Republic
from Sorry Tomorrow by Children Having Children
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lyrics
It's worn as a badge
My display all for naught
Mulling us over and up to the top
Act overwrought by the underexposed
A mistake if you wake, a disgrace if I'm caught
When the world stands beside you with trembling toes
The world stands beside you and whispers
I fall in behind you
A brief intermission
To suck you beneath
The most I'd expect for inviting a thief
To the edge of relief, just beyond your dissent
No chance to prevent it, but since I've invented
A way in the waiting, a stake in the jest
A vapid conspiring to wish for the best
And to the republic, a border I deny
For the republic, an epithet I'm now inscribing
Like the republic, whose captors I've obliged
And through the republic, my lust for life is now subsiding
In the eyes of those who love you
Overgrown and underground
Still looking elsewhere when it's found
Still looking back once you've been trapped
Pay no regard to where they take you
Something drastic overdue
Understated, twice as true
All the gunsmoke of your ruse
Can't overtake that bitter breakthrough
Echo of a sigh
Yeah, reflection of a bigger town
Our time is up, we're only stalling
Ghost revokes to steer the coup
But my allegiance dies with you
I lied, I don't know what to do
Avert the eyes that always loved you
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I'm falling beside you
I'm falling beside you
I'll know just what to say
If you tell me what to do
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I've fallen beside you
I'm falling
My display all for naught
Mulling us over and up to the top
Act overwrought by the underexposed
A mistake if you wake, a disgrace if I'm caught
When the world stands beside you with trembling toes
The world stands beside you and whispers
I fall in behind you
A brief intermission
To suck you beneath
The most I'd expect for inviting a thief
To the edge of relief, just beyond your dissent
No chance to prevent it, but since I've invented
A way in the waiting, a stake in the jest
A vapid conspiring to wish for the best
And to the republic, a border I deny
For the republic, an epithet I'm now inscribing
Like the republic, whose captors I've obliged
And through the republic, my lust for life is now subsiding
In the eyes of those who love you
Overgrown and underground
Still looking elsewhere when it's found
Still looking back once you've been trapped
Pay no regard to where they take you
Something drastic overdue
Understated, twice as true
All the gunsmoke of your ruse
Can't overtake that bitter breakthrough
Echo of a sigh
Yeah, reflection of a bigger town
Our time is up, we're only stalling
Ghost revokes to steer the coup
But my allegiance dies with you
I lied, I don't know what to do
Avert the eyes that always loved you
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I'm falling beside you
I'm falling beside you
I'll know just what to say
If you tell me what to do
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I've fallen beside you
I'm falling
credits
from Sorry Tomorrow,
released April 14, 2023
PRODUCED, PERFORMED & MIXED by Steven Kaiser
DRUMS by Matthew Lauritsen
ENGINEERED by Bob Mallory & Steven Kaiser
ASSISTANT ENGINEERED by Dylan Herman
MASTERED by Dave McNair
Recorded at Mission Sound & Sandbox Studios in Brooklyn, NY
MUSIC & LYRICS by Steven Kaiser (BMI)
PRODUCED, PERFORMED & MIXED by Steven Kaiser
DRUMS by Matthew Lauritsen
ENGINEERED by Bob Mallory & Steven Kaiser
ASSISTANT ENGINEERED by Dylan Herman
MASTERED by Dave McNair
Recorded at Mission Sound & Sandbox Studios in Brooklyn, NY
MUSIC & LYRICS by Steven Kaiser (BMI)
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Children Having Children Brooklyn, New York
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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