Twilight of the Empire

by The Local Trust

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    Recorded @ studio 3D, Brooklyn
    Produced by the local trust
    Mastered by Alan Douches @ West West Side
    Album Art by Mark McCormick

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released 22 June 2010
JJ Grob - gtrs, bass & words
Jed Crocker - beats, synths, & samples*

*all samples used with the best intentions
(please don't sue us)

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Track Name: grape & the vine
rise up rise up
your iron's in the fire
he was once
a trusted man
loan shark and liar
your grace time expired
best leave this town
don't want to see your face
around here again


And it was right
left
death before dishonor
the blade it forged for the blood
of the sworn enemy
and who left stand
at the end of the battle
he'd hold the pen
and write the history
I've seen better times than these


me and my friends
still here treading water
hours since
the storm waters recede
in the event
the tides they turn and
the levees break
and swept
the city out to sea
and I seen better times than these


pounded out
on
hammer and anvil
pulled from the fire
glowing white hot in the night
and all the while
the battle still raging
winter comes
as the autumn leaves
the hour nears
we must retreat and
even then
all of the talk it was cheap
I seen better times than these
oh such better times
Track Name: April in the meantime
call in all the neighbors
and waive your checkered flag
cause I don't want no surrender
while you're engaged to someone else

and we tide on through
the cold cold winter nights
everything left between us
but the scraps of the finer life

April in the meantime
I have been with someone else
hadn't time to stop and think about you
how you put me there upon your shelf

I since often stopped and wondered
in the valley of the day
if I'd make all the mistakes I made
if I had it to live once again

April in the meantime
I have basic needs of mine
but you were always so good at
picking out all my flaws

had you the grace & swagger
of the stars of the classic movies
but you were such a bad actress
yet you were oh so pretty to please

and April in the meantime
I would do it all again
if I'd only just another
if I'd only another chance
Track Name: twilight of the empire
hearts and minds
the twilight of the empire
mothers tuck your children
sayin it'll all be alright
when day comes
and we'll drift off to heaven
salvation horizon
guess we'll just take it as it comes

the car broke down
there wasn't a sound
we hitched our way
back to town

this one horse
and there's no free rides
see the cracked foundation
and the chamber which presides
days and nights
over the wire then
out of sight
lit the fires still burning
way out on
behind those city lights

we'd set out
to burn it down
in the aftermath
no one made a sound
Track Name: shadows on the wall
pleased to meet you
or so we'd pretend
we were always so good at that
and we're breaking right there at the bend
the curve is up ahead

well your love was always the taking kind
I'd pace the halls at night
disbelieiving the angel in my bed
I'd do your favors in kind
our kind
we're so unkind

Are you leaving
have you had enough
the damage surveyed yet
and the breeze it blows out the candle light
casting shadows on my wall

guess there's nothing really left to say
had you bothered to slow down
another trip it take around the sun
beaten, battered & bogged down
and where we heave
and beat on our barreled chests
the underdog it's overdone

And I'll be leaving
out on a westbound train
these walls they're closin' in
and leave me all of your melody
I'd bathed it all in sin
I still have the photographs where I
the ones where we pretend
but the hour glass turned yet again
draw that line in the sand

the sand blew in my eyes
Track Name: all the pieces matter
quell the riots, tie the ropes
with knots we'd be bound forever
we're all entwined
the wreckage of
the crash and burn
out on highway 61
we left them there
their dreams still breaking
the hearts of someone
my girl she left late last night
on the bus

And it's downstairs
carry your armor I'm the lucky one
you had always been so sweet
baptized in your mother's arms
and I, we the children of
hold them tight
it was on the tip of my tongue

and it holds me back
holding on
she's still weeping for
another man, she craves his touch
the comfort of
forbidden love
and I'm happy you left me then
though at the time you see I was hell bent
I don't want to go back home
there's no place for me there
there never was somehow

and the time
the generation gaps
we'd slip through the cracks
in time
spin the carousel
to banish hearts
before they'd come collecting

and over time
we'd overjoy their minds
I'd seen you making a fuss
for some others
strangers all
gentlemen
sons & fathers

your love
I'd seen you there
standing by
you hadn't a care before I'd come
operating from a respirator
no you were wrong
every time I'm off my medicine
please believe me there'll be consequences
where you been
I'll need a tall glass
and some ice cubes
to drink away my past

holding it back
we could be for a time
holding it back
half out of our ...