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Regarding the You in Me

from California Heart by Great Apes

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    California Heart is the second full length and sixth release from San Francisco’s Great Apes. The record, akin to much of the band’s earlier material, is thematic. With California Heart, the concept is a fictional one, revolving around an alienated adolescent residing in Fresno, CA. Each song is written in first person and tackles a myriad of subjects including mental illness, suburban doldrums, creativity, nature as a sanctuary, social isolation, perceptions of adulthood, cliques, bullying, drugs, suicide, and an ever-crystallizing and often cynical view of the world. In its entirety, the record is intended to be a portrait of navigating coming of age as an outcast, in a stagnant and less-than-nurturing environment. Although the writing is founded in fiction, it’s undoubtedly inspired by personal experiences, and anyone who grew up feeling weird, anxious, down, and/or angst-ridden in a place they wanted out of should have no problem finding points of relation.

    The record was recorded over four days this past spring by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden.

    SIDE A
    1.California Heart
    2.The Last Days of Tranquility
    3.Saint Brasher
    4.Bullard Hex
    5.Brown Dots

    SIDE B
    6.Regarding the You in Me
    7.Chukchansis Complacency for Beginners
    8.Prom Com
    9.Shut in with the Burden
    10.The Escapist

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lyrics

turning the worn beige pages
of the photo album I found
in the basement with all the shit
mom and dad don’t use
they looked almost alive once
camping out on the coast and
laughing in the backyard
with the friends they don’t see now
I feel the imprint grip and rise
the looks and the flaws devise
a carbon copy in the veins
to craft a curse of a life constrained

I can’t become
I can’t be
the you in me
the you in me
I can’t succumb
sever me
from the tree
the you in me
the years flip to reveal
swelling resentment concealed
phantom shells of yourselves
loveless and callous throughout
a marriage of slamming doors
of secrets and private wars
a portrait of union aged
the faith rots and the lustre fades

I feel the imprint grip and rise
the looks and the flaws devise
a carbon copy in the veins
to craft a curse of a life constrained

I can’t become
I can’t be
the you in me
the you in me
I can’t succumb
so sever me
from the tree
the you in me

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from California Heart, released October 14, 2016

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