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Tyranny of the Smug

by Remedy

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I will come to you 03:48
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I tread a thin line I walk a jagged edge I wear no life-line as I stumble on this ledge to you What more can I do I will come to you. I chart a strange tack sailin' on the tide The wind lies at my back As I'm sailin' eyes full wide, full view What more can I do I will come to you I will, yes I will, surely come to you I will, yes I will, I will surely come to you Hey look at my face Do you know why I smile? There's nothin' you can replace It's only been here for a while, for now Well don't ask me how I will come to you. I will, yes I will, surely come to you I will, yes I will, I will surely come... Oh, I feel it so strong now Oh, you know it won't be long now Before we find our way But for now we're lost with no words to say... I will, yes I will, I will surely come to you
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My Metal Boots 04:29
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I got a brand new pair of shiny metal boots And I know my thunder-walkin' affects your mood Street strangers jumpin' outta the way It's turning to my kind of day Confusion whirls around My walking can be felt 10 miles away Vibrations keep the cameraman at bay Well you call your mama to watch the news I bang the ground like I got nothing to loose make no mistake about it ch I'm coming your way (yeah yeah yeah yeah) I'm giving chase to you in my new shoes I'm banging your way (yeah yeah yeah yeah) Feel my tremor shake your ground, shake it up Well I might splinter up these wooden floors And I can kick right through your bathroom door I'm making noise in rhythmic time and all these fractured streets are mine There's no stopping me now Ch Hey baby look out! Hey baby look out! Well I got an old pair of rusted metal boots This tired old frame might be collapsing soon There's no-one left to chase away, I wonder what I'll do today, Maybe I'll turn around...
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Why Did you Lie? 04:23
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Read in my eyes I can't talk about it Been so long it's been the same way No words are fit to describe it not that it matter's much anyway, anyhow I stood and waited at the station, anticipating you would come I had to wait in frustration, wondering where you could be I felt the ground shake under me, I heard cuffufle all around a sudden fear came over me, that felt familiar somehow Why did you lie? (lie to my face....lie to me, ) x4 When did I last hear your name outspoken or whispered in an affectionate way nothing I wouldn't share with all the passers-by done in a hard and unapologizing way, I waited many times over what it would take to give it up I must've counted all the headlights that came and when past my way another dull conversation, would briefly confiscate my mind, for just a fraction of an instant in an expanding waste of time, Why did you lie to me? Why did you lie to yourself? Why did you lie to me? Why did you lie? Checklisting every possibility More than I'd ever hope to memorize Wishing away systematically Dim reflections of tired eyes Ch
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Lost 03:11
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feel the beat that's gonna take you home feel the beat that's gonna take you home There's proverbs on the pavement slowly written in colored chalk, They're too obscure to matter to your walk. There's a peace sign up ahead, dry-rotting vinyl ground, There's flashing lights in the corner and a stacatto chirping sound. Everybody's got a story to help occupy these hours. Elaborating on the mundane is unavoidable now. This quivering impatience as the meter ticks away. This groove is unrelenting and I want to make it play. Are you temporarily incorruptible? Is there's nothing left susceptible? Are you essentially unconnectable? Are you there? It's intellectually inacceptable. Uncatatagorically unmathematical. Let your heart decode the irrational. Are you there? Feel the beat that's gonna take you home Feel the beat that's gonna take you home Feel the beat that's gonna take you home She's a new brand of chameleon in a jungle of naivete, Parading in the rush hour of exclusive company. She's a tall drink of peyote, that portabello charm, and a touch of cosmopolitan that comes from a praire farm Are you temporarily incorruptible? Is there nothing left susceptible? Are you essentially unconnectable? Are you there? Don't be emotionally de-radical'd Or distastefully unfanatical. Don't let your angst die in the practical. Are you there?
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Right Side Down 04:16
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I'm gonna take a holiday from any form of rationality and get right out of the way of my unthinking self no pretending to escape from proletariate philosophy never feeling any pain, or 'fessin' up outright ch I can't believe it's true, no no no no I can't believe it's true, no no no I can't believe it's true, that it was you who turned me around right side down Falling down Any Other Way to escape the rules of gravity I think it suffices to say it didn't go my way Perpetually moving between machines of hurrying and flattery Smiling delusions of rain and a parched embrace ch Taken for a lonely ride, waiting for a laughter-silvered way of finding an uncontaminated sky away from all the fabricated glare well there's nothing much left to say to explain the things you'd done for me I can't get out of my own way, but I need you in mine ch
