Blacking Out

from Correspondence by Immediate Family

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Wait, are you asking me to leave, altogether incomplete, or acting out?
Are we the well adjusted weak?
Assigning value to defeat, backing down.
We subscribe to symmetry, aligning automatically.
Blacking out so I can stop keeping time and not understand why.

Hey, are you asking me to stay, all together, in a daze, or acting out?
Are we the indifferent afraid?
Assigning blame to anything, backing down.
We must modernize deceit, keep the classics interesting.
Blacking out so I can stop keeping time and not understand why.

In reverse, two minds will merge to chase away the love, blind amazing but never correspond.
..So can't agree that life is too long.
I wrote my will trying to chase away the love.
If every album is a dance to make me dumb, every minute am I dizzy too?
Many colors making bad decisions cover all conditions too.
People die to make life matter.
People die to make life matter.

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With moments left the stars seem to align.
I grasp for solace somewhere and stretch out towards the sky.
All my maker's beauty bathed in light blessing my eyes, brilliant and bright as I am born once more, a phantom at your side.
But I exist only in dreams to mend mistakes and be redeemed.
When the angels greet me they will sing:
Welcome back to the world.
It feels as though we've met before.
A lost soul washed ashore, a stranger no longer alone.
As one, we start to start again.
We'll dance all night inside our heads.
If by morning we still have the strength to leave our beds:
Well, then..

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from Correspondence, released February 28, 2011

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Immediate Family Portland, Oregon

Immediate Family is what happens when I (Brett) work on something for so long that I learn to stop worrying and love the process again and again and again and

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