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May Day Music: A Benefit Compilation For Strike Funds & Artists

by Gardenhead Records

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now is the time waiting all day and now itā€™s finally here coming so close to feel the heat is near i can throw myself away into the night weā€™re spending with no ending here we go into a place we know to find ourself put our mind back on another shelf my thoughts can only lead astray away from the heart thatā€™s beating thatā€™s the meaning no time but now dance with me i get excited when thereā€™s music inside of us stay near me i know youā€™re willing but you are still killing me blind out in the night after the light we stumble laughing you wanted to know iā€™m only asking if itā€™s alright with you it might be the only way for me to say it no time but now dance with me i get excited when thereā€™s music inside of us stay near me i know youā€™re willing but you are still killing me
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summon 10,000 holes in my breath court side cash sitting benched just waiting to jump in and iā€™m hanging on Monterey up in my blood donā€™t know if I can stand up against it but there are holes in my heart that are bigger than some but thereā€™s some little ones in the bunch iā€™ve got my eyes set on home for good summon 10,000 forks to the grave rose petals stabbed into their teeth and iā€™m hanging ditch side with a tear rolling down my cheek and its living on thru the braces we were leaning on perennial breath leading up to a heaven of sorts with the forks that eagerly left holes in my heart that are bigger than some but thereā€™s some little ones in the bunch iā€™ve got my eyes set on home for good
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canā€™t see the trees for the forest anyway, she wants the seaside it gets so hard to ignore it just one more year, itā€™ll be fine she said ā€œcan you take me home?ā€ no one will leave me alone exchanging cookies for bones and geographical zones weā€™ll be just fine cuz thatā€™s the way weā€™re living large today toast and whole milk for breakfast stay away from the dark side youā€™ll get more grief from their lessons after a while you will find you are mine, all mine, today living life this way living large today living life away
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melting in the heat it all sounds like shit in this dusty unit changes daily savings quickly going fast down there the earth reflects my tears chained to the thoughts here now changes daily savings quickly moving fast moving right on past us look at what youā€™re doing distance will not ruin
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i wake up every day with a thousand things in mind but i never do any of 'em haven't go the time but i do, i'm just lazy and i never feel awake the doom and gloom of news is a lousy thing to shake i've got one eye in the corner of the room looking at the clock as it ticks its little tune and i (and i) don't know (don't know) why am i here? i've got one day to do anything i like no money left in sight and i (and i) wonder (wonder) why am i here? there's a park by the art museum where i always used to smoke though i don't miss massachussetts i miss the rose and common oak not the tourists that would holler or the landlords scamming kids but i'm sure glad i got to know the people that i did one more time i've got one eye in the corner of the room looking at the clock as it ticks its little tune and i (and i) don't know (don't know) why am i here? i've got one day to do anything i like no money left in sight and i (and i) wonder (wonder) why am i here? one more time goodbye
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I'm about to pull up I'm about to pull up Yeah about to pull up I'm about to pull up I'm about to pull up I'm about to pull up I'm about to pull up Aw yeah woke up in the morning feeling like this i know you really wish that you could bite this i know you saw my photo cause you liked it no one else in the frame cause iā€™m focused look at my wrist look at my neck iā€™m not here to flex (Ooh flex) Just run me the check (check check) iā€™m on the road iā€™m doing shows not with the drama i gotta go (i gotta go) you can pull up you can pull up you can pull up (come pull up) baby you can pull up (come pull up) baby you can pull up (come pull up) you can pull up you can pull up you can pull up (come pull up) baby you can pull up baby you can pull up pull up pull up no gas in the tank so i had to switch gears money in the bank couldnā€™t say that last year i found the one heā€™s mine, iā€™m his i been working all day he gon' eat it as is i'm about to pull up i'm about to pull up yeah about to pull up i'm about to pull up i'm about to pull up i'm about to pull up i'm about to pull up aw yeah
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they know you well in this town they know you better than anyone people i met once before people's whispers are loud town talks are snakes that crawl leave them alone, they're poisonous some enjoy their company they can hurt, sometimes they kill this is what a talk can do this is what a talk can do and no one is safe from harm and no one is safe some enjoy their company they can hurt, sometimes they kill
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if i see another photo of you again i think i might lose it for real this time i don't want to think about anything ever again cause it hurts too much i'm tired, i'm so tired of waking up in a sweat cause i dreamt of you again i'm tired, i'm so tired of feeling like nothing without him. escape, delete the things he said, but the reality is i can never forget
