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Back Then, When I Took Myself Too Serious

by Blue Genes

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1.
White Russian 02:20
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One Two Tree Four Well I found my white russian And I drink her down every night But my trouble with love is, you can never get enough Cuz if she's my heroine Then tell me why this needles in my arm God tell me, please, why?!? One cigarette begets a million more No you cannot stop, you can't ignore Cuz you're playin tug o war with the devil You were skiin' down the mountain side Then an avalnache buried you [alive] One look that's all it took Nothin' is ever the same E'cept change, ya huh I can feelin' it jinglin' in my pocket, each coin the same [Giddy Up] A spiders' spinnin' the web you're caught in Ya, that all your times wrapped up in
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Sepia Tones 05:14
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The trees are sheddin' their dead brown leaves Things are feelin' colder the winds pickin' up steam If I could just focus, for a moment, I would behold All of this beauty layin' before me In such near purity Of things as they should be If only... With the flick of a bic, it all burned down That sweet little town that we'd come from But it's captured in a picture, it's cased in amber Like my memories With their beauty placed before me I am remembering A story so good that I'll never Ever be lonely, again... [The Harmonica Tells A Tale] These violent colors brought me down to my knees Beggin' please don't let the child inside me Die as easily, as a fallin' leaf I saw that perfect mandala get swept away By the hand of its creator, he made it obey I hope that everything is purified, by the passage of time I holdin' onto to my few, precious, memories [Like] they're sepia tone photos
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Belief 04:04
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The scented signs of relief are quite contrary to whatchu might think One makes you remember the sun, after the fogs' come The other makes you wonder what it is you've been holdin' onto Then you look down, and there [tween] your fingers is a lit cigarette There's life comin' out of these white walls tonight So I think our American plunders will wander drunkenly away for a while to sleep At the summit they'll speak of such concrete things But even [gods] can blunder, cuz in the end we can't even keep This sweet sigh of relief When our two halves meet Nah, the sweet sigh of relief When our two halves meet Nah you can't even keep... So believe, believe, believe I'm gonna believe in we
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Crumblin' 10:19
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The government's shutdown I feel like everything's crumblin' Right back down to the ground I followed those breadcrumbs Back to where they began I came home, with nothin' I came home, empty handed Then I returned to bandage my wounds All of these bruised from abandoned I got caught in the open Throwin' up inches away from the toilet bowl [It Wasn't Pretty] My manners, if I had any They made me clean up the mess I'd made Instead I swept it under someone else's rug So it's safe to say, things were neglected Not maintained, so no wonder they started crumblin' [Sigh] My hand burst through the rumble Like I was hailin' a cab I'd escaped capture from the all the bad I'd done They was catchin', they was catchin' up n doin' it quick I was runnin' as fast as I could I smoke too much, I was a bit oughta breath Then I tripped, and gravity, took advantage of my position And bagged me [Fallin' Through Time] Man, I was stiff as a board When they brought me into the morgue But a spark was still lit, hidden within [Ember Starts to Glow] So my spirit, my spirit Was rekindled Ya I'm alive again Ya I can breathe again [Takin' A Deep Breath] Her hand it came extending, so gracefully oughta the carriage Her chauffier he carried us far, far away Then me n princess we stayed When you're a king, so high above it all You don't notice those ants below, crawlin' We gotta watch the decay spread Safe in our bed(s) on the local news Let me tell you what we saw, ima tell you every detail From upon the hill We saw the old order fall Only to be reborn From the smolderin' ashes Ya so boys, snuff out that ember when you're through ... the end...

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This little album was recorded in the fall of 2013 in a cabin in the woods on the edge of the glorious redwood forests of Northern California. It was finished in the spring of 2014, and then delayed for no real reason, except maybe a season.

Thanks to my grandparents for the electricity used to make this a permanent piece of history.

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released July 10, 2014

Tone Mill'r - wrote the songs, played the songs, recorded the songs and mastered the songs.

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Blue Genes Oakland, California

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