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It's Not Realistic, But It's Real

by Harrison Watters

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Benjamin Beier Great performance, Harrison Watters is a great lyricist, vocalist, and guitarist, and deserves more attention. Lyrics hit hard, and +5 points for The Office reference in The Great Indoors.

Great album, download it and drop a few bucks. Favorite track: The Great Indoors.
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1.
I Am An Approximately Perfect Square 01:51
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my bedsheets of ice suggest that i might call it a night but i cant shake this feeling that the voices i hear are all out to get me crank up the tunes let them lift me like a hundred balloons until i hit the ceiling i hit the ceiling but its right where i want to be cause they tempt me and resent me when the lights dim down we all need a good reason to shout and scream like we mean it weve all got to mean it
2.
We're All Above Average 03:49
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stoned in a parking lot thinking about how everyone thinks im home cause its midnight on a wednesday night and tomorrow ive got class but still this hot orange ember approaches my lips slowly watched through one way glass a hopeless young burnout who cant get his shit straight yeah thats me alright i accept that no real direction not quite yet but when i brushed death my mind was completely blank im on a sailboat and its just me so i can stay afloat and the waters so still so still that it feels like home and when the wind starts to pick up ill hoist up the anchor set sail towards solid ground and get these sea legs back on shore done with the guessing and surgically picking my own brain with tools that are antiques made out of wood that leaves splinters in my palms im throwing my typewriter into the deep blue ocean im on a sailboat and its just me so i can stay afloat and the waters so still so still that it feels like home and when the wind starts to pick up ill hoist up the anchor set sail towards solid ground and get these sea legs back on shore
3.
That's Not Art, That's Just Annoying 02:24
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oh im afraid again oh why am i nervous when im trying to grow up to be a man im smart and im capable well thats debatable i am jealous what a bitter emotion to feel towards my friends and my loved ones oh this is pathetic just walk it off walk it off im freaking out right by the campfire dont mind me im just losing my mind i am losing weight but gaining awareness and caution since when have i been so sad my brain is a ghost town my blood is all watered down so i wonder im wondering why im on my way to some party when im homesick HAH more like bedsick im everything sick sick of everything everything its just like the movies she said my lifes not a movie and if it was almost no one would watch it i once fell on a cactus when i was like five years old a wise man once said everything has to do with everything and it does it does
4.
Treehouse Trees 03:42
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dirtied my viens with a venomous love it broke down from rock to pebbles powder and dust cause nothing i do is ever really enough i watched the words slip slide off your venomous tongue you took off and left me all hopeful for more my dry cracked lips reflect a dry desert floor hoping a storm would pass through shower and pour acid rain that burns to my core built up a structure out in the woods the progress was slow but the times were all good slice through the membrane stumble and spill and then let the cold air hold it all still the windows were shattered and the power lines cut but bring out the drinks yeah lets live it up cause who really cares that were down on our luck spun out and stressed but dont give a... i see a treehouse in the yard where there aint even a tree fuck my exceptionally vivid imagination partially helpful but usually makes me sad when its not making me happy when its not making me happier last i checked she was frozen of course frozen in place in the glaciers up north just killing time till she melts in the sun the heat is too much for the frigid and numb but sunlight fuels the leafy and green the soil that wrecks what the chemicals made clean breathing some life into concrete and steel we are so alive we know how we feel
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Quite The Idle Walkabout (Pick Up The Phone) 02:01
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its been three hours and im getting hungry pick up the phone outside my window the one in my basement its getting cold done filling my lungs with chalk dust and stale air im coming home decending down under to claw my way upward my plates so full grocery store isles sell me solutions sell me control its been some time now my stomachs so empty pick up the phone
6.
The Great Indoors 03:06
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im a product of environment a threat to my own health and im getting pretty good at hiding from my own self im learning quick that my judgements impaired and that company is nice but i am my own home i know it often takes seven feet of rope but ill make sure to use eight so i can stand on my toes i hesitate cause i think too fast i always hire a professional to take the mental photographs looking back after taking a second my visions less cloudy altering my perception but shit i cant tell if its worse or its better i wont start the fire but i dont mind watching it burn i said i want to start a riot yeah i want to let go of all this tension in my muscles and these thoughts in my skull i understand i should wait my turn but my decisions are all conscious i have nothing left to learn everyones always so damn sad and im sick of solving problems that i wont ever have i am empty so fill me up with drugs and attention not with caring compassionate love fuck that i like being alone in a way ive spent a big part of my life on my own yeah this car wont start and this phone wont ring but i figure while im stranded ill enjoy the good things just a product of environment living by myself in a house full of people buying lies that i sell i find it strange how somehow ive found so much comfort in the fact that one day ill be under the ground i feel disturbances within my soul so i turn my shoe over and out the pebbles roll were both mad yeah were both upset if this continues ill just end up taking bongrips to my fuckin head getting by with my limited know how im living just to live cause thats just what i do now but ever since the currents stopped flowing through these walls the airs gotten thinner and so have my lungs
