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To Be Frank

by The Nice Ones

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1.
Carina 04:10
I met you at the ice cream stand I shook your hand And then Adam said to me "Meet the lovely Carina" But I know you by a different name Aurora I been watching you You're a frosty little art school girl you drive a red car And your lips are always thinking of me At least they told me that they are last night while I was dreaming of you I was dreamin' of Aurora Now there are two of you Be careful who you talk to you don't wanna believe what they may say about me I only wanted to see you fade in and out Carina who's your friend? Is that Aurora? I think I love her too Aurora Carina Aurora Im back now sorry if I Got a little excited it happens when I walk past you two I cant let you know though that Im burning up Carina
2.
There's faces on all the houses and they're all packed with pasts and the changing of the faces it happened oh so fast haul me back to the streets where we used to go to church where I never really felt like a part of the search for your garden (chorus one) Hangin' around my home town I've been putting it down now and all I see are faces they frown I wanna take them down and that's not how this was supposed to sound I hear nothing now I just want to see you, I just gotta see you upside down They're smug and they're smirk and they're going berserk over what? I don't know and now this time of year how the faces sure do glow and it's clear that we all got a secret we all must play a hand but now all of a sudden my secrets they seem in demand tell me why Hangin' around my hometown I see Faces frown and every one I know and all you people that I meet you're down on your knees and I don't wanna go up to where you pray cause I'm too afraid and I just want to see you just got to see you today I'm so sick of waiting, waiting for something to do this boredom is evil just look at what it put me up to (repeat first chorus)
3.
No Use 04:23
There isn't a lot to say But we made quite a mess She'll soon come back round our way And it's better you confess But you say you don't know who did it no Or how it got this far My momma knows when I've been hurt Cause she asked to see the scar oh the scar In unison we're drilling holes In each other's arms Pretty soon we gonna melt the poles baby They'll be no way to disarm But I can't stand to hear you say that you ain't got it all and I can't stand to hear you say That theres no use, theres no use, you're no use Get out of, the way love you can't be a hero when the sun has blackened your eyes they're your eyes You don't wanna see what'll happen in due time no more will you tell me that everything is fine all the time, all the time, all the time Get out of, our way there are no clouds cause the sun has burned them away And we're almost gone so try now to sing along before they go and drop a bomb is there no talking to you? Not to you?
4.
Oh I never claimed to care of all your past lovers there never said that I knew I know that I ain't the first to be sickened by desire's thirst and I know that I'm screwed I wish I were screwed to you chorus: Cause when I see you something In my marrow moves I think about the warm blood of birds Flying from my heart to yours (x3) La de da de da la de da de da Babydoll when you're in the room the juices of a citrus fruit I can taste in my mouth won't you let me fly-south And girl I know all the dead ends I've partied with all of your friends but I wished it was you hold my head while I...puke repeat chorus By the time You let me in to see You and me will celebrate all the things that we hate as we watch them die from our memories-they'll die And you and me can go on in someday we'll be more than just friends but its a hell of start I dont care chorus and out
5.
For One 04:55
And all at once We froze for the sun Came shining through the window Through the window to the only one I ever loved Have you ever loved? Someone so much that the world don't know how much it hurts just to let them go let them go love someone so much that the world don't know how much it hurts just to let them Golden, Heartbroken oh me, oh you The day we met I buried it beneath I shoulda said I shoulda made believe Love it left quite a debt on me and it left me waiting I waited For what was I waiting? I waited Couldn't be what you wanted me to be then all I believed came crashing on me Love it left quite a debt on me I shoulda said I shoulda made believe The day we met I buried it beneath a need we gotta pay we're gonna pay We gotta pay 'em off we shoulda paid 'em off We're gonna pay 'em off I shoulda paid 'em off you shoulda paid 'em off I shoulda paid 'em off
6.
The Kyrgyn 04:14
