Go Heart Yourself

by The Flailing Inhalers

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released 02 October 2010
The Flailing Inhalers:
Nick Harper - lead vocals
Kyle Ritter - guitar, vocals
Charlie Norris - bass
Curtis Cooksey - guitar
Dustin Stallings - drums, vocals

All songs written by the Flailing Inhalers
Recorded by Dustin Stallings
Mastered by Ryan Foster, Freq Mastering

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Track Name: Gambler's Dream
I've spent a lot of years mixing tears with heart and soul.
I brought it to a boil and then I poured it down a hole.
I covered it with dirt, disregarding that it hurt,
to pile in the earth without a single seed to grow.
Knew no amount of effort could pull life straight from the air
Even though it's only nothing,
I just liked taking care
I was waiting for the sun to come and dance across my work.
It burned the sterile ground and my arms opposite my shirt.
With diligence unfading,
closed my eyes and hands and prayed,
to a God I don't believe in,
for a miracle displayed.
I convinced myself that nothing could be something if I tried,
and I could win an argument with pistols at my sides.
I was hoping for a moment of your oh so precious time
to relay all the bullshit that's been clouding up my mind.
Five of these are empty,
but I don't know which ones,
someone shoulda' taught you you should never play with guns.
Point it up at me and do your best to make it click,
but do it rather quickly cuz the waiting makes me sick.
Compose yourself and steady,
this shouldn't be that hard,
if it makes it any better, close your eyes and shoot the dark .
And in the end you love me,
whether or not it's true,
and anything I had has been written off to you.
So get up from the table,
leave me lifeless and behind
I bet you never thought of this as how you'd blow my mind.
Track Name: Pretty Disease
I never thought I’d say that things were better in my day,
I never thought I’d be the hypocrite that told you to pray.
I have memories, stupid fallacies,
You were perfect then, but now you’re just a pretty disease.

You, you’re compulsive,
and I, I’m repulsive,
but if you obsess to me, then we both live.

You say you tried, well on more than one occasion I have died.
I’ll let you know when I have finished cutting pounds from my hide.
And when we’re all dead, pickled and salted,
my pain means nothing to anyone outside my head.
Track Name: Cock it Back
I made a resolution for the brand new year,
I will survive the winter, I will survive the winter.
I’m starring in a revolution, it’ll start right here,
we will survive the winter, we will survive the winter, yeah.

We’re gonna make it out some day.
But we’ll have to call in a couple of favors.

Well I hope you had yourself a good life
some good times spent before your nose dive
See you when I get to the other side
‘Til then, consider this my goodbye
Snow keeps blowin’, guess we’re staying home again
spend the morning smoking weed for a little bit
when up from the cellar came a rumblin’
thunderin’ like a million pound gorilla cummin’
Track Name: Knife in My Side
Don the banker hates his father,
wishes he was wishing for a whisker biscuit like his brother,
while he and Dan mouthfuck each other.

You are the knife in my side,
you are the shampoo running in my eyes,
you are the sliver underneath my fingernail.

Don’s in hiding, advertising,
would-be woodsman seeking young bagpipe performer looking for a pixie pitbull pistol pitcher.
Nine months passed without vacation,
way too tan for a Caucasian,
middle management promotion,
power-trippin’ flood gate open.

You’re a filthy criminal and wholly irresponsible,
you need to see examples of your actions taking shape.
I will be immovable, I will be unreasonable,
I’ll make sure from here on out you never trust a bank.
Track Name: Hand Me That Hammer
For some sick reason
I want you as worried as me.
Not to hurt you, but to mess up what you're trying to leave.
Not always winning, that's not why we're playing the game
if it goes down, I hope it goes down in flames

you're gonna make a better memory.
you're gonna make a better memory.
You better remember,
you better remember in between,
but you're gonna make a better memory.

Someone told me,
You'll know it when it happens for real
I also know that you're the only one who knows how you feel.
I've been on board now, patiently awaiting my turn,
if it goes down, I'll be helping it burn

Let the piss-ant workers bail until their hearts are content.
Appreciate the ire of a firestorm about to get wet.
Track Name: Sunday
I was feeling pretty good today,
I made a little progress, I let a little light in my life.
I was breathing slowly,
breathing slowly and I was thinking clearly
I was in control of my time.

watching from the outside,
balancing my mind with a lie,
you lied, you never even knew my name.

when you don’t know when,
when you don’t know when you wait.

It’s entertaining, the notion of strength,
character flaws have kept me, have kept me weak.
So I’m sorry about all of the mess,
nothing personal, but if it hurt you, I guess
I guess you never really knew me at all.

when you don’t know when,
when you don’t know when you wait.
And you do what you do best,
cover the rest of us with hate.
oh, you don’t know,
no, you don’t know so you wait

You got a way of holding nothing back,
alienate and embarrass me in front of my friends.
Track Name: Smooth
She don’t know what I’ve seen,
she don’t know where I’ve been,
she scrapes my stomach clean and for that reason I depend.

We don’t have to speak,
I barely need to reach.
Minimal effort and she falls around my feet,
and I am soothed.
My skin is smooth.

