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MINIVAN

by Gray Clouds

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Your brother's dirty basement apartment's Where we found that dirty stash Hidden in the ceiling Gave me that dirty feeling And in the car we threw it out Like streamers on New Year's Eve There's no rewind You can't unfind Saw all that there was to see Your brother never mentioned Anything he thought we might've stole It wasn't hard to find it Where he tried to hide it The evidence is long destroyed No one would ever believe it anyway What can I say Saw all that there was to see
3.
She painted shadows On the reflection of her eyes They're open wide But mine are on the road And that's how I learned to drive From the passenger side And I won't let go Who was in control Get me outa here Far away She wrote a message In red lipstick before she left him behind She hit the gas He grabbed the hood and he held on fast To the passenger side And he won't let go Who was in control Get me outa here Far away
4.
You sleep in separate beds On separate sides of town Your kids are lonesome planets That rotate around Taking their turns In the attic of your house Storing some shit before they throw it out It's piling up There's no room to walk Tell me how much of my life Can fit in a fucking box The couch it folded flat In between careers It hasn't folded back now for so many years Just changing hands More often than the sheets Changing me You know how fish don't grow larger than their tanks Well I feel that way too Doomed to never outgrow this bedroom
5.
All Grown Up 02:21
Sorry man I can't go to the show You go ahead, and I'll stay in with my girl Keep her company I used to hang with my friends and be out all night But shit's getting real, and I gotta do what's right She's five months pregnant, I'm five months sober I don't know how I'm gonna make it through October But that's what you do when you're all grown up And I'm all grown up Make all my plans in advance and do what I can Maybe even trade that old car for a minivan What were my goals? I don't even remember Seems like I blinked and it's already December Spent a lot of time thinking about What it was like when I was growing up Now I get to share it with someone new And I'm glad I get to share it with you Cause that's what you do when you're all grown up And I'm all grown up
6.
Rad Summer 04:34
There they go Another pointless late night argument Fueled by drugs These weekends feel like they will never end Billy's on the couch Hangin' with suburban teenage nervous wrecks He's old and burnt He used the toaster to light his cigarettes Something better will come along I guess And if it doesn't we'll just pretend We've done nothing here that we'll regret What a rad summer The bitch next door You know she calls the cops like almost every night They're gone again By this time it's already turned daylight The party's out If they haven't left than they're heading for the door This shit I smoked Has got me sideways I can't get off the floor Stay with me tonight on the floor Sleep til 2 again so what Shift don't start til 4 Stuck in this unending haze Feels like eternity I'll give it all up soon I swear Let me keep this memory
7.
Peeking through a pile of screens And old computers from the 80's There's a creep in khaki pants Buried in mountains of junk Soldering and smoking hundreds Scaring customers away He's turned himself into a prop Buried in all of his junk Buried all alone Being next door I'd stop in I should've realized he was crazy He stopped paying all his bills One by one They shut off utilities First he's cracking jokes and bumming cigarettes And next thing he ain't leavin He used to stay for an hour or so But now he's hangin round until the evening Guess he's got no place to go The lights are out Apartment's just for sleeping The wagon came took him away Expenses paid padded vacation Guess that's just where he belongs But what'll they do with his junk And who'll care when he's gone
8.
Nylon 02:15
I pull away At the black sheer And it splits apart the night sky When the lightning strikes Thin pieces of you Come to the surface And you smile so warm As I destroy it for enjoyment Well it's morning now As you stare me down Middle of the street We repeat that goodbye And you wait For something more than I give But there won't be more than this
9.
I'm sorry for pushing you off the couch And all the blood you lost that night Don't believe I ever got the apology right Like a dream it was all coming back to me It's so late all this is freakin' me out Hypnotized and snowblind It's all I can think about So here we are Back in the E.R. What you wanna do When they're through with you The needle pulled you all back together I watched it like a work of art Wondering how we could have ever grown so far apart Grab your things you can crash back at my place Morning I can drive you home I don't mind You'd do the same for me
10.
Every word you said Is weighing down my head Staring out beyond the loading docks There's an empty lot and a pile of rocks And I'm wondering how it came to be there What was it before it was leveled and obscured One column stands among the debris Like a middle finger pointed at me And I'm pacing round to keep from screamin' I'm outside waiting for you Trying to make sense of this whole mess Words weigh heavy like a pile of rocks Buried in them wondering if it ever stops But it won't Well things could be so much worse In the center of the universe at least it all revolves around us Im outside waiting for you Grab the keys and take me home

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released April 28, 2017

Gray Clouds is:

Jimmy Poirier - lead vocals, guitars
Jack Farley - backing/harmony vocals, guitars
Ben Murphy - drums

Engineered and mixed by Daryl Rabidoux
at Radar Studio in Clinton, CT
and Jam Stage Live Studio in Pawtucket, RI
Mastered by Mike Viele
at Axion Media Lab in Pawtucket, RI

Bass by Pat A.
except on track 7 by Jack
Keyboard on tracks 1, 4, and 9 by Jimmy
Drum programming on track 9 by Jimmy
Lap Steel on track 5 by Dennis Kelly
Violin on tracks 6 and 8 by Spencer Swain
Guest vocal on track 8 by Shannon LeCorre
Artwork by Jimmy

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Gray Clouds Providence, Rhode Island

A time capsule of our youth, a mixtape full of memories recovered from a ’93 Plymouth Voyager.

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