HUMAN HIGHLIGHT REEL LP
Released: May 2011
Label: Run For Cover Records
Type: LP Collection
Format: Digital / CD / Vinyl
Pressing: 800 LPs (300 Red / 500 Black)
Additional Info: 2 new songs, Dahlia EP, Noise From Upstairs EP, Real Talk B-sides and a Christmas song

DRIVEWAY
I`ll hang on to these last words. The ones you whisper in my ear before you turn yourself away from me. For the last time, I`m convinced the sun will never rise again. It`s likely that you`ll find me before long, crawling up your driveway. Begging you for attention, I don`t care if you come outside. Just please pick up your phone and tell me that theres someone out there for me and one day I`ll be in love for real. But I would tell you your wrong. I`ve already found her and shes held up in her room milking me for a song. This driveway is starting to feel like home. I`ll sleep outside your house and wait for you to come out. In the morning I`ll kiss you and tell you I miss you this has to be figured out. My nerves are shot right now I wish that I was too but I`m not. All I have is you. Till the morning light I lie awake because I need you by my side. Don`t know if I will make it to the morning light. You`ve given me no faith in what tommorrow might bring. If there was a price on your love I would sell everything, and it hurts so bad to know that your okay through it all.

MELANIE, VIDEO GAMES & A SLIGHT FEAR OF FLYING
Always hold on for the last kiss, it never gets easier its always like this. Sat in the airport and played my SP. Bitter and alone as I waited to leave. I wish I could sleep somehow right now, I took the valluum her mom gave me. But it didn`t do much to save me from the heartbreak and anxiety that I wore on my sleeve that morning. I never wanted to leave you all alone, back at your home. We`ll see, I`ll call you when I get home if this plane gets me there in one piece, and I hope for your sake I miss you more then you miss me. I know your back at your house, your brothers on the couch playing WoW and you haven`t passed out. Cause you still answer my messages even though theres nothing to say to each other but “don`t go,” “I don`t wanna,” “stay here,” “I think I`m gonna try and miss my plane and stay a little bit longer.

I SAW BEHEMOTH AND IT RULED
It’s like they need two seperate planets to make it stop. The boy who was the hero became the shame. The girl who took it all lost everything. She sent a message, she tried to talk, there was something that she needed to know. But now was not the best time, the boy was drunk at a metal show. At least shes trying. And maybe what he told her was all she ever needed to hear, anyhow. And maybe someday on a cloud. Their last laugh will be heard awfully loud. Cause maybe in the end they’ll win. But it will be a long time till they try again. I’m trying to keep on the right side. What am I doing? I`m trying to keep you by my side. Cause I remember when you were mine. But I was always struggling, and things were never totally fine. It’s like they have some sick attraction, a magnetic pull. They`ve ripped apart successfully a couple of times. With every turn its more and more painful. She says shes happy now and that makes him frown, but ultimately it makes him glad. He wishes that they had two seperate planets. She agrees it wouldn’t be that bad.

THEY DON’T MAKE EM LIKE THEY USE TO
I felt like a runaway when I stood outside Jim’s house. I thought that maybe with all of this I had been over reacting or maybe you saved me. And if I die waiting for my ship to come in. I just hope your ship comes in and I’m sorry for wasting your time. She finished the book and laid down in her bed. She was lonely reading comics feeling lost in her head. And I’d break through any window and save her if I could. I would run through any fire and I’m thinking I should. I should just cut all my losses and resign to the truth that this whole time I’ve been searching I’ve been searching for you. I discovered something I should never ignore. I now know what I’m here for. Last night she slept alright. She turned down the boy, she turned off the light. She never expected he would put her back in that place but maybe she’s crazy. And if I die waiting for my ship to come in. I just hope your ship comes in and I’m sorry for wasting your time. I had to write a song. I had to let you know. They don’t make girls like you anymore. And they don’t make kids like me anymore. So lets go get it while its good. Lets get it while its good.

FIVE GIRLS PIZZA
Wait! Stop! I`m not ready. She left me dead in the van. My stomach feels like its burning. I tried to write but I cant. So now I lay with the yearning to know anyone but any of you. If you only knew the amount of thought that I put into you. And I cant stop thinking about the way this one called my name. Before we pulled out of the driveway Just to tell me to check my messages Dont need to tell me about my messages. Theres a few that I`ve been putting lots of myself into. Fuck it, hang up. Its not easy like it was in the fifth grade.

I ATE MY GLUESTICK
The ends coming quick, But not quick enough. You say that you care, But I’m calling your bluff. Because I once was in love, But loves fucking blind. So as I swallow these pills I pray for the sunshine. I could sleep all day and not sleep it off. I speak all day and not speak enough. I’m force fed the weeks, throw up the nights, curse my existence and turn off the lights. Not asleep till the morning. This can happen without any warning… You and I were meant to be the glue that held the world together. But I guess your ill informed. I’ve been screaming, you just haven’t been listening. Girl, you don’t know the half of it. You can’t call this paradise if it’s always been hell. Waking up is losing everything. You know I loved you more. ‘Cuz last night I had everything I wanted. You know I loved you more. And there’s something golden we can’t fight. Playing gods in this ice city. No! you know I loved you more. Freaking out is crucial and the paranoia makes me love you more.

LOVE YOUR FRIENDS DIE LAUGHING
Well the night gets old so I’m back again. The day just started because I’m up with my old friends, the fat smoke and funny joke. Sitting like a sponge, letting everything soak. And I just got the nerve to get in the cage so don’t bite me now. We made love tonight as the result of a fight. When you put your arms around me the whole worlds alright. And a days worth of bitching goes down the drain when you lay in my bed and pick my brain. Shut up! It’s my turn to talk. Don’t try and run before you learn to walk. Because a days worth of bitching goes down the drain when you lay in my bed and pick my brain. I left my heart with my phone in my center console. I left my feelings with my wallet and my keys I feel so stupid because I came here without anything, but I’m finally at ease.

