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Hold Me Close and You Can Hear the Sea

by Plot Against Rachel

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1.
Ship to Sail (free) 05:08
Skate slipping up a hill Dark streaks on my rayon jacket Curb crushing afraid of nothing I loved biology but I let your present throw me Crestfallen, unwrapping paper I've got a ship to sail and I don't need anyone on it 'cuz my forte's to fail and I don't want anyone with me Help me Saint Christopher Sense direction, destination Which way I'm pointing You only pay once for your mistakes
2.
A feather that's looking for fruit Found an empty sketch book Can I do anything but struggling and settling? From your outstretched arms it was clear That you could use a volunteer Despite what you might have heard Brunette's too strong a word If love could shrink down everything All we need are two cans and some string A shell but I think it suits me Hold me close and you can hear the sea Are you good at everything you tried But you never really specialized You're book smart, and street smart and always on the invite
3.
The stopped clock told me it was time It doesn't work This old house with sagging glass The yard looks better but this pane knows old frames I want to see better I want to see what's holding us together We'll go to the park one day You'll slide and I'll thrive I thought you would run away but you turned your ring around Into the night I fell all the way Even the stopped clock was right about you
4.
Seacliff 04:54
There are times I'd like to withdraw from Sundays Your crying, a train whistle, crawling through the cracks of my window I discovered banks don't care where you grew up No one's saving this coast for its native stock Once this state is fully owned by those who can pay to call it home I wonder who and what you'll be I wonder where we'll get to swim I guess we'll fall off a cliff just to swim in the ocean I want my flesh to flow over my bones just like water over rocks in a river
5.
Swell Song 06:57
Did you miss me Your bottle of your worst champagne didn't hear a word I said I thought you would answer this time I thought you were saving your Sunday minutes for your only son When you were visiting me You said, "its a cold," but you're lonely You didn't bring Judy I need you to find out when this is over Why the hell did you wait so long I wanted to mail you the weapons I borrowed 'Cuz right now you can have them back You waited so long You think you know about chemistry You broke your promise to me It doesn't matter what you say You're broken
6.
Detangling 03:59
Askew and knotted up And its been that way since I got it I can't tell you since when I forgot it I dissociate and paralyze Detangling is hard When you don't give yourself time to do it It's not something you need to intuit If you can sit still, you're half way there And if you see my snags Ration the silk from my bailout Draw in the seam It will all be okay next time I get paid But I concentrate like a humming bird out our window I can't stay in place I just go, go In fervent intermittent bursts But I found out that life's about paying attention To exactly and just what you are doing Not what you've done or what you've yet to do
7.
I keep my eyes focused on the ground So I can count the steps to your house You fill my heart not break it And sometimes I can't even sing Won't you let me give back to you What you made in me? For all kinds of reasons We write down the very last dream And I will never have a friend with your name And I'll never have my one perfect thing Very soon, the promise becomes another world a sworn apology The location of all things
8.
How can you love the world? Now its time to breathe Now its time to break Maybe I should have worn a tie It wouldn't bring you back Maybe I should have been a better friend And wrapped you in the American flag
9.
If this cliff kills how could I survive For a steep climb, twenty-nine is a long time And if you keep score Pay attention to the part when they sing "and many more" Don't you want to leave this place Speeding passed a complicated case Don't you want to finish what's in play Breaking down those idols If you look through books to see what you can become Unless you taste it The recipe was the wrong one I was proud of you because you didn't quit You were wishing you could be an average kid Your roommate said that they looked good there The flowers that I bought you wound up drying on the mantle Non-plussed, but romanced by the boy who couldn't dance But you will be repaid Catch me slipping into the crowd around aroud A souvenir I could hang on the wall It was the longest day of the shortest month If we could only fix time Then you would be the love of mine

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The lost album...delivered digitally to your ears.

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released July 22, 2011

Written and performed by Plot Against Rachel.

Plot Against Rachel is...
Rachel Boller - Rhodes, synth, vocals
Ryan Berman - guitars, vocals
Brad McGowan - guitars, synth, vocals
Jeff Brown - drums

Recorded and mixed by Brad McGowan at Little Red Wagon Studios, Fremont, CA
Assistant engineers: Ken Mahru, Jeff Brown

Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering.
Assistant engineer: Maria Rice.

Artwork by Kyle McGowan.

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