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fairless, bailey, pharaoh, hepperties, rally, ruffle, challen, so... travelga, fiddister, irisy, fiscay, umber, forfend, promity forth time this is the good ship lifestyle all my friends jumped ship i elect me the captain this is the loneliest voyage i've ever been on up in the crow's nest - over there! i see land! first mate? there is no first mate... this is the good ship lifestyle sail away from the world so steer a course a course for nowhere and drop the anchor my little empire i'm going nowhere (this is the good ship lifestyle) this is the good ship lifestyle i fly my very own flag tv dinners for one at the captain's table repel all the boarders! draw the curtains tighter! where's the crew? there is no crew... this is the good ship lifestyle sail away from the world so steer a course a course for nowhere and drop the anchor my little empire i'm going nowhere (this is the good ship lifestyle)
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driving through phoenicia a dog's leg caught in its leash i'm looking for a turn the tributary mispronounced like oedipus clementine peels on a window sill a mockingbird mimicking a car alarm at the botanical garden i was telling you all the names that i knew and you were looking for a turn tell me the latin name of the magnolia
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always staring at this picture frame this lonely kid, he has a name it rhymes with the words you write he hates this party and this night it seemed so pointless 'til you came my hand, your number and your name you say the cig will stain my teeth shallow eyes with a mind so deep you're all so different but lie the same glass houses, throw the rocks of pain another empty voice, the phone i'm way too drunk and so alone and i'm too hung over to notice the signs it's all too bright can you close those blinds and are you really empty or is that how i feel with all these drugs i still need time to heal always staring at this picture frame this lonely boy, he has my name it tastes so different off your tongue i hate this song and how it's sung i hate you liked me for my pain i hate i loved it all the same i sometimes miss that empty face buried in a pillow at your friend's place you say these parties are all the same while you're too drunk to know my name you wish he'd still pick up his phone i'm way too drunk and so alone and i'm too hung over to notice the signs it's all too bright can you close those blinds and are you really empty or is that how i feel with all these drugs i still need time to heal i don't wanna be here take me home it's a party but i feel so alone
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leaving her now is like nothing before something to do and some more to explore walk with myself and a foot out the door flower the pavement and look for what's more i'll take the cow i will be there with my hand on your chest i feel your rumbling internal mess unlock my body and slip out my dress you loving me and me feeling blessed hold me for now i'll take the cow home i'll take the cow weaving the hair of my friend i adore to take what i'm given and never no more unlock my body and move through the door i'm out of control of realities shore i'll wipe my brow i'll wipe my brow now
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orange is boring but not you you are blue the colors absorb into you they do orange is boring but not red like a sunset the colors dissolve and i canā€™t see where they are can you? they do if you're seeing wrong with nothing to lean on it's just a little machine gun tearing apart your brain if you're feeling low canā€™t find your halo its just a little mosquito tearing you up again and you donā€™t know how and you donā€™t know when and you donā€™t know what is happening and you donā€™t know now and you donā€™t know then and you donā€™t know what is happening
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you have to turn the water blue if you're meant to drink it in the way that you obscure the truth if you just can't bear to see it like how the sky becomes azure the ocean made a sapphire the illusion soon becomes the cure for our heartache and our quagmire in time we turn it to excuse for looking at the surface what's beyond or underneath we're too afraid will hurt us you have to turn the water blue if you're meant to drink it in the way that you obscure the truth if you just can't bear to see it
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i miss all my friends at the temple bar the ones who walked just half a block and the ones who traveled far a family like a lost and found blessed by niles canyon and the water from the ground charlie was from tracy and he made all his money on pool hiding out from the children of god, heā€™d run out the clock on school but one summer he just disappeared, and i heard that heā€™d driven up north sometimes you never see someone again but you know just what theyā€™re looking for andy was a scholar of capital paranoid but justified, slept in a sailboat hull showed up late one night in a dressing gown called us all his jailers, and the country a company town and youā€™ll all crack up too, he said itā€™s all just a matter of time last I heard he was a forester and heā€™d shut up all the demons in his mind roxy was a painter and my first love not that sheā€™d admit as much, sighing like a mourning dove last i heard, sheā€™d made it in monterey selling beachfront properties, flying in a private plane arthur hasnā€™t left at all but i rarely ever see him around i might catch a glimpse at the grocery store or picking up some dinner in town the one time i caught a look straight in his eyes there was no recognition at all like two old fish in an aquarium seeing their reflections in the wall i miss all my friends at the temple Bar the ones who never moved away and the ones who traveled far a family like a lost and found then the angels took it over, and it burned right to the ground
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Pile - Work 05:16
