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Worn Smooth EP

by Simpler Shades

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Emilie K It's so hard to choose a favorite track on this album. The band has a unique sound that makes every song feel honest and real. Favorite track: Lil Day Dreamer.
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1.
Commence your head to shake friend you've got no grit Who are you to blame you're an accomplice to this Oh it's somethin faint All on fear not faith Oh your heads in the way Dilute the senses you're finally acting your age Toxic indifference has kept you from turnin the page All the same You're falling away Out of mind Before I'm out of sight Combat the pull of pride friend you're work ain't done Left to work a lie that is workin on no one Could be kept alive Only cost you a life Don't you gouge you're eyes Dilute the senses you're finally acting your age Toxic indifference has kept you from turnin the page All the same You're falling away Out of mind Before I'm out of sight Who're you calling the fake? Lucid throes of the shakes Oh it comes in the dark when you're feeling the freedom to fight Yeah it knows what you are just a product of nervous respite Lengthen the shadows and wait for a break in the light You're a hard one to know kid it takes one to say you're alright
2.
Trees 02:46
If I could have one wish Just one wish, you know what i'd get To be Totally free from this weight that's tethering me To my seat And just Float away Float away Feel the sunshine and rays and be present today Right here right now And if you were to ask me Baby what will there be beyond the trees? Well I would say that now is the time to create our own paradigm Instead of something we find... Through the others eyes they're all tellin lies and using it as a disguise for selfish compromise and it seems Oh so very clear to me That for what we strive we will receive So we can't deplete any possibility for creativity and what's in store for you and me Through the trees If I could have one wish Just one wish You know what i'd get? It's you
3.
Flow 05:19
Staring at the wall Soon the curtain will call Gleaning from their eyes Mirrored, masked, admired What if we know What they know 'Cause they don't Flow Ya come around here feigning your expertise & you think I'm just floatin' by with the breeze it's right under our nose and I smell deceit the sickly scent of mold growin on old beliefs But I know Something you don't know It's that they don't Flow Don't think this is all harmonious We've just decided that we should probably give a fuck Effort is the key to opening your perception But they've all used it as closed-minded misdirection But I know & you now know that together we can grow thinkin this might be ventriloquism tossin voices free of criticism but when I strain to see through the screen I make out the strings out of scissors' reach But we know somethin' they don't know we got power and a plan to grow
4.
Common sense don't seem so common We got a throne full of thieves Shuffling through the lives of the people expected to wash their feet. Baby child the future's uncertain Don't you act so naive Gotta fill your tongue with thunder, don't let them see Why'd you have to go and do it all on your own? The best of everyone is measured by what you want Was it good enough to make ya condemn your soul? How so? Alike in that we're ghosts composed by those we used to know Met a man on a rice plantation, he had an ice cream grin Confident if he died working that would be just fine with him What's the use in sitting round dreamin with the gift of movin around? At the time I took it with a grain of rice, it seems so much heavier now. Why'd you have to go and do it all on your own? Complete misunderstanding of the power in your hand Was it good enough to make ya condemn your soul? How so? Correct in every word except for those that carried worth. Oh, what a convoluted seed you've sowed. And I know that your words are as permanent as a flake of snow. But you're so cold and I feel I'm falling down. Better tell for you reap what you've sowed: Why'd you have to go and do it all on your own? The best of everyone is measured by what you sold Was it good enough to make ya condemn your soul? How so? Alike in that we're ghosts composed by those we used to know
5.
Little day dreamer won't you rest your tired eyes At 21 already feel that you're out of time Your troubled mind won't let you sleep a wink, Caught up in one long waking dream Little day dreamer how'd you dig your hole so deep? Little day dreamer won't you rest your tired eyes One in three hundred million you still live disguised One little lie is but a flake of snow But let it build until it folds Know what you risk is a lifetime of risks unknown Books and pens ain't means to ends you crave. Now the bends come back again you don't feel so brave All the time spent readin lines from a page Where's your mind been, petrified and decayed Not a damn cell could keep your pace Little day dreamer won't you do your heart some good Pick up that bike and take a ride out into the woods I'll bet a dime you'll find a strange new place To scatter petty thoughts astray Little day dreamer won't you do your heart some good. Leaves and vines might just remind you to slow Down your head as fast as your wheels can roll How fast can you go? Don't waste your time waiting for the sun to rise Don't lose your mind blaming the moon the night Closing both eyes wondering who turned out the lights I've always flown blind some just belong out of line Don't waste your time waiting for the sun to rise Don't lose your mind blaming the moon the night Closing both eyes wondering who turned out the lights Always flown blind some just belong out of line Don't waste your time waiting for the sun to rise Don't lose your mind blaming the moon the night I know you've been Closing both eyes wondering who turned out the lights Always flown blind some just belong out of line Don't waste your time waiting for the sun to rise Don't lose your mind blaming the moon the night I know you've been Closing both eyes wondering who turned out the lights I've always flown blind some just belong out of line
6.
Let's be patient Let's just wait and see How this hand turns out Let place payments No erasers just Bet on karmas account Let's rake razors Across the face of your Precious landscaped corral Oh if somebody called you It wasn't god at all You talk in riddles and I'm feeling present tense Oh its a matter of cause That you cant have caused at all No you don't command the stop and start But you're glad to play the part Take that savior And raise him higher In a bust of broken bronze Tell my neighbor whos Doing fine to Have my trust wrapped in gauze Leave my spade Bury hatred deep Make it know its for naught Oh if somebody called you It wasn't god at all Your making every cent On loose sentences Oh its a matter of fault And you can't fake flames for moths And ya never know how far you've gone Til you see from where you've come That despicable absence Oh that hangs in the sky I've seen photographs of What I'm sposed to have Saw its a matter of thought And you can't fake praise to god If I had one chance to take it back Id stay true to my mishaps
7.
Napkins 03:20
I've been here & I've been there I've been trying to reach you I've been wrong & I've been long gone But you're here still preachin' So fuckin' done with your preachin' Infinitely wondering why you're still Throwing napkins on the floor Tell your mama to go back inside 'Cause pride is still a necessary chore But it can screw you to the core Solace can be found even in the desolate hours Grasp the boundless now; know the past has no lasting powers Winter came as quickly as the wrinkles on my face When you said you were leaving But who would think that I'd be here to pour this into song While you're barely breathing As I retreat, guilt smacks you in the face & plants you in your seat But arrogance is unceasing Oversaturation of your aim to blame the break But it's not me that you're needing It's just the ego you're feeding Solace can be found even in the desolate hours Grasp the boundless now; know the past has no lasting power Stop & let yourself smell the flowers I've been here & I've been there I've been trying to reach you credits

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All songs written and recorded over the course of a year between summer 2014 and 2015 in Athens, Ohio. Mostly USB mic, mostly at night.

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released July 3, 2015

Uke / Vocals: Megan Dalton
Guitar / Vocals / Production / Percussion: Cody Adams

Recording Engineering and Mixing on Trees and Flow: Derek Long
Mastering on Trees and Flow: Shaun Livingston

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Simpler Shades Athens, Ohio

Athens, Ohio

Meg plays Uke
Cody plays Guitar

We sing.

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