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Songs to Forget Me By

by Crynyd

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1.
The Plight of the Plastic Paratrooper 02:48
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I can feel you, pressed against my chest, in that pretty dress. makes me smile. I'm a bitter boy, with eyes like voids, 'till there you are . Is that a hint of joy? I called to you. did my very best. you passed the test and left me behind. I can feel you, deep inside my chest with that pang of rest. makes me smile. I'm a simple boy, parachute deployed. and there you are with those eyes for toys I'm all for you, through my labored breaths and foreboding sense of your goodbye. I can feel you, pressed against my chest, a memory at best in that pretty dress. makes me smile. Makes me smile.
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Steal My Feelings 03:31
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I find fireworks when eyes collide. The world's so ever pulling. These gorgeous lights stay in my sight though darkness keeps returning. There's comfort in this side by side so rare to me occuring. So simply right, my heart's delight surprised by the smiles forming. Take me home and stroke my hair. Find me comfort and lay me there. Put me under your fine stare, oh I'm wantin' for you. What's the switch from this to kiss, to hold you, call you "darling?" Those grandest rights, oh what's the price to satiate this longing? I shall abide as you decide, my love has practice hiding. But leave me not to pine and rot and love I'll keep supplying. Take me home and stroke my hair. Find me comfort and lay me there. Put me under your fine stare, oh I'm wantin' for you. I won't surprise at this demise so simple in its coming. These lonely nights I feel so slight though life could be recurring if you'd Take me out and make me shout, steal my feelings all made to pout. Put me under your bright shinin' cloud oh I'm wanting for you.
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Build a Pile 02:50
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I'm pulled to one but to me comes imposter dressed as olden fun and that's the one that pulls the gun and leaves my face a mirror. I've got my dream a golden being locked behind a lover's gleam but that's the one for whom I preen and see behind my mirror. and down which road now should I go? Oh pass me by, I'd rather float for that's the one that makes me choke alone before my mirror. To hear your name- I've held the same I killed her, I deserved more than blame and that's the one whom I would lead astray to damn that me in mirror. There's the smile been lost for awhile replaced and now pretending guile and that's the one that builds a pile of shards once were a mirror.
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Piano Child 01:01
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She's Gonna Leave 04:07
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She came in on the evening train and stepped up, right to me. Her hair so curled, her eyes so bright. A stranger I believed. She took my hand and knew my name. She told me of the seas and gently called my crumbling walls to lay down in in the street. The train pulled off, her knees went weak, she clutched her arms to me. I stroked her hair, I kissed her head and I thought on destiny. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She had a bed but not for long. She turned so quick to me. Those gemstone eyes got so surprised as she found her speach too free. But I laughed my eyes, I kissed her hand and smiled so big did she. I said, "My dear, that's quite okay, I feel the same relief." We walked the world in search of seams to keep her close to me. Some broken sides we had to push aside lookin' for those gems and dreams. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. Against her eyes there were no lies, I was dyin' to tell the truth. The way I'd shine there by her side completely satisfied my every dream above fall leaves. I love her next to me. When them gemstone eyes come say goodbye I'll sing across the seas. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave. She's gonna leave.
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Falling and Rising Away 07:12
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Skies deep and dark watch the stars falling like glass burnin' straight for a heart, shinin' so bright as I fly and depart while the flames burn this all to the ground and kiss at the sky with the black greasy clouds in your eyes. Ground grey and down at the start, floating like ash toward a poisonous marsh. Wash me away- I taste bitter and harsh. I remain though I make not a sound as I scream at your side with these weak weary words of demise. For yes (dear), I am soon to die. And I'd love to, won't ask you, to stand by my side. O'er me, I won't have you cry underneath as I rise up to fly into skies deep and dark where the stars tear into me and my heart built of shards glued back together like a piece of your art while the fools put their eyes to the ground and I say goodbye to the black greasy cloud of my sighs.
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Sixteen Tons 02:29
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Whistle 00:31
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On Mirrors, ii 04:32
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You found the spot where your head comes, cloudy, to block the light wraps 'round your body but woven in, so deep within, these threads of mirrored motifs that show you only truth and lies but never nothin' real - Transgressions past and yet to come, all dull good you've ever done, and all you hope to brighten. I see how you cross your arms and stare at the ground. Under your button nose, wear a frown. Over your glasses, ain't your brow so furrowed. Take your leave. Stay gone awhile, cryin' to find this one makes you smile. Let your hair down my dear little child, don't make your brow so furrowed. But keep this spot where the heart starts pounding and ponders right and flags and flound'ring. Reflecting him, so keen to win when hung in halls of legend, they show you only your own eyes -never nothin' made of steel. Revise the past and worse to come. Pull your hood, begin to run. Your eyes have come to frighten. Still there you are wanderin' round. Chestnut waves so tightly bound above eyes to save all this that you've found that fills your head with sorrow. So cross your legs as you drop to the ground. Shadowed in lace, hang your head down with your brow so furrowed.
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Such Pretty Dreams 04:22
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Incompetence gains another day. Alive I need reasons to stay. Oh Momma, won't you take a needle twenty years ago or so. There ain't nothin' good to feel in this heart so broken and terror filled. Oh my bones are just as empty as all my little hopes. Courageous acts are not my way; a simple task's enough today when I'm feeling in my head belittled every way I go. Don't have nothin' worth to hear, just every sound a senseless tear. Oh my hopes are just as empty as all my little notes. "Someday," they say, "it'll be okay." But from here I watch their houses blaze and I can't say I want these warming sins. Just lay me in that deathbed there where all my dreams are seen so clear so I can learn to smile there as I dim. Every turn within this maze I've seen and studied in my gaze and I find all the answers though with shadows over form. I try my best to taste a cheer but still the devil, he comes to leer at my bones, still just as empty as all my little hopes. "Someday," they say, "it'll be okay." But from here I watch their houses blaze and I can't say I want these warming sins. Just lay me in that deathbed there where all my dreams are seen so clear so I can learn to smile there as I dim. But I can't learn to smile on a whim.
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Montgomery Park 00:23
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A Lullaby for Weary Eyes 02:09
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Life seems so short when the day closes down the pretty youth lives pass you by. Your meanings ignored. Fear you’ve felt before. Turn the sheet, climb on in, and then hope you will rise up again. Life seems so short when the day closes down with your eyes so deep down in your head. Now why won’t the blue stay inside your irises, why your eyes so often red? the blue velvet night skies can heal you ’till sun cries then maybe hope, ‘rise up again.’ Turn the sheet, climb on in. maybe hope you will rise up again. And then hope you will rise up again.
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Raise Me from the Ground 03:51
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All that falls from this pen are words of looming death. They read like smiles and taste like dread. Oh Lord, it seems so tense, this hardness in my chest that steals my smiles and blocks my breath. Filling up my darkened head, clouds of grey composed of lead. I’m still a child- like lightning bent. Raise me from the ground! All I can taste is vinegar and war and human waste. There’s lines between them and you and he Ignoring me. Oh those colors must be beautiful to see.

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Crynyd's second full length. Written and recorded over 2011-13, finished mixing 2014. Far too long a time span. Far too many tapes at far too many speeds. Far too much distraction. Thank you. 

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released June 4, 2014

Written, Recorded, Performed, Mixed, etc. by Adam Nieting.

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