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The Greatest Letdown

by Straight Line Arrival

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1.
And I've got a lot to say if you've got a lot of time I traded in my sanity and left reality behind We are all stuck in place screaming through a facemask Choking on our pride while choking down teargas It goes down in flames Such for is the price for change It will never be the same It will never be the same It goes down It goes down in flames It goes down Don't look, don't look, don't look, don't look down
2.
I do not like me You feel the same likely The wolves keep me up nightly They'll hear you please speak lightly It tortures me it fights me It claws at me it bites me Its be quite the sight to see If I could see in front of me And the whole world it spontaneously combusts I will burst straight into flame All else will remain the same Nothing left but scars and stains The people say "oh what a shame" What a shame it'll never change Just repeats 'til I go insane And while I never asked for this I certainly asked for something
3.
From Adderall to Ritalin From Depakote to Wellbutrin I'll take any pill the doctor says will make me better Poverty loves company And the best things in life are free That's why I shoplift from CVS And I'm falling apart, like I'm supposed to Like I'm supposed to know anything else Fuck the rest it can rest in peace This kind of life it'll be the death of me And I can rest assured that I'm scared I will never ever, ever get better I wont be fucking led to slaughter I will be more than cannon fodder I scream into the void, but the void it does not answer
4.
Payback 01:59
Payback for the towns that didn't burn yet My sweetest revenge is my biggest regret I'm deeper in love and I'm deeper in debt I'll drown right here with just my ankles wet I rock and sway to a changing wind I go where I may but I never begin In time I'm always just a measure late The world moves on without me It doesn't burn as it should Twice as hot and twice as bright Hopes and dreams for the kindling Weren't enough to keep ourselves warm for a night Lay back they say sit and wait your turn yeah We are all just ashes that just haven't met an urn yet I'm falling apart foiled at the shins Just where do I start, where could I begin Destined to lose, but convinced we'll win The odds justify the means, do they make up for our sins Try to define myself with more than just what I hate As the world moves on without me
5.
I'm gonna have to ask you to keep your distance Cause my friends don't stay alive for long And while I'm pretty good at starting fires I'd be damned to know how to put one out I'm gonna have to ask you to show some patience Cause I move at a snails pace if I'm moving at all I see me friends when I meet them, and in my dreams they all die That's why I say I'm living the dream whenever you stop by From funeral to funeral, from one bad call to the next I am falling through the floor, the walls push upon my chest It's not normal it's not normal, but than what again what really is I will never get what I deserve and all my friends, they deserved to live I'm gonna have to ask you to hate me like I do Cause I need to justify this loathing inside my chest When you are stuck in a life that takes a little bit at a time When given time, you will fin that you have, well you will have nothing left I will have nothing left I'm gonna have to ask you to leave like they all do I'm a stray cat that only pretends to get attached I'm on the fence about a lot of things, most of these things grand scheme mean nothing But all I can think about is leaving and never coming back I'm never coming back
6.
So They Say 01:59
It starts with coffee in the morning or whatever helps you get out of bed and someday I will start trying or else someday I will wind up dead It's a shitty excuse, feels like a lie to me and you to say that I am trying my best It starts with coffee in the morning or so they say It starts with one foot in front of the other moving for movements sake I guess it's all part of looking in the mirror and knowing what you see It starts with starting and bizarrely the hardest part It start with coffee god and cigarettes, but I'm not feeling the god part today
7.
Sometimes the world doesn't meet expectations I don't need any explanation it's simple isn't it. We all put on our Sunday best we all put on our best smiles We all are trying our best, its simple isn't it Don't let your guard down Not even for a second The wolves will tear you shreds The world will tear you to shreds They're hiding in the darkness Oh just beneath your bed The wolves will tear you to shreds The world will tear you to shreds Sometimes we all hate the way that things happen Just lay back and strap in, it's simple isn't it. We all wake up then close our eyes Repeat the cycle a billion times 'Til we are sick of it Its simple isn't it The greatest arsonist that this world has ever seen Was just a joke, falling apart at the seems And you can be the all-American dream And I will be your greatest letdown
8.
It's all a game of myself trying to stay distracted from a world outside that's gone completely bullshit And I don't got it but I had it, we fell in love with matches, when the town burnt down we all pretended it was tragic When the grocery stores are empty when the bank accounts run dry this winter's gonna be the worst winter of my entire life I tell myself that its all right that there's an end in sight and I don't know if I'm lying, but god damn it, I'd really fucking like to be right It's too cold outside so keep your breath in they are watching It's all a game of this or that, starting a fire without friction, not waiting for the smoke to justify my convictions It's all the same, neither first nor last, the truth within the fiction, just trying to keep going while ignoring my restrictions When the world gets too heavy When the shit straight hits the fan It'll be just me standing next to a mirror wondering if this who I am When it all feels like a set piece When I get too damn tired to stand I'll lay down defeated in the snow, I fell for it, this life's a giant scam I know there's only me to blame For each day being the same I thought by now that things would change I had dreams of lights and fame The wolves are watching my each step Scavenging what I have left I keep my breath within my chest So they can't see I'm not like them It's too cold for playing games I'd wait for this to go away I'd freeze to death during the wait So I guess we'll take this day by day Keep it safe, or ignore the rules I'll die for me, I'll die for you Lie to myself, ignore the truth I'll outrun myself but not the wolves
9.
I lift my voice and I break my heart As I watch the world around me slowly crumble apart And I stumble home like a walk in the park There's nothing quite like hating everything that you are I have a bad day everyday What's the purpose anyways? To get out of bed just to crawl back in it I'm testing my patience even my liver has limits Everything feels so dystopian and downright fucked I get down on myself, I get down on my luck The reason is lost when everything sucks I'm doing all I can, just to not give up I find myself in worse and worse places And the worst part is I'm growing complacent The fact is it gets worse and I have learned to face it The past is the past and this liquor can erase it I have a bad night every night I fuck it up every time I try Try to get past a chemical imbalance When I've been up for too long but not up for the challenge
10.
My soul got crushed in a grocery store aisle Picked clean as the reality hit me I don't think this will get better for a while The world as I know it is changing I am gonna get through this No matter how dark it gets I'll keep a light on So ifIi lose my way for now I can find my back to myself Back to myself My pride was swallowed in a check out line The whole world crumbled around me I realized we live in uncertain times and the amplifications are astounding It doesn't matter if it's perfect So long as it works for now It is what it is and it's working But it sure as hell is not a way out

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The sequel to The Greatest Arsonist. A love letter to the emo music of my formative years.

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released December 11, 2020

Skyler Husebye - Guitar, Vocals
Chris Holmes - Drums
Michael Hansen - Bass
Recorded at No Place
Mixed and mastered by Tyler Pilot at Red Dot Recording in North Dakota.
Tim Julio - Piano on track 10

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Straight Line Arrival Fargo, North Dakota

Straight Line Arrival is an independent emo-punk band out of Fargo. Started in 2015 as a solo project of Sable Sky, SLA now includes Tim Julio and Michael Hansen.

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