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Norman

by Ralph Waldo

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Brandon Zarzyczny Ralph Waldo had one of my favorite songs on July 2017's Indie Rock Playlist, and after searching out the rest of their music, it turns out that all of their songs are just as good. This is such an excellent EP, with multiple songs to absolutely fall in love with. Favorite track: Good Morning, 10PM.
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1.
Brief stays Some slipped away Paint us darker colors than what paints the town today Moon beams Silver streams Everything we hope to be is alive in a dream Slow motion, I tried to honor thee Burn me at the altar Made a sacrifice of me Big picture, I tried to get a view Passion's stripped to ribbons Now I'm asking for the truth Am I wrong to doubt it in a song? It's enough to make you happy in the end It's enough to make you high It's enough to make you happy in the end It's enough to make you cry
2.
without u 03:10
I heard you float around In grey with all those other clouds The way their falsely-folded hands surround you I had to get away And bite my tongue for finger's sake And come to grips I'm better off without u Will some future people pen The bell fell from the steeple when the orphan and the pagan beast devoured you Does it matter I do wrong? I don't wanna be left out Save it for a rainy day, would it matter anyway? I don't wanna be locked out
3.
Stranger 04:44
I couldn't dream how many times you hear Your eyes, they made pupils out of mine. So clear They're the teacher of the year I don't mind and might never stop explaining What I would or wouldn't do just to get you in my arms And I won't be monster, left to rot inside a brain cell Today, I learn to love a stranger Back from the record store, a rack marked clear Oh my, need to get my fix and find a needle here for the album of the year I don't mind and might never stop explaining What I would or wouldn't do just to get you in my arms And I won't be a coward, thrown to hide inside a waveform Today, I learn to love a stranger Somewhere on a couch Ron and Frankie sprawling out In the blue hour of the morning Somewhere I'm heavy-shouldered, headlong dreaming Would you mind filling out the dotted line right here? Did you find me irresistibly refined and all sincere As I slouched away in fear? I don't mind and might never stop explaining What I would or wouldn't do just to get you in my arms And I'll breathe like a baby if I'm ever born in your eyes Today, I learn to love a stranger Can you love a stranger?
4.
Pumpkinhead 03:35
Never asked a hand to hold So far down to reach As far as isolation goes, one's always free to live like me Got no time for hollow heads As anyone can see An australian white wine intellectual wants her bichon frise to speak like me Ooh solipsism led me wrong True digit vision overdone Am I one? Am I 1? Am I one? The only one? On the other side of me Norman Humal wannabe On the outside, oh disaster I, too blind to see the way I wanna be Why can't you let these simple things get through your pumpkinhead? It seems like every thought's a word somebody else has said
5.
Pool Days 02:54
Adrift in the pool, I feel right at home Single-celled ancestors laugh at my bones Still disconnected from an earthly home phone It's the only way I'll ever know that primordial zone Wait for the call but the phone never rang There on the wall like a dog in the rain The cord it was twisted but not quite insane It's a shame I'll never really know the love that remains Martha writes letters and cries all the time Danny wrote notes, spoke, and tossed her a line Said "this house seems perfect. And the water seems fine" It's a shame they ever even saw 'For Sale' on the sign Pool days School days Fool days
6.
Wanted 03:34
Never wanted more songs that scratch the core And scream the sounds of the shore Never question what has become of us The wheels, they flatten. They rust. And ooh, have you seen her? Just one step to the left and the grass is greener To be wanted. To be wanted. To be wanted, in a word, is a wish for Monday morning Will I ever be received? And ooh have you seen her? Caught in stride, she's a ride from a sidestreet screamer To be wanted. To be wanted. To be wanted, in a word, is a wish for Monday morning Will I ever Will we ever be relieved?
7.
Freedom 03:06
Walking tired, dreaming mother Be sure to offer one hand to the other It's so easy not to bother Why let your mind tricks do the honor? You want freedom Walking fire baby brother Be sure to offer one hand to the other Free. Freedom. We're the same. When you came into my world Walking tired, dreaming mother Be sure to offer one hand to the other one We're the same. When you came into my world Just a bone in a grave It's all or the other Walking fire baby brother Be sure to offer one have to the other one We're the same when you came into my world Just a bone in a grave It's all or the other Faulty freedom-finding soul Do you feel it?

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released May 10, 2017

Mixed/Engineered by Ben Kling
Produced by Ben Kling/Tyler Perry
Music by Kling/Perry
Lyrics by Tyler Perry
Percussion by Jon Blanchette
Mastered by Steve Haan
Album Art by Libby Danforth & Savion Moran

Recorded in Ben's apartment

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Tyler Perry
Ben Kling
Jon Blanchette
Andrew Barry
Spencer Soucy

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