Sold! Like the city of gold your hour glass is empty or your hour glass is half-full what do you look at when you see me? do you see me? No! I ain't the one they found me in the morning with the setting sun asleep on the coast of a living hell Is this how it's supposed to be? Oh well I woke up and I was still 28 all pissed off and all irate seems to me like we got a raw deal I'm feeling like Howard Beale or Hollis Brown I don't know but theres a clown in town and he's a legend to the devil I've had enough of the sideshow had enough of the sideshow! Don't punish me with your jealousy Release me Let me sanctify If I sing her song now from sea to sea Maria will watch over me What's so funny man I told you once I ain't got no money man So much soul I've got so much soul but rock and roll will never save your soul Take your mistress to Vatican City for a lethal dose of death and romance Take your wife to Vegas and make her dance dance with me Go on living your life I hope you live a long life
7.
To Be Frank 05:46
I want it so bad The thing you said you had I'd compromise my pride In the blink of an eye Frank said he'd take me out out past the trees and the snow He said there's something there He just has to show....me I didn't want Frank to see How I formulate hypocrisy Cold and sick and wanting more A little boy on the floor This was the time when I was king this was the time when I was a baby Frank was somewhere in between Frank was leading the way to me He knows the science of abundance The alchemy of tragedy I was stuck in shameful silence running out of blood to bleed I still remember the day when I wanted to be frank I need be shown the way show me a way Somebody ought to come and take me from an undercover the last thing I need is what I want I want another I want to break it away break me away I still remember
8.
Maria 04:13
Deep in the forest is where her heart beats I have been praying to wake from my sleep but I'm not sure who's trying to awaken who Is it me? Or is it you? Prayer as placebo is nobody home? Once you get the message just hang up the phone My nightmare came true when I turned away from you and I fell into blue I fell away from you Maria I'm waiting for you Maria tell me it's true Is it divine what I hide here inside? I told them I know you but you know I lied I've grown so tired of the sound of my own voice I've but one, choice Silence the demon that clamors inside itching and scratching the thorns at my side I lost control when my mind met my soul in a deep dark hole it was a dark blue soul Maria I'm waiting for you Maria tell me its true Search for an answer Maria Born of a Cancer Maria With a soft bloody focus I missed you the most As time, we align I cry my mind out! in out
9.
You're kidding yourself thinking that you see me like you see me and all the things that you said Like the way you like how I act I don't know better and she don't know better So no one here is winning, can't you see? My god don't love your god and your god's not a man Oh but you're not allowed to talk to my woman unless I'm holding her hand I'm forced to love the one who knows the one about me My story as it goes, I got a black history (Its a black history) You don't like me and I don't think I love you but thats just fine you see, cause I'm not living proof of anyone who has something to advise you on in a matter of time Whats the matter with you? Is it time? The master race is gonna pass us pass us for a lap oh and then she tells me how she loves me but that she wants to take a nap but I'd rather take a train, deep into my own brain then sit here trying to think of things to make you amused to make you a muse (to make you immune) Theres a whisper across the wartime the soldiers are setting up the camps are now freezing there's frost on the guns And i don't really know where my water's come from it might be full of lead and theres a bullet made of heavy metal screaming past my head and I don't really care if I love anyone I just want to survive but can't you see that the morning's come and you've been failing to thrive oh but it's just fine I don't think you know how far we gotta go and you better wake the fuck up its really time to go you better wake the fuck up! (I'm not holding back for you) It's not like I'm the only one and its not like you're the only one who's got a black history
10.

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Recorded at Millbrook Sound Studios in Millbrook, NY by Paul Orofino and The Nice Ones.

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released April 26, 2013

All songs written by The Nice Ones.

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Patrick Surdam: vocals, guitar
Sam McGarrity: guitar, vocals, keyboard
Dillon Morrison Halas: bass
Tyler Beaujon: drums, vocals

Additional vocals by Zach Rudes on tracks 4, 5 and 8

Mixed and mastered by Paul Orofino.

Album art by Patrick Surdam and Gabriel Napoleon.

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