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demonstrate (from where to Now: volume 2)

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1.
The Soapettes: we are so fortunate in everything turn ons, high speed and close the door we are all so fortunate in everything we are all ... there's no other way to go a dim Light: i don't know why not be The Soapettes + a dim Light: happy, not broken? a dim Light: these are our lines, there's an The Soapettes + a dim Light: actual wonderful a dim Light: sense of self in someone else The Soapettes + a dim Light: it might not be broken? a dim Light: not my plans, fell in my hands The Soapettes + a dim Light: merit or not my lot the Realization station: but how? and who? and why? The LOUDEST: 1, 2, 3 ... a dim Light: it might not? The Soapettes: we are all so fortunate in everything we are all ... there's no other way to go the Realization station: but how? and who? how?! The Soapettes + a dim Light: sense of self in someone else it might not be broken? i don't know why not be happy, not broken?
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i. ITCH The Soapettes: we are all so protected now we are all so injected, how? the Realization station + a dim Light: where my parents were always right where they wanted to give it all to me struggled to build a home for me pitched a flag: suburbia go to class in school 'cause i wanna The Soapettes: we all want the same thing the Realization station + a dim Light: go away to camp in the summer The Soapettes: we all look the same way the Realization station + a dim Light: 3 miles a gallon to my hummer The Soapettes: we all wear the same thing the Realization station + a dim Light: can't tell one house from another The Soapettes: we are all the same we are all so disconnected, how? we are all so unsuspecting now the Realization station: taught not to believe in change at all the Realization station + a dim Light: now wondering how much time that i've wasted i'm sorry, pressure sports and university the Realization station: can't say i look back without regret the Realization station + a dim Light: 'cause i'm not the same The Soapettes: we all love the same god the Realization station: and no one is The Soapettes: we all wear our ipods a dim Light: don't know where i end The Soapettes: we all eat the same things the Realization station + a dim Light: and which part starts suburbia The Soapettes: we are all the same the Realization station + a dim Light: but how? a dim Light: who?! the Realization station + a dim Light: and who? the Realization station: and why? the Realization station + a dim Light: why do we love suburbia? The Soapettes + the Realization station + a dim Light: why would i/we leave suburbia? the Realization station + a dim Light: and how? ii. breathe the Realization station + a dim Light: but we don't want the same things now and we can't eat the same things now but are we just the same as all the ones who live outside the wall? a dim Light: and is this how we demonstrate confusion and sadness we have yet to face in our lives? the Realization station: but do you believe in such a thing as going back and taking back the life ahead that was left behind? iii. Scratch the Realization station + a dim Light: gather all you can into your self we have more than/that we can/can't use here's a coupon The LOUDEST + the Realization station + a dim Light: you'll feel BETTER the Realization station + a dim Light: we recycle and we kill with kindness we leave alone ... welcome home the Realization station: there's nobody like me when everyone's like me and nobody knows the person i've become there is no crescendo the further that you go when time is an office with no windows i am not sorry ... dad, i'm sorry The Soapettes: would you give your home away? would you give your luck away? would you give your past away? would you give your skin away? can you leave it? you'll sing “sorry” the Realization station + a dim Light: let go?
3.
the Realization station: this is how we demonstrate difference survives don't want to talk it over now don't want to talk it over now projects in basements codes in songs that no one hears still something is sown with microphones who? how? this is my penance i'm not the same name from beginning to end through different demonstrations and though you're loath to let us challenge your masterpiece it's crumbling all the same as time demonstrates to you who? how? i'm fearful and joyful joyful? a dim Light: 1, 2, 3!
4.
