Meniscus, by Meniscus

Meniscus

by Meniscus

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1.	This Game 06:55	lyrics	buy track
Somebody take this thing from me, it's starting to feel like a disease. Anyone else I see could be of use, reduced to their mechanics. And how many times can they be kicked before they look up and see it's only me? I want another of you but I'll only take the skin. The only thing that matters is the power to be gained therein. If time is only precious some of the time then how much can you really find? Winning is so much easier when the game is only mine. Picking apart and drawing lines, with a smile on my face I pierce and probe. What does he think I think he thinks? In a circular race to know and control. Somebody take this thing from me. I want another of you but I'll only take the skin. The only thing that matters is the power to be gained therein. If time is only precious some of the time then how much can you really find? Winning is so much easier in this game.
2.	Silence 05:01	lyrics	buy track
Breathing into a tunnel of eyes. Gaping, please don't be unkind. Do I want to return the stares or float on through and make them watch in silence? Falling, oh what a beautiful eye. Anonymous and blind. Do I want to return the stares or float on through and make them watch in silence?
3.	Pass Me By 06:22	lyrics	buy track
All these people behind their painted walls. Telling me that it's a long way, far from home. After a while they'll take me back inside. Happy smiling, for me not dying yet. Half of them pass me by. I want to have them all, And knowing I can only makes it sore. Frozen stiff when I hear the call. I know I've given but I've lost much more. Anyone could tell you that it's far from home. You take and you give but in the end it's much too long. After a while they'll take me back inside. And happy smiling for me not dying yet. Half of them pass me by, Taking us over tomorrow. You will fall again. You will follow tomorrow. Half of them pass me by, Taking us over tomorrow. You will fall again. You will follow tomorrow. But half of them pass me by. I want to have them all, And knowing I can only makes it sore. Frozen stiff when I hear the call. I know I've given but I've lost much more.
4.	Follow 07:46	lyrics	buy track
Wake up to find we've settled along the way. How far back were you when you saw it coming? I haven't tired. I have no mind to, Lie in the bed, That I'm gonna die in. Just let it in, that creeping innocence. Holding on to you like a loving sedative. I want to graze on the side. They only want to take me and my time. I am so happy that I can't feel a thing. I usually don't mind the sting. Hold, hold. Hold it in, it's just too bad. You need to hold it in, it's just too bad. You need to hold it in, it's just too bad. We need to hold it in, it's just that... I want to graze on the side. They only want to take me and my time. I am so happy that I can't feel a thing. I usually don't mind the sting. How can I throw away what makes me sleep and wake? How can you know you're moving forward? You're just moving away. I haven't tired. I have no mind to... Just let it in, that creeping innocence. Holding on to you like a loving sedative. They follow into a stillness that kills. They follow into a hole that just is. Every time it looks at me I close my eyes, 'cause they follow and they leave me behind.
5.	On Our Way 07:58	lyrics	buy track
Hold with me, we're on our way. Our hands and eyes and on their way. Follow me and we'll be on our way. The long and still decay is on its way. I won't wait too long. Don't make hours crawl if I can't walk. I won't make you call me in. Still hours crawl. Take one last fall and... Hold with me, we're on our way. Our hands and eyes and on their way. Follow me and we'll be on our way. The long and still decay is on its way. Will you make me answer for the time you gave me that I lost? Frozen waiting for... Stay a little long, you and I can watch the sky come down, And be relieved of choice. And hold with me, we're on our way. Our hands and eyes and on their way. Follow me and we'll be on our way. The long and still decay is on its way. It's way, it's way, it's way, Away, away, away, away.
6.	Make You See 04:48	lyrics	buy track
In this search for more, You will fall to me. In the this cycle there are many ends but there's only one I know. You will be always in need. Give and you will always receive. In this void alone, You will fall to me. But I'm lying only 'cause it's hard to make you see the hole I opened in you. But I'm lying only when it's hard to make you see that I will close it. You will be always. You will be always. I can't explain it but you know. You will be always in need. Give and you will always deserve.
7.	The Needle 08:54	lyrics	buy track
Rising sun through the skin of my eyes. Cutting through the only place where it will hide. The little needle floats up to the surface again. They said it would liquesce in time but when? So near, ringing in my periphery. So real, more than what I can see. Singing to me a song that never yields. When all else has fallen away it sinks its teeth. Grounded and bounded. Grounded and bounded. Slowing, tiring and resistance lowers, lay back to allow it in. Flowing though you it slowly lifts you and the needle will fall way. Grounded and bounded. Grounded and bounded. Grounded and bounded. Grounded and bounded.
8.	This Game (Radio Edit) 06:10	lyrics	buy track
Somebody take this thing from me, it's starting to feel like a disease. Anyone else I see could be of use, reduced to their mechanics. And how many times can they be kicked before they look up and see it's only me? I want another of you but I'll only take the skin. The only thing that matters is the power to be gained therein. If time is only precious some of the time then how much can you really find? Winning is so much easier when the game is only mine. Picking apart and drawing lines, with a smile on my face I pierce and probe. What does he think I think he thinks? In a circular race to know and control. Somebody take this thing from me. I want another of you but I'll only take the skin. The only thing that matters is the power to be gained therein. If time is only precious some of the time then how much can you really find? Winning is so much easier in this game.
9.	Shame (Bonus Track) 07:00	lyrics	buy track
Stripped, tossed on its knees, exhibition. By our one-way mirrors of shame and admiration. Here are the borders of a world that was made to dispose from ourselves the ones for whom we'll pray. Shame. Oh shame. One side is visible. Shame. Oh shame. One side is visible. Shame. Oh shame. One side is visible. Shame. Oh shame. One side is visible. Shame. Oh shame. One side is visible. Shame. Oh shame. One side is visible. Stretched on the rack until it broke, With hands that turn while the other strokes. No fury or censure for the harvest we reap will ever clean up the dirt where we buried them deep. Arms open wide for you, why did you choose, To live in decay underneath us and to laugh while you lose? We're painting a picture, your colours will only ever run. Run, run, run. In the corners where the untouchables go, grows a bitterness that makes them all the more so. An appendage rejected by the body that grew it, now a parasite on what it used to be. No control over where the apple falls, still, we grow or fester where and how we will. Will, will, will, will.

about

Recorded at Five Alley Lane and Manor Street Music

credits

released April 16, 2021

Bill Stuart - Vocals, Guitars, Songwriting, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering.
John Keane - Bass Guitar
Mark Stuart - Drums
Jim McCabe - Additional Mastering
Lee Hennessy - Album Artwork
Special thanks to Patricia McBride and Manor Street Music.