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LUSH

by Con Tex

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1.
Someday soon I'm gonna pack up I'm gonna leave it all behind I'm going in without a backup Lord only knows what I might find You can take my money, 'cause I won't need it Where I'm bound I cannot tell I won't be back 'til I'm defeated Or 'til there's nothing left to sell I can't sing or speak or even form a sentence I guess it must have slipped my mind And don't be fooled by what you might think's my repentance I might be fucked up but I'm fine And tell Louise that it's not her fault Johanna came and now I'm gone The grass is greener past the asphalt I'll know I'm there when I belong Please don't try and understand me And I won't text or write or call And all these lifelines that you hand me I'll pass them by in my free fall And I can't guarantee that I'll survive the landing To tell the truth, I barely care I just can't complete these tasks that you're demanding You turn to me and I'm not there
2.
The Waiting 02:57
I called you last fall and you said you'd let me know You said you're word was your bond and girl, I sure hope so 'Cause the waiting almost makes you never want to start Oh, the waiting is the hardest part I know the snow will melt in the Spring but now it covers everything I wait for you to call The snow don't melt at all 'Cause the waiting almost makes you never want to start Oh, the waiting is the hardest part I wait so long to bring you flowers Outside your door, I watch the hours turn to days Turn to weeks, turn to months turn to seasons You called me last night and I almost let it ring I felt those cliche butterflies in my everything You said you thought about it oh, so many nights And after all that time you still don't think it feels right I wait so long to bring you flowers Outside your door I watch the hours turn to days Turn to weeks, turn to months turn to seasons Oh, the waiting almost makes you never want to start Yeah, the waiting is the hardest part
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Happiness happiness stay with me I'm done with this thing called misery I don't know how much more clear I can be Oh, happiness happiness stay with me Loneliness loneliness don't be my friend I don't want to see you when the evening ends Hope you get the message I'm trying to send Oh, loneliness loneliness don't be my friend
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Go Home 04:10
I woke up one day, shook my clock at the wailing of my morning cock. I sat up, bemused by the dawn and yawned a stair to climb upon - saluting the dawn with my piss I resist the urge to live like this and to never have control Oh, by where will I go? I hopped a train to Mexico, it kicked me out in Buffalo. The fleece I packed was packed with ice suffice to say it shan't suffice Oh lord, and where else could I be? In Buffalo it's 22 degrees. And I thought "Go home The seed you've sown, it hasn't grown Make peace You've got to keep the past deceased, don't let the cold wind through your fleece." I broke into an old hotel and slept where fallen women fell so many years before, but now the shit that stains the floor is brown Oh lord, and just then I heard a sound it turned my whole life around 'cause my whole life just then was all I saw and all I saw were lucid, painted walls The walls before my eyes removed revealing frozen prostitutes - the victims of the skies, their eyes disguised the vice to idolize the skies to thaw the ice and rain. I hopped on the very next train and rode the whole way home. In the hookers' eyes, a vision I'd been shown And it said "Go home the seed you've sown, it hasn't grown. Make peace you've got to keep the past deceased, don't let the cold wind through your fleece ...you'll freeze." I used to have these awful dreams, Where things I saw weren't thing I'd seen
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Down in Denver, down in Denver all I did was die Made the rounds and heard the sounds and always with a sigh For the dreams I was not dreaming of the life I didn't live Froze my soul, and worse the cold began my southern drift The sky that seemed so transcendental made me feel alive Down in Denver, down in Denver all I did was die It's a wicked fate awaits the town that cannot see the sky The mountains loom so menacing that no one dares to climb And without a greater altitude a man sees just his own hands' work And through his narrow-set perception he has to hope his ladder works 'Cause a man can spend his whole life climbing and never reach the sky Down in Denver, down in Denver all I did was die I tried to take the high road but it trapped me in the town And though on top of Rocky Mountains confusion laid the ground So I cursed the road that led me here and cried upon the peak And experiment in meditation with no nirvana reached A stranger in the void became and unrelenting eye Down in Denver, down in Denver all I did was die My shirt, it warmed my heart and so I took it off in spite "For if I'm dead," I told my head, "I'll make it through the night." And though I froze without my clothes my thoughts were with the sun And from the peak of desolation my freedom had begun So I ran right down the mountain screaming, laughing through the death And when I reached the bottom I had to catch my breath And though I died in Denver, my spirit, it survived Down in Denver, down in Denver

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Whitehaus Family Record

Recorded April 2012 @ The Whitehaus, Jamaica Plain, MA

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released December 8, 2012

Produced, Mixed, & Mastered by Morgan Shaker

Con Tex - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Morgan Shaker - Electric Guitar
Pancho The Kid - Mandolin
Kate Lee - Electric Bass
Arkm Foam - Drums

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Jimmy Hughes - Organ (Track 1)
Modular Synth (Track 4)
Lenora Symczak - Recorder, gadgets (Track 4)
Everybody - Dream Chaos (Track 4)

Album Art by Ronnie Nordac

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