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Hard Feelings for Dark Times

by Seth Knappen

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1.
Careless mind 04:16
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Before everything went bad A hand full of hope and a fist full of mad But you liked it just the same… didn’t you? Seems to me these sad regrets That hold you down and tie you up All along they’re all you had Hiding the waste Of a careless mind A careless mind Times have changed and you’ve remained A shell of a self that couldn’t be contained Once upon a time when you were doing fine Back when you were young But now your eyes have turned inside I guess it seemed the safest place to hide I’ve decided It’s time to lose your careless mind Wake up you sleepyhead Get your sorry ass out of bed Pick up the phone I know you’re alone When you’re in your little head Hiding the waste Of a careless mind A careless mind Times have changed and you’ve remained A shell of a self that couldn’t be contained Once upon a time when you were doing fine Back when you were young But now your eyes have turned inside I guess it seemed the safest place to hide I’ve decided It’s time to lose your careless mind You're going to lose your careless mind It's time to lose your careless mind
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Stay With You 04:47
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How long has it been? How far have you gone? You’ve been bringing it on Stringing along A fantasy Everybody has got a job to do But not just anybody Is gonna do it for you Now I’m asking are you ready? You say you are But that’s not true What happens tonight It’s gonna stay with you You can feel it coming on A feeling that something’s wrong Down every burned out avenue That stood in front of you Light your hair on fire The system’s out of control You’ve been looking for something All night Just gotta find some kind of release So I’m asking are you ready? You say you are But that’s not true What happens tonight It’s gonna stay with you It's gonna stay with you It's gonna stay with you
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You Asked For It 05:41
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Crept in with the seasons Swept in by the tide You wore out your welcome No one left alive I’m on my way Yeah To the cities To the fields To the sea To the sky I’m on my way Yeah Too late to turn back To steal some time You called the thunder Yeah you crossed the line Now I’m on my way Yeah From the cities From the fields From the sea From the sky From the darkness To the light I’m on my way yeah
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Whiz-kid Generation 04:23
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Look at me Look at you What a dreadful thing to do We just don’t care About the day About the night Just the pleasant things in sight It’s a fucked up situation And we know... I can see it all inside of me Some societal lobotomy There’s nothing going on And now... I can see it all in front of me And I can’t stop thinking over Just where it all went wrong It’s the time Of our lives LAST CALL! At the end of the world One more for the road For the drive to despair HANDS UP! Get em in the air Better make it good Cuz we know... I can see it all inside of me Some societal lobotomy There’s nothing going on And now I can see it all inside of me And I can’t stop thinking over We let it all go wrong Now it’s over Now it's over Now it's over
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How it ends 05:08
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How It Ends Woke up this morning, stayed in bed Let the demons have my head And rattle around that burned out shell Seemed that I’d been left for dead Put my hand up to my head... All those shadows creeping in This is not how it ends! From a lover to a friend There’s a part that transcends Day returns to night Tossed and turned a mind of fire Turned the arrow back inside There is no answer for the way I get by... A worn out excuse for another try It’s gonna come back This is not how it ends From a lover to a friend There’s a part that transcends Day returns to night Tonight

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A stark departure from the slow-tempo astro-folk of Seth Knappen's earlier work, "Hard Feelings for Dark Times" is a sonically adventurous selection of soundscapes disguised as a rock album. A beautifully apocalyptic daydream for the 21st Century.

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released December 1, 2009

All songs written and performed by Seth Knappen.

Recorded between September 2002 and June 2008.

Tracks 1, 2, and 5 recorded by Justen Parris at the Honeycomb Hideout, Davenport, IA, and by Seth Knappen at the Frogpond.

Tracks 3,4,6 and 7 recorded by Seth Knappen at the Frogpond, East Moline, IL.

Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering.

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