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Friday Challenge

by Big Gray

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1.
Traffic Referrals (Instrumental Demo) - 8/17 02:30
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The Seeds Were Saplings - 8/24 04:51
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He never happened They didn't plan it The seeds were saplings You'll understand it If they think the arrows rose then nothing is true If we rode on endless waves then everything's new If they gave us gleaming keys then nothing is true If we failed in pristine times, the blame's on you
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Another Avoid Attempt (instrumental demo) - 8/31 02:39
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The Story Of An Almost (instrumental demo) - 8/31 alternate track 02:51
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5.
We Ran From Rusted Suns - 9/7 02:49
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We heard the second class We heard you're training well We saw the hour glass We heard the third shift bells We heard the iron clasp We breathed through iron lungs We heard the rattling grasp We ran from rusted suns We heard the final shift was now Must've been part of that good change oh oh oh Must have told it to rearrange oh oh oh Had to sell it for spare change oh oh oh Had to watch it all prearranged oh oh oh
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I Love Your Systems (instrumental demo) - 9/14 04:27
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Test Where the Pressure's From - 9/21 02:31
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The failures slump so well on walls that make the weekdays We gasp at breaths that barely make it through the breezeways And that's the one attempt to hold it for the blue blazers We've got to hold it; we've got to hold it We've got to, we've got to, we've got to hold it, hold it Test, test where the pressure's from The balance numbers are the ones that came due last week It threatened, threatened to handicap the whole fleet And that's the one attempt to fold it in front of the elites We've got to fold it; we've got to fold it We've got to, we've got to, we've got to fold it, fold it
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Night Raiders (instrumental) - 9/28 02:16
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No-One Wants To End Up With Memory (instrumental) - 10/5 01:52
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We Got Caught Up In The Harvest Glow - 10/12 01:52
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Come on, it's not that we don't know We got caught up in the harvest glow Now it's time to set it straight Time to slide downhill not skate And pray for early snow Call, call, call another day All, all, all of us bored of your new fast ways Come on, it's not that we don't try We struggle daily behind our smoky eyes Where we fail is we don't wait Life spent just spinning plates And playing as advertised
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Vanish Behind The Stacks - 10/19 02:37
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Aligned at random moments, but never made them click The basement scanner types were the only ones to see it Before the book cameras, we wielded jagged blades That one time in the map room, you even said my name Erase, erase, erase the penciled tracks Vanish, vanish, vanish behind the stacks
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Sing Your Sudden Faces - 11/2 01:45
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At first I'm singing "I know," and then I'm singing "moo moo moon" as the bass part and some other gibberish. Then I come in with "Sing your sudden faces to the slow." I don't know what it means, either. It just came out of my mouth.
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Eight Tracks (instrumental) - 11/9 02:24
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Eight More Tracks (instrumental) - 11/23 01:25
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Light The Flares (instrumental demo) - 11/23 02:55
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+8 = -1 (instrumental) - 11/30 01:16
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We'll Be Buried In The Same Dirt - 12/21 04:04
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Built on bricks made brittle by high tide Leaning and leaning to the right side Another one's coming; it takes deep breaths to see it So focus and don't get defeatist At least he looks like an expert When the pain comes again, he'll be buried in the same dirt Dont blame them for not owning shirts on their backs Don't blame them for not hoarding gold bars in stacks Don't blame them for energy that's too fast to react Let them go forward and not falter back
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Hide Your Family From Allergens (instrumental demo) - 12/28 02:46
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We've Got New People But They're Just Getting Old - 1/4 02:10
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I expected it rough I expected power enough To change the way we drew the rivers and maps and off ramps But we've gotten so gray and so cramped So desperate Behaved like the last real literates Glittered a step below gold We've got new people but they're just getting old We've got new people but they're just getting old Fled cold weather and stiff upper lips Fled the isolation of one county sticks Fled the country air and home remedy kits Fled the vinyl blinds and the neighborhood kids We traded packaged for over the shoulder We traded winters but somehow got colder We traded for people but they just get older We traded to be alone but we're never alone We're never alone...we're never alone
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Preset (instrumental) - 1/11 02:25
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Here are the demos I have done for the Friday Challenge series, wherein I write a song a week and post it, however awful or unfinished, for you to mock.

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released August 17, 2012

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Big Gray Athens, Georgia

Big Gray is Lucas John Jensen and other people. Lucas John Jensen has been in other bands like Venice is Sinking, Four Eyes, and pacificUV. This is what happens when you let a drummer do things.

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