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released 03 July 2012
Jason Kutchma: Vocals, Guitar
Patrick O'Neil : Piano, Vocals
Evan Rowe : Drums
Rusty Sutton : Bass
Elysse Thebner : Guitar, Vocals
Nathan Golub : Pedal Steel

Recorded at Echo Mountain in Asheville, NC by Evan Bradford and Track & Field Recording in Carrboro, NC by Nick Petersen.

Mixed by Evan Bradford
Mastered by Nick Petersen

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tags: americana folk gospel punk gospel punk punk acoustic country folk Durham

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Track Name: End of the World
I’ve been thinking, the world is coming to an end
Real soon, yeah real soon
Better believe the Angel of Death, he’s coming for you
And me too, yeah me too

I’m sorry I gotta run after I say my goodbye’s
You know how it goes when the end is nigh
And the end is nigh, yeah the end is nigh
Better watch out

I gotta get home, I got a table to set
For Four Horsemen, yeah Four Horseman

And I got a four meal course on china fine
He on his black horse, I’ll just have to give him wine
Give him wine, you can all have wine!
Beaujolais

Baby it’s okay cause I’ll see you in the afterlife
Maybe not, yeah probably not
And that’s the way it goes I guess
You see now what we get?
Toothless Sam he’s been mumbling ‘Repent’
For years, yeah it’s been years

Was there nothing we could spare?
Not one dirty cent?
We paid no care to a faithful prophet
It’s the end

Cheers

Everybody cheers
Track Name: Every Good Boy Does Fine
My Momma don’t mind if I stay up late
But Daddy don’t like if I’m up past eight
My sister she says I should just rest my head
And Grandpa says I’ll sleep when I’m dead

Who’s got the right
To say which one’s right?

Who’s got the right
To say which one’s right for me?

Who’s got the right
To say which one’s right?

Who’s got the right
To say which one’s right for me?

All they ever wanted
All they ever wanted me to be
Just be a good boy
Track Name: Teenage DMZ
Nobody understands me
Nobody understands me now
My Momma don’t get it
Pappa say Boy you better turn that shit down
I don’t make sense to my teachers
I don’t make sense to my preacher now
All I do is go

Yeah Yeah, Oh Yeah Yeah

They say You need an education
They say This boy just needs some ambition
And they say Boy you just need some salvation
I don’t understand
Cause they stand there with their prescriptions
And their goddamn televisions
The got their augmentations
Their ammunitions
All I do is go

GO-GO-GO-GO-GO

They used to sing Tuitti Fruitti
They used to sing Be-Bop-A-Hula-Baby
They used to dance so close to Shama Lama Ding Dong
They’d scream Gabba Gabba Hey
I don’t understand
I don’t understand
Why they don’t understand when I go

Yeah Yeah, Oh Yeah Yeah

I remember that summer
I saved up every dime
And I walked to the counter
Slapped down my dollar
Pointed to a guitar
Said I believe that is mine

It was like for the first time
For the very first time
I could stand up tall
From now I’m gonna stand up tall
I’m a walking tall
And I’m a talking loud
And I’m a singing loud
I’m going GO-GO-GO-GO-GO

Yeah Yeah, Oh Yeah Yeah
Track Name: Pastorals
And no, I’m not proud
Of the places that I’ve been
I never knew what I was looking for
But I couldn’t stop looking
I traveled so far and dark for this to realize
There are no pastorals for the quarrels with the
world
But maybe for the ones inside

And no I’m not proud
Of the people I have scorned
The truth? In birth as now in death
It’s cold and forlorn
How far I’d go away from home
So one day I would know
There are no pastorals for the boys or girls
Who try and go it alone

I’ve been wrong more than I’ve been right
My fault I won’t deny
I hope at heaven’s gate they make saints
From sinners who kept on trying

And no I’m not proud
Of the roads that I have gone
I’d run and run from dawn to dawn
I knew not why, where to or from
I say for any man who values distance over time
There are no pastorals no there’s no laurels
No race no finish line

I’ve been wrong more than I’ve been right
My fault I won’t deny
I hope at heaven’s gate they make saints
From sinners who kept on trying

And no I’m not proud
Of all that I did
In a search for destination
Now I’m back where I begin
All my transgressions oh how I remember each
But if I lived again without them
Would I have found this peace

I’ve been wrong more than I’ve been right
My fault, I won’t deny
I hope at heaven’s gate, they make saints
Cause I tried, I tried, I tried

I been so wrong
But I tried
I tried
I tried
Track Name: Used To Believe
I used to believe in the radio
All alone in my bedroom, how I loved it so
What happened I can’t guess
But I was listening less and less
Hanging around with a different crowd I suppose

