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When You Meet the Rall Tide, Kill the Rall Tide

by Rall Tide

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1.
No Tomorrow 02:08
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I miss my old girl And the front porch that we used to know Lying there up on the roof My old girl had a view My old girl had a view My old girl's just like you A couple broken melodies All choked up and confused No tomorrow So we sang it at a party, everything we left Two words chanced off half a cigarette No tomorrow
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Hidden Fortress 02:48
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It's the moon of the night, the day of the samurai No, it's just more nonsense, if you don't care you don't have to try Cause this heart is a hummingbird for questions still unheard And this soul is a coal mine looking for a bird to choke And I I try I try to forget But these dreams are a fortress None of these things come easy still there's one that's hard to breathe Tonight but tomorrow these lies will come with ease Cause the heart is a hummingbird for lessons left unlearned And this soul is an abandoned home with matches left to burn And I I try I try to forget But these dreams are a fortress And everytime I come here I wonder if it can be the last If I'll finally shoot my mouth off, get me back some normal life But cliches like that make hummingbird hearts attack The banks and the breaks and the empty space where two lips say they won't be coming back And I I try I try to forget But these dreams are a fortress So I I lie I lie to forget These dreams are a fortress
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Almost April 03:57
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Put a cap on between the snow falling and everything we've been promising I'll never stay up, never get done, never finish, never come Never be serious, you'll never be satisfied Why? All I can do is... Never be there for you Never be there, I've heard it's true, this born to die we live to lose But the only thing I've ever known for sure is... oh, no, it must be some other Almost April we saw it on the TV screen A hundred dead, all Algonquin chiefs, what's it mean to me? Too much red, counting stares, I know it's not enough to care But in suicide slum we're doing fine, the trains are running right behind Telegraph mines, the ghost lines in your eyes, wasting time but you know I-I-I- Don't believe it's ever held my breath Just a little bit Uncanny, lately I've been everything but me Except I never said I did not mean for that to happen Accept I've been noticing August dreams come crystalline Swallowing a little steam God's honest thought: "Don't let him breathe" Well you broke my city so I broke it back, bullshit bark dogs on the attack Scratching off your emerald ash, my sweet gum baby Well oh my god, oh my damn, once you've given it up you can't Never ever never ever get it back again But nothing's ever happening
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Trainwreck 03:39
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Everytime I cut myself it bleeds right into you And ten words cut a hundred times when you don't know which are true So I keep my love under my feet with a piss-stained heart of gold Down here on my hands and knees I don't need to hear what you're told Pirates come on amber waves, on reserves made of steel And if ones not enough then twos okay, now tell me how you feel With the boys in the backyard cutting up, girls say it ain't what but when you show The tree slopes and the avalanche, these thunderstorms and lightning rolls Not growing up is getting old and it's all inside the trees Fly yourself to the moon with an old white rope and from the stars you'll swing Now the trainwrecks in a little bag you can't let leave your glow But I ain't your fog on a leash, I got bones and teeth And when this rabbit howls you'll know
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Bryni Town 02:19
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What's the point of an ocean if you don't know how to drown? Living on the Strait, this salt wound on the state, no I'll never know what to say So today we're gonna start, no tomorrow will be better A castle with too many kings, it'll be just one more, let's hit the party store Yeah Pop, pop, pop, pop Get down, get down now Somebody's hurt, call an ambulance Sorry, that's the best joke, they'll never come up though Well if it's too cold just to talk And you can't find a match Burn it all down, this home, this bryni town Put your hands in the hands of the man with heat vision A rich man, rare, distinct, we're standing by Some scarlet ibis shotgun spraying Valentines, the red red was his mind A war hero slit catalytic cross the eyes Yeah
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Hairpin Rabbits 05:17
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When I finally come in it will always be too late Stuck on Michigan time dotted lines just fade away Shorter bonds are stronger bonds, shorter bonds are stronger bonds The look in your eyes says Shorter bonds are stronger bonds, shorter bonds are stronger bonds Gotta get outta this Promised yourself you'd never have another regret But this cold drinks cigarettes Tried to break glass but instead I broke this room These feelings that last would hurt less if true Shorter bonds are stronger bonds, shorter bonds are stronger bonds The look in your eyes says Shorter bonds are stronger bonds, shorter bonds are stronger bonds Gotta get outta this Promised yourself you'd never have another regret But this cold drinks cigarettes Don't need another show, don't want another stage So cut the applause, your old news came too late We're understanding This isn't happening Running late again, don't wanna tell our friends Waiting for the fall, peeling off their hands Got half a mind to Forget what we were supposed to do Feelings that last would hurt less if true I tried to break glass but I just broke this room Shorter bonds are stronger bonds, shorter bonds are stronger bonds The look in your eyes says Shorter bonds are stronger bonds, shorter bonds are stronger bonds Gotta get outta this Promised yourself you'd never have another regret But this cold drinks cigarettes And you only ever speak through technology you can't explain While I'm locked inside again with math, graphs, chemistry and rain So let me synthesize this paper, clear the air with vapor Insulfate a concentrate and swallow two salts Cause it's just like Ivan said to me: "Peter, this is Peter, you're gonna have to make peace eventually"
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3 Elvises 02:47
