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Narcissism Unto Loneliness EP

by John Jacob Magistery

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1.
Playing with some geometric signs to build my home I was walking and I roamed into a park and the breeze blew today so I packed my thin jacket and I passed by a statue of a man and buses came and went filled with people cars they honked their horns and I saw somebody and I shook his hand he was going to a movie later on but nothing nothing (repeated) nothing Nothing stole my heart Nothing stole my heart but it was okay it was okay then I thought about a coffee that I didn't want to drink and the girl on the bench lit a smoke then the car across the street drove off with all the money and the silence told another joke and then I washed my hands in the imaginary fountain where the cops and the junkies wash their clothes and I walked upon the river made of stars and metal poles and I thought about a girl I used to know nothing Nothing stole my heart Nothing sole my heart but it was okay It was oh it was okay it was oh it was okay it was okay
2.
shouting out the news today what I've made is what I've made pulsing in a bottom room waiting for the moon to change it's tune shouting on the buildings of concrete flesh that's all lit up an ending everywhere I turn another night another page to burn will I wind up will I wind up alone up alone picture myself getting sick then dying from the medicine while everybody stands around with something new to talk about will I wind up will I wind up alone up alone everything I ever wrote a love no one will ever know a bag of bones turns into smoke the greatest story ever told will I wind up will I wind up will I wind up alone up alone up alone up alone
3.
Key Of Good 04:34
I woke up from a dream the steam rose up from your bright face and I poured the boiling water in an empty bath then I find myself lying in the dark terrible silence and the most gentle kind of violence comes to let me know and I know that you don't know how to believe me but I I can feel it through my body all the time I hear the talk about me saying that I'm going crazy I don't know who really says it or how it's in my head but I read the morning paper and I talked a bit with my friends and we put things together that you don't understand and I know that you don't know how to believe me but I I can feel it through my body all the time the key is good but the lock's frozen the key is good but the lock's frozen (the key is good the lock's too cold) the key is good but the lock's frozen (the key is good but the lock's too co o o o old) the key is good but the lock's to co o o o old O oh I can feel it though my body all the time Oh Oh O oh I can feel it through my body all the time Oh Oh O oh I can feel it through my body all the time Oh Oh O oh I can feel it through my body all the time
4.
let me go out on the river let my body float over the rocks and fishes where no one goes let my hair out like sunshine when you touch my face like I'm a woman know that I am finally home off in another world where flesh and bone don't carry on and don't you leave yourself to save me if you can't save yourself and leave if you can't allow yourself to be there when you turn away from me let me go out on the river don't tell me that it's wet I've been silent for many years but there's not much that I don't get, get you're mystified by all your feelings so you call them different names and you make them into people small stories in a bigger game and in this game there ain't no winner there ain't no time but time's all you got there ain't no end just some progression where perfection's always the cost and you know what to say but you don't believe it know what to do but you don't know how no you don't know and the feeling don't move you but you won't move 'til you figure it out you stuck your hand out to the devil and you begged him to ease your pain so he said he'd keep you alright as long as you keep coming back again, again there ain't no mercy in your loving there's no forgiveness in your moving on there ain't no grace in all your patience your courage is just fear of not being strong thought you got wise when you just sunk deeper into a maze that you thought you solved thought you looked down on me from your balcony it was your reflection in the silver pond so when the words don't count for nothing and the years have changed this song just let me go down to the river the way I let you carry on cause I have taken all your troubles and I cleaned them in the waves and I keep you in my heart like a diamond in a cave like a diamond

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This EP was done on a very modest budget and was put together from top to bottom with the help of friends. Recorded live in one day with a band that had never played together before. Thanks to everybody who made this possible, and thanks to you for listening.

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released March 28, 2014

Cover photo taken by David Hughes
Concept by Johnny Griffin
Cover Design by Josh Budman

Band -
Johnny Griffin // vocals, acoustic guitar
Anthony Lombardi // drums
Michael Felber // bass
Simon Angell // lead guitar
Justin Wright // cello
Kate Maloney // violin
Genevieve Toupin // vocals
Jon Matte // keys

*Claps on Track 1 // Senja Sargeant, Bud Rice,

Engineered and Mixed by Rob Heaney (at Studio Fast Forward)
Mastered by Harris Newman (at Grey Market Mastering)

Produced by Johnny Griffin
Co-Produced by Jon Matte
Executive Producers: Jon Cook, Kevin Dolgin, Johnny Griffin, Joseph Griffin

All songs written and arranged by Johnny Griffin

These songs were all recorded live on September 10, 2013 at Studio Fast Forward

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