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DAMAGE​/​CONTROL

by Derailed Freight Train

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Derek Doss
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Derek Doss This is my favorite album of the year 2015. Every song is catchy, quirky, and delightful.
More people need to check this out. Favorite track: One Fell Swoop.
gumdrop sessions
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gumdrop sessions this album brought me to bandcamp. it is a must have. Favorite track: One Fell Swoop.
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1.
you and me yeah i know we've seen better days but love takes work at least that's what some people say some vandalism, time in prison, no big deal we just need more time and then our wounds can heal maybe your cardboard kisses on my tongue and photos of when we were young will make this all okay if we don't get in balance you know that we'll fall but then we'll get right back up, yeah we'll show 'em all we'll go for dinner and a movie and be fine I swear to fucking god we'll make it work this time maybe some cardboard kisses on my tongue and good old fashioned family fun will make this go away we used to make it up just as we went along and it would come together just like a new song it seemed together we could conquer the whole world I was your superman and you my supergirl but now our cardboard kisses don't mean shit which is the only argument that will not go away
2.
Next Dream 05:27
when you're walking down the road and your heart is explodin' and life is unfoldin' and your joints come unrolled and all your photographs are stolen and you can't write a poem but you gotta keep goin' yeah, you gotta keep goin' and your cancer's still growin' and your lawn needs mowin' and you're outside your front door but you just can't go in and you're talkin' to yourself about reapin' and sowin' and you're walking down the road but you don't know where you're goin' you'll get it right in the next dream you'll be alive and on the big screen you'll see your name up in silk screen you'll get it right in the next dream what is this? this sucks dick. what is this? fuck this shit. if you're wondering what you must do you don't have to, you don't have to the dice was cast in your past and life won't last, no this life won't last you do what you should do and then you're still screwed you're lost at sea and you won't be rescued but if you're wondering what you must do you don't have to, you don't have to
3.
dead leaves and handkerchieves and streetlights are all shut off to conserve energies a dog barks as your lighter sparks flick with your thumb no flame will come so you just walk in the dark backroads and alleyways are the only place your comfortable, at least for today your thoughts follow you closely behind as you try to quicken your pace so you don't lose your mind if only there was a place to go where you could turn to mist and not exist and no one would know and all the houses are electric paintings with all the people and their warmth and all their play-things just electric paintings fuck blast the aftermath you think to yourself and laugh as you pull out your flask drink down in an empty field all protected by the open space that keeps you concealed from all of them doing all of that all of those places easily findable on google maps this is where you'd take your stand but the wind is cold and you are old and hardly a man you feel sick as the insects close in and you welcome them to their new neighborhood of your skin
4.
good thing the day is done 'cause you're not afraid of the dark it's time to go downtown and see what kind of shit you can start you drink it down and shoot it up and snort anything you can find and then you hop into the ride so you can drive right outta yer mind outta yer mind you're outta yer mind you park your shit and hit the bar or at least the first one of the night the next stop on your endless quest to see who want to fuck or to fight there she is and she's drunk as hell with her boyfriend just out of sight either way it's a win-win you're gonna get to fucking party tonight you kicked his ass in the parking lot or at least that's what you think that you did you stagger over the broken glass and then remember what's under your trunk's lid the crowbar gleams in the moonlight as you bring it down hard on his skull with all the glory and ecstasy of the destruction of another man's soul the cops show up and it's no surprise as they throw you in the back of the van I guess it's time to go back to jail so you can start the shit all over again
5.
fell off the earth-ship and now i'm nauseated by the spin of space i wanna leave this place flunked outta space camp and now i'm uncredentialed with no residential base i'm gonna lose this race floatin' through the nothin' overwhelmed by the overwhelming lack of sight or sound and there's no up or down wish i could go back home where the redwood trees are deep-rooted and stand up strong and tall instead of out here with no gravity at all with no gravity at all I can't fall fell asleep and never woke up and now my spacesuit's a rowboat and the universe my endless stream and life is but a dream the stars are far-off lightbulbs endless unblinking eyes sittin' out there and just strarin' at me why can't they let me be? spinning I, space object with no objective in mind, just killin' my time, but, gee… why can't my time kill me? once you leave it all behind there is no rewind, just an endless, indefinite fall (oh well) good bye from out here where there's not gravity at all
6.
one fell swoop and i fell for you now i feel like poo on a stick you make me sick i saw you now i'm though and i'm stuck like glue to the floor you filthy whore oh me amour i love you so i see your face in places that i dream to go i read your name spelled out in my alphabet soup in one fell swoop one fell swoop and my heart belongs to you leaving a hole inside my chest you are the best who are you, and what did you do to the chemistry inside my head? i'll kill you dead with kindness that will have no end your mailbox will explode with emails i'll send you'll have to save them all so after you'll have proof in one fell swoop i love you and everything you do is perfect in my eyes filled up with lies i meant tears i'm must so happy that you're here and right here you should stay don't go away I need you always by my side you'll be my constant source of happiness and pride i'll keep you all tied-up so you don't fly the coup in one fell swoop one fell swoop
7.
