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At the desert’s mouth, the Internet’s out
In the electric air of western Texas fair
Hand in the breeze and a face to the sun
Walking nowhere, already gone
It’s an attitude (I don’t care)
It’s a crippled walk (a pleasant diversion)
It’s a hideous mask (to a fault)
It’s an artful denial (lost on me)
The streets stay a-glow
And our hands unfold
Keeping me close
We’re new age souls
Nails in my knees
Head on the trail
The canyon calling at horizon’s end
Sound and fury on a freezing wind
From a walking dream (full of fear)
What a relevant look (your evil eyes)
My gridlocked companion (I am saved)
My Cambridge decision (blessed one)
At the desert’s mouth, voices shout
As hurricane winds slowly shape the land
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Want To
03:43
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Hey, Hey, I’m doing what I want to
There’s a light inside my hands
And what I’m running with is
Another speaks into my mind
And I’ll falter at your name
Exalted and strange
There’s a song inside my head
A short, indifferent thing
A song I’ve hear time and time again
I’m not the enemy
They will not let me speak
I’m not your enemy
They will not let me speak
I’m not your enemy
Offer me no relief
I’m not your enemy
Offer me no relief
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Ritual Goodbyes
04:31
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In another life, I’d forgotten you
And what you made me do
I don’t believe in it
Wander through the heartland on my own
I'm Laying low
I won’t deceive you yet
Sacrificed so many
Years of my own life
Trouble follows me like a leach on my mind
Wicked to the bone, I’m a rotten soul
You don’t even know-I will bleed you dry
In another life, I’d forgotten you
And what you made me do
Wicked to the bone, I’m a rotten soul
You don’t even know-I will bleed you dry
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I was a child of planets and stars, I hard kept my head
Drawn to millions and millions so far, away from me here in my bed
Forever a line goes, forever he said-it didn’t take much to agree
Following anything under the sun that gives off a little heat
Here I am
I will follow
Speak and dress
Double you for one of me
Wherever you’re going, whatever they ask
Father to me is a bloodletting task
Just give me one dark night, under the gun
Just give me one dark night-I’m the forgotten one
I was a child who reached for the screen, static inside of the snow
I was a child who counted the ringss, watching them each in a row
The lines and the times that we like to perceive
We want to find ourselves in
Daily routines have us frozen in place
We painted over the rest
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Suffer My Heart
04:18
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Well, Holland was wild, yeah
But you had me frightened
Watching the colors
Drain from you face again
Suffer my heart
The loneliest part
Suffer my heart
For show
Well, no one would say
It was all touch and go for you
Close, let down
Creature, unheard
And where are you now?
Suffer my heart
With drugs in the dark
Suffer my heart
Alone
Never again
Never again
Suffer my heart
The loneliest part
Suffer my heart
For show
Never again
Never again
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Wait don’t sulk
I’ve come a long way for this
Lies on the climb
There’s been a blindfold slipped down
Over my eyes
Your voice
I’m just a little bit worn
I’ve come a long way
And I’ll never need a sign
Precarious as twine
Just give me some more time
Just a little bit more
Across
Park Place
I’m just a little bit worn
I’ve come a long way
Soft with poise
There is a failure in you
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Faces
05:06
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With a face like mine, try and find a reason for looking in
With a face like mine, you shut the blinds
No one needs to see
Just put me in a room and give me something (more)
With a face like mine, try and find a reason for looking in
With a face like mine, you shut the blinds
No one needs to see
He wasn’t mine and I’m not his forever, until the end
Just put me in a room and give me something (more)
It’s not the rain that makes the day a little colder
In this town no one’s around solo solo
I’m not asking for much-take a walk with me
And then we’ll go our separate ways
You’ll take your street and I’ll take mine
I’ll see you in time
See you in time
See you in time
See you in time
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I was living in a police state
Everyone was watching me
Break my body and leave my mind
I am unaware half the time
I was living in a police state
Trouble is I got used to it
How am I supposed to act
When I am bloody and my skull is cracked?
Oh why
If you really want to feel
What it’s like to walk in my shoes
Don’t take it as a compliment
You’re just a visitor
I do everything that I can
I do everything that I can do
Oh why
If you really want to feel
What it’s like to walk in my shoes
Drug by my heels through town
But looking at the sky
I’ll do everything that I can
But they wanna cut me down so low
I was living in a police state
Can’t you understand the pain I’m in
I ain’t making any promises
I am taking some of you with me
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9. |
Peace Offering
04:21
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Guilty as you were
How you promised them
Ineffective reasons in the end
Talking as you stand
Over everyone
Cut your legs off just above the knee
Tired nation’s gonna rise
And the streets will come alive
Believer in denial
Why’d you give me up?
New pariah gunning for their views
In each little moment
In the quiet times
I paint with the color underneath
Tired nation’s gonna rise
And the streets will come alive
We won’t need peace offerings
Try to make it all myself
Loose leaf pages everywhere
Why contend peace offerings? No no
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There is a light ahead, around the bend
There is a light ahead, around the bend
There is a light ahead, around the bend
There is a parent’s voice, among the noise
There is a shadowbox, it’s covered in dust
As the city fell, the flowers reached for sun
There is a light on up ahead
There is a light around the bend
I can’t see it, my body burns
I’m past the point of no return
There is a light ahead, around the bend
There is a light ahead, around the bend
A fleeting thought, a vision blurred
An afternoon in 94’
There is a light ahead, around the bend
There is a light ahead, around the bend
Through the mountaintop, it’s covered in flames
And the river here without a name
There is a light
There is a light
There is a light
There is a light
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Small Reactions Atlanta, Georgia
Small Reactions play situational pop songs. Relying on the minimal instrumentation of guitar, bass, vintage organs, and
drums, the quartet is equal parts post-punk, new wave, and surf.
Their music has been internationally praised by Huffington Post, GoldFlakePaint, Atwood Magazine, The Big Takeover, and more. They've directly supported the likes of Portugal The Man, Mac DeMarco, and DIIV.
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