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Dis/Location
Released May, 2004
DRT Entertainment
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"Be ready for the rock," mock-warns Seven Mary Three. In fact, from the opening salvo of the balls-out "Settle Up" to the aggro "Bark No Bite" to the emotive first single, "Without You Feels," Dis/Location is indeed "guitar-ded," full of "1970s dirge-y, dirty type of riffs," observes singer Jason Ross. "We didn?t reinvent the wheel, but we reclaimed the reason we started the band by making this record," Ross says. "It's brash. The record was made quickly, and we were forced to make quick decisions, so it became the document of a definitive time. That time? January 2004. "Each day we worked on this album it got better, more fun," recalls Ross of the disc that was tracked&Mac220;and partially written--in a mere 20 days. Dis/Location's 11 tunes represent the most immediate, from-the-gut collection in a stellar career. |
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Settle Up
I’m a False Start on a Jukebox, a broken heart after last call
It’s lights up, I’m locked in, and now its time to settle up
No slow emotion anymore
I know the secret of this town
Faster Faster you’re to the floor
It sets you up just to knock you down
Tomorrow starts when I decide to settle up with everything I hide
Things I want, the things I miss, a neon sign I can’t resist
I’m drawing stick figures on a napkin of you and me
They’re not your friends but they’ll be around
To raise a glass and watch you drown
No slow emotion any more
I know the secret of this town
Where every kid’s in love with death
The boredom brags a familiar sound
No slow emotion anymore
I know the secret of this town
Faster faster you’re ignored
Set them up just to knock them down
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Without You Feels
Somebody hold me
Hold me down
So I don’t slip tonight
Punch the clocks out punch the walls
Still something’s wrong with me
Without you feels like the end of the world
What if somebody had told me I’d be this unhappy?
What if somebody had told me I’d be this alone?
What if somebody had told me the world would mean nothing?
What if somebody had told me before you where gone?
Somebody told me this little lie
Can’t keep me from myself
I destroy what I build
I thought I was smarter than that
Without you feels like the end of the world
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Oceans of Envy
I’ve got a photo booth picture
It reminds me of something you said to me
If everything you want is so far out of reach
If everything you want is so far out of reach
Move a little closer to me
I did a perfect imitation of someone who’s alive
Before I met you
Now colors seem to have a taste and a temperature
And everything doesn’t seem so far away
Forever feels like it’s never going to be enough
Held my breath as the water rushed in
I was drowning in the man I use to be
A castaway but you were there for me
Held my breath as the water rushed in
I was falling through a faded memory
Castaway and you were there for me
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Bark No Bite
I can’t let you go
Don’t let the dark
Be the only place you see me
I’ll try to find you something new
That pulls me back to your arms
Little towns are the way we’re living
Little white crosses on dangerous curves
Everyone’s just dying to get out
They got skills but forgot the nerve
Turns me on when you turn me down
Everything inside me turned around
You’ve been tried and you’ve been true
And I know that pulled me through
I don’t mind you don’t know where you’re going
I want to go with you
All the things you thought you handed down
They don’t shine like they shine for you
I remember your phoenix shut it’s eyes
And scratched it into my shoulder
Like everything I wish would die
Repeats itself over and over
Have I tried?
Am I true?
Did the things I said I’d never do
All that faith and luck and trust
If it’s not real it turns to rust
It turns me on when you say your mine
All the things I thought I’d never find
Your attention has it’s price
But it’s never bark no bite
I can’t stand the way you tell it
Turns me on when you turn me down
Everything inside me turns around
Give me faith and love and trust
Or just crush me into dust
I’m not afraid to pay your price
Because you’re never bark no bite
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Blue Letter
Tell me why I’m here
In this empty house
My mind won’t change
Will it now
Everything I thought that I put to rest
Everything wrong always the same
Everything gone Nothing has Changed
Blue letter over my head
I still remember every word you said
Held my breath so tightly
I never realized you did till now
There was paper box underneath her bed
Of everything she kept everything i said
Now There’s a paper box but it’s not me in there
What fades? What stays? Who forgets?
