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The Shifts

by The Shifts

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1.
freedom you want freedom you ask for it she never talked she only cried for it i took you with me just for that day and in that fast car fading hard she’d fade away you never talked you only cried for it i took that want and wantonly you’d die for it i took you with me every single day and in that fast car fading hard you’d fade away cause i think you’re more of the girl then you know i will change all of the world i know you but you know what i mean in spite of all of our bitter animosities you never talked you would just cry for it i took that fall and i’d die you’d die for it i took you with me every single day and in that fast car fading hard we’d fade away cause i think you’re more of the girl then you know i will change all of the world i know you but you know what i mean in spite of all of our bitter animosities freedom you want freedom you ask for it she never talked she only cried for it i took you with me just for that day and in that fast car fading hard she’d fade away
2.
Spring 04:56
and you say love is in a lifetime never really far away and you do everything is in the air and everything is falling apart in the spring and you just go... but to speak the truth, speak the truth you’re not there, you’re not there, you’re not there but to speak the truth that you will see, you will sing, they will scream you’re not there and you say i love the way you look in the rain still do but don’t you love it all when it just falls apart as you say it you just go... but to speak the truth, speak the truth you’re not there, you’re not there, you’re not there but to speak the truth that you will see, you will sing, they will scream you’re not there and you say lovers in the love time never really fly away and you do, don’t you love it when it all just falls apart and you just go... but to speak the truth, speak the truth you’re not there, you’re not there, you’re not there but to speak the truth that you will see, you will sing, they will scream you’re not there
3.
Half Life 05:47
fall into the past now everything seems to dry and everything so empty i've never seemed to know, but she wonders why oh she wonders why i saw you climbing heights "i'm dreaming of that bitch now, she always had it right" said the misogynistic masseuse he always had a wife and she never died oh she never died i saw you in my life it was the match of a century and then she fell into the half life it was pretty much all i'd seen and then she'd discovered her strife she took that fall oh she took that fall i saw you climbing walls would you take it away? fall into that time now everything seems alright and though you're just so far away i never seem to know but you wonder why oh she wonders why i've seen you in my life would you take it away? it was the match of a century and then she fell into the half life it was pretty much all i'd seen and then she'd discovered her strife she took that fall oh she took that fall i saw you climbing walls would you take it away?
4.
Time We Take 04:15
time we take is time we need can’t we all just try and free all ourselves from all our pain and i could never find the pain of the lost and of the criminally insane and can’t you see them or could it be that everyone depresses me time we take we never heed and i could never be to you when you're gone and it is all i’ve ever knew concede to what what you knew i’ve been pretty awfully awfully down on my knees for you and i’ve been down on my knees for you bent and broke and pleasing but you’ll never be free i’ll never be free and i admit that i had not a clue and god you really hurt me but you’ll never be free i’ll never be free and i admit it’s what when you’re right on cue i’ve been pretty awful awfully down on my knees for you right? and i could never find the whim just to take that bitter end time we take we never need and i could never try to pretend when you’re gone and all i see is a suspended reality of everything i ever wanted and cared for or knew
5.
Drunk//TV 02:45
it’s kind of funny that i won’t wake up i missed the bus and i can’t break out of here and yeah i know i’ve done the math and i can’t call her i can’t call cath and i know, you know boo-hoo my blues are gone ‘cause they never caught me ceramic tiles and ambient yelling and now i’m tilling this farm you know the one your pets went to a long time ago so take this as au revoir i’m so sick of singing love songs that i threw everyone’s wedding and it was in that place that you don’t know where the girls dance fast and the boys so slow and everyone else bides their time but things could be so much worse when misanthropic hedonists own the earth nihilists they own my hearse and you only pay me dirt or worse so at least i hope at least you like this song
6.
Grizzle 04:39
and there's songs about twine and there’s songs about the mayas and there’s songs about you and she's crying in the rain she's living with the pain and she's so excited candy help me through the sickness kill him right now while she’s happy dance now on the cloud of torment a five day getaway from all the bad days and we were jumping to conclusions swimming with the sharks knowing what was holy after stories in the dark but that's life as we took it life as it stands singing in the choir holding our own hands killer pursue the unholy and bow down to that shrine of envy now candy can you get me some more money so the fat cat can look so much more unhappy and we were jumping to conclusions swimming with the sharks knowing what was holy after stories in the dark but that's life as we took it life as it stands singing in the choir holding our own hands and there's songs about twine and there’s songs about the mayas and there’s songs about you
7.
In Heaven 02:12
