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South of the Mountain

by Bears and Company

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Jacob Curry
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Jacob Curry This album represents a fairly stripped back (thus unique) form of the brief, fairly undefined period of 2009-2013 "progressive indie rock" (a la From Indian Lakes, HRVRD, Polyenso, Mew). The expressive dual lead vocals and noodling guitar lines are showcased most clearly in the expansive bridges found in the album's heaviest hitters (We Were Brothers, Occurrence in the Wildwood). The only downside is that the follow up has taken over 6 years to materialize. This record is an unknown classic. Favorite track: Return of the Hunters.
Ryan Harrigan
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Ryan Harrigan A friend of mine put me on to these guys, and I really like their sound. I love the rock feel mixed in with the indie background. Favorite track: Susannah and the Elders.
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1.
Have I always been what I am today? When I fly above your heads, and let the dark slip from my mouth Cause it's never enough, to say that I've changed If I were a human, I am a monster, the action the slaughter Everyone, everything, I've loved is dead and gone I'm so scared What have I done? I'm losing everything But there's nothing to fear I'll take you inside, and we'll grab the end by the throat and make it ours I've been dreaming about this Have I told you? I am the storm, that carried the sea, the reason you lost, everything Everyone, everything, I've loved is dead and gone I'm so scared What have I done? I'm losing everything Everyone, Everything I've loved has left and gone So keep your hands tied What have I done? This is as bad as it gets I'm lying to lose the noise in my head Saying words I've tried so hard to hold I've lost control To hold you down It's obvious what I am They tore my limbs off one by one I was too ashamed to speak your name This weight I bare, is too much to take Will I ever be the same?
2.
I came from the coast Holding in the fire Bestowed in constant hollow bones My brother sleep I know every move you make I’ve come to take you home I'm barefoot running through the trees Not letting you beside me I'm bleeding through these walls you built for me I found out where I'm suppose to be Settle the current It’s not any truth to claim the name you bare Somewhere below the roots I will not rest where the dead men go I won’t claim defeat Not to the hangman nor the beast (We were made for this; our blood blended, to craft the mountain, To give back what God had paid.) I'm barefoot running through the trees Not letting you beside me I'm bleeding through these walls you built for me I found out where I'm suppose to be I watch as you cave in, as you cave in (I could never stunt that path, crafting out a single plan Scraping through the dirt, giving all I had in worth Plains were changed in endless youth But not a brother, not to you Far from blood, I ever proved Far from blood, I ever proved)
3.
You said it's fine to leave You said it's the way it's supposed to be But why am I still sinking? How you felt back there, I'll never see the picture you kept of me A steady hand drawn perfectly align But let this soak in Let the words haunt all your living steps You empty vessel We start it off In separate marks You swore to me that we would spark the end of times the end of days Hey let's go Susannah they're coming for you You know Just what you have done and you've done it now Could it be you? That you're the one to blame for everything Creasing the faith I had cemented in my faulty life Our delicate crux How much more time? Can you keep this act up? Is being human ever enough? Am I enough? I'm not enough Are we competent? Hey let's go Susannah they're coming for you You know Just what you have done and you've done it now Lost in time and all alone Desolate, your art has grown Armed and ready to explode Oh no Everything you said All those words you held Never kept me warm Never made this easy Hey let's go Susannah they're coming for you You know Just what you have done and you've done it now
4.
I watched the shore wash you away Can you believe in this tide? Did you see this coming? Such a violent blue Your father spoke many words Tore me open inside Scream to the skies It won't change a thing I fear the coming coast With lonesome heads, alone I can't come back I can't come back I used to hold such gold I used to hold such pride Gave it to the gods In hopes they would save me A shipless sailor is silent In hopes of finding home Cause nothing's worse than leaving Then never leaving at all I fear the coming coast With lonesome heads, alone I can't come back I can't come back I stay close, This ghost, my haunting It's so hard to keep you My heart, how it's fading The sea calls me home Oh what a leader to take my life from me Everything you love will someday fade I will curse this ocean on your family name I won't forget you, I won't forget a thing
5.
