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MULTIPLES

by Multiples

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    Immediate download of 14-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Comes with pictures, lyrics.
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1.
Can't Take You With Me 03:44
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Can’t Take You With Me Commit to something – even nothing Cause commitment is for the taking All our caring, sharing and, and story comparing The pointlessness of even caring Whatever wisdom we could impart Is clearly suspect from the start It was OK, but then it hit me That I cannot take you with me Can’t Take You With Me Where I’m bound There is no mending – there’s only rending And it’s unyielding, and it’s unending Much as we would love to protest Perhaps it’s time to take a rest Can’t Take You With Me Where I’m bound Whatever message you think you see I endorse it wholeheartedly In sharp contrast to what you think you’re knowing Is the fact you’re not going Can’t Take You With Me Where I’m bound
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Life and Its Living 03:33
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Don’t let it go It’s withered and torn But it’s just my hand It’s been my hand since I was born One minute you’re thinking Won’t it ever end Next thing you’re in a bed Surrounded by your friends It’s just life and its living It’s the one thing that we’ve got You think you’ll make it out OK Nice thought Whether you spend it being driven Or just waste it with misgivings It’s just life and its living Is it not Don’t let us down We need you around Wore thin with expectation And it holds no weight, I’ve found One minute you’re thinking Won’t it ever stop Next thing you’re in the ground Just fertilizing crops It’s just life and its living And it cannot be ignored I try to see it as its own reward Whether you spend it all in silence Or just wear it down with violence It’s just life and its living So I’ve heard It’s just life and its living It’s a famine and a feast It’s fires and floods and earthquakes Hair and grease Whether you spend it being driven Or just waste it with misgivings It’s just life and its living At the least
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State Secret 03:27
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It’s important that you’re there It’s important that you’re scared What’s most important Is you’re not entirely there Cause then you might run you know And that’s a whole different kind of fun Although you know -You know What’s important, we presume It’s all encompassed in this room What’s most important is You’re not sure who you’re talking to Cause then you might lie, you know Find yourself wanting to die Although you know - You know What’s most important is that you cooperate Sealed files Secrets of the state What’s most important Is that nothing is revealed Secrets of the state Files are sealed It’s important you’re amazed Last night is a haze What’s most important Is you’ve got a child to raise You don’t remember seeing her before But your daddy and your mama And their friends all seem to know It’s yours - It’s your What’s most important is that you cooperate Sealed files Secrets of the state What’s most important Is that nothing is revealed Secrets of the state Files are sealed
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Burned 02:28
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BURNED Dust and ash, wind and black rain Thousands of miles surreal and mundane You didn’t want to leave you a world like this But we didn’t learn The best minds of our generation Every state and nation They’ve been Burned Whatever we built is burned Covered in silt and sand But aren’t the memories grand Buried where you stand/ Piles of bones, near total silence Cannibalism, sudden violence You didn’t ask to live in the world we got But that ain’t my concern Every saint and sinner They’re all wondering what’s for dinner Whatever’s not Burned Whatever we had is Burned Whatever we had was loaned Now the debt’s come due And I don’t give a damn What they put you through I’m sure this isn’t what you had in mind But it’s what we earned You didn’t pay attention Spent your life waiting for that pension But it’s been Burned Whatever we knew is gone And every dream we had was wrong We wasted the time we had I bet you’re missing your Mom and Dad But they’re Burned Silent sinking streets And miles of stinking meat But aren’t the memories sweet? Aren’t the memories sweet?
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Just Let Me Go 02:55
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Just Let Me Go As if the whole world had been covered in foil Buried in ashes and boiled in oil Maybe come when you call Maybe not come at all Just let me go As if the whole universe shrunk to a speck To a touch you forgot To a breath on your neck Fling the things I’ve destroyed Down a tunneling void Just let me go Just let me go Just let it lay Let it all go just as it may Buried your will But it’s in there still Wants you to love Not to kill Wanted to stay And not go away But now that I know Just let me go All of creation balloons at my touch The cosmos expanding ‘Cause it hates me so much Even the wind will be soon joining in Just let me go Just let it go Just let it be It has to find a balance, you see Those broken of mind and those left behind Want them to thrive Be more than alive Wanted to stay And not go away Don’t let it be slow Just let me go.