Me and my friends we were punks
Drunk as hell cause that’s punk as fuck
Got a band to be famous
And to get laid hey can you blame us?
But without a record deal we did the punk rock thing
And broke up

My Pop don’t believe in the power of song
Son the only way a song’s gonna right a wrong
Take the lyrics of Blowin’ In the Wind
Write them on the bills with Ben Franklin
Pass them around to the poor across this great country
And maybe eventually you’re gonna cure poverty

All I ever needed was rock and roll
Rock and roll and a turntable
And me and Lou and Iggy Pop
And the drugs and Mary and oh I couldn’t stop
I wonder how my kids are doing these days

I wrote songs that matter! I had a story to tell!
I thought that’s what the world wanted as well
I wrote the greatest songs you never heard
You assholes asked for Freebird
Well damn you and FM Radio straight to hell

I used to believe that a catchy tune
Can cause world peace if everyone would sing with you
But I started watching the evening news
Now I believe what they want me to
Read Psalms, drop bombs and god bless America

I used to believe in a lot of things
I used to believe in believing
Man now I don’t know, it’s so hard
But I still got something to say and a guitar
Maybe that’s all the reason I need to believe
La da dum La da dum
Maybe that’s all the reason I need to believe
Track Name: Don't It Figure Better
Don’t it figure better
To let life have its way with us
What’s the use of trying
What’s the use of doing anything at all

Throwing our will
To the air
Watch them fly away

Mutt in a gutter
Blood crowns his head
Fast Buick don’t got patience
To prepare a dog’s death bed

He crawled all the way
From the middle of the road
He just wanted to go home
He was so close

Don’t it figure better?
Track Name: I'll Survive
When the sea sent me a hurricane, I survived
Through a hole in my roof I saw a black sky
I got water through the floor and a boat through the door
Can’t call that a home no more
Sea sent me a hurricane and I survived

And the devil took my Daddy and I survived
You see Daddy took to drinkin’, me-oh-my
I survived his cussin’, his drinkin’, his sin
No I can’t say the same for him
Devil he took my Daddy and I survived
And the war took my brother and I survived

He was serving his country in the front line
And he died by a bullet, friend or foe?
The U.S. Government still don’t know
Someone killed my brother and I don’t know why
Oh please, tell me why?

Jesus took my baby, why Lord why?
Why Lord him and not I?
A life would end before it’d start
No greater pain for a parent’s heart
Jesus took my baby’nd only he knows why
And now you standing at my door

Saying you leaving tonight
You know you ain’t ever been worth a tear from my eye
You calling me cheap and worthless down by the bar
Who the hell do you think you are?

You want to leave? You get to steppin’ tonight
I ain’t gonna tell you again, good-bye
Let me say it loud and clear one more time
That without you I know I can
Survive
Track Name: There's A Light On
I left them at the station
A suitcase and me, waving from a train
Well maybe not a train
It was anything
That would take me away

And they were all sad-like
Sad like Trumpets on a Vine
And although
I knew my road
Some part didn’t wanna go

But like a lonely house on the hill
Given to me from some dusty will
Mine by decree
But I knew to be
It was mine but it wasn’t me

Momma I’m not sorry none
No I’m not sorry bout anything
But even so
I want you to know
I’m sorry about everything

I hope they know I love them
I was never sure the reverse was true
Until that day I fled
My Dad
He held me and he said
There’s a light on

There will always be a light
Track Name: I Will Not Be Broken Nor Will I Be Denied
All my life there ain’t nothing that’s ever been clear
Although I’m a man grown I still got my fears
And every time I widen my eyes, the more I’m terrified
But I will not be broken and I won’t be denied

And it’s been I yes that’s chosen this path
But it seems with every step that I’ve made
I’ve wanted to turn back
I’ve taken my falls, yes I’ve had to crawl
But every time I stand and reply
I will not be broken no I won’t, I won’t be denied

I will not be broken nor will I be denied
Though tempted I may
I won’t walk away till I’m satisfied
Oh the pain that life brings
When you’re following your dreams
The true ones they don’t subside
I won’t be broken nor will I be denied

There have been so many times when I couldn’t stand tall
I was wasted, forgotten, no I had nothing cause I gave my all
I heard Stay down don’t get up,
Boy you stay down you don’t get up
But no, oh no not this time
Cause I will not be broken I won’t be denied

I will not be broken nor will I be denied
Though tempted I may
I won’t walk away till I’m satisfied
Oh the pain that life brings
When you’re following your dreams
The true ones they don’t subside
I won’t be broken nor will I be denied