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Toluca Lake

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1.	Underkitchen 05:10	lyrics	buy track
When I had pictured my fate, it never looked like this. Again, I see the lack of... Am I seeing at all? The stairs just keep going down to where they began. Again, I feel the lack of... Am I breathing at all? Descend Why do I go on? Descend I think I'm closer to it. Descend Why won't I turn back? Descend I think it's not too far away too far too far I'm lost Angel, Angel, Oh! Will you deliver me to the place where I can know safety? Angel, Angel, if I ever needed you to be real would you be real for me? Walls begin to fade Decayed tears cannot fall into the blackness that never... the formless void that never... Has it ever been different than this? I don't remember. I can't remember. That was not the void. The void is now. I remember the gray reign of loneliness I once thought was pain now. The void is not a place, the void is here. I recall the notes I scrawled, tear stained, thoughts profane with fear now. I thought I knew what Hell was. Thought that torture was being alive. I thought I knew what Hell was. Thought that nothing could get worse. No one can free you None will come for you I find myself in here because there's nothing else. Only see my guilty past, an eternity to forgive. I don't know how to let it all go. Feel myself slipping away and I know my time is near. The eternal now is dying more nobly than me. I think I know what Nothing is. Angel, Angel, have you always slithered so? Have you always been a centipede? Angel, Angel. Oh, Will you deliver me to the place where I can know safety? Angel, Angel, if I ever needed you to be real would you be real for me?
2.	Petty Hate Song 03:30	lyrics	buy track
I hate the way you play for days to delay the important things you want to say. If we unify we can defy the hate and lies and bring these fucking walls down. Petty Petty hate I know your not scared yet, but let me tell you If I could kill you I wouldn't do it. I understand that you want them dead. Screaming a death wish makes you feel empowered Building up your hatreds over the years. Think of all the time you've devoted to all of that hate. Destruction always has a place But think of the message you could send Think of all the people who would listen You know it makes me sick to think that I'm being such a hypocrite The biggest stag but anyone can buy a bag of wannabe nominees holding a dollar sign flag Oh, fuck you. Afraid of failure. That's why you always decline. That's why you never left this cozy state of mind. Pseudo-intellectual, only the blind think you see I don't want to fight because I don't want to die. I just want to tell you that you're better than the songs you write. They're so trite. You could fill us all with hope. We can start a violent revolution. Bring the status quo to the ground and sew a brand new day for everyone. The things we'd do. Break taboos. You could fill us all with hope. We can start a violent revolution. The hate is blocking my view I can't see the lyrics Well I bought a dozen roses so they'd die at your front door but there's only one plant you love and you need it more and more. I could say just what you are, but I'll list the things you ain't You're no mystery to me. You're not a rebel or a saint. You see, a rebel's got a reason and the saints get hung for treason That noose around your neck, you tied it loose, I do suspect But unless my eyes deceive me, it looks stylish with cocaine Your purpose in the rain, but your actions still remain so when you get around to being rich, you will have lived like you were...
3.	Raziel 05:10	lyrics	buy track
Before time tore the world asunder My thirst for blood became a hunger. And all that's left beating inside my breast is black as coal. You won't exist, won't break my promise. A world besieged, I will preserve it. And under loving skies I set my hungering eyes upon your soul. I have seen the ruins to come. I've seen the plague. I've seen the end of the days of man. They clutch their weapons straight to the end, as if that will save them. I have seen a lover succumb to the doctrine whispered until it grew larger than man, it grew into your name carved onto a grave stone. And like a fool, I bite my tail. Coming one step closer to the guarded veil. There are no heroes here. You'll have to make due with me. Approaching the puppeteer, I try to pull off the strings that force my hand but I'm just part of their plan. When your leaders kneel down in style their smile so vile, it goes on for miles and they tell you there's everything to be afraid of and they start the crusade of protection because the others are so fucking dangerous that is the end And when I approach, it seems as if I've been here before but I'm never quite sure And like a fool, I bite my tail Coming one step closer to the guarded veil There are no heroes here. You'll have to make due with me. Approaching the puppeteer, I try to pull off the strings that force my hand but I'm just part of their plan. I've met death, an infant's final breath. When I draw near to fulfill the role that no one else will Don't expect charity since no one's life is worth a thing. Will the ends justify the means? We'll never know if I don't succeed. I can only hope that all existence is worth saving. (With shaking hands, through rising sands the past defined with mourning mind With aching heart, I do my part) There are no heroes here. You'll have to make due with me. Approaching the puppeteer, I try to pull off the strings that force my hand but I'm just part of their plan. I played into their hands. There are no heroes here. Approaching the puppeteer, my cosmic fate defined. The coin finally lands on its side.