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Emissary 03:41
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Emissary Before her ears got wet She was up to her neck Just a prisoner of dialect Emissary She’s not herself tonight She isn’t feeling right Her temples kind of tight Emissary Maybe she’ll take a ride Out to the riverside Catch a scent of time and tide Maybe her caliber Finally caught up to her Won’t remember who you were Emissary It seem that buzzing sound Is coming from all around Clears the mind, slows one down Emissary Maybe she’ll be amazed Out by the rolling waves To catch a scent of early graves You’re not yourself You are here for someone else And it’s a tragedy you won’t Remember what went down Emissary I’m the greying shadow You avoided in the cemetery The sea’s a boiling Hell Noticing burning smells Time and tide, all will be well Emissary Trick of the wrist A practicing hypnotist Maybe she won’t be missed There’s flashing lights and knives And she is sold in the night To some guys from Dubai Emissary
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Our Catastrophe 03:13
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Our Catastrophe No future in prescience And crucial fiction you will nail me with Once I believe tomorrow This tingling will nullify it Party like a mannequin Come on sweet like Candygram Come on sweetness, take my name Clog my gut and choke my veins Last hours shriveled with motion and time Last touches abandoned and contact declined Lost in the communal mind Last hours tangled in seaweed and vine The soft smell of rot and eventual decline Our Catastrophe Our Catastrophe This is the last of me When we are coupled quietly This is how it all should end And I would take you with me But I would not know how my friend Put your head upon my chest And strain to hear the emptiness This is how I want to die I just thought I should tell you why Last hours quiet in fields and our homes The false reassurance of not being alone The pull of meat on the bone Last hours quiet at the end of your life The thrill of the quest and the call of the pipe Our Catastrophe Our Catastrophe You’ve seen the last of me
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The Yoke 02:01
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The Yoke These primeval forces Set the stage and kept us driven Now and then debts were forgiven And we’d be free But evil’s latest generation Is unforgiving and impatient They've redesigned to modify the joke They think it’s time to reapply the Yoke Think in terms of pointillism Each dot represents a prison Why not throw a match behind you as you go Think in terms of bigger pictures Count atrocities like fingers Got us fearing every word we ever spoke They’re here in time to reapply the Yoke Now it may come as a smackdown May come as a crackdown Hope you bought yourself a gun rack ‘Cause there ain’t much to say as a comeback People of the global village Have been washed away in the spillage They’re decreeing there will be no jubilee While we’re distracted by disasters We’ve been reassigned new masters Who won’t hesitate to beat us ‘til we’re broke They think it’s time to reapply the Yoke No Jubilee, no Jubilee.
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Emily's Dossier 03:34
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Emily’s Dossier I told that kid I was going to blow her mind And I did Look at her today Yeah check out Emily’s Dossier I told the press I was going to have to call and confess They’re coming for me But wait a minute Document Emily You’re walking along Something’s missing, then it’s gone And then it’s wrong And then it’s finally OK Hard to admit But then I dealt with it I have to look at it that way She wasn’t very smart, she said But she had a lot of heart She said I want to live all I can But she’s dead on the sofa man You’re asleep in a dream In the dream are many doors Some you ignore But in the end you just go in I can’t pretend that I don’t fear the end I fear seeing Emily again.
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Opportunity Knocks 02:28
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Opportunity Knocks Well here’s the thing that everybody forgets There are influences Then there’s debts Sure I got disdain for those who follow like sheep But anyone can see I’m nervous 'Cause I talk in my sleep And I say quislings and cowards You’re sure to object When anything that isn’t evil has any effect Y’all believe in what you’re saying, I’m sure But I find your motives insufficiently pure Where you see holy dictums I see perpetrators and victims I watch the clock And wait ‘til Opportunity knocks What’s in the future isn’t looking like fun They’ll be outnumbered But we’re still outgunned They’ve researched your every pride and shame/ Speakercopters over neighborhoods Will call you by name Quislings and quitters You serve ‘em and grin You just smile and suck it up Like you can’t keep it all in If you don’t know what I mean I’ll spell it out for you, traitor C-O-L-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-O-R You been sleeping with the jailers I wish you suicides and failures I watch the clock And wait ‘til Opportunity knocks Here’s the thing that everybody forgets Lie down with snakes and you will get bit It’s either surrender to the madness Or just give in to the sadness Think out of the box And wait ‘til Opportunity knocks.
