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Sister

by Chobobo

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David Knights Cowling Read the lyrics - bask. Favorite track: Suck Light.
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1.
In the early morning I wake up cold. My head has been replaced by a Burnt out hole. I try to crane my neck, But I just twist my head. I try to sit up straight, but I Fall back on my bed. When the moon was lame It laid itself to rest again. I was at her side. My master slept Upon a rock, A broken bed. When the dark of night was long My master saw that I had gone To sleep. My master woke From the faces In her dreams. When the world awoke I saw that I had left my post. I had Been asleep. The world was nothing new to me. I could not hear a single thing. My sister was not near to me. In the early morning I wake up scared. A shadow is occupying the empty chair.
2.
I wake up in the morning and you're still asleep. I can hear you snoring. I can hear the bed creak. You wake up in the morning and you're hurting in your stomach. Snow it is falling, Falling outside your window. No one knows we are awake. Our mother's in the kitchen, scraping Eggs from the pan. Our father's outside, turning Pigs into ham. And we are upstairs, lying squeezed on your bed. Is it alright to feel half dead? Do you know a place where we can go (Let's find a place where we can go) When the rain turns into snow. (You can't find it on your own) Beyond the hills around your home. Into the forest I will walk alone What is that place that I can see from your window through the trees? Will you accompany me? Either way I'm bound to leave. When I'm drunk I can barely speak. Got to Concentrate on staying on my feet Hey, what's your name? I never had the chance to ask. And you just grinned And you said: I will love you 'til the sun moves on I will love you 'til the dawn (You will love me 'til the dawn) love you 'til the sun moves on ('til the sun goes on) I will love you 'til the dawn (You will love me) love you 'til the sun moves on. I will you 'til the dawn (Autumn has come and gone)
3.
Suck Light 04:40
I was sleeping the backseat Of an old and a beat up car. My older sister, she was driving it onwards, Driving it through our yard. In half an hour it will be dawn, And then our parents, they'll wake up And realize that their car is gone. They will look inside our bedrooms And realize that we are not there. Then they'll look for the note that they hope that we wrote And that's when they will Get scared. Who will be the one to suck the light from me? Who will be the one to suck the light from me? A black hole or a sun dying from something that is frightening. Who will be the one to suck the light from me? Who will be the one to suck the mass from me? Who will be the one to suck my energy? I was sleeping in the backseat And my mother, she was in the trunk. My father's passed out from exhaustion. In the bedroom he is passed out drunk. My older sister, she is at the wheel And the sun, it is coming up. But we forgot the baby in the cradle So now we are... We are fucked.
4.
When we were younger (so much younger still) We used to swallow every single pill That we could find Hoping we would die. And every punk boy with a gun Put it up in the air and fire off a round 'Cause what goes up it must come down I'm a coward at the heart, babe. Look at this life that I've found. When you were younger and you lived on a farm Your daddy hit you but he meant no harm. Just meant to teach you a lesson that you'd never forget. What lesson was that? You can't remember what that lesson was, But you got a scar where you should have love. Every knife in the back of my spine, Every woman on my shoulder crying reminds me of you. Of how I met you when your face was fat. I'm a coward at the heart babe. There is no going back. When I am older I will carry a gun I want to fight and I want to have fun but I don't want to lose. Neither do you. Every punk boy who hears this song, I implore then to sing along, 'cause I know they I know that they want a gun too. I'm a coward at the heart, babe. This is the life that I choose.
5.
Twin 05:24
You were born after Our sister was born. The room filled with laughter Twenty minutes before. Anxious, Excited. The room filled up fast. Doctors and nurses and Your older sister in your father's grasp Your mother, she waited, Biting the pain. "Living is easy," she said. "Giving it is strange." Your mother sat in a wheelchair. Your father he smiled. Life's so wonderful Every once in a while. Your mother held you and your sister, One in each arm. Your father leant and he kissed her. He couldn't do much harm At the moment. You lived in the empty forest So they could hone all your skills. Your parents both lawyers with a Nice house on the hill. You went to a school that was Carved in the mounting Clouds came through windows, Requiems and hymnals And all I could see was A clear mist. Your mother, she'd pick you up Your father, he worked. It couldn't hurt to be A little bit more wealthy. You grew a bit older. Your body, it formed, But your mind is still the same Just looking to impress. Who to impress? Your father's busy and your sisters got a life of her own Either way Nobody's every home to impress. Your father he said to your mother: "Lover of old, wipe my hair my skin it is pale, naked and bare. Lover of old, you better wipe my cheek my tears they will stumble, naked and weak." Questions and answers, Unwanted prophecies, Unwanted pregnancies. The future is clear to me. Is it to you? You must go a separate way from her Or you're doomed to be two. Your mother said, "Life was easy. Do what you can to be happy Do what you must to be happy Do what you must."
6.
Who's going to guide me? Who's going to save Who's going to buy me? Who's going to drive the slave If you're happy, you are happy. If not, what do you want from me? If you're really that desperate I will give you a good memory. My soul is a fire waiting, burning I can feel it when I go to sleep If something is wrong you better tell me, babe, Before I do something stupid. I got god breaking into my skin, but I know it was his to begin with I've been living, I've been breathing I've been tripping, I've been smoking fear If you feel it, you can feel it. If not, it's not because you're not here. I am getting tired. I've running for almost a year. Christ knows you must be tired, You've been running for sixteen fucking years. There's a detective inside our head. I should never have showed her The pictures that were under my bed One of these day if you see her around You can ask her what she said.
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Anew 01:50

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We finished this months ago. Finally out. Feels good.

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released December 18, 2013

Mark Charles - guitar, piano, vocals, mixing
Michael Wadham - drums/percussion, tenor sax

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Zach Beauchamp: electric bass
Lily Snowden-Fine: vocals on tracks 1-3
Dave Shannon: mastering
Eriq Wong: album art

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Chobobo Vancouver, British Columbia

A two-piece band from Vancouver, B.C. Having just released their debut mini album, they're raking in the $ bills.

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