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Still Paradise

by Plateau Below

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Jake Ringenberg Unique and beautiful melodies. Great musicianship. New favorite local band by a long shot! Favorite track: Outside The Gates.
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1.
Eris 04:14
Jumped in the river today Found a home in the flow, lost all my clothes I’ve been so low but now I just float You jumped in the river one day Now you find home in the arms of these other ones You sink so low and I’m still your boat Oh Eris, why do we try to make sense When chaos is the only thing that’s true And how’d that void give birth to you And all of us too Stepped from the shadow today (I’ll take my time) To find some warmth in the light of another sun (I’ll take my time) I’ll coast this flow and keep staying afloat You’ll step from the shadow one day (Just take your time) Where you’ll find warmth in the arms of somebody’s son (Or in your own mind) There I hope you’ll know you’re already home (Been there all along)
2.
Evaline 03:10
Evaline you're standing way too still now Darling, I keep feeling I have no way out Evening is when it gets the hardest Just thinking about my loss of productivity and my gain of doubt Morning time darling, eat your breakfast You're feeding on every little thing that I have left Evaline I think the sands have shifted with setting back I'm looking at these watches now but this space has made me lagged Oh Evaline (x100) (I'll take my time)
3.
Riverside 04:32
Sleeping by the riverside I've been staying here a fortnight I'm just a useless smear of skin and bone Bearded, poor, and getting old I'm probably ready to die Starving by the riverside I’m just waiting here for my wife She went and ran off with another jack But I'm sure she'll come running back Can't remember what her eyes look like Praying by the riverside I'm just waiting here for my god He said he'd take me when I’m ready And Christ Jesus am I ready or not? No life needs taken like mine Sleeping in the shade outside I'm just hiding away from that hot O’ people when that light comes over me My body's sad, old soul will leave And join that sun in the sky And through sun and moon Summer breeze and snow and showers My body will soon wilt and bloom as flowers
4.
The sirens sing leaving here will be my doom They say progress will only lead me closer to the tomb Well they may know something that I don't But don't ask me to stay because I won't And revolution's just a word they use to sell us mockingbirds And diamond rings and flowing gowns And shining things just to hold us down Well I was raised on TV screens And they made me dumb and they made me mean And oh we moved to a strange old town Where nobody heard and most people looked down And all the crawling things lived here in our house Well they may know something that I don't But don't ask me to stay because I won't If old Hannah didn't rise today I wouldn’t be awake to see her anyway And I took my bow and I took my quiver And I shot my arrows in the great Green River Wouldn't it be dull and nice, lying still in paradise Without waves upon the sea, static for eternity? Oh how can I ignore all the bright and shiny silver tips Making me feel serious Oh how I'd love to laugh at this life You'll always find me picking and grinning And listening for the sounds of the hi-hats ticking
5.
I'm feeling nervous and I can't shake it out of my head I hate dealing with anything anymore I'm feeling tired and I'm not getting out of my bed I may just melt here and never talk again I'm having trouble thinking of a reason to be I hate dealing with everything anymore This hope is featherless and he is cawing at me He tried to sing more but the spring cut off his beak I had a clear head in a clear sky But something's come and flown in my eye I had two strong hands in the late fall But winter came and froze them both off
6.
Lolo Boy 00:47
7.
Twiggy 08:36
Hey Twiggy, good morning The moon is done glowing But no need to stop dreaming You've got so much in there Hey Twiggy stop counting The world ain't a bad thing Keep thinking but control it And I’m up here if you need me Hey Twiggy, what's baggage? It's known we all have it So don't get weighed by past loads Just put them all on me And hey Twiggy, keep searching For something, not sure what But don't worry oh, everybody's Got that space inside them I’ve laid low a couple weeks on that old plateau And tried to come around The sun came up but it never came out And I’ve been told that people change when they get so old But you, please don't Your face will age but I hope your soul won't And "Oh what you say is never gonna change this “I've already made my mind up" And oh what I do is never gonna change us You've already changed your mind And "Oh what you say is never gonna change this “I've already made my mind up" Though the next day comes I won't be much different You've already changed your mind Eight months old in the parking lot You saved my soul with the words you spoke
8.
Dying Down 04:04
The sun is down and you lie old in your new house Next to an endless loop that hangs around Are you awake? You may not hear it anyway It's a loop that loops things you know too well but it spins still And every time I looked at you and saw another you Well it brought thoughts of what I'd lost and what I can't understand And things we never can Are you awake? You can't hear me anyway Through piercing howls that sound from deep in the lungs of a beast I could not tame When did you see that the light was broken? No I'm not blaming you for a thing You can’t see with the lights out But can’t you see that you left me open? And all the things I do for you to notice Why don’t you notice?

about

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time…that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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released March 4, 2014

All songs written, recorded and mixed by Plateau Below.
Outside The Gates written by Damon Berkley.
Trumpet on Evaline, Clearhead Real and Twiggy by Christian Allmendinger.
Additional engineering by Scott Wambach at The Room Recording Studio.

Released 04 March 2014 through Jurassic Pop Records.

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Plateau Below Bloomington, Indiana

Primordial shriek-pop.

For booking and press contact PB: plateaubelow@gmail.com

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