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1.
Redheads 03:28
Greedy like a dream Of redheads slightly shaken Well-bred and stirring Instead of awakening the brute Leave a note by the window And come dance with me Awaiting the discoverer's dismay I've been lost in the fable Just stepped out to see If you could bring it to fruition And come dance with me Bring it to fruition and dance with me Greedy like a dream Redhead... Have you a ring for every finger? Take one off for me Greedy is the dream That wakes up in the cold sweat of fertility I lay it all on the table and pray Though I pay for it now Someday they'll beg for me And I'll blame it all on the redheads who won't recede Blame it all on the redheads who won't recede From an etching of life as it was meant to be A shallow reflection for posterity Of what the hand reveals as the heart concedes Bring it to fruition and dance with me Greedy like a dream
2.
Come Katherine, run with me From the race, from the estate Just past the river run With me into the aging sun Seared to my last decree, I still want someone without a guarantee Maybe a little later then Katherine, keep warm in the hearts of men Until they're done with me Thy will be strung above the glorious sun To be seared in doubt like someone without You will because you must Katherine, I cannot bear their screams
3.
Duckling 05:16
You come and you go Impress and oppose Approach me in that moment You'll come and you'll go until the thrill is won All of the facts and little fictions come through In the littlest of you In the littlest of me I wish it unto thee The pleasure and pain returned me Into the arms agreed I nearly lost my finger in the mouth of need Uninjured, unanswered Still anyone's dancer Still a complete misconception of thee My beautiful baby And so I run 'til I cannot Write your name in cursive plain A quiet mind, a fickle snout Leads me 'round to a broader sense of doubt I could have given everything But only once To bend a life between the silence and the silencing I'd have given anything All my sentiments shed, I slip into your bed But do you suppose I could crawl across Into the arms of loss Deaf to the creaking of its bones It costs less to be lost than to be received I grieve in the water where my duckling drowned Drink it down Make haste The staircase descends into a second chance And what could the day bring But a trickle from tomorrow's trance Bowing low before the wind The wind's advance
4.
Abalone 03:16
God damn my blood runs red But I cannot obey Of brick and mortar They build me up Give me shape The sphinx contends You've always been A pretty tall glass of water Rose like the tidal daughter And played to my strengths But I have seen these oceans end In abalone tangents The only witness to this holy conversation Has left the stage Just cleared the frame He speaks so slowly We peaked so low Might not matter if he knows Who goes with when you move on? Thus spake all your vagabonds This obligatory pawn Need never wonder why The shell informs a lone reply With hungry heart and serpent sigh The only witness to this holy conversation… His hands are tied His tongue is dry His lips are cold This little oyster world of mine Sinks into the turpentine To withhold its pearled divine
5.
Corner Store 03:29
You began to look suspicious as the days slipped out of sequence So I deterred the bribe and brushed aside the royal treatment A point of pride that's still in constant need of mending I could have just as easily been famous for pretending Though a snapshot with the victims tends to get a great response It's no use being righteous now that everything is wrong You rob me like a corner store, whatever you can get to Until you strike again...well, I'm the one who lets you The sentinels take it easy but the bandits get it cheap And in the end, well, I suppose so do the sheep Who had me followed while my lions tagged along What good is a compass if the voyage is foregone? I gambled on myself and lost And when my will had been exhausted I wagered all my fairy tales and precious souvenirs A little slower than I ought, a little faster than I'd feared The day would come to trade this brilliance in for brawn I tried to up the ante but everything was gone Turns out I was just another player in the con I have it on authority from whistles blown beyond And just when I'd convinced myself your heart was not a bomb You lit it up and smoked me out, then ordered me to stay calm
6.
Wishbone 05:18
Head slow admits what stomach insists For once they've agreed, for once they've agreed Lips quick to frost, all causes are lost Too soon swept away, so briefly concede Iris empowered, watches a coward Emerge from the fleet, a merchant of raw defeat To be outgrown, I'll walk you home A servant 'til the end, in search of our marquee Start from scratch, claw your way back No worse for the wear of themes and degrees Within the skin, we are shifting again against Dirt and debris, that's no small relief It's the nature of retreat Yours in service Lest we aggravate the queen of all my castles Every hassle, every sound I tell her every room is warm except for this one Only aggravates the queen of all my castles When the sunset isn't bound To be improved in my deference to you Approach the throne with all that I own To lay it at your feet, a wishbone released Don't get up to say goodbye It's all the same to me A wishbone released
7.
Permission 05:36
