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How to Build a Hole

by Fantasticboom

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stilwel
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stilwel The best album on Bandcamp that no one has ever heard. If only they knew.

Fantasticboom builds densely layered, elegant, complex, intelligent and inspired music disguised as pop songs.

The lyrics in outro to the title track:
"No one told us, down the road there's no one to love us. Nobody told us at the end there's no one to love us."

A heartbreaking and beautiful truth. Favorite track: How to Build a Hole.
Michael LaColla
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Michael LaColla This is a record of highly textured songs that confronts and challenges you listen closely and rewards you for it — the music makes an impact and leaves impressions for your mind to ponder. Favorite track: All the Words I Know.
Jordan Wegener
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Jordan Wegener Solid, catchy songwriting infused with a plethora of interesting tonalities, timbres, colours, flavours and sometimes just weird noises. Plenty of substance and a lot of style. Favorite track: Gabby.
edmo
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edmo This is a great record. Evocative tunes, interesting lyrics, great playing and lots of clever gems in the arrangements. Highly recommended for fans of Talk Talk, Radiohead and just decent music! Favorite track: I Thought I Could Save You.
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Gabby 04:21
Gabby, I'd hoped that one day we'd get to see this through Maybe you'd come for me and I could cover you But this is not a pop song. Run away from here or never get anywhere I built this war machine of parts from every headstrong little girl who stood over there Gabby, I'm not your life but you're hardly Christ, I swear See how I've drawn your blood, my redemption wasn't there Ambitious little pop star, deeper than every diversion you're caught up in You want the same thing that we all say in the quiet, for this life to not hurt again You're like a brother, tell me all the things I never knew You're like a sister, tell me what it was they said to you If what I'll know by then now is true Then everything turned out okay, Gabby I've been in two worlds, they were mine and yours. They hardly shared anything I put a universe between them in my favorite dream. You probably never hear me sing You're like a brother, tell me all the things I never knew You're like a sister, tell me what it was they said to you If what I'll know by then now is true Then everything turned out okay, Gabby Now all the people in the world are in their right place, boy and girl It's hard to say who's right or wrong when everybody's come undone Now all the people in the world are in their right place, boy and girl It's hard to say I'm right or wrong, my privileged place within the poem
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I don't have the words to say, the lyrics to repeat Or a light to show what's barely out of reach I thought I could save you In my pocket there's a poem I wrote It's sewn away for the day I'm down to felt and head for home I thought I could save you I know that underneath the bridge there's more than enough to drown us in
4.
It's not like we can see above the trees In our terrarium thrown in the sea We all waited but you never came To give a damn. It's all the same Oh, Parmenides what did you mean When you moved your lips to yell at me "Don't look so proud of me I've not done anything" We all waited but you never came Nostalgia's code in our machines Could let me change my mind, you could martyr me in wine Let good and kindred go, these are all the words I know These are all the words I know These were all the words I know
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this 03:13
this is all I can do It's everything I could ever muster to say to you this is all I can It's everything I can do. It's everything I can do I'd love you Tie my feet Bind my eyes If this were another world maximally great state of affairs, then I could be more But this is all I can do It's all I can be to you. It's everything I can do I'd love you Tie my feet Bind my eyes Tie my feet Burn my eyes
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Take these seven plastic things, sacraments to you and me Retire to the sky. I'll take my leave into the sea Maybe we're not innocent even if you like it better than what we believed I know how to build a hole higher than the one we know You first saw it in a dream. You told me in a palindrome Maybe we're not innocent even if you like it Oh, I know you'd trade your kingdom for one just like it I know they told us, down the road there's no one to love us I know they told us, at the end there's no one to love us
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I think your love is half the reason I believed in shapes and colors Your world of spontaneity is wholly other You told us there's no green in blue Who'd have believed it? Love would cure everyone you knew Cause in this breed, I can't be wanted like I need I felt your touch It's now the monster in my dream When it's all over, let's all go plant an apple tree Cause in this breed, I can't be wanted like I need Sunday morning we gave the wind to the trees as their inheritance to do with as they please Ain't that like you and me to give a fruit that we weren't even gonna eat? But as for me and my deepest want, I'm sure I never found a thing to correspond I never told you my fantasies are all that I could be content with anyone
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Meg 03:12
Meg, it's not your fault Your mom carved the stone, all I have is chalk, Meg Meg, I had this thought You won't set aside whatever you were taught, Meg You were told what you know What you know, let it go, Meg Once again you ask me, "why?", Meg Why she dies vicariously once again You were told what you know (We're never meant to see the sun) What you know, let it go, Meg
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Come for me I hate to ask you I might need you to I'd do the same for you Come for me I wouldn't dream of, but at the brink of a season I don't know what Amen, amen, amen That's what I meant Amen, amen Come for me It never seemed right I haven't been quite the open book I implied Come for me They never could see my sleeves all wiped clean, all of my closets pristine Amen, amen, amen That's what I meant Amen, amen Everything that we steal's the flavor of regret and fleeting It's nothing but to say that God himself will deal all our bodies long to feel, all the value we could win It's the marrow of our sin, our chief end

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released May 31, 2019

Words/Music by Mark Cuthbertson
Produced by Jace Lasek and Mark Cuthbertson

Artwork by Anton Semenov

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