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The American Dream Is Dead

by Giants at Large

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1.
My thoughts are racing at a manic pace Adjacent, I'm on automatic My whole body isn't syncing The urgency inside my bones Ache for somewhere else to go Impatient shaking under my skin Auto pilot Progress stagnant This can't be it The American dream Is dead Exhausted We lost it In my head The American dream is dead A haunted headstock won't go away A whisper that's become a habit Getting louder than my thinking So I'll sit and play the lottery Until I've run out of time and money And I feel that point inching toward my back Is it time to wake these anxious eyes From fiction fed back in 95' But I've got a few more minutes And a handful of dimes The American dream is dead
2.
Summer 02:44
Hey there summer What exactly are you trying to do You've got me thinking Maybe I don't need to think this through No we don't Need a hand to hold tonight No we don't We don't care if we're wrong or right Hey there brother Have you heard that looks can really kill The views the same Except the feelings missing from the thrill If we're right
3.
Dead Letter 03:22
We'll spend the night in frames We felt so clever An expected guest Keep it together And oh the rooms spinning It's all just beginning The whole rooms spinning Don't play the fool Yeah the whole rooms spinning It's all just beginning The whole rooms spinning So play it cool We we're young We we're kids Didn't know what we did Couldn't run Couldn't hide Couldn't open our eyes I hope you know That we all turned out A-OK I hope you know I think about it everyday So go and write me off Cause I should know better Come on just leave me here I'm just a dead letter I hope you know That we all turned out A-OK I hope you know I think about it everyday And I know that we're tired But we didn't burn out On the things that you think We we're never about I hope you know That we all turned out A-OK
4.
As I look out To the sea of traffic lights It all slows down As I am hypnotized I've been stuck here The ground's consumed my feet I'm a statue On the busiest of streets Wait it out Wait it out oh So as I face the world One day at a time I'll be taking back What is really mine And I've been holding on For all this time But I need to see a sign As I lay here With my back against the ground I'm a marquee In a backwards nowhere town It's a routine That I just can't seem to break It's a fever That I just can't seem to shake Sweat it out Sweat it out oh The in-between An awkward place to be standing still I've got my feet You've got the shoes I know I can fill I'm not invited But I swear I'm coming anyway The party crasher Coming faster at you everyday Wait it out Let it out Sweat it out Let it out
5.
Stay far away from those boys outside They sing the words that the devil writes Yeah they're all out there dancing Like machines And they're constantly gambling Making a scene With the neighbors complaining What can I say to make you see Won't you take my hand And waste your life with me Let go the free throw aint being caught They should have listened to what they're taught So waste your life with me
6.
Suckers 02:36
Suckers We're all buying it Suckers We're all giving in As the stolen sound waves Start to swim Come on anchor down baby You diving in? Search the vacant signs For deeper meaning Cracked in the design The colors fleeting Back to quiet gray And everything will fade away Suckers We're all marching in Suckers It's so genuine Suck in your prey And entertain Critically acclaimed And we're all to blame
7.
Cambridge 03:17
And I made a wish on an airplane Cambridge, how we've stayed the same Stayed the same Still such an unsolved mystery You could be whoever I want you to be (Violent waves) The currents drifting me away (Drift me away) With violent waves Tonight the Atlantic sings And I saw your face through a white filtered frame Pleasant, but it seemed so strange Seemed so strange And I saw your face Through a white filtered frame It took me away To better days Took me away To better days
8.
Disconnect 02:41
So cold It's all just getting so old It's so repeated and dull Half the time Sorry It seemed so good from the start But now we're falling apart And I don't have a clue as to why Disconnected under my skin Let this go it's far too gone Quiet Don't bother saying a word Communications absurd All the time Sorry It seemed so good from the start But now we're falling apart And it's all coming back to me why Can't keep feeling this way
9.
Sympathy 03:30
Know what you're thinking I can see through your stare I'm not amusing Don't bother clearing the air I'll just keep my head down until we pass No I don't like it Another night in your debt How can I fight it? I might as well just forget But I'll get you next round when I get the chance No I don't want your sympathy But I know it's something that I need A symphony might feel so golden Another case for charity Appreciate it But It kills me inside Got shallow pockets Although I know you don't mind But I night in town is just too much to ask What are we doing tomorrow? What are we all doing today? Are we on time that we've borrowed? Have we over welcomed our stay? No I got no one to follow I just take it all day to day Although it comes in staccato I know that we'll all be okay
10.
Hope ignites a spark within Making it a very dangerous way to live Hanging on by just a thread But we're singing again And I wanted to be everything you need And I wanted to be every song you sing But even if I've fallen far too short A thousand times or more You know I'll be there wandering Just like I have been And always was before When i'm home what shall I do Lie await in bed another year or two Making moves without a plan But we're singing again Don't lose sleep over me And I wanted to be everything you need And I wanted to be every song you sing Be the last words that I sing Know I tried my best to give you everything If we fall short in the end We'll be singing again

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The American Dream Is Dead was recorded by Gary Cioffi at Maximum Sound Studios in Danvers MA during October 2013.

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released March 3, 2015

All songs written by Giants At Large
Production, tracking, and mixing by Gary Cioffi at Maximum Sound Studios
Mastering by Michael Fossenkemper at Turtle Tone Studios
Artwork by Laura Murray and Bob Wulff

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