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A Life In the 21st Century

by ELSINORE

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1.
How could you forget about everything, all the sweaty nights we spent last spring? Oh, I could never leave this happily Losing you leaves me with nothing How could you expect me not to fuss and fight? I’m telegraphing everything I feel inside Oh, why do we do this all the time? But I can never get you out of my head Why don’t you just come back to bed? How could I forget about anything when every single day is like some weird dream? Oh, I could never leave this happily when half of me is you and half you me How could I expect you not to smile and laugh when half the time I’m acting like a psychopath? Oh, why would I go and screw this up? How could you forget about everything, all the sweaty nights we spent last spring? Oh, I could never leave this happily Losing you leaves me with nothing How could you expect me not to fuss and fight? I’m telegraphing everything I feel inside Oh, why do we do this all the time? Every night when the sun goes down it turns me inside out The lights go off and I hear you breathe right here next to me I can get so lonely I could die I get so worked up I just need you near, near I can get so lonely I could die
2.
Turn It On 04:04
Can you feel it in your heavy heart? Do you remember anything from when you were young? Is that when everything went so wrong? Did you start out pulling everything apart? You grew up, you couldn’t get enough Sweaty skin, cocaine and gin, bursting with sin You could never let anybody in and all the money won’t help you sleep at night Do you ever get the feeling that your heart just isn’t in this one? I could tell you all about it, but you wouldn’t listen anyway You turn it on, but no one cares... You can spend your time on towers and walls Piling up the golden bricks and all of your bullshit You sit there ogling your television while you’re fondling the reputation of us all I can’t get you out of my mind I just need to get some normal sleep again You’re the crazy psycho killer man and we’re the victims of the 21st Century Do you ever get the feeling that your heart just isn’t in this one? I could tell you all about it, but you wouldn’t listen anyway. You turn it on, but no one cares You’re sitting there in your underwear
3.
How can I get you alone? I’ve got something on my mind all the time and it keeps me up at night, running circles in my brain There is a certain flaw in the circuits of the mind, yours and mine, and it gets me all uptight Little burdens echoing the things you can’t forget The pain and the pleasure, for worse or for better Despite your deepest conviction it’s the Human Condition There is a struggle to life if you never compromise and get yourself together We’re wired to take what we want and we hate when we can’t and nobody is safe This is my mother, my father, my son and my daughter This is my wife and my worst enemy This is a thirst without water, a coin from the coffer This is that thing that you saw on TV It pushes and pulls you The pain and the pleasure, for worse or for better It’s such a strange disposition, the Human Condition And everything you want is half of what you need And everything I think is right is hard to believe right now But I will try a little harder The pain and the pleasure, for worse or for better Despite your deepest conviction it’s the Human Condition But we’re all in a hurry in this sound and this fury We all let go of intuition, it’s the Human Condition
4.
Controllable machinery The faces and the words in between Everybody knows about the little things Close my eyes and start to walk My sister’s birthday I forgot Nothing counts when it’s just talk I fell into a hole in the ground down to the center of my hometown Scratched my way through roots of all the family trees Underground, but in the scene A superstar to all the teens Massaging all the numbers ’til I win I never know what I’m about to do Los Angeles is calling, too But, would the Valley pull me under? Spacecraft hovering in the night I know that I’ll get out alive if I squint my eyes and stare at the sun Once I jumped into the ocean, it carried me away Stripped off all my clothes and swam away from shore Thought I saw you floating just a hundred feet away Then you were gone…then you were gone I remembered how you smelled and your fingers on my face I thought that it would last forever, but that was not the case Something happens to your body when you know you might not…might not get out alive Controllable machinery The faces and the words in between Everybody knows about the little things
5.
O 04:30
I’ll go anywhere you wanna go I’ve got the car and some money Be sure to tie up all your loose ends We’ve gotta get across the state line You see yourself as an apothecary You’ve been livin’ in a submarine But, I never anticipated you’d be sleepin’ in the front yard I’ll say anything to satisfy you, even if it means I tell you lies You’ve done everything you can to convince me Now we have to live here underground Your worldview is peripheral Your understanding conceptual You’ve got a talent for univision Your eyes catching the television Pack up, pack up, don’t worry about all that Pack up, pack up, I’ll take you anywhere you wanna go I’ll say anything to satisfy you, even if it means I tell you lies You’ve done everything you can to convince me Now we have to live here underground I’ll do anything to satisfy you, even if it’s covering your eyes You’ll do anything you can to convince me Now we’ve gotta make it through the night
6.
This heart gets lonely all the time I just can’t get you out of my mind You’re there in my dreams every night No matter what I tell myself I know you’re happier with someone else But, I just can’t forget your smell Every time I wanna call I know that I will look like the crazy one This body still feels the chemicals I’m sorry I ever called it off How can we just get some time alone? Don’t we belong together? I need to tell you all my thoughts This weight on my chest and I can’t get it off I just can’t stand the thought of being alone But every time I wanna call I hear that voice inside, it says, “Don’t don’t don’t!” If we put ourselves together I know we could last forever Don’t we belong together? This heart is never gonna let you go How can I get you on the telephone? This heart is feeling like a hurricane This body quivers at the thought of you How can I counteract the pheromones This body doesn’t stand a chance against the memory of you This heart gets lonely all the time I just can’t get you out of my mind You’re there in my dreams every night Don’t we belong together?
7.
Thinking all the way back, I was raised by a hurricane And I cried at almost everything, put my faith in nothing And I saw too many wedding rings, too many broken heartstrings Waking in the middle of the night, I see a low glow from outside And I think of how she always cried, my heart is ticking off the time An apparition here at my bedside, my fingers sneak to the other side I can do the exercises, turning my face blue Succumbing to the pressure points and doing bad things to you I feel like I’m letting you down again Clinging to my past lives, my body fills with a current And my brain goes off on a tangent, an existential torrent A half-successful treatment, I was always the quotient I can do these exercises, turning my face red Succumbing to the pressure points and keeping me out of bed No alarms, but some surprises I was 22 You know all these weather systems that led me right to you I let my heartbeat sync right up with yours so you know Who the hell does that anymore? I’ll do anything to satisfy you
8.
Leave behind a city life, turn the volume down You can get your head right and your feet on the ground Leave behind a city life, all the lights and the sound Find a husband, find a wife, you can finally settle down How’d you ever get this far tellin’ so many lies? In & out of consciousness and your bloodshot eyes You’ve been feeling paralyzed and your heartbeat is inconsistent You can’t keep your lips off the wine when you’re home and you’re in the kitchen Leave behind a city life, all the clothes and the earnings Throw it all in a pile, light a match and it’s burning Leave behind a city life, put your back to the turning Find a better way to survive, you could be more discerning How’d you ever get this far raisin’ hell every night? In & out of knowing that you should treat other people right You’ve been feelin’ civilized No, everything is not alright You give it all up, you throw your hands up, and you forget who you are Leave behind a city life, yes you can and you will You are never satisfied when you can’t pay the bills Leave behind a city life
9.
You left me there in that empty lot It was cold, dark, and I was all alone I didn’t know if you were ever coming back, so I started walking home I knew that it would all end up like this Me stranded in the night among the shadows With every sweaty summer day we spent I could feel it all going cold You’re afraid of everything when you walk around at night It’s hard to see a face when you can’t find the light Nothin’ is the same when you walk around at night alone, alone, alone, alone, alone If I ever make it home tonight I’ll change the locks If I ever make it home tonight, better yet if I get out alive, I’ll change the locks, I’ll change the locks If I ever make it home tonight, better yet if I get out alive, then I’ll change the locks, I’ll change the locks, I’ll isolate If I ever make it home tonight, ever make it home tonight Will I ever make it home tonight? The flickering of lights and the fog If this is some ride then I want off How was I to know if you were ever coming back? So, I started walking home You’re afraid of everything when you walk around at night It’s hard to see a face when you can’t find the light Nothin’ is the same when you walk around at night alone, alone, alone, alone, alone
10.
Resolution 9 03:17
I’m tapping into your heartbeat every single night I’ve probably told you, but it’s keeping us in time Looking all the way back, you’re the product of some crazy things How can I get you alone? Everyday is filled from front to back with all the things we choose to do And these two tiny dependents we added on to ‘me & you’ Things used to be so much easier, but we’d be fools to say they were better, better, better, better How can I get you alone? Why can’t I get you alone? How can I get you alone? I can never get you alone I see us lying there in the backyard I think I might be losing my mind You put your fingers to my lips and wrap your leg around mine Oh, isn’t this nice? We both take a breath and say, “Oh, isn’t this nice?”