slow burning smoke in my eyes i'm a fool cuz i might think the proof is air tight enough to break a bone on a bad overbite and a kid's world overthrown mug with no story to tell just a half lit idea that hasn't worked that well when he takes the time off little adrenaline and the brain gets so soft benzo make you calm down easier to work on habits of hand and habits of head make what you can and then break what you want you're a castle of sand that won't ever die that's what you get for to pull that kind of stunt write it 500 times on the wall well there goes one down in the ham i think i can cancel it out i can sigh and float like i'm done do my worst while i'm not even there once in a while i'll take my time on take the day off be all gone be on the off
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when your silence fills the air and in knowing that itā€™s there i am motionless in the absence of the light in the darkness of the night i am motionless and when morning comes around rips you open, breaks you down iā€™ll be withering away again till i canā€™t make a sound itā€™s the same things all again itā€™s the same things all again when your silence fills the air and in stillness lying there i am motionless i am motionless at the mercy of the light rendered hollow, ashen white i am motionless iā€™m motionless well the time was on my side now thereā€™s nowhere i can hide i am withering away again it happens all the time itā€™s the same things all again itā€™s the same things all again
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the sky is blue and you are too but you're my man, i'll stand by you but what you want is tangible yeah what you wants is painful i am down but my love's still big on the ground the wind's shaken all my figs pick them up you can sell them in town fill you up til the next time you come around you say i've touched you, well youā€™ve touched me too and the rain still just rains down on me and you just drive on by me all i'm doing is standing up but you seem to hate that view you're hurting me but i'm just trying to love you i am down but my love's still big on the ground the wind's shaken all my figs pick them up you can sell them in town fill you up til the next time you come around
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you bought me, i spin around youā€™re fired, perennials you gut me to spell it out small buyers and christian clowns two bruises, weā€™re shedding now fall flowers, synthetic clouds talk to me, iā€™m underground iā€™m tired, iā€™ll pray for an owl alone (hoot hoot) who knows? this day of nein whoā€™s inspired? whoā€™s blossoming? i donā€™t want to believe you wouldnā€™t be there i should trust you, and nearly i do i can assume, but boyā€¦ not one to lose the hopes of my dream a punk in love
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i dug myself into a ditch again and no one else can really understand people like you and me, we don't go home people like you and me, we're all alone i was a kid, i won't forget the past another hit, i learned to smash the glass you learn in time to never make a scene i never want to think i feel that mean it's raining punches it's raining blood it's raining punches it's raining blood
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i don't know, i don't care i won't know how to share my emotions in the way help me sort them, please i'll pay tell me where to go tell me what to do i'll be your puppet, baby it's true tell me it's love tell me it's lust tell me hold on tell me don't trust i don't know what you want me to do i wanna run after you but you run right off the roof i never got to say i'm in love with you
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didnā€™t think that i asked you to be the one that i wanted back even though that i want to leave here disappear and all the kids are fucked up said the kids donā€™t care about love again cause everybodyā€™s caught up just the same growing pains of their ways so go down lay out youā€™re not a mistake iā€™ve got your heart itā€™s not my complaint our mistake did ya know that i lied to everyone that i knew for a while didn't mean to leave you out and still i wanted to need you and all the kids are fucked up you see there's nobody to love again and everybodyā€™s caught up with the same growing pains of their ways so go down lay out youā€™re not a mistake i've got your heart itā€™s not my complaint our mistake sometimes i feel like i can only understand the world in words that donā€™t even actually exist and even if iā€™m not physically here, even if iā€™m transparent to everything thatā€™s surrounding me despite all that i still think itā€™s fucking amazing. said the kids are fucked up and there's nobody to love again cause everybodyā€™s caught up just the same growing pains of their ways so go down lay out youā€™re not a mistake iā€™ve got your heart itā€™s not my complaint our mistake
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where did we go wrong i wanted to write a song something that would make you cry it's beautiful we all forgot the words to make you feel sad and small oh no.. i wanted to make you cry magic maker of a song
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towards the sunset i take a drive escape my vibe just for a night i drive focused nowhere to go sometimes i'm fast sometimes i'm slow a pasture moans the cattle's praise in the right mind we're the same grazing on the same green 1,000 lifetimes spanning just as far as a fence night grows older it's getting dark i haven't found a place to park i have chosen a funny life is this alright? do I feel fine? i tried to find my own way out did i choose a similar route? grazing on the same green 1,000 lifetimes spanning just as far as a fence
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A benefit compilation for strike funds and artists! Proceeds will go towards ongoing strikes and unionization efforts as well as the contributing artists.

