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Curran Park Fever

by Sullivan Fall

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1.
Heavy Down 03:35
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HEAVY DOWN by Sullivan Fall There's no way to get around it When no arms can reach around this Hope to starve through tomorrow Breaking promises today Growing too used to this silence Try to smile not to mind it Harder not to realize it Long-forgotten how it feels to fit Or even had the wanting to But what's a boy to do Always in the way but out of view Solitary in a salt trance Broken, running from the slow dance In the bleachers there's a small chance But that's too far to crawl Just to hear the only word First thought overheard When worse is all that could be coming now Somehow Heavy down, like the sound of a life Never perfected and threw it away Heavy down, easily found but hard to leave Born with something in the way Heavy down, even worse than none at all Repeating tomorrow as today There's a reason for this hiding Making up for all the lying Just admit this isn't trying So it's falling into full again Meant to be the easy say But there's no one else to blame For letting all it was turn into this Heavy down, like the sound of a life Never perfected and threw it away Heavy down, easily found but hard to leave Born with something in the way Heavy down, even worse than none at all Repeating tomorrow as today There's no way to get around it (heavy down) When no arms could reach around this (heavy down).
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Swim In A Shirt 03:49
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SWIM IN A SHIRT by Sullivan Fall There's no place to hide at the water slide Just try to stay out of the sun Or didn't we learn from last year's burn The peeling lasts longer than fun There's a fool at the side of the pool But the laugh that he gets doesn't last When new sights arise between shoulders and thighs Attentions are turning so fast Sooner or later they'll ask you In pity, politeness, or fear To join in the fun of the summer Or say why you came and still here It's a long walk down from the North Hill But it's longer to take it alone The eighteenth street bridge isn't kind to the kids Who are too young to come down on their own There are some things that sunscreen won't cover When the chlorine comes out of the their eyes Just keep on a shirt when you're swimming And they won't see past your disguise There's no way to run on forever Every road underneath turns to dirt To get through the horror of summer Sometimes it's best to swim in a shirt Than it is to hurt.
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Retreat 02:15
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RETREAT by Sullivan Fall We were useless, we were young And something made us fall in love With hating all we saw for being there Shoelace tied and let it go We had to smile even though The prayer went on too long for us to care But where is anywhere? It's you and me and your best friend We walk the hall back up again I was waiting for you, you were waiting for them When is it our turn to run away? Waiting underneath the crush Of trying not to say too much Knowing there was nothing else to do Tried to hide it even though I'm the only one who seemed to show Sitting there beside you in the pew Just another day or two You and me and your best friend We walk the hall back up again I was waiting for you, you were waiting for them When is it our turn to run away? Is it better than you thought that it would be? Wishing it was him instead of me? It's you and me and your best friend We walk the hall back up again I was waiting for you, you were waiting for them When is it our turn to run away? When is it our turn to run away?
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Vee Shirt 03:08
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VEE SHIRT by Sullivan Fall Down in the corner of some pleasure palace Looking for the taste of a ginger Alice Begging for a sip from her poison chalice Or some Sunday school sin Playing parrot like the gay best friend In a sentimental film that will never end Only broken hearts ever need to mend And this one stays untried But why should it matter If it's now or then or never What's the point of pleasure for awhile It's not a heart at night that beats It's just a ghost who haunts these sheets Need a touch to feel it hurt Sits and stares and wears the old vee shirt Johnny shut-up in the loose-lipped crowd Looking at her just a little way too loud Too sure of all the worthlessness to act too proud To hope for more than hand But what is the difference To confess to this existence The last of youth's persistence getting on It's not a heart at night that beats It's just a ghost who haunts these sheets Need a touch to feel it hurt Sits and stares and wears the old vee shirt It's hard to believe it When you say that you don't need it Pretending you can't feel it anymore It's not a heart at night that beats It's just a ghost who haunts these sheets There's room for one in the cold, cold earth Buried in the ground in the old vee shirt Buried in the ground in the old vee shirt.
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It Doesn't Matter Now 03:52
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IT DOESN'T MATTER NOW by Sullivan Fall Old enough not to tell Acting dumb playing somebody else Only seconds before She slipped out and he lay on the floor Long enough to know and not be blamed Four-eyed boy by the fence Itching skin and not making much sense Girlish glimpses confuse Standing still in his prescription shoes Knowing that red rover won't be claimed Never could get in before the recess bell rang out But not so late to think it matters now She took hold of damp hands Set them right for an amateur dance Dragging awkward along How she suffered the length of a song What pity makes a pretty girl survive All lit up in the dark Swinging tires in a tree-hidden park Talking smart until caught In the silence of being forgot The aching evidence you're still alive And when the final straw is drawn, commitments are avowed It's too late then it doesn't matter how Who can say it doesn't matter now.
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In Love In Black 02:36
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IN LOVE IN BLACK by Sullivan Fall You look good in the dark A lovely, sickly pallor I cross my heart If you promise not to let in the sun This vicious town Only makes it harder To wear our frowns And carry these convictions of difference around But when we're together in this our great disgrace With our heresy, our misanthropy, And his and her pentagram necklace In love in black, every scratch comes back We're chained together, her and me It's just a curse that we don't regret Our miracle of misery Dumb sheep will stare They know no better But we don't care The slaughterhouse don't scare us no more Stuck at this bus stop with our purloined cigarettes Closer to heaven than we ever meant to get In love in black, every scratch comes back We're chained together, her and me It's just a curse we that don't regret Our miracle of misery In love in black, every scratch comes back We're chained together, her and me It's just a curse that we don't regret Our miracle of misery 'Cause chained together we're free.
