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Beginner

by Miracle World

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exefailed this album feels like a saturday afternoon sitting on the ground in front of the couch playing a jrpg or vectorman or something. fun and peaceful vibes :) Favorite track: Letdown.
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matthew__b_c_ An exuberantly nostalgic-feeling indie record that leans as much into pop hooks as it does with trying to push territory on its arrangements and lyrical content. Favorite track: Apology Rock.
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1.
Beginner 03:30
when you started, this was exciting then every year it became less inviting now you're tired and you can only remember when you would have even had the energy, to begin again but time marches on and you will have the chance to start over and re-create every single fuck-up you've ever made beware of the beginner beware of the beginner out of an abundance of caution, beware of the beginner if you trust me, then why would you worry we will broadcast whatever we each do next as surely as one of us will get drunk at the airport and there will be no shortage of new mistakes to apologize for as time marches on and you will have the chance to try and repeatedly fail to predict each of these little disasters before they come beware of the beginner beware of the beginner out of an abundance of caution, beware of the beginner
2.
My Pillow 02:43
before i send you my pillow there's one thing that i've got to know will you keep sleeping on it even when you get bored please just say yes, before you send me yours is it soft is it fair is it covered in your cat's hair i don't mind, no i don't mind this should probably be an even exchange to the extent that such a thing is possible, if you know what i mean will you keep sleeping on it or will you just stay awake you don't owe me a dream, but i'd like to have about as much as i can take will you be soft will you be fair will you say you'll always be there i don't mind, no i don't mind i have been soft i have been fair i know you're told this just about everywhere i don't mind, no i don't mind
3.
Juliet 03:42
letters and toasts to absent friends hazy sunday afternoons watching the men's basketball team trip all over their laces, while i imagine her in a million places blinking, yearning and wondering between epiphanies she's discovering that the guy across the train saw her pick her nose fa, fa find me juliet i'm not too tired to stop looking yet you're out there and i'm in here wa, wa waiting for your to get home i la la love you juliet even though we haven't quite met just yet you're out there and i can hear you knock knock knocking until you find my door looking for her and it's half past ten, i haven't been out this way since i don't remember when into the bar, into the welcome dark until the door cracks open and stops my heart kicking, thumping and stuttering having p-p-palpitations and fluttering until i realize it's just a couple of wrigleyville bros fa, fa find me juliet i'm not too tired to stop looking yet you're out there and i'm in here wa, wa waiting for your to get home i la la love you juliet even though we haven't quite met just yet you're out there and i can hear you knock knock knocking until you find my door i always wondered what would happen when we finally got here and i picked up the pen to let the DJ know which song to prepare, as i rock the mic, do a kick and take in your totally blank stare while i'm singing, fa fa find me juliet i'm not too tired to stop looking yet you're out there and i'm in here wa, wa waiting for your to get home i la la love you juliet even though we haven't quite met just yet you're out there and i can hear you knock knock knocking until you find my door
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i don't like to dance, but i will if you want to i don't know where to start, so i might just need a prompt from you you've been waiting for me but i'm moving a little slow my rule of thumb at a party like this is you don't have to say goodbye if you never said hello and i've made my peace with the cool cats and kittens it was easy once i noticed i was slipping eventually, i promise you'll just let it go, whoa oh oh you can try so hard, you can tell yourself you're different but oh my god, it gets tragic in a minute when you realize everyone's watching you put on your little show i don't know where you've been, i don't know where you've gone to i usually keep to myself, except for when you call me and say come through to where you're waiting for me but i'm moving a little slow it would follow i'm a little bit tardy given that i never really wanted to go and i've made my peace with the cool cats and kittens it was easy once i noticed i was slipping eventually, i promise you'll just let it go, whoa oh oh you can try so hard, you can tell yourself you're different but oh my god, it gets tragic in a minute when you realize everyone's watching you put on your own little show and i've made my peace with the cool cats and kittens it was easy once i noticed i was slipping eventually, i promise you'll just let it go, whoa oh oh you can try so hard, you can tell yourself you're different but oh my god, it gets tragic in a minute when you realize everyone's all wrapped up in their own little show
5.
Letdown 04:11
