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Lakestate

by The White Whales

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1.
Transfiguration (free) 03:22
fact or fiction what's the difference? all your endless imperfections you confuse your aging feelings with the laugh lines your concealing in the mirror, every morning youth was never made to last but you fight it till the end with a magazine and magnifying glass fat or skinny dead or living well the world just keeps on spinning tie a carrot to the treadmill throw your paycheck in a landfill by the TV, every evening life it never had no class but you argue till the end in a gallery of filth with a wine glass in the mirror, every morning, waiting for night to transform me in the mirror, every morning, waiting for night to transform me in the mirror, every morning, waiting for night to transform me in the mirror, every morning, waiting for night to transform. oh how I deny myself
2.
Flowers 03:19
by now, the wolves have found me I couldn't keep it hid so if my pride's intangible how do I swallow it? because my head's not on right too many sugar pills whatever works for ya whatever works for ya whatever works for ya well you and I can't control time but we always pretended the river bleeds into the sea a century has ended my old man says there are no straight lines there are no lucky bets life is not a game of cards its a game of chess to untie the greatest knot to become undone whatever works for us whatever works for us whatever works for us well you and I can't control time but we always pretended the river bleeds into the sea a century has ended I guess your body comes down to what your soul is worth but I don't want to fall asleep deep in the earth when I go, bury me in flowers well you and I can't control time but we always pretended the river bleeds into the sea a century has ended a century has ended a century has ended
3.
Skeletons 02:52
underneath your pale white skin, there's always been a skeleton the center of the molten earth, the soldier in a trojan horse and I've always been here waiting I will always be here a body under snow an epitaph in stone in a coffin all alone I kept your memory in my heart, you never could've run too far the memory I kept clinging too, oh lord that was never you I've always been here waiting I will always be here a body under snow an epitaph in stone in a coffin all alone you're a pile of bones you're a pile of bones.
4.
Fake History 03:30
I was always a boat tied to a stone half of me sinks and the other half floats I'm either dead certain or completely unsure where to go where to go where to go anymore you can eat up the stars and drink a full moon march into april may into june summer, autumn, winter woven into your hair anyone everyone nobody cares the grass stains are clean now, the laundry is done your heart broke the mirror, the stove burnt the sun the past in the kitchen is rotting like food I don't know I don't know I don't know what to do oh, this fake history keeps coming true the reason that you keep breaking your own arm the reason that you keep drinking in this bar because midnight and daylight are too far apart you can't change you can't change you can't change who you are so your head is a jail, you're locked up in the past you know what's behind you but you still look back because there in the shadows there's always a place that you're too scared you're too scared you're too scared to face oh, this fake history can be erased
5.
Summer Ghost 03:41
you know I'm always on your side let the past dissolve the summertime the world is not so desolate we'll go where the lovers go go where the lovers go until time puts out the sun paint my skin pink and sea foam tan yourself into a fever wrap your hair in bicycle streamers the dirt road is bound to end we never think of life in present tense waiting for something to happen the needle and record keep passing come down from that crow's nest the space inside your busy head trying to predict the future I'll turn into a turn into a summer ghost oh, where we'll go
6.
Brothers 01:57
(instrumental)
7.
babe the blue ox drank the river, he swallowed the greatest lake and the land he cut his teeth in, is the land my family stays my kin have passed into their next lives, thats what the father says but late at night I murmur prayers, to a man I've never met you and I have just been wandering I guess its time we both grew up I always wished we could stay brothers in the woods oh my lonely dove the eggs have shattered on the highway, the hospital is freezing the organ moans from the cathedral, as your soul is leaving I've been waiting years for morning but I never do wake up the night may fall in love, but it's not enough for you lonely dove.
8.
Lakestate 02:58
either the winter's gotten longer or my memory's getting worse with your wristwatch always twisting around that endless calendar oh andrew be my roses, and lay over the grave oh every character I play it was always such an awful waste dreaming of an ocean in a lakestate life's parade has moved so slowly but now it's finally at your door and these clowns they, dance in circles, but you always expected more because there's an ocean full of diamonds, the one around your finger's fake and your hair is slowly turning grey these lines fill up your porcelain face while dreaming of an ocean in a lakestate now you bet on us like horses in the prospects of the young and the textbooks say to act your age in an age that's come and gone you either got it or you don't and now I guess I know my place but I only have myself to blame it never mattered anyway don't dream about the ocean don't dream about the ocean don't dream about the ocean in a lakestate
9.
Riverbeds 03:47
this river water's filthy red & white & black an american bloodstream that divides this land in half it's all split forever a thousand different paths stranded and forgotten in the middle of a map the coattails of the future are all ragged and frayed the present creaks the floorboards and it's keeping my awake you may say I'm only dreaming every single day sleeping by the river of this sad northern state and now your children sleep on riverbeds in the attic of the grey midwest why the hell would you come here? the nightingales all left tell my pa I quit I'm heading west and now your children sleep on riverbeds in the attic of the grey midwest why the hell would you come here? the nightingales all left tell my pa I quit I'm heading west
10.
the grey lady the freezing lake the blues behind the smile you fake you don't decide so either way it's like you planned it staying put's a tiny crime we lost that lull we lost that time you used to be a friend of mine now we're not speaking time moves so fast and so slow and now you're a decade older, and it shows your voice sends shivers down my throat this giant lake became our sea the winter's now a part of me you can keep the sun and those palm trees cause we're not moving these college kids they pick a coast a picket line a party vote whatever truth you claim to know its all and nothing time moves so fast and so slow and now your decades over, and it shows your voice sends shivers down my throat get a job and pick a side marry your boss fire you wife the highway's packed at twelve at night the year is over I can't believe your phone don't work your the center of the universe a melting pot that don't get stirred you're all and nothing
11.
the garden blooms over the tall fences the grass is greener on my side the saddest poems that made you teary-eyed, were filled with lies parade the spider out of every attic stamp out your final cigarette you thought the blues were gonna get you somewhere, but the haven't yet it's rained enough, and I need the sun do not let me go cut the lock on every tiger cage a rollerskating grizzly bear well everybody's got a broken heart, and no one cares stop searching for some leviathan hidden in the murky deep you have to choose to either let him go, or let him be it's rained enough, and I need the sun do not let me go

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Recorded in May and June of 2013 with Eric Frame and Chris Spetcher of Albion Studios

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released August 1, 2013

The White Whales are:
M. Schufman - Vocals, Guitar, Keys
M. Wojtalewicz - Guitar, Vocals
J. Eagle - Drums, Keys, Ominchord
T. Weidenbach - Guitar, Keys
J. Tschida - Bass

All songs and words by M. Schufman, except "Grappling Iron", by Schufman/Tschida

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The White Whales Minneapolis, Minnesota

We live in a cold city and write songs about the sea.

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