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Big Island Party Sounds

by BIPS

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1.
Cold Future 03:29
I was waiting on that morning light Pick me up and make me feel alright And sometimes I know And sometimes I don't Cold future Cold future You know there's something that you can't deny It's been hiding there in plain sight So pick up the phone Pick up the phone Cold future Cold future Tomorrow we can talk I got a lots to say But for now That Can wait Can't stopwatch For what I know must come But everything present Sort of still feels fun Got spun up in the minute Now I'm in the Senate Getting grilled about something Sentimental feelings Made a villain of myself A feeling that I hate So tomorrow may I be a better bae Cold future Such a cold future Life Is so long (life's so long) Time Just drags on It's gonna happen but I don't know when You know it's gonna come around again Cold future
2.
Hero 03:07
Everybody thinks themselves One step from a hero Everybody just wants to find Escape from all their fears, oh Me I'm just another one Of the many weary souls I've been tryin' to burrow down You keep filling up the holes Now and then I find myself Chasing after someone else's dreams (It seems I've lost track of my own) Digging up the remnants Of treasures not meant for me (Am I just sinking like a stone?) Home is always far away once you're grown Super manic Indiana Jonesing Want to be hero But I'm stuck In reality In a panic All the wall are closing Beam me up, Scottie Or am I a fatality? The finality of comic book life Means I might live forever But I'm stuck in reality I never meant to stray But a sheep I once was Lost the good fight Not a hero just a malady Come over with the morning sun Leave like a thunderstorm Held high by human minds But they've been misinformed Everything's replaceable A bunch of tired themes I don't require anything Except a good night's sleep Buy your money with precious time It's all you really need Locked up in your success You got no time to breathe Dwelling on the meaningless Never letting it escape One year or three or five Feeding the world you hate
3.
Release You 04:00
If the love I have to give Is not as much as you require If everything I am is less Than you desire Oh, I shall release you If I just add to your worries And I cannot do you right If I keep causing all these Stupid fights Oh, I shall release you I shall release you I shall release you Ever reluctantly I shall release you If I'm stealing all your youth And we start to grow apart If my shortfalls are too much For your troubled heart Oh, I shall release you If another's arms can bring Greater joy than e'er could mine If after all I'm not what you Hoped to find Oh, I shall release you
4.
I will never be What you want from me So I guess I'll just get gone There's a place I know Where the tall pines grow And the rivers sing sweet songs If I close my eyes Wish with all my might Could I somehow travel back To seven years ago Before I came to know All the pleasures I now lack I will stand atop the highest building I will shout it for the whole world to hear My mind is ready and my spirit's willing Only thing I've left to lose is fear This will never be A fitting home for me So i guess I'll just get gone There's a way I know At least they told me so And I know I don't belong We can't build around This here crumbling ground Cause we'll fall into the sea But that far off land Does it match your plans? Maybe it is just a dream It's not that I don't love you 'cause I do But every sixty seconds that I hang around this city Is another minute I'll be missing you
5.
When you're unhappy You get quiet Like I'm supposed to Read your mind Until your anger Breaks its silence Until you're too far gone To recognize Once you get talking You say things you Might not otherwise Have said Until your bridge goes Up in flames Until the faultline Fractures the earth Again I was standing there stunned I was standing there stunned Still reaching out I see it so clearly In my memory How the neon Lit your face Outside that almost All-night diner Serving up 22 hours Of mistakes, and Something so suddenly Switched over Like the "Yes, we're open" card Flipped with a flourish Only this time It was the closing down of your heart I was standing there stunned I was standing there stunned Still reaching out
6.
I know how them howlin' wolves must feel 'Cause I got the urge to scream my lungs out in this moonlit field Got a jug of wine and a troubled mind, this night is mine to steal Some bust out while others, they get stuck And those that stay try to pretend that they don't give a ---- Everyday try to wish away their ---damn awful luck And you'll no longer see the person you expect 'Cause I refuse to live each day just like the next Oh, it's breaking down And I'm gonna break out Got a pile of blues about a mile high Don't you ask me to explain, I'm fresh out of reasons why Since I lost my youth, I've abandoned truth, so I'll feed you full of lies Goin' where them chilly winds don't blow Where the rivers run with apple wine and the climate suits my clothes Heart so weathered, how it held together ain't nobody knows
7.
Forgiveness 04:04
Got a lot of love, I got a lot of love to live Got a lot of life, I got a lot of life to live Everybody told me since I was a little kid Got a lot of love, I got a lot of love to live Can I get a witness to all this sorrow that I saved? I won't grant you forgiveness 'cause you don't think you need it, babe Take a little time, I'll take a little time I guess Put this all behind me, put this whole thing to rest Everybody tells me someday I'll get over this Take a little time, I'll take a little time I guess Can I get a witness to all the efforts that I made? I can't grant you forgiveness if you don't think you need it, babe The instruments Play the minutes to my funeral My grave sees the faces It's as if it were a miracle And the mural that they make By appearing at my wake Is so great And all that's great is Spiritual I've been chosen To be graced with their presence And their states And prayers appreciated They're great But let me be frank Instead of fake I ain't Been sayin' prayers Since 2008 I was traced by my fate And the galaxy was great I spanned the universe With the stars in outer space It was lonely out there I missed forgiveness everyday But now I finally got a witness To the efforts that I made Better call for backup, better call for backup now Tell 'em they should hurry, tell 'em what a fight you found It's gonna take five or six of you to bring me down Better call for backup, better call for backup now I don't need your forgiveness if you're just gonna hold a grudge Go and call your witness and he can tell it to the judge

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released June 21, 2016

Tracks 3-6 written by Henrietta Billings and FP Woods.
Tracks 1, 2, and 7 written by Henrietta Billings, FP Woods, & MC Little Harmony

Recorded and produced by Bruce Hettinga

Album artwork by Seneca Fox

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BIPS Minneapolis, Minnesota

Electrofolk.

FP Woods
Henrietta Billings
Aceito Moneycoy
Mable P. Shakes

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