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Coexistence

by With Iowa In Between

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1.
Phoenix 04:42
Like a storm in the distance, I loom Over dark dreams and dead futures Like torn sutures Nothing’s the same anymore She is gone and they have left And I’m stuck standing in the ashes So many times I’ve been betrayed So many loved ones I wish had stayed What did they stray? Left stranded again I’m back to the start All the plans have been abandoned for fear of entertaining the future Of entertaining our hearts Another beginning seems so exhausting So I’ll hide in my frustration for a while And pretend I have no inspiration And pretend I have no desire But above all, I’m ashamed that I fell to ash I’m embarrassed that I held so long to single sided promises And liquored dispositions I was trapped under the weight of decisions made Though I was told, I made them all along I could never quite convince myself that it was me Who was wrong Though I am lost, I’m not losing I have no choice, but now I’m choosing I watched you run from your ambitions, afraid And now you play hide-and-seek with what you could have been I know you won’t rise again Because of this I fight so hard to stay afloat The day you fell, you brought me down with you And together at the bottom, you wait to be brought back up While I was busy building wings to rise above Though I am lost, I’m not losing I have no choice, but now I’m choosing With sunlit rays on this hazy days I see my past, I can’t go back I will create, in an attempt to feel whole Like a phoenix, I am reborn Though I am lost, I’m not losing I have no choice, but now I’m choosing
2.
Resonate 05:22
I’ve been searching for answers in every corner of this cluttered mind I’ve retraced my steps again and again to find out where I strayed I’m just trying to live a normal life But today, like many others, I am without understanding There is no explanation only hesitation And to write on paper is the only way out Another story, another page, another day I have to wait To figure out why I make all of these mistakes I can’t decide no, I can’t decide I can’t decide if this all takes time I guess I’ll never know I keep questioning my narrative And I’m starting to believe I’m just skeptical of my character And I search to no avail I pour all my time into finding the reasons why I fight so hard to be right Because I am a mirror of my own mistakes And approval of anything I try is hard to come by Because trying to manifest a reason why I’m like this So broken, is impossible And trying to match myself with such unsuitable words With lungs of limited elegance is an exhausting process That I fear I will never see the end of This could all be meaningless Can you tell me the truth Can you give me one universal rule to follow One small sentiment to tell me who I am supposed to be Because maybe the world is at fault Or maybe it’s just me Can you show me how to calm the seas How to bring me peace It rained on the way back home (what could sore this body’s sore bones) The windshield was streaked and I couldn’t see the road (with fear as constant as a metronome) I thought oh god, I’m terrified of my own mind (on the verge of insanity, there’s no merging in front of me) Of getting stuck and wasting my time (I’m on the edge) And so terrified to fail, the rain turns to hail I’ll ride this out (and I’ll just ride this out) The ice resonates on my roof in time (but I smile despite the ugly skies) And with the pounding in my ears I leave this storm behind
3.
Rust 06:42
Know this, that I have no answers I sit alone plagued with uncertainty Disappointed with reality I’m apprehensive of my surroundings And unsure of my ability to filter feelings Between presence and previously I am unsure of my capabilities With each step higher, I feel my head getting lighter and tighter With any thought of what I could be vanishing It’s growing colder towards the top And the place where my heart should be is caving in My lungs are caving in They told me I could be free That the higher I climbed the more I could see But I am only empty, harsher than I was Less human than I ever should be This has all just been a cheap form of lust The hands of my friend succumb to dirt and rust In a place where things outweigh thought I must admit, I have been forgotten I had dreams and ambition Or at least the ambition to dream Of a life measured by more than the collection of things And the status of those who control it I was never taught to think about my choices Only to act and to do what was asked of me Was I ever meant to be more than this Or was I always meant to follow suit So I sit here unable to feel cradling safety in my hands Like it’s pure or innocent And indulging myself until I’m something like satisfied So I do to get done, a successful life void of examination Floating dissonant and unable to collect my thoughts I speak so loud to only myself Worthless words from a fearful mouth If I climb these concrete walls I could see the sunset after all But you’ll feel it all And once you go You can’t come back All of here, have we all been dreaming Without a cause, what became of the meaning