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Wake up in keychain smoke and howl one for the day Earrings and little things, receipts can't stand to shake Head to the party store and wait, wait, wait Get beer and whisky, how much longer will it take til I say Alright now Okay, yeah It's alright I'll be better in a day when I say Give me three Elvises for white walls to line the room And a fifth all to myself, double features coming soon Got all these numbers and at least one might not lose Take em down for answers from the man who's bulletproof and I'll say Alright now Okay, yeah It's alright I'll be better in a day when I say And you say calm down, just please calm down Can't stand no more, not one more sound But I settled down once before and I'm not settling down, not anymore When you say calm down, just please calm down I can't stand no more, not one more sound Cause I settled down once before and I'd rather spend the night on the floor than say Alright now Okay, yeah It's alright I'll be better in a day when I say
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Hours To Fill 05:14
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Came home stoned from some shitshow down the road Australia smashed the cop, killed the car standing all alone When the lights came red all the actors had fled And I was thinking I could make it true There's always something wrong with this TV static snow It's frozen up, the channel's stuck, more things I'll never know What do I say when I see you this way? Don't wanna get high just to have to talk to you But I will, though Got a face like hell, and a heart full of dirt painted up in fool's gold I keep it to myself in pockets like my soul, just filled with holes But you're soft as glass, and I can be a gentle man Maybe someday I could let you know Again The devil starts when the town ends and un-dots all its eyes Gotta sleep, gotta breathe, no, can't be left behind But there's hours to fill and I'm all outta pills Thought that might mean you could come this way again But goddamn Well you traced your number across my phone In a digital screen I said it was romantic, you said no Never thought you'd be so damn annoyed I was just trying to be your cathode ray boy I just wanna be your cathode ray boy I'm just trying to be your cathode ray boy Again, hell
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Broke Amnesty 02:32
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Break it up, pull out every stem and every seed Cut it out, don't wanna hear bout what you need Cause on my back you were on my mind On your back, circles tracing time, yeah On my back you were on my mind Why's it different this time? I always dreamed I could hurt you I always dreamed I could cut you straight through I always knew I could hurt you But I never dreamed you would hurt me too So break it up, cut me out I'm sleeping in cause I know how to make new friends You light em up, smoke em out And get passed around cause this heart's got a long way down I always could dessert you Anytime, anywhere you lose I always would dessert you Even when I broke amnesty and you'd refuse I had a dream we were nothing Electricity hanging off vacant rings Two loops of empty string Vibrating I had a dream we were something Electricity dancing on vacant rings Two loops of broken string Vibrating
10.
Stitches and Crash 02:21
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Wasting more gas with Stitches and Crash Take the copper and cover if you want it to last But if you won't say nothing, I won't say anything I won't say anything, anything at all If you won't say nothing, I won't say anything I won't say anything, you don't gotta call Huffing more gas with Stitches and Crash I'm a machine gun bulldog if you want it to last But if you won't say nothing, I won't say anything I won't say anything... at all If you won't say nothing, I won't say anything I won't say anything, you don't gotta call I'm just wasting more gas with Stitches and Crash I'm a machine gun bulldog and I want it to last
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Chain Effect 03:58
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And when I finally come in It'll never be too late To say one more thing That I never mean Cause there's only two If you want the truth And I never do, never do Because promises are just blueprints of what we won't do Now that we got no net, what's the chain effect? What's the chain effect to you? Well you say it's like floating in a pool When World War I biplanes come flying over you Buzzing like a dog you haven't fed But you know I never had a pet, why does that make you wet? We went searching for the answer at my school Pissing off the past trying to break it's silver rule (I said) I can't behave when I'm in my mind (You laughed) The future's looking for a ride Then I made you cum to a 90's hit From when we were six Now that we got no net, what's the chain effect? What's the chain effect to do?
12.
Sabres 04:02
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I miss you Oh whatchu doing on the phone? It's been a minute since you shorted out It's been okay Oh it's green, oh can't you see it? Oh no, it's blue, don't be so down Haven't seen you by the lost and found Still making change? Okay Still ain't never seen them Tie some string around some time But God's in brothers, I took it out Still feels the same Metro Times came out last weekend Yeah, I heard there's been some shows But I spent five bucks 500 times They're all the same Lame I got some speed now if you want it You ain't got no money? No, that's fine It's been a while since you tried it out Still works the same Oh, not tonight, you got that Kommie Said you can come around next week Been picking up quarters and packing dimes Well, how's the eighth? Great Oh Sports you won't believe it Can't keep myself a goddamn job But I keep some trees out in the garage I'll be okay I had a dream that you were calling If it's real don't tell me now It's been a minute since you shorted out It's been a long, long fucking day Okay

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released October 7, 2014

Vocals -Peter AK
Guitars - Peter AK, Keith Smith
Synths - Ivan Nikalov, Peter AK, Chris Campbell
Drums - Trevor Hull, Peter AK, Zak Frieling
Bass - Keith Smith, Eric Allen
Sampler - Peter AK

Recorded at Memory Pool Studios, Detroit, June-July 2014
Engineered by Ivan Nikalov, Keith Smith, and Peter AK
Produced by Peter AK

Mastered at United Sound

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Rall Tide Detroit, Michigan

A couple rock kids meet in the damp hours of a Detroit rave and bond over the genius of the Replacements and Kanye. Rall Tide is born.

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