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the nerve

by the nerve

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1.
God ? 04:00
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God? Wonder to learn howto live, how to sin Wading through, now I’m sinking in Secular nectar I sap from your flowers Diminishing my holy powers Sent here to trench work with minister’s tools The charmers have made me one of the fools Morla land mines on sanctified ground One sanctimonious poet found You set me on Earth and pulled up the rope Cries in the night and a flickering hope You set me on Earth and pulled up the rope Only cries in the night and a flickering hope Your choruses bore us, try to restore us to grace Your story is porous, conjure one for us to fabricate You lifted me out of the shattering crash Left me to wonder in steel and glass The enemy, washed in night Like all life, I move toward the light You set me on Earth and pulled up the rope Cries in the night and a flickering hope You set me on Earth and pulled up the rope Only cries in the night and a flickering hope Your choruses bore us, try to restore us to grace Your story is porous, conjure one for us to fabricate
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Resolution 03:26
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Resolution Wash up on your shore A bottled up reward Your fragrance is no ploy Nature’s lush decoy Milk and honey mine Strip away the brine Pillars of saltwater Teaming sand, sun’s daughter In darkness, closest to the light Resolution of stars pressed into the night Spirit Fire ghost whispers in my ears As our paltry bulbs illuminate our fears Violence of the sun Life and death are one Shattered shells in sand Waves hiss on as planned Sharks and storms surround While life’s virus abounds Lusty ocean swells Consciousness as well In darkness, closest to the light Resolution of stars pressed into the night Spirit Fire ghost whispers in my ears As our paltry bulbs illuminate our fears
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Pins and Eggshells 03:57
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Pins and Eggshells I deal with darkness so you can have the light Why do you think I’m in love with the night? Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you’re right Pull me into your misery when you try to pick a fight Pins and needles, needles and pins Walk on eggshells as the record spins All I need I can’t have Hold head high on this barren path Pins and needles, needles and pins Walk on eggshells as the record spins All I need I can’t have Hold head high on this barren path
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Fade 05:18
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Fade I wake up inside of it all and feel so lonely Pushing through days like dominoes, oh, if only To recognize your faces, to watch the news less jaded Holding cell of two way mirrors, never sated “X” on the door in blood as the plague passes over Visions of Wall Street form as the arrow moves lower Everything closed, all of us locked in our homes Sit and wait inside as the death toll grows Fade, fade Fade, fade Fade, fade Fade, fade He’s on every day, the belligerent ass clown Painting plebian visions of greener grass now We shelter in place, passing the blame around Flatten the curve and salvage our claims’ grounds Maybe the Earth’s just healing itself Antibodies fighting the crowned one himself Biblical plagues of floods, fire, and warming All the while locusts are swarming Fade, fade Fade, fade Fade, fade Fade, fade
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Ghosts Inside My Head 04:10
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Ghosts Inside My Head They whisper in the dark Beating on my drums I’m speaking to the ghosts They’re looking for someone Digging up the past Pills and cigarette packs Opaque spirit fingers Slipping through the cracks Pin me to the mattress Sucking out my breath In the door jamb light A little brush with death Ghosts inside my head Haunt my dreams instead Flutter by cadaver Tuck the past in bed These memories they fade Lingering in shade Eviscerate the vapors Before the light of day Trilling on piano But no one’s there to play Tapping out a requiem When there’s nothing left to say I have no dreams at night I’m afraid they’ll all come true I’m the ghost in my head They’re real if real to you Ghosts inside my head Haunt my dreams instead Flutter by cadaver Tuck the past in bed These memories they fade Lingering in shade Eviscerate the vapors Before the light of day
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Mad Libs 05:21
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Mad Libs Stagnant Floating upstream Empty lot Crowded dream Concrete Cracks under weight Bent rings Forgotten wedding date Cold rooms Faint smell of perfume Half-remembered Slice of moon Filling in the spaces Of your mad lib You say you do But I know you did Dripping From a candle Stars too bright For night to handle Dark room Photograph Tangled hair Aftermath Wasted On a TV screen Lips that move Don’t know what they mean Filling in the spaces Of your mad lib You say you do But I know you did
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No More Words 04:23
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No More Words Try to remember my dream all day Drink to melt the edge away Dripping eyes and lethargy I used to have such energy I used to write with majesty Now I’m playing fantasy Put out fires to light in others Now it seems mine’s smothered Leaping out of my spring skin Skittered nerves, blood runs thin Press of flesh, let me in Simply a slave playing free Stuck at standstill, alive through dreams Inhale now, simply breathe Don’t go out, it just reminds That I am of the lonely kind No more words Unspoken No more words I’m broken Dissembling now in the rain At peace with what I cannot change Attacks right now inside and out Why do I turn on myself? Drained and damaged beyond repair Want to dissolve into thin air Days pass, merciless and cruel, My eyes have been made the fool No more words Unspoken No more words I’m broken
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She 05:28
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She A quick turn of the phrase As I compliment your gaze Melting all my days into one A single moment distilled By a simple act of will My eyes have their fill of your lips Touch without touching Kiss without blushing Run without rushing to you More fire than the sun The colors, they run When the painting is done of you She lets down her hair again She lets down her hair for me Can I spare the expense? Abandon common sense And claim love’s defense to you? Taken by your smile Add another to your pile Of lost lovers in denial She lets down her hair again She lets down her hair for me
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Suburban Constellations 03:01
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Suburban Constellations Free of the daylight Orange dusk skyline In my line of sight Telephone crosses Strung along like Blue Moon possets Amber encased at play Darkness disappears the day Crackling fire pit fed By pine sticks Signal star specks Amidst the tumbling valley lights Constellations guard the nights Hide and seek satellites Fierce fires lashed to the night Swooshes and headlights Smoke and fireflies Sweet summer nights Warm pool catapult Tiki flickers Trampoline somersaults Camera flash Jumping poses Filter whirs, pumping hoses Train whistle blasts Lightning flash Fireworks explode Amidst the tumbling valley lights Constellations guard the nights Hide and seek satellites Fierce fires lashed to the night
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Release 03:47
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Release In motion to escape the routine so far away from what we need to see Arizona sun and sand Drive all day under the expanse Looking for answers in these steep cliffs Mind heals in the wilderness Desert sun canyon gems Open skies draw us in Need to shed this grid of streets Can’t shake the endless concrete Only this land to make me complete How I crave that sweet release 90 into Phoenix while it’s 90 outside Dreaming of Sedona off of six lanes wide Pine tree air and Utah red Lost in the rocks of the land instead Need to shed this grid of streets Can’t shake the endless concrete Only this land to make me complete How I crave that sweet release
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Stars 03:51
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Stars Stars are my home Go it all alone Need my cornerstone Spark inside the bone Up here in the clouds Waiting for the storm Up here in the clouds Think I’ll be reborn Floating in the sky Mind as clear as air Floating in the sky I don’t even care Stars are my home Go it all alone Need my cornerstone Spark inside the bone Stars are my home Go it all alone Need my cornerstone Spark inside the bone

about

Almost a decade in the making, this album spans the human spectrum from the depths of existential despair to exuberant summertime joy. Every song begins with the lyrics, and we craft the song textures around the tone and mood the lyrics dictate.

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released August 10, 2023

Craig Mysliwczyk: Lyrics, vocals, all rhythm and lead guitar
Jake Mysliwczyk: drums, sound effects, bass, and piano. He also produced and mastered the album.
Svetlana Epperson: Album art

Thank you to Dan Petrich, Ben Minett, and Brad Kavo for their draft feedback along the way.

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