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The Unexpected Way Of Things

by Branson Hollis

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1.
Something’s growing up here Something’s been unearthed We built a whole new mountain we can climb Time has come to depart from this world This hell of a world We set sail into the mist Something’s growing up here Something’s been unearthed There is a brand new breach we can escape through Hey, you arches walked us out You’ve been there so long Hold us Take us away Lead our way Won’t you care? This is the last call Sure we’ll dare Embrace our will to Leave this all Behind with the muddy water We know we got A long way to go but Sure we’ll dare We’re going To walk this land We’ll go back and fucking forth We’ll get it done We will Set sail Head to the bright side We’ll make the shore Show us the bright side Steer us Head to the bright side Here come the waves Follow the setting sun This would not have been without your holy hand on Sure we’ll use the bearing of your faith And stride each ground like we’re going home We’re going home Who cares what’s before the bright side? Alright then We got to the bright side We made the shore It’s so fucking bright here We walk this land We’re going back and forth We’ll ever be Quite amazed and thankful
2.
Wolf Speaker 03:37
Great fake homes Reaching each others doubts, faults Scoring the last half step you need to Burst your way Out of the damn puzzling, swarming Spiralling dance we all look up to Right now we’re getting stronger We’re getting smarter He knows Right now Steady, we own the power To hold something you don’t He knows Make way For random souls around They come Along your way Wide souls Now give a hard look at this stocking hole Hope you’ll never use a walk on this ground again Reap out, stack up And hope you won’t have to turn back Then hope you will get to clean up your head and Hold onto hope Farewell glance Beg for relief You’ve never reached this far You’re nowhere near the Lord Don’t you look back Hold on your faith Stick to the track Then you ask Branson there And pretend you really care Right now we’re getting stronger We’re getting smarter He knows We’ve been right there We’ve seen this all before Before your eyes, the only path This strenuous step will lighten you all We packs of witnesses We can’t tell the way from here Everything tends to get weathered here (weathered here) As we walk by (as we walk by) We can barely breathe It’s so bright over there It feels like we’re almost done It burns all our clothes It looks like we’ve made it though Sure we ought to be blind So we can’t find our way back home Ever
3.
Oh Don he does no good Don he has no dreams God he does not fear hell He’s going down Faced like he always is Don he feels no tick Taking a good deal out of contingencies He once felt like It all was paused He once knew The very midst of the merry-go-round It never turns It holds still I can’t remember how I used to look at the stars It all felt like it was a slow ride It got the best of me It got me right here I can’t tag along in This whole of a life rolling around me All this constant funeral But I no longer expect someone to notice at all Bury me right here It’s coming down, it’s coming way down the line You lost me back then It’s coming down, it’s coming down, it’s coming fucking down The impending doom I can’t remember how I used to look at the stars Now I know for sure it was a short ride But I can’t hold it It’s catching up with me again
4.
Albina Press 04:39
Can’t you hear the groans outside? The way I was wrong Let’s capture the feeling in here Can’t you feel the stoned clouds fall? The further you walk in We’ll cling to the last beams of sun Let’s have just one last look We’ll wake up tomorrow Before your eyes, now See the dusk one last time A soft breeze soaks in, tickles the safe warmth Bury your souls Bring on the fright You’re running on a cliff And this won’t feel good This storm it jostles you You’re begging for time You can’t grab all this shit up and take it away, no Yeah I beg No I can’t hold it This boundless shore It has no cliff, well We’ll take another day to Reach the soil we’ve been told about This broken city We might wanna go in Cause all we need is something to aim for And do our best to find our way back You won’t say goodbye, no Not until you’re ready to miss it all A soft breeze soaks in, tickles the safe warmth You’re out A frozen time comes right in It ended quick I almost died
5.
You’re screwed and you don’t know it yet Fretting for nothing else than booze You dumbfounded cunt What the hell are you breathing for? Don’t you point the finger like they do wrong You just pulled it out of your fat ass You dipshit, beer-ingesting Raging prick, sin infested You dumbfounded cunt Hey Screw you all who aren’t giving a shot It beautifies the stray out of your frame The jarring ones It enlightens the dreamers we all are So why don’t you wannabes just shoot the shit once again? You’ve all been given the right to choose Fret and frown about the non-disposable Don’t try and look back through this path you once barely consider Maybe the risk and excitement of making a point A point Maybe that’s what got you all confused You’re cold enough to freeze You fill your life with emptiness You’re exuding routine You’re born and blind, senseless, loveless You’ve never been to any shore to look up No shame You’ve never been to any shore to look up No shame So why don’t you wannabes just shoot the shit once again? You’ve all been given the right to choose Fret and frown about who’s occupied Don’t try and look back though this path you once barely consider The silly boy Fucks you
6.
Wait while we’re on this clinch Let me embrace the whole It’s increasingly cold All the good and gone See, I’m scared of what lies ahead I remember You stood on this porch Whispering ‘I’m stuck here With my childish daze Now I’m holding this pose It realigns your flesh’ I cried I remembered a dream The place had emptied out I remembered you Then I woke and cried I still cry
7.
