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Cedar Rapids, MN

by Led by Monsters

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1.
Ready When You Are 03:29
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Let's go back to the swing set For one last staring contest And remind ourselves of attrition And its consequence And I am Ready When you are... And all the ghosts birthed in our minds And our stale hearts, and weak spines All came from when we tried Using band-aids to stop fault lines And I am I am I am I am ready When you are... And I never wanted to say "I told you so." But at least now I know To always say "goodbye" and "I love you" Before I go I never wanted to say I never wanted to say it I never wanted to say it But I guess it can't be helped now... So I am I am I am Ready When you are...
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Still Swings 05:14
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You, you walk down this road You and I both know We have been here before The doors on the houses are all locked And you're scared and you're afraid Because you and I both know Exactly where this goes Fear is an old quiet house Full of echos of your childhood shouts Fear is a place overwhelming and loud, close like love But sharp and cold and black And here we are now... I swore to God on the day I left I'd never come back to this place I'd rather die instead A whole 'nother life Buried but not dead Are we just the pets of our fears Led by the monsters in our head? This house was always open for you We don't need keys It'll still open for me too The stairs, like jaws, the glass, like eyes, I wanna run We shouldn't be here again Well isn't that the guilty truth? It's hard, now, to imagine why You'd ever come back here After you tried so hard The swings are still and the playground's empty And God, we're not kids anymore Or maybe that's just our favorite lie... I swore to God on the day I left I'd never come back to this place I'd rather die instead A whole 'nother life Buried but not dead Are we just the pets of our fears Led by the monsters in our head? [Instrumental Bridge] We, we walk down this road You and I both know We have been here before The doors on the house are all locked And you're scared and I'm afraid Because you and I both know Exactly where this goes I swore to God on the day I left I'd never come back to this place I'd rather die instead A whole 'nother life Buried but not dead Are we just the pets of our fears Led by the monsters in our head?
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Cedar Rapids, MN 04:09
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The Wrecking Ball 05:20
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You talk in old tongues About what used to be You say it can be ours again You just need me Just like the rest To me, you died But now your voice rings in my head And you want inside I'd let you but I don't trust you And I'm not so sure this time Understand that I can burn my Own house down just fine I'm more than capable of holding the wrecking ball Break my own supports and walls It's not enough just to watch me struggle You want to speed the fall You say it best "Why even try?" "Come on, let me in..." "And we can waist the night." You show up And you want to see The person you "used to know" Come out of me It's a wonder I'm even alive And now you wanna go back in time It was fun but those days are over You're not gonna change my mind You're still a child you haven't grown at all I should have hung up when you called You're just alone since I left And now you wanna drag me down as you (fall) I'd let you but I don't trust you And I'm sure this time Understand that I can burn my Own house down just fine I'm more than capable of holding the wrecking ball Break my own supports and walls It's not enough just to watch me struggle You want to speed the fall You say it best "Why even try?" You would know...
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Airport Walkway 06:44
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I've got a bad habit of running in place. It's like one of those moving walkways at the airport. Except I'm going the wrong way. And I've been doing it for the last twenty years.
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The 54 05:01
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Minnesota needs more volcanoes And wanted advice From hidden angels in potholes Who always know what's right And it's been years since I've seen the Northern Lights And from what I've read in books and heard Iceland seems nice And there's only so many ways I can rearrange the rocks on the sidewalk Before I have to start again [Instrumental Interlude] With training wheels for roads with dead ends And paper maps to navigate Through gods and ex-girlfriends Just smile, honk, and wave... And the forecast is a gas station postcard By the shot glasses and cereal bars And there's a million Camry's on the Plexiglas And the schedule is telling me that it's six minutes past And it's cold at the bus stop And I'm far from home... The bus here runs on time But some day it won't Maybe everything won't be alright But maybe that's not the point.
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Apocalypse Tuesdays (Previously a Bonus Track) 04:10
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It was an okay Tuesday Not too cold, not too hot We walked to the playground And picked out our spot And we sat on the swing set As the wind and rain began And the sky turned a shade of blood As we watched the living dead She said, "Hey, I recognize that guy Being eaten by those ghouls." And as a zombie ate his heart, she said, "He did really well in school..." And the zombies didn't care About the fire as it spread I asked, "Don't they feel the fire, too?" And she said, "No, they are already dead." We kept watch for angels Descending from the sky Turns out that part of Sunday School Was mostly a lie But we did see a big fancy jet plane Crash into someone's home We saw the old and dead devour the young Leaving only the bones I asked her if she was sad, She said, "No, I'm really not... I don't think it's giving up, If you're never given a shot." She asked, "What's the point of letting Our childhood end, Knowing we'll never own the houses Our parents lived in?" The sky cracked and swelled As the earth began to shake And she brushed off an ember and asked, "How long's this gonna take?" And a cop car drove past the playground Screaming blue and red She said, "Tomorrow's still laundry day..." And we watched the world... End

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released May 11, 2014

All music written, performed, recorded, and poorly mixed by Led by Monsters over the course of roughly one week in May of 2014.

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