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Arguments

by Maple Stave

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What if mistakes we made came back to us one day stood along the path and blocked every escape And all we court and spar whittled us down to things we aren’t useless tricks and dirty piles of false starts To say we have been here forever stuck between this voice and being clever failing mask with 40 years of refinement with nowhere else to run when we’re no longer behind Alone now and frailly sparse cropped out worth corrupted arc medically wound and forever we are violently and now virulently parsed I can feel the MiGs closing in and the night absorbing me as I bend myself to break
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Here I lived and here I died Stitched together symbols and signs For the bare ruined choir And so all these things we prayed down became false signals on the trip out of town Burned off swift far from your eyes what brought the summer stayed under the howls and cries of a dead moon’s weight I’ve seen the aged cycles of my fears Never leaving you but never here I’ve seen what these thoughts create With all the lies forgot the fiction we were surrounded but could not listen We could see the life we could hold the light but there’s no roadmap for the territory to inspire the bare ruined choir Sometimes it got so hot I’ll burn right out of my skin The last memory drifts out as I put down our kids For my final trick I’ll smile cocksure rusty and blind Ghosts show our story’s form and the plot stretched out for miles In the moment it is forever but I’m sure in time it feels like never
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Fifteen years trading in these same fears as I tried not to let habit become career I promise no more mistakes I promise to keep my head straight I promise I won’t let these hands shake I promise no more mistakes I just need help today It wasn’t me it was the wrench that got away And now my lung and my spleen and my head now fill with Aerozine If my dad and wife could only see me now they’d see how far I have come they’d be so proud they’d see the demons I fought on my own as the remains of the Damascus rained on my home
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Let’s start losing limbs take a coward’s stance hide behind our logic and deceit If we play what ifs for too long we might be happy and strong We can hope with all that we share in some years we won’t care Every inch I made went to the few with too much work to hope I’d see it through If I were brave I’d let go finally let this bias show The pieces we mulled over that we claimed we never saw that always fold over these fatal flaws If we play what ifs for too long we might be happy and strong Words weren’t enough to mend this is how things began to end
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We want the body we’ll take it all Cycled and circled down We have the body we’ll eat the soul Cycled and circled around Huddled and harnessed an impression was all you left Huddled and caressed an impression of who we loved The morning will find me with the world’s blood in my mouth The morning will find me with the world’s good gone
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I may swim out past the breakers to be pulled under to feel the warmth within my chest I may build walls that fall to the surf to keep my distance the only way no one gets hurt I may build walls that fall to the surf to keep my distance from the only thing this night has left You will lose this argument

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released August 1, 2023

Andy Hull: baritone guitar, vocals
Chris Rasmussen: bass guitar, vocals
Evan Rowe: drums, vocals
Christopher Williams: baritone guitar, vocals

Additional Vocals: John Hastie and Dixie Jacobs

Recorded by Scott Evans at Electrical Audio in Chicago, IL
Mixed at Antisleep in Oakland, CA

Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago, IL

Maple Stave Recording Number Six

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Maple Stave Durham, North Carolina

Since 2003, Andy Hull (baritone guitar), Evan Rowe (drums), and Chris Williams (baritone guitar, vocals), have written songs to overwhelm. In 2019, Chris Rasmussen (bass) joined to add even lower-end. Arguments, their 3rd LP, due August 2023, is an explosive amalgamation of what’s come before and a tense, heavy album of loud songs about difficult things. RIYL: Louisville, T&G, Unwound, aluminum. ... more

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