It All Falls Apart - EP

by Andy Nye & Russell Wagoner

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1.
Lessons For Libertines 03:42
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The day I looked into your eyes And saw a sunburst through the clouds Though we were trapped on that desert island Through my thirst I laughed aloud And when you grabbed a cigarette From my nearly empty pack And I brushed your sunburned gold hands I almost had a heart attack So I sing for you my love And when the sun goes down to eat We will escape this wretched heat So I sing for you my love When we’re dancing hand in hand And leaving footprints in the sand And if my fingers turn to salt When they come to kiss your skin And if my mouth dries when you’re in my tent I’m just hearing violins Playing symphonies of old And Rosicrucian melodies That flutter to and fro on boiling oceans And drag me deep undersea So I sing for you my love And when the sun goes down to eat We will escape this wretched heat So I sing for you my love When we’re dancing hand in hand And leaving footprints in the sand My amnesia’s growing thin And my hair is set askew And I’ve been sweating for fourteen hours Since I’ve been away from you So I sing for you my love And when the sun goes down to eat We will escape this wretched heat So I sing for you my love When we’re dancing hand in hand And leaving footprints in the sand
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The Great American Overdose 03:46
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I am starting to ache And everybody’s known to make mistakes It’s five A.M. a quiet Saturday And I can’t sleep Why must I always be Separated from my fantasies I’m walking on a tight piano string This humid night And I am haunted by the ghosts of ex-lovers I could travel in my head If only all my senses had not fled To New York, L.A., San Francisco Bay And maybe sleep But the singing in my ears Helps allay my pains and deepest fears While staring at the ceiling of my room With sleepless eyes And I hate every living thing on this planet All that I am and all that I do And everything between reminds me of you All that I was and all I want to be Is waiting for you to touch lips with me I cannot hear and I cannot see Branches and tree trunks and roots and our leaves I cannot think and I cannot breathe Branches and tree trunks and roots and our leaves
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Valium 05:53
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Valium I had a mind before I was inclined To beat your drum And sleep away the day Valium Once I was king with jewels and gaudy things Now I’ve become A vulture dressed in rags And all I am is just a broken man And all I do is just to come closer to you Valium Little white pills that nullify the chills That play and run All up and down my spine Valium I was a fool with feet in Istanbul And planes and guns Have all but disappeared And all I am is just a simple man And all I do is just to come closer to you With my charmed life caught in outright Ecstasy With my charmed life caught in outright Ecstasy And all I am is just a subtle man And all I do is just to come closer to you With my charmed life caught in outright Ecstasy With my charmed life caught in outright Ecstasy
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Molemen Don't Devour Pretty Ladies 04:22
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5.
Surrealist Love Song 03:01
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I had a drifting contemplation That I may touch my lips to yours And sink in waves of buoyant satin That knocked the hinges off your door We are but astronauts in motion Floating conduits of soul That stray past grand hallucinations And take back everything they stole And maybe I’ve been pistol-whipped By far too many tongues and hips To know what is right And maybe I’ve been here before I stood this ground and fought this war To win my love in white I know that tyrants couldn’t tame you I tried and failed to perforate And I will magnify your cloudburst ‘Til we collapse beneath the weight

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My debut EP, recorded in tandem with the remarkably talented voice of Russell Wagoner, demonstrates in part the empty terror that is existential nihilism; it is the epitome of the anti-solipsistic numbness that accompanies the realization of the enormity of the universe and the abrogating minuteness of the individual soul. "It All Falls Apart" was born out of the immutable fear that the vastness of the world could, at any unannounced moment, envelop, crush, and irreparably destroy the life of a thinking, breathing being--a fear that pervades the human experience and, in no small sense, defines it.

Though the thought is a morbid one, it nonetheless can provide a glimmer of hope for those who seek it. While the universe is monstrous and pallid, the personal universe is not; we are defined by our relationships with one another in the tiny concentric circles of friends and family we form as a shell around us. In the midst of six billion humans on this planet--and probably vastly greater numbers of sentient beings spread throughout the cosmos as well--the individual seems microscopically insignificant. But to the fraction of the population that turns their attention to the life and times of another, the individual truly is not. Hell is other people; but, paradoxically, heaven is other people too. Others can lift us to the highest levels of pleasure, and we can each do the same for someone else. Kierkegaard said, "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." That crippling, fearful, existential angst that one discovers in the pit of their stomach is, with little metaphor, the first step towards true, unfettered liberty and equally the first step towards a nearly psychotic reverence for human life.

This EP attempts, in its own feeble way, to encompass that sentiment. Written in a period of especially turbulent times for me, it is a cross-section of loss, addiction, and depression; equally, however, it is a story of budding love, personal revelation, and rebirth. "It All Falls Apart" is an apt title--for when it all falls apart, there is nothing left to do but pick up the pieces. And pick them up I shall.

A special thanks to Russell Wagoner for his fantastic vocal performance, Taylor Nelms for the countless hours he spent engineering and mastering each track, Amanda Thompson for inspiration, and Nathan Neeley and Colleen Beagen for exceptional moral support.

As it is, my friends, as it is.

--Andy

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released January 27, 2012

Andy Nye - Guitars, Lyrics & Music
Russell Wagoner - Vocals
Taylor Nelms - Production
Nathan Neeley - Kickassery
Colleen Beagen - Not Getting In The Way Too Much

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