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the evidence

by Ian Craig

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1.
your eclipse / you're eclipse 03:12
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do i have to say every single word to your ear? you loot my grave my mouth cracks i'll say no i can be that person don't beg me don't say please don't make it about you and me i look in the mirror reminded of the time in the gas station i thought my heart was calm fucking just to feel when i see your picture i forgot everything of who i am your eclipse close the window hold the breeze inside when i see you holding his hand you're an eclipse
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like a lie / like the truth 02:14
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feel it burn into my skin like a brand like a seething stare don't pretend you know anything about me or where i'm coming from like you can already predict how it all comes together like a great jigsaw meanwhile i'm playing sitting alone on the teeter-totter trying to locate exactly what went wrong why i'm here and what exactly it all means ride the trolley wave to the locals they know you don't belong they know you're a tourist a foreign land of your own creation hiring an actor to play the role of you feel it burn into your skin like a lie like the truth
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streetlight 01:20
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my wet face 03:00
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you move me to tears over and over i can barely manage to get my face dry you move me to tears this life is temporary and your moves are blades slicing through the struggle come on in hold me come fill this room love me this is not meant to be strife you have left me shake me to the core every time i need you you move me to tears over and over this is not meant to be more than we are meant to be come on in hold me come fill this room love me you move me to tears over and over
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russian roulette 01:16
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painting blood on the threshold waiting for God to pass over in a translucent green lighting up the night broadcast on every screen fisticuffs in a local bar supposed experts spouting off in a translucent green russian roulette on the big screen it's only a matter of time
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psalm 2 03:18
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http://www.esvbible.org/Psalm+2/
7.
my own fault line 02:33
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don't tell me to not hide it you think i'm perfect you think it's not meant to be like this we're not supposed to struggle uphill i think i know just how to feel i think i know my own faults you paint them on bathroom walls you scream them out when i hold your throat you cry them when we fuck every single time i hear your tears it's like shit filtering through a slit come be my slut just when my face becomes dry you spit mud and cake my eyes i think 22 years is plenty you want to save my life let me cut your mouth let me kiss your wide bleeding smile let me put the life back into you
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i am holding my hands out 02:02
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our young hearts are already dead ancient decaying we would not know what it is like to lie down without these young hearts i am scared of being swallowed by the ground is it a lack of fear of celestial bodies and undeniable shaking? i am holding my hands out to a rebellious reflection this is not me my young heart has already died i am holding my hands out back to the scene of the crime i will lay down with thieves and be handcuffed by you i will be dripping wet try to hold me make the shaking end i am holding my hands out i am drawing them back in
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be my neighbor 00:21
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10.
YOU THINK 00:53
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you think it's so simple you think it's so fucking simple you think you can just sit there you think i'm lying to myself you think i never really believed you think it's all a lie you think it's all a lie you think the Light will one day turn on you think the Light has never been there you think "The Light" is that Common song you think you're so important you think i'm simple you think you know my next move you think you could open your mind you think you'd keep your word you think you will you know you won't you think it's so simple you think it's so fucking simple
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i am the unbearable 02:07
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every time every single time punching me with an "i do" the universe truly mocks me your headphones are a voice reaching out to my ears dragging me down the hill do you want me to be miserable? all i can feel is guilt all i know how to feel is guilt the largest burden you are sitting on my chest the clot rising come on my darkest fear is giving control i can feel my life slipping i want my face to be red i want to pour my blood out for you i want to see you rejoice i want to be the good, the bad, the ugly, the unbearable
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swallow you whole 02:04
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i look at the distant lights through grids of trees there are no more doors there are no more walls everything i hate becomes stronger i am burning out from my core wake me up out of slumber i am dust that the body will become will you kiss my fallen shadow? will you let your lips take me? the wind pushes my movement shadows guide my faltering steps will you touch me? will you affirm my fears? i am dying i am blinded by the Light there are no more doors there are no more walls everything i have loved i have set to flames i am holding the last key and i will swallow you whole
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psalm 3 03:14
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what do i need now? 01:57
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i can feel my layers shed you are holding my heart down a finite screw turning loose and over and done pump the blood through and just who are you now what do i need in my life now that you're gone i need all your ghost gone what do i do with wood now that it is all moist i need all your love gone what do i with this home now that the heart is gone i need all your blood gone there is no trap to hold on throw me into the river i will wade to the corkscrew no rock cares if i live or die i am a fallen tree
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blood can boil 02:07
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you know just how to reach you know just how to reach i never thought blood could boil your hand is limp and you cover your face and you cry those tears i know this is my fault all it makes me feel is empty where are my emotions? they run away to your memory my heart is your hands my anger is your fetal position i am worthless a sugarless treat why don't you hate me? all i know is rejection and the hatred i will to draw the shades overload the electrical grid tie you down feel you fight against my thrust trained muscles clamp down i want to hear you say it that you know just how to reach you know just how to reach who i actually am a broken shell
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(instrumental) 00:46
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i bent down 03:05
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i am empty i bent down to feel the river draw the water up to my face everyone i know has turned away all these trials are from human wisdom lost in dusk's fall on all it covers my heart is pounding and you are always on my mind you opened my throat reached straight down palpitated my heart who are you to tell me how who are you to make me feel who are you to love me like you do you thought you knew me and i thought i knew myself and i thought i knew to love you i bent down to feel the river i am empty
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psalm 1 01:54
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http://www.esvbible.org/Psalm+1/
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you and me 01:07
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i will find you without looking you will come to me and i will kiss you place your hand on my chest feel the blood rushing i will touch your breast usury you and me usury you and me
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there's a place for us 02:04
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about

Recorded over a two week span of personal turmoil, complicated situations, life-changing conversations, and unpredictable movements, THE EVIDENCE is the definitive musical statement thus far from one Ian J Craig.

The lack of bass guitar on this recording is due to the mental difficulty of playing one at this point in Ian's life, not due to some weird artistic statement. The bass guitar represents a large part of Ian's existence in a space of which he is not inhabiting currently, thus is too difficult to be approached at this time in his life, until the epoch again changes. Thank you for your understanding.

I encourage you to listen to this album as a whole; it is a refined moment of truth inside of many lies, both by its creator, and also within the deconstruction movement of the pre-established rock'n'roll dialectic.

-Amanda Gholston

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released October 28, 2012

Ian Craig - All lyrics, all music, samples, electric guitar (in DADF#AE), acoustic guitar (in EADGBE and DADGAD, three steps down), piano, banjo, drums/percussion,

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Ian Craig Columbus, Ohio

Math dude by day, weirdo musician by night. Runs Little Pigeon Tapes.

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