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Hang On To The Good That You Got EP

by Hot Coma

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1.
I know I’ve been here before And I know all the wrong ways to turn I’ve seen all the detours and exits between us Only one will take me where I need to go I need to go Oh please, don’t let me mess up my new life I’ve come so far to be with her Oh please, don’t let me mess up my new life I’ve worked so hard for the good that I got As I’m moving forward I keep looking back The past somehow fueling my future But it’s finally time to leave it behind Say goodbye to the lows Though you never know You never know Oh please, don’t let me mess up my new life I’ve come so far to be with her Oh please, don’t let me mess up my new life I’ve worked so hard for the good that I got Hang on Hang on to the good that you got Hang on Hang on to the good that you got Love lies down on the drive The light spills on my face Inside all the voices of all my good choices Say I hope you know you’re back again Back again Back again And never left Oh please, don’t let me mess up my new life I’ve come so far to be with her Oh please, don’t let me mess up my new life I’ve worked so hard for the good that I got Hang on Hang on to the good that you got Hang on Hang on to the good that you got
2.
Meet me where worry turns in to faith And we’ll wait for authorities to come You fit the description of one who’s gone missing A stranger who looks just like anyone of us You can fight it but the feeling won’t shake You can hide but time only takes All you have And all you want When all you need Is already gone It’s already gone Distant shadows turn in the light The flash of approaching betrayal There’s only one answer to give when they ask you A kiss in an instant to telegraph truth You can fight it but the feeling won’t shake You can hide but time only takes All you have And all you want When all you need Is already gone It’s already gone You will not remember so write it now “Blah, blah, blah, blah something,” he said Another year older a few moments wiser It slipped from your eyes Now there’s nothing left to give You can fight it but the feeling won’t shake You can hide but time only takes All you have And all you want When all you need Is already gone It’s already gone
3.
Blue Luggage 03:58
Freezing rain delayed her flight The planes stacked up over D.C. She never learned to put things right She watched the storm rage quietly And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look at what she never had Strangers only going nowhere And everything she has is lost with her luggage somewhere When she’s finally free she’ll know It’s lost love that lastly holds us Feelings put up long ago Unpacked when touchdown brings it home And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look at what she never had Strangers only going nowhere And everything she has is lost with her luggage somewhere She finally caught a flight at first light I watched her plane slip through the clouds Read her face through the night And cast this stranger in my song And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look at what she never had Strangers only going nowhere And everything she has is lost with luggage somewhere And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look back And she don’t look at what we never had Strangers only going nowhere And everything she has is lost with her luggage somewhere Everything we had Strangers only going nowhere And everything she has is lost with her luggage somewhere

about

He was sure he could hear the air seeping from the tires of the antique Dodge Challenger. Through the foam earplugs, beneath the mattress, under the cricket choir, audible even through the intermittent whines and scratches of the dog next door... yes, he was certain he could hear the air hissing from the radials (is that what they were?) like cold white noise filling the car port three floors below. Especially the front passenger side, that wheel definitely had a slow leak, albeit slightly faster than the rest, the ones merely violated by creeping shards of what he imagined was glass, but slow nonetheless. That’s what the garage guy would call it, anyway—a slow leak. The garage. The guy. That tire would need to be patched soon or replaced altogether. Not that soon, not tomorrow soon, but soon enough. Next week maybe? He couldn't risk a blow out, not with all he needed to do, not with M. returning from her assignment on Tuesday, and not with the Hot Coma, as the media had dubbed it, sweeping the streets. Did anyone really buy that crap? Did he really buy that crap? The "god microbe"? The so-called "epiphanic effect"? The sunshields the street scum were now peddling, claiming the triple lens protected you from the heightened gaze of “the risen”? The passenger side hissed again, louder still, he thought. His heart raced at the thought of the phone call, the one he’d need to punch in to arrange the drop off, the repair. Not the phone. Not the questions. Not the anticipation of making the call and answering the questions. Sleep was unlikely now. To calm his mind, he turned his focus to the song he’d been arranging in the background of all this noise, behind the hissing, the chirping, the scratching, the un-switch-off-able-offness of the chatter. There was, after all (all?) some beauty haunting this place. Hang on, he hum-whispered, hang on to the good that you got…

credits

released October 26, 2010

All songs and sounds conjured by Adam Boose and Robert Cherry

Mixed and mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio

Art direction and design by Caspar Newbolt at Version Industries

Micro-film directed and edited by Patrick Miller

Synthesized melodies and pulses on "Blue Luggage" performed by William Broun

Backing vocals on "Hang On To The Good That You Got" by Carla Cherry

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