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You, the Devil, & Me EP

by The Mechanicals

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1.
Hatred 05:22
if you are cold i'll be a thin coat around you did you hear what i spoke when i said that i loved you do you love me too but i am not safe i am not healthy for you, for you make no mistake i will take what i can & you will take what i give to you i heard you were dead i heard you had long left, anyways, anyways you speak in the wind yeah, you move in the coldness i'm sure of it did you mean what you said when you said you got angry for me i think i believed you then i believed you then there was a time you filled my glass when i fell from the swings onto blades of grass the feeling was needles as you passed underneath in the name my parents chose for me but i hate all this hatred on my tongue it just burns into smoke that fills my lungs wasn't it hatred when you hung like a thief like me, for the guilt of all i've done or haven't done
2.
god was a black smudge on the white paint of the rooftop where we sat a dirty fingerprint not wiped away but left there & forgotten about me & my brother don't drink water we don't breathe in oxygen yet we talk & talk & talk we talk i am my father, i am my father in the cold outside the bar no angel tongue, no small white dog to take me up where you were sitting i see a worry in your eyes "hold on to your birthright" i don't need it anymore on swollen tongues our words are lost we're lost where did you get the idea i still owed you anything of mine this old guitar couldn't be worth more than maybe a couple hundred dollars & you, you were merely a castle i built from the sand, all wrought with fear & self-deprecation the waves will ruin when they come they come, they come & i don't know what it is that keeps me waking i don't know what it is & i don't know where you went when you went driving i don't know what it is oh my god
3.
Brother 06:33
i've been alone all night master of all the kingdoms i find in the cold in the snow at night what did you hope, hope to find when you came to my room did you see how bright it shone with all the hate that i feel for you all the hate in my bones you & i will be spirits in fear of one another we will travel like ghosts through our parent's house & when the answer is questioned, i will answer my intention god when he comes around i'll sing devil come & sleep next to me we stood & watched a burning sky just a song in a dream but it made me feel clean again sister when you feel clean again will you come back home so i'll stay alone & be alright you can undress your wounds 'cause time's such a shitty salve but god it will be allowed so long as there's supply i will sing
4.
J.B. 03:50
the grass don't cut my feet so i walk on the concrete & look for broken glass & the air don't burn my throat so i fill my lungs with smoke from another cigarette & if the words won't let you know i should just bury all my hope & find a home again god if i had one well, they claimed to see the lord but i considered him a lure, & i am so afraid 'cause when i don't hear you speak i break off in retreat & i forget to pray once i asked you for the answer but the answer was you didn't give a damn god if i gave one even walking has its season & my reasons aren't what they used to be my steps are all off-kilter & i'm breaking off the filter when i breathe i knew the words to all your songs but the truth it sounded wrong in a tired melody if i could make one i'd make a new one so hallelujah i would not sleep here if i could
5.
New 07:41
i know a man who takes what he can get living by the things he believes in raising a family & swimming through sand i shudder to think i am young, but once i was younger when we swam in lakes to spite the summer heat & i saw something, i swear i saw jesus i swear i saw something that i could take & we saw the faces of the people we loved burst into flames for the light display in colors so brilliant, in flashes so bright i couldn't look away & i felt the heat in the palm of my hand sweating, impatient, embrace the land you were as i, cold & alone you're breaking to pieces on the telephone & i heard the spirit in the calm of my head the peace of my heart & the peace of the land & you've come to take me & break what i am you make me a new man, a new man oh my god, a new man oh my god

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You, the Devil, & Me is the debut release from the Mechanicals.

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released September 11, 2010

recorded at Cedar Street Studios
produced, mixed & mastered by Ted Richardson
all songs written by Noah Young & Jaryd Tookmanian

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