FRIENDSHIP

by PHOX

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released 05 September 2012
Engineered by Ben Schaefer and PHOX
Music and Production by PHOX

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PHOX is from Baraboo, WI which is a place where kids often drink poisoned groundwater and become endowed mutants.The seven best friends who make up the ensemble happen to be blessed with madness, illusions of grandeur, and the inability to do the same thing twice. They also play music.
[Photo by Connie Ward.]
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Track Name: Shrinking Violets
If you wanna run
I will too
but if you wanna stay
we can try and dodge all the things
that try to get in our way


get out of our way

and they'll all say it's too soon
two shrinking violets at full bloom
hearts prolific in plain view
as lovely large as craters on our moon

on chamomile lavender days
I'll find peace under care
of your razor-sharp ribcage
your lifted ribcage

and we can promenade
all along the bay
O' neither ever afraid
O' neither ever afraid

and they'll all say it's too soon
two shrinking violets at full bloom
hearts prolific in plain view
as lovely large as craters on our moon
Track Name: Clubs and Spades
Now you can cry your time away
'cause all your words are too little too late
they're too late

Now you can cry your time away
'cause all your words are too little too late,
it's too late, it's too damn late

Throw your clubs and your spades
'til the hour's real late
but it's too hard to love you
when your heart I can't take

and you'd offer me a diamond
but my love, it's too late
it's too late
it's too damn late

your charms were all in jest
and I leapt, I confess
I'll be fine
I've taken deeper bullets to the chest

What you feared, you feared the the most
was not having me to boast
by your side, day and night
I'm taking off this time
and you'd offer me a diamond
but my love, it's too late
it's too late, it's too damn late.

your charms were all in jest
and I leapt, I confess
I'll be fine
I've taken deeper bullets to the chest

I'm gonna go far away
not to run, but to stay
far away, from your hands
and all of your half-hearted demands

and you'd offer me a fucking diamond
but my love, it's too late
it's too late
it's too damn late
Track Name: Evil
face deep, in between my best friend's knees
tellin' me that you don't want to hurt me
and I just can't believe that any word
fallin' of your plain lip isn't unclean

and I, I know that evil will find its own demise

and you're there, children crawling through your hair
tellin' me that you don't want to hurt me
and you can spew all the bad things that've happened to you
make this all feel more human, I see

and I, I know that evil will find its own demise

I am sorry that you aren't really lovely
I find peace when I know that evil will find its own demise
Track Name: Kingfisher
Weeding a million nightmares
I chanced one dream
it was in mint condition
in my sleep

Flying one kingfisher, as i was lost
a mind paints a lovely landscape at the cost
of lost actuality, or seeing what's real
or dodging the problematic way you feel

of lost actuality or seeing what's real,
or dodging the problematic way you feel

woke to an angry headache on your sabbath day
oh yes! dear, I finally reached you.
Oh no! what did I say?
taken for just a moment, true at first light
so brief in entirety, reverie is my goddamn right

Oh lost actuality or seeing what's real,
or dodging the problematic way you feel
I would have followed you to all you do
and everything idea that I created
I would have followed you to all you do
and every idea that I created.

I've had a million nightmares
I lost one dream
it was in mint condition
in my sleep.
Track Name: Nineteen Thirty-Six
Her blood is our blood too, I know
I feel all of it too, you know

1936 breathing
garnet her stone, ever gleaming
Edith's hope was for love but she doesn't hear of her grandchildren grieving, no
Eldest raised by Al Ringling, spirit granted from Sing Sing
All of her heart is for drugs and she doesn't care that everyone is leaving

Her blood is our blood too, I know
I feel all of it too, you know
Her blood is our blood too, I know
I feel all of it too, you know

Halfway in the hour, toward the mid of the night
we met our hands, despite our wicked fight
and we will sort our way around
this awful mess that all our genes have thrown around

Her blood is our blood too, I know
I feel all of it too, you know.
Track Name: Engine Runner
If you don't pay you'll be made to die
He will find you, spit some tar in your eye
I don't know what you were thinking
I don't know what we are breathing, oh no

If we don't pay we'll be made to die
He will find us spit some tar in our eyes

The sun's been waiting for the oceans demise
All our wants will be forced by the wayside

I don't know what we were thinking
I don't know what we are breathing, Oh no

what the hell were we all thinking
now we'll hurt when we are breathing, Oh no
Track Name: Laura
Oh girl, what are you doing there?
you're cutting off all your hair?
Oh girl, what did they do to you?
what did they take from you
that you can never get back?

Laura, Laura
You can grow up.

Oh girl, what would you die for?
No, what would you die for?
Oh girl, you're crying out in your room
wanting to shoot the moon
because you will never go far.

Laura, Laura
You can grow up.


You can try and hide away
from all the things that people say
that you need to be ok
but you'll just stay the same