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always stay sweet

by the gifted children

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your listerine teeth our broken-armed love you, chiseled by facelift it’s our job to clap when you speak and complain at every roadside we’re counting cars should be angling towards meaning instead coughing in your exhaust plume endured rival chants for so long we finally built a campfire for all the lonely hearts breathe and you’ll put it out we’re fanning flames, it’s almost life
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bring on the carcass weather let's get lost and never leave flush the poison, rebuild skin how important the local creek find me in your drafty attic dust me off so i can breathe bathe me in the cool, clear water how important the local creek freeze me in your ancient canyon bruise me with your turning cheek watch the pieces floating onward how important the local creek bring on the carcass weather let's get lost and never leave flush the poison, rebuild skin how important the local creek
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down your darkened corridors who dances? they await you, they hear your echoed footsteps and waves from planes destined for the dancehall atlantic angel voice in chambers and who are we but albatross? my car hits ghosts at intersections the humidity of a hundred summers is in us the matchbook crumbles with no fire and i'm waiting alone without you
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ankle socks 00:37
i’m feeling pretty out there i’m waiting for a new pair but the shoes never fit when you buy them separately and you confuse me with all the dexterity of an opposable thumb
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your summer haze got the best of me again it's crippling and it takes me by surprise every time windblown downstate to your city and i'll be leaving too soon again we of shakespearean near misses just meet for dinner and say goodbye here comes the coda now: it's been a year since we last spoke you've probably been everywhere but not with me wherever you are i hope you always stay sweet
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a forest 02:41
your kind attention, please everything plastic wins when we break apart there is no maybe the bridge collapses under exodus we shrink with cold and crack next year weeds to fill the gaps when you feel the faint come, push harder blindfold me, spin me around start me in some new direction stop following the same old sounds
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i’m in no mood for conversation so sit there and watch me implode i’ll turn into some sort of small black hole and pull in all the things you wish we were and i’ll stay here, try to figure out why there’s never any mustard but there’s always salt to rub in my wounds
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grandmaster ennui (free) 01:11
you always looked prettier in oil slicks but you brought cubic measurement and ruined the mystery i don’t want your case studies sterile and bone dry your ven diagram love letters have grown tired explain your lack of motivation in three sentences or less: “life ends.”
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come softly to me you the something missing you the shard of glass you the strange angel pretend we're longtime lovers haunt me, haunt me do it again
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'always stay sweet' is the the second full-length, and already the 9th (yes, we said 9th!), overall release for the gifted children in 2008...

From a 70-second pop anthem for the underdog ("the straw brigade") to a cello-filled ode to dying in plane crashes ("the dancehall atlantic") to a chamber-music-meets-Aphex Twin rumination on muses to the beautiful noise of the title track, 'always stay sweet' is another highlight in their prolific body of work.

For those who like comparisons, think Guided by Voices communing with Broken Social Scene and Red House Painters and you're partly there.

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released October 14, 2008

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the gifted children Rochester, New York

the gifted children is a music collective centered in rochester and buffalo, ny.

since forming in 1995, the gifted children have released 13 albums, over 30 EPs and singles, and a boxed set, with several dozen unfinished albums currently being worked on. stylistically they range from art rock to folk, electronic to indie rock, ambient to shoegaze. ... more

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