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Carapace

by Human Qualities

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1.
Prufrock 04:50
Adorn yourself with carapace And paint your face When you leave your place But you aren’t the only one With the lights on low You drink until your heart beats slow So you don’t have to know What it’s like to be alone You sit by the window Acting like a real Prufrock It’s all in the way you talk Forget your troubles there’s still time on the clock They hollowed out your bones And filled them with Michelangelo And down to the sea you’ll go But will you hear the siren song? Oh Lord, I’m guilty too I’m privileged through and through And in our society Looking away is just so damn easy You were wandering along the half deserted streets And you were muttering to yourself about the cracks beneath your feet You said that: “Life deserves perfection; we filled it with deceit” But you purchased all your beauty and tore up the receipts And now all you want is love Hiding under ceilings waiting for our lives to end Hiding from the feelings waiting for our lives to end Hiding from the meaning waiting for our lives to end Hiding under ceilings waiting for the sky to bend Oh Lord, I’m guilty too I’m privileged through and through And in our society Looking away is just so damn easy
2.
You’re my rock and roll machine making me sing all night About those two weeks of bliss and how I can’t get them off my mind We tame our feelings, throw them into the river Find each other again under some moon but we won’t shiver No, no, no You wait up for me trapped in a tiny screen White washed walls behind you but the world; it’s all in front of you You’ve got so much left to see Before you can make your way back to me So love me Loosely Cause our arms aren’t long enough to reach across the sea So love me Loosely Cause our arms aren’t long enough to reach across the sea When you’re standing there on your coasts of gold Thinking of the stories we told The foreign sites and the undimmed lights A king and queen every other night Don’t wash your face in your hands For I’ll be near on both the sea and the land Because the distance is only What we believe it to be So love me Loosely Cause our arms aren’t long enough to reach across the sea So love my Loosely Cause our arms aren’t long enough to hold you close to me
3.
Open Air 04:20
Take a walk along the dock and see how they shine Lights in the open air reach across the shoreline Silhouettes are dancing 'long the power lines Smoking their cigarettes and drinking red wine Do you feel it Do you know it Can you feel it When you hold him Hear the voices echo through the frozen pines Know that their lonely, know that they don't mind Rising up then falling like an old man's sigh hide in the heart unseen as the world goes by Do you feel it Do you know it Can you feel it When you hold him Take a walk along the dock and see how they live Love in the open air with so much to give And you were one to scream and laugh and sing and shout And you were one to scream and laugh and sing and shout Do you feel it Do you know it Can you feel it When you hold him
4.
Put down your gun Lay down your arms Your wings are hiding Your wings are hiding underneath Open your mind But close your heart Don’t want them fighting Don’t want them fighting for you love Now we know where it begins Let’s perfect our favourite sins You and I were made to fight You and I were made to feel Now we know this time it’s real Let’s perfect our favourite sins Seal your lips Speak through your eyes You wounds are showing Your wounds are showing through your skin Feel your hips How they meet mine With never knowing With never knowing how before Now we know where it begins Let’s perfect our favourite sins You and I were made to fight You and I were made to feel Now we know this time it’s real Let’s perfect our favourite sins
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6.
Venom 06:42
They go walking through the storm Escape the noise in which their born The sinking lands, oh, the lost youth His gnarled hands, her jagged tooth Give us a place to stand we’ll move the earth Yet our smooth hands purchase our worth We’re plugged in now, feeling whole Will we feel it when we lose our souls?

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Recorded on the traditional territories of the Okanagan peoples.
All songs written between 2011-2015

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released January 12, 2017

Music written and performed by Branko Bevanda, Brennan Mann, Josh Manning and Terence Wendenburg
Mixed and Produced by Josh Manning, Kris Marsel and Brennan Mann
Recorded by Kris Marsel, Josh Manning and Tom Hunter
Album Art by Nina Chwelos
Mastered by Alex Stap

Special thanks to Les Clarke and to our families and friends who support us so strongly.

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Human Qualities Victoria, British Columbia

We make post-post-psychedelic-synth-rock-noise-dream-jazz-pop.

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