Split with BROOK PRIDEMORE

this will be released on SEP 1st.

this is a split 7" with brook pridemore, NYs anti-folk, folk/punk, singer songwriter and partner in crime with crafty dan of crafty records (this is also a split label release with crafty records).

the lyrics:

witches and warlock:

i'm tracing pentagrams with chalk onto my floor i'm lighting candles cookin' curses casting spells to bring a storm that will cloud up over bloomington, make black the midwest sky i'm pushing pins into the map to mark the points for lightning strikes may the ashes of the university make their way out to the sea and may the bones of the invaders mix with the bricks of burned buildings we will make them into to mortar and we will build this town again i'm calling on dark forces to take me back to bloomington we'll dig some holes and plant some seeds and grow trees back in the park so the bums will have some shade to drink and a place to sleep when it gets dark nick will get his job back when we re-open the Vonlee we'll watch movies and eat popcorn but this time we won't have to sneak we'll make music in our basements we'll play 4-square in the streets we'll carve hexes in our our highways to ward off the wicked beasts and this time we'll keep our city
safe we'll keep our city sweet we'll keep our city free one by one and block by block we watched it slip away the towers of our enemies grew taller everyday until at last i cast away and tried to find some better place but it's wings are wide and cast it's shadow down on everything so i'm praying to the lord and every other god i know to give me a flaming sword and some extra lightning bolts and the power to destroy the ones who took our town away and the strength we need to build it back into something great and this time we'll keep our city safe...and sam will come back from california and she will know just what we need to do and all the cool kids that i've met in all the places that i've went will hear the booming of the battle and come too and we'll make this place into the greatest place there's ever been all we want is a place to live the kind of lives to want to live so i'm rubbing every lantern that i find and i'm chasing every rainbow that i
see i'm searching the clovers trying to find one with four leaves anything that could grant one with to me (x2) and portland will not save you and olympia will fall too and gainesville will surrender someday and i know bloomington will never be the same bloomington will never be the same

The Alchemist

the universe will conspire with you to help you do the things you want to do there are no devils down in hell that wish for you to fail, no your worst enemy is you ew ew you've gotta find you path and follow it and you path will become clear don't you stray don't waste a day and don't give in you your fears and you will see that the world wants you to win if anyone tells you differently that person's not you're friend you should get away from them while you can because they've given up and they'll bring you down with them they've given up and they'll bring you down with them you, you don't have to be the one to defeat the evil king and set your people free but you could if that's what you want to do and we would all help you and then you would see that the world is not your enemy and the point of life is to chase your dreams and as long as you can breath and as long as your heart beats those dreams can be achieved

Crawl back from your wretched graves

all the kids i knew when i was a kid have kids now of their own every time i bump into them they look so tired and old i feel sorry for them because they do not have a dream i wish i could give them, one of mine because i've got more than i need i still feel the same way that i did when i was a kid now they don't understand me and i don't know what happened to them all the kids i knew when i was nineteen caught up and passed by me they started bands and ended them and gave up on the scene all the kids i knew when i was twenty two just set around and drink but they used to do the greatest things and they meant so much to me and i still feel the same way that i did when i was a kid now they don't understand me and i don't know what happened to them to all of my friends who have left or who have quit it's not too late you can come back you're life's not over yet all those dreams that you had when you were a kid it's not too late, no i swear you can still go
after them and I I I I I will be waiting for you and I'm right where you left me my friend and we all miss you yes we all miss you.

A palm tree on the beach at coney il.

A palm tree on the beach at Coney Island Through the wintertime retains a vibrant green. All the polar bears protest. They're on the boardwalk, fully dressed. When I say "entropy," they don't know what I mean. I saw her hidden secret for a dollar. Billy Bile he let
me up to take a peek and Heather Holiday was coiled Like a snake amongst the foils and I became disenchanted with that scene. But if you ride the whole way back facing westward the sun will burn an imprint on your eyes. The way I felt this morning is a far cry from the way I feel right now on my ride home. I saw a tree's metallic shield. I saw old mysteries revealed and I am never going back down there alone.