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Surrender Human

by Surrender Human

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1.
Boxcar Reel 02:06
It's just a bar it's just about Time to call it a falling out The sound the sound is selling me out And it's all mine But in a boxcar real Where we never have a good time In a boxcar real We can make it on our own time The sound downtown is selling me out And the rough spots never get ironed out Till you kick the clown out to the curb Then it's alright But in a boxcar real Where we never have a good time In a boxcar real Can be happy on our own time In a boxcar real In a boxcar real In a boxcar real
2.
Let You Down 02:39
Who left the stereo on Who kept the curtains drawn ‘Til the flowers died and the money was gone See nothing funny about leaving details out When you’re telling your story And I don’t want to see it through to the end Let me know when it’s time for goodbye I don’t want to let you down I know what’s inside inside So you go all in on a dying genre Where beautiful boys turn into regular men And you won’t back down No compromise No big surprise When you all end up short back and sides And I don’t want to see it through to the end Let me know when it’s time for goodbye I don’t want to let you down But I know what’s inside inside Who left it laying around Who let the label down Who forgot how to try when the money was gone See nothing funny about leaving details out When you’re telling your story And I don’t want to see it through to the end Let me know when it’s time for goodbye I don’t want to let you down But I know what’s inside inside I don’t want to let you down I don’t want to let you down Let you down I don’t want to let you down Let you down I don’t want to let you down
3.
Candy Jones 03:45
4.
On the Rack 03:25
On the rack with the wind at my back It’s the same way each day forever And I don’t know why In the grave with the money we saved For a slow day, we'll stay together Can you remember why? The rage, the stage The children and the strays Dumb enough to wanna know Old enough to let it go Please proceed, take whatever you need Snuggle up under a stone In the ground and all alone Zelda can you help me break up the band Get a straight job we'll stop pretending The long and lonely lie We can run but we’ll never be done Getting beat down by the big town together And would I could I’d fly But we remain pretty pictures in a frame I’ll never tell nobody No baby not even me Art and song Pretending we belong Dumb enough to never know Old enough to let it go I can’t demand you take me by the hand Tell me it’ll be alright That you’ve got a plan I can’t remember what I am Old enough to let it go Dumb enough to wanna go back On the rack with the wind at my back it’s same way each day forever On the rack with the wind at my back it’s the same line each time
5.
Sitting in a four star room in the new new south Seven days straight without a word coming out of my mouth What goes on on the other side of the world I remember a girl Close your eyes Compromised You're nothing at all You're dancing at the Ritz I’m suspended over the Zambezi Singing a song I wrote called you're not gonna get off that easy Nights are long on the other side of the world I remember a girl Cauterized Resupplied With nothing at all Don't look at the people you meet on your way down You don't think of me till syncope has you on the ground Bolting out of the blues I'm Waiting for you now What if I'm never going Going back again I’ll say a prayer and pretend That I could be a SIM card You could be a satellite With a pocketful of copper bullets and no way to say goodnight Something's wrong on the other side of the world I remember a girl I remember a girl I remember a girl
6.
Hantuchova 03:03
TV on and nothing’s shaking Paint is drying teeth are breaking And it was coming down hard in Queens And they cut away And then it was over Look what's lighting Lighting up the cable and satellite Don’t say no way Don’t say no way She’s got a light I was 21 and I was done And I’m sorry now Moving on So you take yours And I’ll take Hantuchova There’s so many ways this could go Keep the laws of gravity And death and decay Away from this one for a day There’s so many ways this could go Keep the laws of gravity And death and decay Away from this one for a day Don’t say no way Don’t say no way Don’t say no way Don’t say no way No don’t say no way Don’t say no way Don’t say no way Don’t say no way Keep the laws of gravity And death and decay Away from this one for a day
7.
Change your mind I’ll be with you every time you turn away And live to fight another day Save it up and tell you after Stay divine It’ll save you every time you lose your way And live to fight another day The lies that hide behind the laughter Any time you wanna go Is fine with me cause now I know Stay awake Stay away from men who take you on for free Recall the other part is me Alone I can’t sustain the laughter And when I yell When I damn you straight to hell why can’t you see That the other part is me The one no one wants to look after Any time you wanna go Is fine with me cause now I know They installed an aftermarket heart So I could feel something
8.
She’s not talking the girl’s not talking today She’s not talking the girl’s not talking to me She’s looking out the window and laughing at the greenery But she’s not talking the girl’s not talking to me The rock star poses the rhymes and the roses aren’t working today Gotta get back to my stocking and let her keep walking away If you can stand up she’ll race you to the end of the world The sound she’s hearing the one I’ve been fearing it’s on Maybe I was waiting on a song Maybe I was sleeping through the summer Maybe I was wanting to die young I just don’t remember now Maybe I was climbing up the walls Storming out and waiting to blow over Now the night has just begun and she’s all gone The drop dead daughter she wants it in the water you’re done Just say something tell me I’m the only one And when she dances she knows her demands will be met A mind on a platter I’m sorry but a promise was made Maybe I was wandering too long Maybe I was creeping on some number Maybe I was wanting to die young I just don’t remember now Maybe I was climbing up the walls Storming out and waiting to blow over Another night has just begun and she’s all gone She’s not talking the girl’s not talking today She’s not talking the girl’s not talking to me Sneaking out the window to see what she can get into At least she’s not talking the girl’s not talking to you
9.
When did you try it on Playing the prodigal son And when are you going home to your life Lying there thinking of everything in a timeline Running away from me to 1993 You come along And you forget It’s our life No the car isn’t mine That’s a story for another time We’ll drive till we see a sign for Saturday No more waiting to arrive Just happy we’re still alive And don’t gotta shuck and jive for anyone So come along come along And you forget It’s our life You can do it with anyone In the car or the street or the lawn Plug it in or strap it on Just don’t say you’re gonna be gone Gone in the morning Let’s say I found the keys Stuck way up in the trees Why don’t you get in please It’s fine It’s our life And you forget It’s our life And you forget It’s our life And you forget It’s our life And you forget It’s our life
10.
There's a system I don't know it What's the question I'm gonna blow it But I don't want to dream of a motherland I don’t want to talk about the other hand I want a reprieve can you cover me I don't want to leave is there another way Could not take the lies In this broken enterprise You got a way with words Got away with everything In the substrate The water the waves move through But I don't want to dream of a motherland I don’t want to talk about the other hand I want a reprieve can you cover me I don't want to leave is there another way Maybe it’s time to go home Where it’s all been said before And we been hit by the same star Don’t want it anymore We’ve all been here before Same shit from the same store Don’t need it anymore I don’t know it There’s a system I don’t know it There's a system I don't know it There's a system I don't know it

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released March 20, 2020

Matt McMichaels: vox + gtr
Robert Sledge: bass + vox
Tony Stiglitz: drums + vox

Produced and Engineered by Robert Sledge
Additional Engineering by Dempsey Elks
Recorded at Dempsey's and Robert's and Trusty Woods
Mixed by John Plymale at Overdub Lane
Cover Art by Max McMichaels and Carrie Alter

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Surrender Human Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Surrender Human is a rock machine from Chapel Hill, NC.
Matt McMichaels (guitar)
Robert Sledge (bass)
Tony Stiglitz (drums)

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