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Pursuit of Convenience

by The Drafts

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1.
Grooming... 02:52
Everywhere you would go Closed for unreasoned adjustments Everything you’ve wanted Mailed to wrong addresses On this curious slate In this curious place Outside looking faultless Up until when your shift ends The omnipresent sunlight Suddenly overtaken An average day An average place Silent rants with frequent sounds No middle ground Selective trouble keeping track Of the facts What will you do if your ship Never comes in?
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Gestalt 02:46
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Long for days like the one two hours ago Potent haze with some more beers to go These times of feeling free And dry debauchery The difference between Is getting hard to see Toseetoseetoseetoseetosee Throwing down for seven or eight Haven’t found the untroubled state Throwing down for a few more Haven’t found what to look Forward through the narrow bend in space Nothing’s new that hasn’t already been voiced And I’m sure that someday I’ll have more to say But for now I’ll remain Indifferently restrained Restrainedrestrainedrestrainedrestrained Throwing down for seven or eight Haven’t found the untroubled state Throwing down for a few more Haven’t found what to look for What to look for What to look for
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Suffused 01:09
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Lately I’ve only thought of worthless facets ‘Til they’ve become a doctrine Then suddenly it starts to waver To yield for only thoughts of you And I know there there’s a lot to be pursuing But for now it’s simply just you Now I’m trying pointlessly to distract Myself from thinking of The way your face looks so hopelessly jaded And I think that’s why I like it Then suddenly I see a screen’s display About how you were struck by fluky debris While it was sunny Well, life is funny
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A fissure in the stasis of contentment Spreads and spreads Any past position, how contentious Anything that’s said Mantras tied to petty observations Can’t be explained No one needs the slanted consultations Solely your own aims And now it’s time to regress And now it’s time to recognize The incoherent world you’re living in Sitting on a stale wooden park bench, by a new fiscally glorified installation, just inhaling that sawdust. nearby stood two crowds of frustrated people, yelling at each other, messy unison, applying proverbs to themselves or someone they knew, many of them switching sides in brisk determined strides, whichever is more aggressive, more inflammatory, that’s the one for me, people got out of their cars, leaving their radios playing that song from that one time, the one the A-lister’s daughter likes, but as they embraced or rejected the words of their 200-level seminars, they seemed to agree: “I won’t settle for here Would you settle here?”
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The stale air keeps my thoughts in place As I’m treading through the same old space And the light through the trees Is getting to me I could use some sleep When the narratives are spoken Every word is deafening And the phrases that they’re smoking Tend to burn out real quick Lately I’ve spent time trying to concentrate On some things to which I can’t really relate Denser than lead, compressed in my head I’m going to bed And when I wake up I am content Disoriented transiently And I’ll attempt to be attentive Just preparing to hear To hear the narratives all spoken Where every word is deafening And the phrases that they’re smoking Now have burned out
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I walked outside feeling strangely unfettered By the warmth of the sun making temperate weather And I’m at liberty Until I see Some people moved by a speech where the words are just letters Saying how this way is gonna be much better Assuring it’s a fact That no one’s under attack There’s a crowd that’s told that they’ve got their own auras By those that think they’re some real profound orators What was it they said? You’re already dead And then some others go home to their vices that strengthen On passing weekdays in a routine fashion Assuring it’s a fact That no one’s turnin back Now we’re not unrestricted It’s never been that way We’re just disconnected I’m doubtful it’s a phase Yet stuck in momentary phases Most of the time In pursuit of conveniences And it seems that not much changes As the world concedes To some frequent sequences By the power present in free You’ll know these things as forever confining By the power present in free Confined to everything Confined to everything
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The weekly trifles were comin in daily installments But the taste of this convenience is all I ever really wanted I was standing waiting in line For something new, with all those new features The pages falling out of the consumer guides It’s good to warm my bones beside the fluorescent light In need of release from the public strain While the pistons press the profits in place Pressed in place Strings of sentences that push dependences Strings of sentences that said just go to bed
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As other’s ignorance begins to become its own bliss You rise from your seat when you still are wringing your wrist And feel content in an occasional brisk wind As all your past vistas came to their lackluster light You stared for so long you felt all the grains of your sight And as the time kept plodding on You feel that you got it wrong As some filled the room and others were fading away You recognize everyone as a most temporary stay And as they spill their credulous bluffs How all is well, oh enough, enough And as clouds accumulate As hours stretch to late As Earth starts to shake And as these words exaggerate You knew all along Everything flourishes when you don’t look
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Here comes a vehicle not understood Here comes the one with your new livelihood Here comes something not sure if it’s good Can only wait Is it coming in an instant? Just take solace in the distance And hold on to your indifference ‘Til it arrives The air is thick with ambivalence So shove it off without consequence And soon enough it all ascends Away from worth You saw it written and you saw it say All you’d ever want is far away Much too far to leave the desk today So just sit down And now the clouds start to tantalize But on the screen you need to keep your eyes And you know it won’t satisfy The urge to leave In this world of constant stimulus Impossible to mark the useless Have I been blinded by the influence Of coherence? Inundated by an uninspired crisis What else is left? Inundated by an uninspired crisis There’s nothing left
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Recorded at Stin's Paradise.
Produced by Austin Carey and the Drafts.
Mastered by Davis Connors.
Album Artwork by Davis Connors.

Special thanks to Marine Corps Pride

The OG 'Pursuit of Convenience' LP Teaser shot on Super 8 Film by Sean Kiley: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7aYGUCpEg&feature=youtu.be

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released November 10, 2017

Ben Goldman - Guitar/Vocals
Jacob Driscoll - Bass
Mike Torpy - Guitar
Davis Connors - Drums/Sounds
Sean Kiley - Tenor Saxophone
Taylor Walters - Yelp

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