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Have You Met The Channel?

by Mama Would Be Proud

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Arcade Choir 01:06
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'We are one star'
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Furthamore 02:47
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Me and the street lights humming something we wouldn't want to be heard and you know I really hurt I wear it like a skirt and furthermore there was a reason but they stamped it down with the herd hello to the hive, relentless open eyes pressing matters amongst the chatter-panic intensifies Reminding all our minds that they like it when we smile Waxing like a child nature's his own style and if she wants he's moving faster crying all the while look above the trees bouncing over these- up and over, down the mountain: you're what I'd like to see I shouldn't have to prove what you better know by now Winking all my vows, a sweetly sheering stout Lost my presence on the remnants of when you showed me how Here and near and now story_Miss Tiger introduces you to The Channel, Thomas_
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St. Thomas 04:18
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Wandering, no wonder it's hard to stand a summer wandering, no wonder all too far to see the numbers laundering the others children late for supper must have forgot their uppers the cling and rediscover a trouble for your trouble I had a place in mind The Gospel of St. Thomas, passersby- a promise I would not want to make your mom pissed the "keep it ups" and "stop its" so blessed be this desert barren (bearing) fruitful efforts to recognize whatever sobbing like I'm better racing through November hasty all together Or the how, the now more than ever? wishing on a sweater I had a place in mind story_And then she watches Thomas grow up_
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The Freaks Here Will Learn 03:28
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They don't need the within you had been invoking only here without's now barely unspoken all laid out: the frayed south You don't (have) the feet to withstand your own best emotions it all comes first hand, your bedside's the ocean I've played out my shaved mouth (The visitor, Miss Tiger and Mister Big Biter) Features return. the freaks here will learn cheeked and unnerved express your concern I got breached when the field became reoccurring you were screeching at me in a faint little flurry there's the sound, verbs and nouns tired of all of it unfolding my minutes counting up patience like I'm running a clinic there's no foul, now take a bow Defeat to return, express your concern indecent and stern the freaks here will learn (The visitor, Miss Tiger and Mister Big Biter) story_Miss Tiger, an apparition not of this plane, infiltrates Thomas' thoughts by accident in a field and begins to feed him messages, teaching him about The Channel.
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Human-size Boxer 01:55
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_She teaches Thomas to fight the proverbial "man"_
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Don't Show Them 01:53
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Don't show them your scars, don't you let them in Nobody can touch you or tear it apart. Don't you let them win No one is above you Please visit the heart until it's finished Talk about "we trust you" But if you just go saying what you think I couldn't take it My little world's fallen off its strings thats how I make it, That's how we'll make it Don't show them your scars, don't you let them in Nobody can touch you story_Just be strong_
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The Channel 05:03
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The channel in his flannel sat with folded hands to handle lights a candle on the mantle after practicing his mantra like a panther with long antlers sad thoughts common as the cancers And kick this there a wish list writ with quickness, gleaming interest in an instant theres a witness twist the truth and his moral fitness "Everyone gets to talk too much and get a bit reckless. feel a bit selfish It was helpful to feel special, not forgetful, always respectful It was helpful to feel special, not neglectful, always respectful It was helpful to feel special, not regretful, always respectful It was helpful to feel special, not forgetful, always respectful" story_This is it, this is the best part of the trip: Thomas becomes The Channel_
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Stop Shining 02:48
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Could you get that closer to the cloud? When I rip at soldiers screaming loud break fast, hold your heavy howl and take last scrape your every scowl Tip tap, I taper to my pulse taping my tip toes through the mulch get back alley through the church claw shafts columns to the perch Decide the side not to interpret spiral sirens like you winded up working Are we hurting? Took mine out lately for a stroll the fish line really took a toll but I look fine and I'm breathing like a troll stop shining, treat me like your soul story_ then doldrum, spiritual silence, what happened out there today? _
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Our Wheel (First Take) 04:49
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Our wheel not turning away, not learning to wait in silent escape. I hate. I hate the real- not passing my time. It's wasting my mind. Too often aligned with something unkind. We chalked up to the board. My stumbling sort look up to the floor and remember you're born mister "I don't dream" we were bored with your idle streak. You were born mister "I don't dream" and we were bored with your idle streak. Ignored living in between, enforced like the widened street. Afraid of how I might seem... No I don't feel so weak I could kill with my two bare feet. You were born mister "I don't dream" No I don't feel so weak Bored with your idle streak. I could kill with my bare feet story_Thomas, Miss Tiger and his cat Mr. Big Biter make a deal to always be a team_
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The Hermit (In Real Life) 05:16
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story_Thomas flees to the country side, mountain side, river side, looking for answers and discovers a desert within himself_ There's a message on a fountain, "see the statue in the garden?" There's a lady in the parlor smoking cigarettes, humming at her darling humming bird, she pretends it's speaking words "with its flapping so damn tactful!" we swore it was reacting To our bitter fleeting motion (there's three words) how we danced out in the open (we spoke too slowly) but as night began to settle (walking backwards) into days I got forgetful (into holy) And I manage nothing honey (mountain, river) yeah, my feeling are that funny (to deliver) sometimes friends attempt to show me (hark! thee Mister) still gets lonelier than lonely (breathe in quicker) These days I wouldn't tell a secret to the dog that lives next door (there's three words we spoke too slowly) I got every mixed emotion except the ones that give me more (walking backward into holy) of that attachment and I'm bat shit- (mountain, river) could be crazier than that chick (to deliver) in the sky I'm seeing why I'll be alone until I die (hark! thee Mister, breathe in quicker) join the leader and the rabbits, regardless of the Mad Libs (and I remember and I miss her) fill the blank and pay the tab kid- this body thing were trapped in It's a shell and I'm the hermit, squirming at the skirmish (there's three words we spoke too slowly) give me air, or your hair, or just tell me you're not hurting (walking backward into holy) every night's another story, feels embedded in that glory (mountain, river to deliver) and you know crying on your pillow's a lot like pissing on a willow (hark! thee Mister, breathe in quicker) And I know it's just a long verse and I'm always kind of nervous and it's not because they're staring , or if they're not, or just not caring I'm a aware of certain truth: there could be no certain truths so the anxious knows it better than the ones that think they do
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No Bothers 04:14
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Alone talkers those reflective revolvers And no bothers proof's more like water you look at the shape I won't like that, opposites still intact Lose my track and have a fit on your lap No you don't have to say You don't have to say, "hey" story_an amendment_

about

recorded October '14- June '15 in Nashville TN*

It's a story about a boy, his cat and a witch-ghost that slowly takes over his brain

credits

released August 14, 2015

Christian Baraks played the bass, the drum set, drum machine, operated effects, placed microphones and designed the cover.
Stephen Roberts did the singing, played the guitars, a bit of bass and drums, the synthesizers and wrote the lyrics.

*(1)recorded at Game Galaxy
(2-4,6-11)recorded at The Cavern
(4-7)recorded at Neuhaus
thanks with love
-mama

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Stephen Roberts, Christian Baraks, Samuel Bernhardt,
Joe White, Bennett Littlejohn
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