4.	One True Love 01:47	lyrics	buy track
Empty socket eyes No mouth to tell me lies The howling of the trees Below a vacant, blackened sea Kisses like a flood like a sudden loss of blood Dreams come true when I stand next to you I can finally come to rest inside your empty, heartless chest Your voice reminds me of coal smoke from heaven above your blinking silhouette your promise not to forget stars advance now as we dance. I know that you will never run. You'll always be there. Never shun Constant and older than the sun I'm in love with No One. You're just as cold as I am numb When the low drums of death are coming for me, you alone will be there I'm in love with No One.
5.	Pray 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Don't you struggle now, you'll just hurt yourself I can't have you dying earlier than planned Who are you? Who am I? We have no obligations and young is the night You've no sympathy, you just cornered me. Thrust me into a cold situation like blood losing heat on the floor but no more will you be so pompous today. I have come for you so don't you cry now. You know what you've done. If not I don't care. Pray for me, it seems to be all you need. Tell me how much you forgive me when we are done Don't you give up on me, or I won't kill you so soon Now you tell me how much god loves me I want lightning. Pray, make your faith kill me. Is that false trinity still clutched tightly between your little fingers tonight? I like how you only have it when in need. Lose it when you want someone to bleed. I want to find the cost of god in your eyes. Is that little trip to heaven worth a finger or two? How engaging. I have found a price on your paradise and it seems that god is a few digits short of me. Now get down on your knees. You are so kind to me I guess that happens when You realize you're not better than everyone Cold white walls, cold fingers, cold blank stare, nothing's there I stare at oblivion awaits all of us. Blood that no longer exists, it just drifts away Nothing is real that I've done, I am all gray. I am all gray. Nothing is real. I am gray.
6.	The Sky Will Open 04:55	lyrics	buy track
[Do not try to run. We will find you. Do not try to hide. You cannot outsmart us. The sky will open and we will come for you.] You disregard the mists of the past Our heart that wounds you, guided by your hand Long awaited, overdue reunion Oh, won't you join us for we hurt so much We'll be so gentle. Don't you love us? Won't you infest us? We want you now. We don't know what all your sharpened words mean and we know nothing of the songs you sing. Tremble, your soul is but a leaf on a dying tree and we are the fire determined to burn again. The sky will open and we will come for you We swear. We swear. I swear I won't hurt you. These clouds contain all your tears. I make it rain. Let's be clear, my dear: You must know that you're struggling in vain. You looked upon me and you said the word “trust” I nearly felt my heart move beneath this rust. Tremble, your soul is but a leaf on a dying tree and I am the fire determined to burn again. The sky will open and I will come for you I swear. I swear. I swear I won't hurt you. Wait as you close your eyes and weep. I am near. Cradle your sweet life in your arms. I come for you, desiring you Desiring you alone. Nothing can stop me. He held his hands up to the sky, this fool. Through bleeding eyes, the angels cry “How cruel.” You think your passion can help me find my way? Getting dirty for days, your naive eyes ablaze. I squeeze your sympathy, make you bleed/hurt/gone. My laughing stops. I stare. Why do you hold on to me when I bring hell and lies but you put me in a spell. I see you stood by me but now you hold me close. We kiss. I froze. You depart. Rust torn askance by your last glance from my heart

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Extradimensional soundscapes that rush forward, pulling your skin back to let you see the whirring machines beneath. The biting riffs carry stories from worlds not quite like this one.

credits

released February 2, 2015

Ben F Rattus - Clean mouth sounds and priestess of a thousand legs
Hero Robb - Noise architect, tamer of the six and five stringed beasts, throat artist, and everything else

This album would not have gotten made without:
Brendan and TJ from Brutal Gear
the man with the dripping plastic bag
and most importantly Jimby, my centipede friend

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Toluca Lake Coldwater, Ohio

What's that? You are tired of the same bits of shredded flesh writhing through your radio and into your ear day in and day out? Well, have I got news for you.
Toluca Lake makes new flesh sounds. DIFFERENT sounds from DIFFERENT flesh. Grab your centipede-friend and head on down to your friendly local music boutique and try a mouthful of Toluca Lake, the only band Jimby himself approves of. ... more