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Straightjacket Hymns

by The Daze

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    The debut album from Austin, Texas band The Daze. Another one in progress so LOOK OUT.
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1.
even though there's no one else around keep singing just to hear a sound the flint and tinder to my time so if you should ever hear my voice just know that I do not have a choice but to try, and stumble through these rhymes door's unlocked and the window's open wide the breeze is turning like the tide so if you're ever passing by birds outside are singing songs of love the sun shines down from up above so come on darlin' don't be shy dust is settling everywhere I look the lampshades, windowsills and books this place is looking like decay oh and how the night is coming on sweet sleep one moment then it's gone just bide my time until the day every now and then inside my head I've heard the voices and they've said your time to run is runnin' out so I think about you day and night and long to have you in my sight though I can't say what it's about now I never see your face I'm lost and you have found your place oh well, I guess that's just how it goes gravity and singularity I'm sinkin' into clarity: It's just another view below
2.
Red 04:35
when you want it so bad, when you want it so bad you just can't sleep when you want it so bad, when you want it so bad you just can't sleep well now you got what you wanted from me babe yeah but why is there blood on your knees, babe? do you take angels and do you make 'em red? well I been walkin' a highway, a highway that's sick with tar and dust I been walkin' a highway, a highway that's sick with tar and dust I've seen beggars fallin' from trees now well they're goin' back overseas now and when the waves crash, well you know they're crashin' red I'm at the last-stand asylum, I'm knockin' upon its leaden door I'm at the last-stand asylum, I'm knockin' up its leaden door I will sing my straightjacket hymns I'm puttin' melodies to unspoken sins as they float skyward, the sky goes red
3.
In a Day 05:37
when the nighttime fades to black and my eyelids fight off the day I'm never so far away don't have to think of nothin' to say when the daylight floods my eyes and the clock says it's time to rise start to think of somethin' to say somethin' to get me through the day when the sun is in midflight and I can see everything so clear wouldn't be any place but here 'cept maybe with you, my dear when the trees do shadows cast and sunshine's spell has passed these words hang in the air sometimes it's too much to bear and when all this becomes one and the whole world has seen the sun it'll end just like it began we'll remember how we ran
4.
you would leave me out there alone to die you would send me down there alone to fry yeah you will say that you did not mean to pry but babe you got to know what you can and cannot buy so take your blizzard somewhere else, little girl your stormy weather ain't welcome here and though I know you been tryin' to settle the score you gotta shift it in another gear you say your patience is longer than my face oh yeah but I can see right through your plastic case oh you're runnin' 'round like your life is some type of race you know I'm TRYIN', but I just can't keep your pace so take your blizzard somewhere else, little girl your stormy weather ain't welcome here and though I know you been tryin' to settle the score you gotta shift it in another gear spin spin spin till you're all alone and lost you go to sleep and you surely will turn and toss ah dreams hangin' over you like a dead albatross hopelessly freezin' in your self-created frost so take your blizzard somewhere else, little girl your stormy weather ain't welcome here and though I know you been tryin' to settle the score you gotta shift it in another gear
5.
you're speakin' in my heart you're leakin' through my pen I sit here every day that you're not around wonderin' where you been 'cause time ain't never straight keeps a low profile but you can find him the distant reaches runnin' all the while oh but baby you can bring him back around oh but baby you can pin him down you just don't know the kind of things you can do but just know that it all goes 'cause of you sleep in backlight alleys feel around for the day well sometimes things don't go the way you plan 'em but that's ok because I'm doin' my best to work with what I got and even though I'm closed up on my own it's all part of the plot hangin' 'round, hopin' you'll be back soon my mind flies around like a breathin' balloon walls close in while the universe runs away but babe I think we'll do better if we stay you keep it locked inside you keep it held up tight you never let it see the light of the day or the light of the night but I can see right through you and so I know it's there so loosen up your deathgrip on your love and babe give it some air I know because a little bird told me so I know and I just ain't gonna let it go I know you're tryin' to turn your love inside out but it'll stay true in spite of any doubt
6.
me despierto en sudor vivo pero mis ojos no pueden abrir vadeo por mis suenos helados calentando el mundo al otro lado and when these cold eyes look through what love implies I see a bleeding rose withered for all it knows y camino a la ventana un portal de mi mente al munto y como polvo en viento tan fuerte en todas partes hablo con la muerte and when these cold eyes look through what love implies I see a bleeding rose withered for all it knows y por favor no llores, querida no arrojes sus lagrimas encontraras otro sueno manana y una vida mas facil y sana and when these cold eyes look through what love implies I see a bleeding rose withered for all it knows
7.