She’s not just for me,
I can introduce my friends,
they hate when she’s around
and my enjoyment never ends.

I know you’ll be waiting while I’m away,
you welcomed me home as soon as I came,
cast out past transgressions to the seam inside the sheet and you are clean.
Track Name: Bang it Out
it hit me like a train
how is it that i couldn't see it common when it came
i guess i tried to force it but it didn't wanna take
hear me out before you throw it all away

let's go out with a bang girl
you don't have to fake it
one more time for old time's sake

you got a problem i got a fix
we gotta hash out the deet's yeah let's settle our diff's
I'm gonna make you understand what I'm talkin about
let's hook up later and bang it out
oh yeah let's bang it out

i got it on the brain
let's hit it till you're fizzin’ and I'm poppin’ like a
bottle of champagne hey hey hey
believe me when i fire I'm a shoot it long range
(like Danny Ainge from downtown baby)

let's kick it up a notch
let's get this fire hot
we're gonna burn it up
before we send it off
Track Name: Garage Rock Noir
Anti-histamines aren’t all I eat,
they’re just an occasional thing to help me breathe.
Jesus needs a sin redeemed,
if you want you can take a drink but don’t blame me.

And I hang on the best I can when you take off.
Did it take long to make you’re plan to stay gone.

You never trust me, cut it out.
Never besties, cut it out.

You hardcore punk,
I’m outta luck.
I can only be that guy you’re fucking.
Track Name: Come and Gone
Charlie was a war protester's son,
Likened life to magazines,
worked real hard at leisure
when he wasn't huffing gasoline

His time had come and gone.

He never understood the reason
that he never had a thing to say
he spent his life feeling sorry
and his face got stuck that way.

His time had come and gone

At one point he got lucky,
the stars lined up that night,
he was too fucked up to notice
and the train went right on by.

His time had come and gone

Charlie knocked up a stranger
swore that he would change his ways,
he groomed his boy the best he could,
to someday take his place.

His time had come and gone.

The boy rose from the wreckage
and never gave his dad his due
but charlie was as proud as he could be
to see him see it through.

His time had come and gone.
Track Name: Devil's Only Son
Every child laughing at a single lonely soul,
Kid’s are cruel, get over it, the mob will have control.
Vengeance brewing over and a plan begins to form,
“Just make sure you all enjoy the calm before the storm.
All you motherfuckers gotta pay for what you done,
You just stay right here now while I go and get my gun,

And when the pain rains down from this devil’s only son,
The smoke will clear and I will be the only one.”

Two young men are scheming as ambition clouds their minds,
There’s too much extra money in the pockets of their kind.
“It’s a ruse, it’s so easy, we can take it, every gram,
It’s in and out, baby’s candy, wham bam thank you ma’am.
And you know, after this is over we can ride into the sun,
Here’s my extra bullets loaded in my extra gun,

And when the pain rains down from this devil’s only son,
The smoke will clear and we will hide and we will run.”

“I’m sorry I must do this,” writes a man with nothing left,
“I am clueless and unhappy, of all hope I am bereft.
My money’s taken care of all my things can go to you.
Once again I’m sorry but there’s nothing you can do.
There ain’t a single part of this that I could count as fun.
I’m chewing on the barrel of my own bright shining gun.

And when the pain rains down from this devil’s only son,
The smoke will clear and then my life will be undone.”
Track Name: Two Weeks Notice
I float high above the earth,
trusting my life support, my fellow man.
See the big picture and all that it’s worth,
Work up a sweat, do the best that I can.

But nobody looks me in the eye anymore.

Why am I always looking up,
To the man who don’t, to the man who don’t look down,
Once is okay, but never enough.
I’ve seen your kind and I’ve figured you out.

Since nobody looks me in the eye anymore,
I’ll burn your shit down, motherfucker, you asked for war!

I’ve run out of options to break away clean,
I’m running blindfolded with the rest of the team.
This situation, I’ve been here before.

And since nobody looks me in the eye anymore,
I’ll burn your shit down, motherfucker, you asked for war!
Track Name: Candy Apple Red
You’re a tangled web of thorny vines, but your fruit is always
tempting me to harvest. I’ve been slaughtered time and time again,
been cleaned and dressed, still I’m nothing but a carcass. You say you
know what you don’t want, and you’re convinced until it isn’t yours to
take, and all the time that you have taken me for granted, I was
waiting at the airport gate for a plane that never landed.

You’re calling me so late at night and I’m awoken by the rattle, I put
on my riot gear, the vest, the mask, the shield, prepare myself for
battle. I say I know what I want, I’m convinced but maybe it’s because
it isn’t mine to take, and all the time I’ve waited was for nothing,
you were testing me, digesting me, I should’ve known it when I felt
your serrated edge start cutting.

I’m finding more and more, the heart is not a candy apple red, as it’s
commonly depicted. I’m not a scientist but it’d probably be more
accurate to show it as mix of blue and brown, despite your Hallmark expectations
so I’m suggesting:

That we’ve got our ways, we both need help, and if you can’t heart me,
go heart yourself.