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ELLIPTICAL PEACH

by CIVILS

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1.
WIDE OPEN 02:26
till and go. wide open, wide. i don’t know why. wide open, wide home.
2.
navel gazing always seemed so straight there are several ways to keep your eyes on the stadium apple prest arms indicative of a host who lengthens showing me, “i learned taxonomy the natural order of all things like a dance they practiced years before we lived.” i hope i can forgive myself for this life i live of indecision
3.
i havent come since kentucky i aint never really been no good at leaving so i by the time i reach the other end of the eagle ill know its time to ship out soon to somewhere north or west, unvested in anywhere but here so go on, good leaver, evade the shame and evacuate the places i am from no one should be surprised least of all i who could love a real absentee like me? i feel like rotten indolent decay like sugar on my teeth and i was speeding across the beltine to another offering now im lost and keeping quiet to circumvent my fate holy host, a reckoning, erase go on, good leaver, move over anything good luck & god damn what meant so much there at the time now passe lines and we all will wait for you to arrive doldrums, doldrums rose gold, you were rose gold i remember how you felt and i remember what i saw when i opened up the door i couldnt believe who could love an animal like me? im out here lost in disbelief at night and i find myself believing it’s been two years since i tasted you and i went home in defeat when i finally showed my teeth i didn’t really mean to, i didn’t really need to, i didn’t really mean to believe.
4.
SAD SONGS 05:33
it isnt okay to write sad songs it isnt no use to write sad songs i get brainfreeze, i just play along it feels so wrong to write sad songs i only call out when i write sad songs every time i get wronged gotta be in a song now these wrongings stick around for far too long i am not fair when i write sad songs i am not fair when i write sad songs im never prepared to write sad songs but i get brainfreeze and just play along hit the bong and write a sad song again aw distant mist now, when everything was porcelain sex was new saturnalia was inside your room unpracticed seeping, fiddling with guilt in the concrete seat now kneebent and giving up & at em gotta grab a bag of trans fat one lb for one lb let the matter take a wild far out & last ride for now until the next sundown i stare down mostly stepping too loud “sorry, cant you hear youre too loud??” still too loud, i spent the rent on a muzzle to be tuned down spent the rest on bubble shoes now, balloon shoes now ****?????****?????like that “you must move like a film score your hair mats like a monet & i can see you from far away youre still too loud” it isnt okay to write sad songs it does not help to write sad songs im not speaking for you, im just speaking for me but it feels so wrong to write sad songs it isnt okay to write sad songs it does no good to write sad songs i just get brain freeze and i play along say it feels so wrong to write a sad song again!!!!
5.
FLUME SUMMIT 01:20

about

this originally started as a standalone batch of songs entitled "ATHENGS" written while far away on tour and dealt primarily with distance & leaving (and was overall very self-concerned.) once we got home, it morphed into this collection of songs which is in many ways a rejection of the boring impulse to "hit the bong & write a sad song again". this is also the first CIVILS release to utilize 8-track tape instead of 4-track cassette.

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released January 6, 2017

recorded october 2016 @ small recordings in winterville, ga
bass on "sad songs" by ryan taylor
artwork & recording by drew kirby
special thanks to bly wallentine

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CIVILS Atlanta, Georgia

CIVILS produces fully versatile <catch-and-release songcraft> & subconscious renderings.
dangerous pop & bargain bops!
CIVILS aims to have as many tapes as lil b. music and art by Drew Kirby (CDSM, Sunset Honor Unit)

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