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Feel 03:14
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Feel I’ve been talking to the career minded Who say I’ll know it when I find it And that well may be I’ve been trying hard to stay enthusiastic But it’s all so plastic Like most of what I see I’ve been watching daytime drama shows That’s the thing about TV They’re trying to make me Feel I don’t want to Feel Mostly when I Feel things go downhill for me I’ve been thinking maybe I should travel more Maybe while I’ve got some time to burn There’s a world out there As big as the great outdoors I don’t see no reason to return I’ve been talking to the career minded They tell me I’ve been blinded But I know what I’ve learned Your idea has appeal But I don’t want to Feel I don’t want to Feel But thanks for your concern In so many different ways it requires More than I can raise and I’m so tired All we have’s these days that we’ve acquired That go on and on and on I’ve been talking to the career minded They say I ought to get behind it And I’m sure that it’s true But it’s hollow and unreal I don’t want to Feel I don’t want to Feel Why do you need me to? I don’t want to Feel You’re trying to make me Feel If it’s the last thing I do You’ll make me feel for you
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In-Stability 03:32
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In-stability Take control of the Summer rain Take your life in your own hands Seize the reins of a life That makes you question its demands Now you know you’ve had it And should I tell you why It’s that obsessive personality You’ve dealt with all your life You hope the bombs fall Hope that they come soon ‘Cause you feel so ineffectual You don’t care what they do Don’t believe in the president Don’t believe in the government Who made up these mythologies We don’t need stability Take control of the Summer rain Make it bend to meet your will Use the rain to have your way You’ll have your way until They make you feel so useless There’s a reason for it too I know you’d like to hear it But it’s way too late for you
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Psychedelic Funfair 03:23
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Psychedelic Funfair I never need to stand in line Psychedelic Funfair Funfair in my mind I never pay an entry fee Psychedelic Funfair Revolving constantly Psychedelic fanfare It’s rising like the sun That ball of fire won’t shine for everyone Technicolor backlit With pockets of neon light light Explode as if to infuriate the night I don’t think I’m going to rest until A Psychedelic Funfair Is summoned by my will I don’t think it’s right That I should sleep tonight Psychedelic Funfair Gently left to right Sifting through these corridors Gently front to back Gently side to side So much narrower than wide Hallways to infinity Uncertain by design Each direction sends a shiver down my spine Thanks sincerely, don’t think I’ll be back Psychedelic Funfair Replacing all I lack Since I was very small It’s been like counting leaves in Fall Psychedelic Funfair Thank you all Love you all Love you all
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The Peoples' Work 03:29
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When you do The Peoples’ Work The people come first (chorus) From the underpaid pharmacist To the baker with the cinnamon twist You better believe it The people come first From rave kids to college moms To everyone with a uniform on You better get with it The people come first Everybody needs truth From the cop on the beat To the thugged out youth Y’all think it’s a hoot But the people come first Everybody’s still beating us down And they still need to push us around It’s historically sound The people come first When you do the people’s will You may have to starve and maim and kill But if you won’t do the peoples’ good Maybe you won’t do what the people would Maybe you won’t go the people’s way Maybe you won’t hear what the people say But if that’s what it comes down to People gonna do what people do People gonna come and look for you.

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released 01 January 2011

Performed by MULTIPLES:
Matt Riedl, Voice & Guitar
Ellis Merlin, Bass & Voice
Pete Rahaniotis, Guitar
Amy Hall, Drums

Produced by MULTIPLES and Mike Nicholson at Vistapoint Studio, Pittsboro NC.
Recorded July-November 2010.

This is MULTIPLES first (and self-titled) album.
It contains 14 songs.
They were all written by and © 2010 Matt Riedl, Scared Angry Duck Music Inc.
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released January 1, 2011

Front Cover Photo: Matt Riedl
Band/Credits Photo: Patty Merlin
Back Cover/Song List Photo: Sideyard Studios
"typo3" created by Myriam Hure

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