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Filler for the Vacancies

by Dog & Wolf

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1.
Averting clarity today The smoke, it clings The whiskey paints my face The saddest look you've ever seen Dead-eyed, slack-jawed, oblivious, and green How did I become so uninteresting? Have I just defeated myself to sabotage the potential satisfaction that it could give to somebody else? I lie melting in my bed Making up the words that people never said Words that make me feel so small I know them all by name, they live outside these walls How did I become so uninteresting? Have I just defeated myself to sabotage the potential satisfaction that it could give to somebody else? Why the hell am I still awake? The sun's returned to laugh in my face
2.
Clocks I 02:18
I keep time by the lines on the coffee pot Black water recedes to burn the depths of my heart. But that won't help the shaking No, that won't help the shaking I keep the date by the plates stacked up in my room By the height of the dust that's never known a broom And that dust settles on me It grays my skin completely Yeah, the weight of the world I won't ever claim to know I'm never fond of being that bold I'm defined by the pints I drink without control By the ghosts from the end of the cigarettes I smoke And I can't say I hate this No, I can't say I hate this Yeah, the weight of the world I won't ever claim to know I'm never fond of being that bold
3.
Your biting words, the bare such teeth They rip the flesh clean, they rip the flesh clean How much can they eat? Because I've got nothing left to offer up inside me So here's the trade-off: You will be right I'll be unhappy Just like you like me Doesn't it feel good, what we've got going on? Isn't it so satisfying dragging me along? What have I done wrong? Can I even make it right? Here we go again, let's kill tonight Sideways eyes stare, they pierce straight through me I feel them tear me up to nothing How deep can they see? There are holes inside my chest And I can't stop the bleeding So here's the trade-off: You will be right I'll be unhappy Just like you like me Doesn't it feel good, what we've got going on? Isn't it so satisfying dragging me along? What have I done wrong? Can I even make it right? Here we go again, let's kill tonight
4.
The city's overcome by a freezing, cold wind That cuts through all my layers as it pierces through my skin As I walk down the street, kicking leaves up with my feet And wonder where it is I'm supposed to be I watch the waves crashing hard into the rocks As if pushing this great city to the side The boats out on the lake, my god how they did shake Fighting off the strong freshwater tide Listen to the wind howling through the trees Now listen to my voice, it's the same thing The gravel in my throat is like an overdriven road That takes me on my way, oh so slowly It's slowly to nowhere for me Standing in the rain, I watched your taillights pull away Crying hard from red and yellow bulbs But my eyes, they stayed dry under that gray and sobbing sky As the thunder and the lightning raged inside Bitter and alone, shaking, wet, and cold I couldn't help but think about that tide The whitecaps on the waves The wind ripping through the sails Trying hard to push it all aside Listen to the wind howling through the trees Now listen to my voice, it's the same thing The gravel in my throat is like an overdriven road That takes me on my way, oh so slowly It's slowly to nowhere for me I long for brick and urban street To light the ground and guide my feet To block the stars Remind me that there's more than wishful thinking Listen to the wind howling through the trees Now listen to my voice, it's the same thing The gravel in my throat is like an overdriven road That takes me on my way, oh so slowly It's slowly to nowhere for me
5.
You revisit an old picture like it was a grave Your alcohol-soaked lips, they kiss the open wound you've saved Now and again that's okay, but I know it's not right To do this to yourself every night You keep on like you think nothing has changed You're holding on to all those that you have been estranged from Even though they're gone And the ghosts that you see, well they're flesh like you and me So, tell me, what makes you so afraid? And the voices in your ears, the words you hear so clear Only exist miles away And they're not speaking to you anyway You keep on like you think nothing has changed You're holding on to all those that you have been estranged from Even though they're gone
6.
Hell-Bent 03:32
Here he comes again My faithful shadowed friend Hell-bent on pulling my strings and tearing me apart Mixing signals in my head When I feel like my friends are out to get me I know it's just his whisper in my ear But he wraps himself so convincingly in their voices It's all I hear So I stand silent and watch it all burn in front of me While he towers behind me and he gets to celebrating Well, he laughs and sings, and laughs and sings Projected on the wall "I've won, you lose" He calls Here I go again Been listening to my friend I'm hell-bent on pulling it together and getting a new start But he knows he'll always win When I feel like my friends are out to get me I know it's just his whisper in my ear But he wraps himself so convincingly in their voices It's all I hear So I stand silent and watch it all burn in front of me While he towers behind me and he gets to celebrating Well, he laughs and sings, and laughs and sings Projected on the wall "I've won, you lose" He calls
7.
There's a light I never noticed It shines from the blackness of a cave As I walk deeper, it twists and turns the way Leads me in far enough to ensure that I will stay I will wither to nothing I will atrophy and fade Before you know it I will disappear To be a memory, a ghost, remains Spiral, spiral down like a screw into the wood Wedge yourself securely, deeper than you know you should There's a certain kind of comfort in digging yourself in To bury yourself to the chin
8.
Clocks II 02:49
A heavy fog hangs low over roads unfamiliar to me I'm racing a rental car home to a friend I barely see And though time passes, I move slow like molasses Wheels spinning, but gaining no speed A wicked game, the ill-tempered clock plays It races ahead of me to make sure behind it I stay One hundred and fifty miles east of Chicago and Indiana's making me sick Is it the water treatment plants or the factories? Take your pick And though time passes, I move slow like molasses Wheels spinning, but gaining no speed A wicked game, the ill-tempered clock plays It races ahead of me to make sure behind it I stay
9.
Is this happiness or complacency? And will time really tell? I barrel forward with the things I think I know loaded in a hollow shell My plastic heart is melting down my spine Fueled by the burn I call my appetite And it takes a moment for you to realize All the comfort that these patterns bring When your routine holds your hand along the way Don't you know you're never really free? I write filler for the vacancies In the stories that I tell I pump nostalgia into every other word Just to make it seem heartfelt My plastic heart is melting down my spine Fueled by the burn I call my appetite And it takes a moment for you to realize All the comfort that these patterns bring When your routine holds your hand along the way Don't you know you're never fucking free?
10.
The rusted spine of the L Its ribs are planted in the ground The trains are signals Electrical, inbound This nervous system can't calm down It calls to me to just let go Bleary eyes under a skeleton I am rattled from dangerous dreams This world is fabric, I'm the seam I embrace the isolation The cathartic clicking of the tracks Seem to fit my thoughts together Leave wondering why I ever look back The sun, it burns through steel and stone To bleach this city's sleeping bones And all its lights are rendered useless for now They bleed in, I breath out I embrace the isolation The cathartic clicking of the tracks Seem to fit my thoughts together Leave wondering why I ever look back

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released October 11, 2015

All songs written and performed by Dog & Wolf

Dog & Wolf is:

Kyle Geib - Guitar, Vocals
Dan Tinkler - Drums
Nick Arvanitis - Bass, Vocals

Recorded and mixed by Matt Jordan at Atlas Studios in Chicago, IL
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room Mastering in Chicago, IL

Dog & Wolf would like to thank our loving families, incredibly supportive friends, the folks that played a hand in the creation of this record (including Tim Browne and Joe Henderer for their gangbang vocals on "The Potential Satisfaction"), and the Chicago music scene for making all of this just the fucking best.

Artwork by Ryan Tippery (www.ryantippery.com)

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