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Resistance

by the nerve

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1.
I Said You Must Dance 03:47
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I Said You Must Dance Kisses like curses like hearses stone roses Capturing ghosts like a camera captures poses Inspiring echoes of flesh where we mesh Like chrysalis lords in love with our death Reach out with your tongue Reach out with your tongue Sing me a lullaby And I’ll sing right along Spewing words that I’ve already heard Patterned echoes are the ruins of this church All that’s transpired to build this fire Just smoldering waltzes of a melody for hire Reach out with your tongue Reach out with your tongue Sing me a lullaby And I’ll sing right along I said you must dance I said you must dance I said you must dance I said you must dance I said you must dance I said you must dance I said
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Friendly Fire 03:23
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Friendly Fire Sick of all the things You never said Can’t slake my thirst On a well that’s dead Your barrage, A mirage of reticence A patient with silent medicines I fight battles with Myself Over which battles to fight. It’s hard to hear The differences among whispered Bullets at night Is it you? Are you the liar? Or is it just Friendly fire? Just because you can Doesn’t mean you should I thought you were great You’re not even good. There’s still hope For despair. We fight these Figments in open air. Chorus (2X)
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Phoenix Birthright 03:16
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Phoenix Birthright Fahrenheit, Fahrenheit Please go away Sheep in the halls, sheep in the halls To blow you away Windmill circus, windmill circus Line up for your pay Parlor friends, parlor friends And a brave new day Move along There’s nothing left to see here Move along There’s nothing left to be Seeing eye, seeing eye, Seashells and moonstones Perfect swine, perfect swine Trotters and singed bones Truth in the trough, truth in the trough Starving gentle groan Even the pigs, even the pigs Will die alone Move along There’s nothing left to see here Move along There’s nothing left to be (3x)
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Holding Pattern 03:23
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Holding Pattern Concrete and asbestos Cell phone and new clothes Flat screen and new shows Raw data mining While I’m here pining For a silver lining If sleep is a taste of death, We suffer shortness of breath Modern living in 12 easy steps The more we know, the less we learn Move over pilot, it’s my turn What does it even matter? Stuck in a holding pattern Here comes the greenhouse surge Ozone waste and ocean purge To fly straight through, the urge Padded chairs with lumbar support Carpal tunnel with tech support Breathing in on life support Behind the liposuction Plastic reconstruction It’s just creation and destruction The more we know, the less we learn Move over pilot, it’s my turn What does it even matter? Stuck in a holding pattern Now we wonder through the tundra The world, rent asunder Listening to the endless thunder Only my boy and I on the road Shopping cart with our precious load My heart is ready to explode Endless rain, nowhere to go Get to the South before the snow Past a plane crashed long ago The more we know, the less we learn Move over pilot, it’s my turn What does it even matter? Stuck in a holding pattern
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Entropy 03:03
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Entropy Heavy winds and cloud grey skies Stars once shimmered as twilight spies Stop this dream, pardon the intrusion So much work to create illusion Anchor eyes strain against entropy Only a cosmic fire will inspire me Languid lingering liquor thoughts Albatross and the little black box Wasted energy, no reserves We all get what we deserve Sleepy words and stumbling music Tenant pages and absent muses Anchor eyes strain against entropy Only a cosmic fire will inspire me Languid lingering liquor thoughts Albatross and the little black box
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Token 03:59
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Token Not submissive To your missives Not a culprit Not a victim I cast a look You turn to stone Leave my misfit Toys alone Don’t wait until the night has spoken Don’t settle for a heart that’s broken Save your speeches and your tokens Mirror glass And dirty mouth Sedentary Desperate vows Brittle words That never touch Never enough; Always too much Don’t wait until the night has spoken Don’t settle for a heart that’s broken Save your speeches and your tokens
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Sea of Galilee 03:28
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Sea of Galilee Demon seed And wasted needs Prick him and He still bleeds Fiction’s friction Bodies in motion What does it mean, All this commotion? Swimming alone Out here in the ocean, Should I take True love’s potion? Take this cup away Row to the sea Sea of galilee Just you and me And the salty breeze While wrapped in grace Strength to love Not from above Not from a distance Never enough Remove this spectacle Of carnivore death Devouring jaws And silencing breath Give me a voice And give me passion, Give them choice, A call to action Take this cup away Row to the sea Sea of galilee Just you and me And the salty breeze Love in swirling space
