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Slang for Alone (Live 2015)

from Promises, Promises (or, Edible Feedback) by C Alexander

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Recorded when I was working up a set in my bedroom; the guitar has too much gain and there's no pop filter on the vocals but it captures this song's second mind really well.

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You've got something I want
I think you know it
Something that's heavy and charged
On the tip of your tongue
Another smaller hole to throw down the canyon
You go in blind, dive in behind it again

Another step to the right
And then you're off again
Arrivals and departures
Behind your eyes
The grass is growing green on the lawns of your lovers
You never give it the chance to grow dry underfoot

You keep your hands to yourself and you sing
That you're "all out of love"
You put your arms at your sides and you tell me
"It's the wrong kind of love"
You press your lips into the speaker
And tell me there's a secret:
"If I want more of it I'll get less of it
But 'waiting' is just slang for 'alone.'"

So rip me up into shreds
And build me up again
Tear my clothes off
Let them fade in the sun
A broken egg that rots and runs in the gutter
A yellow mess that's better left underground

She closes the door.
"Don't come any closer.
There's someone listening behind the shades.
There's blood all over your back like an army of razorblades
Had tried to find another way in
Had set up a camp underneath your skin."

So thread the film in the reel,
And play it til the end.
I'll be waiting alone in the lobby again.

You keep your hands to yourself and you sing
That you're "all out of love"
You put your arms at your sides and you tell me
"It's the wrong kind of love"
You press your lips into the speaker
And tell me there's a secret:
"If I want less of it I'll get more of it
But waiting is just hiding.
Who are you fooling?
But 'waiting' is just slang for 'alone.'"

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from Promises, Promises (or, Edible Feedback), released December 31, 2012
Words and Music by Christopher Alexander (c) 2014 I Survived Music

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