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View From A Headlock

from Paradise by Paint It Black

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    The proverbial sophomore, matured, focused effort. If the history books speak fondly of our time on this earth, they will no doubt recount that this, PunkNews.org's #1 Album of 2005, was our most universally acclaimed album. Fourteen songs composed in the midst of a hurricane of divorce, work, death, gentrification, war, sex and W. We still play most of these songs, which means they are still great! Recorded by the greatest human being we know, J. Robbins, at Phase at the end of 2004. A rough year.

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"View From A Headlock" is a song we recorded during the sessions for "Paradise" that didn't end up making the final album sequence. Until now, the only place you could find it was on an obscure Japanese CD pressing of said album. Guest vocals provided by Jason Yawn.

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Looks pretty good from your spot in the food chain, but I never trust a top-down arrangement. This was built from the bottom up, and you bet your ass it's a limited engagement. And we want full disclosure, so if you can't digest and retain composure, you'll just stick your head in the sand.

We're sick of the truth, we want lies. I'm tuning out, you can keep your alibis. We're sick of lies, we want the truth. You'll earn the right to contradict yourself if you survive your youth.

And I'm still looking for something real. (We live disengaged from what we feel.) Something you can't buy, something you can't steal.

Struck dumb by the info overflow. It's piled high in the hall by the mail slot. Don't believe everything that you download. A head full of static sets you up for the cheap shot. And isn't it ironic?Don't you think? Drunk on rhetoric, I can't stand the stink. A job well done, a pat on the back. Our lungs are iron and our hearts are black.

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from Paradise, released March 8, 2005

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