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Ground Aswim

by sinai vessel

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laurenthomsn
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laurenthomsn always flirting with perminent residence. Favorite track: Guest In Your Life.
Mark Mason
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Mark Mason beautiful. this dude loves to fuck me up. Favorite track: Ringing.
Tory
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Tory This album unexpectedly appeared in my life and I loved it instantly. All the songs flow so well together; I especially love the chunk between Fragile and Guest in Your Life. Fragile and Antechamber are my overall favorites. Thank you! Can't wait to eventually see this performed live. Favorite track: Fragile.
Caleb Wallace
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Caleb Wallace A cold November a couple years back, Caleb of Sinai Vessel performed at a house show hosted by Dylan of Townsel Turner. He played most of the set on a bass through a practice amp. It was the most intimate set of which I’ve had the pleasure of being an audience member. A number of these songs were played that night and the production crew couldn’t have better captured on record the raw talent and emotion Caleb is capable of turning into sound. Favorite track: Tunneling.
Brandon Lewis
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Brandon Lewis You've managed to release exactly the album I needed at exactly the right time. Both transcendent and deeply personal, this is a work I'll be listening to for years to come. Favorite track: All Days Just End.
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Nick Green We were always flirting with permanent residence.....
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1.
for the better part of a year i thought i saw you around never met anyone who’d left our little town so i couldn’t figure where you’d gone to if you weren’t with us now and it’s still insane to me that we passed that very scene and didn’t notice anything save for two yellow flip-flops in the middle of the street it was greenville boulevard in the back of some friend’s parents’ car coming back from the skatepark we passed right by and i didn’t know and i wouldn’t know until the next day when i walked into school and noticed every face was swollen and tear-stained and i asked, “where did you go?” where did you go? where did you go? your seat sits empty / where did you go? where did you go? where did you go? it makes no sense to me / where did you go?
2.
Shameplant 03:36
well, i love you with every part of me save for the part of me that does not it's the part of me that's always wondering what else i could get for what i've got when the one i have is in front of me and she's wondering where i've gone 'cos she can always tell when i meet her eyes and when i'm looking just beyond i could love you with every part of me but there's a part of me that's been taught that there's no consequence when i'm not all in someone else is gonna pay pay that cost every chorus of my youth was a plea for surgery a cry for gods to come cut out what could be got by only me but i can't age right into goodness can't stumble into change can't expect to grow a garden and depend on only rain i have to get down in the earth of it in an embarrassment of weeds have to be in touching distance where the shameplant the shameplant folds its leaves but it's one thing to act on and another to just believe
3.
feather of a pheasant crusts the corners of my mouth ask for a kiss as i’m leaving could not have sped me quicker to get out saw that it’s a must while i’m so near i can trust myself with this saw what was available to me and i framed it as a gift i try to keeping it even plot points on both sides of the line i write a “trust in jesus” on the wall then i call the number for a good time as if my life can be measured in indulgences i deserve a pile of good reasons is so easy to conjure saw that it’s a must while i’m so near i can trust myself with this saw what was available to me and i claimed it as a gift saw what was a must while i’m so near so i ate ’til i was sick if ever i left you hungry, i never noticed it
4.
Fragile 03:22
fragile scraping out a living scraping out lines in your legs said you were planning on leaving if you didn’t find a reason to stay i got one call then i got five more you were hysterical and speaking in tongues you said what had happened to you couldn’t believe it so you said it again and again, and again— it’s too much it’s too much it’s too much to fit in my head is it in me? is it in you? what can we do after all that’s been done?
5.
George 04:45
george and i have spoken so many times but he was hardly ever present when i play each scene back in my mind ‘cos i played both our characters, i wrote all our lines but i remember every word he said and i’m gonna make him answer for every one of them george is protesting now — i say, “of course you are! i need no more evidence what i thought you would do is exactly what you just now did i laid out the future and you walked right into it and there’s no need to even hear defense ‘cos i’ve measured out a case for neglect" i put on dark clothes i stood far from your windows i counted hours alone while you were asleep i waited out in the cold i left when the cock crowed i never knocked, though your door was open to me it was open to me but now friend george has had enough and he’s finally locked his gates so with no frame left to project on i hire strangers in his place and against their blank expressions i come to face to face with the shrapnel buried in my side that is twisting whenever i’m passed by where some part of me was pushed away when it needed a soft embrace so from then on until today i’m a live wire and though the contact might be incidental and oh so slight at the faintest touch i i see fire i see fire george will you forgive me? though i’ve made you so tired and every chance you gave i’ve given up and your patience is expired i’ve known that i hurt you but now i think i might know why and believe i could do well by the space for one more try would you give me one more try?
