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Life, Watered Down

by Koala Tea Time

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1.
My arms are too weak to keep you warm this winter My heart is too weak to do anything but pump cold blood I am too weak to pretend that I even care So take this heart that I've given you And throw it into the bay They are both polluted beyond the point of repair Don't tell me to be easy Don't tell me to not be scared I want to kill your vibe and then I want to kill myself
2.
Do you remember the nights we stayed up talking in your old bedroom? You told me that there's a saying - that a persons eyes are a window to their soul. When the sun rose up, you said we should do this again. But we never got our chance to. I moved out, and I moved on from our home town. But I never forget the words that you said. When I moved into my new place I painted the walls the color of your eyes. I painted the walls the color of your soul. I'm so sorry that I left you. You were the only home I ever had.
3.
The first snowfall of the year won't be the last And snow forms layers on sidewalk paths as thin as the ones of dust forming on top of my lungs Weighing down with anxiety Pulling down with gravity And I've been thinking about hanging And I've been dreaming about my heart bleeding from confusion of not knowing where it belongs I don't know where I belong Cause I've destroyed my only home I've destroyed my only home
4.
Our hearts are tangible We can feel them beating inside of our chests But yours is made of the finest sands When the wind blows the grains will grow through the cracks of my hands Reminding me your love is not for me to keep And the winds are picking up spreading all of the leaves from their trees And I want to be a tree so I can die for the winter Bring me back to life when there's something beautiful to see I know that you think that you're the reason that I want to die But believe me when I say that's my own fault
5.
I remember the day you told me about your dream The one where you said we were living under water You said that you woke up before it ended, but we both know that I drowned. Like I always do. I had dreams of my own I saw an angel with broken wings And it broke my heart when she tried to fly just to hit the ground That bone shattering sound Made me gasp for breath Our lives are watered down.
6.
I am a deer with a busted leg You are in a car that hit me and drove off "It's not a person, it feels no pain"
7.
Teenagers making out in parking lots Plastic bags over faces Young love can be so suffocating Standing beneath street lights formed in a circle waiting for our man to show up talking about nothing good Cigarettes go from hand to hand And cigarettes go from mouth to mouth As the ashes fall down to our feet It's not so hard to die together When we all want to die youngBut if you change your mind and want to live to see the sun I'll miss you when you quit smoking Because you know, thats all we ever really had in common

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This album was recorded in multiple locations between January and March of 2014.

This is the debut full length of Nick Decker's project Koala Tea Time

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released April 19, 2014

Brad Cook recorded "Forgetting..." and "Wanting to Die..." in his basement in Pasadena, Maryland

Denis and Toby Nye recorded "Rub Some Dirt On It" and "Life, Watered Down" in his apartment in Portland Maine

Christopher Armstrong recorded the rest at USM - Gorham

Greg Strong - Piano/Vox

Toby Nye - Clarinet

Christopher Armstrong - Vox

All lyrics/guitar/banjo/bass written and performed by Nick Decker

Album art by Zack Pelletier

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