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The Beauty Shop Presents: Bedrooms and Basements

by Bedrooms & Basements

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please tell me what to do teach me how to be I don't know how to sing and I knew when I was born I knew when this was done I knew we'd go to hell and teach me how to die teach me how to die all that I am I am with you I am with you you taught me my own blood through the white noise in the walls the white noise of the flood when I go out alone empty in the daylight you're waiting there at home to teach me how to die teach me how die all that I am I am with you I am with you
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There's a man on stage, depraved, singing for your dollars and change. He's less than amazing, just OK. You keep your money then get on with your day - riding the car that rides the cable, having drinks and peeling labels, wondering away. From the top of the stairs, you tumble. You were singing that old beggar's song. No body cries when you're dead. They spread a rumor that you haunt the city. Now you're homeless as a seashell. Your bible didn't save you from hell, wondering away. Half of a mile from the burial ground, your mother spun you on a merry-go-round, wondering away. Then the beggar on the corner sees you crying, blows you kisses, takes a bow then disappears.
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meloncholie stupified and doped up on a real long night of parties sunday when when the sky becomes a misty cloud of doubt and soggy feelings why's it always sunday that's rainy cold and grey never is a sunday as cheery as it sounds color-blind our love has died I walk with you to pass the time but nothing about you inspires me like the world map on my wall or my guide book especially on these Sundays when Iowa seems so small I hide the sides of me that wouldn't please you so at least you get a little a little peace of mind about your investment so you don't worry about how I spend my time tired and hopeless you try to recommence some kind of progress but today is Sunday you're bound to waste your time and you know tomorrow's back to the old grind
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Never thought I could have you, this way. You're standing right in front of me, I still can't believe. Baby I'm yours, Baby I'm yours. You can steal the flesh right from my bones. Give me the vision.... I want everything. And if I fall, If I fall. If I fall. Don't catch me. I can't believe it's you. Every moment you take, a little piece of me. There's nothing left. Just watch me fade away. And if I fall. If I fall. DON"T CATCH ME! Give me the vision!..... And if I fall, If I fall, If I fall....don't catch me...Fallen Angel.
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There it is I can see your face This city I will replace Never hide from it and magnify it, the taste Looking into the mirror now Baby you don’t know how hard I’ve been trying But you see I am laughing now Something inside I found No longer underground Tell myself: Don’t hide, don’t cry Locking eyes with my reflection now Something clear beneath my brow Tells me it’s time, head up high, I am ready now And you never saw me down You never heard a sound Cuz you turned around before I cried Chorus: Cuz you never saw me, you never looked back You just turned and walked away Cuz you never saw me, you never looked back You just turned and walked away Never turn it on, don’t pick up the phone Don’t come back to me, you will never see Cuz you never saw me you never looked back You just turned and walked away Lines across my heart I cannot erase Won’t forget surviving is hard to fake If you think you’re clever don’t lie to yourself When you find me all better and dancing forever Streams of light come into the dark night Sweaty bodies under the strobe light Keep on changing my farenheit, here till the daylight Ready for something new Louder till I’m all alone again, till my mind is blown again Pushing on till I’m only laughing in my defense Gonna be so happy when I face you again Cuz you turned around before I cried CHORUS There’s a shadow on the wall You and me You turned and walked away CHORUS
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I close my eyes to find a place, where no one seems to see my face. Inside I ride the midnight tide, salty tears to taste. A sign behind a bright black star, for the ones who got this far. A crow upon the midnight road, a horse tearing down its stall. I open up I hear my cry I see all things around me fly. A deal to feel the golden wheel, I'll pay it back in time. As fast as I'm going there's no chance of slowing me down. My feet are flying me closer to dying somehow. What I can't anticipate, steadily accelerates. I play the spade at my own grave, crow upon the gate. I turn the key I get inside, holy steeple by my side. Around the sound of rain come down as hard as I could cry. (C) I bend my blood to move my skin, to move to stir my soul within. The one to gun the midnight run, all over before it's begun.
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My mother she said she had a dream A week after you died You called her on the phone and she cried You said it’s all been a big mistake Cuz doctors they can make mistakes too And no one said this would be easy But I’ve taught myself To live with this unnerving pain Of losing your best friend And knowing there’s no end in sight And none of this had to happen But now I see it better than I did And now I’m losing control over my words I thought I was more Put together like you But all I can hope for Is a better return on the feelings that I give And none of this had to happen But now I see it better than I did
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Everyday another soul slips away into the sea of mediocrity. Every minute another heart gets stolen by their neon promises. Your loves a corpse, you took my faith and bound me. Your loves a corpse, there's a light at the end of the night. They take away the dreams of the lovers and put them in their rotten hope. They twist the words of one million prayers, leaving us on our knees like broken thieves. Your loves a corpse, you took my faith and bound me. Your loves a corpse, there's a light at the end of the night.
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You that you're a ghost, but I won't fall for it again when they come to take you out then I won't believe my eyes. and It won't mean a thing, when they hang you from the edge. If you're here to see me win this then I'll point you to the door Cause You Don't Wanna Be Like Me, With Bleeding Fingers And Nowhere To Go. No No No No No No No When you can't fall asleep with the fireworks outside, just hold on to counting sheep and don't let them outta Sight. When they climb in your window, they'll wait until your'e dreaming there's nothing they can take that you'll miss when it's gone. And if i had a dollar for every regret, I would buy myself a boat to sink down with me. I would raise up my flag of a face frowning down, I would sink it right on down to the bottom of the sea. Cause You Don't Wanna Be Like Me, With Bleeding Fingers And Nowhere To Go. No No No No No No No
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until birth she was just a vision of infinite purity but every step further into this world subtracts a piece of her divinity the moment cotton touched her skin we lost a piece of her this human vortex she fell in she'll soon forget just like each one of us did i see conditions setting in she's got a name and she's got skin a voice to hear, a hand to hold now she's looking us in the eye instead of the soul your mother was a wonder don't you know to pass your soul right through her and let it got and i wonder if i'll ever see those hidden parts of you but i guess we can't have our God and feed her too back to the start of it all i watch while the angel falls ignorant to her call i watch while the angel falls like leaves from a tree a river into the sea
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Followed the rain All the way down to the hayed hill And I felt the shame of thousands of years Of faded guilt And I know it’s inane, to reprimand Your only hand But I, I I, I Cedar Cedar Cedar on the horizon Cedar on the horizon Cedar Cedar See her on the risin’ See her on the risin’ Please See her on the risin’ Pleas of the people people people Followed the rain all the way down to the hayed hill
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All the songs on this album were recorded in Appleseed Studios, in the basement of The Bonnell Building below The Beauty Shop, or in a bedroom hidden away in Fairfield, Iowa.

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released June 4, 2011

Produced and Engineered by Jonathan Natera and Philip Rabalais.
Additional Production by Nate Headrick, David Murphy, Dominic Rabalais, Joey Del Re, W. Travis, and Owen Blake.
Masterin by Ryan at The Maniac Mansion.
Album Art by Hilary Nelson.

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