she wants to hold me that's what she told me she wants to go to bed right next to me and kiss me and console me and she's no phony she's got her head straight she seems a good date she want to go back to her place and smoke and drink and be my soulmate man, ain't that so great? but, she's not hot enough for me oh, can't you see? she's not hot enough for me what misery she's not hot enough for me why must this be? oh woe is me she's got her style on the makeup's piled on she's got 1000 Facebook profile pics and that you can rely on she's always tryin' she knows the good bands she don't wear name brands and if i don't look at the rest of her i see that she's got nice hands and pretty hair strands i'm feelin' tipsy and kinda risky and feelin' like my whole life is a vocal being sung way off-key somebody stop me 'cause she's not hot enough for me… she sees me walk in she hears me talkin' she's feelin' kinda interested and so decides to do some stalkin' she's got me locked in we're introduced now she kinda thinks "wow, this guy seems pretty cool but something's kinda missing from his whole style… he's got a weird smile" she takes relief then and stops believin' that i am someone that she would potentially like to sink her teeth in for whatever reason i was a cool guy that she can't deny but i just wan't up to snuff and she can't quite exactly say why and then she realizes with a sigh that me's not hot enough for she oh, can't you see? me's not hot enough for she what misery me's not hot enough for she why must this be? oh woe is me
8.
Fried 04:05
broken like a tape deck dyin' in a free pile obsolescent object couldn't make the last mile 'cause it was fried in the rays of a dead sun born on the day that the feds won when he breaks down get another one fried in the rays of a dead sun rust rests on rust best and time takes what time blessed and it's all for the best i guess when you were fried in the rays of a dead sun born on the day that the feds won when he breaks down get another one fried in the rays of a dead sun
9.
Logical Rain 02:24
logical rain falls straight down it goes into the gutter where it swirls all around and it mixes with the shit from all over town and then evaporates bad up to fall back down logical rain falls straight down logical rain falls straight down it doesn't meander or get blown around it wastes no time on its mission to the ground and it won't return your phone calls 'cause it won't be around gravity is pulling on me and i use my illogic to thwart its destiny but it's the end of my life and i can finally see that a straight line is the shortest distance in between the sky and sewer and then back to the sky with a vacation in the soil just to reinvigorfy the chemical formulation that makes me this guy (or that guy, or some other guy) or the rain flyin' by or that tear in your eye logical rain logical rain falls straight down
10.
turn it on turn it up turn it down turn it off put it on walk around and take it off pull it out bro it out throw it out get it back lose track think it's wack think it's great hate to love love to hate turn it on turn it up turn it down turn it off turn it on turn it up i wanna scratch the sky make it bleed and feel alright i wanna cut the sky just once and then i'll die when there's nothing left to do and no one around to stick it to nowhere to run nowhere to hide don't keep it bottled up inside shoot your mind's eye through the clouds you'll own all the sunsets now graffiti writers write on walls but the sky's the the biggest wall of 'em all so...
11.
i miss you, wanna kiss you and destroy all the issues that make us need tissues and tissues and tissues and i'll know by the stars in your eyes and i'll know by the song in your smile i find you and i lose you and i find you like i always do and ignore all the fools who don't believe in our voodoo and i'll hear through the sound of your eyes and i'll swear by the stars in your smile befriend you and end you just to wind up within you i'd wine you and dine you but i can't read the menu but i'll read through the eyes of your stars and i'll believe all the stars in my eyes pretend i never met you? if you want to i'll let you but like a cop i still promise to serve and protect you and i'll wait for the stars in your eyes and i'll dream of the song in your smile dysfunctional behavior is part of our nature but when our harmonies blend we dissolve just like a vapor and I'm lost in the stars of your eyes where we breathe through the songs of our smiles missed Skype calls through Ubutu then i finally get through to you say that disney drew you and you say i'm pretty cute too then you see there's still stars in my eyes and i hear there's still songs in your smile we're intertwined lovers deep under the covers where we're made for each other like a sister and brother 'cause i made all the stars in your eyes and i wrote all the songs in your smile yeah i made all the stars in your eyes and i wrote all the songs in your smile
12.
13.
why am i on fire? oh why am i on fire? oh you know that you can't know what you don't know why am i so tired? why am i a lier? why am i stuck in the mire? why aren't i a better tryer? why do i feel like i'm stuck in a dryer? why am i on fire?
14.
you were in my emo nightmare last night i was the sound man at your wedding and all my ex-girlfriends were showing up and all my family too and i knew that you were already married to another and you were going through your own shit too so i quickly escaped and you called me and you said i could've at least said hi or stuck around a bit and you were very upset crying and yelling on the telephone and i started crying and yelling too 'cause you didn't go through with your second wedding and now you were in Los Angeles and I could not afford to drive to Los Angeles and I wanted to see you so bad yeah, i wanted to see you so bad but you said i missed my chance you said i missed my fucking chance and i woke up in a cold sweat and thought that you were really married and in Los Angeles maybe you are really married and in Los Angeles you were in my emo nightmare last night
15.
16.
well I was tired of being tired and i was wired of being wired so i slipped out the back door the front was always blocked where smokers smoked and gawkers gawked so i just slipped out the back door and i know it wasn't right but i couldn't keep up the fight so i just slipped out the back door i slipped out the back door couldn't take it no more well the walls were caving in and my ear was turning tin so i just slipped out the back door the phone it rang and rang but i just had to do my own thing so i slipped out the back door and i know i burned it down but my smile turned upside-down when i slipped out the back door just slipped out the back door had to say "no more" well the days, they came and went and my money got all spent so I just slipped out the back door my brain begin to rust and i was chokin' on the dust so i just slipped out the back door and you can ask around but i'll be nowhere to be found 'cause i slipped out the back door just slipped out the back door that's what it's there for

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released March 18, 2015

all lyrics, muzakal instruments and production by Derailed Freight Train
(except "One Fell Swoop", produced by Idiom Creak and Derailed Freight Train)


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