id,slug,publish,publish_on,title,description,credits,lyrics,track,release_id,player_code
9,trap,1,2007-06-01 00:00:00,The Trap,,"<p>Written by Ryan Walsh, &copy; 2007 Reverse The Tape Decks (ASCAP)</p>","<p>the trap can't trap you<br />
if you take it to pieces<br />
stop thinking you're somebody else<br />
stop crying and go get some help<br />
stop trying to solve it your self<br />
and you know what else?</p>

<p>her misfortunes fell upon her<br />
call and response<br />
good morning alchemy<br />
start strumming my super strings<br />
it's a wilderness of mirrors and kings<br />
bespectacled devil with wings</p>

<p>it's hard to imagine<br />
anything more terrifying<br />
than dying in someone else's dream<br />
waking up in a coffin of trees<br />
and your soul getting hauled off by bees<br />
and if you think that's too much to believe</p>

<p>a munitions expert<br />
while disarming a bomb<br />
realizes he left the stove on at home<br />
he imagines his house up in smoke<br />
while he renders explosives a joke</p>

<p>I'm a planet, I'm the moon<br />
I'm barely in this room<br />
won't somebody please shake me awake?<br />
put me in the front yard with a rake<br />
it's the simplest of tasks I can take<br />
if I don't want to break<br />
and I don't want to break</p>

<p>the playwright has stage fright<br />
the doctor is sick<br />
the electrician struck down by lightning<br />
burning candles from more than two ends<br />
is that me? I guess it depends<br />
hell, go ask my friends</p>

<p>I'm a planet, I'm the moon<br />
I'm barely in this room<br />
won't somebody please shake me awake</p>",9,1,
15,let-it-wave,1,2008-04-08 00:00:00,Let It Wave,,"<p>Written by Ryan Walsh, &copy; 2007 Reverse The Tape Decks (ASCAP)</p>","<p>when you come again<br /> tryst in the treetop<br /> 8 excuses for the mother hen<br /> I tripped in the hall<br /> it was a miracle stall<br /> bought us time and we<br /> filtered out the feelings again</p>
<p>we schemed at the built in bar<br /> townie authority screaming we shouldn't go far<br /> I copied the key<br /> the way I mimic disease<br /> leaving the locksmith hungry,<br /> debating on his hands and his knees</p>
<p>bankrupt birdhouse the crow got the word out<br /> we've seen this all before<br /> and I am slouching a grown man crouching<br /> thirty armed men at the door</p>
<p>the truth and the tooth came out<br /> one in the paper and the other inside of his mouth<br /> he left with a limp and a cut on his lip<br /> hid the morning paper and never told his wife or his kids</p>
<p>now we're on our own<br /> cutting coupons 10 dollars off<br /> a crown and a thrown<br /> discount royalty<br /> high horse novelties<br /> we'll pay full price cuz it's better<br /> than being alone</p>
<p>let it wave<br /> oh let it wave<br /> let it wave<br /> oh let it wave</p>",9,9,
34,echo-sequence,1,2009-07-01 00:00:00,The Echo Sequence,,"<p>Written by Ryan Walsh, &copy; 2009 Reverse The Tape Decks (ASCAP)</p>","<p>casually break my fingers so I can&rsquo;t work the key<br /> the master painters all look ashamed<br /> they don&rsquo;t know the thrill of a jukebox fade<br /> church bells ringing out commercials for Jesus<br /> the future ex-girlfriends all promise to leave us</p>
<p>I dreamt of this well<br /> bringing you back to live in burnt out motels<br /> it&rsquo;s my junk mail dream to turn this car around<br /> and drive back down to where my body was found<br /> they say I was focused on slowing down time<br /> hands inside the clock when I was hit from behind</p>
<p>there&rsquo;s a possibility<br /> this predictability<br /> will eventually grow wild and bend<br /> then I&rsquo;ll know<br /> I never meant to meet you<br /> but that&rsquo;s what the sequence puts you through</p>
<p>curse this mind control<br /> making me leak these ideas so very slow<br /> I&rsquo;m an excerpt of an abridged serial<br /> you never had a job so menial<br /> to keep track of track of distractions that impede my path<br /> and pinpoint their origin and slice them in half</p>
<p>but there&rsquo;s a possibility<br /> this predictability<br /> will eventually grow wild and bend<br /> for better or worse<br /> I never called the cab a hearse<br /> I answered questions with a pause<br /> and tried to break what you defend<br /> but ended up drifting far from shore<br /> washed up in some foreign land<br /> and tried to find a way back home<br /> but when I did you shrugged and said<br /> here&rsquo;s where the echo sequence ends</p>",9,3,
54,hello-my-destroyer,1,2012-04-01 21:16:43,"Hello, My Destroyer",,"<ul>
<li>David Bentley - cello </li>
<li>David Bryson - drums </li>
<li>Elio DeLuca - guitar, organ, rhodes </li>
<li>Joseph Marrett - banjo </li>
<li>Brian Rutledge - trumpet </li>
<li>Ryan Walsh - vocals, guitar </li>
<li>Nicholas Giadone Ward - bass </li>
</ul>","<p>Amidst the canteens and vitamins <br /> Amongst the lit up liturgical themes <br /> There were breaks in the code, yes, I heard: <br /> Spoken cues inside mechanical birds</p>
<p>Clocked in at 7:09 <br /> I took the stenograph out for a spin <br /> You were searching for The Party Within <br /> I was typing out the language of men <br /> And with that we begin</p>
<p>Hello, My Destroyer, Can I Destroy You?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in somebody&rsquo;s dream <br /> I was stabbed in the back constantly <br /> I grew to take it as a compliment <br /> Cuz I can take it if y&rsquo;all have to vent <br /> There were starlit nights in the grove <br /> Where we sucked out the gin from our sleeves <br /> They we took aim at the thoughts in the eaves <br /> Now this next part is hard to believe <br /> But it&rsquo;s true, I reprise</p>
<p>Hello, My Destroyer, Can I Destroy You? <br /> Can I Destroy You? <br /> Can I Destroy You? <br /> And then right on cue <br /> You could destroy me too</p>
<p>Hellhound in the foyer <br /> Fooled again by mannequins <br /> We escape again <br /> From the straight jacket <br /> It&rsquo;s alarming, man <br /> But it&rsquo;s nothing you can&rsquo;t stand <br /> You&rsquo;re a full grown human man</p>
<p>Hello, My Destroyer, Can I Destroy You? <br /> Can I Destroy You? <br /> Can I Destroy You? <br /> And then right on cue <br /> You could destroy me too</p>",9,7,
72,the-posssible-nows,1,2014-05-03 08:25:16,The Posssible Nows,,,"<p>I could pass a polygraph<br />oh oh oh - -<br />there's something we forget when we're born<br />there's something we forget when we're born</p>
<p>Guess which state i'm calling from<br />it's never what you guess to me<br />there's free love in the corridor<br />and no, it's not for charity<br />i'm putting up with false alarms<br />because I'm an enthusiast<br />someone let me my family know when i'm finally through with this</p>
<p>when you think it's gonna stop it just starts again<br />we're cycling through the possible nows</p>
<p>I could build a monument<br />oh oh oh<br />but there's something we forget when we're born</p>
<p>my lawyer calls, the house explodes<br />some rivers flow eternally<br />there's dancing girls out in the wings<br />placed there as a courtesy<br />take exit 10 off of highway 1 &amp; tell me where you land<br />i'd mention more specifics but i'm not your biggest fan</p>
<p>you're gorgeous, like a painting, like some outsider art<br />your eyes askew, your yellow teeth, your arms too far apart<br />but you take me as I am so I'll never stop appearing<br />in visions three, in dreams alike, come here my heir apparent</p>
<p>you can stare down the lanes into makeshift frames<br />I can feel the night just waking up</p>
<p>We could try some ritual<br />oh oh oh<br />but there's something we forget when we're born<br />there's something we forget when we're born</p>",9,10,
88,new-phone-who-dis,1,2016-02-25 06:06:50,New Phone Who Dis,,,"<p>What is this, a funeral?<br>
I drove out to Ed's in the rain with my crew<br>
and the backlash<br>
of the back peddle<br>
got me stabbed right in the back<br>
it was all I could do to keep cool</p>