The candle does you justice Flickering, it dazzles me to death Hovering above us with its orphans By candlelight impressed So we take the river backwards Not burdened by the surface or the sting of transition If this could be invented I would never intervene with expectations Just the patience of a saint…I have no station Frozen at the road that is bending to you I'm asking for your permission to move Your permission to move Improving through the thin drift of your vagaries Preparing for a game i'll never play With your permission to stay Your permission to bruise Your permission to prove Deny me where I can't demand it The rest I take for granted Forever reprimanded and relieved Of the services still keeping me Nervous as I flee from the unmentioned This is a different kind of tension Shivering against my lofty needs For permission to grieve For permission to leave For permission to move Mounting and counting down For your permission to move For permission
8.
Mice 04:10
Ripping the ribbon from my clumsy paw Hey, long arms of the law, don't leave me reaching And don't forget the double knot As we're accident prone I would hate to be alone with my ineptitude and debt Another gift that wasn't mine to give In a bind, I take my time I know someday we'll have to live Like mice The setting sun hones in on you And you were melted, I felt, unfairly But it's just not done the way we do They're living proof…but barely We're more like mice Like mice When the curse comes for all intents And purposes my pain is not the greater Their pockets are empty That much I understand So what's another couple grand If we get to treat them Like mice I've already found a new place to stay All my terror's in the tangible, a blackness etched in gray Another gift that wasn't mine to give If the mice get in, we'll have to find some other way to live The mice
9.
And there's my little one, alive in front of me At last the candle does its dance upon her cheek Half an urge to bloom now, I neglect the early signs A conscience closing undetected, ill-defined They told me I was born on the first day of January Nothing came before They tell me I was warm But it's winter and I'm wilting now Like I was such a flower before A flower before Where were you on the night…? In a new light I chase the cruelty of my sons to the bridge and back My dreams undone I am not the dark, I am the midnight Little mouse, come out now Come alive in front of me Grant me amnesia, strip me of my crows You'll find forgiveness in the ash of my woes Don't spread your bitterness across my grin I've no suggestion for the reeling within Don't interrupt me while I'm pissing on the poor Because I'm not concerned, not anymore I've grown pockets where I once had seams Shoulders where I kept my wings Bile where I tasted cream And how I yearn to be your husband in this sickness A brother to the ruthless But I am the prince of my own poisonous gifts And how they've kept it all alive in front of me
10.
Whenever the thunder gets closer Moves in, draws on Alice turns over Bracing for the bomb I never ask, you never offer Just head for the water With scattered hopes and idle chatter You ask me what it matters now We can't keep leaving The same hearts out to dry again and again To take the beating While you fend for something obsolete Well, I'd best keep reaching To render something incomplete The tangled tides of you Reveal what I deny 'til I'm blue In the face, in the nude I waste all my mistakes on you Like a calm upon the storm Though the clouds have shaded our blinding ambition It never hurts to know you're listening I am the candle to your chandelier The sole admission It's dark enough to disappear In the tangled tides of you (I need you in the strangest ways) I'm lost 'til I arrive, renewed I no longer care if it's true (I need you in the strangest ways) I wasted my escape on you Like a calm upon the storm
11.
Goodbye reindeer Is it sad to say these eyes Aren't heavy with tears? The odds unwound Now weigh them down and how To yield fortune's frontier I climb aboard What you prolong This sweet and silent premiere But if you like the stakes Go take your chances on the lake I'll leave mine right here Right there as an infant in the mud We'll name him Miles This imitation of a child Arrested by fear But we can't shake off These limitations of the cloth To which we adhere I labored long But the flavors were too strong All the spirits severe Severed by the spectacles of love I lost this year To sympathy and fear To love and restraint What weighs us down Just gets harder to protest Pressed for time and success Goodbye reindeer It's sad to say these eyes Aren't heavy with tears Swept clear of collision by the flood I didn't know what to show you I don't know how to grow Like removing a bandage Appears to have healed But is it still really you? I tried to vanish in the heat tonight
12.
Kitten 03:58
Get ye down from that place And into the sands Of this ever-hungry heart My insatiable hands perspire From the fiery locks Snapping this old rubber band To the same conclusion It's not as though the proof was in our footing A two-step tribute to the elders or a pantomime of youth? It's good to know the truth is where we left it Like a splinter in the echelons aloof It's good to hear the truth So sorry to ignore your invitation I finally got a handle on my age Only to lose it in the headlights Enraged while they were brandishing their loot Like an antidote for youth It's good to hear the truth

