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The Empty Moon Story

by Empty Moon

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1.
It’s over dead sober walking through the walls you have her calls and they’re locked in the vaults hear them echo through the halls falling back who has sharper claws well that’s the problem started at the bottom starving in the rain now you’re carved out couldn’t get your car out remember the motel name behind the blinds they all feel the same you saw the sun once burn in your loved ones shattering belief so you burned down the lighthouse down where you hide out chattering your teeth hear the ships crash through the reef but the vikings they still stormed the beach now their ghosts loom down in the blue room designs painted on the caves I saw a shark fin she saw a dragon with lines painted on his face with vines wrapped around his waist said where have you been down where the caves end waiting in the grass slipped out of the basement of shed snake skin blankets fearing that the past is not the path you can’t tell us apart out at twin hearts the moon and the tide then the island said it’s time to blend the colors of your eyes how gently they collide the sea and the mountain side the viking princess she’s finally mine you made things hard for her you took her father and threw him in a Florida swamp you took a part of her should’ve left his heart for her to do what she wants Sedona Arizona there’s a circling hawk
2.
Red 34 04:00
Ben said Louise sends her apologies last time I saw them they were passed out on my couch I wish he knew it didn’t bother me guess it’s too late for that now Ben he has been a mystery since two thousand and twelve Louise believes she’s gotta take care of things like Ben’s precious needs and Ben agrees but he doesn’t know how the darkness grows when you’re lost and lonely Louise said Ben he doesn’t speak for me last time I saw you you were passed out on the floor you didn’t care about anything I don’t care about that anymore and Louise with ease shows her hands are free it’s her locket that’s full of rain she said we’ve had so many lovers but never each other so we are not to blame but all the same we didn’t know how the distance grows so soft and slowly and I will be here waiting if you ever need to talk see our friends waving from the ends of the docks I hear a crying baby held in the arms of a clock tightening or unwinding the tangled knots Louise I hope you get everything you want I’m just waiting for the shock to wear off but inside I know we’re changing Louise said it’s time to bet it all in a crowded room surrounding a cloudy crystal ball she said isn’t it amazing thirty-four hits when you think you’re stuck Ben he’s not so bad he’s just bad luck yeah I know but I don’t know how to hold on and let go Louise would you please show me
3.
Grown Ups 03:17
You want a heart of gold guess that’s the goal and a shield of glass to hide your scattered thoughts and that’s a shattered way to talk to someone you love now you’ve got to pick them up with your bare hands get cut so deep that you let go and the face of the wave looks like someone you used to know well here we go here we go again playing that game where no one wins when’d you get so good at it you just never quit no you never stop doesn’t it make you sick when you see that you can’t see what they want and you’d think at least you would turn the sirens off but you don’t and you don’t know me at all play that game where no one calls it’s always someone else’s fault trying to build an army out of salt well pick your poison it’s the same results or we could be full grown adults and realize that we’re all losing our minds and a life online is not being alive and there’s a life inside so watch what you say and even when this all ends it may never go away and wherever you’re from man it just another place as the wave gets closer you don’t recognize the face anymore then you’re washed up on the shore wondering what did I do that for wondering what did we do this for
4.
Nice plot for revenge my friend but now it’s all you ever talk about the problem with the poisoned pen is getting venom from the serpent’s mouth the problem with letting them in is one day getting them out how was I to know that making new friends ends the day you turn thirty-three put my future in the palm readers hand but she won’t tell me what she really sees see my future through a polished lens while yelling hey wait for me but baby can’t you see it’s already here in a trance the witches dance drunk on chardonnay they gave each other a second chance for the second time today and the one with the olive branch said be careful what you say how were we to know that making new best friends begins when you turn thirty-six and I heard that what’s her face she’s up to her old tricks now she’s calling said the sky is falling down like a ton of bricks well maybe it is but remember you wanted this and now it’s here they’ll come crawling back to you and you can turn them away the freezing winds they’ll swallow you out were the waves don’t break down where the shadows shake nice plot for revenge my friend but now it’s all you ever think about
5.
500 Friends 03:15
Well I’ve been meaning to call you back but my phone’s almost dead and these years go fast and I can’t write fast enough to capture the past just because you call doesn’t mean you care on your balcony in your underwear wishing you had someone to share your last cigarette but your next door neighbor talks about himself like there’s nothing else for you to talk about and he can’t read the signs that you’re bored out of your mind and your new roommate she’s a basket case always showing up with a twisted face she used to be fine now all she ever does is cry and your dating app is filled with sociopaths one of them fell through the cracks you dated three months now you don’t even know why but that won’t ever happen again and your mom she just doesn’t understand her advice has always been to run and hide so you got a tattoo of a tidal wave now you’re back at the bars playing guess my age and your friends your age are playing guess how much I make yeah they’re both pretty boring games and when you’re guessing wrong I guess it’s all the same a voice in your head says how much can you take well I thought you knew I thought you knew sometimes I sleep in till 6AM and we laugh together as the shadows swim and the noise machine makes the sound of the ocean we’re hoping that the world doesn’t end drinking coffee with saint Brendan’s and my love for them is calm and endless so I got a tattoo of a coral snake trying to not make the same mistakes can’t help but think would you recognize me now why would you go back after you just escaped now real is real and fake is fake feel nothing as deactivate my account now I know how it can end no one really has five hundred friends and watching her grown up like that just doesn’t count I love her more then I love myself come visit next year and we’ll figure it out stay up all night and talk about something else oh I thought you knew oh I thought you knew
