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The Abandoned Airport

from Settling EP by Knock Over City

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I think that a large part of adolescence is sneaking around and getting drunk on the sly in various locations. Where I'm from that was typically either basements, VFW halls, cars (hand in hand with the VFW halls), and the woods. Also anytime I hear someone has killed themselves I feel it as the loss of a comrade almost, like; they couldn't make it, how can I? But that's pretty narcissistic.

Also, I've never known anyone named Ethel. Like, ever. Not even an old lady. IF your name is Ethel: I'm sorry, please don't kill yourself.

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We used to drink in the woods behind your house
Before Ethel hung herself there, the year we all got out.
We used to build real shit in this town
Before you came along and drove your father's dreams to the ground
and I once felt hope not unlike I see in you
but if life has thought me anything it's that hope's the first to lose.
So shore up your walls and get ready for the storm
not one will make it out alive, we've all been warned.

I can't be sure of exactly how I feel when I can't take anything I see or hear as real:
Voices in the kitchen, ghosts under the bed,
I wish I could crack open and repair this damaged head.
But I can't be sure of this ground on which I stand
at least I stopped the quiet tremble in my hands.
Bottles on the counter, sickness in the sink,
that one pervading question
"What would the neighbors think?"

And I give my heart to those who've lost the fight.
Ethereal and blameless, they were looking for the light.
A world of sharpened edges, a house in disrepair,
the smell of shampoo from the ghost who lived there.

I will see you in the shadows, I will hear you in the street.
Feel the ground give way underneath these tired feet.
Falling into nothing it's a comfort finally
I wish I could tell you I learned how to be alright.
Alright, I'm alright.

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from Settling EP, released October 27, 2014

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Knock Over City Lowell, Massachusetts

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