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Let The First Fall Away 03:09
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LET THE FIRST FALL AWAY by Sullivan Fall It couldn't have been much worse But who says we have to remember the first It still took me all by surprise Though i've thought it out far too many times To know there's reason to hope For anything more than a reason to cope Forgive me this, the next will be okay And let's let the first fall away Don't leave the bed for a peak I've been there before and it's nothing to seek It won't really be a surprise When tomorrow comes and you realize That it could never be me Who is the one who gets to be This was my fault but i still hope you'll stay We'll be alright if we just let the first fall away I need you now and i've got no one else.
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Hard To Believe 02:46
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HARD TO BELIEVE by Sullivan Fall We went down to the water Caught the rain on our skin Stayed up late so long we didn't know That there was a new day to begin She said "maybe someday you'll see, Then it won't be so hard to believe" Took me down to the water Threw her heart in the sand She said "this is what you've done to me And i'll never understand How you sleep so uneasily There beside me and still won't believe" I was still till the dawn Knowing that all i could would be wrong I went down to the water Washed my face in the tide Let the current just carry away All that i had left to hide If you were still here to see The little left of me It's hard to believe.
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Light Rock Favorites 02:43
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LIGHT ROCK FAVORITES by Sullivan Fall Feel so dirty when you leave And i don't know how i ever fit these sleeves But ever since you limped away It's been the same nine songs they play And i don't recall liking one of them at all And i don't think that i can save it I'm all alone with the light rock favorites But this is how far i have gone I'm in the dark with the radio on It's been hours since you left Now i'm just waiting for my latest final breath But it's the same stupid last stand With nothing else across the band Still i'm starting not to mind things i've heard a hundred times And i don't think that i can save it I'm all alone with the light rock favorites But this is how far i have gone I'm in the dark with the radio on Now every time you come around I want to burn the whole place down And hope i'm never found And i don't think that i can save it, not this time I'm all alone with the light rock favorites But this is how far i have gone I'm in the dark with the radio on.
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Keys To The Summer 04:33
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KEYS TO THE SUMMER by Sullivan Fall Hanging 'round this town too long In search of something to squeeze But the bug spray they're dropping down Left nothing up in the trees Saved some money from a part-time job Pushing honey for the sugar mob Now i've got the keys to the summer You know that you're wonderful But kitten i can't stay So why stick around and get dumber still Waiting around until staying is the only way Leaving all my last goodbyes To those who showed me some care But keeping myself so shy It's mostly time to spare Now i'm getting out of here at last With my diploma and a tank of gas I've got the keys to the summer You know you're wonderful But kitten i can't stay So why stick around and get dumber still Waiting around until staying is the only way I'm not looking for a reason to run In fact i've got more than one And here comes the sun I've got the keys to the summer (Is it any wonder i'm gone?).
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All That Is Left No. 2 04:19
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ALL THAT IS LEFT NO. 2 by Sullivan Fall Should have known we'd never win Those Sunday morning girls would never share their skin Spring would save us just before we cut our throats Waiting for those girls to shed their winter coats We'd hide under the stairs Looking for what gravity could spare Spent the last days of our reign Driving 'round this town in search of something new in vain "'Nightlines' is on so could we let the Zeppelin rest?" One more sugar stop and then back to the nest To talk till it's too late And mock the ones who act like life's so great 'Cause we know love's a lie, only suckers even try We know better than to ask each other why Should've know it wouldn't last Those Sunday morning girls were bound to marry fast Spent the difference making nothing of myself Just a lambskin and some Shakespeare on the shelf Now when everyone's in town And the time is finally found We drink the bottles dry And watch the fire die All that's left behind Is all that's left of us All that's left of us.
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For No One Else 03:43
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FOR NO ONE ELSE by Sullivan Fall Here's how it rots in the sunshine lately Scratching fingers up and breaking our bones Always nothing to do here lately 'Cept smashing windows and kicking out stones Well, don't get caught with your hand in the shot 'Cause it'll only look like you're faking Don't push me back just to see me react When everything that was is breaking So why did you have to go and leave me here alone With no one but myself? Why did you have to leave? I'm learning how to breathe For no one else Open up to a punch-drunk morning Leave your sorry on the answer machine Days late to be called a warning Soon enough to be a little mean So have your fun but the time will come When there will be nobody left to hold you But i'll be here, shaking with fear Of everything outside my bedroom Why did you have to go and leave me here alone With no one but myself? Why did you have to leave? I'm learning how to breathe For no one else And if you find that after all this time That you can't even make it through December I'll be there if you still care Waiting for you to remember Why did you ever go and leave me here alone Where everything's not much? When you make it home, you won't be alone I'll be there to pick you up And no one else but you.

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The seventh album by Sullivan Fall.

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released January 1, 2011

Made by Sullivan Fall, January 2011.

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Sullivan Fall Calgary, Alberta

Sullivan Fall makes awkward rocking pop. His tenth and most recent album is entitled ADMIT THE ABSENCE FITS.

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