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sky high

by Sleepy Gonzales

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1.
real loss 03:11
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real loss breathes understand him put em right back where you found him i open all my blinds knowing that it’s gay every time i think i’m on coke i started peaking in valet living in a fantasy of your hate in my song cause women are made so fine no sight could hold this fire no i let it put a hole in my heart no no no no no no no cause we only just got here started feeling the fire knowing i couldn’t put it out yeah we only just got here started picking a lock knowing i couldn’t crack it open fully appreciated what you were trying to do when you started screaming these beautiful things i… every time i think about it…i… well you blew me away you stupid bitch stop sneaking backstage stop your screaming cause we only just got here started the feeling the fire knowing that i couldn’t put out yeah we only just got here started freaking her out knowing i couldn’t pick it up fully appreciate fully appreciate fully appreciate every time i think about it my song my sound
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tsunami (live at the commodore) 04:53
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it started by a waterfall under rainy skies we tried to smoke a pack of hopes but they wouldn’t light ooo we swam along Vale a ton with our school clothes on izumi found a wedding ring made of solid gold we pretended it was ours we pretended it was our i wish that i could say that this is where it ends it was the first and final day that i remember being happy as a bird flying in the sky i’m high now mother just abandoned us before we woke and i’m only sure she’s gone for good cause she left a note and i still feel my skin in the place she kissed my sleeping head the only words i heard her whisper were “i did my best” anna thought it was a dream hanna thawed it was a dream but father’s in his chair & hasn’t moved for days just soak in every moment while the tv plays he’s dying in the living room but it’s ok i guess together everybody goes their separate ways hey izumi please take care of me izumi please take care of me can’t do it by myself i need somebody else
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adolescence 04:14
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somewhere in the distance i saw you standing barefoot by the bridge and the sand underneath my sneakers fell like an hourglass and suddenly, I’m under your command yeah suddenly i'm under your command command there’s no snakes under the temple there’s a wolf under my skin someone good standing beside you and you let them all vanish we built a little homestead where your picture hangs on walls inside my head and i imagine the fire that burns so bright it kept my baby warm warm but the body that i hold is always cold and the rest of both our lifetimes is unknown unknown you’re so cold
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death song 02:23
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i’ll lay my sorry self to you nobody else will do now lay my soul to waste just give me a moment now lay my sorry self to dust just like you want me to now i let my soul to rust just give me a moment before you give me away remember the last time before you give me away remember the last time cause i’ll lay my sorry self to you nobody else will do i lay my soul to waste just give me a moment cause i lay my sorry self to dust just like you want me to now i let my soul to rust just give me a moment before you give me away just give me a moment just give me a moment
5.
eliza (demo) 01:49
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if everything was up to me i’d choose to let it go if everything was up to me i’d choose to river flow if everything was up to me i’d choose to let it go if everything was up to me i’d choose to river flow
6.
acapulco 01:38
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Que chingada... Acapulco, Mexico... It's been a pretty good day. Bit of a rough start, but..uhhh Ready to blow my brains out -
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creepin' 02:33
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i dug your grave in a black hoodie and timbs and we danced around it like when we were little kids and you said true love feels just like a gurney-trip but i can feel you creepin from the corner of my eyes when i'm all by myself at home i can see you in the bushes outside in the darkness i know you're right behind me thought you were gone why won’t you die the man in the mirror he's just laughing at me and the telephone wire round my throat is definitely neither here nor there but i keep promising better times if you just gimme one more beeeeerrrrr i swear i'll get us outta here but i can feel you creepin from the corners of my eye when i'm all by myself at home i can feel you in the darkness behind i can't sleep, i can't eat, you just keep creepin' me i thought you were gone why won’t you die
8.
river styx pt. III 02:33
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maybe she’s out a tongue as beni is out a summer Hera loved Ae but she promised you love it is honestly never a sunny day had her screaming as long as i’ve got your eye as long as it gets me there as long as i’ve got new attention i could be somebody else in a second as long as i’ve got your Ai, Arms to contain your love i’ll make her toke it yeah
9.
farm 04:20
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cause i’m layin’ on the farm something about it something about June cause I found you like a feather in a place where heaven dropped it surrounded by the weather and the weight of summer solace all you wanted but until i can love you it’s all a dream i’m flying endless circles above you never crossing eventually break my own soul to say we could share another bowl i make we could watch until it rots instead it’s all we have sprawling wives and horizon rigs hella comments all you wanted exhausted, lost, anonymous and i’m high in the two skies in your blue eyes along for all the moments that await getting too blazed didn’t do wise and now lovers sending love out from the sea i can already feel the waves crush against me coming up to my shoulders coming up for air coming up to my shoulders coming up for air coming out Tim I love you coming up to there coming up today coming up tonight ooo eventually break my own heart in two pour another glass of wine for you i let you do this cause it makes you smile it’s awful sad sounds so bad but it’s not so hard laying on the farm laying on it laying on the farm something about it laying on the farm something about it waking up in the morning rolling er through the deaths waking up every morning rolling east to west waking up cause i love you waking up cause i love you waking up on air waking up cause i love you waking up every morning rolling it through the debts waking up in the morning rolling east to west waking up on air waking up on air waking up on air
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outro 01:28
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11.
sky high 05:55
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maybe she's out of time.. maybe she's had enough... maybe she's had it rough... maybe she wants your love... how could you say? there's no way to know hope that it's nearly terminal cause i'm already walking the spiral staircase blacking out down by the river i can just take my time i can just waste my entire day as long as i've got your eyes swallow your tokes every day... as long as you promise it gets me there how much does a body weigh out in the cold cold frozen rain? as long as it gets me high... ..was having a dream so fine sat in his trunk all night. how did you know that i want you atop it? how did you know that i wanted.. as long as it gets me somewhere.. promise i'm getting my fix there stone dead makeshift bridge and a throne there let's go nowhere we can be alone there we can go Saturday we can leave a kiss at the feet of the king and the queen of Nowhere has clover sewn every way every day piled up soon... baby would you look at her? sick of the motions.. stuck to this nightmare running for our lives from the psycho in the tomb yeah absolutely sweating cause i swore this wound's been glowing since i met you growing since i left you i';ve been gone since i left you always said i'd die sane but in the dark i change for you the way the weather does... the way that the weather does.. with clothes thrown every way every day piled up... yelling "everything's fucking sideways" "everything's going sideways" but as long as i've got your high i could just waste my entire life out in the cold cold stormy night... out in the morning.. promise i... (idk what i said at the end)

