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It's Not The Heat, It's The Headwinds

from Sawdust City by Arms Aloft

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As my veins pump bitter coffee and things a bit more sinister, the flat spots start to feel a lot like hills. Wish we could teach ourselves to regret the meds we self-administer, but here's to "pissing in the wind and shitting where we take our meals". Painting ghost bikes for the kids who won't look left a second time. To the checked swings and deep breaths, offer this as our reply. Woven into the rope from which we're hanging, etched into the beam to which it's tied: "You might have finally kicked the chair out, but at least we fucking tried." Another midwestern winter sends us reeling and retreating to five months devoid of any aspiration. The sky and I grow grayer a little more with each defeat and wait for spring, an open highway or at least something worth chasing. Cause we're all looking for something to be. So we sing other people's words in hopes that we will stop singing like we mean it and just start singing what we mean but sometimes the light at the end of the dock's just fucking green.

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from Sawdust City, released October 23, 2012
Music and Lyrics: Gile

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Hello, comrade! Fellow worker! Arms Aloft is a punk band, still spiritually from Eau Claire, WI. We are trying to invent pop-doom, 2 minutes at a time (it seems). Thanks for listening. Take care of each other.

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