~tick-tock~ The LOUDEST: if you're feeling joyful ... HA! then why'd <glitch state=”contained”>you make your way to my door?</glitch> it's not like i just dialed you up but enough small talk we got us a recant and there's just one thing left to say <glitch state=”contained”/>hello you'll feel better hello you'll feel <glitch state=”contained”>better</glitch> we'll help you feel better we'll help you feel BETTER ~a dim glimpse~ The Soapettes: (party chatter) a dim Light: all bets are off sing “all bets are off” now ~faster now~ the Realization station: i don't want to yell and i don't want to soldier since your face already tells me what i'm doing is wrong but i can't write a song to report the actual crime when i've already been blessedly marked i've sealed it with a kiss i don't want your healing touch it means put away i can't stand your helping hand The LOUDEST: bite down! see how feeling joyful is cutting the same time-line? we've got a creed for all of your concerns “just do your best” is one of our best oh how you love that line The LOUDEST + the Realization station: hello you'll feel hello you'll feel The LOUDEST: better ... BETTER The LOUDEST + the Realization station: hello you'll feel better hello you'll feel <glitch state=”unknown”>better</glitch> we'll help you feel better the Realization station: we'll help you feel BETTER i don't want your healing touch it means put away i can't stand your helping hand lessens every wrong i don't want your healing touch i can't stand your helping hand
5.
the Realization station + a dim Light: bothered enough by these knots perched in this nest, tangles my home fly one day, perhaps unravel i can finally stretch myself out a dim Light: but history and biology are telling me these troubles ain't my own and every time someone shines “the light” it hides a dim one that might be my own ... or at least some warmth the Realization station + a dim Light: and peace teach me simple the Realization station: this i pray: a dim Light: this i might pray: the Realization station + a dim Light: move me backwards every day give me no more than my daily bread flour + water wheat + river soil + rain earth + sky a dim Light: all your prayers are telling me to just believe these troubles ain't my own but every time someone finds “the truth” it hides a dim one that might be their own ... at least from what i've the Realization station + a dim Light: gleaned a dim Light: that all bets are off now it's all a joke, but that you knew sing “all bets are off” now and it's all a joke, just laugh this time so “ha ha” the Realization station + a dim Light: ha ha a dim Light: when someone dares to cross the line they get the joke but find themselves alone and every time i find “the light” it hides a dim one that might be my own the Realization station + a dim Light: but does it matter? we've been beaten to the punch cause they've wrapped it up, it's all sugar ... white ... stale and we've chewed it up, it's already poisoned a dim Light: so now we're fucked up the Realization station + a dim Light: so what, we're fucked up? so now we're fucked up! a dim Light: surprised we're fucked up?!
6.
The LOUDEST + the Realization station: oh yeah? a dim Light: oh no! ... but how? The LOUDEST + the Realization station: oh yeah?! ~answers vs. questions~ a dim Light: think you found the answers now bring on the questions! the Soapettes: who loves everyone? who? who loves everyone? who?! a dim Light: there are so many ways to your “light”, to your “truth” but i slip on the rays trying to keep score in my head and how can we leave things as they are? and how can you say that you see with closed eyes? the Realization station: it's not so much the truth as letting go it's alright if you can't go back on your fight but it doesn't matter now if she could or if he can't they're metas to the facts only wanting to see beyond that is your mat the Soapettes: who loves everyone? who?! a dim Light: i may be stuck in my head and wanna play the safe part but with so much suffering there are so many fires to spark unless i think just like you that it's all from our past but why should i be blind to the problems of this time? ~fearful vs. joyful~ the Realization station: forget about the past and what you know “all bets are off” and “it's all a joke” but can you stop .... the Realization station + a dim Light: i'm fearful and joyful the Realization station: ॐ
7.
a dim Light: but i'm so tired of swimming upstream with no light or straight line to a truth that it's a cliff: one sees it all so clearly but take another ... step ~credo~ the Realization station: happy yet? the Realization station + a dim Light: so happy yet? The LOUDEST: but you know where you end pretty near to where that “joyful” begins but now you've got your scar and credo so “let go” now just be sure to not let everyone down maybe they can keep your credo? the sparks fade out in the street you're talking metas, they've got nothing to eat maybe they'll just eat your credo? and since you're keeping score this ain't the first time that you came to my door so maybe we'll just keep your seat no matter how refined the speech know that when you're hungry you're gonna eat that credo! ~but how? and who?~ the Realization station + a dim Light: so happy yet? they've wrapped it up the Realization station: and you've chewed it up a dim Light: and i've chewed it up the Realization station + a dim Light: it's already poisoned so now we're fucked up so what we're fucked up? surprise we're fucked up ... a dim Light: bad! the Realization station + a dim Light: how? who? so happy yet? the Realization station: happy yet? who? how?
