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Restrung (Acoustic Archive)

by The Retarded Potentials

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    Recorded between 2007-2011, a collection of 15 acoustic demos for trading slowly became 40 tracks. Bringing it to bandcamp made room for extra material so it was expanded to 60 tracks.
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1.
Jung Fever 01:00
so I had this dream that I pictured you in you were about twenty years older and I guess that's what the sea does to you there's only one way out you can't escape even if you try in my dreams I dream in color I see a look in your eye you're the darkest of darkest colors I never saw it in real life real time in time
2.
growing up I had a beaker full each day developed polyps and seizures when I bite on my tongue I remember each day I have gotta be happy about air in my lungs and it's so hard to get used to this fucking wheel chair looking through books that my mom brought back from college I spot a canker lesion it described me perfectly in the pictures description pusy, irritated and it's so hard to get used to this fucking wheel chair
3.
set me free and I return out of love not for me no savior son I don't see it I'll never feel another's touch I'm a nobody with nothing for good luck and it's treated like it's a disease but they say its a mental affliction someone will say try some of these being well is not about your well being set me free and I will turn out of love not for me no savior son I don't see it I'll never feel another's touch I'm a nobody with nothing for good luck and he's treated like he's a disease but they say it's a mental affliction some will say try some of these but being well is not about your well being if you'd help me you'd get rid of me
4.
Art Class 01:54
if you want to draw conclusions take an art class take sculpture learn texture if you want to make assumptions I'll give a grade in needlepointing me to death to death if you want to draw conclusions take an art class take mathematics no matter how problematic the function if you want to drop assumptions at least it's something give a grade in needlepointing me to death
5.
some of them think the things they say somehow it's gonna change it all big mistake some of them are gonna lose their head that's what I found in the run up to an invasion yellow cake swallow it down dial out to your inner spaceman some of them lead lives astray somehow they say they'll fall without ever seeing the outside of these city walls that's what I found in the run up to an invasion yellow cake swallow it down dial out to your inner spaceman some of them hate the things they say somehow it seems to stay the same no matter how much they say they feel it has gone too far that's what I found in the run up to an invasion yellow cake swallow it down dial out to your inner spaceman it's all about the dose your taking you might lose your head my friend
6.
Gutterball 01:41
maybe I have maybe I got maybe I caught what I have maybe I've found maybe I've faced maybe I've thought of my own taste go streak and find pity now the index is glued down with our hammer oh let me overcome my fate I've got my faith I've got my hate I've got my fame I've got my hate I've got my fate maybe I have maybe I got maybe I caught what I have maybe I've found maybe I've faced maybe I failed can I stay in the can room and I might overcome my strangeness just in case I'm walking through if you see me just call my name girl but I'm better off in the gutter I've got my faith I've got my hate I've got my fame I've got my hate I've got my fame I've got my hate I've got my fate
7.
Baby Guns 01:58
how long before we take war to toddlers they don't make machine guns that fit my hands Gerber stands out in the desert sands war head is on tight tonight go ahead and draft all your newborn babies servitude is something Africa knows something about like the German army of the 1930's your head is on tight tonight how long before they take war to toddlers about as long as it takes to sail up the straight of hormuz and shut off the flow of oil from Iran how long before we take war to toddlers they don't make machine guns that fit my hands go ahead and draft all your newborn babies government will abort them anyway
8.
he can come back any time he wants I don't think he will come back now he can come back any time he wants how on earth could you think he'd come back now he can come back any time he wants why on earth would he want to come back now he can come back any time he wants I don't think that he's ever coming back down cause all he's got in reality is television he can come back any time he wants I don't think that he'll ever come back down he can come back any time he wants why on earth could you think he'd want to come back do you wanna come back and I don't suppose didn't think so cause all he's got in reality his television cause all is god in reality his television
9.
some of the girls that I know cover it up with purple eye shadow when I play dumb I kinda make this face and if I see her I might make that face some other girls that I know laugh it up over things I see as shallow when I play dumb I kind of make this face and if I see her I might make that face a few of the girls that I know write notes with words that I wrote and when I play dumb I kind of make this face and if I see her I might make that face
10.
