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better luck next year vol 2: good job nice try

by cool american

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Jacob Gehman
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Jacob Gehman I'm reminded of that scene in Scott Pilgrim vs the World where the announcer is like, "Scott earned the power of _____!" and then a sword materializes out of his chest? I feel like that's what happened to Cool American. This collection of songs that didn't even make their forthcoming album is hot stuff and they totally leveled up from their last full length--which I wasn't even sure was possible. Kudos. Favorite track: finger trap.
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1.
you say you'll know it when it's true, it will reveal itself to you. never thought that i could see, just tried to make it real to me. that's the difference between knowing the median and mean. that's the difference between fucking up and coming clean.
2.
waking up 02:20
today felt like a waste again i putzed around the house and then i made myself another cup of coffee, still not waking up it's hard to take it serious when you act like you don't hear from us and another rain check just because of early morning waking up and we talk on the phone but it's breaking up your job's pretty good yeah you make enough but you're thinking it's time to switch things up so you're raising your glass and you're filling your cup you don't know the words but you're making them up you're ahead of the pack but you're still catching up yeah you don't wanna talk but you'll say what's up
3.
sending off another link in the chain of past due emails begrudgingly divulge the details of another month never stop to wonder if what you're doing could be dangerous whether you should remain strangers, you don't know what you want it's no fun watching what you say a simple change of pace, soon becomes a habit no one should every make you feel that way so why keep doing it to yourself every single day ripping off the bandaid wraps your index finger in cotton swabs before you leave the parking lot. no one will know how you spent your lunch break there's nothing really to be that ashamed about, you tell yourself. it's just reproductive health. who care's what assumptions they make it's no fun watching what you say all the little digs are adding up to static no one should ever make you feel that way so why keep doing it to yourself every single day i guess no one ever notices til you suggest they clean up the mess stale recycled air, the glare of headlights in your rearview mirror you're not getting any nearer you're not going home
4.
having trouble coming clean, seeing double suddenly coming over but i won't sleep, beside you i listen to labored breathing it's not like i can't hurt you when i'm not at my peak replaying my mistakes like counting sheep shouldn't you be getting home, won't you get in trouble hanging around
5.
finger trap 04:49
you'd notice it when she showed you how much to take or in the morning, bleary eyed, eating frosted flakes the trouble with having nothing to prove is what else could make your molecules move i've come to see what they all call gracefulness as the part of me that's wayward and weightless i see what they mean, that no one gets what they want a compromised seam, tearing where it's pulled taught now you're making a scene in the mexican restaurant you'll clean the house, water the dahlias or sit around and bask in nostalgia the slow decay of something so resonant til saturday's distraction will bring respite now nothing i say is sounding intelligent the thought on its way, suddenly irrelevant a finger trap game, and we keep on pulling it our parents' display, transparently full of it so day after day, quietly we just sit
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songs from 2016 that won't fit on the album we're recording soon. all proceeds donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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released January 16, 2017

written and recorded by nathan except for "white flag" which is a Dido song that we recorded as a full band in the 212 basement. mixed by andy and nathan, mastered by andy.

photo by claire gunville i'm pretty sure!

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