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Better to Forget 03:26
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Better to Forget You love desperation I am in despair You look with adoration And run your fingers through your hair Maudlin heartless skyline Transcends your silhouette Into an angel sublime I haven’t seen better yet Better to forget (4X) You love brown boxes Sent in the mail Especially when they’re empty Because it leaves you pale I watch you groping Pulling your hair in rage All against hoping That it’s just a phase Better to forget (4X) You crave a fix of nothing Content in depravity Stroke the sleeping black cat Weighing its gravity Wait for late night silence Staring at the fuzz on TV Soul flutter beyond violence Just you, the cold, and me Better to forget (4X)
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More Heat Than Light 03:01
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More Heat Than Light Damaged daydream beyond repair Ghosts’ whispers linger there Floating fingers, bony, bare Disappear in ether air Haunted chants, secret dance Gliding glances, fickle curves Savoring every spoken word Spoiled chance, last romance Starry shambles, Crescent eye moonlight Fire is spoken In the vein of sight. More heat than light, Wrapped inside the night We want what we cannot hold To speak a word so bold As love Lover’s lips, phantom bliss Precious jewels, sunken treasure Fathoms deep, too dark to measure Floating bottle with a stolen kiss Poison stories promise gloss Seduction’s glow: a thin veneer Perfume mirage and two-way mirrors Through porcelain teeth a promise lost Starry shambles, Crescent eye moonlight Fire is spoken In the vein of sight. More heat than light, Wrapped inside the night We want what we cannot hold To speak a word so bold As love
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The Toll 04:58
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The Toll All of your demands Escape to my own land My strength is your rest stop Problems are plates you drop Convict my compassion Act against my convictions A parasite that doesn’t fit And your silver spoon eyes don’t see shit Leave me alone Can’t you see the toll This is taking? Leave me alone Can’t you see The beast is waking? Don’t deny the benefit Of the benefit of the doubt You take advantage of my kindness And turn it inside out Leave me alone Can’t you see the toll This is taking? Leave me alone Can’t you see The beast is waking? What makes you any better? Your blue eyes and argyle sweater? Under designer jeans, Just flesh and bone. Leave me alone Can’t you see the toll This is taking? Leave me alone Can’t you see The beast is waking?
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Anchor 04:52
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Anchor Sparking my arc Into your spine’s arch Tornado eyes And a hurricane heart Lashed to the mast While the Sirens laugh Suffer this weather And the aftermath Can I spare these hands To reach your scented foreign lands? Is it worth the cost When my fragile ship’s so tempest-tossed? Frown to scorn A tempest born You’re a paper boat I’m a raging storm Laughing at the ocean’s swell The moon’s salty taste I know it well Tonight, that satellite it fell Can I spare these hands To reach your scented foreign lands? Is it worth the cost When my fragile ship’s so tempest-tossed? Tide recedes Set me back out to sea No compass I’ll sail into the breech Point out shimmering stars Behind night’s charms Is the mourning Anchor up for a new start Can I spare these hands To reach your scented foreign lands? Is it worth the cost When my fragile ship’s so tempest-tossed?
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Tantalus 03:13
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Tantalus Rain forms puddles in my eyes A breath away from summertime Mounds of Venus, lips of dirt Ash between us only earth Fruit hangs high, too high to reach A cresting wave that skirts the beach Lips of Venus, mounds of dust Steal away your luscious rust Capsized vessel in the ocean’s vein Treading water in the stinging rain Mounds of Venus, lips of clay What will you whisper today? You’re all tongue, and I’m all thumbs Salty and so cumbersome Lips of Venus, mounds of dirt Lick the ashes of your skirt
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Resistance 04:00
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Resistance Oh, I strive to be alive Muscles ache, not dead inside Oh, it’s done Made up my mind I will seek And I will find Not going to cash in my existence And take the path of least resistance Do you hear? I will persevere Skin and bones and catacombs Make this beating cage my home Charge me up And keep me wired I will seek And I will find Not going to cash in my existence And take the path of least resistance Do you hear? I will persevere
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Exit Wounds 04:50
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Eight years in the making, this album treads a new path by mixing elements of indie, classic rock, and grunge, creating a story of shattered ideals and love lost while holding on to principles and passion despite the circumstances.

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released May 24, 2013

Craig Mysliwczyk- Vocals, guitars, and effects
Jacob Mysliwczyk-Percussion
Dan Petrich- Bass on all tracks except #4
Ben Kernion- Bass on Track #4

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