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Coma

by School Friends

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Tiffiny Holsten
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Tiffiny Holsten Love everything about this album really. From the amazing wordplay to the graphics and writing on the album cover itself. The vocals are amazing and it's fun hearing all the different instruments involved in making such a beautiful piece of work. My new favorite album! Favorite track: Hourglass.
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1.
Homestretch 03:22
Well it feels like the homestretch But the gun just went off And we're learning with each step But the map says we're lost And our eye was on the target But the arrow missed the mark And we tried to flame the fire But we never had the spark So we question every answer to the bone Can we learn to pull the sword from the stone? And the silence don't suit ya But you can't make a noise And your words they pollute ya Wish you were still a boy And your head was in the cloud once But the rain came pouring out Your ideas flood like cities But you learn to live without And you watch the clock as hours turn to days You gotta start it from the top without the weight Something sinister has come this way My anxieties have come to stay Biological and terminal dismay
2.
Nonexistent 03:04
Back into life got a new one Out of my way I can function Breeze by highways New city smells got me feeling alive Too many dreams not to have one Too many towns to be so numb Lose that weight It must be dead cause you're taking a dive I traveled far from the west Held my head upon your breast On solid ground again but somehow I'm still Lost in my thoughts I can't comprehend them I can't bend them Drowning and down I can't seem to fix it I'm adrift and nonexistent Too many days with the same sound Head in the mud with the same ground Icy walks waking me up when I'm in daze I traveled to the east coast lights Made ourselves home where we could write On solid ground again but somehow I'm still Lost in my thoughts I can't comprehend them I can't bend them Drowning and down I can't seem to fix it I'm adrift and nonexistent
3.
Calm your mind down You're going too fast Take your time now You'll soon be ash With your backwards habits And head full of traffic Can you see your way from this? Do you need a way to live? You've been silent For much too long You should find it Your wayward song Let your words be honest Just like you promised Are you living life awake? Do you make the same mistakes? And do you feel home inside of your bones? Do you feel home? And do you feel home inside of your bones? Do you feel home? Calm your mind down You're going too fast Take your time now You'll soon be ash With your backwards habits And head full of traffic Can you see your way from this? Do you need a way to live?
4.
Buried 03:44
I was weak, I was scared, I was young When I fought you with silence When I left you undone I was hurt, I was torn, and ashamed I didn't mean to betray you But I could not explain Did you know what you had done? And the dark web we spun And did you see how we had died? Our words buried us alive I was lost and emerged on a new side Tore you out of my chest to be free You were my friend but I could not surrender But just the same it felt like defeat I was all , in my head, on my own Started talking in circles Far from any unknown I was all, underground, under siege Had to fight my way conscious Recall what I still believe I couldn't see what I had done And how my days were reruns How my dreams had fallen through That I needed something new I was lost and submerged on the wrong side Bound in cloth where my eyes ought to be Needed friends but I had none beside me And all the weight felt like defeat I wanted to believe I could Still become the man that I was not ashamed of Didn't have to defend and I was getting sick I was learning to die Staying in one place Learning to live a lie I was lost and emerged on a new side Headed east, left my home, to be free I was told that I should learn to surrender But there's no way I would concede
5.
Two Cents 02:22
I may be out of my depth I may be out of my mind I've been dreaming so long my real life fell behind Fame and fortune was the main event No real progress for the effort spent So I've been taking my time And giving it my two cents I may be out of my depth I may be out of my mind I've been dreaming so long my real life fell behind I've been dreaming so long my real life fell behind
6.
Lift me up, let me down, pick a side, turn around We got more than you think, but we're swimming to sink Cracking up, showing signs, you've got yours, I've got mine Wearing masks, looking fake, can't we stop making mistakes? Oh lord Feeling scared, showing teeth, acting tough, looking weak Now that push came to shove , what's the odds on our love? And you know, but you don't, sinking down, sinking low When the love starts to hate, and you're about to break, well You got something that you cannot lose And you don't want to kill that part of you Love you always, love you true But we're about to lose Making war, making peace, losing faith, losing sleep At the hour of our debt, will we face our regret? And we're here till we're not, love is born, love is lost And we know that we're gone, but we try and hold on, well You got something that you cannot lose And you don't want to kill that part of you Love you always, love you true But we're about to lose
7.
Move 02:39
I've been wasting time Waiting for some sign Like a new inspired song Got my head on backward I can't even tell where I am going wrong I've got my finger on strings Playing all these things But it's the same old hopeless chords I guess my minds made up Just to be in a rut Don't know what I'm playing for, anymore I'm losing sight I'm letting all this get in the way I'm losing time I'm messing up what I want to say I've been planning too much Not doing enough For a future I'll never have I should write more songs and record them all Even if they turn out bad And I should make every film Like it's the last one I'll ever put in the world And I should kiss everyday and have sex every night Cause I already found my girl I'm losing sight, I'm letting all this get in the way I'm losing time, I'm messing up what I want to say I'm stumbling now, I got some freedom so I gotta move I'm tumbling now, I have to lose my need to prove I'm losing sight, I'm letting all this get in the way I'm losing time, I'm messing up what I want to say
