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Sound under Rock

by American Friend

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Where I came from, do I know? Do I know where I came from? Do I know anything before? How many of my faces have gone unrecognized? Now everything has gone to sh** Should we mercy kill the kids? Living post-meaning, post-anything worth repeating... Where I came from, do I know? Do I know where I came from? Do I know anything before? How many of my faces have gone unrecognized? Now everything has gone to sh** Should we mercy kill ourselves and the kids? Living post-meaning, post-anything worth repeating...
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Going up the greatest mountain Don't know the top from the bottom Walking on new information Ground opened up Nothing below nothing to put weight on Sky Going up the greatest mountain He is looking at me and I am looking out The light is making me
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Troubles 02:49
I could think about my troubles I could think about the trouble you caused I could think about my troubles But then I wouldn't be thinking at all The thought of love is good when it comes up, like a song The chase of it is not the thought from which it comes The hardest part of giving up is knowing that you're wrong Thinking about your troubles Thinking about the trouble she caused And you think so much about your troubles that you're not really thinking at all The thought of love will pass when the house is painted red When she's thrown in her cards, but still wants to bet The hardest part of giving up is getting what you do The hardest part of getting that is thinking about your troubles Thinking about the trouble she caused And you think so much about your troubles that you're not really thinking at all
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for J.W. Back to reality Back to reality, what you want Living in a sense, all that exists is a dream And if nothing else, a mirror to that which seems not to exist But is actually everything What you want Back to reality
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The Obstacle 03:11
Days are getting hard Days are getting hard Deeper the enemy, less I know who I am calling the obstacle There is a face in every feeling and it's changing from the inside His shadow gives away the woman Days are getting hard to get through Reframe expectations Humanize the muse Love is losing count, cutting out the obstacle from the inside
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based on Katherine E. Bash poem "Prioritizing Through Action: figuring out what's important to you." Signs that are hard to read You're tripping on what's already behind Got my education in public... humiliating Waiting on the line for a shot at reaching a person The date and time are unknown, but coming to bite you in the butt Pack up everything, put it in a bag Drive it to a bridge, throw it over What gives you a pang in the stomach, you'll know was important

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Adam’s drums keep the blood flowing and Sarah’s bass holds the body upright, Jana’s guitar reacts to the confines of rhythm and their lyrics pinch. They pull open the curtains and let the sun flood the room. Taking note of the dog hair in the corners and how your stomach feels in an unrecognizable moment, a good time to look at comfortable patterns and self soothe with “Sound under Rock”, it has some solutions.

There is an unspecificity to the content, no proper noun spoken, an aura of place. There are mountains, there is a sky, there is a bridge, there is a woman, there is an obstacle, the context is the in between space of before and after the event. It has its teeth on the brink of being bared, not to bite at you but to warn that life is brief; so why not tell it like it is?

American Friend came together 2018 in Texas. Mix of Jana Horn voice guitar, Sarah Beames bass and Adam Jones drums. Repetition, discord, water, other. Possible move to NYC.

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released September 9, 2021

Adam Jones: drums, keys. Sarah Beames: bass. Jana Horn: vocals, guitar, keys. Additional guitar on “Where I Came From” by Matt Gerhard. Recorded at Adam’s pink house. Engineered by Adam. Mixed by Matt Gerhard. Mastered by Sarah Register. 2020.

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