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Composure

by The Running Lights

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1.
Be Still 01:39
There has to be some part of me that belongs outside of these valleys. She won't dance with me. My promises are transient, just like me. We were promised wings. They swore there be something beyond this interdependency. Don't believe everything that you read on the walls. What the fuck are you supposed to do with All those moments you pushed away a home Starting right now We build our own ship Bring heaven to earth Hang your heart (On Me)
2.
Beholder 03:56
Vs.1- Its been a long time since this poets had a muse/ That made him more like Silverstien and less like Edgar Allen/ I'm just trying to keep up with the speed that this all moves/ People like you, hold me down and make me heavy/ The truth is there's no reason for half the shit you do/ Living like that will make you bones for the birds/ Well maybe I don't know how but I'm getting there/ I'm pretty sure transparency is proof your doin' it wrong/ The person that you used to be called and they said/ you can have yo ego trip back. Chorus- Be still, even if its true, I expected more from you, composure comes closer, every time i spend a night in my own skin, I can't say Ive seen the best of you, but if you really believe in de-evolving things, you can hang back, build a castle in the sand, but the tide raises every ship. Vs.2- Stick tight to the lip and make sure to mind the edge/ because its a far fall from grace weather or not you saved face/ I just found out that getting found out sucks/ now I avoid secrets like I avoid you/ Standing in your truth, a concept lost on you/ I'm running out of time to maintain anything with you/ Keep the doctor near but it woun't do you any good/ Cry wold and run scared like I fucken knew you would/ Because you never know when your holding a hammer and a heart/ Forgive your enemies, best remember there names. Chorus- Be still, even if its true, I expected more from you, composure comes closer, every time i spend a night in my own skin, I can't say Ive seen the best of you, but if you really believe in de-evolving things, you can hang back, build a castle in the sand, but the tide raises every ship Please take my word, for its all I can give for now.
3.
Rabbits 03:30
Pavement veins collect the problems I shed in your wake/ Balanced on this atmosphere sometimes safer on the ground/ My feet float weightlessness, up up to you, but where, (but where will they) lead me too. I hold you down, I know that now, I know that now. Its quite infamous the studies that you get from this litmus test you call a kiss, (well I call it ridiculous.) I came well equipped to strip it of its mighty whit, but it was cryptic then the way that you had bit your lip. I swear the sun emerges every time one of my verses swerves in your direction, giving my tandem tongue a purpose, We grow with life as we live and flourish, challenge everything people consider old and worthless, we sing, We learn to love on dark street corners and houses we don't own/ The shadows of our fingertips display a graceful web/ would you tell the truth if you thought the ladder would save you/ carving through the day to spite a darker futures groans. You, held me down, until right now, until right now. My feet float weightlessness up up to you, but where, (but where will they) lead me too.
4.
Vs.1- At first you shone amongst an open shore, Crashing like the tide in my dreams, when my eyes were closed, Then i supposed where your soul did not support, You aren't as beautiful as you were when we were born, It's as if the bud blossomed open, to show a broken, distant smile underneath a mile of hope and, I feel every ounce was misplaced and disgraced and dis-faced in the wake of this sick place and this tastes a little like some... Bitter defeat, white flag in my back pocket, Fresh rose in my teeth. Chorus- And I guess ill leave the light on, but Im not gonna wait up. Ive Seen your heart, and your secrets safe, and there's a dangerous rhythm in the space between your words, some secrets die with you, and other are what killed you. Vs.2 Lets talk and see what to make of this, see were just two people stop faking shit, marriage bitch you kiddin, god damn we were kidding, you though we wasn't kiddin, but Ive got a life for living and you could say Im lying your suspicions got me sippin, they say that syrups not for drinkin, but it keeps me from my thinking, all this weekend ive been sneaking, and my sanity is slowly leaking, so these memories and all those pictures get deleted, or at least depleted till i do not give a fecal, ill cut all my hair off, get glasses be a different person, so that its like i wasn't even with you, but its stupid i still miss you. Chorus- And I guess ill leave the light on, but Im not gonna wait up. Ive Seen your heart, and your secrets safe, and there's a dangerous rhythm in the space between your words, some secrets die with you, and other are what killed you.
5.