8.
The Dead 04:02
Sold my phone And found my own way home Felt the air like nothing I'd prepared Solid ground and seed to sew in now Sang my woes but how were they to know If my head was on the ground Hollow brush and hollow sound You were always taking notice, taking care If my bed was death to me Embolden life embolden sea You could always be the sister to my prayer Sold my heart And felt us worlds apart Blind my sight And turned the world to night Tepid sea and weakness underneath Shed my skin and long to be again If my mark would raise the dead Wretched heart and wretched head You could lift out of the seams I didn't sew And if I hold the remedy Emulsive time emulsive beat You developed in the dark and I let go If my head was on the ground Hollow brush and hollow sound You were always taking notice, taking care If my bed was death to me Embolden life embolden sea You could always be the sister to my prayer You could always be the sister to my prayer
9.
Hourglass 04:09
When I die will I leave you behind? Will I have made you my wife? Or will I be that lucky? And when I die will it be after you? And what would I do with all my time remaining? It's hard to conceive of now Theres not much I believe in now But I always get things wrong And I'm thinking that the time will fit Maybe I'm an optimist But I won't stay that way too long When I die will I have prayed for the day? Would I have wasted away? When all my dreams have faded When I die will I wish I had more Time and love to explore My thoughts no longer jaded There is nothing like a grand design Death exists inside of time I'm meaningless inside a void Culture won't account for this we're always on a precipice Too obscured by all the noise We came from nothing and we'll only be destroyed It's hard to keep still, the nights I'm just clinging to my voice When I die will I have given enough? Will I have shown you my love? In all the ways I lived it yeah In all the ways I meant it My clock is just an hourglass And all the grains escape my grasp But I'll hold tight to what I can And I imagine all the galaxies at work And I want you right there, in all the despair and joy on earth
10.
On a Scale 03:31
Systematic and she'll lose control Positive at every other turn though I've been worried about her future every night Body failed what her mind has been Makes me sick to think of my complaining been a year and I've been mostly out of sight She was cut open like a fish Bone and metal pressed to flesh Spoke of every outcome that we feared Nothing we could do just yet I would have guessed heartbreak at best But she's nothing less than full of life I knew this girl with impressive eyes Fucked with any drug or any guy Used to tell me about her dreams right after school Made me feel just like a confidant Told me any deed or act shed done I would tell her she could become something new Not too long she moved further away Hadn't talked much since that After rehab called me up one day Said that she was glad I would have guessed heartbreak at best But she started fresh, and lived her life Life is a balance on a scale Happiness gets pulled down The moment we exhale I would have guessed heartbreak at best When I'm at my best, I scream to life When I'm at my best, I scream to life
11.
Whiskey Neat 02:56
Creaky floors And whiskey neat Late night talks on the balcony Chipping paint And cafe drinks You hold my hand on the foreign city streets Well we've been dreaming long enough to know that there is more Even though were sand upon the ocean floor I've been feeling long enough to want you evermore I'd follow you to grave or the grocery store Steady meals And heavy loads Sunset eyes on the open country road Broken signs And city sprawl Snowy nights, like a final curtain call Well we've been dreaming long enough to know that there is more Even though we're words in a forgotten lore I've been feeling long enough to want you evermore I'd follow you into fire or a town offshore All my feelings under lock and key You're the only one can open me I was only ever meant to be Someone else's century Well we've been dreaming long enough to know that there is more Even though were sand upon the ocean floor I've been feeling long enough to want you evermore I'd follow you to the grave or the grocery store I'd follow you into fire or a town offshore I'd follow you to the sea or the forest floor I'd follow you to the sky or our bedroom door
12.
North 03:49
Oh the lightning storm From my inside voice Like a wall of sound Coming out without a choice Drag my name through mud Paint me all in red I won't be comatose Before you find me dead I'm on my instinct now Following the torch I'm feeling inside out Following the north You're always out there on the side Make another plan where you can hide As you're learning As you're learning to die Oh the road again Like an unmarked map Set my sites ahead and I don't think I'm looking back See where I can run Till my feet have bled Want to kill me now You'll have to shoot me dead I'm on my instinct now Following the torch I'm feeling inside out Following the north I was out there on the side Made another plan where I could hide So I'm learning Yeah I'm learning So I'm learning So I'm learning to try

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released October 1, 2015

All songs written, recorded, and mixed by Joel Hinojosa
Additional tracking by Rob Ernst at Noise Root Studio
All songs mastered by Rob Ernst at Noise Root Studio

Artwork by Emma Silverstein & Joel Hinojosa
Insert handwriting & background art by Amy Holsten

Joel Hinojosa - voice, guitar, bass, keyboards
Jenny Coker – voice
Matt Giella - trumpet
Hana Maria – violin
Taran Plamondon - french horn
Lance Allen - mandolin
Patrick Marmorat - lap steel guitar
Plavakuca - pedal steel guitar
Roberto Diana - slide guitar
Alexander Hinojosa - voice
Nate McLean - violin
Amy Holsten - crystal, bottle
Marcus Horndt – rhodes

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