ALL THE THINGS THAT RUIN THINGS
ALL THE THINGS THAT RUIN THINGS
Release Date: 04/01/17
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01. All The Things That Ruin Things
07. Fear Makes The Wolf Look Bigger (Feat. Josh Smith)
09. Conundrum (Feat. Elise Testone)
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Produced by ¡Mentiroso! & JB van der Wal
Mixed by JB van der Wal at Hewwetover Studios, Netherlands
Mastered by Pete Evick
Engineered by Stephen Juliano & Kurt Compher at loudounpride, Summer/Fall 2024
Artwork by Stephen Juliano
Guest vocals on "Fear Makes The Wolf Look Bigger" by Josh Smith
Guest vocals on "Conundrum" by Elise Testone
Drum pre-production by Danny Michael
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All The Things That Ruin Things
Like a nervous tick or a twitch you can’t ignore or something more
Lost my ability to reason
Gotta be cancer that must be the answer or something much worse
Are you paying attention to me?
Am I getting better?
Think I’m getting better.
I just wanna feel like a normal human being
Are we getting better?
Think we’re getting better.
Are we better off as a whole?
All the things that ruin things; Embraced as the new normal
All the things that ruin things; Embraced as the new normal
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Could have had everything and anything that one could dream
Lost my ability to breathe
Doctor proposes the wrong diagnosis or so you believe
Fill up on mindless medication
Am I getting better?
Think I’m getting better.
I just wanna feel like a normal human being
Are we getting better?
Think we’re getting better.
Are we better off as a whole?
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Why can't we get well?
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All the things that ruin things; Embraced as the new normal.
All the things that ruin things; Embraced as the new normal.
Circle Back
Talking down again
Know that’s not the intent
I need some clarity
We’ve been here before
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Hard to see the whole world staring through the porthole
Try to gather perspective before you tell it like it is
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Communication Is lost
Words are meaningless when you talk in circles
Communication Is lost
Words are meaningless when you talk in circles
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Prove the point again
Still the wrong intent
I need some clarity
We’ve been here before
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Think that you’re on earth when you’re in space not even in the same place
Meet in the middle if the middle was of nowhere at all
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Communication Is lost
Words are meaningless when you talk in circles
Communication Is lost
Words are meaningless when you talk in circles
Communication Is lost
Words are meaningless when you talk in circles
Communication Is lost
Words are meaningless when you talk in circles
Limbo
Find yourself all alone
Surrounded by the dark unknown
Grasping shadows - lingering limbs
Hunted by the monsters of our past
So, I gave you my all
Gave you my all
Gave you my all just to be
Walk up to the edge of the precipice
Somewhere between light and dark is life and death
So, I gave you my all
Gave you my all
Gave you my all just to be
Dodge the light I can’t escape this
In the end serenity
Tried to let go but you cant
You’ve got to hold on
Hold on
Keep holding on
Hold on for your life
Find yourself all alone
Surrounded by the dark unknown
Metallic jaws align the path
Biting down to hold us back
So, I gave you my all
Gave you my all
Gave you my all just to be
The Subterranean Avian
Sun is rising
See it shining they have yet to open windows
Blocked all the exits its confusing
Please send help
Please send help
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Hear the voice around the bend coming into view
Now’s the chance for a defense
Swooping past a scream or two
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Flying aimlessly
Took a chance and now it’s a mystery
Get me out of here
Don’t belong in the shrine beneath the surface
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Grass is all wrong
Covered in items that items that seem unnatural to me
Don’t want to admit that this is home now
Please send help
Please send help
Damn the logic you demand
Existence is the proof
Signs from worlds outside the walls
Natural selection proof
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Flying aimlessly
Took a chance and now it’s a mystery
Get me out of here
Don’t belong in the shrine beneath the surface
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Trapped in unnatural habitats
Take notice of the signs to get outside
Trapped in unnatural habitats
Take notice of the signs to get outside
Metamorphosis
Feel it gnawing from within
My sense of self and who I was
Peeling back the flesh revealing
It keeps bugging me like cicadas calling my name
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But the crawling keeps happening under my skin
Like a social stain under your feet
In the lights, they scatter so easily
Scurry in the dark
The lord of metamorphosis
Keep changing a lifetime of need
Despite your curses on me
How can changes for the better make me worse
No turning back they’re gonna hate me
Not for pain but for what they see
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But the crawling keeps happening under my skin
Like a social stain under your feet
But the lights they scatter so easily
Scurry in the dark
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The lord of metamorphosis
Keep changing a lifetime of need
Despite your curses on me
