Low Hum, by Joplin Rice

Low Hum

by Joplin Rice

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Logan Borzotra this is perfect while sober, but even better while intoxicated.

Delaney Epperson I can't stop listening to Perfect Coils. I could listen to him sing that song all day. Favorite track: Perfect Coils.

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1.	Arrow 02:04	lyrics	buy track
i made it halloween last week midsummer with my grief and dreamless slumber & i'm an arrow in the dirt but happiness don't call when it's worse i can't see the difference now dead on a rival's doorstep i made a million things last week & i love them but no one can ever touch them i'm not leaving here soon but loneliness don't call from this room i can't hear the ringing now dead on arrival's doorstep i made it halloween last week midsummer with my grief and endless slumber
2.	Lucky Man 03:00	lyrics	buy track
i was spent like a shell like a humble imitation of a greater incarnation of myself i was lit like a burning car it was nothing i just saw you & i thought that i would ask you how you are there's no other ending since i stopped pretending no one cares for a lucky man i'll arrest myself with a bloody hand i'll deny the ones i love with my last breath OK amen i was hit: i could crawl the extent of my involvement isn't clear to me as far as i recall i was new like a box of blades like a bullet never fired growing tired of the echoes its repaid there's no other ending since i stopped pretending no one cares for a lucky man i'll arrest myself with a bloody hand i'll deny the ones i love with my last breath OK amen
3.	Know It's Not 04:20	lyrics	buy track
when i wake up i feel it crawling through my hair i think that the devil put it there all my friends say that i shouldn't care i think that the devil put me here breathing smoke & then i'm sweating on the stairs i think that the devil put them there i walk up behind but i don't stare i think that the devil put you there but i am not the famous imitator wait-till-later/see-if-we-can-make-it kind of man so if there's something better, good i think i can forget her leaving one more time if it's the last but i know it's not am i dreaming of her when i wake up scared? i think that the devil put her there all the things i swore i'd never share i think that the devil put them there in september when the sunlight isn't there i know that the devil combs her hair i know that the devil says her prayers i know that the devil doesn't care but i am not the famous imitator wait-till-later/see-if-we-can-make-it kind of man so if there's something better, good i think i can forget her leaving one more time if it's the last but i know it's not
4.	Fair 01:52	lyrics	buy track
everything is fair everyone can change you're wasting all your time dying inside & no one even cares it has to be the cold driving you insane just wait until the spring & you'll be smiling & nobody will know everything is fair everyone can change you're wasting all your time dying inside & no one even cares
5.	Perfect Coils 03:15	lyrics	buy track
i got caught by the firing squad they were high on pills & you led them all i couldn't find your number to call to make reparations & you led me around downtown abandoned abrasive the smell of burning metal coils autumn sunlight so disloyal freezing all that's left inside my veins let's have a talk about intentions but first i thought that i would mention hating myself now just ain't the same they gave my relative a different death in a high school gym by the cool kid steps over-under twice works best if you're really trying & we left her right where she hung 'cause everyone's dying the smell of burning metal coils summer smiles so disloyal bleeding burning blushing handsomely let's have a chat about rejection save ourselves from resurrection dream a perfect prison fantasy
6.	Regret 02:09	lyrics	buy track
it's a simple regret: i wish i'd stayed that's about it the specifics i forget except the bodies in my bed sleep with your suffocation awake with a hollow hand i am what i can't stop i used to tremble at the thought now it's just a feeling i forgot i'm not afraid to be alone & that's what scares me because i know that there's nothing in between what i do & what i think it's simple regret: i couldn't wait that's about it sleep with your suffocation awake with a hollow hand i am what i can't stop
7.	Fangs 03:43	lyrics	buy track
would you care if i was in this like i said? if i was there if i was dead if i was trying i could quit if i'd admit how much i like it it's not real i just feel alone without do you still believe that putting up a christmas tree will get you everything that you want? let your fangs sink deeper hide your heart from jealous creatures ring around the remnants of our relatives & send a card to remind me we're apart & when the devil's at the door i'll tell him you don't live here anymore would you care if i was in this like i said? if i was there if i was dead if i was trying i can't say if i'll ever get away it's all luck keep it up & we'll see do you still believe that putting up a christmas tree will get you everything that you want? let your fangs sink deeper hide your heart from jealous creatures ring around the remnants of our relatives & send a card to remind me we're apart & when the devil's at the door i'll tell him you don't live here anymore
8.	Coffee 02:00	lyrics	buy track
i saw you buying records with your boyfriend i just hid behind the shelf started crying to myself i saw you drinking coffee: you were laughing was he telling you a joke or did you see me leave alone? i saw you but it wasn't but they all are who's that dressing in your clothes? it's the bitter one who knows who's that wearing your old hair? you're my girlfriend i don't care i don't care in a million moments dead frozen corpses in my head & i used to be so smart but my brains they fell apart in a million moments done frozen corpses in the sun & that's how we ended up i could never get enough
9.	Pull & Punch 03:10	lyrics	buy track
we are paralyzed at looks we are wasted light on you we are married to our crooks we are made to fight our truth we are terrified that what we have will go away before we can convince ourselves that it will help when we're alone with no one else i can't run but i can see far enough in front of me tomorrow maybe i'll get well run back home & never tell i'll never tell we don't care to pull & punch in a way it's fine to do we are paralyzed at once we are light not wasted yet we are terrified that what we have will go away before we can convince ourselves that it will help when we're alone with no one else i can't run but i can see far enough in front of me tomorrow maybe i'll get well run back home & never tell i'll never tell
10.	Haunt Me 03:16	lyrics	buy track
could you play that song again? i know you don't like your friends things are good, i'm hoping more isn't that what waiting's for? but she don't wait alone & everybody knows things are moving so fast & i'm catching on last would you haunt me if you died today? would you haunt me if you died today? there's a spectre in my skin & i know who let him in bleeding rings & flaming wheels when you leave they seem so real i can't be alone dangerously consoled things are moving so fast & i'm catching on last would you haunt me if you died today? would you haunt me if you died today?
11.	Parking Lot Waltz 03:16	lyrics	buy track
i blow smoke back home i take ticking time bomb tambourine crescendoes endocrine releases into shaky muddy puddle people i increase my dose i encompass infinite indifference when decisions end up tipping in your favor you're my favorite one i invent my oath i disguise my only unbecoming features feverishly feeling something distant but inviting get away

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Recorded 28 Dec 2014 - 4 Jan 2015

This Album is Dedicated to No One.

BUY CASSETTES OF LOW HUM HERE: practicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/low-hum

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released January 13, 2015

All Songs Written by Joplin Rice
Voices/Instruments by Joplin Rice
Recorded/Produced/Not Properly Mastered by Joplin Rice

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Joplin Rice Lexington, Kentucky

Joplin Rice is a songwriter living in Richmond, Kentucky.
He has released numerous other albums both under his own name and as Ezra Triste.
Every band he forms dies.

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