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No Wonder 03:47
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I'm finding a habit of losing my blues I'm strummin' and stridin' not missin' my blues I'm shakin' and wakin' without all my blues I'm livin' like I'm not gonna lose It's like an oasis without all the blues Everything to gain and nothin' to loose Like glidin' by on a riverboat cruise I'm turnin' and burnin' out all my blues ch It's no wonder I'm in love It's no wonder I'm in love It's no wonder I'm in love It's no wonder I'm in love It's no wonder I'm in love It's no wonder I'm in love I'm turnin' and burnin' out all the blues I'm carving an epitaph of the blues I'll testify in front of you the tragedy if you can't see through the briar patches that make up the blues you will not want if that's what you choose
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Don't mean that much 05:38
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Suddenly I can see what's become of what was once held dear to me So confused, and so alone, so adrift, so berift of anywhere called home Don't mean that much to me Dont' mean that much to me anymore Fleeting trends, status quotas And lip servitude to the symbols of reform Primetime words and endless drivel Constant updates of a distant rising storm Don't mean that much to me Dont' mean that much to me anymore Brief cachet, dignity Invitations to the WTCC Celebrate without a reason Mannerisms of the fashionable elite Don't mean that much to me Dont' mean that much to me anymore no no no no no no no no no no no no no::::
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Purple 03:45
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Bruised up very well, I can't start a single conversation Vacant, chopped-up, singled-out, very still and fall down I'm wakin' out of a bad position, hearing voices still fresh in mind But I wouldn't trade a second for the melancholy days we left behind Do you know? Are you ever comin' back this way again? Do you know? Are you ever gonna get to hang around paint this town in your favorite color? Finding ways unknown to me and a potent new feeling No, I can't explain it, a door swung open now it can't be closed I'm walkin' into a situation like I don't belong under this skin Imagining a day forgetting everybody see's the hole I'm in Do you know are you ever comin' back this way again? Do you know are you ever gonna get to hang around? Do you know are you ever comin' back this way again? Do you know are you ever gonna get to hang around paint this town in your favorite color? I think I might be feeling the way I can't remember long ago Floating like I'm waitless, unconcerned with things that I don't know I spent a lot of time forgetting what to do when everything goes wrong and then I finally realize the answer's right beside me all along
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Is your child home? 04:46
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Is your child home? Is your child home? Is your child home? Is your child home? I wish I were in a place outside of the hemisphere of desperation amplified into a thousand words ch Get a life. Won't you get a life? Well the insides are hanging out to dry you know and the sun comes up and the wind did blow Did you get a life? Won't you get a life? Are you tired and bored? Or is your child home? Everyday has brought a novel enterprize to entertain Justification jubilee in tapestries of pain In another mind in the back of another eye that's yet to wed all the scenery and the walking-by of the networking classes ch Eternally you may wake unknowing anything you came here for calculations obsolete by the backward place they live
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Drive you to pieces 03:53
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Wake me when the bitter cold is over Shake me so that I know I'm still alive Remember when the days would never end and the nights would bleed into the light It's enough, it's enough It's enough to drive you to pieces It's enough, it's enough It's enough to drive you wild Too late to tell the world your sorrow You'll see the disappointment in their eyes Can't wait for a brand new tomorrow This time, it's time to get it right we'll get it right Wake me when the bitter cold is over Shake me so that I know I'm still alive Remember when the days would never end and the nights, they'd bleed into the light gonna bleed until the light
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Media Freak 05:03