6.
French Leave 03:28
Let’s look inside our open minds it’s counting down but we still got time he’s counting them out he said they’re going fast but it won’t last if you just take half I already took mine when you went to find another shot glass I don’t feel good I don’t feel bad just want to crawl up in your lap just need a place where I can rest my head and think of sex instead of thinking of death there’s ten seconds left she said no more bets we’re holding hands like a breath you look like you’ve just seen a ghost it turns out it was just another cloud of smoke where’d everybody from the party go they’re in the bedroom playing hearts on coke I think we’re taking off tell them thanks a lot tell them that I don’t know what they want tell them I don’t know what they want get up to go but we’re already gone we already know that it was pointless take the slow way home drifting through the fog in a city full of nerds tourist and homeless we could French leave and no one would notice
7.
You’re fading fast even for you everyone feels trapped when they don’t know what to do said we were born to die said we were born to lose just because you decided that doesn’t make it true every girls a muse but they want something too and they would be in love if they weren’t so confused you found a great escape or maybe she found you and she can take the pain away of the selfish blues now they’re gone like they were never even there waited so long you thought no one could care now they do I’m getting faded fast should try and take it slow can’t take it back from the places no one goes I found a great escape or maybe she found me she said that it’s never too late to see everything
8.
Family Names 03:51
Did you ask me just so you could tell me what you think thought ships were sailing now we’re watching them sink and I promise I don’t want to fight lets just be honest the rest of the night honestly I want to know everything about the ring all the drinks and one night stands and all your shattered dreams because history isn’t a burden to me the Ottoman Empire or my family tree in a dream it is me raking up the leaves off of secrets buried so deep we’ll never see I’m in the living room listening to Leonard Cohen you’re in the bedroom yelling and crying on the phone and I promise baby we’ll be alright I kiss your belly I kiss the tears from your eyes take your hand and we slow dance to The Partisan surrounded by memories of everywhere we’ve been and I love you with all of my heart not even the desert could tear us apart isn’t it strange how much we’ve changed or how a place can stay the same an empty soundstage to raise kids with family names I don’t want to be controlling and I don’t want to be controlled and I don’t know where it goes from here but I’m not afraid and I don’t know where it goes from here but I can’t wait
9.
Call You Out 02:43
Right then I should’ve called you out instead I tried to calm her down in the vacuum there is no sound regardless what you call me now then she took me by surprise she told me that you have never even tried there’s still time to change your mind and we’ll ignore all of the warning signs come see the city where we’re sleep deprived can you keep your promise bet you I keep mine then she took me by the hand she told me that you will never understand you ever think that maybe it too late your eyes are always on the fire escape tearing up just to tear away any smile that my cross her face but wait you really think this isn’t true skip rocks off your reflection as if it isn’t you
10.
Remember that apartment that you had down the sidewalks of shattered glass through the paths of piles of trash past the syringes and empty masks you said that you weren’t afraid to walk used car alarms to to wake you up and airplanes to get you back you still wonder about the stains on the subway tracks no one wanted you there why didn’t you care darling you’re not going away you’re not going away no matter what your parents say no you’re not going away I saw you at beach down by the bay you had just swallowed the key to the safe you were trying to buy a map for the maze you were waiting for an earthquake to grab you by the shoulders and shake saying one of these days babe one of these days well one of these days babe one of these days one of these days babe one of these days and I won’t forget you’re there and I won’t forget you’re scared aren’t you but it’s not going away no it’s not going away no matter what your parents say no it’s not going away now you slowly watch your hair turn grey down at the lake watching the fireworks display constellations in the shape of a face sunflowers in a silver vase but the stars won’t bring you luck this time because they think that you gave up are they right
11.
Good Bones 03:28
I think they’ve got us surrounded said put your money where your mouth is they threw it all in the fountains and made a wish for you inside a frozen palace that trickle down trick I got it in one bedroom apartments where all your dreams come true well don’t wait up my love I think they’ve got us surrounded the debt generation drowning think it’s time to skip town kid and it’s a cruel cruel world inside haunted houses they’re going up by the thousands good bones yeah I doubt it and it’s a cruel cruel joke don’t wake me up my love I think they’ve got us surrounded

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Empty Moon is the familiar voice of Brendan Hangauer (Fourth Of July), a KC kid back home after 5 years in Oakland.
Continuing and deepening the lyrical candor from his boozy college years fronting Lawrence’s Fourth Of July and the westward drift and
disillusionment of his self-titled Empty Moon debut, “The Empty Moon Story” is one turtelenecked man’s attempt to see it and tell it straight
while the world around him goes off the deep end. Recorded in Los Angeles by Jason Quever (Papercuts) and featuring Jason on guitar,
bass and keys and Brian "Bronco" Costello on drums. Mastered by Carl Saff. #indierock #songwriter #turtleneckrock #emptymoon

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released July 26, 2019

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