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released November 13, 2019

Elsinore is Ryan Groff (vocals/guitar), Mark Woolwine (keys), James Treichler (drums/programming),
Adam Wayne (bass), & Andy Masters (guitar)
Music & lyrics by Elsinore (Perennial Music [ASCAP])
Produced by Elsinore
Recorded at Perennial Sound Studio & Wave Upon Wave,
Champaign, IL, USA
Assisted by Alan Honeycutt & Eric Enger
Mixed by James Treichler at Wave Upon Wave
Mastered for vinyl & digital by James Treichler

Group vocals on “Turn It On”:
Kayla Brown, Ian Shepherd, Dave Butler, Kay Holley, Sheila Parinas, Kyle Kinnamon, Kade Kinnamon, Kara Kinnamon, Graham Duncan, Nancy Viswanathan, Linda Wiedmann, Skot Wiedmann, Yudisley Cabanzo Wiedmann, Aaron Wiedmann, Alicia Liay von Bodman, Daniel Brown, Miranda McNeely, Steve Swigart Jr., Dana Scott, Delaney Durbin, Beth Durbin, Katie Coyle, Cara Maurizi, Demetrius Evans, Jared Michael Prince, Jon Eagles, Lynn Mahin, Ellie Masters, Savannah Schweig, Tom Mohr, Roselle Bhosale, Christal Caparoon, & Rissa Marie De Oca Habaradas.

Album photos by:
Anna Longworth / Concept by Ryan Groff & Anna Longworth

Thank you:
Jody Groff, Penny Woolwine, Amber Glynn, our families, Alan Honeycutt, Anna Longworth, Della Perrone, & everyone else who helped us make this record happen. We love you.

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