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Latchkey

by Krejad

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1.
Going home Going home I had the craziest feeling That reached into the part of me That longed to be All alone All alone I could see the light At the end of the night And I could breathe again Feels so wrong Something feels so wrong tonight Something intangible like a bolt of electricity That rewired me Into a mind Into a mind that can feel Every emotion Now I'm racing with the notion that I can feel again But don't mistake my nervous energy for happiness Don't misread the need to please as lucid pleasantries Atelophobia consumes me, it fills me, it kills me, oh so slowly And I'm tripping over idiosyncrasies I'm riding the waves of impermanence I'm accepting the comfort in never knowing normalcy Give it time, and the smile will turn into a stare From dead eyes again, you'll know you see into the center of me Breathe in, if it's all you can bear to do Breathe out, the past can only hurt you if you let it haunt you
2.
You don't show your face and you keep all your secrets to yourself Then you come around here and tell me I've kept you from some rightful wealth You think that you made me, now you think you can put me to shame And you say I'm to blame for all the damage done to your name But I'm not your pariah I'm not the devil 'round the corner, darling I'm not your pariah My dear, take a look in the mirror So what feeds the seething, how does the hate burn and fuel your light? What keeps you tossing and turning through those sleepless nights? Is this another powdered fever dream, or just the cold reality that no one was right?
3.
The Dream 04:44
Another place to call home has come to me Another place where I can roam, it seems to be That when I close my eyes I'm taken I awaken to another world Where the ghosts of this life walk with me Where I've gone since I was a child My mind running wild, but frail Sometimes I think I've found a way out of the dream, but I always return Another place to call home, it seems to be Another place where I can roam, I long to be Where the valley meets the trees Where two realities become one It's where I find myself every night in the dream I've never believed what I can't see But it feels so real to me
4.
I can no longer call you 'friend' I should have seen through your plans I should have known I was the means to an end Sometimes a good thing isn't meant to last But that doesn't help this wound, no it doesn't help this wound mend You could no longer look me in the eyes You couldn't tell me how you felt Your lips can only speak in lies There was a time I thought it would never end But friends became strangers again with one last goodbye We can't go on now, you and I We're better off now, we can't lie to ourselves and each other and say that everything will be okay We're still learning Who we really are Maybe we're two at odds Maybe we're just growing apart We can't go on now, you and I We're better off now, we can't lie to ourselves and each other when we know that nothing will be the same We're still learning Who we really are Maybe we're two at odds Maybe we're just growing apart
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Trellis 03:53
6.
I'm writing letters to nobody And nobody is writing back Guess I'll make it alone today I tried to learn how to be a friend But that fear took me over again I can never help myself I just have to run away You say that I'm acting strange That I'm just not the same Why did it all have to change And now I know it's not your job to save me But I need a little help today I don't know how to fix the part of me that pushes everyone away Why did it all have to change I couldn't leave my house today Something told me to stay inside That old ghost is here to stay So I'm writing letters to nobody Just to clear some thoughts from my head Or so I don't feel alone today
7.
This could be the night That wrong becomes right This could be the night So let's collide with the light And disappear When will this feeling end This could be the night A February night on the freeway My heartbeat's racing My hands are shaking And I'm begging for air And all my mind can do is roll a film I've seen a thousand times before Of all the mistakes I've made Of every regret I've saved Of all the happiness feigned And I can't watch it anymore Long summer nights Drive-in romances Lost desert dances In the back of the car Now I'm a child again, I've lived this life a thousand times before Trying to make friends But too afraid to leave the comfort of my room And the film keeps rolling under a cold, lonely, February moon Of all the mistakes I've made Of every regret I've saved Of all the happiness feigned And I can't watch it anymore This could be the night That wrong becomes right This could be the night So let's collide with the light And disappear When will this feeling end This could be the night
8.
Soul Trader 05:07
You are the one I've waited for No one will ever love you like I do I'm the only one who can give everything you've ever wanted I only ask this of you Leave your old ways, let my life become yours Give in to me and I'll ask nothing more Please do this for me, and I will give you the world
9.
I've seen angels ascending And I've felt the lapse of all time And I wonder is there a meaning That I can't seem to find Take these tired spirits And keep them safe tonight While we flood this room with tears Bathed in soulless light I've seen heaven ascending I've seen the end of the line Nine days to strip the soul from a man The ninth day felt like a lifetime
10.
Latchkey 06:16
I remember that house in the valley On the edge of the woods, at the end of the alley A faded blue center of the universe Reflected in two views A violet western sunset And a northern streetlight satellite's Artificial glow in the night Coming home to an empty house in the hollow I wasn't alone but it rarely felt so There I planted a garden of black clouds That will bloom throughout my life And I fell in with loners and dissidents Any latchkey kid who dreamed Of leaving a town that held them down Every summer, like some kind of ritual Walking in circles for hours to break the lull Getting lost in worlds of our creation To escape what lay ahead The years went by, we got together for the last time But nobody knew then, and nobody remembers when Discolored photographs and memories Are all that survived the years Even as hard as I hold on, they too will surely someday disappear I remember when the changing of seasons carried meaning Beyond a passing of time, and its ever-growing sting Something happens that changes our courses Something woven into what makes this real A bitter taste of unstoppable forces Erode the ability to feel Still I remember that house in the valley And I remember a happier reality That faded blue center of the universe Is so far from me now
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So it's another long and lonely night And you've got no one to talk to No one to cry to No one at all Do you drown all your sorrows Do you try again tomorrow Do you throw it away Or leave it for another day, saying: "It'll be alright If I can make it through, if I live through this night It'll be okay If I can make it through one more cabaret" Now it's the end of the road And you've got nothing to say Nothing to gain And nothing to hide Nothing ever lasts Now I'm living in the past And I'm here to stay I'm waiting for another day, saying: "It'll be alright If we can make it through, if we live through this night It'll be okay If we can make it through one more cabaret" It'll be okay If we can make it through our last cabaret

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A collection of songs written from 2015 - 2019.
Recorded January 2019 - March 2020

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released May 1, 2020

Produced by Clinton Houseman
All songs written by Clinton Houseman
All performances by Clinton Houseman except the following:

Ryan Dunn - Tenor Saxophone on 'Growing Apart' and 'The Woman from Last Night's Nightmare'
Seth Randolph - Congas on 'Nervous Energy' and 'The Woman from Last Night's Nightmare'
Alisha Thomas - Violin on 'Trellis' and 'This Could Be the Night'

Artwork by Samantha Hubler
Photography and Textures by Whitney Houseman
Design and Layout by Ryan Wallace

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