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offered face on soul stained values cold count dead the weak with awful longing flooding houses daybreak say say save us and count down this awful warning mystery sequence plague us left short of breath open arms unhand these hollow legends slipped through hands and left unsolved with awful longing mystery sleepers they have trailed dead ends on coastal notes that they have left with their friends left short of breath and awful longing
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offered enough to know these hands make peace with a broken window everyone oh so bright as to press tongues down your parents driveway words too close offset charms laid out at midnight settled on oven earth straight faced with your back to a promised warrior tell me enough when you think i'll listen - temper your decisions late at night laid on like bruising fog and whispers all of me in pools of blood laid with you and your heart beating enough say you're sorry for the boys you thought were on some level they're not they're not moves you know break jaws down the halls of a high school social centered on glowing light small beats where your arms open up in wonder tell me enough when you think i'll notice - temper temper your decisions late at night laid on like bruising fog and whispers all of me in pools of blood laid with you and your heart beating enough say you're sorry for the boys you thought were on some level they're not they're not
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Hammer 01:58
rust holds through nights you hammer clean on perfect nights tread honest sleep your honest sleep hold tight rust sleeps through nights you hammer clean you hammer clean post cold nights it all falls away you hammer clean your honest sleep
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Swans 02:04
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Oak Hill 00:18
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soft bruising touches rushed through blood and worn all summer tell me - rest under my care and carve out all my lovers names like soldiers etched into a wall right next to all your lovers names remembered climb over these walls your lust won wars your heart beats like a husband salt washed through cuts forced from your hands so we'll remember how to heal each other when we look on all my wives and lovers next to all your lovers cast as husbands all our miscarries and children climb over these walls your lust won wars your heart beats like a husband
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Satan 01:33
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A New Berlin 03:38
soften up your highlights holding breaks through the night steady uphill sequence sidelined friends in a fight i could almost guess your age outside of this town sing as choirs arched up fresh lips pushed to the ground i could hold your head in hands that have known faces that have held white horses bled as brave clean warriors fell sell your awe in chains and sink your name in a song under oath and bags of golden virtues sell your secrets inked your mothers clean love sing as choirs safe in soil dug from the ground let me have your soldiers let them ride these horses and depend on friends you've know let me hold this hostage down
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ALL SONGS © 2009 THE RATIONAL ACADEMY
PRODUCED AND ARRANGED. LAWRENCE ENGLISH
RECORDED. LAWRENCE ENGLISH @ 158
& TODD DIXON @ NO NEW FARM AND HARVEST ROOM STUDIOS
ADDITIONAL RECORDING. BENJAMIN THOMPSON @ NO NEW FARM
THE RATIONAL ACADEMY. BENJAMIN THOMPSON
WITH. LAWRENCE ENGLISH, HEINZ RIEGLER, MIKE COOPER
REBECCA ENGLISH & AMELIA GOLDING
ARTWORK. BENJAMIN THOMPSON

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"Arrestingly brilliant new directions"...Boomkat (EU)

"Songs like "A New Berlin" and "Summer Husbands" could've been recorded by the Zombies" ..... Brainwashed (EU)

"We've been accused of playing favourites with The Rational Academy here at Before Hollywood, but with a record like this... why the hell wouldn't you? It's mature, delicate, meticulously constructed and supremely rewarding"...Before Hollywood (AU)

"I have long been of the opinion that The Rational Academy are one of the greatest undiscovered talents this city has produced....distinctly ‘Brisbane'. It's a tactile feeling: old Polaroid photographs, held hands. A slow, dizzy afternoon with no regrets."... Four Thousand (AU)

"Emerging champions of the electronica/avante-garde genre in Brisbane, The Rational Academy's latest album is like waking up from a dream" ..... Faster Louder (AU)

"There is always there ragged edge of experimental music lurking around the corner, and that makes this especially enjoyable."...Viatal Weekly (EU)

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released June 1, 2009

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