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The Day I Started Swearing

by LETTERS

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1.
Dogma 01:44
i'm a dog i'm a boy i'm a doggone boy i lay at your feet hide my teeth i gotta another home down the street i wear boy clothes i smell like dirt i'm delighted when you're hurt i wanna be pet i wanna leave a mess just a doggone boy
2.
i grew up with a church next door and a church right down the street the bible was a stepping stone but i had slippery feet you were jehovah witness your mama put it in your baby food you didn't stand up for the pledge of allegiance and you didn't play sports in school the christian kids were the street-punk kids rebelling against normal haircuts singing angry songs about the price of sin but when they closed their eyes to pray my mind took me some place far away away from their small minds and out of my small mind and if you're looking for me, god i'm sleepin' in on sunday
3.
Degrees 01:33
if you say you're over me then you're a liar i've been trying so hard to put out this fire but i'm drunk again calling you not sure what i'm trying to do i had dreams about you where i woke up crying know how you felt when you said you were dying it's too late now you're so far away they say we're all connected by seven degrees i swear it's only one when it comes to you and me 'cause everything i say and do yet somehow leads me back to you and i know there's things that i wanna say but they'll probably just come out wrong anyway now the ties that bind are frayed at the ends so that's while i'll never come home again because our ghosts are everywhere laughing in my face oh they whisper through my hair it hurts too much to hang around god i hate this town i can't sleep
4.
Lucky Luck 02:51
everyday you wake up you've been a lucky one everyday you wake up you have dead skin crusted on your eyelids everyday you wake up you send clouds down the drain wasting hot water in the shower wash it all away stand naked and look at yourself now you're just a beast with a name but then you try to make it more complex when you give it a name, ambition, and sex we always want so much more a good morning is when i can't feel my brain a good morning is when i can't feel the weight of the world everyday you wake up lucky you you wake up lucky you
5.
summertime is here again i can't tell you where i've been swimmin with the fish again i'm sorry one time i saw the snapper's jaw curved and hard and ancient we'd swim out of water as fast as we could go jump back in the water and curl up our big toes god i miss the summertime when the only things we worried about was losing our fingers and toes summertime it will be here again and it will be so easy
6.
i was in love once i was in love two times baby, baby i thought that love was dead but i took another step i thought that love was dead now i've got an owl's head it's turning around do you know how i feel about you? i saw you today come through the door of my workplace i almost dropped everything but i just stood in place so you could draw me in draw me out draw me better than i've ever been before don't leave me behind smash me between the pages of your life do you know how i feel about you? i'll do anything that you want to
7.
Shoplifter 01:35
i used to shoplift fill my shit lost my nerve so then i quit yeah i'd for head for the door with my pockets full playin it cool i was playin it cool i was a christian hungry for bread i saw it was stale i had pizza instead wanted the flavor i got the doubt and with greasy intestines i shit it all out i've never done the wrong thing i just follow the feeling i was an athlete a real showboat i ran round that track till i had puke in my throat i still got glory in my heels yeah, i got wheels you should see how i run away and i was a good lover once but my heart turned into a sail catchin the wind from all directions and destined to fail i was destined to fail i was no good
8.
Only Human 02:00
we're only human 'cause we can say we're something else we can be where we are be beyond where we are jump through mirrors to kick ourselves and we're only human 'cause we can want something else cheers to us all we've survived so well now we think about more than just food like: sleeping and fighting eating and sleeping fucking and fighting drinking and buying drinking and dying how can you ask me to distance myself from the shapes of these houses and wires overhead challenge the lines on my face that know how i like to worry on as i go you'll take it to work you're qualified for life
9.
Lyon 02:26
we're drinking the ground's getting softer you're getting softer on me in the east the cement stays colder you gotta dance harder to warm it up in the east some say america's wicked it's not wicked it's where i live i breathe mistrust from my government but it's just fog on the window it's just my breath on the window flying by fences in the euro union an american after election day when you can't hide in language you can't hide at all so what do you have to say? give myself time to stare out of the window let myself go out of my body we're driving somewhere i'm blowing in the wind movement is a sensational feeling it's my feeling
10.
Playground 02:39
i am too eager you're a school teacher i spit on the playground you made me write cursive and stay in for recess play you in a game of tetherball winner take all the sun is swinging high over my head you know it's not fair cry if it's a rainy day i need my time outside to play cry if it's a rainy day i need hot asphalt under my feet
11.
Search Party 02:17
you'll have to search in the house i grew up in dig through the insulation to find my prayers you'll have to search in the house i grew up in check the blankets i whispered into for my prayers you won't find them here sometimes i forget that i don't pray anymore then i catch myself whispering to no one in the dark god bless my family and the ones who have gone before me god give me strength that i can keep when i know you don't hear me
12.
Lie With Me 02:13
lie with me even though you're mad at me i just wanna watch you breathe before you walk away from me i run around stomping the minutes deep in the ground if i were a bird i'd be a crow with one wing flying circles for a song let the sun go down i know it's hard to endure something so slow there's a flash of light before it goes out of sight we'll act like we might do the same it's been a dull morning there's nothing good inside of me it's just bread and tea some aftertaste of you there's ice on the ground i swear it's got it in for me when it's trying to freeze up my joints but i've got to be free let the sun melt it all away make water down the sewer drain a little river in a city street that flows on it flows on and the water's cool it flows on you can say it's cruel
13.
Wanna Smoke? 02:00
do you wanna smoke again? when i feel like it doesn't matter do you wanna stand up again? though i feel like what does it matter? drive out of the city we live in leave our money and tips at a restaurant in a town with a name we can't say today could be the day you die and i could say it doesn't matter your skin could rip off like animal skin and you've see it on the roadside it doesn't matter oh you know you could lose your life oh you know you could lose your mind but fuck it all it's partytime you either die in a car crash or die on the front line we die burn your belongings throw all your money away try to live like jesus there's still gas stations along the way and everything's on sale!

about

LETTERS TO THE MOON began on a car ride back to Columbus from Athens, Ohio (I think) when Ryan and I made a verbal agreement to sing his songs together as a duo. It must have been 2005 or so. We recorded two acoustic albums. One in 2006, one in 2009. We played lots of shows in lots of states, just the two of us.

Sometime thereafter, we decided to ditch the folk punk scene for American Rock and Roll. New moniker: LETTERS. We say "fuck!"
Add bass: Richard!
Add drums: Starman!
It was a short but very sweet-lived project; a true warm memory during the weirdest time of my life.

Shortly after recording this album, I moved out of Ohio.
We all got busy.
We all got a little weirder.

LETTERS has been unfinished business for 4 years. It waved at me from afar, and it lingered on my mind for four long years. Yet still, I couldn't muster the courage to finish it. I couldn't release it out into the world with a half-ass heart.

Now it's 2014, Ryan turns 30 years old today, and I'm ready with full heart to share this piece of work that we spent so much of our mid-twenties working on. Nearly a decade in the making. Fuck.

Happy Birthday, RJ.

<3 Lisa

credits

released October 23, 2014

LETTERS is:

Ryan J. Eilbeck - guitar & vocals
Lisa Dorazewski - vocals
Richard Wehrenberg, Jr - bass & guitar
Ryan Starinsky - drums

Recorded by Shane Natalie in the Monster House basement (rip) & Shane Natalie's 100 degree attic (in our underwear) in 2010.

Mixed by Matt Tobey & Shane Natalie
Mastered by Matt Tobey

Album art by Lisa D.

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