Thank you so much to all of the incredible artists who contributed!

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released May 1, 2022

created and mastered by Etai Fuchs

Huge thank you to Gabbo for making this release possible

Artwork by Emily Elise - www.instagram.com/emilyeliseillustrator/


The artists ~

Adjective Animal - adjectiveanimalus.bandcamp.com
Anika Pyle - anikapyle.bandcamp.com
Art Contest - artcontest.bandcamp.com
Blvck Hippie - blvckhippieband.bandcamp.com
BobbyFogg - bobbyfogg.bandcamp.com
BRNDA - brendadc.bandcamp.com
Broken Down Golf Cart - www.youtube.com/brokendowngolfcartsucks/
Cusp - cusptunes.bandcamp.com
Dan Deacon - dandeacon.bandcamp.com
David V Britton - davidvbritton.bandcamp.com
Deerhoof - deerhoof.bandcamp.com
Den-Mate - den-mate.bandcamp.com
Dolly Spartans - dollyspartans.bandcamp.com
Double Grave - ggrraavvee.bandcamp.com
Doused - dousedphl.bandcamp.com
Empath - empathx.bandcamp.com
Etai - etaimusic1.bandcamp.com
Field Guides - fieldguides.bandcamp.com
Florry - florry.bandcamp.com
Full Body 2 - fullbody2.bandcamp.com
Gabbo - babbogabbo.bandcamp.com
Hello, I'm Sorry - helloimsorry.bandcamp.com
Hiero - someothaship.bandcamp.com/album/soil/
Highnoon - highnoon.bandcamp.com
Holiday Music - holidaymusic.bandcamp.com
Husbands - husbandsokc.bandcamp.com
Jrdn Alexander. - jrdnalexander.bandcamp.com
Laveda - lavedamusic.bandcamp.com
Molly Drag - mollydrag.bandcamp.com
Moon By Moon - moonbymoon.bandcamp.com
Palberta - palbertapalberta.bandcamp.com
Phantom Handshakes - phantomhandshakes.bandcamp.com
Pile - pile.bandcamp.com
Radiator Hospital - radiatorhospital.bandcamp.com
Rivulets - rivulets.bandcamp.com
Ryan Pollie - ryanpollie.bandcamp.com
S.C.A.B. - scabmusic.bandcamp.com
Semetery - semetery.bandcamp.com
Spirits Having Fun - spiritshavingfun.bandcamp.com
String Machine - stringmachine.bandcamp.com
Synae - synaemusic.bandcamp.com
The Natvral - thenatvral.bandcamp.com
They Are Gutting a Body of Water - theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com
Trash Girl - trashgirl.bandcamp.com
Vorhees - vorhees.bandcamp.com
Water From Your Eyes - waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com
Will Stratton - willstratton.bandcamp.com

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