i feel like a brick in a paper bag

by elias_dotdotdot

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Elias wrote and recorded this song on a 12 day break during grad school. See more of his solo work at eliasdotdotdot.bandcamp.com

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V1
Your eye in sunlight
By the water side
Walking home
Talking slow
The quiet place we all go
When our eyes close
With vocoder: Swimming in darkness
Light bleeds from lamp posts
Find out, where you live

V2

(When kick drum starts: )
Your friends left you behind now
And you run
To catch up
But they’re nowhere to find now
So you stop
And take off
All your clothes (are you close now?)
You feel
(And you’re covered in dirt
A friend once removed)
(Guitar tapping riff starts)

(3) like a brick
(5) in a paper bag
(3) the weight breaks (the way it breaks)
(4) the bounds you set
(4) the time you spent
(4) not recognized
(5) by your loved ones
anymore

V3

(3) And you find (// and you see)
(3) What you hide (// what you find //what you hide)
(5 or 6) in reflections of their words (//in words that pause in the air
You’re in love now
(4) What’s it feel
To be in love now?
(3) to be seen
(3) on the screen
(5) when you can’t drive home

(3) say good night
(5) to your old life
(4) to all your new friends
Leave them behind
You leave them behind

V4 (fuzz riff)
Welcome to your home
Again
Feels like an old coat
Worn on a summer night

You don’t know just what’s assigned (assigned, kind, remind
And when you see it’s all behind you
What’s inside you

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released August 28, 2023
Elias Pasquerillo did everything except writing and playing the beautiful math rock harmony guitar riff, that was Luke Cartwright from The Elm Room

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darwin and the finches Portland, Maine

indie punk written and recorded in various bedrooms and kitchens. (for fans of Death Cab for Cutie, American Football, Jawbreaker)

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