Every way I came to reach you There is a story to tell (Hey) Every way I came to hear about you Lord Back up a bit (Hey) The cold breeze slashed up your neck It spreads around and holds you tight, it’s a curse Right now Theres’s something still burning your feet There’s something wrong There’s no way You can escape There’s nothing to run from The sun sets on our backs You can't deny the curse It's more than you can take The soil it gives no more There's nowhere to come from The sun it shines no more There’s nothing to run from There’s nothing to run from Every way I came to reach you Just keep on blowing out the truth (Hey) Every way I came to hear about you Lord Go the hell on (Hey) The cold breeze slashed up your neck Why do I still care? It spreads around and holds you tight it’s a whole hell of a curse Can’t you see? It fucking killed me (You cut it loose) I’m standing here, where ashes never get to burn (A soft breeze slides) Well that’s not fear you’re shrouding here now (You dreamt all this) It’s something else that rose deeper Can’t you feel? (Right) Now it’s coming into sight It’s time when the sun rises anew You get up and go on You swear you’ll just go on You watch your cocoon burning down You get up and go on You swear you’ll just go on Walter said history’s out there Wiseman said history’s out there Why don’t make your own? Coalesce till it burns a bit Wiseman said history’s out there Then go make your own Coalesce till it burns a bit Wiseman said history’s out there Coalesce till it burns a bit Wiseman said history’s out there You’re settled down when it wounds for good
8.
Singularity 03:28
As we drive right through the haze As we rail off our meadow You do want me to turn us around Those blue waves, they call out our names This wild realm, it pushes us away I can’t sense the distance But I sure as hell know That we don’t have much time to get off once and for all It’s all good We got it Bear us We don’t know the way We’re scared of the sounds here Then what got you this far? Bear us Light up the way We’re lost and abandoned Then how come you got this far? You know how we’re sharing the world That’s why we fit Though our time is sneaking off quicker We managed to get more of more of this love That won’t fade away We still wonder how this is higher We still wonder how this is higher We’d best not look up and wonder how this is higher We’d better look down and go on this high And walk away Now We’re not afraid anymore See now you came right in The whole plain and simple ending of the curve Leave us We sure know the way Leave now We sure know the way We sure know the way out
9.
T. Gondii 04:36
Wake me as I force my way through hell Get me out I plead I’m heading down, heading down the dark The unlooked-for A dead end If you take them down then take me down as well Get me out I plead I’m lying, dying here So you woke up quite unsure you’ll make the day They’re gonna rise and you’re scared to death But hey Hey Don’t be this jerk This drama queen Show some guts Build up the nerve and stand your ground Go get some Grab your knife and hold it tight They crawl, they walk, they run They’re catching back up with you Run till it burns your guts You’re way too clean to take it all Now they’re making headway And now they’re dealing with your mind You’re shaking You’re drawing down, you’re diving down these drowsy ghouls You’re swimming through for sure You’re drawing down, you’re diving down these drowsy ghouls Just keep on howling in your sleeve See, that’s courage to me You’re drawing down, you’re diving down these drowsy ghouls See? You don’t need me no more Shall I, shall we, shall I? I’m going down, going down, going down, going down, this sort of gate I’ll walk away Towards colder paths I’ll build up the nerve and stand my ground Go get some I’ll grab my knife and hold it tight I can feel the groans rising in my stomach As they’re approaching my location I brace myself and keep shattering my faith in life As it slowly fades before my eyes I’ll crawl, I’ll walk, I’ll run, I’ll be safe by the moonlight Unless they catch me dreaming I’ll crawl, I’ll walk, I’ll run I’ll be done when the sun sets And if there’s any God left please call it out
10.
Funston Ave. 03:45
It scares It scares It scared me The beat I just felt your heart beating inside of me It pierced me Sh, sh, sh, sh Our rising joy above it all It’s harsh and sweet And our will to love That grasp Our thawing tongues We’re fine and condemned in the wry Cold and neat Your eyes The pulse The pulse The pulse The pulse Tonight We feel like the ones Tonight Though we’re trembling unceasingly Your skin It feels soft, it feels warm Your eyes They’re hiding there, hiding their beauty Paralysed me Well these sounds around They’re winding down your ears They carry our souls They crush into the window’s blur We’re two loners alone Then the curse we must remind ourselves It feels way too far from here We combine our wounds to love again Put these bodies away It burns, burns, burns There’s some kind of dying inside She cries, cries, cries Bend over again She cries her love How crazy are the time and day to I cry mine Feel this way Then writhe We feel like the ones Tonight Though we’re trembling unceasingly Your skin It feels soft, it feels warm Your eyes They’re hiding there, hiding their beauty Tonight I’m holding you like you hold A dream That slowly fades as you’re waking up Your skin Means the world to me Your eyes They’re hiding there, hiding their beauty Your eyes They’re hiding there, hiding their beauty Your eyes They’re hiding there, hiding their beauty
11.
Stanislava 02:34
(No words)
12.
The whole world keeps on chanting And you’re out of reach You’re drifting off As I sink in time The beauty never fades Well I’ve lost it It just kills to not know If you’ll ever come back Revived Here’s to you who’s sleeping tight While we pray with eyes wide shut They said you’re out there And it’s not worth it to try We’ll never leave here Or leave you high and dry I writhe incessantly Those words are walls The ground gives way And I’m falling head first But before I go Fetch me her eyes Soak back You got so much left to see They said you’re out there You’re nowhere I know I can’t drag you back down this road You’re too far and my tears are drowning me You ought to try You ought to try You ought to try And revive Each second down here Is like stones in my heart You hear all our songs Give them back those wings I writhe I don’t know the way Those answers are walls You once opened your wings So is my soul now So is my soul now Don’t try and fly out (yeah) Turn your back and walk You’re back and revived now (yeah) Pace the earth again You’re back and revived now (yeah) Open your eyes and smile

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released May 20, 2013

Clément Aulnois (drums)
Nicolas Rohart (guitar, vocals)
Maxime Lebredonchel (bass, vocals)
Robin Huqueleux (guitar, vocals)
Florian Urbaniak (keys, drums)

Recorded/Mixed/Mastered at Glow In The Dark Studios (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Artwork by Romain Barbot (@iamsailor)

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