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Polycardiac

by The Patient Zeros

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Pseud0bread Fantastically bluesy rock tunes from some local boys. Why some of the B-sides didn't make it is beyond me, but I'm glad I picked up both of these albums. Favorite track: Rattle.
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1.
Rattle 04:51
depress me, undress me, i confess that you're going about it wrong just let me impress these words serve to imagine the truth from ashes to urn, the spark and the burn were inspired by the victimized host who thinks its a joke he'll wait for his turn at the mic while he learns disconcerting accounts of his quotes and the heartbroken kid's heart is breaking so full of love i have a habit of taking too much polycardiac in the making i've navigated the hand that we're shaking in the midwest this glove of a state has knuckles and nails and an audience too easy to exaggerate too easy to write into the play, but they way they came is this way and the heartbroken kid's heart is breaking so full of love i have a habit of taking too much polycardiac in the making one, four, five if the blues are alive then i'll commit to abuse them again one, four, five if the blues aren't mine then i could take it from the hand of a friend the muse will accuse me of writing confusing cartoons instead of women and instead of men and depending on if you count in fingers or fists i've bruised in twos or in tens and the heartbroken kid's heart is breaking so full up i have a habit of taking so much polycardiac in the making can you feel another heartbeat?
2.
you oughta see now, it was hopeless to grieve lay down your fees and the american scream in your head a smile to yourself is worth more than a smile to me i heard you laugh a little too loud to believe if you could unload the gun you'd still stare it down just to be sure here's some advice, stop taking advice lay down your prescriptions, lay down your caffiene lay them next to me, i mean if you don't like the view, i'll put you up a mirror and you can see there's no safety in truth there's no real win or lose and you don't have to worry if your wallet has a bruise if you could unload the gun you'd still stare it down just to be sure and still you'd try and vacate every chamber what would you do? the city's in stacks so you gotta stand tall to be seen at all you're not someone you could smile to like you once supposed if you don't have a joke then i better hear you laughing cause we're three verses deep and your eyes are still closed if you could unload the gun you'd still stare it down even if your smile could support your crown and still you'd try and vacate every chamber and still you'd try and vacate every chamber what would you do?
3.
Cardiectomy 03:24
i can see you arguing with a ghost shaking up your fist again shake up from your toes you know you're so much like your brother you put one thought in front the other and stutter so if we die a little all the time what are you dying for today? you have got your michigan and your name yeah you've got your name i'm dying with a girl i know so cliche she's alive enough for both of us so we'll be ok if i don't bring home the money she don't care, guess she's funny like that i love her so cj are you listening? you feel no pain you don't give a single thing to the game yeah you feel no pain from across the country you can't see that i'm almost buried standing up on glass feet if you can't hear me singing through the ice if you don't see the evidential fight and if you still think i don't sacrifice then i guess we'll perform a cardiectomy you can have my heart
4.
Grouch 04:00
you've got a lifetime to hat yourself when you realize your mistake and you realize you've realized just a moment too late like a boy who's murdered his first bird there wasn't a word in his ear to stop him from shooting the gun but now that he's done he'll lay off the trigger just as his regret's begun sometimes it takes a tear to let me know you're still here and what i said can't be undone hearts don't forgive dead friendships wish to be unlived like losing minds wish for themselves to be won its the truth for somebody its the truth for someone so before you're done, and although you're near, i hope that i can remember all this was said in a tear so while i'm tearing myself up and heaving both fists on the floor don't let me forget that its me the moment's for so who's heart's torn owes mine the pleasures of being weathered and worn and if it wasn't for fun don't ever again put my hand on the gun in the wake of that moment you can trust yourself to truly see both directions where regret's born and where your mind will be and before you own up, the bird is left to bleed alone and stuck in a moment you'd both do anything to leave and you know what you did the bird wants to sing but because of you, kid she can't get enough wind under her wings you're left with a life to regret what you did she don't even get time to clean the blood off her chin
5.
5bullet 03:12
if i'm as close to my next dose as my last and still i taste the fruit of which my fingers hold the cast then the bomb's diffused my hands are used to doing everything i ask and i'll be saved by the chamber thats in debt when i demand the gun in a game of 5bullet roulette in my dreams i have been found i will not listen to you now can you explain why some always remain? the umbilical cord is untouched and is unpained the gallows holding aging fruit are bound and fated to be stained we just wait as we ferment to stone there's no seed there to be found eat past the skin and to the bone in my dreams i have been found i will not listen to you now if i can mate where my feet pressure the land my body's fertile ground if i can remain where i stand you plant the seed and then my greed is satisfied by my own hand and i'll depend upon the vine that i'm attached the wind won't undo skin without first giving me a scratch in my dreams i have been found i will not listen to you now i will not listen to you now
