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progress in the inch of salvation

by Josh Belville

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all around the world scores of pretty girls are awaiting get your tickets here let's fly away home has been a bust somewhere else we must find a way to capture their attention come what may filling a simple hole with complex aching signs scrying the tarot cards for dates when the planets realign find what we lack in the place where we're at protect and pack don't stop and chat tried and true design 749's when we're leaving gotta catch a plane going anywhere beaches of brazil come on get your fill it's relieving or how about some swedish girls their skin's so fair following careful scents cast down in perfumed sheens visa complexity mouths washed out with listerine chorus
2.
etoile indeed the french esteem take turns with riding crops and vaseline she's got my number in case of emergency yeah in darkened rooms where one assumes some seedy sexcapades and smut consumed outside i'm tethered inside i'm tied i feel free bound and gagged encased in pleather honey and how she nagged at my increase in pleasure simply stunning she's my runnin' ooh la la, la femme et moi in garments signified who gets to talk she cracks the whip and my heart skips je suis son palefroi take me home put me on your mantelpiece i'm your tainted epicure make me whole build it up now
3.
not grinder 02:26
tell me all the things that you want to do all the pretty ladies that you want to screw stop all this hesitatin' darkened room masturbatin' grab a mindset from the astrolabe before you're interred on a granite slab your heart beat's temporary you're acting like an actuary taking a chance on taking chances got you in a trance I'm hoping you'll see you're a not grinder you need a stark reminder open up your eyes to the atmosphere we got a lot of things that are happening here nobody's gonna getcha nobody's even met ya sunshine's good for your temperament there's some outside that just won't relent make sure you wear sunscreen cause you're paler than cream thinking about how you'll go thinking about you you'll go thinking about how you'll go
4.
denizen of the dark i caught wind of your escape denizen of the dark felt the nestled earthquake ripped me apart cheeks flapping in the breeze it's only a fart but it's brought me to my knees i'm fighting for air in this methane blunderbuss fighting for air don't know who i can trust nostrils aflame with the scent of dirty deeds simply ashamed of my anal proceeds dear god, don't light up that cigarette or you'll blow this place sky hight i got some cookie of air just let it mellow baby some cookie of air or turn the fan on maybe some cookie of air whoever smelt it dealt it, yeah inst denizen of the dark keep this pact between us denizen of the dark unholy emanations are brought by the bells come tolling in the night i needed a spell to release this awful fright pre + chorus
5.
i called at 3 o'clock in the morning asking if you'd like to share your bed ticking down to my final warning a shot rang out inside of my head there was never any good time to ask about the good times there was never any good time to ask about the good times there was never any good time to ask about the good times i'd come crawling over come on over baby you're mine tonight i'd come crawling over dropping what was left of my foresight slept alone among all the bedsheets still smelling like the rest of you walked along the same gnarly side streets tracing the wrong path we always used i'd come crawling over come on over baby you're mine tonight i'd come crawling over dropping what was left of my foresight i'd come crawling over i'd come crawling over there was never any good time to ask about the good times
6.
layered lipstick glistening through the late night fight i had with you fighting's just that thing we do part of the act friends cringe when it gets too blue uncomfortable but laughing too scars beneath mascara prove our social pact i whispered all my offers when you turned me on (you turned me on) late night chaka khan yelling at the top of my lungs baby that's my favorite song soda pop and bubblegum (soda pop and) sweat stains up and down my back i couldn't hack your cardiac the more you make the more I lack but let's not argue (let's not argue) i offered all my whispers when you tuned me out (you tuned me out) late night chaka khan yelling at the top of my lungs baby that's my favorite song soda pop and bubblegum (soda pop and) launch codes written on your hand in magic marker green and red your bouncing ass could wake the dead kiss me harder late night chaka khan yelling at the top of my lungs baby that's my favorite song soda pop and bubblegum (soda pop and)
7.
turn on a dime it happens every time where are lonely boys you ate up in your prime tenured enthrall brew envy in the hall ash ketchum personified you gotta catch 'em all only mistake you drove without a brake coasting kilometers ahead of your own wake never conceived much less tried to believe someone with matching skills could bring you to your knees mea mute dove you were my one love you were extraordinary mea mute dove why won't you ever want to settle down with me? mea mute dove you were my one love you were extraordinary mea mute dove you were my ecstasy before you lost the key "probably not" the answer that i wrought out of a thousand days deciphering your plot cookies and cream with flavors in between i was the cookie babe and you were just the dream chorus
8.
sisyphus at least had a boulder i’ve got nothing left to push up a hill every winter keeps getting colder my breath lingers on the windowsill take me anyplace wrench my heart from the cast iron grave such a endless grace carved akimbo from the earthly lathe theseus at least had a ship, man i've got nothing left to build up again all my money in a tin can left behind before the businessmen find me anything i'm a golem for your penchant needs with your lovely wings help me gravitate toward better leads inst i'm a busted gun fired too many times at mounds of dirt lost the lust for fun now abandoned in a wrapped up shirt herakles at least had some god's blood i've got nothing but a mortal design took my number at the big flood i keep telling folks i'm doing fine lay me anytime in the backyard under shining sun maybe you'll be mine in the progress in the inch of salvation
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my much 04:31
settled on a sunday evening pot of ramen bubbling on the stove i get along with a sickened feeling eating apples from a rotten grove taken aback by the long days broad nights drenched in gelid sweat my buddies ask if i'm better but i don't know that answer yet i'm longing for her embrace that sweet and salty taste i'm grasping for her touch my one love my my much entombed in a white room scribbled lyrics all across the walls the gray encroaching autumn the blossomed lovers run down the hall the sense of an instant over handfuls of bitter years my hair keeps on thinning the glory days just disappear chorus x2 enchanted thing you've gone and wrung me dry encapsulating all i lived to die for i'm wrapped around your heart in part i'm yours i'm down on all fours inst chorus
10.
spare 03:02
i can't love no more all my reserves are out the door help me find some way out of this wholly enbrambled nightmare hit the floor find me in darkness keeping score wondering if i'll ever know the feeling of infatuation pick me out a spare heart in time, in time i won't love again affection for me has hawed and hemmed and now i'm a shell of roses stems wilting in waning sunlight phone a friend tell them this fugue's an ill portend grasping at straws til i'm content but each one's a little longer chorus

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A collection of rocking indie rock songs from FAWM 2017. Titles for the songs were picked randomly from FAWM's awesome "Titular" website: muse.fawm.org/titular

Purchasing the album will net you two bonus tracks: "middleman," from FAWM 2018, and "just let me know" another 2018 track with lyrics again by the brilliant Charlie Cheney.

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released May 12, 2021

Josh Belville - lyrics, guitar, bass, vocals
Hydrogen - drum macheen
Charlie Cheney - lyrics on track 6, "Soda Pop & Bubblegum"

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