Be Myself 02:30
I see you sneaking around your silhouetted shadow how the hell did you go on thinking that I'd never know the last cinder to burn out takes a little bit longer and if I save anyone it'll be myself it'll be myself it's all about myself it'll be myself I see you sneaking around shadowed silhouette I've got friends don't you know I've got no regrets or excuses the last cinder to burn out takes a little bit longer and if I save anyone it'll be myself it'll be myself it's all about myself it'll be myself
11.
I've watched myself grow into the last thing I look up to as I feel myself shrink all those times come back to me and I think I wouldn't die for it I know if I hold onto I can have this to reach you this to reach you if all this as a whole begins to define us and when we find our hole lifeless think of bygone times when the easiest times seem to be the hardest but the one thing you won't hear from your inner conscience is that you made it all up this time as you will the next time
12.
it's 1983 my skin was lost to a bacteria infection skin eating disease can't you get excited can't you feel it out we don't have to be so sad under the fallout cloud it's like a radial nation it's like a vague creation it's like you just wanted everything is one it's like a vague creation this nuclear vacation it's 1984 the only hair grows from the floor perforations can't you get excited can't you feel it out we don't have to be so sad under the fallout cloud goodbye radial nation it's like a vague creation it's like you just wanted everything is one it's like a vague creation this nuclear vacation
13.
So Tired 02:11
I'm not a sadist not a Satanist I'm not laminated like this poster board I'm not so tired from moving I got so tired of moving I'm so tired of losing everything's on a loan I'll take it up on a carry out carry me up carry me out of this world on a silver platter I'm not so tired from moving I got so tired from moving I'm so tired of moving I'm so tired of losing
14.
rocket shoot me out I'll work this out on pen and paper rocket shoot me out formulaic equations that's all the proof I need proof read rocket shoot me out I'll work it out on pen and paper rocket shoot me out formulaic equations that's all the proof I need that's all proof read
15.
trains are running trades her money would you listen and could you hear me out why don't you respond why don't you respond if it was only that easy if it was only me it means nothing unless you're much to me no matter what you see you should be how sickening how sickening it can be but appearance is not everything to me
16.
Wipers cover Send a message via telepathic line Send it cause I'm feeling so deprived But I can't get through What am I gonna do Could you tell me something without saying a word Touch me once without being too observed Could you give me something without giving a blink Telepathic affair Telepathic affair Send a message via telepathic Send it now Don't make it tragic But if I can't get through... What am I gonna do? Could you tell me something without saying a word Touch me once without being too observed Could you give something without giving a blink Telepathic affair Telepathic affair
17.
Hi Ho Silver 03:08
Charles Thompson cover in Germany I fight with armor I save you hi ho silver in Germany I fight with armor I save you hi ho silver time is of decision you see time is not the reason I'm calling time is of decision time is not the reason I'm calling jump back and I'm taken your voice in London town I fight with knives I save you hi ho silver in London town I fight with knives I save you hi ho silver
18.
All Is Said 01:19
sort through these broken words and thoughts I've mended up for you with glue you might be disappointed when all is said when all is said when all is said it's not much but all I need is you some wounds and broken hearts are thought to heal like glue when I'm with you who knew you might be disappointed when all is said when all is said now all is said it's not much but all I need is you
19.
I ruined my eyesight with understanding in ruin my outlook in life with understanding we talked of deeper meanings and deep thoughts in my mind everything got corrupted with understanding everything's fine in everyone's world but mine where everything's gray through shades of white it takes a base of all the primary colors to shade an iris of an eye but some expressions are best left to empty canvases like in my mind where everything's fine in everyone's world but mine where everything's gray through shades of white
20.
these are games that cavemen play pick up sticks and crash heads understand with hand movements communicate frustrations got the best of us and then we're gone to the stone age the strongest weapon we use is some good old world exclusion like from our family gatherings with bad food and frustrations got the best of us and then we've gone to the stone age as we trade sticks to heads we've gone stone age
21.