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It's easier to live in the dark, It's easier to know nothing at all A camaflouge of secrets opened wide A catalogue of noises in disguise Tripping on intentions scrolling words below I think I didn't mention the useless things I know Ch Don't say, don't say another word, just to kill the time Don't take another piece out of me to color between your lines The pixilated pages that are drawn the aftermath of noise that lingers on Morbid curiosity so motionless interspaced between the emptiness Steady revelations Never taking hold Static intervention Carried out alone Ch We're just wasting time, We're just wasting time All we do is waster our time... (yeah) An apatheric eye beholds the news The frequency of chaos darkens the room Automated key-stroke habits form Inter-disconnected in technical cocoons Fearly of the silence Deftly swept away Forgotten in the stillness of an ancient holiday
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M-theory 01:44
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none/instrumental prelude only
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Marshmellow Frankenstein 04:57
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too bad you had to go away never had the time to get to know you no way, no way that I can stay now that you left me standing here all alone it's too bad, baby it's too bad, it's too bad, why did you go away from me? too late, too late for me to change by the way, I'm not who you think I am In many ways, in many ways I'm just like you I got a soft exterior and made up of spare parts it's too bad, baby it's too bad, baby it's too bad, why did you go away? too bad, baby it's too bad I wish I could've had another laugh with you ha ha ha! Yeah! many days and many nights I try to fit together all the pieces of a distant memory.... it's too bad, baby it's too bad, baby it's too bad, why did you go away? too bad, baby it's too bad I wish I could've had another laugh with you
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The Devil I Chase 05:22
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Peering through an open door I catch the look of a glaring face All these eyes are trading stares in another claustrophobic space Wandering without intent, an inattentive derilection Sneaking past sincerity, without resolve, without direction ch It's so hard, I can't take it anymore It won't go, it won't go, it's won't go away It's so hard, I keep falling to the floor It won't show, it won't show, it won't show it's face, the devil I chase... Soaked in tired sleeplessness, wasting afternoons away Unable to avoid the scorn of mirrors or the light of day Silent walls of tension break and fall apart and rise again I drive on straightened lines I find to serve the means to a crooked end But there's a bend... ch Prolific noise and restlessness rocking back and forth and down Tomorrow comes incessantly, stalking me and bearing down it never makes a sound..... ch
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Jump over the Wall 03:56
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no more waiting, no more time, no details for a grand design no deletions, no dissent no more shapes getting out-of-bent jump jump jump over the wall, keep banging out the bricks just to watch 'em fall jump/jump/jump/jump/jump/jump over the wall, sparkin' up the engine when it stalls flipped horizons, said goodbye, no more vanities to advertize no more phases of wax and wane, no degrees to shift us out of frame jump jump jump over the wall, light fire to the pistons when the motor stalls jump/jump/jump/jump/jump/jump over the wall, keep swinging at the base and watch the mortar fall watch it fall.... no more words to pull and tug... (deleted: no more tyranny of the smug) high velocity innocence wrapped in orbital resonance jump jump jump over the wall, accumulating altitude after the fall jump/jump/jump/jump/jump/jump over the wall, lighting up the blackdrop on a desert sprawl nothing certain left to find but variations in the flow of time no sense of why identified and so much wonder left to occupy jump over the wall..... jump, jump over the wall..... mesmerizon mysified, no neological diatribe i didn't fake it, could not pretend or draw a pictogram or where and when
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Crooked Mile 03:49
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Never never never never never never said I'd go that way never never never never never never said I'd look this way everytime, everytime, you look around you look around you hear a sound of me my hearts afloat upon this boat that's yet to sail to sea I would walk a mile with you I walk a crooked mile Never never never never never never said I'll walk away I never never never never never said don't look this way I would walk a mile with you I walk a crooked mile I would walk a mile I walk a crooked mile Run aground you've run your soul to sea the siren's song pulls you to me I turn around walk a crooked mile walk a mile walk a crooked mile

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the 16 track sophomore release

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released May 23, 2015

Graphic Design by James Bond, Produced by Steve Harley
Steve Harley, vocals, guitars, keyboards
James Bond, bass and loops
Gil Roy, drums and percussion
John Peer- keyboards, (wurlitzer, clav, analog synths)

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Remedy Halifax, Nova Scotia

Remedy is a Canadian Alt-funk-groove-rock trio out of Halifax. After 16 years of jamming together, the band has carved out a niche sound that blends a unique mix of rock with a deliberate rhythmic core. linktr.ee/remedymusic

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