The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

01. Sowing Season (Yeah) 4:32

02. Millstone 4:17

03. Jesus Christ 5:18

04. Degausser 5:25

05. Limousine 7:42

06. You Won’t Know 5:42

07. Welcome to Bangkok 3:03

08. Not the Sun 3:09

09. Luca 5:09

10. Untitled 2:04

11. Archers 4:14

12. Handcuffs 4:11

Produced by Mike Sapone

Mixed by Rich Costey

Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge, NYC

Recorded at Long View Farm Recording Studios, Sapone Trax and Cove City Sound Studios

Recorded by Claudius Mittendorfer

Assisted by Michael Mo Lapierre, Ben Slater and Kieran Pardias

Additional Engineering by Ross Petersen Mixed at Avatar Studios

Assisted by Jim Keller, Chad Lupo, and Justin Gerrish

Mastering assisted by Sarah Register at The Lodge, NYC

Additional Musicians:

Irina Yalkowsky: Theremin on “Luca”

Brent Arnold: Cello on “Handcuffs”

Margaret White: Viola

Ron Piscitello: percussion

Written by

Published by All Night Chemist Music/Gut Bloodfoot Music/Nah Brah Music/Phatty Hooz Music (SESAC)

Management: Ari Martin and Tom Gates for Nettwerk Management

A&R: Luke Wood

A&R Coordinator: Ed Alexander

Legal: Peter Lewit for Davis, Shapiro, Lewit, Montone, & Hayes

Booking: Andrew Ellis/Ellis Industries

Art Direction and Design: Morning Breath, Inc. Photography:

Jesse Lacey, Nick Prior, Justin Borucki, Brand New.

Sowing Season (Yeah)

I was losing all my friends

Was losing some to drinking and some to driving

I was losing all my friends

And didn't want them back

I am on the mend

And at least now I can say that I am trying

And I hope you will forget

The things that I still lack

Is it in you now,

To bear to hear the truth that you have spoken

Twisted up by knaves

To make a trap for fools?

Is it in you now,

To watch the things you gave your life to, broken?

And then stoop and build them up

With worn out tools?

Yeah

Nothing gets so bad

That a whisper from your father couldn't fix it

He whispers like a bridge

It’s a river spanned

Take all that you have

And turn it into something you would miss if

Somebody threw that brick

That shattered all your plans

Yeah

No time to get the seeds into the cold ground

It takes some time to grow anything.

Before it's all coming to an end

Before you put my body in the cold ground

Take some time and warm it with your hands

Before it's coming to an end

Do you miss the blend

Of color she left in your black and white field?

Do you feel condemned

Just for being there?

I am not your friend, your lover, or your family, yeah

Millstone

I used to be such a burning example

I used to be so original

I used to care I was being cared for

And made sure I showed it to those that I love

I used to sleep without a single stir

Cause I was about my father's work

Take me out tonight

This ship of fools I’m on will sink

I’m my own stone around my neck

If you’d be my breathe

There is nothing I wouldn't give

I used to pray like God was listening

I used to make my parents proud

I was the glue that kept my friends together

Now they don't talk and we don't go out

I used to know the name of every person I’d kissed

Now I’ve made this bed and I can't fall asleep in it

Take me out tonight

This ship of fools I’m on will sink

I'm my own stone around my neck

If you’d be my breathe

There is nothing I wouldn't give

Things that were heard at the scene of the accident:

"They never hit their brakes..."

"There was no time to see..."

"He just ran out in the street..."

"Does anybody know his name?"

"I think I recognize him..."

"He sure as hell paid for that mistake..."

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ, that's a pretty face

The kind you'd find on someone that could save

If they don't put me away

It’ll be a miracle

Do you believe you're missing out?

That everything good is happening somewhere else

With nobody in your bed

The night is hard to get through

And I will die all alone

And when I arrive I won’t know anyone

Jesus Christ, I’m alone again

So what did you do those three days you were dead?

Because this problem is gonna last

More than the weekend

Jesus Christ I’m not scared to die

But I’m a little bit scared of what comes after

Do I get the gold chariot

Or do I float through the ceiling

Or do I divide and pull apart

Cause my bright is too slight to hold back all my dark

This ship went down in sight of land

And at the gates does Thomas ask to see my hands?

