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Dead Without Dying & Gleefully Detached

by American Werewolf Academy

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In a Corvette Summer we're all doomed Drawing pictures of Star Wars in my room Mom is at work we're too old for a sitter I said I would It's just blood I never came and you never went After learning of your father's accident He knew better he didn't raise no quitter You never did It's just blood Straight off the bus and over the fence The key to your door was the key to my circumstance And we sampled the exotics of your parents' bar and we played a little bit of Donkey Kong and we looked at your brother's heavy metal wall of posters Maybe I should've known a bit sooner you wore a tank top I was a late bloomer, so skinny and so awkward I could die I must have been about a million miles away It's just blood
2.
Put upon stuck up on the roof So you join the thumb sucking crew Now that habit's all you do And the news just don't change for you While I'm hanging from the rafters too And I promise you my friend I'll often fall right to the end And I promise you big nights forever Put upon stuck up on the roof The self-appointed king has spoken Doesn't sound like at all like you And the news just don't change for you While I'm hanging from the rafters too And I promise you my friend I'll often fall right to the end And I promise you big nights forever I lost my jacket and my shoes Even Dracula had a friend or two If I get there before ya And you question my euphoria It's 'cause I promised you big nights forever 'Til we die
3.
Trapped in the world of the imaginary Drawing pictures of the Devil If we share this space I better tie my lace And make it mine in a hurry Stepping stones and peerless thrones of emptiness and spite I've grown far too comfortable so a new page I should write I'm gonna dream up something big tonight The spider had her children It was such a pretty sight She said, "I love thee, thou must devour me If you intend to live this life" Cue up the song to the ever live longs and their arrogance and pride I'll dine with the sin eaters until I'm cast aside I'm gonna dream up something big tonight Wishing .... for the thing I can't describe Falling .... under the age old spells I'm gonna dream up something big tonight
4.
I Can't Lose 02:44
Everybody wants a big comeback Everybody loves the man who laughs World don't need a thing So I won't make an offering I'm the Eyeball King and I see everything Everybody just wants something new Dusting off my huckleberry suit Call it intuition or maybe just a rinse I wanna get excited but it doesn't make sense And I can't lose right now Everybody wants a slap on the back Everybody loves the man who laughs I'm not an aberration or something to be teased A mouthful of stingers and a head full of bees And I can't lose right now Maybe superstitious a bit less than fantastic I stole a monkey's paw and now I'm playing in traffic And I can't lose right now So long stuck with it all and clueless half the time But I don't mind And I refuse now and I won't bruise now And I can't lose right now
5.
Got a friend who loves a good tear down Another way to get inside the ground "Get a taste of it" is what my buddy says Live in tombs and we pay the rent When the Devil meets the latchkey kids "Get out of it" is what your brother said I don't wanna sit around and watch the whole world die Gimme some ass wigglin' music and I'll be just fine If fame and fortune early graves are important Do what you do to get ahead 'cause beauty and youth get wasted on the dead Not exactly how I pictured us coming at you like birds to blood "Get a taste of it" is what your brother said You can't ever seem to find your voice When gasoline's the drug of choice "But it takes me away" is what your brother said We're here (x3) We're here for the good stuff then we're gone No need to stick around
6.
And we trip through the yard Throwing rocks at all cars Retreat to your mother's house As the neighborhood is on fire Aunts and uncles congregate at the base of the stairs There's news to be made Behave little brothers and scoot in your chairs We're the Card Table Kids and the night is wild
7.
It Lives 02:39
It’s part of a mysterious freight and now it’s just a broken crate What have we found we must get home Now a shadow’s haunting us it’s misshaped and it’s hideous It acts as if it just might know me Don’t push it I might lose my head Control my teeth if I see red The neighborhood is falling dark as we wind through the ancient park An omen creaked out from a swing set Off the chain link through the trees I’m losing you I’m barely me I feel its breath come down on my neck Don’t push it I might lose my head Control my teeth if I see red Well it lives in the ground and it lives in the weeds It sleeps in the basement it creeps in the streets It climbs down the house and it hides in the trees It lies in the dark and it rolls in the leaves It stalks in the alley it stands on the stone It crawls through the window to make itself known It lives to be angry it lives to be seen It feels nothing, knows nothing, it’s inside me
8.
Drag my mortal frame outside we can't hide forever from the night Oh, yeah hold on tight Throw some blood upon the flames grab what we can take into the night Oh, yeah hold on tight In times like this I curse disease and use my power of invisibility Gravity is not my friend I'm comfortable in my donkey skin And the man he said to me... to run And our hopes fell like shells from a gun And there was something rumbling 'neath our feet (all the time) Numb ourselves and vanish from the street (all in time) Oh, yeah hold on tight
9.
Fiery Eyes 03:52
In the time that we did it was not long lived And sharp teeth hurt when they break the skin Try to level up but I get in the way There was something more glorious about those days We stormed up the hill and by my side you stayed Fiery Eyes Kills me every time Fiery Eyes Set to explode You've taken your stand alone in the night No one can ever steal your fiery eyes In this retched house the pain never ends But it ain't a bad place if you've got the right friends You loved me for a loser we laughed it all the way There was something more glorious about those days You flew into my arms and by my side you stayed Fiery Eyes Kills me every time Fiery Eyes Set to explode You've taken your stand alone in the night No one can ever steal your fiery eyes You burned it all down with your pyro gaze You said "The trick to an entrance is when you go away" Fiery Eyes
10.
Fast loose and fucked up And I don’t give a damn about what anybody has to say And I don’t give a muck about whatever and the changing ways I’ll just stay in the river all day drinking beer and other things Fast loose and fucked up If I had a castle that was overrun with assholes I’d tell you what I’d tell you what I’d do I’d remove all the wood inside and eat paint chips to stay alive And build myself a giant merchant ship And if it isn’t seaworthy well I wouldn’t really worry Cause I’m done with the water and the land Cause our obsessions with possessions cannot change my past transgressions Cause I’m a mutherfuckin’ spaceman Fast loose and fucked up

about

"Dead without Dying & Gleefully Detached" is the brand new album from Dallas’ American Werewolf Academy via Damnably Records on coloured vinyl & digital.
It is the band's fifth full length and second to be released in the UK, after the 2011 compilation Everything Is Alright So Far and 2013’s Out Of Place All The Time. Dead Without Dying.. finds AWA crafting some of their most raw and melodic material to date, exploring such themes as parental death, unearthly beasts, Armageddon and the wisdom that comes with age.

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released October 20, 2017

Tape recorded, produced & mixed by Matt Barnhart, half at the band's usual haunt; The Echo Lab (Denton, TX) and the other half at Elmwood Recording (Dallas, TX). Analogue mastered by Carl Saff in his Chicago studio.
Vinyl Master Cut by Matt Barnhart at Chicago mastering Service studio.
Cover art: Deanna Molinaro

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