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Digital Tension

by Picture Atlantic

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Lexie Brown this album rocks hard core. i love the bass lines, symbol work, and the falsetto used in some of the tracks. the album artwork is humorous and i can really get into all of the songs. regina is my favorite track because of the beginning of the song and how catchy it is. this band is amazing! Favorite track: Regina.
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1.
Regina 02:03
Last Time, This is the last time I claim to be color blind I see Your skin as it should be. How naïve to be PC All these soft white kids Spend white privilege In the worst of racist stock. Oh Woah, Are Thee! Without hope! So easy to just scapegoat The neighbors we still don’t know. What then? You’ll say that you have black friends. Use them for self-defense Who among the white Is profiled upon sight? I’ll give you one small clue: None Post traumatic slave disorder: "We must now protect our borders Lest they upset cruel white order" Systemic racial pecking order Jim Crowe has kept his borders Hope crushed inside his mortar Please consider this, If you have white privilege, How will you proceed to spend?
2.
Silly Tie 03:00
Wearing this silly tie, trying not to seem like I care, but the truth is, I really do. Dark sunglasses inside. Everyone look at him, look at him, he’s so cool. Fall in love Fall in love with me again Oh yeah, we work so hard, oh yeah we work so hard Trying not to falter as we look so very sharp, So sharp Wearing this silly tie, trying not to seem like I’m here, but the truth is I really am. Sharp and dressed to the nines, trying not to give off the vibe I’m the world’s greatest fashion scam. Fall in love Fall in love with me again Oh yeah we work so hard, oh yeah we work so hard Trying not to falter as we look so very sharp, So sharp I’m going out again I’m going out again Let’s all go out again Wearing this silly tie, trying not to seem like I care but the truth is I really do.
3.
White Knight 05:36
I never said I was a white knight, but I never said I was proud of my black knight deeds. I never said I was a wise man, but I never said I wasn’t somewhere in between. I’m getting tired of complexity. I need a bit of simplicity, don’t you think? On and on, it carries on. Everyone has gone insane. I never said I was a white knight, but I never said I was proud of my black knight deeds. I never said I was a wise man, but I never said I wasn’t somewhere in between. This isn’t fishing for sympathy, I’d like a break. Can you humor me? Let me think. I need a bit of simplicity. I’m getting tired of going around and around again. On and on, it’s carries on and on Everyone has gone insane. I was wrong, I was wrong. It was you all along. I won’t fall into your game.
4.
And you sit with your money and your treasures in a row Saying “Please Mother! Please! Can we have a little more?” We were hardly trained to take those first steps out the door. So you fall for the panic as the news heads shout and blare Of an old Iron Curtain and a terrorism scare But just keep buying purses and democracy repairs. Clean living underneath the dollar's crush But still we will live outside our means. Who cares whose fingers pull the thread through clothe As long as we have designer jeans And the girls are so lonely 'cause they buy it even more That they’ll be satisfied with the lifestyles of a whore And the boys are cads and bounders cause’ they took their cues from porn And they must have a lover or they're never satisfied Oh they say they’ve found love, but they’ve only ever cried If this is being adults then the world’s told us a lie. How can you warm up when you’re hearts gone cold? Schlitz Gold, I’m told. How can you man up when you’re musket’s old? Massoud , I’m told. Corporate Agenda, with a fake trendsetter No way , I want I better Hipster Snob with a Faux-fur sweater So lame, I want better So lame, we need better And you sit with your money and your treasures in a row Saying “Please Mother! Please! Can we have a little more?” We were hardly trained to take those first steps out the door. So you fall for the panic as the news heads shout and blare Of an old Iron Curtain and a terrorism scare But just keep buying purses and democracy repairs. We were hardly trained to take those first steps out the door It’s like we’re pushing daisies right before we’re even born.
5.
5:50 Hurts 04:21
Oh wake up Fix a cup The next eight hours you’re a slave Content to be At The Normandy You find yourself there every week Hearing sounds where there’s nothing left to echo off of You tried so hard not to cry Cigarettes, become your best Chance to be at peace You look back, At how fate stacks, And ask yourself “Where’s my dream?” Hearing sounds where there’s nothing left to echo off of Oh I tried, so hard not to cry So you struggle and search for a purpose But none arrive Cause you spent all your youth in the dives You’re spineless, and broken, and closed off You’re 25 Oh you tried so hard not to cry We were the boldest youth whom none could overcome. Now you’re low, so low Oh, the party starts, you’re bouncing off the rails You’re so low So you sit, and you wait, and you’re lonely All day long And you ask yourself what went wrong. So you smoke, and you drink, like it helps you. You’re so unwrapped, To the point, you can’t see, when you’ve snapped.
