Hands In The Honey Jar

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1.	Gassed 01:13	lyrics	buy track
fuck, I’ve been writing the same thing 20 years or maybe more something hasn’t clicked or has it? will it? is this even real? or is it just the same tired loop that I create? so is this in my head? I know I already said this I’m not making sense or am I? do I? do you care to see? or is it just me? saying the same old shit to myself? here’s a reminder, just in case you forget… we all deserve to feel whole
2.	Lukewarn 02:29	lyrics	buy track
bite my nails and scratch my face this shit seems never ending moving through, not moving on clench my fists I can’t go on like this, not like this we’re helping satiate the pig don’t fight this, not like this it’s so hard to not admit defeat we get so tired of coming up short and we haven’t planned to live long enough to fix it but we all still don't have a chance we’re embarrassed every misuse of funds is managed by billboards who fill us with all but a few drops of mistrust now they start to notice we’ve been saying the things they don’t want us to say, to see so tirelessly we believe back to where we caught the rabbit we don’t look like the villain they had when land was burned into ash and we blew into the blaze
3.	Fever Dream 01:49	lyrics	buy track
we were in it like a fever dream like liquid looking for a cracks in the seam I said your name aloud into a black room with no walls but was it even a room at all? I made my bed by the lion’s den and put my fate fully in her mouth I made sure that no one knew how deep it grew and no news is good news what we love isn’t supposed to hurt us what we don’t speak about isn’t real who you love is gonna kill ya what we don’t speak about we can feel
4.	Blitz Kids Stay Sick 01:26	lyrics	buy track
a threatening look plagiarized from a textbook it comes as no surprise, overexposed and overbooked I’m sorry that you’re feeling broken I’m feeling broken too the world’s unraveling around us more than ever, we need something true I need something true and still you’re, “talking about staple shit” with spite we indict the counterfeit nothing to say, but I guess you say it the right way it’s getting hard to tell the predator from the prey it’s always been truncheons, tear gas, flags flown at half mast Selma to the West Bank, Johannesburg to Belfast we explain to our daughters why disorder’s in the forecast that’s why we put your program on blast
5.	No One Thinks About You More Than You 03:31	lyrics	buy track
see the water washing over bodies that we’ve laid to rest while telling stories to the eager ear will only hurt my credibility in the end and as it sits I cannot sit or take a breath much less than gasp with every truth that burns a fire in my chest now I’m older by the number they told me it’s be easy once I left is it even any wonder that we count our days at rest we count our days and if it’s any consolation I’ve been having trouble sleeping when I’m alone I am lonely without someone to console me tell me that you’re so relieved I’m still alive but I’m alive because of you, because you told me to just stay around just stay awake and with this chapter that I write I really can’t afford to wait to take a walk and on that walk to take a breath to feel the cold air in my chest and how I know even though knowing always hurts me in the end keep on going by the numbers they told me it’d be easier if I’d left is it even any wonder why we count our days at rest? we count our days if you’re sorry say it now and if you meant it let it rest take one last final number they told me it’d be easy if I left is it even any wonder why we count our days til death
6.	Return Your Stolen Property Is Theft 02:37	lyrics	buy track
putting all the pieces into places that we need them we don’t have to understand them we just want to make sense of this mess that’s ours wait or is it? is it his or mine or ours or theirs or hers maybe it’s the last one who’s left standing holding onto bloody remnants of what we had of what was lost or what we now owe take this trash you stole and bring it back to those who know how to care for something so broken it’s impossible to fix trying not to make amends that’s the same as admitting guilt for all your crimes we wouldn't dare apologize but finally our acceptance might begin to shine a light on how to see just how fucked we wouldn’t be if we’d listened from the start if we hadn’t come at all buying everything we can to soothe the burn it’s the least we can’t do or the most we can but every little secret has it’s place in making peace with what we’ve ruined it’s all so complicated born with the guilt of generations hated we’re all to blame for taking what we never had the right to claim we’re all to blame for this stop and admit we’re all complicit there's blood on your hands the rivers too dry to wash them
7.	Bobby 01:25	lyrics	buy track
is anybody in here? I’ve been looking for my brother she said he disappeared before he was even born but I see him every night by the fire with his temper failure find me a second chance I’ve really ruined my first my youth is dead and gone I am my father’s son bet the queen against the crown trouble has found me, just like you did wear it like an open wound covered and protected save it like an open wound seeping and infected now lick it like an open wound but feel no shame don’t you dare let them see you bear your weight unevenly
8.	Carry Us 03:11	lyrics	buy track
call your favorite bookmarked savior your patient blessed neighbor the one who made you that nice warm pie and would he carry us now? stop the cops from coming, Amy don’t you see this isn’t what we’re saying can’t we just settle this like grown men with our hammers and fists now? I promise we’ll do better promises are like a wet dog in here stinking up the place but he’s sure cute and sweet and helpless pity on us all now I promise we mean better we just keep getting our hands caught in the honey jar leaving those sticky fingerprints on every surface I'm so sorry for the mess we keep making pity on us all now you pick your own fight, don’t you like a marked man, yeah, you’re a marksman you got your ducks all in a row line ‘em up and shoot ‘em they're so proud of you, Harold! look at you go! now take your prize and leave a little trophy never mattered much for anyone and if we let them pick their end date we’ll remove the labels and watch the fruit rot on the table pity on the world now buy your worth it's all we know would you sell your soul to the highest bid buy it back for tenfold it’s all we know
9.	Destined 02:19	lyrics	buy track
feet are up on the oak wood desk it’s a privilege we always imagined it’s a story written for us to read back to us make it more attractive fool me and make me think I earned it make it shine then cover it in dirt fool me and make me think I found it the books on the shelf are all covered in dust and all those words, they don’t amount to much unless I finally fucking say them an uncomfortable resemblance gratuitous acceptance you know I’d be lying if I said I’d decline your offer make me more attractive fool me and make me think I’m wanted make me shine, wash off my dirt fool me and make me think that I could look like them if I’d just wash my hands just wash your hands now I’m so drenched in sanctity i’m practically the fucking pope feet are up on the oak wood desk it’s a privilege we always imagined it’s a story written for us to read back to us
10.	Everything 02:27	lyrics	buy track
I want to know everything about everything and I want to be good at everything I do I want to know everything everyone else knows maybe I want to be god? or in the very least considered smart? idiot take a seat find me in the back raising my hand skip right over me I want to feel how it feels to be listened to i’m motivated but discouraged easily I want to see everything everyone else sees when they look at me and think, “they have it easy” idiot get some sleep find me in my room, it’s 3am I’m doing better, I guess compared to what? compared to when? an attic apartment a room for rent a vacancy in my head it’s all in my head
11.	Wolf 02:08	lyrics	buy track
cry wolf when he’s here lock jaw and sharp teeth fight back until he’s dead wait, is this really happening? I’m listening to your call every detail is important to know to monitor you closely is to know you this is how they hunt you this is how they love you cry wolf, she smells your fear don’t make a sound at all hide out until she’s gone wait, is this really happening? eye on the prize eyes burn the back of my head I can feel it as it wells up inside feel trapped like they prey that I’ve become this is how they haunt you this is how they love you could you give me all of your love? could you give me all that you love?

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released October 6, 2023

recorded by arthur rizk.
photography & layout by jem cohen.

open city is: dan yemin, chris wilson, rachel rubino, andy nelson.

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Chris Wilson
Rachel Rubino
Andy Nelson

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