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The Hollows

by Tyler Brown

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1.
subject yourself then reevaluate if this cannot wait don't you dare hold back from it but don't you dare forget the steps back to me do i become an experience, compartmentalized and in between the lulls of static months and miles i stirred your every nerve til you could not keep silent i taught you how to feel you taught me to be quiet and you were something light and steadily unwinding now leaves will leave their homes to learn what it's like dying and we will follow suit lose color where we're lying remember to be still and when you feel the timing don't you dare hold back from me and don't you dare forget to breathe me in, again
2.
Cage 05:12
i don't want to cage you i just want to make you feel whenever you wake up nothing will be different here stroke across the surface or dig in 'til it decays so if it's gonna die at least it's got a ready grave wouldn't want to need anything wouldn't want to be anything but what i am just a shell on your shore that you could crush or adore it's the grip of your hand i don't want to cage you i just want to mend that mind whenever you come down the only thing we lost is time storm hard over water leaving all the lonely land dry oh, i know you need it but you could bring that rain inside you wouldn't need anything you wouldn't be anything but what you are we're just a note on your door a small reminder of more on the other side and like some permanent ink or piece of stationary folded as a crane you are a beautiful thing when you're as free as you need taking your own shape (whenever, if ever you're ready you come find me) i don't want to cage you i just want to sing your name
3.
calculating and assigning new contexts to how I danced you 'cross the carpet all in time to "Ambulance" in that stadium apartment Black Keys got your knees flexed let me hold your locket been the only one to shock it if I must be honest I could wait a long, long time for August to be on us again (go on go, turn your back, 'til you're gone and you're back again don't be slow to react, now be gone 'til you're back again) if we can't get back we can still get up rehash and rip up for a weekend in the ashes you'd be a ghost to anyone else but I'd rather amuse myself with flavored flashes of when you fell a pile over me been the only one to buckle your knees and let me hold your figurines utter hopelessly "if I must be honest, it could be a long, long time before I can step off this again" I wish you'd claim what was yours tonguing the itch on the roof of my mouth I need you to mark your turf and I am not to blame for anything now (mi Reina, mi Reina reclaim your crown 'fore I cut you out un beso, un beso light in my head and I need it right now)
4.
oh, unfamiliar hold clouds are frozen crowds are foreign cowered over where do you place your head (mostly asleep, mostly sleeping) frozen over foreign shoulders my paramour ----- go on and get your taste I said I understand and this is not an end and I would have you again a greenstick fracture it's too young to be clean come on and call me when you are circulating
5.
no, i don't mind feeling sorry for this loss it was a good lie and i hate to miss the mark again i was thrown by a lover i never learned i was thrown by honey, i get confused you say, "let it run, and i will move along" but i don't know, i don't know, i don't know shouldn't it be easily undone but a light's left on see me look twice see me lean on skinny bones see me look twice i know the rain will come and your rain will run me numb and it will run on, and on, and on, and on, and on honey, you should know with your finger on a gun (you've never held) it's not the love you've shown it's the love i'm used to and i don't know how to let it go
6.
terrified slowly i disintegrate with your line carry on your feel-and-switch approach baffles me but tell me it's enough when monuments are not and you arrest your own heart (again) oh, Ira paralyzed the stabilizers clench and release (would you have me leave?) coma comes i bet you need a cigarette about now but i would like to think the shape that you trace is the way my back bends (for you) attacks on my spine silent winter drive four months at a time, more dead (than alive) oh, Ira maybe Ira needs something maybe I run east too much maybe irony's something maybe irony's too much
7.
hide the coffee-stained carpet throw your pretty genes on me if you want to keep up here flash a quiet-mouth smile two more bottles on the island and a chemical calmness i'm a runaway child reaching for a mother's dress and i confess you are already there the conversation got salty brought denial back with you "all the time in the world" close your mind, little girl i'm a harlequin, dancing for a mannequin heart-box you forget that i'm here for all the flesh under the plastic (and i'm not leaving without it) you are already there darling, don't you know to deny a man is to become his only thought
8.
The Hollows 06:53
dead heat heartbeat slow and deliberate gravity stays true in the belly of a man who cannot stand without a reason and cannot fly without it cut from him ringing out, heavy name, 'til it slows, let it go peel it out, what you crave, is it movement or repose aftermath, unafraid, if it slows, let me know lying down, haunting game, is the movement just a ghost these are the hollows and what is this the check and lifeless lips that ripped for hours before for hours on end it is of no consequence (i will be carried) 'cause in your belly, little girl, you know your world could use a reason but there you go and cut, cut, cut the one you'd found ringing out, heavy name, 'til it slows, let it go peel it out, what you crave, is it movement or repose aftermath, i'm afraid, when it slows, i won't know lying down, haunting game, is the movement just a ghost these are the hollows

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The eight-song, entirely organic debut album.

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released September 21, 2013

All songs, lyrics, production, engineering, and mixing: Tyler Brown

Artwork: John Stallings

Design: Josh Roten


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