I’ll never let you go there’s a part of me
no one has seen nothing can change
No one can touch I won’t erase
Blue letter over my head
I still remember every thing we said
Held our hands so tightly
A look
I know I’ve found something that fits
Something that’s Pure
Someone I can’t Resist
I never thought it could be this good
I never thought I could ever move on
I never thanked you for what you did
A blue letter over my head
I still remember everything you said
Hold your breath and watch me
Walk away forever
A blue letter over my head
I still remember everything it said
Nothing is wrong nothing has changed
I’ll always be there I’ll see you again
I didn’t then but I thank you now
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Found My Center
My tired eyes are blackened wicks
Razor tucked under my chin
Quit quit quitters started quitting
One last time
Take me down to the other side
Where all the lights are handed out
Mine is empty mine is shattered and powered down
How she cuts from the inside
Whispers everything’s all right
She’s a late star rising up
To me she shines
I’m the bellyache in time
The bootstrap cough of the family line
All that history that was never meant to be
Hold my head together with
Reconnective little pills
That look like cars and swallow everything they see
And she cuts from the inside
Whispers everything is mine
Late stars that rise above us start to shine
Concentrate so I can find myself
I can’t get back all the time I wasted
She keeps an eye on me
She found my center
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By Your Side
You had a basement apartment
We spent the days in the dark there
Everything implied and perfect
We made up our own secret language
With no word for goodbye
A Remington Rand on your birthday
Pages of games we’ve been playing
Letters of lost conversations
You never think that I’m listening
Are you listening now?
You’re the center of the scenery
No matter where it’s taken me
It doesn’t change when I’m not there
I’ve got a suitcase and ticket
I know you can see through the patterns
Returning and leaving but outside
There’s just so little that matters
I can’t wait to just sit still
You invent for me a usefulness
And I’ve started getting used to it
What I miss when I’m not there
Another hope to die love song
You’re going to get yours before to long
If you need me look to find me
Right here by your side
Little black dots on paper
Connected in your name
I float up off the sidewalk
See you through a window
Remember where to find me
You can tell me not to miss you
From now on you won’t have to
If you need me look to find me
Right here by your side
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Dislocated
I had an awful wakeup dream, everything was just what it seemed
I had a nightmare soaked in light, everything was cracked from inside
I’ve seen the way I go in the end, I shut my eyes to begin
Little black cars stretched out In a line
All moving backwards in time
There’s no connection
There’s no emotion
Everyone pretends it’s such a beautiful thing
Killed by a memory
Tell me I don’t have to be
Another number tacked to a wall cuz
It leaves me dislocated
I fell I fall I’m falling still
Sleep speaks in little pink pills
One more chance to get it all wrong
That’s all that you get from a radio song
I’ve told that story a thousand times
So I’m stealing yours to be mine
All those sad books and worn out hooks that hang a man up on the world
Killed by a memory
Tell me I won’t ever be
Another picture tacked to a wall just
I’m just too dislocated
Killed by a memory
Tell me I won’t ever be
Another number scratched on a wall just
Don’t leave me dislocated
I read those sad books they inspired everything I thought I should hide
Killed by a memory
Tell me I won’t ever be
Another number scratched on a wall just
Don’t leave me dislocated
Killed by a memory
Tell me I could never be
Another dead-end brick in a wall
Just
Don’t leave me dislocated
Tell me I don’t have to be
Another number
Another dead end brick in a wall cuz
It leaves me dislocated
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Made to be Broken
Some things are made to be broken
Some things are made to be kept
We’re in the space between what’s over and what’s left
If I tried too hard to keep you
I did it so I could reach you
I had to re-arrange the only things that worked for me
Part of this happened slowly and part of it overnight
What happens when everything you want never arrives?
Some things are made to be broken
There’s a face in here from the past
It’s and ocean under the glass
I hang it up on the wall and never look back
Little scar shaped souvenirs
Are the only witnesses here
To a faded alibi that used to be mine
It used to be mine
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Where Are You Calling From
Here beats the black heart of my rancor
The speed of life can dull your nerve
I beat no drum for anything anymore
Might have more than I deserve
The golden age of being amused
Has turned into the modern life and times of being confused
And I feel it too
When I’m alone in my room
Waiting for that light to blink
The little song I miss
There’s a ghost there singing
I saw somebody jump the turnstile at the station
He barely made the doors and took a seat next to a stranger
I saw her eyes was as she brushed his body passing in the aisle
And you said where are you calling from tonight?
I don’t dismiss it that I need it
To disappear to something in loud
A few new faces fill the spaces with a river of names
And all the names just filter out
This work can occupy my mind
But it won’t convince my body that I’ve been satisfied
And 1’m most alive and I’m most like myself in my dreams
Your eyes connect the mis-remembered me
I saw somebody jump the turnstile at the station
Barely made the doors and took a seat next to a stranger
I saw her eyes as she brushed his body passing in the aisle
And I said where are you calling from tonight?
And when are you coming home?
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Subway Tunnel Microphones
Subway tunnel microphones
Open city overtones
Epic urgency survives
In every stranger passing by
Tiny lights go red and fade
Eyes go wide to hold their face
Am I done falling or falling still
Can never tell and I never will
I Trace a circle around your star
So close to being exactly where you are
I Trace a circle around your ghost
So close to knowing what she knows
Am I done falling or falling still?
Can Never tells and never will
Photographs, old friends I’ve had
Built to burn and one that’s built to last
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