I know you're coming in the night like a thief

But I’ve had some time, O Lord, to hone my lying technique

I know you think that I’m someone you can trust

But I’m scared I’ll get scared and I swear I’ll try to nail you back up

So do you think that we could work out a sign

So I’ll know it's you and that it's over so I won't even try

I know you're coming for the people like me

But we all got wood and nails

And we turn out hate in factories

We all got wood and nails

And we turn out hate in factories

We all got wood and nails

And we sleep inside of this machine

Degausser

Goodbye to sleep

I think this staying up is exactly what i need

Take apart your head

Take apart the counting and the flock it has bred

Goodbye to love

It’s just a ride that will push you

Up right against the wall

Take apart your head

Chew it up and swallow it

(Does everybody really need to know everyone?

Do you really think you're really a part of it?

And is your army really one of some thousands?

And will you declare war on the loony bin?)

Goodbye you liar

Well, you sipped from her cup

But you don't own up to anything

And you think you will inspire

(When I arrive will God be waiting and pacing around his throne?

Will he feel a little Old Testament?

And will he celebrate with fire and brimstone

Yeah, I admit, I am afraid of the reckoning)

Take apart your head

Take apart the demon up in the attic to the left

Take me, take me back to your bed

I love you so much that it hurts my head

Please say, "I don't mind you under my skin

And I’ll let your bad parts in. the bad parts in"

When we were made we were set apart

But life is a test and I get bad marks

Now some saint got the job of writing down my sins

The storm is coming

Here is your storm again

Goodbye my love

You wait right here, and they will come and pick you up

I've been on pause

But I’m shaking off the rust

I’ve lost my charge

I've been degaussed

I've been degaussed

I've been degaussed

Take me, take me back to your bed

I love you so much that it hurts my head

I don't mind you under my skin

I’ll let the bad parts in the bad parts in

Well, you’re my favorite bird and when you sing

I really do wish that you would wear my ring

But no matter what they say, I am still the king

The storm is coming

The storm is coming

Limousine

"K, here's your ride.

Get your petals out and lay them in the aisle

Pretend you are God, and grow,

And that it's your own day to wed

We have found your man.

He is drinking up.

He's all-American, and he'll drive

He has volunteered with grace to end your life.

We'll tidy up

It's sad to hold, but leave your shell to us

You explode, you firefly, you tiny boat with oars,

Feather oars

The world tilts back and pours and pours

And so, you satellite, you tidal wave,

You’re a big surprise

And I have one more night to be your mother"

Her signal was interrupted.

My baby's frequency not strong enough

Her head in my hands and smiling.

K, we will miss you but in time you'll get set up,

And we will write"

(Curtain)

Hey, you beauty supreme.

Yeah, you were right about me.

But can I get myself out from underneath

This guilt that will crush me

In the choir, I saw our sad Messiah.

He was bored and tired of my laments.

He said, "I died for you one time, but never again"

Well I love you so much, but do me a favor baby and don’t reply.

Cause I can dish it out, but I can't take it.

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I'll never have to buy adjacent plots of earth

We'll never have to rot together underneath dirt

I'll never have to lose my baby in the crowd

I should be laughing right now

You Won’t Know

Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Hangman,

You go get your rope

Your daughters weren't careful

And I fear that I am a slippery slope

Now even when I lay my head down at night

After a day I got perfectly right… She won’t know

She won’t know

So pray little Kay, love is just God on a good day

And you can't blame your mother

She’s trying not to see you as her worst mistake

And I wish that I could tell you right now

But it looks like I won't be around

So you won’t know

You won’t know

You won’t know

You won’t know

So believe in me, believe in me, believe in me,

Believe, if you think I’ll let you down

Well I won’t

They can fire everything they've got

And when you think I’m sunk

I will float on and on

I have burned the bush that covered my light

Even though I’m scared I won't burn that bright

But you won’t know

You won’t know

You won’t know

You won’t know

We’re never gonna feel as full as we felt

So let's go outside and we'll play "William Tell"

Take your time drawing your bead

I’ll stand as still as you need

You’re so good at talking smack, you heart attack

But you're the apple of my eye anyway

My smiling face

That’s on my head

That’s on your silver plate

Not the Sun

Please don't be technology

Cause I can't turn off your love

Like some cold machine

Don’t feed me scraps from your bed

And I won't be the stray coming back

Just to be fed

Don’t be waves

Come to seal my fate, marine

Just pretend

That you want me

And be my babe

Don’t be that note I can't hold

Don’t be that joke that I told

And told

Till it got old

Don’t be that hand around my throat

So I can't breathe

You say you're my friend

But why won't you be my family?