about

there are many weird circumstances related to this album. i will probably be able to intersperse them throughout the descriptions for the individual songs. what i will leave here is a list of all the different guitars I recorded this with, because they are all owned by people very close to me. I don't give a flying fuck about the make or model, it's how the guitar plays that I care about, and whoever owns the thing - a lot of a person's soul resides in their guitar - so here it is, a list of souls

1)My dad's fender strat, which he bought a long ass time ago from Cristian's old guitar teacher, Dave. shoutout superdave.

2) Zakaria Rook's acoustic. Farewell Zak (he is moving out at the end of the month).

3) My new guitar from Acapulco, shoutout mom&dad for the money, and shoutout to Colín my Mexican homie who escorted me into the barrios of Acapulco to make this dank purchase in a seedy neighbourhood which I would simply not have been able to navigate by myself for safety reasons.

4)Michelle's classical acoustic which was given to her by a family-friend

5) Ally on the thrifted piano in our living room, plus her older brother James' classical acoustic.

7) Nick's acoustic, played by Nick, shoutout Nick.

8) I think this is the only song I can't remember which guitar I used. The take was really spur-of-the-moment, which is why you can hear dishes clattering and general house noises in the background if you listen closely. If I had to guess, it was James' acoustic or Cristian's Taylor.

9)My own acoustic that I've had for over 10 years now. I thought I was gonna record the whole damn record with this thing, but you really never know.

11) Also my Acapulco acoustic. Shoutout Colín again.


I will also share that I recorded the final song just today, feb. 4, 2023. the rest were recorded in January, and the last few days leading up to the new year.

(Except Death Song, which was tracked on New Year's Eve 2021-'22 right before I went to my good friend's NYE party - a wonderful memory.)

The only thing I knew with any certainty was that this whole album had to be recorded in one winter. And holy shit, it took only a month. What a blur! I'm so glad for you all to be hearing it.

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released February 6, 2023

Beni Hobson-Dimas, Cristian Hobson-Dimas, Allyson Lowry, Nicholas Moniz, Rita, Julia Verea

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