I know it's late in the morning but I can't understand you well won't you just speak a little longer I'm not going nowhere if this is the way that it's gotta be then this is the way that it's gonna be if this is the way that it's gotta be we'll see now she's hanging up notes on something I'm missing like a kid milk carton grabbing fistfuls of hair with follicles not calling us any longer if this is the way that it's gotta be then this is the way that it's gonna be if this is the way that it's gotta be
22.
when I dress up like she says you look nice you need a hair cut it looks nice when I dress up like she says you look nice but need a hair cut it looks nice
23.
he won't have mercy on anyone his spokesman said on Thursday he's not taking calls today his assistant said on Wednesday I tried to reach you I tried to call I tried to go to see you but you never existed at all he's not taking any questions his publicist said on Wednesday he's hanging upside down like a bat from the ceiling his mother said on Thursday I tried to warn you but you blocked my call I guess you never existed at all
24.
it's been three whole weeks since I've dried geraniums tuned through stations hiss with assistance of my germanium silicon chips for breakfast silicate in my lips crystal lattice laced it all that's just the curse of my exoskeleton plankton evolved after all broken mics and broken pipes it would be great if it wasn't my life low budget video silicon chips for breakfast silicate in my lips crystal lattice laced it all calcified lime rust in my backbone I gotta go home excused to be alone just sit around and wonder what the hell where's everyone
25.
slow punch concrete ends my dreams try to swing but the force prevents me peeling it up I recognize the light switch for what it's burned into my brain it's the last thing I forgot and I've heard enough if things go bad it's someones turn to lift me up when I'm running down heavy I'm running down I think I'm running down it's the last thing I forgot I've heard enough if things go bad it's someones turn to lift me up I'm running down heavy I'm running down I think I'm running down
26.
Doubting You 01:54
angry pigeon you look like you need some food the avian advantage doesn't seem to be working out for you it's not like you'd bite the hand that feeds you I'm down in the pecking order I'm doubting the pecking order I'm down in the pecking order I'm doubting, doubting you hey you've gone so gaunt eyeballs sunk into eyelids yeah you talked a big talk before you had a big wingspan sharp pointy teeth I'm down in the pecking order I'm doubting the pecking order I'm down in the pecking order I'm doubting, doubting doubt doubting you doubting you
27.
way to spit in my eye opening what a pile of shit I've been way to spend a goodbye wave with a sigh and you might be against and it might be awhile and you might be afraid to pray and you might be again it's been real eye opening with a smile and a nod and a wink way to spend this time away what a sound both guilt and burden make and you might be yourself and it might take awhile and you might be afraid to pray and you remind me again that you might be against and it might be awhile and you might be afraid to pray and you might be again
28.
it's not an easy story to relay to you if I wanted to I couldn't find the words if I tried I wouldn't write the words that I find if they weren't right I wouldn't even say these things that I'm saying this time they sound a little similar to the things I said last time it's not an easy story to relay to you if I wanted to I couldn't find the words if I tried I wouldn't write the words that I find if they weren't right I wouldn't even say these things that I'm saying this time they sound a little similar to the things I said last time
29.
it all depends on who you ask it all depends on who asks you first chicken or the egg
30.
a little blue book with a lot of white lines the cold soul black suits with a noose of neck ties like a group of ants with cigarette packs balanced on their backs or a herd of rats with last months stash taking what it takes to last when that's all I got that's all I've got a little black book with a lot of white lines a cold soul black suits with a noose of neck ties like a group of ants with cigarette packs balanced on their backs or a herd of rats with last months stash taking what it takes to last that's all I got
31.
a red streak goes by I extend my hand out for a ride a window rolls down I see her cry I'd rather not go into it I'd rather not go through it as the door slowly opened towards me I saw her smile the way she coughed so smoothly let's take this drag for awhile because I really don't eat much I ain't gotta be home I'm running from home for awhile the red streaks left forced smiles she told me of all her past troubles some of them included past guys I said that's alright you don't gotta go into it she said I think I'm ready to move on I don't wanna go through it I said hey drop me off I don't think I want to go and do it then she slurped into red streams from her icee cherry cola
32.
maybe is forever wrong the days coming slowly then gone I don't need to move on childhood is lasting I'm wrong this world that we live in it only has one road to travel and I'm not going that way maybe is forever wrong the words can't express in a song I don't need to move on the signs turned they're pointing me back home this world that we live in it only has one road to travel and I'm not going that way after all
33.