6.
Birdseye 03:07
stuck up on the ceiling chewing on on a candied noose got my throat in a bind but my feet are hanging loose should’ve kept that old chair wobbling under me could’ve been caught in the act and i’d been just as pleased do i want to be known or to be overwith? do i want to be known or to be overwith? do i want to be known? stuck up on the ceiling counting house with a birdseye view maybe the best party in my life is one i’ve invited myself to ‘cos i’m reading for confirmation i’m tallying empty seats i am listening intently to what’s in it for me do i want to be known or to be overwith? do i want to be known or to be overwith? did i want to be known to be overwith? now i’m overwith
7.
if i was a guest in your life i would likely understand we were always flirting with permanent residence but bringing in a shirt or two is hardly moving in besides, I always took them with me whenever I went but before I'd leave i'd take your hand and say your name and you'd press your cheek to it and do the same what a strangely different story this became and so quiet in your hallway when we part ways if i was a guest in your life i would have to understand it was never much our style to make many demands the relay would only go on so long as each runner ran wherever one chose to quit it that's where the torch would land and there it smolders in the sand our little flame we ran so far for it it's such a shame what a strangely different story this became and so strangely simple when we part ways
8.
Ringing 04:06
there’s a ringing in my ears that never goes away it reminds me in all silence that anything can break break beyond being replaced beyond repair by being explained everything was supposed to work perfect on from the first day but i can’t speak to half the planet i can’t even say my name or make any exchange i cannot give you anything i smile, i nod, i wave they say they found a skull without a scalp some three hundred thousand years ago but we are still here now. we are still here now and i lean upon this mystery and make a solemn vow: you will not raise your hands to me, i will not mine to you. we will not speed delivery of the end we’re coming to you will not raise your hands to me i will not mine to you. though murder is our history, it’s only half the truth
9.
i’m working i’m waking up before i get enough sleep to get the job done the early light reminds me of something you said: if i do nothing with my time all days just end gets hard to recognize it to know it’s real the hoops that i jump through just not to feel the weight of making each day deserve the setting sun the weight of making my whole life happen at once locked in a groove, every lap the same sound deeper every time around ... no motion sweeps you up anymore no comfort’s gonna pool automatic on your front porch or by luck lay in your bed or stand between where you are and where you have to begin again the waning light reminds me of something you said if i’ve done nothing with my time all days just
10.
Tunneling 05:59
who do i talk to when i’d like to give up? in what ground do i bury that seed? that makes no mention at the surface of what’s buried right beneath tunneling in all directions leaving a trail of cavities as i glide my hand along the wall in the well i’m falling down as the roof caves in above me now i take a quiet look around i bleed a little longer, i bleed a little longer i bleed a little longer ‘fore i lay the bandage down darkness temporary becomes darkness permanent when its ingredients are never stirred and all its air compressed, so i’ll make a plan, make a plan to let it from its hiding place wrap it tightly in a concept to let it see the light of day as i glide my hand along the wall in the well i’m falling down as the roof caves in above me now i take a quiet look around i bleed a little longer, i bleed a little longer i bleed a little longer ‘fore i lay the bandage down listen, caleb, listen please listen to me this is no way to live, man — this isn’t healthy. you are under an exhaustion that is common to us all and you’re doubling the pressure by assuming it’s your fault. if you don’t make a sound, it’s just ringing in your room don’t miss your body for its wounds. as you glide your hand along the wall in the well you’re falling down as the roof caves in above you now you take a quiet look around if you bleed any longer if you bleed any longer if you bleed any longer you just might bleed out
11.
Antechamber 06:07
if i was wrong, i’d rather just go dark tonight take some side exit out rather than reach the end to find that all i thought there was to read between each and every line was a loop returning to itself and useless by design where i’d land in the antechamber right outside your door why’d you let it get that far? what’d you do it for? it’s all washed away. if i was wrong i’d rather it’d have been a dream than to have to sort back through the story and be forced to learn anything i’d rather wake inside the mercy of the morning’s news to me that i’m free of whatever sentence was handed down to me in sleep where i’d land in the antechamber right outside your door why’d you let it get that far? what’d you do it for? it’s all washed away. there’s no antechamber there’s no god-damn door. why’d i let it get that far? what’d i do that for? it’s all washed away.

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released October 30, 2020

Produced by Tommy Read
Co-produced by Jarrod Gee and Bennett Littlejohn
Engineered by Tommy Read, Jarrod Gee and Bennett Littlejohn
Mixed by Bennett Littlejohn
Mastered by Edsel Holden

Recorded live in Silsbee, TX at Lazybones Audio in August 2019
Overdubs recorded in Chattanooga, TN in September / October 2019
+ in Nashville, TN in February 2020

Vocals, guitars, and piano performed by Caleb Cordes
Drums and percussion performed by Andrew Stevens
Bass performed by Jarrod Gee
Synths performed by Cordes / Gee / Littlejohn
Slide guitar on "Guest In Your Life" by Bennett Littlejohn
Additional ambience on "Guest In Your Life" by Joshua Marre

All songs written by Caleb Cordes
The Big Game Is Every Night (ASCAP)

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