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Sleeping on Stairs

from Pipes by Grampfather

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lyrics

I know you--
yeah, I know your kind,
the kind who spews what's right right right
but when the building's burning down
you leave everybody behind.
Don't tell me how to be free
pontificating all your bunk theories
upholding your frail facade
you're shoving us through
as it plumes in abstraction
out the absent ceiling.
Your building is burning,
we need a way out!
A neon exit sign
that instead reads, "Doubt."
I want to believe everything is wrong
and everything is right when put into song.

We're living out of hotels
we're sleeping on stairs.
Our passive-aggressiveness
is useless--
we're not getting anywhere.
We're living out of hotels
we're sleeping on stairs.
Our passive-aggressiveness
is useless--
can't you see that nobody cares?

This is yours, this is what you built,
yet you feel no responsibility, you feel no guilt.
What of this chaos, what of this riot,
what of this abrasive realness of our dying?
We're not paper but we'll burn just the same,
except our ink will run red as it runs down the page
of our figurative lives, our flesh binding the books
blinding you to the truth you'd see if you'd just look.

We're living out of hotels
we're sleeping on stairs.
Our passive-aggressiveness
is useless--
can't you see that nobody cares?

I know you!
Yeah, I know your kind,
the kind who spews what's right right right
but when the building's burning down
you leave everybody behind.
We're living out of hotels
we're sleeping on stairs.
Our passive-aggressiveness
is useless--
can't you see that nobody cares?

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from Pipes, released March 26, 2015

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Grampfather Kingston, New York

Grampfather is an indie-psych rock band based out of Kingston, NY, whose material traverses a variety of rock genres, such as indie, garage, punk, psych, chill, and thrash.

James Kwapisz: vocals, guitar, synth
Tony DiMauro: drums
Andrew Blot: guitar, keys
Jake Offermann: bass

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