Hired Bones 02:18
am I supposed to feel bad am I supposed to offer more you and I have gone from two hands tired and poor you made all your money from you made all your fortunes from your hole don't forget you made your fortune mining gold you made your fortune miner's ghost you've made your fortune buy in loans hired bones am I supposed to feel sad am I supposed to offer more
34.
Past Life 02:13
sometimes it feels like the hour will never strike or the day will never come or the year will never turn in my favor if you're watching and you're waiting well I'm way been past gone past life cannot die anymore inside like a double edged sword or knife sharply tearing into my mind and I fell on it for the last time sometimes it feels like there's no saviors or they at least never come intervene in your misdirection in your favor if you're watching and you're waiting well I'm way been past gone past life cannot die anymore inside like a double edged sword or knife sharply tearing into my mind and I fell on it for the last time like a double edged sword or knife sharply tearing into my mind and I fell on it for the last time
35.
I don't mind if I'm not invited I wouldn't invite me if I were you I don't care if you don't like me i wouldn't like me if I was like you I'm building and I'm tired of building with you a wrecking ball leaves little bitty traces of you I'll need a refund on that palm reading from June I'll have my tea leaves crushed up with Tylenol 3's and crawling on all four's with a drool covered long sleeve I'm building and I'm tired of building with you I'm glad we figured out what brings a tick into the world host we've gotta find out what binds us together at most we've gotta bond over how we got awhile to go still I"m glad we figured out what brings a tick into the world host we've gotta find out what binds us together at most we've gotta bond over how we got awhile to go still
36.
I told you everything that's on my mind I told you everything's going just fine I told you all the things you liked to hear I told you everything girl I'm not in a position to be your physician I'm on a sleeping prescription bait late night admission I bet you're wishing you never made that mistake I told you everything that's on my mind I told you everything's going just fine I told you all the things they like to hear I told you everything I could think of I'm not in a position to be your physician I'm on a sleeping prescription bait late night admission I bet you're wishing you never made that mistake six pills to go don't you feel don't you feel so much don't you feel so much better
37.
displaced like water around the stream from the rain amazing thoughts and pictures change but never fade you were right to cut me off but were you right to cut me out it's all the same the little things that make you think like an after dinner mint you think wow really is this worth all this indigestion makes for over complication when we could've simply went for take out separated from this place inside this earth are outer space and all the things between they always seem to hang out in between nice and mean it's all the same the little things that make you think like an after dinner mint you think wow it really is worth all this indigestion makes for over complication when we could've simply went for take out kiss you're ass goodbye it's been priced in keep your eyes on all the horizon when the sea is over skies then where will you be
38.
I don't know if it's worth it and I don't know if it's worth it and I don't know why I don't know why
39.
So Happy 01:37
move so fast so far I can gonna make someone so happy so happy once it's managed to make it's way through so far I can't decide if I wasn't ever meant to be so happy once it's managed to make it's way through was it just the other day that you said or was it even you I know when once it's managed to make it's way through
40.
Deal Breaker 02:42
I don't miss telling you the truth or my version of it it's the excuse and I'm all out if you must know all of it I don't have an exit plan or an escape route I'm on a long term plan and I can't get out of it and I'm begging the contract man let me out of it these debts paid by the waking hour thoughts of ours alone to face as lonely is only able if you must have all of it are you so all loving and benevolent I'm on a long term plan and I can't get out of it and I'm begging the contract man let me out of it I'm on a long term plan and I can't get out of it and I'm begging the contract man let me out of it
41.
dirty needles do you need a light dirty needles the last one to die the best thing I ever got for Christmas was a new tattoo on wrist said I love mom sad I'm dying said I'm not worth much but thanks for trying dirty needles do you need a light dirty needles the last one to die best thing I ever got for Christmas was a new hollow mistress straight from Thailand has no license ???
