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Neotenic EP

by Radio Wire Empire

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1.
Sneezes 03:56
Sometimes I look at her and I can see our lives once we’ve grown older; but there are never faces. Our wrinkled, peach pit cheeks hide from my imagination. We’re shrouded in different clothes, surrounded by heavier furniture and tinier versions of our own silhouettes. We’ve sprouted into something close to our intentions, but somehow better—more organic; and I don’t see people that will die like fought back sneezes— painful muffled thunder, seeds buried too late (or not at all). We are not our parents, drowning adults without friends, broken by comfortable careers; we’ve people to escape with so when we return home we’re happy to pass silently into the bedroom and whisper goodnight to a better friend.
2.
clutching my hand across the river of thoughts only I've thought of you stare to me beyond the flickers of a screen that hardly knows and though I told you three times before the arms that form this bridge stay burned for today
3.
White Lies 03:49
love is just a passing phase that we'll never know again, anyway a white lie whisper in the wind, the game was always over but we never quit climbing ropes and scraping knees, that blood from your lips is stained on me from making out on the swings, underdogs and dying trees, with sand in our shoes and frozen rain, hiding from life in simple ways it gets harder to do every day, we can't run from the world for long but we can run from eachother, never say another word as long as we live or we can give it another shot, i'll meet you at the park love is just a passing phase that we'll never know again, anyway a white lie whisper in the wind, the game was always over but we never quit
4.
Arnica 04:12
paint the past with ivory lick eachother blindly shove your tongue down my throat and make me forget i'm alive bandage the wounds with spittle split you down the middle I'll work my hands inside and make you forget you're alive tug away the pressures kiss away the problems deracinate (all) my length and make me forget i'm alive lift your waist, arch your back gasp for breath, i'll make you forget everything but me i'll make you ache and squirm break your sweat and burn everything inside your head all you gotta do is lie back and let me do the rest on windowsills and bathroom floors living rooms and sandy shores we'll forget about everything and everyone, everywhere lift your waist, arch your back gasp for breath, i'll make you forget everything but me everything but me everything and everyone is nothing and nobody we don't need our minds we've got our hips and that's all i need to make us fine
5.
Potsy 05:30
there aren't any notes left to sing that ain't been sung before and my head says: "all the clever words you've said to her you have said before to a different girl" words we can't fit, empty spaces, filled with embrace, this kiss is for you breaths I breath in, gasps of truth held, but no longer, this breath is only for you no more broken notes, left to die and wither in the wind we aren't them, we are us we are love, we are love and all the clever words I've said to her are all brand new, and I'm never going back this is our time words we can't fit, empty spaces, filled with embrace, this kiss is for you breaths I breath in, gasps of truth held, but no longer, this breath is only for you I could cut the tension with my teeth, if you please: the intentions on my tongue could speak between your knees

about

a collection of songs about being way too old to be hanging around the playground
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compared to the 6 months of work on Color & Colour,
just barely 2 months was spent on this thing. Setting painfully short deadlines for myself seems to work pretty well, I think.

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released September 27, 2011

KREDITZ:
Robert Annis - verse lyrics on Sneezes/ spoken word on Potsy
Cody Bond - photography for album art

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Radio Wire Empire Michigan

"Radio Wire Empire. Sort of like Passion Pit meets a band that can write more than one good song." - EatThisCity.com

"What do you get when folk music gets drunk, and inadvertently confuses Shoegazey Ambient Electronica for it's normal fuck buddy, rock music, booty calls SAE at two in the morning, forgets to wear a condom, and gets SAE pregnant?
You get Radio Wire Empire." - Tramps Upstairs
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