come on, let's go for a ride you've got a lot of ground to cover for someone who doesn't know how to drive come on, you're already in my head you're stuck in there no matter how often i might dream the opposite under the low-hanging sky, as we said our last goodbye i know you're rightfully expecting another letdown letdown, ah ah ah come on, it's better than it looks you can kill me with your sweetness you know just where it hurts come on, we have somewhere else to go you watched me dream about proximity every night under my pillow under the low-hanging sky, as we said our last goodbye i know you were just expecting another letdown letdown, ah ah ah under a closed-off sky, as we said our last goodbye i watched you float through the air away from another letdown letdown, ah ah ah
6.
Bicentennial 03:26
the sun is out, but it's still quite cold i know that somewhere out there there are all kinds of people i would like to know it won't be long, but i know it'll feel like we waited for a couple of centuries to get to a place where we can finally feel close to one another with a warm breeze making me hover up in the air, above the diamond ready to feel the sun burn at the bicentennial can you get off early, meet me at the park no one will notice you're gone we've got a few extra hours before it gets dark i wanted to ask but i could see it in your face i know you feel it too we thought it would be a few years before we saw this place again where we can be close to one another rolling in the grass with our sisters and brothers ground into the sand but it's never hurt skinned knees in the dirt at the bicentennial time marches on and erases all the years you spent in one place, you go back and it looks like there might've never really been anything here
7.
Other People 04:09
you don't like other people you don't like them around, they get too close slide right up and don't leave room for the holy ghost you don't like other people you don't want them around, they're just gonna spread germs steer the conversation on their own terms you don't like other people and god, i know but i ain't other people, babe i ain't other people i ain't other people, i'm better not like anyone you've known before i ain't other people i ain't other people, i have secret knowledge don't know many people who can treat you right, they don't have my money or my memory, or my steely night but before i show you just remind me your name (...) you don't like other people and god, i know but i ain't other people, babe i ain't other people i ain't other people, i'm better i'm not like anyone you've known before i ain't other people i ain't other people, i swim with dolphins i ain't other people i ain't other people, i'm better i'm not like anyone you've known before i ain't other people i ain't other people, my dad owns a cottage
8.
Apology Rock 04:29
all good things start in the summer in a basement, and when you come up for air things are different forever hand in hand, at the ledge, too distracted by you to see what's down there so much of what i need it's swimming in your eyes then you so generously kiss me before i can apologize for being in love, it just happens what comes next, we just have to be as true, and as honest as we can you won't know, until long after what went wrong, or what you had there if that's terrifying to you don't worry, i feel it too you don't think it'll ever happen that you'll ever get what you want this time when you do, something changes forever in your own head, at the ledge, too distracted to see what's out there and i'll miss what i need it's swimming in your eyes and when you share it with me i feel like i need to apologize for being in love, it just happens what comes next, we just have to be as true, and as honest as we can you won't know, until long after what went wrong, or what you had there if that's terrifying to you don't worry, i feel it too
9.
when you close your eyes and see the constellation where do you want to go things haven't been easy, god i know tell me where your mind goes in a fantasy, there's a star you dream but it's out of reach, even when you sleep in your waking life, there's still so much to love when you close your eyes and try to empty your mind what do you fill it back up with there hasn't been much to hope for but i can still feel your heart beat in a fantasy, there's a star you dream but it's out of reach, even when you sleep in your waking life, there's still so much to love i can still hear your heart beat in a fantasy, there's a star you dream but it's out of reach, even when you sleep in your waking life, there's still so much to love we have lost so much, in this place and time and you can't go back, i've seen you try and it breaks my heart, there's still so much to love
10.
sun's out and i don't know if i have a ride home it's hot outside and beautiful you can see through the sky and it scares me a little i have a hundred questions if you have the time another day walking in place tomorrow will you put me in my place i don't know if you can, but honey i wish you would i hear your voice, it's so clear and so strong on the right note, in the right key, so i'll never guess what's going wrong another day walking in place tomorrow will you put me in my place i don't know if you can, but honey i wish you would one hundred and twenty-one days running in place tomorrow will you put me in my place i don't know if you can, but honey i wish you would

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recorded in chicago, IL, april 2020. produced by max waxman. mixed and mastered by gordon smith; visit thekickstandband.bandcamp.com. art: fictional videogame stills/balloons ladders © suzanne treister 1991.

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