Afterglow

Race run / Look out into nothing / The freeway is a parking lot / Now you’re making haste / Misled and misleading / It’s been so long / Since you’ve seen the stars / Afterglow / Nothing to show / Everything’s dagger and cloak / You’re trying to get better / Forget every face that you’ve known / I’m dreaming of a cold and constant slumber / Dreaming I am / Another dawn deserts unseen / Face up / Sun colors you crimson / Got a dead phone and a Diazepam / Call sick / Bring in the carnations / No ship comes / No new capital / It’s a cold spot / Down your neck breathing / Your regrets and your petulant ghost / You’re a slow burn / Acid tongue twisting / No disguise / Perfume in the smog 

Easy

Another broadsheet repeating / You’re swinging from your solar balloon / The sun’s always beating / You’re selling the season / You’re not coming down / No car horns or storm warnings / In dreams you just follow the coast / You’re up and down / Looking at the window’s reflection confused / Last rites last resorting / Last last word last one last goodbye / Last time we’re discussing / It’s about good for nothing / You’re hanging your head and you’re hung out to dry / It’s a good time up on Cloud 9 / Disappear forget all your lines / Get the joke take the dive / It’s easy / You’re dressing down in the mirror / There’s a shark stalking your swimming pool / There’s never an answer / Anxiety dancer / You circle the block you’re still paying what’s due / Ditch your load take a breather / Watch the world from inside a cartoon / It’s a color field painting / The last one remaining / You’re not coming down

Up At Your Window

What do you have time for with your thumb on the scale? / Your apologies endless like a favorite folktale / And your tentpole friends overstay overshare / And throw rocks up at your window / I saw you under the spotlight performing despair / I saw you sinking in quick to the therapist’s chair / I’ve seen you standing up straight with the wind in your hair / Rehearsing the cold open / Now you knocked down the castle / You’re cleaning your brush / Stirring out the fire with the end of your crutch / You’re scrubbing in now before it all gets sewn up / And there’s nothing left to do / Gravity spun you always on the take / It came to you quick you were falling from grace / And there’s love in your heart though its often misplaced / I’m throwing rocks up at your window / And I know what you’re thinking / It’s not to be believed / Intrusive thoughts devour you / You haunt your own machine / I think you’re splitting hairs again / Save that emotion for the stage / You’re cycling your breathing with the helicopter blades / Now you’re counting the hours and fearing your fate / You’re bruised like a plum and you’re switching the bait / And you’re shouting down anyone you may have displaced / From behind your garden gate / And they’re closing around you / Mistrusts and mistakes / You turn toward the dark / You’re file and rank / No celestial ladder or fire escape / And no shining golden braid / Now you’re blasting through the bedrock / Your headlight hazeltine / You’re answering their questions but its just like pulling teeth / So you stick yourself in shadow / Some things aren’t meant to be seen / You’re cycling your breathing like your adolescent dreams

Recorded at RIA, Los Angeles, CA 

by Matt O’Keefe & Michael Fiore

Mastered by Andrew Oswald 

Cover Art by Tobias Hayes

All songs © 2025, 29 Cove Songs (BMI)

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