You Are (NOT) Alone

by The Broken Column

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You Are (NOT) Alone is The Broken Column's third release and first LP.

credits

released 06 March 2012
Written and performed by: The Broken Column
Produced by: Evan Peters and Daniel Sahagún
Recorded and mixed by: Evan Peters
Additional engineering by: Charles Godfrey
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at: Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, TX
Date(s) recorded: 11/26/2011 - 12/6/2011
Artwork and photography by: Bradley Wilder
Album concept by: The Broken Column

Sombra Musica (BMI)
Creative Coleman Music (SESAC)
Treegolf Music (ASCAP)

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tags: rock alternative california indie los angeles raw Los Angeles

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Track Name: WASTING: The Dotted Line
I'll sign on the dotted line.
I'll walk right up to the edge and fail to be another member of society.
I need someone to remind me of the voice that I thought I lost.
It's better for me if you don't see what it took to get this far.
I'm afraid its too little too late…

I believe that nothing comes easily.
And the truth will set you free if you believe in lies.
Find something worth dying for when nothing is worth living for.
Wasted time for nothing.
To fall back on my own, I made a promise to myself that I would remember the life I gave up.

I feel the need to bleed until the cup is full of the life that's running through all the dead people.
Find something worth dying for when nothing is meaningful.

I signed on the dotted line.
I walked right up to the edge.
I jumped as freely as I would fall even though there was no one below to catch me.
Because I believe its never too late.
Track Name: WASTING: Alive
I am living in a small room with a bed.
When I don't come out for days, people think I'm dead.

Give nothing and get nothing but regret.

I won't keep from wasting alive.
This is it.
If what I get is what I gave, fair enough.
I won't let you waste alive.
There is a little less than what there was before.

Hiding from the past.
Waiting for the chance to feel alive again.
With you my good friends…

Forgive and forget nothing but the past…
Track Name: If They Call You
I could feel it coming over me when I read the first line.
"They shot him!"
Took his body for a swim and no one cried.
They just took to the streets to join the party.
I've got $25 stuffed in my back pocket and half a tank of gas.
I don't think we can make it.
Why the fuck would anything good ever happen?
I'm finally starting to wear out my welcome.
You're welcome and thank you.
I left you a note on the table...

It says,"It was all you."

They found another woman with her head cut off.
Nobody gives a shit as long as they can go home and forget all the ugliness in the world.
Gone are the days when I used to think that "The Loss Of Innocence" was just a catch phrase.
I realize that I'm too young to die, but I want to give up.
I'm finally ready to say goodbye.

If they call you, don't even answer because you know that its going to be something that you don't want to know.
From the afterlife I will know that it was all you.
If they ask me why I did it, I'll tell them just like I told you.
It was all you.

Sober up.
Defy the odds.
No one ever knows what they've got until its gone.
Despite what you think,
The good is alive, but the evil will rise.
We're losing the fight.
Who do we turn to when we're truly alone?
Track Name: S K Y L I N E
I kissed the skyline goodbye for another night.
I had a vision of a life that I couldn't leave behind.
Now I'm running and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a lie.
It's too late to go back but would you want to if you had the chance?

When it's over, if you're still standing there, would you expect a simple life?
If it's over, and you're still standing here, would you reject a simple life?

Take back my lifeline that was lost and found before the countdown ended.
You're eyes are mine so see what I see.
Follow me until we break down.
Some people say that time is an illusion.
It kills me because it's the only thing that I can't buy more of.
Track Name: New Frontier
Come down on me with an iron fist.
Closing in on me like you have missed the show.
Put aside the fact that you left me to come to my own in a new frontier.
Alone.

The lights are blurry.
The fire is burning.
Can you hear me?

Look at me now.
Don't you understand how I am building this with my own two hands?
The clouds are gone and I'm now aware.
In the hour of my defeat I found a spine and grew a pair.

What doesn't break me will keep me coming back.

My eyes are open but I'm still sleeping.
The clouds have broken with winds leading me back home…
Track Name: You Are (NOT) Alone
Hello.
It's 3 a.m. and I'm fucked up again.
I don't know where I'll go tomorrow.

