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Somehow I've Always Known

by Headwires

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1.
OWLs 03:50
You are an empty home, reverberating discordant Born and dead in the same damned breath I wait. I can't. I kill it 'til it's breathing again You are the iron lung. Force me alive Pumping air so I can howl these crimes to the moon Hanging like my head when you said it: If you don't, then why did you say you did? Like I'd breathe you in It's living in me If you don't, then why'd you shake off the rust For me to hold in my lungs? You're hanging on me Wasted so much time digging my own grave Spent none of it picking out the box I'd bury myself in And watched the paint fade and peel around me As you sent your worms, your worst To chew through the arms that held me You're waking If you don't, then why did you say you did? Like I'd breathe you in It's living in me If you don't, then why'd you shake off the rust For me to hold in my lungs? You're hanging on me
2.
Bookends 04:41
Never could trust in her claim No heaven darkens my door Or shows its hard-earned years beneath my eyes Walked the same tired miles Held broken smiles When the light in our own hands and hearts is held by someone else Hey. Could be a jungle out there. One more sinking feeling In a fleeting moment Between sleepless lips where fear and doubt live Desperation flickers Desperation fades And desolation keeps it floating Onward, into something else today Holy doesn't speak without foundations to bring down Around its ankles and its knees with the dirt you keep And won't the truth stick to your feet And wrap around your tongue and teeth Just like the way you used to do those things to me?
3.
Choke 05:01
Breathe and inhale you I tried so hard to find your answer there And every memory of you Crawls into my bed, you drag me in Met my match I cut it close Burn away my world Or get a day away from you But what you'll never take From me if the way I choke beneath the weight of you Breathe and exhale you I thought I had an answer to you then Sick and fucking fed Up. Give me that spark around my neck again Met my match. I stood too close. Burn away my world Or get a day away from you But what you'll never take From me is the way I choke beneath the weight of you
4.
Felt the chain snap just in time to lighten the load Or hide behind your mirrors and smoke It's looking grey out there in the wild where we were from Are you trapped where time doesn't exist And ignorance is bliss? I'm alive. Don't nail it shut just yet. I'm one more year spent trapped under the rust Strapped on my wings and flew too close to the sun I felt the pages turning, stirring dust up between us One more day to kill the ache in my head And one more song to pay your dues to the dead Tonight it's me against the end Against the grain Stuck in the way Up in arms over this clouded heart again Tossed away Just one more day Won't your fading words land in my hand again? Someday.
5.
Maya 01:16
We build our own cages To lie and and gather the rain That spills from between Your smiling teeth and the sheets That we hold below us You lined the walls The frame of every doorway It matched your own And led into empty vessels just like you Carry me on board and take me higher and higher still.
6.
San Dimas 03:52
I'm just one more creature staring into the sun How could you blame anyone? And won't the name I wrapped so tight around my wrist Give it one more little twist? Walked a hundred miles Held onto everything there And once the grease and dust settle or pull me in What can you say then? Heard you caving in Scorched me, desert air One call could break the bow Heard a call for the boys. Their gunners came marching in. Just one more dream of the end Hold me against the bottom Pull me closer again And once the grease and dust settle or pull me in Won't you tell me again? Walk one more hundred miles. Hold onto everything there. Felt your beating wind Scorching desert air This fear makes me miss the misery of missing you to death This call could break the bow
7.
No more cheating hearts It fades What a way to travel Blow through on whims and borrowed wings Just to break them when he needs them most Then flee his roost He falls through No more cheating hearts It fades These mud-soaked praying knees are worn to the bone And my love, it feels the same But crawls endlessly toward nothing.
8.
I came running every time you said the word Your haves and have-nots built this house And won't you step forward into the light? Won't it burn and glare like the quiet between us? Dirt-fed and tarnished, but I am golden Underneath, and today won't flake and peel away And what's in a name won't just fall away Hand will unclasp, but blood's forever. Give me a reason why things had to go this way You hung on my back, your words across my face Call it a slip of the tongue, call it your party phase I'll call it "I don't owe you anything." Chamber is loaded With every promise you couldn't keep Cross this line, cross hands and hearts Like one drawn around a dream from yesterday And the vultures and hawks circle over In the heat of what you are: A moment; and I'm tonight's first kill Give me your fucking worst I'll give you what's left
9.
Matrimony 11:58
All my friends are grey and red Painted onto walls and palms of hands That hold and seal the deal so tight And some say love's an open door But I say you're the breeze that blows on through I felt that breeze on my skin, too Lets me know it's real when all these old Familiar faces I once knew came knocking Sat around on the edge again You wax and wane and hang So low, I felt you there I burned out But I'm a quick machine And this motor's rusted So keep on calling I'm just another thing you wasted Be my gaslight or my hanging moon Then fade away So like you, but there is beauty in the strange Staring at the records along the wall I've digested more than my hungry stomach can allow And all my first loves They're getting married now.

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released July 22, 2016

Headwires is:
Lucas Smith: Guitars.
Jesse McClendon: Bass.
Dakota Wright: Guitars, vocals.
Nick Bryant: Drums

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Ryan Stidham at Atlas F Studio in Athens, AL.
Produced by Headwires and Ryan Stidham.
All songs written by Headwires except Matrimony, written by Headwires and Hunter Dawson.
Guest vocals on "Scarlet Fades Today" by Josh Allen.
Album art by Anna Howard.

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