4.
But it eventually faded And I just stood there I knew it was cold but I didn't shiver Because change is a harassment that I cannot stand to pursue And I wonder if my bones are cold on the inside Because as much as your body warms mine Getting back to the chill never seemed so unnatural If I am to make everything out of nothing I have to move on and believe in something I wish you never crossed my mind Sometimes I wonder if I can maintain this link so badly severed Guts in knots release momentum or stay turning round forever I’m moving on through the pervading cold When I warm I’ll learn to let it go I’m moving on through the pervading cold When I warm I’ll learn to let it go I watched the lights pass I watched the snow fall, upside down You never crossed my mind You never crossed it at all, I turned around Those words never really got to you I guess I didn’t want them to Because as much as you say it’s in your nature to carry through You didn’t really try to So despite my fear The harsh winter air brought me here Because being cold is not being alone There’s no more doubt within these bones The lights pass, the snow falls And you never crossed my mind at all, at all I’m moving on through the pervading cold When I become more warm I’ll learn to let it go I will make my way back home There’s no more doubt within these bones There’s no more doubt within these bones Though I am further away from where I was before I no longer fear the skies of the north And you never crossed my mind at all
5.
Tidal Wave 06:10
I’m not anywhere close to healthy In fact, I’m probably going to die But if I keep telling myself I’ll get better That’s the best chance I have to survive Because of the ones I love I sift the seemingly endless delusions That define the end of my life In an attempt to grasp a moment of clarity To stop the desperation growing in their eyes They weren’t supposed to see me like this Death is asking me to dance and I struggle to defy him I’m trying to hold on to the present tense But I feel myself slipping Will they remember or will they go back to the start All the things they’ve learned, it will be so hard Will I be forgotten or will they be just fine All the memories taken from a time when life was kind I want to leave courage and hope To be remembered for the good things To be held so close Close your eyes sunshine I never wanted this for you Close your eyes sunshine Morning will come too soon and I fear I won’t be here for you A flash A whisper grows on my lips So soft they struggle to hear me I’m okay, I’m okay I say But it’s written on their faces They know I am not With a rush of pain, I give in Selfish hate fills my body I forget the names and faces Of all of those that I once loved But I rally with sobering thought That they were not to see me like this I just try to hold on to their smiles And protect the life that I once had I won’t let it end this way I can’t resign to the pain and recede into the dark I scream to fight it off Wake up and stay here with them But I hear a voice, coming from my sunshine she begs She begs me to go I never questioned that we would always have it I just thought the sun would never set if I kept my eyes on it But the truth is, I couldn’t see it inching away Until it finally bumped into the horizon I’ve always known that I’m changing, constantly moving forward But the shifting is imperceptible So when is the exact moment when anything is lost Because it resides in my memory long after it happens Meaning nothing it truly gone until I let go Until I forget
6.
In your shadow I find the outline of my ghosts Gracing my ears with songs from raspy throats Bringing thoughts from a time when I was too young to regret Bringing thoughts from a time when I was too young to repent But now I understand everything I couldn’t then All the mistakes all the fights All the time that I acted in defiance it was met with a stern hand Only trying to prepare me for a world unforgiving I’ll never know another love so bright I’ll never know another heart so kind I’ll never know another person so loyal But I know because of you I’ll know how to pass it on I hope In somber endings We hope for new beginnings

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Coexistence is the first EP from Minneapolis based progressive punk band With Iowa In Between.

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With Iowa In Between is: Kyle Keller, Cory Elliott, Allie Pikala, Sam Stahlmann and Bradley Service.

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released May 23, 2014

All songs written by With Iowa In Between
Recorded at AJK Studios in Bloomington, Minnesota
Engineered, Produced, and Mixed by Richard Lewer
Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form

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