The New Normal

by Alex Webb

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1.
Fighting 03:48
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Uninvited bottle In front of my funeral Under the signage Wrestling acceptance Telling me to stay for the orphan we named - tomorrow We can never go home But we go broke From stealing everybody’s fucking problems She said we’ve been walking into dead ends again I promised I would change But I quit my way It’s pretty clear what’s wrong with me Anyone but I can see And she loved me with my demon I would look at everything and not see what’s in front of me I still can’t feel love for myself Kill me slowly Take what I am I’m just a patient running this asylum She taught me how to lose I can’t keep going on like that When is a plan called an attack? It’s on the surface, I hide Tell myself that I don’t need any help So we let go She said we’ve been walking into dead ends again I promised I would change But I quit my way It’s pretty clear what’s wrong with me Anyone but I can see And she loved me with my demon I would look at everything and not see what’s in front of me I still can’t feel love for myself
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Bodies Used As Bridges 02:56
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I would go to hell and back if I could God mode, cheat code This isn’t Vice city I’ve got cosmic dread Stuck in my head It’s all I think of now I hear a ghost telling me to change I said no sir, I can’t today It’s a perfect day to play me again No god or gun can fix this They were bodies used as bridges I just made some distance to burn them too She had to take to give Passengers were with Nameless and new I must pretend Pretend to be dead Just to hear to nice things Said about me The place you seem to be Took a lease out on me Watch who I can be When I’m in misery I think I’m fading out She said I miss you But I’m getting used to it I think I’m fading out I pushed away the ones I loved Who’s to blame? I didn’t give a fuck They were bodies used as bridges I just made some distance I’ll burn them too She had to take to give Passengers were with Nameless and new I must pretend Pretend to be dead Just to hear to nice things Said about me
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A Room Without Windows 04:55
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It was disturbing during But funny after All of time exists within this moment There was a lifetime in a fucking sigh The strangest gathering of sentiments My heart is a telescope Wonder what it was like before I was born Being heard is being seen I put myself through assembly I’m an island looking for a person drowning I got used to spending time with you In a room without windows I got used to spending time with you In a room without windows Another skull with no name I’m headed to a nameless grave We’re temporary vessels for memories I’m a plague to myself and this conversation being held We’re temporary vessels for memories My heart is a monster stuck in a cage Calling out from a silent place Death is hopped up on the floor Body bags aren’t needed anymore No I didn’t feed him It was me that I still needed I got used to spending time with you In a room without windows I got used to spending time with you In a room without windows
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I'm Just Wasted 03:50
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No I’m not lonely Death is my company When I’m gone He’ll be out of a job Put down his guard And he’ll feel lighter without it on I’m not fucked up I’m just wasted Sometimes I think I’m better off dead What if the reaper is coming Before it starts pouring Shouldn’t have saved for a rainy day And they were the future And now they’re gone And that’s not fucked up That’s just wasted I’m not fucked up I’m just wasted Sometimes I think I’m better off dead I’m not fucked up I’m just wasted I was the golden child of a narcissist And it was like I was eaten alive Yea I was taught and told Passion gets you nowhere And we don’t have time to put you back together And they were the future And now they’re gone And that’s not fucked up That’s just wasted I’m not fucked up I’m just wasted Sometimes I think I’m better off dead I’m not fucked up I’m just wasted
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This Lonliness Thing 02:32
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Yea I don’t know why I thought it would be ok If it was I wouldn’t ever change Those eyes they say it all And it kills me The day I died Is when I started mourning my life While I’m alive When I say nothing I say it all Like a secret I keep it close Too much baggage to keep it Wherever I go Everyone is telling ghost stories They’re all past, half truths, half dead You’re like a threat, it still attacks When you see it coming Everyone is telling ghost stories They’re all past, half truths, half dead You’re like a threat, it still attacks When you see it coming Our past it brought us here and it left us Time is slow and painful If this is the end I won’t hesitate Hesitate You didn’t ever trust me But you don’t trust at all You didn’t ever know me And that says it all You didn’t ever trust me But you don’t trust at all You didn’t ever know me And that says it all

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I record everything myself through Ableton, in my home studio. I run my vocals and guitars through a UAD Apollo Twin Interface. If it’s good enough for Louis Bell, it works for me. Splice is an incredibly useful platform that I primarily use for building custom midi drum kits. I leveraged a few samples (or “spices”) that I manipulated to compliment a vibe or texture. Working fast is ideal.

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released October 13, 2023

Produced by Alex Webb
Mixed and mastered by Derek at Audio Siege in Portland, OR and Glenn Davis Audio in Columbus, OH.

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