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Oh Lost

by Brighton MA

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1.
Bulletproof 03:02
Watch all of our pieces Learn to let go Gently float down towards the chaos below Hit the ground and just roll We were told for so long In our beautiful youth: "Hey kid! You better start wearing bulletproof" So we donned masks and ran around Reflecting all we could see, shouting: "I ain't the new nothing, That's the old me." Been courting the spark, now, For oh so long Sit and pray for more words To roll from my tongue Knowing they may be bums, But at least they're our bums They were louder than bombs And it was love's brutality That beat the beat out of me It was my bulletproof youth That made me believe Everything came from the will to survive Good god, it's good to be alive
2.
Send my condolences to the bums Let them know that I'm lost My attention span is just shot I don't want to talk Why do you keep bringing it up? Thought we would play it by ear for the pop We're still dancing but the music has stopped. I'll admit they had us down But we've gotta get over it C'mon they'll never catch us Cuz we're innocent Baby just give me some relief To keep moving on by the feel Thought we were playing it all by our ear for the pop We're still dancing but the music has stopped. I fall in love every night Get my heart broken by the morning light Cuz you know it's just never enough No, it's never just right We're still dancing but the music has stopped.
3.
Touch 04:02
C'mon now let it all out, give us a hint of your inner light You show me yours and I'll show you mine Tonight it seems we've been lost for all time Trying in vain to break up the hush Kids like us try to live off the touch Oh of my past, all that I know is true Yeah, I played it fast and I played it loose And the party's raging downstairs but you don't think you'll go It's fill with all the people you already know Think I'll hold up here with a few close friends and get stoned I said, Oh of my past, all that I know is true Yeah, I played it fast and I played it loose I want to find the day when it's safe to turn down the radio My past extends farther than I can recall If we move faster, baby, we won't fall
4.
Set up for failure Please forgive me On behalf of all the wannabes Who tried but couldn't reach Tried so deep inside Ran out of ways to die And be reborn Into stranger and stranger and stranger times For fear of getting lost Once and for all In these sweet delusions I could never live without you I know everything about you Couldn't get on any other way Moving on with the warm ones In these sweet delusions
5.
Thirst 04:45
What am I doing here This hour of the morning? My head aching My chest bursting Thinking about this girl How I never told her How the strap of her dress Would fall from her shoulders Oh, television: it swallowed me Reality, something on the TV Turning me into some sort of cliche Feeding me words I would never say I want to lay here down in the dirt Do what I need to fend off the hurt I don't know why I just got such a thirst What am I doing here This hour of the morning? Thinking about old friends How they all didn't make it I guess they just found it a bit too hard Everything always a bit too far off I want to lay here down in the dirt Do what I need to fend off the hurt I don't know why I just got such a thirst
6.
White Flag 04:01
C'mon, let's be brand new Let abandon take over again Everything seems so uninspired I forget the things that hurt me You, you like to hold it in I don't want to fight anymore How it started I can't remember OK baby, wave the white flag in surrender to it all again To all the love behind your rage So many times I've reached for you With my blistered fingers and all my creases OK baby, hold it together C'mon wave the white flag and surrender It's so hard to believe In all the things you can't see I don't want to fight anymore
7.
Love Crowd 03:35
You're gonna squander all your God-given talent You're wasting time writing all your national athems For her majesty, the queen of all that's possible to be Send her victorious Happy and glorious To meet the people You try to please So this is the love crowd? How did it come to this? You're shamed into submission By the fire hose spraying me down with fake rain Killing my sense of urgency again Send her victorious Happy and glorious To meet the people You try to please So this is the love crowd?
8.
The mistakes you're making, they're not your own It's all a lie, they're all on loan What you did when you were young on your own That's who you are And sitting on nineteen years of age There's so many ways to build you own cage You're resisting every step of the way It's getting hard Still we all need to be rebels, we don't need to be told Drag our feet till we wear out the soles So young but you're feeling so old Where should you go Yet we laughed so hard, we pressed so tight Felt so good I thought we just might Burst into pieces scattered through the night We let it go And the tall grass sways your days, the warm summer breeze Sweeps through the back porch caressing your dreams Her eyes sooth you from across the room And it's so slow Saying don't of your young original mind, this time The river winding through you holds a certain kind of rhyme It's wild and rushing, unconfined From long ago. You're a good kind of crazy A good kind of tame Good kind of lazy Good kind of pain Good kind of maybe Good kind of vain Good kind of baby Good kind of change
9.
Killing my idols came back to haunt me I was building them up just to watch them bleed It's just me now, my only enemy Trying to outlast the mainstream All you bored pretty boys and girls Let me tell you, this is it The night never quite lived up to the hype We were promised by the daylight Oh lost Happiness is in the strangest of places You know, it just takes guys, kid The world's on fire "Nevermind, nevermind!" the clocks they all chime We've been belittled by the movement of time Pushing back on all the things that push me Hiding out from our own bloody history C'mon old blues eyes, don't make me wait We weren't built to last and it's getting late Oh lost So hard to trust what's been placed at your feet From the collapse of yesterday's roofbeams Happiness is in the strangest of places You know, it just takes guys, kid The world's on fire All you bored pretty boys and girls Let me tell you, this is it The night never quite lived up to the hype We were promised by the daylight
10.
Sidewalking 03:46
Wait! I got something I need to know: Now that you're mine, all mine, When is it time to let go? You've been playing dumb to the visions in your head and now they're gone Wait! I got something I need to know: Now that's it's mine, all mine I got no place left to go You've been playing dumb to the visions in your head and now they're gone Go on and get drunk with all the villains in your bed cuz I'll be gone We were holding on the only way we knew how.
11.
Oh don't you know we've come such a long way Since planting appleseeds in Brighton, MA And swimming naked in Walden Pond I never knew the night could last so long Didn't think it could ever end All we ever did was raise the dead I'm gonna wake the dead. Oh, now I know that it's been so hard Every move seems to go against the odds And you're not getting everything you need You find it harder to feel anything What does it take to turn on anymore? What does it take to raise the dead? I'm gonna wake the dead Desensitized, we wasted the daylight Let's make the most of tonight Where's the excitement at tonight?

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released April 2, 2013

Brighton MA is Joe Darnaby, Matt Kerstein, Sam Koentopp, Jon Ozaksut, and Jim Tuerk
with Dan Smart and Max Crawford

produced, recorded & mixed by Brian Deck at Engine Studios, Chicago
assistant engineer: Mark Yoshizumi
mastered by Richard Dodd

liner notes by Matt Kerstein
cover art by Alex Roulette
photos by Stephanie Bassos

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Brighton MA Chicago, Illinois

Brighton MA is a product of a wide range of modern music. Their sound is lyrically driven with no small debt to indie, folk, noise pop, and the classics. There sound is urgent, filled with layered intricate guitars, a rattling heaviness and driving simplicity.

Based in Chicago the band is named for the Boston neighborhood where singer Matt Kerstein was born.
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