in heaven everything is fine in heaven in heaven everything is fine you've got your good things and i've got mine in heaven everything is mine in heaven in heaven everything is you've got your good things and i've got mine in heaven everything is fine in heaven in heaven everything is mine you've got your good things and i've got mine
8.
sleeping trucks at night darling don’t forget the light you saved everything is empty and insecure but in the evening of the halftime what could have been that first time i’ve never felt so sure i’ve never felt it started as flowers as innocent as flowers how could i get this far how could i get this far but it’s the things for which i worry they only make me scurry i’ve never felt so sure so insecure but in the moment you have found in the moment you have found your last obsession sleeping trucks in the daytime i’m here so let’s make time i’m falling into you don’t have a choice or clue of your thoughts encased in bubbles wrapped in leaves from muddy puddles i can’t find our stage please rearrange it started as roses as violent sensed as roses prick the skin i’m bleeding thin drip down to make an end to all the things we’ll never do here i’ll go and make a new year i’ve never been so strange i’ve never been but in the moment you have found in the moment you have found your last obsession sleeping through all tomorrow bleating calves in my marrow set the scene and please contain thoughts so keenly pre-arranged of when you left for college crying mist in the fall and burning fields smell of sage cut the cord and drain it started as violets as ethereal as violets licking stamps in malaise jules’ letters that didn’t save that dear boy from his damned fate drops of lust of his one mate he can’t see her thighs out of romance in the moment you have found in the moment you have found your last obsession
9.
Knowing Me 03:59
and in time i'll forgot your name forgot the prize and it is all the same as being knowingly well knowingly untrue i would lie to you and you say to forget the things forget the ties they were mearly tired and i was knowingly knowingly in blue but i had time for you knowing me, knowing me i know that you were blind knowing me, knowing me i’ll take you in time i'll take burns you'll take words and you know that is fine knowing me knowing me this greenness will turn white and the time collapsed in your face eyes like a spade and you were distantly graced while i was knowingly i was knowingly like you but i had time for two and you say to forget the room forget the tires they were simply tired while i was knowingly i was knowingly in blue but i would die for you knowing me, knowing me i know that you were blind knowing me, knowing me i’ll take you in time i'll take burns you'll take words and you know that is fine knowing me knowing me this greenness will turn white and in time i'll forgot your name forgot the prize and it is all the same as being knowingly well knowingly untrue those are lies to you
10.
Hey Candle 01:25
hey candle we can’t be anyone especially not you (it’s what you want to do) we scream like we know but then you hit the floor you’re crawling out the door (we owe it all to you) so please candle give the kids a pantomime and sleep the evening dry (it’s really the least you can do)
11.
Strange Daze 06:33
you say you got nobody that’s a strange daze and you know it’s what i really want you found me so put me out and now and just ground me and take me to where i really want would you stay when i’m washed out on a bad day and you know it’s what i really want it’s really hard to be on that ship with that pinot gris it’s kind of strange but i won’t let you in well i know you play, but you’re gone and on the bad way and you know it’s what i never want so look for everyone has their back door whore and you know you’re everything that i’m not and it’s really hard to be on that ship with that pinot gris it’s kind of strange but i won’t let you in well i know would you stay when i’m stuck in that strange day you go to where i really want so take me yet i have been so unbroken and you know it’s what i really want it’s really hard to be on that ship with that pinot gris it’s kind of strange but i won’t let you in well i know
12.
and all the wasted hours they still remind me of you and all of the wasted ideas they still come back to you now in her eyes they’ll never be too blue for oh she lies and i’ll never stand up to you (just you) now all the miles the iron would drip on you and all the while sand pours out to you and all the prophets lied and the stars don’t align for you for we all died building houses made for two (just you)

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The Shifts are...
Macks Johanesen (guitar/vocals/electric sitar)
Jeff Kretsinger (bass)
Eli Tocchini (drums/monotone chanting)
Maci DeBlanc (keys/backup vocals)

All songs and lyrics written by Macks Johanesen and arranged by The Shifts. Except for In Heaven (track 7). We didn't write that, Peter Ivers and David Lynch did. But we think it's cool, so we wanted to put it on here anyways.

Thank you to our music guru, Thaddeus Moore, for recording our album at Sprout City Studios and mastering it through Liquid Mastering.

The album artwork was done by Annie Parham

Thank you to our fans, friends, and families. And a special thanks to Ryan Tocchini, Psyrup, Saffron, Face for Radio, Vegetarian Cats, Campvs, Corvallis DIY, Ten Mile, Julia Henry, The Boreal, Saxon Wood, Skyeler Williams, Joshua Isaac Finch, Kyle Allen, Matt Barnhart, Jordan Nicholsen, Oregon State MUPC, Sarah Sutton, KVBR, Jack Gariepy and all other past members of The Shifts, Alicia and Ashley for staying at that show until 2am even though we ended up not playing, and everyone else that has supported us throughout the years.

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released August 10, 2016

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