see now how the outlook has changed, keep connections steady for fear of drifting away. Capital city the center of change they’ll never tell you someone’s always moving away hold it off keep emotions in check and then you see yourself, you’re the only one left. got familiar with all the ways Tallahassee could break your heart.
4.
Far 03:15
I know what they’ll say oh he cant let go. Baby they’d be right how did they know? I am placed in front of my greatest fear the tactful replacement of my life this year. I feel so far from everything and I’m just trying to hold on. Past keeps coming up all the years untold still I am moving up I’m trying. But I will stay the same while I watch you change I could be just as strong, that’s what ill tell my self.
5.
It’s amazing how nothing touches you when you spend nights packing away, packed away like old clothes with nowhere left to go. I can tell you how its possible the feelings change, the scenery stays the same cemented over time. If it feels like ancient history that’s because it is. It’s amazing how no one hears you when you’re talking away laughing as, you walk away by yourself, cause there’s no one left to tell it gets old how people never let their view of you change, when unlearning the hurtful traits that adolescence brings
6.
That Was Me 03:21
Passing by the shame like I know its name, I know this place. Avert my eyes or it sees right through me. Caught in a moment live it over again, I know this again, force a laugh hope I can rewrite this pain. That was me learning how to be ok living one kind of life at a time, and that was me loving the feeling after a while of knowing what is mine. On my shoulder coming one step closer, ever closer. Hope i can amend awful mistakes this time. Lulled myself into thinking I’m good, I could do no wrong, they all told me for years now its my change to bear.
7.
Flutter 03:09
I remember the hesitant touch of a young hand, we were oh so young once. In the backseats of your mini van, stretching out across your shoulder. I recall the flutter of feelings, not so easily understood. When the time spent together became everything we ever knew. So please, reach out again stretch your arm across my headrest, rest it on my shaking shoulder, speak the words I want to hear, in a voice Ill always know - home is a place we can go. Ill never feel the same way twice. It’s a built in coping mechanism for warding off disappointment in myself, and someone else.

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While three years between full lengths might seem like the standard for bands and artists who've been around a while, looking back it feels like ten years of stuff happened to me between albums. 2017s Another State catalogued a fresh start, a return to full band albums, and more obviously another state of living in Florida.
Stay The Same refers to my insistence on consistency throughout life changes, and my hesitation towards them. It deals with memory and it's recollection over time, loss and heartbreak on all relationship levels, and learning how to reclaim the redeeming aspects of your personality from a period defined by your mistakes.

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released July 10, 2020

Lauren Beecher - guest vocals and lead guitar on tracks 1 + 6
all else recorded by Tyler Bisson
Tallahassee FL
Jan-May 2020 at Audio Geography Studios
www.audiogeography.com

thanks to:
Lauren Beecher for guesting, Laurel Lathrop for nonstop help in every way, the BARK, Dakota Floyd + New Junk City, Ryan Kalentkowski/Jacket Thor, Dan Erickson and Joe Pelegano from Dear Pines (check out Joes new band Cinema Stare), Nate Walters, Jordan Stokey + Canine Denim, Soft Clicks, Night Witch, Insignificant Other, Worst Party Ever, Madison Turner, Andrew Cabbage, Gutless, Christian Costello, Eric + Bad Idols, you for listening

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tragwag Providence, Rhode Island

punk with singing, lots of feelings.
sometimes loud, sometimes acoustic, always trying to play where you are.

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