8.
i. new seeds ~!~ ~yes~ a dim Light: frightened? yeah. not the first we don't want the medicine we don't want another thing the Realization station + a dim Light: that doesn't know me at all lonely? yeah. a dim Light: but who's to say there aren't lines between the voids? 'cause i'm counting on a web to entrap and save all life but you want to hate me and you want to break me at least let me show just once that if you want to make cents/sense sell the seeds to invest: the life is running out hungry? the Realization station + a dim Light: yeah! but we're bloated skin still stained from where we've come just turn off the turntable the songs they play aren't we at all happy? yeah! but for how long without internet and guns? suicidal stable once into the life we're stepping out ~a difference of one~ so if you want to hate we if you want to break we at least let us try for once to unlearn everything be unsure of every thing but happy? yeah! so, happy? yeah! happy, yet for what? for happy, yeah! so happy, yeah! happy, yet for .... oh yeah! so unsure of it and we're scared of it but we're happy as shit :) and into the life we're dancing out into the life ii. rhapsodize a dim Light: fortunate we with microphones unfortunately so disconnected with feeling stop investing be the ones who do not get it all the Realization station + a dim Light: we want it to fall on you we wanted to fall in too a dim Light: fortunate? yes, left on the skin fortunate? no, the state that we're in a dim Light: i'm lonely the Realization station: i'm alone the Realization station + a dim Light: but we're together in this lonesomeness we want it to fall on you we want to fall in you clowns, malls and carrion calls not clarion calls for dooms unheeded so .... let go!
9.
~for demonstration purposes~ the Soapettes: (party chatter) a dim Light: so this is how we demonstrate that we're just broken machines singing 'bout our parts unknowingly ~Soapette realization~ The Soapettes + the Realization station + a dim Light: and we are so fortunate in everything .... the Realization station + a dim Light: why? the Realization station: so we tell lies, beautiful lines but even believed completely don't make a life don't make it right the Realization station + a dim Light: and lies as comforting rhymes just time and words repeating can't be a “why” so don't make them mine ~yes vs. no~ the Realization station: oh yeah?! a dim Light: oh no?! but oh ... the Realization station + a dim Light: yeah yeah yeah .... yeah! no no no .... no! let go! The LOUDEST + a dim Light: 1, 2, 3 a dim Light: 4! the Realization station + a dim Light: but how? and who? ~yes + no~ no .... yeah! ~exeunt~
10.
society's crumbling down government's crumbling down maybe they'll stop me but they'll never stop we society's crumbling down churches are crumbling down temples are crumbling down maybe they'll stop me but they'll never stop we churches are crumbling down economy's crumbling down schools are crumbling down maybe they'll stop me but they'll never stop we economy's crumbling down 'cause the people are coming around people are coming around maybe they'll stop me but they'll never stop we people are coming around and the people are standing their ground people are standing their ground maybe they'll stop me but they'll never stop we people are standing their ground

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released March 14, 2016

vocals: Catherine Fail / Wayne DePrince Jr.
drums: David Anthony Parker davidanthonyparker.org
bass + guitar + keyboard: Wayne DePrince Jr.

music + lyrics: Wayne DePrince Jr.
songs 5 + 10 lyrics: Catherine Fail / Wayne DePrince Jr.

studio: Landfair Studios, South Philly, PA, USA
mixed + mastered: Richard Wielgosz richwielgosz.com @Astronomy Studios, New York Mills, NY, USA
production: in giro / song 3 produced by in giro + Q soundcloud.com/quirq-uk/

artwork+photos: Catherine Fail
cover photo: Justin DePrince

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on the move, in motion, out and about: that's “in giro”, and that we are. we pick up things in our travels, pluck them from limbs, absorb or excavate or simply remember them, and during layovers we stitch these together and sing. being in giro is being with change, and ever-seeking we make music that ever-seeks. ... more

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