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No One Wants To Be Your Friend

by Figurehead

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connor This EP alone got me hooked on local music and Band camp. Have to thank these awesome musicians for opening me up not only to their amazing sound but all local music. Favorite track: Love Strong.
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1.
i’m preaching to a choir singing far too loud to hear the voice of reason laughing from the mouths of all their peers blind faith produced without reason, unreasonable fear consumes free speech; i haven’t heard a word in many years you haven’t taught me anything except how to lose all hope in someone opening their mind when their eyes and ears are closed to everyone’s deaf lectures being forced into our throats i haven’t learned about your love, i learned to lock my doors believe me, faith in hate can’t move a mountain, stop throwing sticks and stones so drill a hole into my skull to make sure i can feel the pain that comes with thinking that your fantasy’s not real you say that i’m a sinner, but there’s always time to heal your ignorance has doomed us all no one gets into heaven until they open up their eyes there are bigger problems here; i won’t wait until my afterlife to see if where i am needs any help along the way when my work here is done, i won’t need to extend my stay the ideals you wrote in store are benevolent and justified i’ve felt God’s love before, we just don’t see through the same eyes let’s separate the church and state from our church and state of mind
2.
Love Strong 04:49
if you’ve never done too well with love songs if every word that’s sung just feels so wrong and if you wish all of your friends’ relationships would just fucking end this life just isn’t how you planned don’t be afraid just do what you can to love strong seventeen years of this thought in your head that the ones you love only loved you for the lies you fed them but when the truth comes out maybe they’ll follow up with shame apologize and take some blame and they’ll realize that you’ll never change so love strong presumptions and assumptions burn and maybe someday your friends will learn that the words they say hurt you more than they could know a joke, a laugh at your expense like a landmine hidden behind a fence that’s hit too often and replaced with every blow it’s gotten easier, and will continue to but this loneliness will always hover over you but fear’s never healed a broken heart or soul so do what you can and always know you were born with a heart (you were born with a heart) that always beats for you (it only beats for you) so love strong (love strong)
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i’m worried sick about the consequences of always being worried sick; when i ask you how you are, “you don’t want to know” don’t worry about it, don’t think too hard; we’ve been losing our minds from the start, and i know it’s all my fault, i can’t take much more my body’s fighting back against what my thoughts are doing inside my head; there’s a burning in my chest, a hole through my heart but my mind remains without a scratch, and you’re wrong if you believe you can reverse the doubts i’ve had since we’ve grown apart so i force all my emotions out ‘til i forget what i’m pissed about but no matter what i blame it on myself and when i find some evidence that it wasn’t in fact my offense, i refuse to let it change what’s in my head i shut my eyes to make sure i go blind just because i don’t have a better reason doesn’t translate into yours being right i know my feelings aren’t healthy, at least i only feel this way towards myself and i’ve got too many questions that no one ever wants to answer and then it’s always left to me to run through my mind and the sequence keeps repeating until i wish i could stop breathing in such a way that i don’t leave a thing behind because the last thing that i want to make is a mess you’ll have to clean someday; i’d rather end in whispers, not a bang so i ask myself why i sing so loud if no one needs to hear about how i wish i didn’t make you take this weight i love a man who could love his men and know anyone could end with him; a morbid concept, maybe, but it’s not wrong you know i love my family and everything they’ve given me but still i feel that i don’t quite belong i know i have a tendency to see the bitter side of things but i know, i know, sometimes things are great so i’ll end the things inside my head that i can’t reconcile myself; if i don’t deserve it, who else is there to blame?
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Ten 05:34
for better days // for stronger minds for easy ways // for compromise recall these words // where they might not belong “you aren’t safe nor secure // until your false hopes are gone” so give it up // and travel on don’t dare think of // where it went wrong you’ll take the blame // see different views your mind wanders away // it won’t agree with you when you ask yourself the question, “what is it that i want?” “the things that i’ve been praying for have torn us all apart” “what i held inside my arms that night didn’t match the feelings in my heart” the emotions war inside your head, you feel like you’ve been shot and the pain keeps getting worse with each disgusting, hurtful thought it repeats itself, ten, ten, ten times; you think you’re okay; you’re not you know you’re not and when words fail // to soothe your mind the thoughts prevail // you hear ten lies ten months, ten days // ten years, 2k you broke my trust // you threw it away

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Recorded with Nick Borgosz at World Of Noise in Buffalo, NY, August-September 2013.

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released September 22, 2013

At the time of recording, Figurehead is:

Tom Mellen
Evan Wachowski
Andrew Baird
Chris Allan

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