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Funerals and Pub Crawls

from The Greatest Arsonist by Straight Line Arrival

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Funerals and Pubcrawls takes a jump back to before the beginning of the story. We find Arsonist, questioning the place they live in the cycles everyone is caught in. Arsonist wonders why he is the only person dissatisfied with the place, and how they will be ready to leave as soon as they have too. It delves into some of the traumas Arsonist is trying to confront and Arsonist realizing there is nothing there for them, and there never really has been. Arsonist realizes they are caught in a place that they truly don't belong. Arsonist is ready to break the cycle laid out for them by their father.

This album went through many attempts at recording and iterations along the way. I look forward to releasing all of the b-sides and alternate takes at a later date.
Around Marchish of 2019 I met with Richard Loewen and we recorded five tracks in the basement of Rhythm Records in Bismarck.
This is the only song that carried over from that session and is the only song on this album I didn't record myself.
Me and Richard made some really fun tracks, but unfortunately it just wasn't the album I was trying to make.
The other tracks were alternate takes of The Greatest Arsonist and To a Science. There's also two tracks that never made it onto the album called "Midwest Deathtrap" and "No One Likes You".
I'm really happy that one of the songs was able to find it's place onto this album. And I really find this a fitting way to close this up.
Light, humourous, a little sad and a little hopeful. And a complete throwback to how I started Straight Line Arrival.
Just me and a guitar.

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I can't be like the other kids here
I never traded in my personality for a pickup truck
My parents never gave me much
I was living out a car by the time i finished high school
The best part about small towns is that they burn with less matches
The worst thing about small towns is everything always feels so much more tragic

Theres nothing here but funerals and pub crawls
Too much alcohol and puking in bathroom stalls
No one stops to ask if this is all
That is meant to be

There were thing thats came easy to me
That didnt come so easy for my father
Like getting clean, living the dream,
and keeping tabs one one another
People say phrases "like father like son"
and while im doomes to his mistakes i will learn from them
The cycle will break
And I'll leave it's pieces behind

Theres nothing here but funerals and pub crawls
Too much alcohol and puking in bathroom stalls
No one stops to ask if this is all
That is meant to be

I'll be better for me
When i have to be
Ill be ready to go
When i have to leave

You called and asked if we could hang out
Now im in your passenger seat
Holding a big bag of weed
And your rear blinker is broken
So we can only take right turns

This is a life thats got a hold of me
Its something i can not escape
Its something that always finds me
I swear if we get pulled over
That im not eating this all by myself

Theres nothing here but funerals and pub crawls
Too much alcohol and puking in bathroom stalls
No one stops to ask if this is all
That is meant to be

I'll be better for me
When i have to be
Ill be ready to go
When i have to leave

credits

from The Greatest Arsonist, released November 14, 2019
recording and initial mix Richard Loewen
everything else done by Sky Husebye

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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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