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EP1

by Absolute Melt

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The worrying words of the truth The realisation of lost youth A mind in overdrive while something slowly this way comes That’s impossible to outrun The face keeps changing shape Days as dull as stomach pain Lungs in love with acid rain Not much left to gain, but plenty of diminishing returns An unlit match begs to be burned but from the other end Paranoid delusions never fade Those apologies I sent ten years too late Weren’t necessary in the first place I sincerely hope you’ve enjoyed the control Now pray to God to save your soul When you know fine well that Heaven swallows whole It’s been a life-long dream of mine To shorten mine by quite some time Sometimes live to outlive suits me just fine But when all I see’s existential decay And all meaning gets stripped away Fuck it, I tend to side with the Absurd these days.
2.
I want to know how you’re doing, but I’m afraid to ask Let a tyrant break your arm then be the first to sign the cast A past full of small talk, a future full of less As sick a joke as teeth, the roots destroyed from underneath Now we’re all stuck dealing with the side effects of waking up I’m trying to love anyone If I could find an altered state that fit I’m pretty sure I’d disappoint you in a heartbeat Overwhelmed by having a heartbeat A summer of silence, encouraged to speak Vent to a close friend, feel awful for weeks All this anger I feel, I swear it’s not mine The landscape I see will become yours in time How can you love anything.
3.
The narrative shifts every morning when I wake up It’s not as linear as it seemed Now it's written front to back in a new shade of black But the end’s still the same, the one where you hide behind a closed door And where nobody calls this number anymore, but you’ve got a direct line to the “love” that I’m trying to leave behind Where does your shame live now? Oh Destroyer, I’ve got things to tell you But they’re things that you’ll refuse to hear Oh Creator, save the worst for later Derail each and every train of thought you fear Keep yourself from remembering those years Where does your shame live now? Feels like it’s still inside my head.
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A tidy room, a well-made bed Dream of someone else's teenage years instead Of sweating in a fucking hovel and listening to The oscillating sound of hearing loss Worrying about how much another year awake will cost It’s all just damage control at this point Trying not to let it dilute the life that I want Almost a stranger to doctors and nurses Then the devil got outside Split the whole world open wide But hey, let the boy run wild After all, he’s an only child With every room in here that this fire swallows The hope of the smoke clearing quickly follows I'm running out of time down on the floor And you keep moving all the doors Maybe if I just don’t stop laughing Then I’ll have the last one.

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Thanks a lot to everyone that got in on the pre-order for raising £607 for Scottish Women's Aid, who do a lot of great and important work for women, children and young people in Scotland experiencing domestic abuse (womensaid.scot).

Fraser - all of the things apart from the mastering.

Mastered and pressed to lathe cut vinyl by Matt Martin at Pressure Mastering: pressuremastering.com

Cover art "designed" by Fraser using an app for kids. Made less awful by Scott Brassneck using software for adults. Vinyl back cover and labels designed by Scott Brassneck using software for adults.

Massive thanks to Matt and Scott for all of their help with this!

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released December 10, 2022

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