it brought me back to the start the faintest beating of my heart the cycle of the ancient tide the laws by which I now abide and down along the shore we'll fight to the hollow core for some type of rebirth we'll fight for the center of the earth I came to you from foreign soil a product of the blindly loyal your lowly skeletal frame don't match up with your ivory fame and down along the shore we'll fight to the hollow core for some type of rebirth we'll fight for the center of the earth and now that we have both escaped we know it was an empty faith a faith which floated all alone on the outskirts of a field of bone and down along the shore we'll fight to the hollow core for some type of rebirth we'll fight for the center of the earth
8.
Storm Comin' 03:58
well there's a storm comin' it's gonna rain hard like a prophecy you know I tried to warn you but you ain't trustin' me no so don't you come a-cryin' about how you was wrong don't light my hands on fire don't sing me no more songs just crawl up in your little hole pretend like it ain't here pretend that when it finds you you won't have nothin' to fear and check your heart and your soul and tell me what you see 'cause babe therein lies why it's after you and not me oh no and don't you ask me nothin' not even the time of day it'll only freeze your mouth up and you will not know what to say but I will tell you one thing just one thing I know to tell there's a storm outside a-ragin' it's rainin' heaven and hell
9.
the leaves have long since fallen to the ground just drifted through the air without a sound showin' signs of lost vitality showin' signs of cold reality they blow with the wind, and to the ground again they descend there's somethin' in those ever-changin' leaves they go through shade and light movin' in and out of sight there's somethin' in those ever-changin' leaves the barren trees have nothin' left to show just waiting for the spring to help them grow their bony fingers reach out through the air reachin' out for something that ain't there they're gray and unmoved, they've nothing left to prove there's somethin' in those deeply rooted trees underneath the moon a-shinin' there's a little silver lining there's somethin' in those deeply rooted trees the sun is shining dimly from the skies from the east it came and in the west it lies the day is gone before we knew it came you're leaving and I never knew your name it's restless farewells ringing out like eternal bells it's close your eyes and wait for a new day it's trailing-off voices and passed-over choices it's hold back the tears and wait for a new day
10.
The Motions 05:22
well I'm walkin' them fields, I'm walkin' through that burned out mud I ain't walkin' for nothin' 'cept to hear my footsteps thud yeah well you were holdin' the keys and you left me down on my knees so I'll go through the motions 'cause there's nothin' I can do to please yeah so now I'll retreat to that dusk just teamin' with life oh trite steady beat you just drive right through me like a knife babe can't you open your eyes can't you see my sinkin' demise oh well I'll go through the motions just as long as I'm given the lies you got that lien on my heart but you don't got the right to tear it apart babe, don't you go away babe, don't you go away... oh, miss needle-in-the-hay in that old wooden frame lie the unseen markings of years and in the eyes that are tame lie the unseen remnants of tears well my eyes are calm as can be they learned to take things in and to see so now I'll go through the motions 'cause there's nothin' you can do for me
11.
Come, Child 07:10
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Smithereens 17:34
early in the mornin' I walk into the sun turn back to it when the day is done and somewhere in between I look at what my eyes have seen I try to run but I cannot run 'cause there ain't no place to run if there ain't no place to hide if there ain't no truth and ain't no sides they say it's life to live for somethin' and death to live for nothin' and all the rules I must abide oh my eyes can never blink if my mind can never sleep the words are there but talk is cheap oh by now I know they're lyin' so I oughta just not try 'em but no matter what it cuts so very deep no but you would never know it from your eyes have seen to show too much just ain't my scene oh but babe the why and how is what I'm tellin' you right now you blew it all to smithereens no home no more now I roam in a war no home no more but I just can't make you just can't make you walk back through that door all the dead leaves they fall down out the nowhere sky all the dead leaves yellow and brown they fall down down out the nowhere sky the wind blows 'em round up off the ground but that way you can't fly, no not til you die you can pick 'em back up but you just cannot put them back and make them green you can pick 'em back up honey but you just can't put them back and make them green so it will be, and so you must see all the dead leaves, the smithereens oh, I got a lotta time to kill oh, I'll go out lookin' for some cheaper thrills ooh, just sick of everything standing so still there's nothin' like a cloudy day inside your mind to make you stay ooh, but for the winds of May oh well it comes and goes nobody sees, so nobody knows nobody sees because nobody shows oh but I think it's here for good seein' things like I never could all this time and I never understood... well the burnin' pain of love don't mean to much to me the nighttime is a dirty dream well it never seems to find me so there's nothin' to remind me of the way it all used to seem oh but to live among the ashes just ain't my kind of trip so I get back up shoot from the hip and if you look into my eyes you will find the tired lies that no more will leave my lips you just go with what you know and react to what you've seen experience is cruel and mean but you learn to move along whether you were right or wrong when your world is all in smithereens

