released November 12, 2021

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LYRICS:

It's worn as a badge
My display all for naught
Mulling us over and up to the top
Act overwrought by the underexposed
A mistake if you wake, a disgrace if I'm caught
When the world stands beside you with trembling toes
The world stands beside you and whispers
I fall in behind you

A brief intermission
To suck you beneath
The most I'd expect for inviting a thief
To the edge of relief, just beyond your dissent
No chance to prevent it, but since I've invented
A way from the waiting, a stake in the jest
A vapid conspiring to wish for the best

And to the republic, a border I deny
For the republic, an epithet I'm now inscribing
Like the republic, whose captors I've obliged
And through the republic, my lust for life is now subsiding
In the eyes of those who love you

Overgrown and underground
Still looking elsewhere when it's found
Still looking back once you've been trapped
Pay no regard to where they take you

Something drastic overdue
Understated, twice as true
All the gunsmoke of your ruse
Can't overtake that bitter breakthrough

Echo of a sigh
Yeah, reflection of a bigger town
Our time is up, we're only stalling

Ghost revokes to steer the coup
But my allegiance dies with you
I lied, I don't know what to do
Avert the eyes that always loved you

I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I'm falling beside you
I'm falling beside you

I'll know just what to say
If you tell me what to do
I've fallen beside you
I draw you too close
I've fallen beside you
I've fallen beside you
I'm falling

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CREDITS:

CHILDREN HAVING CHILDREN:
Steven Kaiser / Matt Heymann / Ryan Deeter

FEATURING: Matthew Lauritsen (drums)

MUSIC & LYRICS by Steven Kaiser (BMI) © 2011

PRODUCED & MIXED by Steven Kaiser
ENGINEERED by Bob Mallory & Steven Kaiser
ASSISTANT ENGINEERED by Dylan Herman
MASTERED by Dave McNair
COVER ART by David A. Palatsi

Recorded at Mission Sound & Sandbox Studios in Brooklyn, NY