<p>you were my qualifying event<br>
you pushed the pins into the wall sized map</p>

<p>psychic<br>
rabbit<br>
psychic<br>
rabbit<br>
was my code word for you in the files<br>
now you know<br>
there's a code word for you in the files</p>

<p>it's certainly been awhile<br>
the parts of me you reviled<br>
have all been removed<br>
but I didn't do it for you</p>

<p>new phone who dis?</p>",9,12,
106,i-went-through-hell,1,2019-10-03 11:57:21,I Went Through Hell (But Now I'm Back [From Hell]),,,"<p>
  Ok pop quiz<br />
  What I’m trying to ask you is<br />
  “how am i like a summer storm?”
</p>
<p>
  You say what’s that mean?<br />
  And I squirm and shift my shoes<br />
  I say, “I got a soul and I’m gonna use it”
</p>
<p>
  I point to my foot<br />
  And say “here’s where my body ends.<br />
  Is that a useful thing to say?”
</p>
<p>
  And when you reply no<br />
  I can’t think of another place to go<br />
  So I say it again but point to my hand
</p>
<p>
  We’re avoiding truth<br />
  Like two detectives who refuse to search &amp; sleuth<br />
  Afraid what we’ll find behind locked doors
</p>
<p>
  The side effects were worse<br />
  Losing you had me running towards the hearse<br />
  Askin’ could you drop me off just down the street?
</p>
<p>
  I was first in line<br />
  For the Solipsistic Sad Guy Seminar<br />
  But inside it just turned out to be another bar
</p>
<p>
  I ordered whiskey neat<br />
  Fifty thousand times in the summer heat<br />
  And figured this is how I’ll defeat my victories
</p>
<p>
  We couldn’t say goodbye<br />
  So we practiced every weekend til we died<br />
  And even then it didn’t seem quite right
</p>
<p>
  I couldn’t play them blues<br />
  or any genre that could fix ol’ me &amp; you<br />
  so I was about to start a song that never ends
</p>
<p>
  But inside the bridge I found a note I left to myself<br />
  Saying, “don’t forget to love yourself<br />
  And don’t forget to come back from hell<br />
  And don’t forget to end the song.”
</p>
<p>
  I went through hell<br />
  But now I’m back from hell<br />
  Hi, hello how are you?<br />
  Hi, hello how are you?<br />
  Hi, hello how are you?<br />
  Hi, hello how are you?
</p>",9,15,