Stay on the road and tell yourself you're not alone.

I grew up in a big city with everything.
Compared to most, we lived like kings.
But I'm still searching for something.
And I don't mind the sacrifice that comes with this.

But when will I know that I can go home?
I don't know.
You are alone.
You are (not) alone.
Track Name: Take Mine
I wonder if a life left open without any notion,
would be less painful inside?
It's one thing to fall beneath the seat,
or get in too deep.
But we've all got something to hide.

There's no rule book in our hands if we don't try.
And misconceptions become friends money can't buy.
The only future that you have could always die
so take mine...

The numbers we've pulled could easily
lead to our wildest dreams.
But here that doesn't seem to fly.
I'm speechless,
from all the things we've seen
and what's said between.
But is it all that comes to mind?
Track Name: No Reservations
I know that I don't say it as much as I should.
I love you.
More than I deserve to.
I am a better man, but falling short again.
With no excuses for my absence.

Let it die if the life has come and gone.
Let's not fight just so that we can make up again.

I know that it hurts, but the pain is like a gift that you never knew you wanted in the first place.
I am accountable for all that I've done before, but I can't keep paying for my mistakes.

I don't want to let you down, but I'll let you down.
I'm sorry.
Track Name: Go For The Gun
I took some pills at 9 a.m. just to get me through the day.
I got my fill but now I'm sleeping in the dirty bed I made.
This self pity is disgusting.
Is everybody as crazy as me?

I can't start moving if you're not going much faster.
If I stood the test of time would I be rewarded?
Fight back!
Light the fire before you're alone.
The taste of defeat is much better than looking back before it's over with nothing to show for.
Might as well go for the gun.

"Forward thinking is necessary if you want me to be honest."
She said, "You are the best that you can be, but that's not good enough for me."
Track Name: VINTAGE
I can't relate to the youth of america.
It's just a phase that I'll hopefully outgrow someday.
Last night I smoked a pack of cigarettes again.
Woke up with an empty bottle of whisky next to my bed.

I don't want to follow you.
If we go, I'll get there on my own.
I'm fighting alone.

I'll meet you in the streets and we can march on together.
I'll bring homemade coffee because I know you hate big corporations.
You'll fight the good fight as long as you don't ruin your nice vintage sweater.
It's okay, we all got first world problems.
Track Name: We Have No Relation
You claim to know the definition.
And now you cringe at the thought of doubt.
You can't expect me to play the victim.
No matter how highly you think of yourself.

You go round and around
Around and around
In circles.

I'd rather be left for dead,
now that I live inside your head
But I still can't say it enough.
We have no relation at all.

You close your eyes and feed the fiction.
Where all that's lost can now be found.
You may think you don't have any symptoms,
but you'll kill yourself from the inside out.
Track Name: T I M E L I N E
It's getting close.
The money is running out.
I can see myself all those years ago.
What was I doing?
I can't remember.
I know now that I've lost my chance.
I'm willing to give up because a real man doesn't come home empty handed.

Hello to nothingness.
I've been waiting for you to take me home with you.
I'm ready to be nothing too.

Our time is already over, we just don't know it yet.
Track Name: Need A Revolution? (bonus track)
It was a slideshow of my life,
Flashing before my eyes.
You know what they say,
"The grass is always greener on the other side"
The smell of dehydrated beauty supplies fills the air at the corner of Western at night
The passersby will keep walking until they die….

We stand collected,
Waiting for it all to burn.
We don't need a resolution,
We just want a REVOLUTION.

The pain is sharper than a razor blade that's fresh out of the package.
With nothing in hand, my pockets are empty, but you don't seem to care.
I didn't think much of it when it was a habit.
I lost all control whenever I had it, but I don't care anymore,
Because now I'm over it….

We stand collected,
Waiting for it all to burn.
We don't need a resolution,
We just want a revolution.
Reservations are overkill when my worth is equal to yours.

Do you need a revolution?
Yes, we need a revolution.