AGAIN
Somedays I wake up, I don’t have a plan. I hear what they’re sayin’, I don’t understand. I know you’re out there. I can’t hear you call. I wish I never met you, I can’t forget about you at all.
If I could do anything right now, I would run. I’ll come back after. Somedays I wake up, I don’t have a plan. The whole world just crumbles inside of my hand. And I know you don’t care, you don’t care at all. If I could learn to let go, it would be the seconds before the fall. I held my breath, with every word, you ran away with every step you took. So please my dear, sleep sound tonight,
I wish that I could I still make things alright

RED PAINT (Promise Ring Cover)
I was sad enough last Saturday,
I woke you to talk but you didn’t have much to say.
You came to to two cherry cokes, came to to coke.
In the morning, when the wind is still warm,
and the rivers still coming and following.
The Astor hotel is black in the windows, black in the hall.
Since we left separately.
A country letter, straight from a widow: come in the nighttime,
to the back porch, throw rocks at my window,
and climb the terrace to the landing.
This house built cleverly for you and me.
(you sound like young love)

CRYBABY
I’ve been preaching now that I’ve gotta change my life around. I’m sick of all the same songs. I’m sick of all the rain fall. What’s left for me now, besides these fucking clouds? I blame it on my downfall. I blame it on the last call I made when I was down and out of touch. Please keep your fingers crossed that I make it out alive. I’ll walk or I’ll crawl to the end of any road that will put me back to sleep so I can dream my life away… I wanna dream my life away… Countless times, countless nights I’ve walked in the shadows of this town. Countless tries, countless lives I’ve told in the back of my mind. I’ve lived at the end of what was once a beautiful world. Home is where I gotta go. Will I ever know how to get there? Maybe.

DYLAN’S SONG
Wait! Is everything okay? Your eyes seem to linger all day. I took a beating on the way of looking for you then it all went black and you went home. You can’t out will this and I’m not fixed, I just masked it. The funny thing is no one knows more than me how easy this could fail. So I’m trying to earn my real life back tonight. It’s been a week, a new of the worst twisting and turning. I’ve been in my room for days not eating or no sleeping. You can’t out will this.

I SAW BEHEMOTH AND IT RULED – acoustic
It’s like they need two seperate planets to make it stop. The boy who was the hero became the shame. The girl who took it all lost everything. She sent a message, she tried to talk, there was something that she needed to know. But now was not the best time, the boy was drunk at a metal show. At least shes trying. And maybe what he told her was all she ever needed to hear, anyhow. And maybe someday on a cloud. Their last laugh will be heard awfully loud. Cause maybe in the end they’ll win. But it will be a long time till they try again. I’m trying to keep on the right side. What am I doing? I`m trying to keep you by my side. Cause I remember when you were mine. But I was always struggling, and things were never totally fine. It’s like they have some sick attraction, a magnetic pull. They`ve ripped apart successfully a couple of times. With every turn its more and more painful. She says shes happy now and that makes him frown, but ultimately it makes him glad. He wishes that they had two seperate planets. She agrees it wouldn’t be that bad.

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DEAR YOU
Dear you, This has got to be one of the last heartfelt things I can put together on a piece of paper to let you know. Fading away at a sickening rate can put things in perspective for you. You`ve always been the only one and I need you to know I do live everyday without any regret of falling back into you. We hold heads high while bullets fly. Last drink of a lonely night and all I wanted was to hold you. I wrote some lonely lyrics to paint a picture to let you know. Bleeding to death laying in your bed I realized that I`ll always need you. You’ve always been the only one and I need you to know I do… I know that I’ve been asking a lot but, would you run away with me right now. I’ve got the whole world figured out.

DIFFERENT PEOPLE
You could say one of two things. Call me sometime or let`s hang out. Or maybe I could help you out. Stop acting like you`ll ever see me again, and like I don`t have you figured out. I understand how it works. On paper, we are similar people. I understand how it works. On paper, we are similar people. But we`re different people. You are tearing down walls I built untill they scraped the sky. So tell your wrecking crew, I welcome you. When the days slow down this summer don`t forget. I did two years in your silouhette . Your jaws of steel never forgave. Its haunting, the way silence sounded. If I fucked up long ago I`m sorry, I didn`t realize it counted. It just wouldn’t work out, that’s what I am telling myself. That we`re just two different people

DECEMBERISM
We all wait for the snow to fall and I hate this time of year because it kills us all but we run around like kids on the loose. Chasing dreams like the babies play duck, duck, goose and I
wait by the window cause you said you would call. And when you finally do I watch the words fall out of my mouth and stick to my shirt. The summer’s always lovely but the winters always hurt. And maybe next year you could find me somewhere in the dirt. Who could forget? It was almost 2003. We kissed under your Christmas tree. While your parents were asleep. I was 15, on top of the world. I was 15 and you were my girl. All I’m saying is for Christmas this year I would kinda like to see you. Happy holidays, let’s hope for the best and I’ll try to ignore the feeling that I get in my chest when I think about all the time that we missed being caught up, growing up and acting selfish and pissed but I wait by the airport cause you said you’d come home. And by now my hands are glued to my phone as you walk on a plane to fly home from LA. I’m missing you on Christmas in the worst kind of way. And maybe next time it won’t be so easy for you to stray.