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Envy Magazine Review of Straightjacket Hymns 4 out of 5 “
At 74 minutes, The Daze’s debut album Straightjacket Hymns is overstuffed. If the songs were tedious it would be a death sentence, but The Daze perform with vigor and ambition that make them seem like road-tested pros. The fact that the three members—guitarist/vocalist Evan Butts, drummer Aaron Lemke, and bassist Chris Ritchie—have only 59 years between them is shocking. Stylistically the LP ranges from hard-bound blues rockers (“Blizzard Woman Blues”) to jangled-up road songs (“To Hear a Sound”). Butts’ commanding voice and often virtuosic guitar playing lead the charge, but instead of soloing away like a madman, he blends I with Lemke’s Bonzo drumming and Ritchie’s liquid basslines to create passages that are reminiscent of the hypnotic haze of Modest Mouse. The best melding of their playing prowess and sophisticated sound arrangements are “Come, Child,” “Song for Newborn,” and Heart of Darkness-inspired “Center of the Earth.” But a few minutes could have been trimmed from the 16-minute closer “Smithereens,” and to the album as a whole. It’s the one factor keeping Straightjacket Hymns from greatness, but The Daze are close enough on their first try to be very scary.” -Jack Frink

Austin Monthly Review of Straightjacket Hymns 4 out of 5 stars
“The Daze incorporates many influences on its debut, Straightjacket Hymns: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Dr. Dre, The Carter Family, Bob Dylan and more all show up on the 13-track album. Sounds chaotic, but The Daze pulls it off. The group flows effortlessly from the power chords of “Red” to the delicate, simple melody of “In a Day” to the grand, Latin-infused “In Spite of Any Doubt” [sic]. There’s plenty for everyone. Let’s hope the trio can keep blending genres without losing its identity.”

Austin Chronicle Blog Review of Straightjacket Hymns "Once you get around the fact that this album is essentially a clinic in musicianship, Evan Butts’ lyrical sophistication offers a whole new level of appreciation for Straightjacket Hymns. Butts displays great talent as a lyricist, narrowly avoiding clichés with a brilliance so subtle it’s difficult to pick up on. My personal favorite track is “In a Day,” a watery tune with lovesick lyrics that read like Petrarchan poetry. The album is ripe with radio-friendly singles like “Blizzard Woman Blues,” a short but sweet track reminiscent of the White Stripes and Black Keys. The Daze show impressive musicianship throughout the album, often ascending into long musical interludes that don’t deter from the accessibility of the music. Though it is no secret where The Daze draws their influences from, they make it their own, and deliver it with honesty. With a silver screen appearance in Bandslam under their belt and Rick del Castillo as their advocate and producer, it would be no surprise if Straightjacket Hymns served as a break out for these Austin rockers."

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released August 27, 2009

Produced and engineered by Rick del Castillo at Smilin' Castle Studio, Austin, TX. Cover artwork by Katie Pipkin. Vocals and guitars--Evan Butts; Bass--Chris Ritchie; Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals and Pedal Steel--Aaron Lemke.

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