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Deviate You

by Rope

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1.
Good Grief 03:40
Resist me. Hate me. Break. Destroy them. Love them. Shame them. Take. Surviving and settling, no good for nothing. I've said it all before. I'm saving all the grace for me. The gospel choir sings. The gospel choir sings, they sing for me. Reach out and grab me, I won't forget how cold. I won't ever forget. My eyes won't close. I'm lost without you. Do people really pray? What do they ask for, and what do they say? Cold-hearted mess with a thousand secrets left.
2.
This is city is my home. Separate our lives. Grey west coast sky. Fall into a dream. Living in the wind. You were there. I saw it clear. Nothing. Static. War. I'm too busy being someone, I'm too busy being someone else. And when I had the chance to break the mold, I let it slip. I let it slip into the sea. Distorted images looking down on me. Let the water ripple. Let me breathe. Just let me breathe. The sun is distant. So let it crash. Let it crash on me. Keep up and you'll see, hold onto the rocks. Trust in only me. Damn, I'm something else. Die for the blue sky. Say that it's okay. Fall, I'm telling you. Trust. We start again. So we pick it up. Makeshift suffocation. I'm making due. So let it crash. Let the water ripple. Let me breathe. Just let me breathe. The sun is distant. So let it crash. Let it crash on me. I split the ocean in two, counting clouds right next to you. The crow opens up its mouth. I spit the words back in. Can you hear me? Let me in. Holes in my pocket. I'm at it again. These windmills are scaring me. Home is at a distance. Confused and emotionless. I crave the attention, I'm a fucking mess. An open book, I'm overlooked. I'm far from hooked, I'm a never was. I'm more than just a dream. Is this a blessing? Am I worth investing? You had a chance, you could have gone. I waste. I hate. I run. I don't want to be responsible for what comes next, I just want you to know; In the end this is not my fault. Open up and feel the fury. Gone.
3.
Open Season 02:50
Allow me to reintroduce myself, we met once before. You don't know my name. Allow me to say the wrong thing. I'll let you think it's real. I'm ready. Fall down with me. Allow me to be myself. This isn't going well. It's midnight and the wolves are out. It's so hard not to be a wolf. Let me feed, the night is young. Open season inside my head. Pictures of women I thought I left. Sever your ties with me. I am the cancer, the disease. Unable to realize the pain. I am the one you saved. It's midnight and the wolves are out. It's so hard not to be a wolf. Let me feed, the night is young. Let me fee. Let me feed. See, I'm not like them. See, I hide my teeth, and this selfish grin. I'm trying not to be like them. I'm only asking one question. Let's pray I'm wrong. Let's hope this is different. I doubt you'll make it out. Maybe you'll make it out. I doubt you'll make it out.
4.
Pollute my mind with love and failure. Forgive my lack of smiles and laughter. Never said you had the answers. Under me relive the chapter. Now it's all on me. Come back down to earth and visit me. December waits around. I'm stagnant once again. I hope I tell it right. I hope you say it twice. Open up your mouth and say the words you wish for me to say. Tell me how to feel. Say I'm out of touch. And so I wait for you to say the words. I won't complain. I'm running out on you. Light them up, watch them burn. I'm severing ties with the unconcerned. What's the point? These letters won't write themselves. I'm taking pictures of myself. I'm running out on you. And so I wait for you to say the words. I won't complain. I'm calling out to you. Unfortunate one, one you don't speak of. I'm soulless and drinking down the pain. So raise your glass and toast to me. Goodnight. Crosses constantly crossing me. Seven seas watch me float. I've been trapped for too long. I've done my time. Through it all I've learned nothing. Nothing. I've seen the end and now I'm burned out. I am nothing to no one anywhere.
5.
I thought I had it all. I thought I had it all figured out. I sit, I wait. Understand that I've made my peace. I contemplate the hours spent. And I'm just a fool, unfortunate. Wishful thinking, accomplishment. Your cold hands around my neck. I feel it sinking, but this is it. I don't deserve any of this. I don't deserve the credit due, but if it's due I'll take what's mine. I'll take what's mine. I'm waiting for the crowd to sit. Red velvet sheet. My final trick. I'll hold my breath, I'm now with you. Was it worth the pain of two? I'll fall asleep and what I wake the crowd will be upon my grave.
6.
Deviate You 04:59
I guess I'm going to have to be okay. I don't fear the same things. In a waiting room stuck in the same place. Imagine what I could be. I often think of you smiling down at me. Late night diner, 3:05am. What happens now? So wake up and tell me lies. Someone tell me that he's still alive. I roll the dice every single time. Please don't say the worst. Please don't say the word. I'm drowning fast. These hospitals sheets, they just can't last. I'm not coming up for air. Hold me up. I'm not leaving you. I swear. I swear. I swear. I can feel you hanging on. Do you feel me hanging on? So, deviate from me and I'll deviate from you. (Loving and missing, just taken for nothing) I won't waste it all on me, don't waste it all on you. Don't waste it all on me. Don't waste it all on you. I'm no open book. Waiting for chapter's end. Say goodbye. Looking back, my heart is still tact. I want you to know. I need you to know. I hold it in. Saying bye through a box. Lock and key. I hold it in. Deviate from you.

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In loving memory of Barry D Warrick II & Elizabeth "Betty" Huerta

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released September 11, 2015

Recorded at Bright Lights Studios in Santa Ana, CA and The Earth Capital in Los Angeles, CA

Vocals - Aaron Avila
Guitar - Matt Battaglia
Drums - Alex Onate
Guitar - Chris Pucher
Bass - Matt Romero

Produced by Rope and Roger Camero
Additional vocal production/engineering by Alex Estrada

Mastered by Paul Miner at Buzzbomb Sound Labs

All songs written and performed by Rope
All lyrics written by Aaron Avila
Additional vocals on 'Open Season' by Alex Estrada

Artwork and design by Donny Phillips of Kihl Studio

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