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Vital Organs

by Jason Howell

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1.
You say you don't love me and I don't believe you. I think you're trying to convince your heart. You say you don't trust me and I don't blame you but darlin' I'm trying to deserve your heart. There's a fine line the chemicals can't cross and when it comes to love I think it's best that way There's a fine line the chemicals can't cross so make up your mind before it's too late. Make up your mind before it's too late.
2.
A little arsenic coats the throat a little leaven spoils the loaf a little always leads to a little more a little always needs a stronger dose. Whatever helps you sleep at night A little glimpse takes off her dress a little anger and it spreads and it spreads and it spreads a little spark could burn this city down a little rudder could turn this ship around. Whatever helps you sleep at night you'll need twice as much by the second time. Whatever helps you sleep at night you'll need twice as much by the second time. At first it helped your skin shine now it's eating at your insides. Whatever helps you sleep at night you'll need twice as much by the second time.
3.
Skeletons 03:58
When I was younger closets seemed immense. I used to think that I could run away for days inside their darkness. But I'm too old to runaway so I simply hide my bones and closets become more like a coffin than a home. My closet's too small now for all my ghosts in bloom I'm thinking about moving them all to a bigger room. One that will keep their murmurs about a boy they know so well hushed and alone for no one to hear or tell. Among my dearest friends we all keep some doors closed we do it with sincerity so no one ever knows. How often do you go there? To that place you try to hide it's been years since I walked inside mine.
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I tried my best not to change I didn't want to leave you. We were once in the same place it hurts to see you still there. These wars that you wage they're not unique to you I don't have the power to save but you have the grace to choose. God is good whether you believe it or not After everything He's done how can you just stay where you are? Are you an object of His wrath? Am I an object of His mercy? Why harden one man's heart and give another eyes to see? God is good whether you believe it or not After everything He's done how can you just stay where you are? God is good whether you believe it or not after everything He's done I never want to stay where I was. Faith to move a mountain I only ask that He move your heart.
5.
A devil's tail underneath my door I'll let him loose when I see fit It's funny how he never bothered me before but then again I don't smell shit until I step in it. A devil's tongue inside my mouth I hate the taste but I don't spit it out. Am I nothing without my words even when they stem from cavities? and the company I keep is the company that keeps me. A devil's will in the pit of my stomach I hunger for things that do not satisfy I've tasted lust and I've tasted wine both of which never seem to fulfill my appetite nothing seems to fulfill my appetite. and the company I keep is the company that keeps me.
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Mr. Finite 05:06
Mr. Finite was a salesman his life hung from a smile his shoes were always so shiny though they walked so many miles he drank a lot in the evenings then he'd lie in bed alone praying for the day he wouldn't wake still morning came with an alarm clock's moan. Mr. Finite was a gentleman waiting on a train dressed in plaid and cigarette smoke he counts his steps like he counts his days slowly placed and shortly lived apprehensive of the next the best laid plans of mice and men are often their regret He would daydream when loneliest about having real friends about a girl's perfume and smile and about their daughter's hands about the secrets God is keeping about the colors in the sky come to think of it he daydreamed everyday until he died.
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She said "I'm ok with Jesus but His bride can be a bitch. I'd have half a mind to divorce her I don't know how He puts up with it I hear she's been sleeping around bowing down to silver and gold I hear she's been working the crowd I hear she's been casting stones." Sometimes I am ashamed of what she claims to be in His name. I said "one day there will be a divide sheep and goat, wheat and chaff judgement starts with the house of God perfect love, righteous wrath the name doesn't make you a son let the fruit you bare be evidence." Sometimes I am ashamed of what she claims to be in His name Sometimes I am ashamed of what she claims to be in His name Sometimes I am afraid of what I'll claim to be in your name
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Vital Organs 03:10
Knowing the truth doesn't guarantee you'll choose it feeling better doesn't mean you're cured. Like a heavenly chorus to an audience of stone the music plays but it goes unheard. If I could fix myself alone I would have done it it's a deeper work than these hands can boast fearful and wonderful as I'm made I'm a valley of bones without your ghost. Deceitful is my heart above all else saturated is my mind. Having the thought doesn't mean you have to do it the devil's workshop is an idle mind who you are, what you want, where you go doesn't have to be what you're tempted by. Deceitful is my heart above all else saturated is my mind deceitful is my heart above all else saturated is my mind. saturated is my mind.
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Movement 05:15
I heard you speak a thousand times still twenty years passed before the good Lord opened my eyes no man comes to the Son except he whom the Father draws and when He finally does cockroaches scatter when the lights come on. Call me a sensitive man I follow where my feelings lead with nowhere to go except mountains and valleys mountains and valleys wicked and perverse those seeking only a sign our wishes were granted with the Son of Man crucified. He doesn't always move when you want Him to I don't always feel what I know is true. I was in the front row hands stretched high and eyes closed mistaking movements of God with adolescent chemicals no months have passed since I last felt you move it seems the seed was there but shallow was it's root. He doesn't always move when you want Him to I don't always feel what I know is true.
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If I were still a drunkard this would be my drinking song If I relapse was I ever saved? Hope that is visible is not hope at all If I weren't a saint this would be my grave. and I went on down to Georgia with no notion of what I'd find I found God and a hand to hold I was on my way to New York with no plan and a promised bride scarred to death of what remained untold. Stars seem like a hell of a place to rest your fate I'll take my chances with a mustard grain yea we all got demons mine I've known since an early age Pay them no mind don't let them have their way and I went on down to Georgia with no notion of what I'd find I found God and a hand to hold I was on my way to New York with no plans and a spotless bride scarred to death of what remained untold scarred to death of what remained unknown.

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released July 15, 2014

Created at The Cottage in Atlanta, GA

Tracked, mixed, and produced by Damon Moon

Mastered by Chris Griffin

All songs by Jason Howell

Arrangements by Jason Howell & Damon Moon

Katie Howell - vocals, claps

Bartram Nason - cello

Daniel Warren - trumpet

Chandler Galloway - keys

Damon Moon - bass, drums, keys, piano, wurlitzer, auto-harp, vocals

Jason Howell - songs, lyrics, guitars, bass, percussion, xylophone, vocals

Cover art by Katie Howell. Graphic design and layout by Chandler Galloway

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