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So Polite

by All These Animals

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1.
Sweet angel stumbling through the hall Now I won't lust after anything else Oh, to get that feeling back, they would kill Oh, there's talk of the apocalypse, now I'm drowning in it All this talk of the apocalypse, now I'm drowning in it Sweet angel stumbling through the hall, you'll pass it on to me Oh, to get that feeling back, what a thrill This was the field where I died, now I've come back
2.
Those goddamn heathens, they won't take your brochure Sick of the light, sick of the day And their devil got horns, old Morningstar has got me The sky is falling, what's your five-year plan? It's in my poor luck, it's in "the way you recoil when I hold your hand" Thrift store jeans, fifth-dimensional overlord lizard fiends From this, there is no coming back It's in my father's death bed, and the years that it took to fill that void It's in everything and everyone Alright, alright, alright, calm down Their devil got horns, and their evil is in me. Yup Those fucking heathens, they won't take your brochure Sick of the light, sick of the day They're going out tonight, no plans to multiply They're going out tonight, God's gifts are fumbled lines And the sky is falling, what's your five-year plan? It's in my poor luck, it's in "the way you recoil when I hold your hand" Thrift store jeans, fifth-dimensional overlord lizard fiends From this, there is no coming back It's in my father's death bed, and the years that it took to fill that void It's in everything and everyone Alright, alright, alright, calm down
3.
Can you see our sins from the somewhere after? Some eternal place where we all go I'm looking to trade up, I'm looking to set this right. I'm looking to trade up You spend half your life chasing these dreams It's only equal to time spent grinding your teeth I've asked winter to leave Can you see our sins from the somewhere after? Some eternal place where we all go? Rapture looking to trade up. Yeah, the light will set this right Still looking to trade up Last night I had that same dream, dreadful creature in a terrestrial machine Witch's familiar trying to bury me If everything concludes, then I guess you were everything Keep on forcing till we're twelve-foot deep It devoured everything beneath, scrubbed the surface till it was godlike clean Ring of salt ward off the coven You spend half your life chasing these dreams It's only equal to time spent grinding your teeth I've asked winter to leave
4.
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Vacuum up some spider's web, maybe I could take a life too Mine or theirs, it's irrelevant. Vacuum up some spider's web And from this dream, you can not wake For they speak the nightmare speak too For each life lesson learned from death, just vacuum up some spider's web. I'll course correct my true intent and pray that love was just a typo and you were not yourself See, outside of you there is a frame, encased there within a list of lies, and lies, and lies. And just one more flame, its embers sweet and ever glowing Oh, morals, don't you ever turn on me again
5.
And so I'll chase this all away, the thought to end this day You'll take the sheets off of your bed, wash out the sweat & stench of our romantic death Exaggerated faces, trial separation The view from down here is better than it's ever been Imaginary need, how lucky are we? How lucky am I? Oh, to give so much, half of which would surely rot But you just keep talking, you're mumbling about forever And so I'll chase this all away, the thought to end this day While my heart was screaming 'yes', tongue & teeth muttered 'maybe' nonetheless
6.
Castle without a moat, you've been compromised It suits you just fine, and it serves me fucking right You'll be eaten alive cause this world's not so polite Yeah, you'll serve them just fine, that hunger won't be satisfied Castle without a moat, couldn't we just compromise? There's still salt to mine, but that hope has been eaten alive And you'll be buried in time, because this world's not so polite Yeah, you'll serve them just fine, their hunger won't be satisfied
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8.
Do suicides still go to hell? Hey, Mike, does your band still play? See, I can't wrap my head around you wrapping yours up See, I'm drowning these thoughts back to sleep We were kids, we were growing up, running around the backyard You the one with the heavy heart, me the know nothing at all We were kids, no harm in growing up, runnin' round the backyard You, the one with the heavy heart, now you feel no pain at all As above, so below Handfuls of hollow earth See, I can't wrap my head around you wrapping yours up See, I can't get your feet back on the ground

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For Chris Dwyer

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released December 16, 2021

Written, recorded, & performed by Mike Wilson
Mixing, add'l production, vox on tracks 3&4: Leah Hinton
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ Manmade Mastering, Berlin

Thank you to Leah, without whom this album would have been impossible to complete. To Matt Daniels, for having an open ear and an open heart. To Eric Sanchez, for his patience and telephone skills. To Chris "BPP" Engelhardt, for lending me twenty bucks that time we met Meadow Soprano. To Emily, because she can't differentiate between albums and singles. And to Kris, who can FINALLY have his bass back!

Listen to: Freddy Fudd Pucker, Kevin Devine, Mewithoutyou, Brand New, Murmur Tooth, Childish Gambino, Genesis Owusu, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Chi-Lites

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Melodic, atmospheric, a toe dipped into the electronic pool. All These Animals is the music of Brooklyn-born, Berlin-made multi-instrumentalist Mike Wilson.

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