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Stunts

by Rademacher

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1.
Arkansas 05:20
whiskey and train tracks and fireflies and fog you got a hundred neighbors and they've got a thousand dogs shotguns all pointed at you heart take your best shot take me to arkansas there's no map of this nation just an ancient radiation we've all been taught not to pay too much attention to and this color is not for kids it is a color we've been taught to keep well hid locked up in some cabinet and hidden behind the china if this suit of armor should ever crack or we're disarmed I hope you know we got exactly what we paid for this love is not the same if I knew what I knew before I knew it hell i might of put more work into it I might have done it just a little bit more like you did and these broken teeth and these shattered rainbows these bloodied knees and scratched up elbows if this is an ending we really need to work on our endings this love is not the same and maybe she'll be good to me drag me home like some kind of tractor beam and hook me up with a bed in her spare room like some kind of sentimental heirloom like that piano that she can't play but she sits at every day lost in keys that got no names oh no. this love is not the same.
2.
Not My Home 02:57
What if we all drove sports cars and lived in amusement parks if we always did right and never did wrong what if every song was only three minutes long? What if we stopped wearing underwear and gave up trying to comb our hair and we stopped going to work and just went to the movies everyday when was the last time we went to the movies anyways? I am not very good at relationships not even very good at sex I am one great big dysfunctional mess and messes don't get cleaned up by themselves I have a heart and it is not made of tin or stone and when I'm alone and you're not here it is not the same it is not my home. Who's in my bed?
3.
Machines 03:10
I thought I would make me some machines to do all of my work for me and play all my concerts in perfect time. in perfect, perfect time. now all I've got is a list of complaints we never practice never plan fields our empty turned to sand and I don't want to play this game no more. We'll all fall down, all fall down at last just spin me round and hold my hand it goes by so fast. yes it all goes by so fast. you thought you had it figured out you thought you had ti right but no you cannot sleep no more you stay up every night and really? I don't care. We'll all fall down, all fall down at last just spin me round and hold my hand it goes by so fast. yes it all goes by so fast.
4.
If you're singing about a sailor you're singing about the sea singing about the places you'd secretly rather be If you know this city then why can't you find a place to get you haircut? some questions are tough some don't have answers at all. If you're really over it why you want to go back and visit why put on those records and just keep on listening? that's exactly the sort of attitude that's brought you back to your front door maybe that's what this song is for it's a porch light that you left on and maybe your friends will learn to be friends all over again If you got some magic well now would be the time to use it now is the time to prove your heart maybe lose it If you hold that magnifying glass up real close to your face you'll see you got a great nose you know I've always loved that nose. and maybe your friends will learn to be friends all over again cause that's way we walked and that is the way we will walk out.
5.
you think you got control but it is not something you know you're on a roller coaster you're on some great big ocean and it is not something you know not like what you're used to back at home its got a mind of its own you're all gown up now all moved away and yesterday is not like today its got a mind of its own
6.
On Yr Marks 03:08
You go up you go down you like to pace around you're just some animal in a fake coat of fur you you've learned your lesson you're not messing around you're a queen wearing a crown and everywhere you walk men fall down let's skip to the good part let's fast forward our hearts let's get on our marks you know its not hard to forget who you are I got a couple thoughts in my head if I didn't I would be dead or I'd be at work wearing some button down shirt who needs that diamonds who needs that bird that sings who needs that kind of attitude? why you got to go ruin everything? let's skip to the good part let's fast forward our hearts let's get on our marks you know its not hard to forget who you are once you;ve opened up that door and everybody wants a little bit more and all those angels on your shoulders stop giving you orders and for a moment you grow older and wise let's skip to the good part let's fast forward our hearts let's get on our marks you know its not hard to forget who you are
7.
these american dreams these giant television screens these planes that can't be seen flying over everything this broken factory this cocacola recipe this counterfeit machine counterfeiting everything This industry these economics magazines marvel comics the next time haley's comet comes I'll be turning 93 and telescopes don't tell lies and galaxies don't give advice they're busy growing colder and older just like me These american dreams this crooked symphony it echoes through the concert hall like numbers on some bathroom wall saxophones in secret codes whispers on your telephone words you use to know by heart words you used to use back home California in the morning New York in the evening Woody Guthrie on your headphones speaking from some other century time may not be holding us but time is not a friend I trust I never liked him much no I never liked him much And there ain't nothing you can do your folks were right Now the time it might seem distant like some bird outside the window but if you believe it in this instant it'll never go away because today today is different And there ain't nothing you can do your folks were right
8.
Stunts 02:52
Death comes just once in a lifetime not even once every year its the rattle in your cage its a book with one page you read once and then never read again. Love it might come and it might go might not be there in the morning might not make the show you might have built it a home but you've always kind of known you'd be alone when the cavalry came and these angels that we've named after us they can't help us with that no they can't help with much they are useless for anything but what we all kind of hope is that some day they'll finally wake up death don't mean to cause you any troubles he does all of his stunts himself so take off all your clothes and pick up a hose there is a slip n' slide out in the back and these angels that we've named after us they can't help us with that no they can't help with much they are useless for anything but what we all kind of hope is that some day they'll finally wake up so hand me that last cup of water I'll drink it up all by myself I've hollowed out this hole yeah I've figured out this role I'm playing me and you are playing you and the scene is just us lonesome two.
9.
Letter From Fresno, CA (free) 04:17
you woke up from some kind of dream the kind where the people you meet are your friends but they are totally backwards and end over end caught in a landslide of furious sin yes you're having that dream again. you fell into this bed headfirst eyes wide and drunk in some rock and roll skirt caught up in an evening of longing or worse this romantic curse this forgotten landmine we were doing so well for such a long time yes we were doing so well for such a long long time and these city kids they don't have a clue they didn't grow up, grow up like me and you they're all spoiled and well fed half wicked and half dead caught up in those nothings that creep into their head and their world is only 3 miles wide and their world is only 11 miles high while I'm drawing these lines in the sand take a good look at the cards in our hand 'case this city is folding beyond our command and if hearts are rent controlled and we're all just real estate man let's come up with some kind of plan. this is a letter from Fresno, California it was written for a girl who was leaving in the morning it was written in a rush in a panicked sunrise hush it was written from me to you I hope you're doing well and that you'll always, you'll always stay cool with me I guess we'll have to wait and see 'cause you're never with the person or quite in the place that you thought that you wanted to be

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"Opening cut "Arkansas" establishes that template impressively, opening with 60 seconds of quiet buzz and disembodied voices before evolving into ecstatic rhythmic surges, choir-like harmonies, and Sosa's bordering-on-hysteria vocals." -- All Music Guide

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released December 12, 2007

Recorded at The Ship in Eagle Rock, CA with Aaron Espinoza.

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At turns wry and censorious, Rademacher uses its rough-hewn indie rock — barbed-wire guitars, funhouse keyboard lines, Mancillas’ shout-sung vocals — to dissect what it’s like to make rough-hewn indie rock.

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