Artist: Emmett and Mary
Title: The Summer's Pull
Release #: MIF153
Format: Cassette Tape (Out of Print) / Digital
Release Date: 03/25/10
Side A:
01. The Summer's Pull *
02. Conversations by Appointment (Spin, Go Round)
Side B:
03. Hazy Programming
04. Blink Twice
05. The Presistence of Double Vision
06. The View from Across Linden Street (Do-Da-Do-Do)
* from the album "S/T" available on My Idea of Fun Compact Digital Discs #MIF64 - www.myideaoffun.org
Tracks 1 and 2 written by Christopher S. Bell and Brandon Locher in the Shrine, 2008.
Tracks 3-6 written by Christopher S. Bell and Matt Miller in the Shrine, 2008
Tracks 1 and 2 engineered & produced by Brandon Locher 2008-2010 and mastered by TJ Lipple
Attempts were made to record tracks 3-6 in early 2009 before this final recording in March of 2010 by Matt Miller, Joshua Russo and Christopher S. Bell 2010
Emmett and Mary:
Brandon Locher
Christopher Bell
Also featuring:
Dane Adelman
Chris Kupchella
Rod Fisher
Bethany Goch
Dan Oatman
John Livingston
Joshua Russo
Renee Saylor
Matt Miller
For further information on The Mangled Collapse of Communication read:
The Opposite of Blinking, Level Up and Level Out, The Annexation of the Living Room, Portraits of the Suburban Attention Span, Any and All Odd Ends, Stay Young and Numb, Systems and Symptoms, One-Sided Christian Questions, ..., The Deflated Generation, and Modern Day Distractions by Christopher S. Bell
1. The Summer's Pull
Do you wanna go down
To the basement underground
We can lock the doors
To drowned out the sound
You left your hat downtown
We checked the lost and found
It wasn’t around
We’ve lost and found ourselves
on a sunny day in June
Our voice out of tune
And we ground ourselves in the sound
I’ll take you pound for pound
Pound for pound
Another fallen son
Gets all his work done
He, (I) (We) start(s) to run
To the girl who’s been standing around
Waiting for her mother’s cloud of smoke
To fade like broken radio
She says life’s a hazy show
Until you find the ground
Until you find the ground
I’ll take you pound for pound
2. Conversation by Appointment (Spin, Go Round)
When you died|
I had a mad love for horoscopes a bad dream
I felt not fine
Love
Find love
Take it off
Jerk us far away
From any other planet
That’s still around
I hear no sound
As I run so fast in this cold dark night outside of town
There are no towns
There’s only this paper trail
All birds are still alive
As they fly
Into you
And no one has eyes
We never lied to Jesus Christ
Right after we all died
Spin, Go round
On the curbside of your finger,
To the shadyside of these burned out towns
Lost and Found
Our stable drunken bodies
Bored and waiting in the lobbies
For her sights to turn around
Invitation from friends
She said, "I can’t pretend
That we often extend our hands"
Spin, go round
The turntables a reminder
That it’s impossible to find her
Anywhere but under cover
Blind and sighing for her mother’s underground
You fell flat
For a guy just like your father
Irritation we shouldn’t bother
Another out-of-state friend
To buy our drugs again
And do you wanna go down
3.Hazy Programming
When life turns to shit again…
Will you stand, by the phone?
Our love’s just a masquerade
I feel better alone.
In spring and summer
We find another
Place to hide without our mother’s drone
A face to find our older brother’s stoned.
Lately I miss the trees, blocking your frontyard
We skinned our knees daily (Daily…)
This shouldn’t be so hard…
I find your soul heavy (Heavy...)
This shouldn’t be so hard…
We couldn’t get that far.
4. Blink Twice
Bum, ba-dum… Bum, ba-dum…
Bum, ba-dum… Bum, ba-dum…
You sold your soul to Satan
Disguised as Christ
We’re too old for hating
You used to think twice
About pieces together
Drowning underwater
You used to be so nice
You used to be so nice
Don’t think twice
It’s alright
Don’t think twice
It’s alright
We always fight
Every other night
We always fight
Every other night
You used to be so nice
You used to be so nice
You used to be so nice
You used to be so nice
5. The Persistence of Double Vision
Turn the next page over
Last chapters first
Turn the next page over
Expect the worst
Have you seen Josephine?
(Josephine, Josephine)
Josephine
Next space age over
The bubble finally bursts
The bible finally burns
6. The View from Across the Linden Street (Do Da Do Do)
Do-da-do-do, do-do
Do-da-do-do, do-do
Do-da-do-do, do-do
Do-da-do-do, do-do
She can’t deny
We were so high
(High…)
Underneath the lights of the sky…
Do-da-do-do, do-do
Do-da-do-do, do-do
Are we talking today?
Have we found our own way?
Are we breathing out loud?
Is there anything to say…?
Today, we find our mother’s underground
Tomorrow, we find another kind of sound
Today, we find our mother’s underground…
Tomorrow, we find another kind of sound
(This mess we’ve made to our graves)
Today…
We find our mother’s underground
We hide our lovers underground
Tomorrow
We leapt (tall) (off) buildings in a single bound.