6.
Scarecrow 02:40
i admit i am the lucky one to leave a place and take with me just the best we've waited so long if her perfume is knotted then she's who pulls the strings she showed me the angels i couldn't see the wings god has left the garden to the breeze and in his place is a scarecrow oh my lord, how the trees have bloomed here she showed me the apple the gardner grew alone if i've been standing naked i think i'd rather know i'd do the same for you i'd do the same for you if you'll break my heart in two half for me and half for you
7.
Hum 02:46
i heard a hum it came from the crooked branches it was branches born it was branches died who can tell a hum from a sigh? if you can hear me sing can't i? to a polycardiac on the vine we're animals and we ate each other don't look so surprised we were bound to take a bite of a polycardiac on the vine i heard a hum it came from the crooked branches it was born to breathe and it died a sigh polycardiac on the vine polycardiac on the vine
8.
Rusted 03:00
my heart pumps caffeine my heart pumps merlot i know i can't survive on only bread and water alone is my revolution over? has it even yet begun? i know that i can't clean my fingers on the trigger of a gun i sing and i shake, and i bruise my fingers rusted, spit red, as i face the clock i saved our heartbreak, it could have been a double feature thanks a lot but if i gather what i've got you'd probably take a little and you might take a lot but if i'm singing in earshot then its free unless its not you're the decay to my rot, don't think that i could have forgotten i sing and i shake, and i bruise my fingers rusted, spit red, as i face the clock i saved our heartbreak, it could have been a double feature if i read from my own book, maybe you'd believe the preacher if you say that you love me you might even start to believe and with a heart full of carbon you could say that you mean it i mean if you've seen it love, i mean, then mean it
9.
Peel 04:45
i was born a fingerprint, this is how i came the devil and god made me a man, gave me a way you can take my body dead, but you can't have my name i was born with empty hands that fed the state born an only hearted man, just another face reduce me to a number then, but you won't get my name a heartbeat eats a human being, its just another day no one's equal till they die the same the devil and god both made the man, but i made the name dig the garden full of holes, and seed your graves take your time to getting old, your golden years are safe god can keep the time he stole, but i'll keep my name someone grew the apple tree from which you ate you blame johnny appleseed, you blame the snake the only one you can't defend is your own name sell me sick when i am well, make me play if god intended something else, he didn't say i don't owe heaven or hell for my own name well take my health, my house, and land, take away my faith i'll dig a hole so i can turn inside my grave you can mark the stone above with a set of dates and with my name
10.
The Hive 05:06
i said i'd be around but it'll be a while if i keep hitting every red light in town if i'm circling the hive its cause the beaten streets are where i know that i've been if time can grow between the leaves then i'll do my best to save a peel or two for eve i'm supposed to find another hive but any heaven would decay waiting for her to arrive slow down but don't stop i can't wait around on time i haven't got i can see when the sun goes down that there's a light i'm supposed to follow out of town my mouth is dry, and my hands are wet i'm only twenty-two, i'm not really used to all this beauty yet slow down but don't stop i can't wait around on time i haven't got if you would say that i can't go i would stay right here i would stay right now, right now slow down but don't stop i can't wait around on time i haven't got slow down but don't stop slow down but don't stop slow down but don't stop slow down
11.
The Epilogue 01:51
every falling leaf reveals that the apples are real so if you have a gun to start, then aim for the heart you can keep the broken parts they're in need of some repair unless you want it with the others, then you'll have a broken pair

about

if i could have written this book backwards, then you could start from the end
the epilogue written in the voice of a friend
a hum you could hear if you weren't too old to pretend
or too young to fear
my ribs moan

the sun is above us now that we've let the earth bend
so we work harder to bloom and faster to mend
but when you're feeling the eyes of those who will lend you a stare
remember when the sun is below you
you've got your feet in the air

i got into this without knowing what to intend
what fight i'm prepared to defend
but when i'm reaching, i feel
that the apples are real
and every falling leaf reveals one definite end
so my ribs moan

credits

released April 17, 2013

Recorded largely at Elm Street Recording with Ryan Wert, largely by The Rat in Lansing, somewhat at Module Overload Studios with Jamie Hillyer, but mostly in the dark by ourselves at The Alamo. The Patient Zeros are CJ Kjolhede and Joe Schramm. Additional musicians: Jason Marr, Pinetop Deadfish, Eric Robins, Shane Ellis, Kelsey Turek, Jill Griffin, Brittany Ashley, Caleb Knight.

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