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The Precipice of Now

by Lost Decades

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1.
Come Ruin 04:17
You reach me and I’m breaking down Been looking over my shoulder I thought it was like always, then it changed I hear you when you’re not around I probably should have told you Once it wasn’t right to say so, now it’s strange And if you lose your mind for me the rest of my life, I’ll lose my mind for you Someone should have warned you Come ruin Come ruin your life with me Come ruin your life tonight Let’s black out the morning If I bare my chest for you, will it break your heart Will it drive you mad, will it be the answer I feel you when you’re not around I probably should have told you Now we’re here Now it’s never And if you lose your mind for me the rest of my life, I’ll lose my mind for you Someone should have warned you Come ruin Come ruin your life with me Come ruin your life tonight Let’s black out the morning Come ruin Come ruin You can Yes, you can Come ruin Come ruin You can Yes, you can Come ruin Come ruin your life with me Come ruin your life tonight Let’s black out the morning
2.
No Way Out 04:32
We leave tonight Leave it all behind We’ve been there for the fall They warned us back in time I feel the empire crumbling Have another drink, it will be fine We are all together for the end of the world We’re not about to run this time The easy streets are not these streets Have a plan to hustle everyone you meet We’ve got a lot to confront Look at ourselves Our names on bathroom walls that we can’t even smell I feel the empire crumbling Have another drink, it will be fine We are all together for the end of the world We’re not about to run this time I’ll move down the street for the rest of my life Just give me a roof where I can howl at the night You had thought Oh, you had thought That was your first mistake The crime was under all our noses You got too busy getting doses And raging at the sky Leave that behind, don’t say goodbye There’s no way out No way out No way out No way out… But through There’s no way out (no way out) No way out (no way out) No way out… (no way out) But through There’s no way out (no way out) No way out (no way out) No way out… (no way out) But through There’s no way out (no way out) No way out (no way out) No way out… (no way out) But through
3.
Essex 02:53
Why is there fear in your heart Mine all got lost in your hair Let’s roll around a time or two And scream how New York isn’t fair Don’t deny, we’re magnetized There’s iron in our lungs Can’t you see we’re drowning I can taste it on our tongues Skip the wedding dress Meet me on Essex Don’t define yourself by me I’m not defined by you When you’re looking at the stars They’re made the same as you And I am not from Jupiter I know you’re not a god We’re probably damned to separate beds Made with others’ flesh and blood Skip the wedding dress Meet me on Essex
4.
My Poison 03:23
This is how we always start This is how it always ends Either I’m your shooting star, Or just a devil that pretends And where you go, you say to me, You’ll surely have to stay I wanted to get better but there’s something in my way Don’t let me forget I can’t feel Maybe I’m dumb Da da dum Da da dum And I’m growing older now Bout time I started wondering how I just keep on drinking down My poison Alone, with everyone else Stoned, I keep to myself You can run but you’ll never leave yourself I tried and tried but you Don’t let me forget I can’t feel Maybe I’m dumb Da da dum Da da dum We don’t need another person No one who’d leave us to our thoughts Thought I’d see your echo in the city shadows and nooks You were never really here or there Or anywhere Maybe I’m dumb Da da dum Da da dum And I’m growing older now Bout time I started wondering how I just keep on drinking down My poison My poison My poison
5.
Nosedive 04:22
It’s been a minute since I stopped and counted heads around me Now in the center, I’m the star of my own story I’ve got the biggest and the best, and they’re all staring I’m strong enough to shock and awe, and leave them caring It’s electricity It’s jacked right into me The mirror’s reflecting only everything I want to see Leave them interested Leave them fascinated Keep catching rockets to the sky each time I nosedive The fall is killing me, the parachute won’t open I can’t come down again and wonder what I came here hoping Keep your phone near Hundred more, here Turned into communion, yeah I know the god I’ve chosen It’s electricity It’s flowing into me The mirror’s reflecting only everything I want to see Leave them interested Leave them fascinated Keep catching rockets to the sky each time I nosedive I see her waiting on me I can’t face this Can’t bear to look her in the eye, and then I nosedive Look away Look away Look away Look away
6.
Chase Me 04:20