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Pizza & Wine 03:23
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sometimes i wish that it was still winter frozen fish sleep all in the deepest waters ill sleep when im dead and this citys on fire tired and hungry and anxious and free forever a tall glass of lust and a slice of anger lying on the ground as the leaves change color i cant look away as her pupils get bigger shamelessly alone thinking about myself im going nowhere and i cant help but smile the brain of an adult the heart of a child with a roll of the eyes and a sarcastic comment ill dig through the dirt not with a shovel but with my bare hands my bear hands
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Fingerless Gloves 03:08
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fingerless gloves lost between the bedsheets shes cloaked in my conforter so memorably motionless we sing silly songs about nothing and everything not from my soul but made up in my head dawn finally breaks and shatters the skyline droplets on the leaves polarize fall in unity shimmering shines of sunlight smile at the earth yellow streaks soak into green into leaves and occationally into me i lost all my faith and my head its hard to speak its hard to believe with breathing so thin that i allow my consciousness to step back out of the spotlight and out of the foreground spend some alone time with the better half of my mind bring on the hate yeah bring on the love too with and emphasis on the part about love maybe ill leave build my own place out in the woods gather up stones sticks seeds and some company live off the land nothing more for a few odd years return home with insight on what this all means at least what it means to me
9.
Socks & Shoes 04:00
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socks then shoes always in that order how sensible my bones are creaking slightly but often and nobody hears it but me and I just keep rambling cause I write lyrics fast in succession line after line of stupid teenage confessions im sick of it i see roads on maps and through the windshield this car is upside down queue the sharp and clear confetti celebrate cause were alive and well but I hate hospitals the smell of chemicals and bleach invade me and embrace me taste me and I cant talk myself down cause its difficult a toaster in the bathtub a fork in the power socket its shocking to say the least from my short hair to my bare feet its raining pretty hard outside these flickering florescent lights are exhausting to listen to i fantasize about dropping out of school she'll try to leave but I wont let her and yeah your good but im much better im sorry tense tension faces and memories thoughts im going fishing in a swimming pool theres a chance I wont catch anything but that's alright all right
10.
Hold Your Damn Horses 04:06
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im coming down im coming down hold your horses weve got unfinished business but thats not my fault yeah and just because we both speak the language were not obliged to talk thats when you said "defying me will give you twelve years bad luck" and god would that suck confined to poor health shit friends and stress never taking risks being safe always in need of nutrients and vitamins what kind of way is that to live not a good one in fact quite the opposite the inverse indeed and im not superstitious in the least but ill tell you what bad luck doesn't sound so great to me ive got frustration like Sisyphus i never quite achieve my goals im not saying its unfair cause i never give 110 percent 100's all ive got maybe 90ish even its getting warm its getting warm metaphorically but literally its freezing outside and i left my biggest and bestest coat at home now here i am confined to poor health and stress never taking risks being safe always in need of nutrients and vitamins what kind of way is that to live not a good one in fact quite the opposite the inverse indeed and im not superstitious in the least but ill tell you what bad luck doesn't feel so great to me
11.
Separate Houses, Same Boat 04:15
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so i walk and i run my train of thought off the tracks now thinking about how it all went down and if itll bounce back up i rock a t-shirt and dance until the suns out filling up the cups and rolling out the carpet and yeah its kinda cold but its heating up fast cause my brain is writing checks that my heart cant cash so i stop and i lie right on my back in the sunlight wait until it turns to moonlight enjoy the brisk walk home i see stars and in the morning ill be cracking eggs all up in that pan yeah ill cook us some breakfast it might not be delicious but ill try my best im just telling you now that you wont be impressed but heyyeah yeah im headed downtown i cant wait till spring the days when it wont rain when i come home for good empathy like a campfire in the forest in my brain if its dry enough ill be driven insane empathetic fires burn quick this shit makes no sense were building houses all along the coast but weve delayed construction the tides are inconsistent and yeah i might be manic but i feel fantastic its a disease in my head so beautifully tragic but heeeeyeaahh yeah im headed downtown i cant wait till spring the days when it wont rain when those who suffer from seasonal depression say heeeeeyeaaahhhh yeah im not coming down i cant wait to break the idle hearts i crave when i leave home for good so i walk past all the wreckage on the train tracks miles of twisted metal and white ash riding the wind like snow but i keep walking
12.
Potted Plants Grow Sad, Weak Roots 02:53
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i am a disease swimming like a fish through your bloodstream but ive calmed down yeah ive calmed down with this not so clean hardwood floor creeping up sneaking up old songs old news waiting for the police to show up for something to go down and we planted our feet in the dirt in the soil sun feed me vitamins till i cant eat no more and scream woah woah woah woah im making a scene slamming my fists into concrete but im too frail yeah im too fragile to be losing my shit but ill toughen up just loosen up watching smoke dance with the air underneath the four square spotlights in the corner of the room and i called out her name i sung it with soul in the sound proof room in my brain like woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah

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released March 18, 2014

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