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Pictures of Vernon

by Pictures of Vernon

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1.
I learned how to love from a family who didn't know how to forget I learned how to live as a person who only held on to regret I was taught how to act, to cover up scars, to bottle up feelings like failed dreams of stars you'll never make me proud if you live like that but there's more to my life than the plans you might have this must be just what I needed I don't know what I wanted from you a dark night, a bright light it's just enough to wake me up in a family of graduates you dropped out the day you came early you were locked out the thoughts are creeping in again you know i don't want to make a scene let's go somewhere, i need to be alone let's go somewhere, i'm gonna fall APART what you saw through the window can't be blocked out broke every pane to take away your own
2.
you swore it was the right decision so I awoke to see you off searching for a better vision you abide by your own thoughts if I subscribe to your ideas do I assume you as a leader could I pick and choose from the books you gave to make my opinions clearer tally marks on the wall from every breath I wanted to leave in a silent death pull off the road cause I can't take it I'll try to save face but I can't fake it whatever happened to the book you were writing you called me a savage but I took to your liking swallow this down it helps with those thoughts but now I can't sleep and they're casting lots drafted poorly, not promised permanence I exist alone in my ignorance come on jamie read me your tattoos there's still so much left for us to do my knuckles are pushing and fighting to get out my hands turning white, I'm swept up in doubt I'm like a record spinning til I'm relevant then burning out cause I'm out of my element (I stared long & it's coming back when I want I paint my nails black you go to a world made of glass the streets are paved but you walk on grass)
3.
I see the seasons in the trees my months in the leaves I'm burning brighter for myself I woke up from the day into a good night I walk the streets for fun but always depending on another I am on a bus in 2005 where the limbs branch off my head is rattling against the window, like we went to brooklyn I can't stop listening at this point my life is on gapless playback I am 17 and moving once again hopefully this home will last , hopefully I'll reignite I am on a river going too fast, but the view is nice and I know how to swim the words are repeating and changing at the same time while my mother sobs softly, my father bursts and everyone is silent I am a black sheep, it's marked on my skin In all of my cards: "we're praying for you, we love you" well act like it and I felt the most at home when I was gone it's 7:30 on a back porch my eyes are finally open and I know I'm alone the neighborhood is quiet they gather all around softly: "he loved you"
4.
the sun reflects off the sand and it hurts my eyes, so i blame it on that. but you stepped on a hive as i passed by, so you blame it on that. my mouth is a hollow garage built to spill the ideas of my mind's montage pictures projected on the side of their house / she likes it when I make my voice sound Scouse the film is warped so the plot won't connect / cars in the driveway as dusk resurrects a feeling so fleeting; a romanticized pleasure I've been seeing more love since the first time I met her light switches with screws loose / opinions are obtuse fragile masculinity I want to shatter listen close and hear my teeth chatter cause this years winter came without warning like a fire alarm at three in the morning my head against the wall so it feels like the floor her leg on my leg, my eyes on the door white flourescents / my adolescence I'll shut my eyes to forget about both and think maybe one day you'll grow up and be happy like a vhs in a bathtub like a basement in a mansion like you're laughing and feeling love
5.
THIS IS WATER: the space in my head that I occupy the freewill you lost / the truth I deny I fear my adjustments won't keep going well I'll end up in my own kind of childhood hell tossing & turning longing & yearning for more chances to take and more choices to make I am up late into the night retelling myself everything I didn't do, everything I didn't say and I hear your voice being honest with me / flooding my mind and you keep saying something but I can't make it out it's lost in the thoughts that push down & drown and it's all ruined. and it's all ruined because of the substance that fills my head: THIS IS WATER

about

we were originally going to call this "Live at Madison Square Garden" but you can't label a release as live on spotify if it was not in fact live

order here: www.counterintuitiverecords.com/products/585922-pictures-of-vernon-pictures-of-vernon-12-ep

credits

released May 5, 2017

Page Ragan - guitar / vocals
Daniel Gorham - drums / vocals
Matt Brotherton - bass / vocals

recorded at Freeman Production Studios
produced by Aslan Freeman
mastered by Jesse Cannon
art & layout by Dave Sagan

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