A long hallucination Got used to the sensation Now I don’t know what’s on your mind So much for starting over The fourth leaf in the clover It’d do us well to recognize And say goodbye to guardrails Add electric as I fall You can follow me down Til I’m barely here at all What’s a poor boy to do That a man wouldn’t find true And all I ask of you If you want my drug, you’re gonna have to chase me I’m a pretty thing, you’ll have to chase me See me shimmering, you’ll have to chase me Objectify my mind It’s odd that you would assume I can hold some extra gloom When I can barely hold myself If you’re paying close attention Then hear my next confession It’s a fine line between heaven and hell And say goodbye to guardrails Add electric as I fall You can follow me down Til I’m barely here at all What’s a poor boy to do That a man wouldn’t find true And all I ask of you If you want my drug, you’re gonna have to chase me I’m a pretty thing, you’ll have to chase me See me shimmering, you’ll have to chase me Objectify my mind The way you love, I’ll do in kind You’ll cut me up and blur the lines You’ll drink my truth and tell no lies Every look’s goodbye And all I ask of you If you want my drug, you’re gonna have to chase me I’m a pretty thing, you’ll have to chase me See me shimmering, you’ll have to chase me Objectify my mind You’re horrified by what I find This curse is not my life
7.
I’m sitting in your court in summertime And I can’t figure out where the judgment’s coming from But I know that it isn’t mine Can you feel a scratching on your brain A bustle in your hedgerow If a wolf’s at your door, tell your boy he’s recognized And I know what he’ll say Do you need this Do you need this I need Every single day’s a headline in your aching mind Do you need this Do you need this I need Every single day’s a headline in your aching mind Do you need this Do you need this I need They called the doctors and the papers and the lawyers And they couldn’t figure out what was wrong But I feel you have an idea And it’s been in your head all along I wanted to be there I came down in fear Crossing hearts on a black stone edge Set fires to watch them burn With voodoo wares and mercurial stares Take the night, walk out in storm But can you see I need this I need this I need this I need this, I need Every single day’s a headline in your aching mind Do you need this Do you need this I need Every single day’s a headline in your aching mind Do you need this Do you need this I need Every single day’s a headline in your aching mind Do you need this Do you need this I need Every single day’s a headline in your- (aching mind) Distance within reason Endless in its season (Do you need this, I need)
8.
My pain gets filtered into dissonance I tried to stop the night with all of my might, but it’s Melting walls and inhibitions down Give yourself to your blood and I’ll taste it now Oh no, I’m crushed at dawn Like a thousand suns coming down on me I try to run, the end’s begun I’m crushed at dawn We shuffle on the floor to hopes and dreams Not yet destroyed between the work and the void, but it’s The tides all pulling us inside the moon Pull the blinds, shut the doors and I’ll be with you soon Oh no, I’m crushed at dawn Like a thousand suns coming down on me I try to run, the end’s begun I’m crushed at dawn If you see me, don’t come near me in this autumn My touch disintegrating What if this world’s not changing I ran and said, if I can make it there Well I made it there Or so I hear Oh no, I’m crushed at dawn Like a thousand suns coming down on me I try to run, the end’s begun I’m crushed at dawn Oh no, I’m crushed at dawn Like a thousand suns coming down on me End’s begun I’m crushed at dawn
9.
Whatever happened to those nights Watching boroughs burn Nights turn to nights turn The smell of sulfur High on fumes It smells like trouble But it tastes of you I’m dancing on the precipice of now Singing to make it through somehow I’m gonna be alright Just for tonight On the ashes of before Wishing there was something more Than what lay, lays in store Bottles clatter, drinks flow Nothing matters No one, no one knows Living at the end of an empire For every moment we expire For better friends the bitter end We die again I’m dancing on the precipice of now Singing to make it through, make it through somehow I’m gonna be alright If only for tonight On the ashes of before Wishing there was something more Than what lays, lays in store

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Recorded March-November 2020 at Metropolitan Sound in Brooklyn
Produced/mixed/mastered by John Epperly

Cover art by Almost Studios - www.almoststudios.com

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released June 11, 2021

All songs written by Lost Decades

Lost Decades is:
Kelsey Chapman - drums
Emily Hughart - keys/vocals/organ
Kodi McKinney - guitar/vocals/drone tambo
Joe Palacios - bass/acoustic guitar/more guitar/squiggles/synth

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Formed from a desire to merge NYC's underground of the now with the goth and post-punk of years past, Lost Decades is a band and a collective.

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