Well, if you breed

Just don't tell me

Be my babe.

Be my serene

Tell me you know what I mean

You’ve set on me but you are not the sun

And you will not listen

Luca

When I disappear do you fear for the sister I took

When I disappear it is clear I am up to no good

I am drearily bloodletting this bedwetting cosmonaut

"Son, the last thing you'll realize you need is what you've already got"

So touch me or don't

But just let me know

Where you been?

Drop me a line with a hook and some raw bleeding bait

For I am uncaught and still swimming alone in the lake

Shimmering under a moon made in anger and haste

(I was the one who was always repeating it)

Shimmering like a penny out of reach in the subway grating

(Shimmering like a coin kept safe away, you never give in to anything)

So touch me or don't

But just let me know

Where you been?

You could never work well with our group

Not with flaws we found

So we've fixed you with cement galoshes

And no one can save you now

Even if you have friends among fish

There will still be no air to breath

You could drink up the entire ocean

But we'll still find someone to be everything we know that you will never be.

So touch me or don't

But just let me know

Where you been?

Archers

Who do you carry that torch for, my young man?

Do you believe in anything?

Or do you carry it around just to burn things down?

Meet me tonight on the turnpike my darling,

where we believe in everything.

If we sweat all these debts then we're sure to drown,

so let's strap ourselves up to this engine now

with our God who we found laying under the back seat.

What did you learn tonight?

while shouting so loud, you barely joyous, broken thing.

You are a voice that never sings, is what i say.

You are freezing over hell

You are bringing on that end you do so well

and you can only blame yourself, is what is say.

Oh, order your daughters to ignore me

think that will sort me?

and sweep me under the rug?

while you're beating with a book

everyone that book tells you to love.

There is an ember in the heart of this kiln

and it's burning hot with love.

Burning out my center till there's nothing but dust

then rolling me with care into your cigarette

cause the God i believe in never worked on a campaign trail.

What did you learn tonight?

You're shouting so loud, you barely joyous, broken thing.

You're a voice that never sings, is what i say.

You are freezing over hell.

You are bringing on the end you've read about

and you can only blame yourself, is what i say.

Who do you carry that torch for, my young man?

Do you believe in anything,

or do you carry it around just to burn things to the ground?

Handcuffs

I'd arrest you if i had handcuffs

I'd arrest you if i had the time

Id throw you down in the backseat

as if you'd committed a terrible crime.

I'd break into a town's worth of houses

and rob whole families blind

I'd do it to you like you'd do it to me

if you knew you would get away fine.

I'd drown all these crying babies

if i knew that their mothers wouldn't cry

I'd lower them down and squeeze real hard

and let a piece of myself die.

It's hard to be the better man

when you forget you're trying

It's hard to be the better man.

I'd arrest you if i had handcuffs

I'd arrest you if i had the time

I'd wait outside of the courtroom and taunt you

when all your appeals were declined

I'd drive my car into a bridge

if i knew that you weren't inside

With the pedal to the floor who could ask for a more

fantastic way to kill some time

You could lay on your back and be beaten

You could put up your fists and fight

You could try and be way off

It's hard to be the better man

when you forget you're trying

It's hard to be the better man

when you're still lying.

Coca-Cola

There are blood and feathers

on my dumb paws

Now you ain't nothing but a dead duck

and i still ain't nothing but a hound-dog.

You seep in the windows and vents.

I lay in the grass and i lose your scent.

Well if God gave me grace, then why aren't a graceful?

My joints are froze, and old and idle.

If it's by air

then i don't want to know

If we all don't take cover

then were all gonna fall back in love again

You work late and fight off your boss

Your patient dies and you take the night off

They've worked out

all the bugs

so now if you have enough money

you can buy love

You file out your reception seating

While i sing sing sing

these ten lords still leaping

the mark on your breast from your baby, teething.

Well, give him my name if he is needing.

If it's by sea

then I don't want to know

If we all don't take cover

then we're all gonna fall back in love again

"Bless your beautiful hide."

and curse your god when your friends die.