How can changes for the better make me look worse
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The lord of metamorphosis
Keep changing a lifetime of need
Despite your curses on me
How can changes for the better make me look worse
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Oh lord of metamorphosis
Oh lord of metamorphosis
Aggressive Victims
Wake up and insist
Force your beliefs or resist
Choose a side and hold on
Sit atop your high-horse
As the empires go to ground
Narcissistic chivalry
Defend the ones you love
You play the victim with a mouth full of daggers
Must be exhausted you’ve beat that high-horse to death
No one to preach to except the complacent
All you need’s the big print
Force conclusions on us all
Animated images instead of conscious thought
You play the victim with a mouth full of daggers
Cut your teeth on passing blame
Cut your teeth now that’s a shame
Cut your teeth on passing blame
Cut your teeth now that’s a shame
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You play the victim with a mouth full of daggers
Cut your teeth on passing blame
Cut your teeth now that’s a shame
Cut your teeth on passing blame
Cut your teeth now that’s a shame
Fear Makes The Wolf Look Bigger
It isn’t glorious purpose that’s keeping you down
It’s a lack of ability to believe anything we see
So cover your eyes if you think that we’re lying
Shut out the world it’s the same as if dying
Confidence is a killer
The emotions the dagger
That cuts a little deeper each time
Shut up for once
You are not to blame
It’s the ones around you that are causing you this pain
Shut up for once
You are not to blame
It’s the ones around you that are causing you this
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Fear makes the wolf look bigger It keeps bearing its fangs
Sometimes its best to get bitten ya gotta learn from the pain
So cover your eyes if you think that we’re lying
Shut out the world it’s the same as if dying
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Confidence is a killer and it murders the soul
Ties a noose around what makes you whole
Confidence is a killer the emotions the dagger
That cuts a little deeper each time
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Shut up for once
You are not to blame
It’s the ones around you that are causing you this pain
Shut up for once
You are not to blame
It’s the ones around you that are causing you this pain
I’ve identified the privilege of mankind
It’s easy to believe you won’t succeed
I’ve Identified the privilege of mankind
blow it all to hell holding matches at its spine
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I’ve identified the privilege of mankind
It’s easy to believe you won’t succeed
I’ve Identified the privilege of mankind
blow it all to hell holding matches at its spine
Broken Glass
Legs they don’t’ work anymore
Collapse every time that I stand up
My arms are getting used to the floor
They lift my broken body
What’s the use in standing at all?
Always finding reasons to stay down
The world don’t see me at all
Is it really that important?
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Keep your head to the ground and wait to be found
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a house of cards or a house of wax you’ll always fall apart in the end
Sticks and stones aren’t meant for fragile homes
Build these barriers upon false floors
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Keep reliving the same dream
The one where all your teeth fall out and they shatter on the ground
Just like broken glass
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Keep your head to the ground and wait to be found
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a house of cards or a house of wax you’ll always fall apart in the end
Sticks and stones aren’t meant for fragile homes - build these barriers upon false floors.
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Locked in a room thats made out of your mistakes
Piled to the ceilings
Hiding all true feelings
Like a hoarder's paradise
The collection seems top heavy
Are you waiting to be buried?
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a house of cards or a house of wax you’ll always fall apart in the end
Sticks and stones aren’t meant for fragile homes - build these barriers upon false floors.
Conundrum
Look to the stars they seem familiar
Reminders of life love lust and sorrow
Only the stars are counted as constants
Can’t recognize the face in the mirror
Hello stranger can you help me?
It feels like I’m lost but also at home
Can you explain why words are at the
tip of the tongue pulled back through the brain
Darling can you hear me?
I’ll do all I can just to guide you back
Darling can you see me?
I’ll do all I can just please come back
Fragmented pictures of what once was
They've been rearranged in a way that loses all meaning
Tell me
Can you explain? Why the pieces slip through
the slits in my fingers like flowing water
Darling can you hear me?
I’ll do all I can just to guide you back
Darling can you see me?
I’ll do all I can just please come back
Don’t want to lose what I’ve got left
Without these things am I even human?
Can you explain? When will time return
and I get yesterday and tomorrow back
Darling can you hear me?
I’ll do all I can just to guide you back
Darling can you see me?
I’ll do all I can just please come back
Holding out for just
Just a glimpse of a memory
I’ll do all I can just to guide you back
Holding out for just
Just a glimpse of a memory
I’ll do all I can just to guide you back
Look to the stars they seem familiar
Reminders of life love lust and sorrow
Only the stars are counted as constants
Can’t recognize the face in the mirror
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