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Border Route EP

by Steven Chambre

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1.
So warm and tired Dry spells mutter in my sleep Dunes on dunes Like the open Life could last forever Dream-bound underground bathed in golden lights can't even tell if it's working so comes the day as comes tommorow so say the wise men in stories
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Mense Pece 04:12
Over the mountainside where the old men butcher sheep the wind cracks like a radio, the roads grow desperate dry and weak winding around the hills the train beckons the sky it carries troubled beings who seek strange things to mend their ills Morals running low on morphine mountains turned to numbers propped upon a billboard he’s numbed or maybe tired tapping at his window with fingers like pine needles a thousand spinning magnets calling towards the ocean And high above the rock in the emptiness of day we sat above the clouds above the foggy rain and Coral never said from where the others came the hovered high like flies from hungry lights so red and grey Mense Pece makes me peaceful it makes me so so peaceful it fills me like its plastic it keeps me white and sterile and should your eyes start filming than split the lens with paper it’s one way through tomorrow, another to your wallet And we’ll go sit down by the freeway the traffic howls just down below they will descend from high up the mountains and then far off we shall go Over the mountainside where the old men butcher sheep the wind cracks like a radio, the roads grow desperate dry and weak winding around the hills the train blackens the sky it carries troubled beings who seek strange things to spread their ills
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On the River 04:44
What will we do today As the others pale away on a boat within the float there's a joke beneath the bay The builder builds away To ease another day When life's light ropes string a dope, a dope can't run away What was that they tell us Whatever takes us higher Whichever way the wind blows It doesn't really matter For all the world's not gold The children by the river bring us food and bring us laughter tomorrow they forget us they don't remember after We keep our eyes so clear so cold and insincere bring our love into the river deeper and deeper The water comes and folds us Keeps us sharp and light Keeps our fears in silence and anger in the night but oh The fog is grey --Vocal Interlude-- And so the bay draws near My friend I hold you dear Raise the sails to fortune's flail and calm beneath the wind And so we shall be right Again and again In the port, we raise our mugs to the sound of missing friends The last thing we shall see The river's calm and breeze like life beneath a coma and death between your knees We sail again and again and again
4.
Petting Zoo 02:14
Come in closer pose for pictures you know you can't free him from this genocide but you can look into his eyes and take that stare back home and post it on your wall Come on children Grandma's waiting With the servant who lights our candle's bright who sleeps in slums at night who complains about his job but at least we gave him one Can't you see our glorious heights Which strangle all horizons just say the word/ to calm the heard and waste all of their time Come on babe I know you love me You know that we can get away from here go to Paris or Trier come on fuck your job I'll get you a new one Can't you see our glorious heights which strangle all horizons just say the word to calm the heard and waste all of their time
5.
Generation 00:56
I am the future Cold and unblinking I do not eat Do not sleep I play all my cards at once I conquer the inevitable assigned to my reality there is no failure, only change I do not walk I hover I play only realistically and in the comfort of my own home I work out three times a day one hour each I am always connected to the internet I like networking it makes me feel less alone I am the culture of the new world I am all encompassing I am man, machine and god in a light affordable package.
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Whale Song 03:01
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Raise, your helpless eyes towards me before we speak of sunrise near the sunrise alien Oppose, you deem you're at your dusk but the sun is merely rising and you're staring towards the west People are babies staring upon their reflections to war and all that I see is evolving Our dreams have all changed by the end (No one will expect what we are gonna feed the world) And move towards a game saved for strangers Cutting the cards neath the shrouded surreal
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Hold my arms out weary eyed to the stars, to those few that I trust my hands tied with iron archives of byzantine pondering The sun is tired of America's idol who stretches in sighs to no end Yet mountains of dust gather for trains towards tomorrow And now the day that nary a soul can spare a word to enlighten me comes crashing to my feet Ascension's Glorious Wound Till childe nations carry off sweet residue from the demagogue sit silently in your arms Ascension's Glorious Wound Traveler's of paradise seek maps screaming to no avail they look toward the west but know its a dream left forgotten Dissident's from Paris fly to Shanghai to hide their loose ends but in good time they'll find that no one is saved for tomorrow And now the trade winds shred the skin of smokescreen nationalities which lie in honeyed words Ascensions Glorious Wound Till childe nations carry off sweet residue of the demagogue sit silently in your arms Ascension's Glorious Wound Oh wherever we go Lost in the snow A soldier knows another, another time Another, Another Time Oh he knows Yes he knows Oh wherever we go Lost in the snow A soldier knows another, another time Another, Another Time The city sleeps under a sapphire as convicts hang from such a lonely noose and from the eyes of little wanderers Fall and settle on this ancient crux And through the eyes of long dead kings come sweeping waves of born realities shaping dreams from just a node of dust far from any cut under the cloth Somehow we have restrained ourselves We could be mad but were not You know, we'll find out soon enough ah ah ah Somewhere by yourself Don't give heed for the sun is holy matter ah ah ah

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Take a road trip through the weird world with the Border Route EP; a collection of songs ranging from organ dirges and alien folk to dry road rock. Blessed with arcane and imaginative lyrics, Border Route tackles a world at its precipice.

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released September 17, 2013

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All lyrics and music written by Steven Chambre, with bass lines by Jeff Ritsert and Steven Chambre

Steven Chambre- Vocals, Guitars, Keyboard, Organ and Percussion

Jeff Ritsert- Bass Guitar

Sam Clark-Mchale- Cello on "Eulogy for a Century"

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