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Bloody Strings

by Rabbit Rabbit

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mdhalgren
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mdhalgren Let me just say it. Rabbit Rabbit slaps my whole bod. Having had my first taste of Rabbit Rabbit in the form of the 'Mouth Sweet' soundtrack (Great Game!) I was surprised by how rich and un-ambient Bloody Strings was.This whole album just oozes yearning, neon love. Neon Ain't Starlight is probably my favorite track, but it benefits immensely from the absolute killer that preludes its, the titular 'Bloody Strings'. The album slaps. The band slaps. I own the statement. I endorse the message. Favorite track: Neon Ain't Starlight.
Ian Martyn
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Ian Martyn Seriously, you can't find a sound quite like this anywhere else. Highly recommended! Favorite track: Play.
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1.
Play 04:58
Don't think I don't know where this is going I invented the curve balls you think you're throwing yet you have the nerve to smile back cutely you didn't really think you'd fooled me? I dare you to push me a little bit more you're nothing I haven't defeated before you can't play a player, hon I've played all the games before and I've won Ping-pong words back-and-forth, our conversations were never more than you saying something and me nodding my head I was too taken by whatever it was you had to disagree but I'm smarter now I even broke my rule for you, the one that says "never again trust another member of the human race" now you're caught in your act, yet you keep it up I swear, there's nothing worse than you I dare you to lie to me a little bit more there's nothing I haven't seen before you can't kid a kidder, hon I've played all these games before Sacrifice doesn't count if you just take it right back I know you know that's not how it works, that's not how it works if it's convenient then it's not love
2.
we're not friends there'll be no more talk of how things used to be you won't get another chance to stick a knife in me and I swear to God that you're not on my mind at any given time we're not friends and you won't see me again no, I never wish I had someone here by my side and I never think about how I'm sleeping alone every night my mind never lingers over scenes of what might have been I'll never feel a thing, and I'll never let you win we're not friends there'll be no more talk of how things used to be you won't get another chance to stick a knife in me and I swear to God that you're not on my mind at any given time we're not friends and you won't see me again I never miss the warmth of your hand on my face and I never go out hoping I'll run into you someplace I will die alone rather than ever be burned again you're no lover, and you certainly aren't a friend strike first, strike fast that's the way to victory you're the last one who will ever make a fool of me we're not friends there'll be no more talk of how things used to be...
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Electric guitars can break rubber bands can snap but I won't, I won't, I'm constant like that I'm a fill-in-the-blank for whatever you need you just happen to need an enemy I'm a body with no soul a shadow, a black hole there's nothing in me but everything is drawn to me What you want I should do? So I'm not human enough for you? And it's you who decides this so I have to run away and hide like this? it's not me who gets to choose born to arbitrary rules locked up and ridiculed why be human just for you?
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Y Y Y 03:23
use. less. cowards. whine. use. less. little. cowards. make. shit. up. use. less. cowards. whine. use. less. little. cowards. make. shit. up. Y Y Y Y Why can't you just get over me? Why can't you just grow up? I spent too much time on you I wasted all my time Why can't you just go fxxx off? Just fxxx off and die?? No one fxxxing likes you! (everything you say adds to the meter everything about you makes me wanna break things I hate you more than anyone worse, hate isn't the opposite of love like it should be) Can't you get a normal hobby? Can't you get a normal hobby? This has gone on too far! We're all tired of hearing it! Why can't you just get over me? Why can't you just grow up? I spent too much time on you I wasted all my time Why can't you just go fxxx off? Just fxxx off and die?? No one fxxxing likes you! really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. really. (Y Y Y Y XX, XY Why be "X" and "Y?" Why even need another someone-something-chemical? Why make it such a puzzle?) use. less. cowards. whine. use. less. little. cowards. make. shit. up. up. up. up. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Why? Why? Really, why??
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I don't feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for me and we who must now do without them they're alright, they've just gone home after doing what they came to do I don't feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for me... we'll see them again, we'll see them again it's okay to miss them, but we'll see them again we'll see them again it's okay to miss them in the meantime but we'll see them again
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The world belongs to us gamers To us schemers and players The world belongs to us gamers To us schemers and players
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I've been searching for something starry all the while knowing it'll stay seven inches beyond my reach humans will always disappoint me somehow endless waves of judging faces and thoughtless talking add to the noise add to the noise add to the noise you just add to the noise add to the noise add to the noise add to the noise you just add to the noise breathless running and furious flying to ascend beyond myself I turn my back on this faulty planet but I could be dead and frozen in place for all the good it does me now add to the noise add to the noise add to the noise you just add to the noise add to the noise add to the noise add to the noise you just add to the noise don't be seduced by the neon lights they're pretty colors but they're all just gas
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I'm through with love I'll never fall again said adieu to love don't ever call again for I must have you or no one and so I'm through with love I've locked my heart I'll keep my feelings there and I've stocked my heart with icy, frigid air and I mean to care for no one because I'm through with love why did you lead me to think you could care? you didn't need me, 'cause you have your share of slaves around you to hound you and swear on their deep emotion and devotion to you goodye to spring and all it meant to me it will never bring back things that used to be for I must have you or no one and so I'm through with love
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November 06:03
you would hurt me and then I'd hurt you more I wouldn't bat an eye then cry at the notion I swear that friends like us will be the ones to bring the world to its knees one day you'd forgive me every time take me back with open arms though I'd far not visibly deserve it and then that night you said it wouldn't happen again but it did and I'd never been so happy this is what I left behind along with every other shred of myself this is what I turned my heels on this sweet weird dynamic it was driving me nuts and now, barely being and now, barely doing cocooning for the barely now perceptible shift this November, it's finally gonna happen I'll finally forgive you I refuse to feel this way again I can approach this new beginning far more coolly than ever before 'cause I just remembered that being an adult means you never get excited for anything anymore
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Originally to be a sort of remake of my "debut" album a few years ago, Bloody Strings spiraled into something very different...

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released March 12, 2013

Mastering by Sage Taylor
Guest vocals by Angie
Remix submitted by grapeFruitBat

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"Awesome, I love this Depeche Mode song!"

"So, what are you... like, an off-brand Daft Punk...?

"Sounds like Depeche Mode!"

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