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New Concrete

by Desperate Living

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1.
Leave It 02:28
Nothing nice left to say So take the high road No color in your eyes Or your face - leave it Build it up in your mind Insatiable hunger It only bleeds me dry Nothing special - leave it Leave it alone Leave it alone Life's not a journey, life's not a path Life is a cobweb Nothing is safe, nothing's on time Nothing is certain Leave it alone Leave it alone
2.
I could count it all on one hand From talking trash to their nervous laugh We all die with a hole in our heart, begging for forgiveness: "It should have never happened, I should have never said that" When I was ten, I was throwing rocks at cars Sometimes one can really show their age And now I drain rivers just to catch a few fish I still feel the same way, I feel like a kid Daddy left and mommy worked, I was raised by no one Split by belief, and classed by wealth Everyone in this world will try to sell you something, or push you aside They'll try to keep you quiet, don't let 'em You're gonna look for the answers, and you won't find it Take it from me, you're gonna do the wrong thing You'll probably be happy, and never know it So go out swinging, or go out holding secrets Am I making myself clear? You gotta go out swinging Am I making myself clear? Am I getting through? You gotta go out swinging Am I getting through to you? Don't be like me Don't go holding secrets
3.
Ape 01:19
Before all these things get too far out of hand Let's address the bad habits now, while we can We say nothing, and it never stops Go down with it, and we just watch You have some kind of reputation to uphold You have a moral obligation, or so we're told We say nothing, and it never stops Go down with it, and we just watch We're trying to help you out of a jam, I hope you can see But all you keep asking, is "why here, why now, why me, why me?" Why me? Why me? Why me? Why me? Why me?
4.
Slow One 03:01
I just hope that this will strike a chord with you Like the slow one on Figure 8 really does for me Now that you know how to place the blame Call it what it is, as you see fit (stick a fork in it) Watching paint dry, and staring at the sun Trying to get by, like everyone It's with a heavy heart that I say this We don't want you around, we just want what's best We want what's best It's for the best We don't want you around We don't want you around
5.
Here it comes down crooked roads, and down the pike In the mouth of the graveyard, any idiom you'd like You don't get to walk around here, so you strut The house leaks from the roof down, but so what? Live to work or work to live, it's what you leave behind Only a small amount, does it make you proud? Some love comes in waves, it's no one's fault You must protect them, you're the man of the house First things first, let's soften the edge Tie loose ends Let it come to you, and move through your veins Move through your brains, move through your eyes And move through your mouth How dare you How dare you How dare you Don't you dare speak to her that way again
6.
Sad Old Man 03:30
You say to pick yourself up Without ever having to do it yourself You say there's no free lunch When your whole life has always been one You're just the old man yelling Hey kid, get off my lawn My future, our future In your days long gone What takes you one step Might take another man a giant leap We're not asking for a handout Just to level the field, just to make it fair (Your time is up, our time has come and passed. We watched you drag it down with you. I hope you had a few laughs, made a few dollars. You'll always have those glory days. I'm sorry that's all. You're only as good as what you did last. Constant contradictions. No morals, no values. I hope you get buried way down underneath, way down underneath the new concrete. Without a herd of sheep, there are no wolves. On the right side of history every time - time will tell. You catch more flies with honey. You get more rights with money. We will not simply accept. Complacency got us in this mess. Constant contradictions. Constant contradictions. Constant contradictions...) You're just the old man yelling Hey kid, get off my lawn My future, our future In your days long gone You're a sad old man

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Desperate Living came to be during the fall of 2017: Current and former members of The Minor Times, Ladder Devils, CRUISR, etc. joined forces under a simple edict: “let’s write punk songs”. Its members having spent many years in metalcore, math rock, and punk bands, New Concrete, recorded during the summer of 2018 with producer Jeff Ziegler (Nothing, The War on Drugs, Purling Hiss) is the product of that shared history and sits somewhere between the pummeling downtempo repetition of Breather Resist, the angularity of Converge at their moodiest, and the venom-filled swagger of The Bronx. Desperate Living’s debut is a six song barrage of piss and vinegar aimed at the broadside of outdated patriarchal norms, anxiety, and hind-sighted regret over a misspent youth.

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released March 1, 2019

Engineered and mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording in Philadelphia, PA
Mastered by Dave Downham at Gradwell House in Haddon Heights, NJ
Illustration by HORSEAPPLES!

Brian Medlin- vocals, guitar, piano
Timothy Leo- guitar, backup vocals
Scott Signorino- bass
Jonathan Van Dine- drums


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