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Castle Island

by Free City Collective

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1.
MCE 04:24
I’m a martyr without a sacrifice to be made just to plant another helpless hand in a hopeless time pull me off of the freeway start it over again coax me back to bed where I can lay my head at ease coming down on a dusty road with the world outside in a verdant glow bivouacs of fractal-patterns home to a time and a place when it wasn’t a race to be caught in the web of the soft parade I could almost taste my sense of time I don’t want to be here anymore than I wanna fit in but I’ll be what you want and I’ll say what I need to get on with the grind what an apocalypse of the world around, and within lay me down to sleep maybe in time you’ll finally see it all work out how it always would and not the way you thought it does and you’ll lose it again half of anywhere I’ve been I don’t recall am I a modeling idiot? am I off of the cause? all I know is all I know is wrong the moment’s gone I can burn out on my own to be honest if we’re being honest well, what’s really honest if I’m terrified to be seen in another way that’s not the light? pull it apart and try to make it all work out but it doesn’t come playing a part to say you’ve won and, if you try you may conceive it all worthwhile take a lauded bow and mark your name in style shake off the veil shallow faith will lead you blind and I will always remember what I want to regret you’re an impossible staircase you’re an impossible lie relativity it all remains to me whatever way you want is what you need
2.
I was lost against my will under a spell from a castle of indolence I felt I was lost on an island in my mind citadel of revelation take me from demise lift me out from the bane of any creature left behind of our loss of our island in the sky all this time I find isn’t peace of mind it’s lonely and divided into pieces of our broken dreams and my heavy eyes are only weighted from the pain of wandering inside heaven is only somebody’s way of getting by you’re all alone and no one’s gonna help you if nobody’s seen you cry
3.
Rattlesnake 03:37
wait I don’t wanna wake I don’t wanna be a new stalemate always, always I’ll wait in the corner look away I’ll be better getting on my way suffering the lie save for when I mean it right then and when I need it I’m a lesson of a time that’s passed a way pay-rolling away 9 to 5… 6, 7, 8 falling out of time struggling to be sane struggling just to say I don’t want to be alone I don’t to be a ship I don’t want to sink down into the bottom of a man-made lake or structure of the mind at the dawning of our lives when all is set in stone it all comes clear rattlesnake you undermine the elementary progress of my kind at the turning point with yourself alone again where the ladder only speaks to how long you can stand to fall back down would you say what you meant if they told you it wouldn’t waste their time? unless you’re fine rattling yourself alone inside the cage you own
4.
Chelsea May 04:30
shifting shaking modern love her auburn hair in bed tamed just like a lioness her little crown above her head well no one could have whisked you far enough from here and no one ever will but if one boy could change your mind then I guess there’s hope for some young love, still light my cigarette and sing the only living boy this side of the mountain range is a bus too far for a girl with wings no matter how many times I can tell you to go and be gone like a tramp in the world alone only god ever knows where your garden will grow but I guess he ‘aint at home we’re only wasting our time if we’re too young to care Chelsea, make me feel lighter than air wait was the light ok? did it cover up my old mistakes? you say it’s a dead-end freeze but the crowd will sing if you promise me you’ll wait there’s a girl up here and a boy out there and we’ll always seem to wait and we'll always seem to wait take some time here to run around you know we’ll all be Coleman County bound shed some love on a winded dime you’ll run out of luck in time nobody cares what you’re singing if you’re saying it low nobody cares where your going if you go it alone and your garden will grow if you tell it to grow and you’ll be what you are when you’re old we’re only wasting our time

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Recorded at the Farm Studios (Sunshine Coast, B.C.) in November, 2011. Additional overdubs were recorded later at the Nimbus School of Recording Arts.

Written by Free City Collective

Produced by Fiend Recordings and Free City Collective

Engineered by Cody Taylor

Mixed by Shawn Cole

Mastered by Brock McFarlane

Digital Audio Engineer: Tim Rannard

1st Assistant Engineer: John Lindsay

2nd Assistant Engineer: Owen Marmorek

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Thanks and love to our families, Cody F. Taylor, GGGarth for the Farm and the hospitality, Nygel for the extra mics and ferry trips, Shawn for hashing it out, Super Brock, John Lindsay for his vibe, Owen Marmorek for his enthusiasm, Dan Tanner for believing, the Nimbus School of Recording Arts.. and to our friends and fans who were there then and are here now.. what a trip. Thank you for being there, always.

with love,
Free City Collective

2006-2012

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released March 16, 2014

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Free City Collective Vancouver, British Columbia

Free City Collective
2006-2012

Free City Collective was an altternative pop-rock band that released a collection of demos and three EP's from 2006-2014.

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