42.
rusted shut I'm running on empty wind me up I'm rusted shut and empty
43.
lately I've been tired tired of feeling numb I've become incensed with the common senses can't find a family I'm not weary of I'm not weary of you've got all the time that you'll throw away I'm not sorry for your loss put my time in any way lately I'm not one to care hate me I'm not one to care if ugly and lonely, losing hair I'm sorry that I'm sorry I cannot bury us cannot bury our feelings we've got a whole cemetery to dig out to dig out lately I'm not one to care hate me I'm not one to care well lately I'm not one to care hate me I'm not one to care I'm not sorry
44.
there's no test for me between us you dress yourself insidious last time it got so serious I take myself so serious what they don't know won't hurt them let's face it there's a lot to cry about last time it got so serious I take myself so serious you dress yourself up so insidious what they don't know won't hurt them
45.
out of all of the people they've gotta pick me I don't know what it is that they see in me to be the one they say hey in a crowd of faces and I don't know what it is about me that they see and then they say to me the things like hi in a crowd of faces it must be a combination of things cause I'm not quite the coolest bean in the string yeah I'm not Mr. Cool sorry to disappoint you
46.
whisper into my ear things I'd never think I would hear and if it turns out I was wrong you were the one that I meant to hold on to if I could get over the heart break as distant as a phone or a phone call on your birthday limp wristed as a deer I'm wishing I was more but I'll never be if I don't get over the heart break
47.
instrumental
48.
I've been searching for a replacement soul they don't distribute them in vending stalls and I'm not certain we come with one at all it's just a saying don't be a stranger saying things that couldn't seem any stranger it's a shame to be ashamed in of itself but I'm no stranger to complaining in an imperfect world god recalls all his old creations hazards to the world was presented in unintended ways so if you must find a reason in everything there is one to find here and the reason that is that everything gets thrown away in a trash can at the end it's just a saying don't be a stranger saying things that couldn't seem any stranger it's a shame to be ashamed in of itself but yourself myself its insane all these selves I'm not sure you want to be yourself
49.
your whole life has been spoiled you're self taught if you only thought once in awhile everything turns gray your heads cemented it's so cold don't need a jacket when you're dead other people might need a sign made to show them why we're made to get to the top of the hole love and light all the while everything turns gray your heads cemented it's so cold don't need a jacket when you're dead
50.
I don't mean to anger you it just rhymed so well with what I'm trying to say I'll be the one to have the book thrown at them it's such a crime of appeal in pop sensibilities write your name on the wall you've got your own brand name guitar and a great new video on MTV there's no such thing as music television I bring nothing to music like television I'll be the one to have the nose thumbed at them is it such a crime to appeal to your pop sensibilities write your name on the wall you've got your own brand name guitar and a great new video on MTV write your name on the wall you've got your own brand name guitar and a new video on VH1 just another story storytelling telling stories can't believe all that crap happened to them just another story storytelling telling stories you can't believe all the shit that happens to them just another story storyteller telling stories you can't believe all the shit that happens to them not every story has a sad ending but this one does
51.
so many years have been wasted esteemed peers hold you in the highest regard I know you don't deserve it and you know you don't deserve any less the secret of the universe at last we all retest and it comes down to this you've got it all head hanging nailed to the wall your name forgone in favor of a fumbled lasting impression I know you don't deserve it but I want you to regress take a couple steps back take a couple places back reinvent the air within a little square electric box you don't deserve it don't encourage you don't get very far we don't get very far without a semitransparent approval and it comes down to this you've got it all head hanging nailed to the wall a name forgone in favor of a long lasting impression
52.
looking so tough like you've gotta be act so right but you're not mean got a grievance so we believe not feeling so equally equally fucked in mind your martyr you'll find my kind all the time I can see a tongue like a knife before I'm not made of cutting board thought it so dumb when you came to me I realize I'm not a match for me let go the first time I stretch maybe I can somehow they got so far in company how it got around town they'll be found they'll find a way I deserved you before I got so tired of you next to me I was so wrong that's whats gotta be that can't be why I'd be equally fucked in my mind people need more time given that much I'm fooled they've never found me
53.
it'll never make sense again we come into this planet with no recourse we come and leave this planet with no remorse got to make sense of the mind body divorce it'll never make sense again
54.
