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Seriously, Though​.​.​.

by Upstate Escape

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1.
She’s awfully rude I guess it’s cuz I’ve been spoiling her when in the bed She doesn’t move She just reclines with both her hands behind her head So what to do? It’s hard to broach that kind of subject gracefully But there’s no excuse For beating it after she gets her kicks for free See, baby, it’s the golden rule And girls these days don’t understand just what it means I give to you Exactly what I’d need for you to give to me It’s simple reciprocity
2.
Girl, our friendship’s been great so far But I’d renegotiate these parts In Article 7d: “no touchy feely” That ain’t appealing And in Section 63: “kisses are stealing” Well, I disagree It ain’t stealing if you’re needy And I need benefits And your friends wouldn’t believe me If I said you gave a kiss Away to little me You act like its grand larceny Well, book me, Danno. I confess If I don’t get this, you don’t get that I fill the gap you say they never fill And probably never will No, they probably never will Except they got the snatch while I just got the bill How am I supposed to feel? When you text me your coordinates I didn’t need to, but still I met you At the spot at 4 am And then you leave to Get with my friend It ain’t stealing if you’re needy And I need benefits And your friends wouldn’t believe me If I said you gave a kiss Away to little me You act like its grand larceny Well, book me, Danno. I confess If I don’t get this, you don’t get that love that you’ve taken for granted And that trust of a hopeless romantic You can buy all your own beer And tell someone else when you miss a period I’m sick of hearing it And I don’t care
3.
Poundcakes 02:29
They stared They were all watching Watching the expletives spill from your drunken mouth It’s all a misunderstanding Give us a second here I’m sure we’ll sort this out It’s just Patty Poundcakes With those coke-fiending eyes So which pill do we take so we can party tonight? Where’d you go? I lost track of the time I’ll just follow all those powdery lines that you left behind… Patty, let’s party You sat Sat there at breakfast Still wearing last night’s dress in front of all my friends And then ditched us to sunbathe Charging your poolside drinks discretely to our tab
4.
Assume they’re all in love with you Cuz it won’t be long before they fall Into those eyes, quick to imply Although we know they promise nothing at all Why does every kiss get so bitter in this town? Lining up for the pick of the litter in this town Just to breathe in you before you run out Take a piece of you before you run out And if this is on borrowed time I guess that’s enough for me tonight I know you said you share your bed But I just can’t bear to run when it feels right Why does every kiss get so bitter in this town? When you’re the only fix I can get out of this town Just to breathe in you before you run out Take a piece of you before you run out (Don’t you run out on me) And when it’s all over I’m sure I’ll be fine Cuz I live in the moment And darling, you just made mine You’re making my moment
5.
Another wayward thought of you. I kept the doors open wide But the winter chill Brought tears to my eyes all night I guess this just wasn’t the time. But is it right to give up While the getting’s good But not quite good enough? I just want to Get to see you Long enough to make you understand What I planned… In a bubble shaped carnival balloon I will steal away with you Riding winds of fate Through the purple sky In the footprints of the moon I miss the way things used to be Our child-like simplicity Our lives were just a canvas Where we could paint Anything we could create And it was great Till we realized that when it dries We can’t change what we’ve made Then the doubt comes And all the outcomes Suddenly become risks We can’t take So I say… So keep me in your heart And I will find a way To bring things back to where they were I swear I could If you keep me in your heart I’ll come for you someday Let me steal you away
6.
A stone’s throw from the fault line, but we’ll build here anyways I feel the rhythm as the ground beneath me shakes We didn’t sign up for the front line, but those cowards ran away And now the kickback from the rifle Is our one shot at survival And baby we’re not going out like the moosehead on the wall With a frozen look so calm Like he doesn’t know he’s dead I swear when I go, you won’t want to hang me up Cuz when my time comes, I will go unrecognizable I’ve got a static in my headphones. The invisible airwaves Of eight million souls with nothing left to say And it’s possible our trenches might as well be shallow graves But like a bad heart on Viagra, I will go out with a bang It was all good fun till you played rough with us Then it got serious
7.
Please stop sleeping with my band members Please stop sleeping with my band Please stop sleeping with my band members if you can Cuz groupies can be Such a beautiful thing, you see But I'm at rehearsal and nobody's here They slept through alarms While snug in your arms And while I was waiting, I wrote this song And it goes...
8.
In a world Where the clocks dispense Dollars bills Every few seconds You'd rethink The importance of Your appearance At the country club Here I am Sitting on your couch Watching MTV While you bitch about Your split ends But who’d notice them? We’re so far behind We’ll miss intermission I tried so hard to make you leave But you’d bare your teeth I admit defeat I sit passive aggressively “Baby take your time For tonight I guess tonight we dye” Asked “Do I seem blonder to you?” I replied “Baby, yeah you do. I would expect a blonde to ask Questions like that.” She didn’t find that funny Now her mascara’s running Back to the drawing board We’d be lucky to make the encore We bend to suit you We break to suit you
9.
