Demonstration

by Starparty

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Starparty's first EP. All of the tracks were recorded live at KPSU for Arya Imig's Live Friday, except for Cute Names for Dangerous Things which was recorded on a dirty 8 track in Rock School's basement.

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released 07 August 2009
Caleb Misclevitz, Sonia Weber, and Raine Frederickson wrote these songs.

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tags: indie pop rock & roll emo punk Portland

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Track Name: Skydiving
Stablizers down, let's hit the ground
gasoline and gravity surround us all
the birds part like the sea and we start to fall.

Out of consciousness and height
realize fright won't make you any less likely to die
than anything else.

Cigarette light on all night,
how appropriate and trite,
stars encapsulate the flight
anyone got a light?

The captain's voice on the machine
sounds more like the ending of a Stars record,
than a warning.


Life is not a box of chocolates
life is like an airplane ride
and holding your breath won't make you survive.
The drinks are falling down, crash positions assumed,
there's nothing left,
that we can do.


Under the glow of electric lights
flickering to keep up with their average life
the patrons watched their fellow beings
swiftly drift into the sea.

In a slow motion fury of breathing and sighs
there was peace in the panic
of knowing your going to die.

Die...


Life is not a box of chocolates
life is like an airplane ride
and holding your breath won't make you survive.
The drinks are falling down, crash positions assumed,
there's nothing left,
that we can do.
Track Name: This Better Get Better
It's much too late to think before I leap
and so I leap anyway and land where I don't want to be.

What is wrong with me? I called you just tell you that the sun looked better tonight than any other night.
But I think it was just a bad excuse to say goodnight.


This better get better
get better in time
and this better rewind
and pull itself back into line
Until unraveled tape is strung throughout your bedroom
where you sleep at night.


I tried to shrug it off and walk with a smile
when I found out you were lying when you said
we'd be in like for a while.

But as it turns out you just liked the Rubik's cube kind of feeling.

Of never being sure.


This better get better
get better in time
and this better rewind
and pull itself back into line
Until unraveled tape is strung throughout your bedroom
where you sleep at night.

This better get better
get better in time
and this better rewind
and pull itself back into line
Until unraveled tape is strung throughout your bedroom
where you sleep at night.
And it keeps you up.

This better get better
get better in time
and this better rewind
and pull itself back into line
Until unraveled tape is just an unwound ball of twine.
To tie your Christmas tree down for your Christmas without me around.

And I hope it falls down.
I hope it falls down.
I hope it falls.
Track Name: Chemystery
Chemicals kill bugs
chemicals make love
chemicals blow up and put a country in the rut

Chemicals make drugs
chemicals are dumb
chemists have to run sometimes
when chemicals combust
all over us


Chemicals react inside
our hearts and souls and pants and minds
our organs are their playground
our faces, their disguise

reaking havoc on our minds
they turn and churn and tantalize
what we used to call our own... lives.


If we wrote
the chemystery
how can the chemicals kill me?

chemicals in test tubes
solve the problems they created
cancers viruses and hazardous amounts of radiation
bubble forth
from below north
and take our lives
and take our souls
and take our hearts
and take our minds
create a lack of creative control


Chemicals are DNA
it's a with t and g with c
but where's the adam wheres the eve?
where's the lack of a repeating act
it seems to me
we're all the same
a code of sorts, with a luster sheen
and underneath are we beings? or are we
are we...
are we?

If we wrote
the chemystery
how can the chemicals kill me?


If we wrote
the chemystery
how can we be?
Track Name: Cute Names for Dangerous Things
A girl short in stature
around the age of five
is jumping through the puddles and
she doesn't realize

she's jumping in the liquids
that fell from the sky
when god sent torrents down to earth and cried out
"die villains, die!"

from time to time
we tell ourselves it'll be alright
but that's a lie

because even sunshine burns the earth
at ninety plus degrees
and threatens death to all who come
within a million feet

don't get too close to a good thing

Cute names for dangerous things
like stars and cars and aeroplanes
and dinosaurs and gremlins
nibbling at your tiny little feet
Cute names for dangerous things
we hide behind these words and imageries
life is but a dream.

Cute names for dangerous things
like stars and cars and aeroplanes
and dinosaurs and gremlins
nibbling at your tiny little feet
Cute names for dangerous things
we hide behind these words and imageries
life is but a dream.

Cute names for dangerous things
like stars and cars and aeroplanes
and dinosaurs and gremlins
nibbling at your tiny little feet
Cute names for dangerous things
we hide behind these words and imageries
life is but a dream.
Track Name: Time Bomb
She paints her face with a brush dipped in kerosene
and sprays her neck with bottles of liquids that smell like
a time bomb's fuse ablaze
a time bomb that doesn't tell time
quite right.

cigarette smoke and ashes rise up to the atmosphere
the very ozone she's protecting
now has a lot to fear
and if she's nothing but some chemicals held in by skin and bones
then someday she'll have to explode


Close your eyes
Jump and dive
the camera slows down
to half the time
close your eyes and plug your ears
there's nothing here
there's nothing to fear


Tick tick tock
the clock goes by
faster than she can close her eyes
seems like it suddenly all went awry

crash crash crash
she split in half
and gave her strength to another day
it was all a waste

she wished on herself for just one final day
to laugh in the field where she used to play
one more smile to return one more hand she could hold
and someone to kiss all the wounds she had grown

but instead she curled up in the fetal position
she was drug down
down by her knees
down to the depths of deep blue sea


Close your eyes
Jump and dive
the camera slows down
to half the time
close your eyes and plug your ears
there's nothing here
there's nothing to fear

Close your eyes
Jump and dive
the camera slows down
to half the time
close your eyes and plug your ears
there's nothing here
there's nothing to fear