It’s not me that you see. An apparition of faith and senses. Displaced and disintegrated. Set alight and eviscerated. Bookmarked for an ending with no beginning.
But it’s not quite subtle enough. A nagging recollection. A silhouette still lingering in the sway. Shadows and whispers. Evading the censors. Ghosts of a time and place.
Will they be remembered in the morning or forgotten as another sleepless night? Are they erased for conscience or for comfort? Pages torn from the annals in one’s mind.
credits
from Self Titled,
released October 27, 2015
Music: New Ruin, Lyrics: K. Aguilar.
i'm no good so i'll let everyone else do the talking abt how great this album is bc i have more important things to talk abt like that it was recorded in my hometown!! i was walkin around a stupid little ten-year-old and they were in the stu makin this album less than a mile from my house!! what!!!!! Elizabeth
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