The Homewrecker Upstairs Won't Leave

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It starts with me way more omniscient than I’d like to be.
A fly on the wall is too much when the pleasure’s not mine to accept
and the fly tries to sit on the head of a wallflower trying to forget.

I’m on the bed, you sit on the floor.
About a dozen of our closest friends watch as you take another closer to
Your heart.

Don’t rile everybody up
Especially her.
She’s too close

Eyes closed, lips locked
My head fixated on the lack of trust I have.

Suffice it to say
I’d rather make the feeling go away.
Reverse, break them up.
My stomach is starting to turn,

If my head was on straight
Would I even have anything to say?
It’s only in the back of your head,
You even know it in the moment.
Can it be left unsaid?

Fast forward, dawn breaks
It feels too real to me.

She’s the villain of the day.
I’ve naturally pointed my guns away from me
And focused all my subconscious rage.

Calm down, don’t let her get upset.
Not her.
I can’t say sorry enough.
It’s not you.

Suffice it to say
I’d rather make the feeling go away.
Stay awake tonight
Don’t fall asleep, don’t fall asleep.

If my head was on straight
Would I even have anything to say?
It’ll stay in the back of your head
Until a worse day can make you think of what’s next instead.

Fast forward, dawn breaks.
It feels too real to me.

Was I even an afterthought at all?
I must have missed that part through the fog of your drunken escapades.
You gave it all you had inside you to block me out.
The alarm rings and you’re next to me like always.

One happy family.

Time to wake up.

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released June 8, 2018
Produced by Kevin Marcoux and Better Machines

Recorded and Mixed by Kevin Marcoux at Blue Light Recording in Mount Holly, New Jersey

Vocals Engineered by Jaime Gowell at Blue Light Recording in Mount Holly, New Jersey

Mastered by Jeff Rattay at Tall Man Studios

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