Skin tight friction, crawling up the wall. She makes you miss the fiction, but god you new she would. So lets just get gone, crawl into the facade, hurricane lips sink ships, you best evacuate. She never learned how to behave, she never learned how to take prisoners. Shes got you, rapped around her finger, I want to know you better. Whisper your prayers, to the old soothsayer, and she takes your gold, that old snake oil and charm. You want to betray her, and her venomous layer, but you can't get past her skin, so say your prayers. The room burns like hell, shes on her knees prayin, saying oh god my bodies been aching, and her soul mistaked it, her emotions naked, its call of the wild pick up when she dials. She never learned how to behave, she never learned how to take prisoners. Shes got you, rapped around her finger, I want to know you better. Whisper your prayers, to the old soothsayer, and she takes your gold, that old snake oil and charm. You want to betray her, and her venomous layer, but you can't get past her skin, so say your prayers.
6.
Well ain't that some shit, cast away and now there's nothing you could say. I know now what you think love is. Priorities and people change I guess. I just want to know if you'll ever believe in anything your eyes can't confirm. If you'll ever trust your chest. Once you've felt the teeth the lips are never the same. And I know we will both be fine I just can't help but feel like we let it pass us by. And ive heard your side, from everyone but you. And that was the last time, I will ever attempt to run away to you. There's not much left to say, I just know that the longer you wait. Waters rise. Once you've felt the teeth the lips are never the same. And I know we will both be fine I just can't help but feel like we let it pass us by. Paper hearts painted blue intellect facilitated falling out of love with you. All my words hanging in the cold air. Maybe it was wasted breath on you. Im going home, I just have to find it first, the storm is getting stronger, my life's not getting longer. Take me away, I don't care where we end up, the people hear don't give a fuck. I just can't stay here anymore.
7.
The Mother 04:48
She said I'm not gonna stop until the morning light takes it away from me. Vs.1 From her demeanor it was /easy to /tell she’s a raver/ man you would meet her and then fall for her rancid behavior/ cus from her birth she had been falling, nobody would save her/ adoption the saving option it looked bad on paper, so she was dancing and prancing to pretty, pretty lights/ tumbling outside to rumble in petty kitty fights/ heels soaked in beer, and raver’s party sweat/ she looked in mirrors and saw that she had hardly met/ herself, but then she saw that product on the shelf/ and in a minute she forgot about her friends as well/ she’d taken shots at life if life was in a liquid form/ the moment she was born strife and scorn became her norm/ and she adorned painful piercings on her everywhere/ loving every glance, every look, and every stare/ although she’d try to prove to you that she didn’t care/ she had blue hair, to prove… that she was there/ And I could see it in her eyes, she was running from something, and I could hear it in her voice, shes been running from something. No return, your already gone. Nothing they say now will change your mind. You can't turn back, and you don't know, which way to start crawling in from where your at. So when Johnny, rolls into town/ With his black rimmed glasses, and marijuana crown/ Promising every girl, all of his attention/ Mentioned his band in every other sentence/ Knocking em dead, with his blue green eyes/ And his sincere smile, that tries to hide/ That he’s really just any other guy with pride/ when she met him she had thought true love at sight/ (q)Like the, angels above loved her today/ like finally she thought her awful luck had swayed/ but, she couldn’t see his ability to persuade/ in any manner and way, every method to get laid/ so she was totally his, when he was fake/ a recipe for disaster, waiting to bake/ because she wasn’t exactly in the healthiest state/ raised by hate when her heart snaps, her brain breaks. And I could see in her eyes, she running from something, and I could feel it in her hands, she's done running from everything. No return, your to far gone, nothing they say now will, change your mind, you cant turn back, and you don't want to, there darkness inside her and its time to let it out. From the scene, you could tell that the struggle was brutal/ man You could see that she had found that her scissors were useful/ cus From the start, it had been laden with awful intentions/ Violence broke the silence of all of their tensions/ So Johnny laid on the floor, in broken, shiny glass/ A bag covering his bruised body beat and gashed/ You can imagine all his other lovers were aghast/ To find that Johnny was a cheater after he had passed/ But she was fast, and figured it out while he was breathing/ And so the crazy raver dancing girl began conceiving Of which way she’d like more to see him bleeding/ And leading him on calling him over one evening/ Leaving such a seductive message he had to go/ Ignorant that he’d be receiving, several seething blows/ Imagine his terror, with her screaming and running mascara/ Being aware of how his karma had flowed/ Im not gonna stop.
8.
Willow 03:21
