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Keeping the Black Dog at Bay

by Dustbloom

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1.
Vowelphabet 04:46
Wave goodbye to the best years of your life Your zeppelin is fueled and ready to fly To fly To fly Huge hi-five for the fuzzy frames that play against the damp screens in your mind Your highest point is still the lowest one I’ve seen How far will you have to fall before you cut the cord to flee? At terminal velocity Kiss goodnight the forehead of that fantasy You can stop chasing the headlines Headlines Headlines I’m not saying you’re out of touch But motherfucker you ain’t touching much Your love is isobaric I’m not saying you’re out of touch But motherfucker you ain’t touching much I felt every pinprick Your highest point is still the lowest one I’ve seen How far will you have to fall before you focus on setting yourself free? You might be on time but you’re out of gas Stalled out in the left lane for the world to pass So take the pub-crawl back through the memories Of those days of donning a black heart on your sleeve Now remember you’re rendered redundant
2.
Bystander 04:19
What's getting stuck between your head and your mouth? You haven't made a fucking point I can count Drag out your borrowed time Step out and get to the back of the line What's getting stuck between your head and your mouth? You haven't made one fucking point I can count Drag out your borrowed time Step out and get to the back of the line I'll sail this ship, I'll sail this ship I don't need you I'll sail this ship, I'll sail this ship I don't need your shit What's getting choked on while you are asleep You haven't said one fucking thing to convince me Turn off your music Stop what you're doing ‘Cause we're running aground on gen-x sound just barely moving I'll sail this ship, I'll sail this ship I don't need you I'll sail this ship, I'll sail this ship I don't need your shit Turn a blind eye, swing about face This is the sound of generations disgraced Turn a blind eye, swing about face This is the sound Turn a blind eye, swing about face This is the sound of generations disgraced Yea What’s getting stuck between your head and your mouth? How many times will it take you to right? Standing for nothing so there's nothing to fight Indulge, tear each other apart Your fucked generation, one with out any Heart
3.
Pneumonia 04:53
Lesson One: You're only as smart as the people that you put yourself around And I'm an isle of man Strip down to my very best I'll except nothing less when I dine alone Sure as the dawn, sure as the dusk, sure as the day is long Sure as hell, sure as shit A bitter end is involved No one can tell me that I'm wrong Rehearsed in the ways of the world Don't contest the concept of the armed Lesson Two: You're only as virile as the youth that you plant your seed into And I'm shaving years Off of my coffin's clock No one can tell me that I'm wrong Rehearsed in the ways of the world Extemporaneous discourse always unsolved Because no one can tell me that I'm wrong The bite might be dry but there's poison (coursing) in my loins And I'm an improvised explosive device There is no prone posture to promise No submissive stance to surmise There is only the streak of the comet as the charioteer prepares to Ride with one eye
4.
Empty Deck 05:24
Pander to a mass grave Piled high with mostly low expections About the feel and the flow Of the seeds in your lungs That grow hard into stone We’ll settle into roles And speak in shorthand Who could resist the kiss of a rocket? Who could resist the kiss of a rocket? No you can’t resist, No you can’t resist No you can’t when your lips are upon it Lust for surreptitious green lights you give to ghosts To get the most from everything that you stole You’ll take all you can Of course you would You won’t ask for help You’d rather import those things You can’t do yourself You can’t do yourself You won’t ask for help You’d rather import those things You can’t do yourself You can’t do yourself I cannot owe for donations bestowed In my name I’m told: they’re empty (the capacity’s there, but the capacity’s bare, empty) I cannot owe for donations bestowed In my name I’m told: they’re empty (the capacity’s there, but the capacity’s bare, empty) Hurdle my head Who could resist the kiss of a rocket? Who could resist the kiss of a rocket? No you can’t resist, No you can’t resist No you can’t when your lips are upon it I wouldn’t resist, no I wouldn’t resist, no I wouldn’t resist
5.
Anchor Bend 05:02
Is this love? Or are you lonely in the dark? Can’t say I haven’t found myself in the same place before Is it wrong? To make it up as you go along? Just keep it all in check Situated at the top of the chain Compromise is the only choice you can make You’ll tune it out but it will get too loud So join with the plenty of not so proud It’s been real It’s been good But it ain’t been what it should Is this love? Or are you lonely in the dark? Can’t say I haven’t found myself in the same place before Is it wrong? To make it up as you go along? Just keep it all in check Splice yourself when the sinnet shrinks And slice the stitch when you think (that) You like the high that only comes from escape So save your ass brother And fuck your face Fuck your face And the ill-conceived beliefs that you hold Resolve to devolve delegate away meat Oh, it’s been real It’s been good But it ain’t been what it should Pray to your saint That your hair’s still there When Delilah ain’t Is this love? Or are you lonely in the dark? Can’t say I haven’t found myself in the same place before Is it wrong? To make it up as you go along? Just keep it all in check
6.
Prokofiev 03:54
Don’t budge when the sun comes up We haven’t earned this light And don’t move when everyone has to We’ve barely owned the night You wouldn’t let me Since you are content to just tempt me to celebrate with sleep (celebrate with sleep) Don’t pretend they aren’t all hollow ends We chase dark through dawn Allow for us to bask in fluorescent sun And hide from everyone You wouldn’t let me Since you are content to just tempt me to celebrate with sleep To celebrate not being To celebrate with sleep To celebrate just breathing To celebrate Sleepless we’re off course Sleepless we’re off course
7.
Thresher 04:27
Concede to pressure The blue strings you up while the red cakes the ground Give in where you began Chasing your fucking tail around I’ll need to be more hollow To fill the space with the shit I’ll swallow In this town Sucked down Spin centuries of ecstasy into cocoons for the catamites Axils hanging for low-lying fruit Falling from grace at the pace you’ve mistaken for mine Way back I rode a fresh horse into this town Back then we were all alive Way back I pushed a dead horse into this town Back then she felt just fine (I’ll need to be more hollow To fill the space with the shit I’ll swallow In this town) I hate this place Disdain for every face In this town
8.
IIn 10:33
As the silence parts your lips I drown in the sound Of subsonic sacrament as it wraps around crude love I’ll need to come halfway And share in the shame Before its Dust For Us I want vicious I want teeth sinking in so deep I want sting only forsaken love can bring me And break me Out Shoulder my weight quasar queen (can’t ever make it up to you) Satiate all passivity (won’t ever make it up to you) Disintegration is so unforgiving We would last the whole night Just to die at sunrise Die at sunrise We would last the whole night Just to die at sunrise Just to die at sunrise Slip the wicks from the cannons Before it comes to Dust For Us Protect what’s left The sense of infinity The will to break holds Forever suffocating me

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Keeping the Black Dog at Bay is the debut full-length album from Salt Lake City's Dustbloom. It was self-produced, and self-engineered at Red Light Recording in Salt Lake City.

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released July 8, 2014

Vocals / Guitar - Ian Cooperstein
Guitar - Christopher Peterson
Bass - Chris Jensen
Drums - Cameron Jorgensen

Produced and Engineered by Dustbloom
Mastered by Brian Dale

All music written by I.Cooperstein, C.Jorgensen, C.Jensen, and C.Peterson
All lyrics written by I.Cooperstein

All rights reserved. Dustbloom. 2014

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Dustbloom was founded in 2011 in Salt Lake City

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