6.
Twist 01:53
You believe all your rhetoric, and it makes me sick. Tried to play us at a game of thrones, but didn’t know you were playing alone. We all thought you were just naïve, with a mind like a sieve . Too easy to get rid of your stink, but good luck getting rid of the ink. More and more you are denied, and it makes you bitter! You’re the queen of playing fast and loose, Manipulating every simple truth. Where you can’t win, you just destroy! Who can do it better? You’re all the people that you say you’re not, I can’t believe I gave you anything at all You’re a Twist
7.
The theaters empty, the coats are gone, Just act happy, just play along. Your frantic worries, now complete. Don’t be shady, and don’t be cheap Don’t be cheap There is so much you still don’t get. Just leave our wreckage where it’s at. You’re still inside your made up world, You’re such a bitter, resentful girl You’re still a girl I want you out, I want you gone Tigerlily, like a weeping child It’s a simple game, choose soft or mild But know my choice will never be with you. I squandered hours thinking what to do, But it’s such a waste to stress over you, Cause you will never choose to be appeased Over me I want you out I want you gone Outrageous, You’re contagious. Quarantine me
8.
Oathbreaker 03:11
And if you ever find me here , It’s twenty years too soon And if you ever find me here I’m dead. And It’s the elephant in the room, that no one else can see From the roof down to the floors I’m dead You are the oathbreaker Your lies are thick and red with blood. I am the worry maker, Oh my eyes were thick and blind with mud And if you ever took the time, to stop your smear campaign You would see the flag is white this time. It’s funny what you say, can hit the grapevine hard, Yet you prefer the art of farce this time. You are the oathbreaker Your lies are thick and red with blood I am the worry maker Oh my eyes were thick and blind with mud I don’t wanna be cold again
9.
“Please Me!” That’s what I’m really saying when times I ask of you Cynic, I’m made a jaded critic by spastic hands and feet Cheap grace We sleep walk through this kingdom, we’ve ruined everything But you turn everything to wine You turn it to wine Rich men, They preach a shallow doctrine of foul prosperity Crusade, On marriage definitions, yet you rebuke the poor! Sadly, We turned our greatest elders into bland CEOs But you turn everything to wine You turn it to wine
10.
Did you get my letter? Was it soft, was it cruel, did I get the address right? I’d like to say I’m wiser, but thanks to my choice, I won’t get much practice in. I have it there so clearly In my head, in your bed, we would talk till our throats went dry The worst is when I drive north, Through the fog and the fields, And I pass by Edgewood Road. And I keep finding you But in another form. Just these cheaper clones, who pale in difference. You never come up, In conversation. No one knows your name, cause I erased you I chose wrong You cried so very softly, At the park, when I left, and I knew I’d ruined it all. So I built a wall To keep your far away I raised it out of lies, and cheap excuses I really shouldn’t care, but still somehow I do I found your plane ticket in, the book I lent you I chose wrong
11.
Melting 05:23
Somewhere, I am not a failure Gilded in red armor, I’ll prevail Slipping, feeling like my brains thin I used to be so brilliant, but now I’m dull Even though I’m melting, Even though I’m broken, God is good. And the hardest part, is lying to your friends You’re not lonely, no one’s lonely here And the hardest part, is lying to my friends, “I’m not lonely! I’m not lonely here!” And the hardest part… Traces, traces of my parents I’d like to do away with Is that cold? Sleep lost, I can’t shut my brain off My mind is floating millions of miles away Even though I’m melting, Even though I’m broken, God is good. And the hardest part, is lying to your friends You’re not lonely, no one’s lonely here And the hardest part, is lying to my friends, “I’m not lonely! I’m not lonely here!” And the hardest part…
12.
Meme 05:07
The vibe is darker here, everyone is jumping off the edge Into darker deeper holes, into another stranger's bed Everybody thinks their sex life is so neat and terse With never any second thoughts to why this really hurts Have you seen, What it is you’re building here? You’re so naïve Lord knows what keeps me here, everyone is drinking to excess I never knew a drunken fool, who ever drank his way to big success All these soirees only have us going in reverse Well you got older, but I’d hardly say that you’ve matured Have you seen, What it is you’re building here? You’re so naïve Social pressures built on fear You’re so naive

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released July 6, 2012

Mixing, Engineering, and Mastering by Aaron Hellam
Cover Artwork by M. Montoya

Additional Guitar on track 9 by Patrick Chu

Thank you to Vonny Kleveland for her support of the Kickstarter project which funded this album!

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Picture Atlantic is an alternative rock band with an explosive sound and an openhearted approach to songcraft.

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