Debut album THE STORY SO FAR + TEARS/TASTE single in one $5 bundle. Comes in shrinkwrapped black jewel case. Artwork by Heather Velon.
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lyrics
Oh no… tell me where to go. I’ve broken the surface, I’ve surfaced the plateau. But no… I said I don’t even remember the signs, the losses, the lessons, the fame… I guess undressed, they all feel just the same. And I guess no rest can make you feel this way. So just go away, no work at three. I ain’t got no work today, because my wallets growing thin or rather just shrinking in size. To try and battle all these interests, and balance them in rhyme? Well all these me’s I have to represent must just be taking their time. But I know what must change in these wrinkled lines.
Well there’s some stars hung from my cieling that glow in the dark at night, and sometimes I see all that’s left of me reflecting in their decent light. Cause there was a man beside a radio and he wants to know my name, but I know my plea and it’s clarity… but to them it’s all the same. And there’s another with a flashlight, and Spike thinks he knows it all. But there’s a loophole in that authority, because pride they say comes before the fall. And I’ve been living a life of excess, and I’ve been flirting with my mortality. Oh I’ve had some nights, I’ve been read my rights, hiding teeth and shaking knees.
But I know that I must change in my crippled mind. Oh, my soul telling tales untold… so I shut my eyes. I pick my baggage up - oh god! It weighs a ton, because I just can’t accept that I’m really no one.
So now I’m wading in the water and drowning in shallow seas, because I’m desperate for the godhead… but I’m pouting so handsomely. So I escape into my mindframe, and the view is so serene… but there’s a knock on a barred window, and I snap back to reality. And my father is there in an instant, eyes are singing songs of woe as I await my fate by letterbomb. A failure’s all you’ve come to know. So I’ve started reading How-To books, to learn how to do some things because somewhere along this ride, I swallowed my pride but now I’m just choking.
Cause I know that I can’t change, and I wonder why. My sister is finally home, mother starts to cry and she tells me that she still loves me, and I reply the same. Because I tried to get over myself, wound up under this shame.
And so who can save the righteous? And who can say I’m wrong? And who’s to say what we do today keeps it all rolling along? So if all of us are players, and all the world a stage, then let’s take five cause I feel just fine… no, I don’t want to turn that page just yet. So maybe my efforts are futile, or maybe I’m just not at my prime, but I know in honest conscience no one will remember this line - so what was it for?
MARCHING BANANA represents a loose coalition of artists based between Atlanta & Athens, Ga. with a tendency to meld outsider pop with a modernized DIY home-recording ethic.
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