credits

released November 19, 2014

PRODUCED and PERFORMED by STEVEN KAISER

ROBERT VAN SADERS: Drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 10, 11
TERRY MOORE: Drums on 3, 6, 7, 8, 9
FACE YU: Keys on 6, 7, 9
NICKI CALFEE: Vocals on 2, 7
ELIJAH MILLER: Vocals on 2, 10
MASSIMO SAMMI: Guitar on 2, 3
DAVID ABBOTT PALATSI: Backing vocals on 7, 10
ASHLEY MICHAEL BIRD: Lead vocal on 10
GIZEM GOKOGLU: Backing vocals on 10
SHANNA LOCKLAIR MCRAE: Backing vocals on 10
ELIZABETH WRIGHT: Backing vocals on 2

ENGINEERED by BOB MALLORY & S. KAISER
at Avatar Recording (NYC), Grand Street, Flood Studios, Sandbox Studios (BK), & Lake Toxic (NC)

ASSISTANT ENGINEERS - TOMEK MIERNOWSKI, NATE ODDEN, & D. PALATSI

MIXED by BOB MALLORY at Tiny Quarters
except tracks 5 & 6 by S. KAISER at Sandbox Studios

MASTERED by GERRY PUTNAM at Cedarhouse Sound

All MUSIC & LYRICS by S. KAISER (BMI) © 2014
except track 10 -
MUSIC by G. GOKOGLU (ASCAP) & S. KAISER //
LYRICS by S. KAISER © 2014

PHOTOGRAPHY and ALBUM DESIGN by DAVID ABBOTT PALATSI

Beyond grateful to David, Nicki, Terry, Rob, Face, Ashley, Elijah, Massimo, Gizem, Shanna, & Gerry for lending their talent to this album and an extra special tip of the hat to Bob for offering his ears, wisdom, & patience.

Many thanks to Karina, Ricardo, Ione, Kara, Jan, Lisa, J.P., Jacie, Evan, Ali, Taylor, Megan, Kate, Brittney, Kima, Sarah, Biff, Jacquie, Steve, Joseph, Scott, Autumn, Jamie, Frank Hill, Ha Ha Tonka, Aaron Moore, Chris Pettoni, Sonny Kompanek, Mark Suozzo, Kris Hoogenstryd, Tom Tapley, Jeff Calder, Nick Didia, Brendan O' Brien, Sal Gentile, BIlly Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Ernest Hemingway, Occupy Wall Street, Two Little Red Hens Bakery, NYC, and my incredible family for all the support/ideas/inspiration that went into making this record. Means a lot.

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Steeped in equal parts rock, alternative, and post-everything, then stirred with orchestral ambitions and sweetened with noise, CHC likes to do as they please in an attempt to pay homage to the legacy of great songwriting.

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