Staring At Shadows, by Throw No Stereo

Staring At Shadows

by Throw No Stereo

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inkshark It feels a little like someone kidnapped some musicians from different emo bands and told them they weren't allowed to leave the studio until they made a catchy '90s-flavored album. Favorite track: Staring At Shadows.

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1.	Underground 03:19	lyrics	buy track
Underground Where the stories fit the shadows on the wall There's a silver trumpet call And the shadow's face is God It's 4 AM My mind is flickering again These words will never fill the sin This world will bend and break them in Way down These words could fill the sight, the sound These words could turn on every light If we could only get it right I'll take these words I'll burn them down I'll bury them, I'll bury us Way underground 'Cause I will never get it right No I will never get it right If words could turn on every light I'd turn 'em off I got no soul
2.	Staring At Shadows 02:50	lyrics	buy track
I'm falling around, I'm falling around These things I can't put down I hate the state of the world, I hate the state of the world And I hate this town Who could've known it my love that my arms couldn't carry your pain Who could have said it my love without living up to the shame Staring at shadows Hoping for sun Waking at midnight Hoping for dawn I'm falling around, I'm falling around These things I can't put down I hate the state of the world, I hate the state of the world And I hate this town Who could've known it my love the truth breaks your legs to make you stay Who could have said it my love you put holes in my skull with your gaze When we rise Like tides that cover older shores Rise with no eyes We lost them staring at shadows
3.	Not Quite As Good As Dead 04:34	lyrics	buy track
Time takes care of itself and no one else No tarot cards or spells Bring tides on tideless sand or cleanse the sea or breathe the earth Or give us washed-out land But we'll demand it You remain Taste the fruit of smoke, breathe next summer's flame It had to be a joke for them to play their game Carbon's cool Here's what's in store for you We told you so And now you know We can't save anything anymore Never asked these questions But we demand these answers now Fires, floods & hurricanes for everybody else We'll live in the now I remain Too much smoke to breathe Can't turn down the heat Bathe in plastic shreds Not quite as good as dead Carbon's cool It's what's in store for you Burning down the trees, blowing back the leaves The water's always hot, the presents always bought The blood is on your hands, it don't matter, got the land Build another Earth, it's in your net worth Rich man, poor man, drink from the oil can Faster, faster, if you do it fast you can Stay richer richer than this little brown man now take a stand Time to take your burning kingdom with your grubby hands Trying just to breathe and I can't turn down the heat...
4.	Bright 02:41	lyrics	buy track
I've found my sight But it's too bright I said I feel so alive I could touch the sun and I'd just have to reach right through your eyes Are you aware That I've been there Every time I ran my soul with my fingers through your hair I've found my sight But it's too bright I said hey we'll be all right We sure as hell can't see it now but we have surely seen the light Are you aware The touch of your skin & hair is all that I can hold onto while I am drowning here in fear I've found my sight But it's too bright Did you know I had it all figured out We were never gonna doubt Never gonna frown Somewhere in there I got it all turned around All that I can see's the ground Coming up so fast, yeah WHOA
5.	Killer Eyes 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Love your eyes fire live They're firing my reason and killing my lies And I wish they'd kill me to die Trapped by the hope and the horror in your killer eyes Live through these killer eyes Live through these killer eyes Love take my heart and my spine Take my lungs, take my liver laid out in a line And devotion will follow in time Trapped by the hope and the horror in your killer eyes Live through these killer eyes Live through these killer eyes They're begging me, bleeding me, bruising me, keeping me Can't you just take me alive
6.	Eyes Shut 02:09	lyrics	buy track
Platitudes of gratitude Obedience the virtue of ties Save the big man in the suit from tripping on Precarious points of lies You keep your eyes shut Think they hold in the light, but you walk blind In your suit and tie Rapists say the name of God They learned our little suitcoat club handshake You know it can't be what it ought It's true because we say it to your face Now your eyes bleed Spit out the prophet's seed In the cold light Of this righteous lie
7.	Forked Tongue Soup 03:44	lyrics	buy track
Songs that the whole world could sing Join hands and pray, join hands and pray Jesus bleeds the money till the oil is water clean Join hands and pray, join hands and pray I can't see him but I know he's there For his hand guides the drones right through the air Join hands and pray Cross your heart and hope to die Peace of the dead, peace of the dead A mote's as good as a beam with all this blood inside my eyes Join hands of red, join hands of red I can't see him but I know he's there For his hand guides the drones right through the air Join hands and pray There is a house in Washington They call the house of prayer And I can't see him but I know he's there
8.	Waking Up With Everything 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Waking up with everything you thought you’d never have But everyone’s got reasons to be sad Swear if I could get this done it would all come out right I swear that I will change after tonight But did you notice What was right and what was wrong It changes every time we sing a different kind of song And would it matter If we had known it all along? We couldn’t say it to ourselves; we couldn’t be alone I found myself deep in need Without the words to say what it means And so we’ll hold hands jumping expecting to break and to bleed I need you Firing at bottle caps and skating over fate Living off indifference beats hate Can you stretch yourself until you come around again? Can you be there when I need a friend And does it matter If our armor’s made of glass If our castle’s made of paper and our fire’s turned to ash Will we notice When it blows by all too fast A thousand faces screaming while two silent ones look past I found myself deep in need Without the words to say what it means And so we’ll hold hands jumping expecting to break and to bleed I need you
9.	Shout It Out 03:48	lyrics	buy track
I can see the light, what you call light Makes barbed-wire walls grow high Pray to God on high, God loves a fight His army's always right I feel like I've got new lungs growing Feel like shouting fire And I feel this light is overflowing Chokes me like a wire Shout it out I'll break your walls down with hammers made of sound Dear leader let us pray and choke and cheer While the fires grow higher and roar I feel this world is overheating Choking on the score Take my hand and hold, and hold, the stars go out, the sky explodes We got ten years, just ten years left to go Shout it out I'll break your walls down with hammers made of sound
10.	Shipwreck 04:24	lyrics	buy track
The feeling of the week The best time to be freaked Snow hides a lot, it hides my corpse Asleep til spring again in blankets of remorse But I thought I felt it But I thought your hand Could it have melted Is it on demand? There's no reason for it There's no use to plan I'm an empty coffin Fill me up with sand Now I'll be up all night holding course like a shipwreck Tonight just hold my hand, yeah we'll take it breath by breath A cold hill in the night I'm so afraid of life You touch the junkyard, breathe the rust, the scar What do you see here to make you go so far? But I thought I felt it I thought it was My imagined anguish Reasoning because There's no reason for it There's no use, I've found Losing touch in eyesight Losing eyes in sound Now I'll be up all night holding course like a shipwreck Tonight just hold my hand, yeah we'll take it breath by breath Did I tell you that I gave up? Did I tell you how afraid, how afraid I can be? Did you want to fall in love? I fell in love with you already Awake and now alive & I feel like such a wreck Tonight you took my heart & you filled me with your breath Now I'll be up all night holding course like a shipwreck Tonight just hold my hand, yeah we'll take it breath by breath

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Big guitars, big synths, big feelings. Emo kids turn 40.

Throw No Stereo started as a solo project, & is now a group project by Spencer Ellsworth on guitar/keys, Justin Ellwanger on drums, Nathan Smith on guitar & Jeff Marcowicz on bass

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released February 5, 2021

Songs by Spencer Ellsworth. Mixed & mastered by Alex Ferrin.

Special thanks to Kevin Fairchild

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Throw No Stereo Bellingham, Washington

Emo and synthpunk with big 2004 feels.

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