I don't find myself to be a romantic without an understanding of your feelings it seems like I'm never gonna be it seems like I'm never gonna be all be all that I want and I'll be the one that falls as Olive Oil sits in a tar pit she can't move and her skin absorbs it Pauline's limited higher growth and movement by a cage she's placed inside of in spite of her torn outdated two dimensional dress with one digital breast with one digital breast as Olive Oil sits in a tar pit she can't move because her skin absorbed it Pauline's limited higher growth and movement by a cage she's placed inside of
55.
as legends go and sayings say the itch is never gone away until you stop the scratchin' lest we stop forgetting subliminal mind reach out an ear there's things to like in life I hear this limit of mine reach out in fear there's things to life outside of here a wise man said to his dumb friends as they looked him in the face get me out of here they want me dead subliminal mind reach out an ear there's things to like in life I hear this limit of mine reach out in fear there's things to life outside of here I'm blowing up because you don't care too bored and old and nowhere near the brightest light just burned out and now I fade
56.
and now we're strained and got our rate and don't even own our only home just know that if your payments late there's a better deal down the road and we don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows and we don't want a congressman who runs like old Chicago we don't need a middle man to will which way the wind blows until it whips up with a force that blows away Chicago and it's not strange to have gone this way but it pains me to say just know that if your payments late there's a better deal down the road and we don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows and we don't want a congressman who runs like old Chicago we don't need a middle man to will which way the wind blows until it whips up with a force that blows away Chicago come one come all step up right here you too qualify for a readjustment of your spine in alignment with the ground from a lamp post we don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows and we don't need a banker man to tell us what the balance shows we don't need a middle man to will which way the wind blows until it whips up with a force that blows away Chicago
57.
Raincoats cover it makes no difference night or day no one teaches you how to live cups of tea are a clock a clock a clock a clock cups of tea are a clock a clock a clock a clock the times I forgot but never forgot I don't know the books that you read but you don't say that love never externalizes you're rereading a book to feel reassured by the life of your favorite hero but don't worry honey don't worry this is just a fairytale happening in the supermarket the roots of your thoughts they're essentially polaroidal when you look at my picture don't say it's your mirror don't say we're both paranoid tear me make me glad don't ask me anything I'm no secret agent I've got no colors to give to you but don't worry honey don't worry this is just a fairytale happening in the supermarket
58.
instrumental Innersky cover
59.
Judas Iscariot cover i see the darkest place, through the dark i saw the flame, flames of the fire and they are surreal gaze down upon the creation take my existence away from the hills and valleys from the fields from the land that god fell down then it all fell down then in my scream then the last fell down then the feeble screams and time returns again and my place to dwell lord of infinite power line my ancient walls from my ancient woe from my hatred seed picture the call of evil and my heart is cold and my soul insists to call upon the lord i drown my ancient foes and all my soul this is the forgiveness of sin my dark dungeons of hell know that i'm sick and what my death will plan a dark dungeoun of hell
60.
Daisy Chainsaw cover be like I have said I said it clearly they mess it up instead I mean it really I am a god no one understands I'm the one, I'm the one the natural man fools and idiots just when I want friends when I see fit just when I want I am a god no one understands I'm the one, I'm the one the natural man I'm perfect that's for sure I stand in a class all by myself I am I am a god no one understands I'm the one, I'm the one the natural man

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Restrung is a return to writing and sketching through various misadventures in acoustic rediscovery.

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