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Around The Bend

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1.
We’re just the lost boys Sittin’ round the dusty table Playin’ with old toys Wonderin’ if we'll be able To get a glimpse of Everything the light shines on Her skin My coffin Your grave They’re scoffin’ This ain’t a love song Just a cry up above From the forgotten boys Struggling to get out of the mud A blonde A diner An old friend And a sailor lost at sea A giant, to tall to see A chef wanting to meet The girl in his dreams And an artist, drowning in streams All struggling just to breathe A rotten fast food chain Where the words were exchanged About long past mistakes And the new ones that burn our masts Wanting to know just what could’ve been Just wanting to know just how deep’s the sin You say you want her to be happy Time’s come to accept where the happiness is from She wants adventures And you just want to breathe She wants fast food stands And you just want some reprieve We’re the forgotten few Some emptied body's We’ve got a few We’re not the heroes Just some funny guys Trying to find what Will keep us warm inside They’ll send us nudes And hold us through the night And tell us In time everything’s alright But we’re not there We’re right here Don’t tell us to wait Don’t tell us to cheer We want to feel ok We want them to stay But this isn’t the happily ever after Just the after of our dreams We’ll be forgotten, but not by each other We’ll be forgotten, but not by our mothers We’ll be forgotten, but we’ll know we were there We’ll be forgotten We’ll be forgotten We’ll be alone together
2.
Get Around 02:28
I’ll get around me I’ll get around all of this dirt I’ll get it off me I’ll sing about this preacher's worth And whether he’ll be worth his salt And whether God will open up And sing us all to open plains Where angels sing of devil’s pain And we’ll meet in that open field Our flesh tearing through the still I’ll get around On the other side of earth There I’ll lie in a pitcher’s girth I’ll be newborn on the canvas And that sky will be the key A brush made out of Eve and Adam And we’ll beat And then I’ll sing About how we’ve loved each other And how love cast our world a screen And of how we’ll never falter Even though I tore the seams I’ll get around There’s an orange gust awaiting An old soul’s day is due And when I reach my one true Father The only true man I ever knew I say hello to aged old soldiers And I’ll size them all their worth And we’ll laugh at one another As if we knew what we birth And an endless pint will pour down Across plains both old and new And we’ll all love one another Cause dear God can’t this be true I’ll get around
3.
Beat 03:19
That rhythm Means life A thud thudding An onward march past the present To an unknown void worth reaching Cause this present’s water's getting dark My clothes are getting heavy And that beat is slow Step and step And a step for a step Moving through a war I have no part in A war An unwinnable war that is not mine to be won Whose resolution I can announce If only my friends weren’t deafened from Fire and brimstone bursts And cannon fodder This beat that fuels us Lets us know we live This beat that told me I was alive But how naive this beat When now I realize that the ones I care for can only hear it As they stain my shirt with salt and masquera And bury their heads in the sand of my shoulder This beat is not with them I said once this was a choice I realize now this was a question with no answer This beat that tells us how alive we must feel When the only real feeling Is the beat of heads against walls To remind these cursed soldiers that they do still feel pain I do not understand you brothers and sisters I do not need to understand you I feel the beat inside me Believe in my beat For as long as this beat moves me forward I shall get you all home
4.
And Around 02:19
One day fields may turn to ash And age-old flesh will burn away And the memories of this old man Young painted on his face Will sift away like tiny crystals In a seabed far away And we won’t remember this And the love will lose its gaze Let’s be happy in a moment Let us all get around this dirt Could you give me just a moment My poor knees have lost their worth I’ll get around Don’t be bitter Don’t be mean Don’t forget about what lied beyond the seam I’m not happy But that doesn’t mean I’m sad Just a lost boy Longing for what Peter had And if Atlas sighs and shrugs May we all sing him along A battered orphan of the times Through his action, I will mime About the pretty girls at home And the ugliness they hide And the tall boys of the time Only wishing they could sign The last note off with a smile Hoping they’re dust will last a while Hoping all of this is kissed With archangels winged blessed May I be torn asunder May my eyes melt through the sunder May my bones get turned sulfur And my flesh rots against the winter May my feet scream in the night Summer get me off my ass Let me have one last fight Let me get around Get me around Oh Lord I’ll get around
5.
All of my friends have gone away Into pearls in clams below And heavens maze The hubris of our youth has cast us down But the brand of our denial keeps us sound So I could use a drink I surely think Well it looks like we’ve placed ninth! SO GRAB ME A FUCKING PINT FOR MY LAST CHEER! I’m thinking Valhalla will shake Under the weight of our fair gaze And when you go Ill wave goodbye AND STAY RIGHT HERE! So send me a pint! And a couple shots for after. And some whiskey to wash it down And enough rum to fill the rafters Don’t you DARE call me a drunk I’m just a man out on the run From a pretty little girl called life After a few rounds I’m free of strife I’ll fly so painfully close to the sun But my wings have only just begun A dozen wise men nibbling at my heels Pickin dirt off of their last meal So don’t you CRY OUT for me! We’ll make it by on the skin of our teeth And when the bar has just closed down I won’t be naive enough to frown Put my head up and sing about the day When my friends did go away INTO THAT MAZE! ...and pearls… ….and clams…. …..someone get me some Advil….. …….and coffee, good heavens my head…..
6.
I remember us We’ll remember them They’ll remember getting around the bend When the days crawled on for years But the fleeting moments burned our tears And the skyline broke apart And the memories tasted tart Cause I love her And I don’t know What that means In the end Could she love me By any means The boys coming down Screaming hard Screaming loud Shouting up past heaven above To whatever mistresses caught our doves Do remember us melting away As our tired eyes faltered the gaze The streets faded into obscurity And the sun blocked out everything we’d need And we ran away from each other Covered our ears and ducked under cover We laughed away the dark But it wasn't too thin not to leave marks But we fight it off And we’ll keep it off The boys came around the bend And they never stopped to ask when They’d finish out their quest Or if it even had an end Drown ourselves in sweets Buy more food than we’ll eat Sit around a burnt out fire And push off all our desires We’ll make jokes about our youth Knowing that it was our only truths Girls chasing boys Boys chasing cars Cars were too fast They wiped away our past Every love we ever felt And every ache that would come after I’ll accept whatever comes And I’ll smother it with laughter Cause when you fall in love You remember who it's from And the hope is renewed Even when better judgment’s acting shrewd And you’ve given one last shot Enough mistakes to fill the lot Beat yourself down into the dew Cause the boys will stand with you And they’ll laugh And we’ll cry Our hearts will mend And we’ll get Around the bend

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Disclaimer: Around The Bend is an unfinished album. All 6 tracks are present; no new songs are intended to be created. However, the quality is not what Now On DVD would like it to be. Be aware that updates to these songs are inevitable.

The songs in this album are created from the poetry of Dante Chambers. Kiefer Nemeth took their themes and added rhythm and instrumentation. As such, most of the lyrics in Around the Bend were not written with the intent of being musical. Now On DVD asks that listeners recognize that these words have inspired meaning of their own, regardless of how they are delivered.

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released December 10, 2017

Lyrics by Dante Chambers.
Composition and mixing by Kiefer Nemeth.

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