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Halcyon & Surrounding Areas

by The Library is On Fire

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1.
Red Flags 02:18
caught in the fray when no path is safe stepping forward and a leap of faith only to jump to conclusions maybe its safe but its looking like red flags red flags, red flags The future’s so faint its just adding to the confusion red flags hey little snowflake what good will it do looking backwards? maybe its safe but its staking out red flags red flags
2.
You while away in a world so enraptured like no step is new, but hey I do it too. You hesitate at the blank wall beside you, never learned the time that it takes you. Nevermind the lives in the paintings push on through, you can do it too. Ooh, you can do it too. Miles away, a fly on the painting. And through the screen door a world of disaster. Seeing things, the white wall beside you, heart attack, the time that it takes you looking back to the lies in the painting, pushing through Its all because of you
3.
This is getting out of hand, I can see it rising up again yeah This is getting out of hand, you’re hanging like an ampersand And who will be the first to know, and who will be the last to show And this is getting out of control, this is getting out of control There is nothing wrong with me, I can see in varying degrees And please can I just have my keys, and please can I just have my keys And there is something wrong with me, I really just want just to leave Yeah, this is getting out of control, this is getting out of control You’re losing control kid and you can’t keep food down And what’s with all those drugs you just did man you’re talking upside down And you’ve got demons who possess you like a gunshot to the brain Just one crash and they all scatter like they got hit by a train I know they say to just snap out of it why can’t you be ok In a world that doesn’t owe you shit you have to find a way to make it pay This is getting out of hand I can see it rising up again Yes this is getting out of hand I can see it coming up again Who will be the first to go and who will be the last to know And this is getting out of control this is getting out of control this is getting out of control this is getting out of control You’re losing control kid in a different part of town And what’s with all those things you just did that will run you to the ground You’re letting all these things control you and their looking for a fight If you throw stones the glass will shatter like some demons in the night I know they say to just snap out of it why can’t you be ok In a world that doesn’t owe you shit you have to find a way to make it pay
4.
You woke up in a Metaphor in the Labyrinths of February stuck alone on aisle 4 couldn’t see you anymore glowing on my monitor You whispered through a megaphone from the Labyrinths of February singing of your broken hope as seen through a kaleidoscope With a silhouette like Terpsichore through the fabric of February I couldn’t find you anywhere no matter how hard I would stare but its all about the clothes you wear And maybe you’re just not aware and asleep in a different dream than me tossing through the empty sheets ready to admit defeat And I can’t let it come to that I’m walking the fairy tale streets closing all the broken doors cuz those were what the past was for And I hope that I find you before you cut down the forest for the trees and settle for a guarantee trade yourself for tragedy As snowflakes fall onto the floor in the Labyrinths of February still searching for you everywhere I know that we could be a pair so maybe you could meet me there
5.
1913 01:57
When you were with me, that harmony colored with voices of epiphany but that’s not to be, as you can see I’m stuck here alone in my fantasy and it might as well be 1913, Alfred Jarry, Maldoror on the beach and the sharks in the sea And isn’t it sad at the Marienbad I remember so clear just how it should be just you and me 1913 And so my dear, if you could hear blue guitar playing our rites to the spring, Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud, 1913, Paul Valery, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Miro, mise en scene 1913, Florida Keys, you’d sing beyond the genius of the sea And ain’t it so sad At the Marienbad I remember so clear just how it should be Just you and me 1913 And isn’t it sad At the marienbad I can’t remember so clear just how it should be Just you and me 1913
6.
Ice Friends 04:02
The elevator is stuck on 4 and we can’t keep these wolves from the door and since they left us, we’re stuck alone all of their faces have turned to stone ooh ooh If they came a-knocking, what’s it to me stuck on the side of this apogee can’t even help a friend in need And they don’t ever call this phone the weeds are getting overgrown our ice friends left us all alone abandoned in the catacombs ooh ooh A ghost could learn a thing or two from how they change your black to blue its easy though, to misconstrue But I can’t see through all this black my ice friends shot me in the back they couldn’t cut me any slack our ice friends never coming back ooh ooh
7.
Let It Die 03:00