Crazy is the way we met Two needles in the haystack Crazy begats crazy begats love I carved your name in a tree You killed twelve roses for me Crazy begats crazy begats love Crazy is the currency Traded between you and me Crazy begats crazy begats love Attached at the hip we fly Or pelvis to be precise Crazy begats crazy begats love I tried to wait three days to ring you up But what do you do when that’s just not enough? Cuz right or wrong, you’ve got me on a string So what do I do when rationality all the sudden doesn’t mean a thing to me? Crazy is our devotion As we stare into the sun Crazy begats crazy begats love We both wore our matching straight Jackets on our wedding day Crazy begats crazy begats love
10.
Sorry, Gwen 03:39
I’m sorry, Gwen, but I refuse To pen a lyric or a tune To your request after pondering How sad it is that you assume We don’t take pride in what we do That we’re a shell of what we ought to be But when you peel away to what’s behind the stage You’ll find our smiles are fake Just painted on that way Bet you didn’t think it much To get one more laugh at us Pay me just to play your fool When I see you I’m sorry, Gwen, but then again I can’t sell out my two best friends Cuz they mean more than you could ever know It’s really none of your business Where they decide to rest their heads Out in the cold Or on the neck of someone beautiful Another Saturday, another show to play The audience awaits For another pound of flesh to take away Bet you didn’t think it much To get one more laugh at us Pay me just to play your fool When I see you Just another song we know Just another Vaudeville show Just another thing to do When I see you Cuz all the world’s a stage And we are the parts we play And the strangest thing is No one will find this humorous Except you The greatest thing I ever thought I could do Was to get one leg up on figuring you out
11.
Brainstem 04:44
I was born into this world with a fire in my eyes I fed for 25 years, before I recognized That I was searing off the paper skin of everything I loved And was unsatisfied to look at them without their coverup Happiness is found in its simplicity A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing So I opted for the crudest form of self-conducted surgery To make me blind. To make me see. Instinct I need you Free from this guilt that they call ambition Ignorance kills no quicker than vision And still it takes so long for us to see I am not your friend… or enemy I am just a being in parallel Framing wants and needs as something else I have no brain So breathe… Suspended from the heavens You look up to see God Instead you find a preacherman Who knows just who you are He doesn’t like sin He doesn’t like your smile He says he will forgive you But it might take a while And now I am released to the ground With serpents in the trees above me So breathe in the poison
12.
Baby, this is an invention on behalf of all your friends You’re such a bitch, we’ve gotten quite concerned You’re anti-social, anti-fun, and anti-copulation Unless it’s with GTL-ish d-bag men And you can’t hide your face under sheets of cellophane It’s like you’re way too smart to keep this up But you’re too far gone to change There’s over a million ways Not to be a bitch But you passed them all And you jumped the wall Into the great beyond That’s right And if you need a couple pointers, here’s some friendly advice Don’t offer to take off your top Unless you really plan to follow through And don’t ditch your girlfriends who came out with you Don’t ask a single guy that you just met If he has any single friends That’s rude, rest assured that dude Won’t highly recommend you Though he may not have class In the way you say you have I bet he won’t put out for sketchy men In Brooklyn taxi cabs, Bonnie There’s over a million ways Not to be a bitch But you passed them all And you jumped the wall Into the great beyond Please don’t take the words I say as chauvinist I’m just trying to help you get over yourself Don’t take it personal You’re a six at your best, little lady And both your roommates are seven and a half So there’s no excuse to be acting so crazy You can take that middle finger and go shove it up your candy ass I can guarantee that my size thirteens Would be far worse than that
13.
Everything 05:52
Watching life behind the eyes of innocence Setting off Tandem to the winds that you had left me in And moving on Destined to be more than just a castaway So I thought And grew among the thorns, until the harvest came And they were gone Left out I played your games and took the vow And waited, patient even now You said The pressure is the diamond’s test of time The lesson’s worth the while along the line Lies by candlelight as you said goodbye Pried me open wide, left one thought inside In everything I do In everything I carried the flame for you Peeling back the bubble that I’d hidden in I recall You said we’d be protected from the wicked men Well, here they are I never thought myself as one to lose my head In it all But it’s almost impossible to find the edge Till you fall Way down I see myself through other eyes As more than you could recognize You said the pressure is the diamond’s test of time Depression’s just another state of mind And I just stood still for a while And tried to turn the other cheek Despite the knife you’re brandishing now Cuz it all made sense for a while I didn’t want to miss the chance that you Might just be one more lie before the truth

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"Seriously, Though..." by Upstate Escape

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released August 1, 2012

John Norwood - Vocals/Guitars
Mark Wielgosz - Bass
Bryan Schwenk - Drums

Additional Percussion by Milton Georges

Jenna Kyle - Guest vocals on "Steal Away"

All Songs and Lyrics by John Norwood
Arrangements by Upstate Escape
Production and Engineering by Milton Georges at Hot Pump Studios
Cover Art by Joe Scordo

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