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Sell The Tape Machine

by Ross Ingram

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1.
Lately I’ve been thinking we should sell the tape machine There’s no money making records and we can’t afford nice things You could get a better job and I could finish my degree Maybe live a little healthier and get a bit more sleep Lately I’ve been thinking we should sell the whole damn thing There’s no money making records and we’re no longer twenty three We could both get better jobs, the kind that put us right to sleep And when we’ve saved a little money, we can buy a tape machine Lately I can’t shake the thought that we will watch each other die from this
2.
Come sunlight Coffee habits Days scroll by Mark their passage Ears ring I Rest in static Doom screen light I’m an addict Come midnight I’m still at it Feel it rise (my unwelcome friend) With dead eyes (and a hollow grin) Come sunlight (I can try again) For tonight (This is the bed I’m in) I can’t sleep You could sleep through anything Come sunlight I can try again
3.
Home 02:47
You scratched my name off of your list Of the people you still miss. I never call. You never write. We never share a drink or our time. But when we were younger, we were in love or At least at times we wished we were. We were just lonely. We were alone. We didn’t know how much we could hurt (each other). And yeah, I was cruel. Yeah, you were distant. We both walked away with wounds. But now we are older. Our skin is thicker And I hope you’ve found a home To fill with love to fill with children To fill with everything you wanted And I hope you’re happy. I hope you’re happy. I hope you’re happy like I am. I hope you’re happy. I hope you’re happy. I hope you’re happy like I hope I am.
4.
Oh, you’re so silent now Not a sound But I’m still here next to you If sing loud enough, can I keep the dust off of us? ‘Cause I’m still here I’m still here
5.
I am a puppet I am a marionette And my heart is fighting my head To grasp the strings again I am a shadow A rumor of what I’ve been Hollow cheeks and sunken eyes Brittle bones rattling in skin These hands they are useless These feet take me nowhere new And the paths I take remain unchanged From the scraping of my shoes I am no cause I’m no effect Seven years in this city Still no one here knows my name I could pass through walls like smoke I could spread out like a flame Engulfing this whole town Leaving nothing but a blanket of ash An unsettling lack of sound I am no cause I’m no effect This too shall pass right through us I’ve found that I can disappear just by standing still
6.
Walled In 05:04
Sprawled out on the floor Watch the fan trace lazy circles Count my breaths in fours With every step you take I can feel your footfalls in the Floorboards’ subtle shake And you’re only just beginning to wake up As you cross the bedroom in your shirt and socks Pull up to all fours Drag myself across the carpet Press against the door Listen to you leave Wonder if you hold your breath, too Just to hear me breathe And you’re just a steel core deadbolt door away As you pass me in the concrete floor hallway After all we are all alone Some day I will shake this and wake up Wake up
7.
For the first time in years, I think I may have everything figured out and arranged. I stayed up all night just to write out all the reasons I can’t be alone again, I can’t be without you again. So I practiced my speech aloud, desperate to edit out the awkward mumbling, nervous stumbling. Not that it matters now, because no words are coming out. I just stand paralyzed, captured in your crystal eyes. So I stutter and you will smile. “Come and sit down awhile,” you say, “I like having you here.” Your words are like wine. I feel drunk all the time. If you would say yes, I’d be yours for the rest of our lives.
8.
So Stay 03:45
We’re both lost in our own dreams ‘Til the sun slips through the blinds and gently Pulls us from our sleep Your arms reaching out for me Pull you close and we both go Drifting back to sleep We don’t have to wake up today We don’t have to wake up so stay
9.
Bookshelves 02:51
We don’t need the club lights We don’t need the pressing crowds We just need our small lives The home that we have built ourselves Piled on the bookshelves And if I have regrets, they’re disappearing now And if I have my doubts, I won’t say it aloud I’ll fill our home with warm sounds Songs I’ll write for no one else I’ll build us bigger bookshelves We can fill them with the books We’ll write and bind ourselves And if you have regrets, if I’m disappointing you And if you have your doubts, please don’t say it aloud We’ll stay in all night Swallowing our words
10.
Ashes 04:56
We drown in silence Eyes tight and open mouths Our empty bodies shudder Our last breath leaking out Our lungs expand to swallow every word All our love and all our pain returned As we expire Our buoyancy returns Our hearts grown tired Now just ashes for the urn Our bones dissolve and turn us back to earth Maybe at the end, that’s all we’re worth? Send my letters home Fill my casket up with stones So it won’t feel so empty And though we die alone We fill our hearts with hope So we won’t feel so empty And when our shells collapse A scattered energy A sigh in the expanse A small bend in gravity A light seen through the cracks That spread but never meet An unpatterned advance Of dust and memory Send my letters home Fill my casket up with stones So it won’t feel so empty And though we die alone We fill our hearts with hope Send my letters home Fill my casket up with stones So it won’t feel so empty And when I die alone Go find your heart a home So you won’t feel so empty

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released May 3, 2021

All songs written, recorded and mixed by Ross Ingram at Brainville and at home. Additional engineering by Sebastian Estrada. All additional musicians recorded themselves at home. Mastered by Chris Common. Artwork and layout by Roosevelvet with some penmanship by Stefanie LeJeunesse.

Additional musicians:

Nathan McGehee - backing vocals on 1-5
Sebastian Estrada - backing vocals on 3 & 5, guitar on 10
KT Neely - backing vocals on 1 & 6
Rosie Varela - backing vocals on 5
Kristyn Ingram - flute on 8

All songs ©2021 At Least I Still Have Music (ASCAP).

“Oh, You’re So Silent Now” contains a sample of “Angles and Altitudes” by Paperwork. Used by permission.

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eniacmusic.bandcamp.com (Nathan)
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thervp.bandcamp.com (Rosie)
eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com (Rosie, Seb, Ross)

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Ross Ingram El Paso, Texas

Ross Ingram is a musician/producer/engineer based in El Paso, TX. In addition to performing and releasing music under his own name, he plays guitar/keys in El Paso shoegaze band, EEP, and runs Brainville, a full service recording studio.

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