The Outlining EP

by Carly Calbero

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released 25 February 2011

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Track Name: Bitter Pills
Verse 1:
This constant yelling beating of the drum
It’s killing me
Rhythmic slamming, crashing
Makes it go down easily

Chorus 1:
This bitter pill
Do you remember
This bitter pill
Or twelve, or thirteen, fourteen

Verse 2:
This silence might outweigh
The pain of disappointing you
But then again these cuts and bruises
Hurt a hell of a lot too

Chorus 2:
This bitter pill
Do you remember
This bitter pill
Or twelve, or thirteen, twenty-two

Bridge:
I’ll take it all if we just
Cut our losses now
I want to recognize
The face against the wall
Before it’s too late
My mother staring back
In the mirror, in the water
In these bitter pills
Track Name: Middle-Age 13
Verse 1:
Growing older getting nowhere
17 and out of her mind
Walking bent over now
Boards beneath us creaking like our backs
Our backs are breaking down

Chorus:
13 more like 32
4 am for sleeping
But wide awake now
Flipping through thoughts just like
Channels racing
So much to do so little
Time is of the
Essential
Eventual
Just turn it off

Verse 2:
Don’t you get that erie feeling
That maybe we’re just simply dreaming
Nothing but a whisper
In the sea of sound
Screaming out our lungs
But we can’t run, run, run, run, run

Bridge:
We see no way out
Say you’ll stay now
Cause everyone runs away
Track Name: Leverage
Verse 1:
Level for leverage
As much as you can
Make her feel special
Then make her feel damned

Verse 2:
Ask you shall have it
Whatever you please
While we beg for answers
Down on our knees

Pre-Chorus:
Feet run bare to take your place
Eyes unfocused we erase

(woah)

Chorus:
Can you hear them cry
Can you open your eyes
These two worlds will collide
The poet and I
Like soldiers
Standing by
To protest
Such closed minds

Verse 3:
Upset the balance
Because balance is key
And you’re in the business
Of tearing, oh tearing

Bridge:
Tip tip the weight
There's no escape
From this pressure
This pressure
Take take your vows
Criss-cross your arms
Avoiding focus

Voiding

Void their cries
Void their cries
Void their...
Track Name: The Outlining
Verse 1:
Take the steady line
All that we have
Small, confined
Plaster to make
Marry these holes
Marry this outlining

Pre-Chorus:
Time to throw back
With pots and pans
Scraping hands clean
Oh clean

Chorus:
Time is wasting
Water draining
Clinging to the pipes like drywall
Over our shoes
Making see-through
Can you speak through
This outlining

Verse 2:
Crash, fall asleep
Minding your feet
In the middle of the street
They seem small
Track Name: Dark Room Ring-Around
Verse 1:
Film unraveling
Take your photograph
In black and white
Stall the light
To make this one last

Verse 2:
Lens reflecting
What people blend and shade
In this dark room
Don’t let the light in
Within this dark room
The light is hidden

Chorus:
Ring around, ring around
And we all fall down
Come around, come around
I’m a thousand words out
Track Name: Golden Fantasies (Guilty)
Verse 1:
Skin colored makeup covers up my
Face it like a child taking that first
Stepping in the right direction
Might just lead you home
It might just lead you home

Verse 2:
Tone deaf
Oh I can take it
It just might be that you’re mistaking this
You’re mistaken

Chorus:
I’ve been found out to be guilty
But the judge is on Xanax
And I think she’s moody
She’s passed out in a minivan
After she said a couple things
We couldn’t understand

Verse 3:
“I’m sorry I’m a failure...
Couldn’t help my
Selfish little liar
You just wanted someone else.”
You’re probably right

Verse 4:
Elision, collision
Your simple resolutions
If you throw down
I dare you
I’ll be laughing at your wake

Bridge:
Golden fantasies
Making you believe
Golden fantasies
Making you believe
Track Name: The Cave
Verse 1:
Tormented by the thought
You blow it off and
Call it adolescence
If only you knew better
Trapped in a cave-like sanctuary
Watching pictures on the wall
Convinced that you have seen it all

Chorus:
I’ll admit I’m young
This generation has a habit
Young and foolish now cliche
But find someone else to blame
For your misunderstanding
Your empty demanding

Verse 2:
Time has and it will pass
The truth though hard to grasp
Appears nonetheless
It must be hard to navigate
To see through the fog
Clarity absent
Shadows pleasing once before
To eyes so blind they see no more

Bridge:
And come into the light
Into the light
Come into the rain
Into the rain
Come into the light
Out of the cave
Into the rain