Keep closed that mouth of yours ghost still spill from your teeth Wait out the morning and see what you mean to me It's just so hard to hold a simple truth when your heart is young So keep me under wraps, and save your talk for them to see Let them see I'm sick and tired of So sick and tired of the wrong side The wrong side of this mess we're in Don't let them tear your skin I'll cave just give me time to expand my arms it's a reach But what will become of us if we lay and wait for too long My god what happened to me? Give me back who I use to be Punch drunk and scared to death How did I get here? I can't see I'm sick and tired of So sick and tired of the wrong side The wrong side of this mess we're in So let go Let go So just let go Of all the weight Don't let it get in your head Don't let take the world you made to trick yourself that this would ever be okay Don't let it get inside Don't let cut the strings that hold the truth and love you could never seem to find It's so hard to find On the bright side The heavens shed the light that you need Never letting you stray away Every word is soaked on the inside
6.
I pull and peel the skin I let you right in I've been talking to myself and Resolving the problems I found Buried in myself Buried in my bones I had to stay in line When I saw the water trail lead me to The lake where your body was drowned Your face full of beauty And loss of life Was a first sight for me It Was a first Don't give me death give me life I saw the sky collapse and crawl through your eyes It never held together in such demise It's a sad fleet empty handed in need The blood kept circulating But you kept on fading All through the night And your hands were cold and your eyes were as warm as the sun As the sun You let it go The world we knew and loved Don't give me death give me life I saw the sky collapse and crawl through your eyes It never held together in such demise It's a sad fleet empty handed in need You let it go The world we knew and loved now You let it go The hands that crafted you now
7.
Mind Gone Seven states is just enough to kill All our plans and the things we held Detach ourselves and make this hell But I keep taking and taking and taking and take Oh god I've held on for far too long Unintentional breaks that make Things so rough But I keep taking and taking and take And It's hard not to change It’s my home, not this place I chose you, not this pain It's not me But I still love you All the weight in the world Can't keep me still I'll dismantle everything I'll make the cites touch the ocean, if I have too And it's hard not to change It’s my home, not this place I chose you, not this pain It's not me But I still love you Cause I can't see to your leave It was never okay I won't let this change Just wait It's hard not to change I chose you not this pain My home is not this place Home
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My brothers I’ve failed you I’ve strayed from the path Gave up my heart for another’s skin My dear wolves take my flesh for warmth, it has no use for me now Take in this air, the mountainside has spoken Leaving the earth and river to die Under this lifelessness there’s something more Something I swear raging deep inside I can see that everything has changed Betrayal and lustful eyes Cave in the core tear me open from the inside All that I’ve lost in false hopes for gain The man I was once and the man I became Letting this out Hold me from the inside Wish I could change and I wish it was me I'm scared for my heart cause it's scared for me When I crawled up your stairs I remember it vividly A conscious thief of what I use to be and a world of words I never wanted to leave And if I took it back I would never know the cost We were brothers before my hands And I'm sorry that I took my share And I'm sorry that I never cared enough But maybe this was meant to be
10.
Moskstraumen 05:20
Another path marked off Another step to take to make it out of this mess I find it hard to be The man that I was set out to be Hidden south of the mountain I see that it's all wrong I see that it's all wrong I can hear the trumpets sound As I replace the words I once sang out of my mouth But the trees have fled and died Leaving for the white to guide me home I see that's it's all wrong I see that it's all wrong I refuse to stay in between I am not a current disrupting the sea I am not the separation of you and me Just lift your head Just stay alive I am not a current disrupting the sea I am not the separation of you and me What a better to hate To hate a man for all he has, for all he has to give to you But I don't care if I, if I see the light, if I see the light I'll just close my eyes I am a spitting image of what I’ve always feared A tattered tone marked a milestone this year And If I were to become a foreign room I'd only wish to have something real to hold onto I'd hope you know, I’d hope you know This change is permanent, a new form to remain unmoved

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released April 28, 2013

Allan Latini - Drums and Percussion
Logan Tyler - Vocals and Bass Guitar
Alexander McClain - Guitar and Vocals
Zachariah Knoll - Guitar


Produced by Aaron Crawford and Bears and Company
Engineered and mixed by Aaron Crawford
Mastered by Chris Athens
All songs written, arranged and performed by Bears and Company
Lyrics by Alexander McClain and Logan Tyler
Recorded at Black Lodge Recording in Eudora, KS and Ressistance Recording in Parkville, MO

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