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The Time That's Passed

by Finding Common Ground

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1.
Been getting nervous lately Happens when things don't change The trees in this city grew taller than my expectations could ever be Another bleary night, spent wrapped up in words I can't make come out right Maybe if I had a little more time And a little more skill with all these words I write Maybe if I had a little more time I could color in this black and white I could try to fix this black and white I thought it was about peace of mind I told Steph on a night drive on 25 I was ready to see a change of pace in my life She told me I'd find clarity eventually I hope she's right Maybe if I had a little more time And a little more skill with all these words I write Maybe if I had a little more time I could color in this black and white I could try to fix this black and white It's less about the place you're in or where you're from And more about the baggage that you carry all along A change of scenery might do as little for me As staying on these asphalt streets That cracked apart under my feet As I grew up so happy I'm gonna be happy again It's not misery, it's apathy But man, it loves its company
2.
Arrhythmia 04:14
All we've ever been are holes in the ground Waiting to be filled by thoughts of another town The lifeblood of an economy Waiting to be cauterized by broken morality It's gonna take more than bricks and boards To rebuild this home, we carry it alone When the foundation of everything you know Has cracked and shifted And the world turns with it I know what's at stake It's either get the hell out of Dodge Or drown in the lake The Lions and Tigers aren't pumping the Pistons Just the factories barely breathing off in the distance To the sound of a record slowly ending in static It's gonna take more than bricks and boards To rebuild this home, we carry it alone When the foundation of everything you know Has cracked and shifted And the world turns with it You can patch oil into the cracks in the asphalt But it's only a matter of time until The industry of "day to day" Hardens the sugar in the gas tank Do me a favor and walk down Woodward Tell me what you see and what you think Life costs now It's gonna take more than bricks and boards To rebuild this home, we carry it alone When the foundation of everything you know Has cracked and shifted And the world turns with it
3.
Perspective 03:46
When you said We need to look past the broken glass It was the understatement of the year What are we doing here? Taking in the strip malls and the pitfalls I haven't written in weeks I know, I know that we're rough around the edges And I know you think the world's conspiring against us But try to stop and take a look around this town Appreciate familiar ground I think you'll see We all move on eventually If we're laying reputations on the line, you can have mine I'll trade it any time for some peace of fucking mind This is no reach for glory, it's the cop out of the century That we're some how different from anybody This sob story has lost its luster to me I know, I know that we're rough around the edges And I know you think the world's conspiring against us But try to stop and take a look around this town Appreciate familiar ground I think you'll see We all move on eventually Perspective, we've lost it Leaning on the same fences we have since we were younger Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty There's got to be a better way to be happy We should be leaning on each other With direction comes the motivation to be better
4.
We tipped the hourglass on its side Not to stop time Just to have a shot to pick and choose our fights Which grain of sand will you pick up? A broken neck or a nervous wreck? It can't be enough I just want to be honest Crawling on my confidence, I thought it made the common sense To stand up and redirect this Feeling so incompetent, but I know this isn't permanent Making decisions takes long enough Like watching paint dry Watching picture frames fall off the wall Another year, another page I'll tell myself to act my age just once Just this once It's a staring contest with the clock that never stops I just want to be honest Crawling on my confidence, I thought it made the common sense To stand up and redirect this Feeling so incompetent, but I know this isn't permanent Making it awkward kills me enough Like splitting headaches Pulling fingerprints from past mistakes I guess it won't work out this way I'll try to give myself a break just once Just this once The time that's passed, it cuts like the broken glass Left on the ground next to my rented house But I won't let the fear of failure or the pain Dictate the way I make excuses anymore I just want to be honest with the people around me It's a staring contest.
5.
Honesty 02:55
I found their words Written out on their faces A brief moment of weakness Came crashing in on everything A fragile conversation left in utter complication It's the vulnerability that's in all of us And it's been said before: Our words are only words It's our actions that define who we are While we're lost in translation Giving false intentions With every misconception of a phrase And your tone of voice didn't hide a thing While we sat on the front porch in dismay Perspective, we've found it Leaning on the railings of that beat up house Honesty, it's telling me There's so much more than what I'm seeing Honestly, it occurred to me The words were only half written out
6.
Bare feet on cold linoleum Hands wrapped around a coffee mug Thinking of old lines and wasted time It's like a brick in the stomach This dream; it's hard to realize Oh, it's easier to say the phrase "some day" When you're younger, or stronger Can't let that feeling go away or stagnate Don't let crowded rooms resonate and make you feel this way Helpless It means late nights And long drives Loose-leaf burdens for all of us to carry But I'm not afraid No, I'm not afraid Don't let crowded rooms resonate and make you feel this way Some day I'll know what it's like To see this dream from the other side
7.
Don't think that you're alone When you talk about your hardships I can see your fears, We all carry them Misunderstood and labeled as fuck-ups Dragging the same old excuses through the dirt behind us Do you really want to stay like this? It'll drag us down It'll break us I thought it made more sense to just leave And put this behind me As I pull the clock off the shelf I'm planning how I'm gonna get out Four years of misdirection Four years of indecision A lifetime of questions, no easy answers But don't let that self doubt Drag you to the ground and burn you out Don't let the weight of what could have been Break your promises I know it's not an easy thing to live with some days But happiness is a direction, not a destination I know it makes more sense to just leave And put this behind me As I pull the clock off the shelf I'm planning how I'm gonna get out We can't spend all of our time on the things that we lack "Not even the richest man can buy back his past" So much of this sounds like bullshit Even to me I'm sick of pretending I don't see This world and its beauty For the sake of writing something self-deprecating We're in this together Let's show them our broken wings won't falter, admit defeat For worse or for better Maybe this will write me out of your mind But at least I'll be able to sleep at night These are our footsteps in the snow This is our progress built from matchsticks Finding perspective to be the people we ought to be Find the strength to fill our lives with honesty I spent a lot of time angry Jaded and empty Self-absorbed, full of apathy But it's time to move on It's time to move on It makes us strong.

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Recorded by Alex Scott at Redwall Audio in the summer of 2014
Mixed/Produced by Nick Steinborn at Red Hand Recording
Mastered by Bill Henderson at Azimuth Mastering
Album Photography by Laura Audley
Additional Vocals by Zach Neisen, Zane Deluccie, and Aidan Grapengeter

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released April 24, 2015

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