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Pastimes [EP]

by The Offseason

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1.
Can't Sleep 02:05
i had no reason to stay back with you we knew we had to learn the world outside your room but i always keep on looking back wondering about the path you took do you have yourself all figured out? enough for you to turn around and say the past was something great but i love the way we’ve changed ‘cause i can’t sleep every night you still haunt me it’s not in what you do or what we’ve both been through i guess i just miss you what exactly did i lose when i gave up my life with you watching lesser men all take my place? they don't know your handling the way i did, but has it changed? ‘cause i still see frustration painted on your face your boyfriend always lets you down so why do you keep him around? i thought you would know better by now ‘cause i can’t sleep every night you still haunt me it’s not in what you do or what we’ve both been through but you should know that i can’t sleep all your problems still trouble me i want to save you from all that you’ve been through i guess i miss you
2.
'98 03:06
everyone i know has it better than they think they do i used to have better days they haven't happened since '98 and i've done my best to live with the torment but these are my weights that i'm forced to carry i refuse to believe i can't do anything with these clipped wings 'cause life is boring stuck in this birdcage can someone take this burden away? i want to leave this disease behind me and it's made its mark on this hospital heart and ripped all my freedom apart (ripped all my freedom apart) i refuse to believe i can't do anything with these clipped wings but when will my time come to lose these limitations and be someone? 'cause life is boring stuck in this birdcage everyone i know has it better than they think they do (this will never end) this is the only fight that i may never win waking every night in cold sweats with unsteady hands (this will never end) but that won't change the fact that i've got bigger plans and i won't let this keep me down i just have to work this out there's no better time than now. don't count me out i refuse to believe i can't do anything with these clipped wings but when will my time come to lose these limitations and be someone? 'cause life is boring stuck in this birdcage
3.
Deadgirl 03:11
you’ve got another thing coming if your best traits are the worst things for me i couldn’t believe that my eyes deceived me but i should have seen this coming miles away you starve for compliments like some sort of adolescent girl, and that don’t sit well with me it becomes clear, sad and sincere you hate to be alone but it’s not my fault no one can handle the kind of clinger you claim you aren’t you’ve got another thing coming if your best traits are the worst things for me don’t tell me that i’ve got another lesson to learn about your ways ‘cause you’re just trouble to me you still expect my friends to read your wild emotions on your sleeves but they’re just decorations to get you noticed by the creeps what will it take to say “enough, and take back all your fucking stuff!” ‘cause i’ve got no good use for what you’ve given me you’ve got another thing coming if your best traits are the worst things for me don’t tell me i’ve got another lesson to learn about your ways ‘cause you’re just trouble to me (you’re just trouble to me) and you're too much for me to take don’t say you’ll be the one i want (you’ll never be enough) don’t say you’ll be what i had hoped (you won’t be enough) don’t say you’re everything i want ‘cause you’re not happy on your own you’ve got another thing coming if your best traits are the worst things for me don’t tell me that i’ve got some other lesson to learn you’ve got another thing coming if your best traits are the worst things for me don’t tell me that i’ve got another lesson to learn i've got no other lesson to learn
4.
Spit Trash 03:08
i’ve had a lot of time to think about who you've been and why it’s pathetic that you’re still rotting in that smoke-stained skin you’ve been bathing in since the first day i ever met you how old do you have to get for this routine to look so deliberate? you never quit all the habits you’ve made like cigarettes for dinner and the cheap beer you drink you’re just rock and roll delusional and we still taste your stink the long nights by streetlights were something of a pastime but we’re not eighteen anymore if the weight of your world is too heavy to hold then pack up your shit and go home give up the gold you can’t keep depending on people you owe telling them sweet lies that you’ll get them next time to keep your intentions on hold this isn’t a game you can cheat through to play and expect all your stories to have some meaning to me you’re just a ghost a self-absorbed soul with nobody to host the long nights by streetlights were something of a pastime but we’re not eighteen anymore if the weight of your world is too heavy to hold then pack up your shit and go home long nights, streetlights, time spent by your side it’s just not the same anymore it’s been five years away and still, nothing has changed this isn’t the world that you know i’ve got a little bit of worn out patience for your expense just don’t try to waste my fucking time again long nights, streetlights, time spent by your side it’s just not the same anymore if the weight of your world is too heavy to hold then pack up your shit and go back home i’ve got a little bit of worn out patience
5.
Unsettled 02:41
another night i've wasted thinking nothing on this path has changed i'm still unpacked, still unsettled still complacent with these ways i keep together being average i still play my days by ear but what am i still doing here? (yeah!) the 9 to 5's are getting to me i need to get back on the road (whoa oh oh) take me west, take me anywhere let my ambitions take control but everything is easier said than done making all these trade-offs to get what you want it's never fair until you get where you want to go i'm still not satisfied as far as they know, i haven't tried my life is on the line, but is that enough yet? i can't say i'm done with this scene and everything it's meant to me 'cause i've still got my reasons to believe i'm so sick of being average afraid the end is getting near and i could choose to never write again, but there's still ink inside this pen there's still battles i can fight that will add meaning to my life so what am i still doing here, yeah
6.
where did everything i once loved go? i never asked to be this left alone, with my thoughts and wasted dreams 'cause you see, i have gotten good at killing time and getting bored with american life reminders of my better years have burnt away and forged new fears i don’t want to tell my friends how stagnant and burnt out i’ve been i know nothing stays the same but why must we change? get me up out of bed and get me to move instead i’ve gotta face the fact that we act the way we see ourselves, and i’m just collecting dust there’s no safer place than in my head the rest of the world wants me dead but i’m past the point at 25 where i should care to be alive and practice self respect keep my dignity in check well, let’s jumpstart this motivation break these chains i’ve made myself if i only gave a damn, i could do more than i think i can get me up out of bed and get me to move instead i’ve gotta face the fact that we act the way we see ourselves, and i’m just collecting dust (don't give up, just get going) i've had enough of myself, still staying dormant expecting someone else to save me from indifference i’ve been a victim of my wasted time by letting everybody else decide but i will never let myself stay pushed aside get me up out of bed and get me to move instead i’ve gotta face the fact that we act the way we see ourselves, (see ourselves) reminders of my better years have burnt away and forged new fears i don’t want to tell my friends how stagnant and burnt out i’ve been but i’m past the point at 25 (don't give up, just get going) where i should care to be alive and practice self respect (don't give up, just get going) but i'm just collecting dust collecting dust

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Recorded at Getaway Recording in Haverhill, MA
Produced by The Offseason and Jay Maas
Mixed and Mastered by Jay Maas

digital copies can be purchased at negativeprogressionrecords.bandcamp.com

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released May 14, 2013

All songs written and performed by The Offseason

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