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Skyscraper to Mars

by The Highrise Quartet

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1.
you’ve stole my land gaia, you were never home to me green scape goats rung from honey this land’s got it cut out of me no! no! i shall not yield; football games in deserted fields; break your shins sweeping minefields. oh, you think that you can own all the shots? what do you know you are? can you take the heat? do the time not obsolete? skyscrapers mulled into pseudonyms, i’ve had my last deep ocean swim how shall i compute the final rays of these lives ablaze? i will seize control what did you expect? i didn’t know - of what horror might be brought i don’t know - iron clad trust is broken i didn’t try - you're in denial i didn’t care, i never loved you or myself i want this place to burn so bright it bends space to my every whim trees to be stripped golf clubs, museums to ashes let’s start a riot on 3am mainstreet where’d all the people go? the simian sameness enough to drive one to the edge of mad it won't be enough its never enough for this blood oiled machine run and hide whilst you still can i'm coming for you and your little dog too
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Zero Gravity 06:07
here we float in zero gravity no one’s free, but no one to watch over me how i tried, try to flee but it out runs me in an ancient land where the stars shine bright we will search for life and i’ll make it right but i never did know how finite our sun i'll never learn what love is to us and them in the darkened space between the stairs and the door i crawl from animosity dragging me onto the floor could i kneed more? there was a crack from the clouds the crowd shrieked but whimpered back “acta est fabula, plaudite, my heart knows no bounds to this war in our winter frozen mad in this empty town that we once called home” seas fall crumbling inwards the pressure forms, pops the eyes forever forced shut and we’re still sinking outward overboard with this oppression of the free, scalds me and it burns me to leap off this earth here i float in zero gravity i am totally free, still my head is weighing me i have tried my best to crawl on my hands and knees and yet no one wants to believe me that i’m broken and afraid that today is my last day in the cosmos still so very dull i wish that I never learnt how to fall, this planet breaks my jaw in a thousand ways in no loss with our busy lives the war in me rages while sleeping on this laser’s flight through the brazen atmosphere of mars has re-awakened my life birds are singing in the trees i have usurped native industry let it grow far beyond what you could ever want or dream here we stand - stuck in a line lapped in red sand; will you join me?
3.
it must be nice feelin’ pretty and suave wrapped tight in purple ribbons weaved in and out your hair, fiction takes grip, hang your lower cut lip the stars are out, twisting, cascading in me; i wish to hide, but no one left it up to me starlight: will you be my delight? coerced candelas resplendent enough for us to live and breathe? not tonight, or ever, it seems scream fresh, my ghost, if i could i wish may, strike the sword, become the sway to own our freedom through the years, the char was sparse to grow through in our haste, jesting mirrors embedded in our lungs i'm sticking to the floor - i just want to explore i’ve never felt this before: my minds’ dark tinged monstrosity i know where i’m from - through tarred fields of unrelenting spit, now burning through the planet core, i must be lost; seared by the shore earth and it's kind are drowning in heat - an interstellar calamity i've flown to hide, but the planet’s not forgiven me starlight: quelling time mending half-baked street lights but your orbitals seem so serene, despite matters selflessly obscene i'm here tonight, superseded to never for free my taunted flesh, scarred souls cling to me if i could ask for one more thing, i'd end the wish to be our king and fall straight back into the flame; trust in truth’s dismay
4.
Black & Red 01:48
5.
i miss you but that’s not enough i’ve got coins in my socks bent backwards, a parrot’s brought to mock your flesh and blood and you pay it no attention for death or living cold i prefer to be alone never look me in the eyes bathing in charcoal illuminate this sky when volcanoes ash over and we are merely dust, i’ll be drinking the moon - i’ll pass it on to you sleeping on granite rocks bumpy skin and swollen eyes drive home some lies, never to be opened with knives of caked on rust and blush that burns the touch you bleed so fair for me and i’ll never go back outside never look myself with mine subtropical storms are coming won't you stand in line? pride in your ironed shirt devil in a miniskirt let’s blow up the moon - i’ll bring some back for you oh my darling - can it be true? my sweet struck flu has stricken you bring forth the poison did we learn anything? does it matter to you? what matters to you? darling, darling - what have we done? we've spent our days wasting with twisted light spelunking in oceans is fun for a while we'll burn and fade in a few more miles

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a change of pace from our last EP
a tale of ego, grief, and ultimately, acceptance

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released August 9, 2017

Samira Eblaghi - Lead vocal.
Liam Britten - Electric guitar, vocals.
Liam Ring - Tenor sax.
Morgan Zwicker - Drumset.
John Janigan-Mills - Electric bass, vocals, composer, production.
Max Cooper-Flint - Vocals (Track 1).

Drums engineered by Thomas Stajcer & Alex Burris @ New Scotland Yard (Dartmouth, NS) [Tracks 2,3,5]
Mixed & mastered by Adam Fancy and John @ Top Floor Sounds & Cosmic Monkey Sound Lab (Halifax, NS)
Starlight mastered by David Fuller (Boston, MA)

Special thanks to Stephen Hare (Top Floor Sounds) for his generosity, passion and golden ears.

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The Highrise Quartet Halifax, Nova Scotia

Don't expect the unexpected, but don't expect the expected either.

Incorporating mystifying math rock rhythms, indie rock absurdism, contemporary harmony, off-the-wall avant-gardism, and the abrasiveness of noise, The Highrise Quartet is here to immerse listeners in a new world of impassioned idiosyncrasies. ... more

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