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The Father Costume LP

by The Father Costume

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1.
Turn the world over to the ones with the sun in their eyes Let them fall for her, for every crack in her blush-disguise Fall forwards. We fall for words It will take all of you to get over I'm like a chauffeur for someone who may or may not be inside I guess I'll know which, if I hear a knock on the black divide and it opens, if it opens... It will take all of you to get nowhere Dissolving together, from inside to outside the car We're close to the camera, while the taillights fade into the dark They're in focus. They stay in focus Remaining in the long takes...
2.
I watch the shade drift over the day I watch it come and take its place The woods reclaim any path I've made They grow back into place At the Lifterschalte, you always show at the same hour cutting through the fog under the late sky, I will meet you every time I need no weight, no static shape when you come and take my place They pass through me, a figure they don't see only one will see me waiting The tape is stuck in the deck so lets hear side one again: The Moonglows, The Chimes and The Pyramids The Flamingos singing "Where or When" Side two: "You, Me and the Sea," "I'm Spinning" by The Del-Vikings...
3.
They don't stop and turn as they swim away you have never been more awake Walk up the path and sit down in the dark and you cannot see a thing Anything for the ladies and gentlemen... Take their coats You want to go through the pockets of all of them, but I know you won't Feel your way back to the shore Points of sound grow to a roar and you cannot stay the same
4.
The Comic 06:22
The comic hits again He pulls you up on-stage, in front of your friends and dresses you down to nothing He takes you down with him He does the bit again He throws your words back at you, with a hiss and dresses you down to nothing in front of your friends in front of your wife Look into his blackout eyes.... Anyway.... He nodded off again the get-out lights are up and on to him He's all unwound and bent Time to kick him out again Anyway....
5.
I came-to in costume completely made up from head to toe with no idea where the glare is coming from and no idea what it is trying to show night for day, or the other way ground or second floor? I guess I need to be told I came-to in costume completely made up from head to toed with no idea where the guilt is coming from and no idea if it is going to go I can picture the living room I can picture the back room Picturing turns your blemishes to bloom No center to this city now daylight a no-show the embarrassment of trees in the snow No center to this city now tell me where to go Today I need to be told
6.
See Orange 03:22
Going....sold You don't have to watch the auction if you don't want mirage-control You don't have to swim for the fading island anyway... Disgu(Disguised as smoke) Where did your voice go? Going....you're sold You don''t have to run when you the hear the orange gun go off Your money is blown from the open suitcase all over the runway
7.
I looked too close and found a flaw in the photo of your "levity walk" You were floating with blurry legs and arms I saw the flash-cord hidden in your hand in your command held in the air before their eyes backlit in a wax surprise Birds behind your back you're hovering over the pitch-black river your rippling twin in the water there is unaware He's caught up in your "levity walk" shimmering under your spell You were hanging in your dark room where your apparitions are summoned to suit you and your clockwork blurs to a whir to be believed I see your face I see your skin made up for your "levity walk" there is no way in...
8.
The last thing I want to do is lie to you You'll see that 80 bucks again but it might not be soon I came outside for a reason I guess it was to forget why I can run 'til you lose me in the sun you're gonna stick around in time The things I can't tell myself must be pretty bad if I have to kick them out of the tenement I'm living at Waking at a whisper Moving water in a circle If you're reading this, the secret service works shots from the projection booth who shot first?

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released December 18, 2018

Michael Hartman - drums, programming
Kent Lambert - synth, vocals
Gillian Lisée - bass, vocals, guitar, percussion
Seth Vanek - percussion
Adam Vida - guitar
Sam Wagster - vocals, guitar, pedal steel, programming

Produced by Sam Wagster and Gillian Lisée
Vocal production by Daniel Escauriza

Recorded at Castle Grayskull, Pumpkin Hall, Soundjitsu, Jammerz, Kimball Arts Center

Mixed and mastered by Kevin Ratterman at La La Land
except “The Comic” and “Lifterschalte,” mastered by Joe Lambert

Cover photo by Jessica Voogd
Back cover by Joe Bristol

Special thanks to Jesse Nolan, Gerard Barreto, Rob Roy Campbell/Electronaut, Azita Youseffi, Patrick McGee, Scott Coleman,
Erika Pemberton, Marlise Fratinardo, Joe Bristol, Jessica Voogd, Dan Marcus

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