Half moon rise reminds me of your smile The saddest of all goodbyes was what I saw in that smile And it threw me off, could not figure what the cause You had it once and for all, oh how you cut me off And let it die, and leave me asking I thought I was on your side how could you let it And cut it off at the coin of a toss How you just let it fall all at such great a cost How could you let it die, and leave me asking why We only have one light, so why can’t you be in mine How could you let it die and leave me asking I thought I was on your side, how could you let it How could you let it die and leave me asking I thought I was on your side, how could you let it
8.
I was hoping these blues would blast away I was hoping you might just come on down my way In a blizzard looking for a snowflake Couldn’t take apart a puzzle’s pieces so great And I could tell just by the tempest’s face I could tell that I had been replaced And I was wondering why you washed away And the heavy heart I woke up with today So I took a dive in Treasure Lake I was hoping that I might find a figure 8 And I will love you as you wash away I will love you as you wash away I will love you as you wash away I will love you as you wash away
9.
Hey there now snowflake, what’s with you? Been looking all over to miss you Been biding my time to finally meet you So I can finally say, ‘hey snowflake’ Ooh, hey snowflake Ooh, hey snowflake Ooh, hey snowflake Ooh, hey snowflake Hey there now snowflake, I can’t find you Hurry before I become see through and trapped in a daze of your invisible haze when all I want to say is Ooh, hey snowflake Ooh, hey snowflake Ooh, hey snowflake Ooh, hey snowflake
10.
Mad River 03:07
Mad river wash ashore Turn the clock back to the place it was before On another sunny morning Its so sad when it’s the now that you must ignore I can’t remember anymore I can’t recall just what your face looked like before I can’t remember anymore You were a dream The pain of your heart that was busting at the seams But I could not compete I always thought that you had something really neat But you could not take it anymore And I can’t recall just how you tuned your old guitar And you could not keep it anymore I can’t recall just what your face looked like before I can’t remember anymore I can’t recall just what your face looked like before I can’t remember anymore I can’t recall just what your face looked like before
11.
Where you’re from the purple sky was painted night and faded slowly into morning white the sun rose softly the miracle of everything the bower grass the birds would slowly start to sing when you were young your spirit was a wild wind wound up by the everything that’s nothing and you were loud unchained and unaffected from the crowd to which you were connected Swimming soundly through fishes out of water Soon you could tell the nothing that is everything And you reached hell before they even taught you it But love abounds it’s the energy you enter Eat and laugh said the shaman to his idols The world is full of happy surprises And when the night comes the nothing that is come to pass round the energy you enter the earth becomes lighter than a feather and you’re connected to the energy you enter And when the night comes it doesn’t all just go to black When the light comes you know that’s when you’re coming back And when the night comes it doesn’t all just go to black And when the light comes you know that’s when you’re coming back
12.
Stand by, stand by, the strangest dreams will await you, stand by and keep with the hope that I, that I, await the world that awakes you denied, you wake up alone Stand by, stand by awake the words that await you, they give you hope Goodbye, goodbye, to all the sadness beneath you, you won’t be alone I can hear you when you sleep out loud I will know you when you sleep out loud
13.
Halcyon Daze 02:31
Stuck in the slipstream for I don’t know how many astral weeks Lost at sea behind a cache of beautiful holograms But I can see Even stuck in my fortress of amplitude Your halcyon face on the mountaintop sing Ooh ooh And my dreams What are they but sinister galleries Armed to the teeth And filled with such desperate facsimiles? But I can see through the halcyon daze of my solitude Your beautiful amplifier eyes start to sing Ooh ooh

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Recorded and Mixed 2013-2014 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC

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released April 15, 2014

Recorded and mixed by The Library is On Fire on Cassette 4 track at The Library is On Fire Loft, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC

Pre-mastering by Todd Tobias at Waterloo Sound, Brecksville, Ohio

Mastered by Kevin Blackler at Blackler Mastering, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC

Cover photo by Brenda Bancroft

The Library is On Fire:
Steve Five - Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards, Electronics
Travis Tonn - Bass, Electronics
Cory Race - Drums & Percussion
Pete Sustarsic - Drums & Percussion

Johnny Coolati - shred guitars on the psych out ending of "Smoke Signals"

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