For now ill, just keep you close. Its all I, its all I know. I wanted, to stay in love with your ghost, but all who wander are not lost Im a freshly freed slave, from an empirical state, bakin a cake, layered with everything great, man i love what I make, what I create, tones for soul supply vitamins a to z for thee to feast upon, whenever you eat whatever I mc today (breathe) like you's about to under ventilate your brain, don't delay, give your mind some oxygen so i can play, some awesome shit, and burrow through this earth, like an oxen farming crops and shit, Im talking big with stars, high without a rocketship. All I wanted was a chance to make this right, maybe ill find it in the way she looks tonight. Im not looking for the answer, baby just a different question, god damn, each your heart out. Summer days, Run away, to the place, no one stays, In the house, No one likes, Given rhymes, No one bites, Open sky, sun ahead, (fun in bed) tea at noon, run ahead, danger looms, feel in good, breathin fumes, feeling high paperfries, No one cries, i know why, I am gone, Not for long, But the air, It make me strong, eternal happiness ya, Internal happiness ya, giddyness peppiness everything is readiness go. All I wanted was a chance to make this right, maybe ill find it in the way she looks tonight. I'm not looking for the answer, baby just a different question, god damn, each your heart out.
9.
I can't win for losing, I can't get enough of it. And if this is poison, I like the taste of it. I stare into solitude, I did not form the clarity. 'Cause mama can't save me when the devils in a red dress. And it feels just like the best kept secrets kiss the same as the flames that burnt your house down. And I wish you would make something of it 'cause there's an elephant in the room and we both know what that is. I'm sorry baby if you can't translate from maybe, I express through sweat and late night whispers love is not a goal. Hello sweet and timeless paradise, just how long have we today? Before love urges us to sea, and you're back on your way. and as that weathered spark we gave it's flame my old timber is on display ready to incite my god who's law and nature get to play. And it feels just like the best kept secrets kiss the same as the flames that burnt your house down. And I wish you would make something of it 'cause there's an elephant in the room and we both know what that is...
10.
I think ill raise the ocean to meet you. Every river I see lead to you. Immerse this lonely landscape in fluidity, and change the burnt routines to darkest blue. Sleeping with the fall out all around us, knowing that there wasnt actually nothing i could do. I know some day that i will find the reason everything Ive loved turned to ash. I swear to you ive never fed the fire, I always seem to be there to watch it burn. And they say we breed chaos, into those, who adore us. Ive never been able to find my luck, every once of it is in your eyes. And every time that I set fire to the house we built, I dint just loose you I lost my place to hide. And do you want to know the worst part, if I were you I, would'nt want to come back to me. And they say we breed chaos, into those, who adore us.
11.
Before their very eyes, The devils evolution. They override The parts me, that justify All the darkest parts of you. The clouds can claim to know the pain of ever being lonely. Stating that in seas of same nobody truly knows me, convergence in the depth of thought can over ride the train, that carries us into the dust, until were old and plain, You said i didn't have it in me, but watch as I wade into unknown waters, and cherish the air I breath, as I surface (You can't stop,) surface over you Look at you with good enough eyes they're windows you know, I swear they used to glow on their former home on that pedestal, But now, I'm thinking there's gotta be, a better highway. And we can claim to know the path, our future and our past, Claiming that in skies someday, our happiness will come. Convergence in the depth of thought, can over ride the mind, That carries us into the dust, until we're old and blind. You said i didn't have it in me, but watch as I wade into unknown waters, and cherish the air I breath, as I surface (you can't stop me,) surface over you
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Being our first true full length, we had a standard to meet. We had done demos before and they weren't so great, and we realized that recording can be as much of an art form as music itself is. We needed to show ourselves that we could commit and really make something we were proud of. From the instrumentals, to the melodies and lyrics we left no stone unturned. The lyrics are available on the site and we suggest you read them because there a bit cryptic. Enjoy and expect much more!

-Elias, Ben, Jamil & Trey

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released December 22, 2011

Elias Armao- Drums, Guitar, Vox, Prod.

Ben Socolofsky- Bass, Prod.

Trey Pernell- Keys/Pianos, Vox

Jamil Elfahdi- Guitars, Prod.

Spencer Macky- Violin (Footwork)

Raven Underwood- Violin (Footwork)

Eric Ramirez (Jony Dez)- Guest Vox. (Footwork)

Emilio Zavala - Prod.

And last but not least, special thanks to all of our friends and families. We love you guys!

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