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Pop Spirit Forever

by Pop Spirit

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not tonight you won’t be the one to wait make it right i can’t let you take the blame all my life i couldn’t seem to make it last and this time maybe ill outrun the past i don’t wanna be this way there are things i can’t escape i don’t like the mirror frame but i know i will one day and tonight i think i will take the stage i won’t let you down one last time i can’t let you feel that life passed by i know that you got so much more if only you’d trust yourself and go for it i know that you feel stuck on course thinking that you can break by force knowing that you got just one life i won’t let you down one last time realize i have all i’ll ever need hypnotized by a better way for me if i try to live with honesty i just might live the life i wanna lead i won’t let you down one last time i can’t let you feel that life passed by i know that you got so much more if only you’d trust yourself and go for it i know that you feel so blue like you got it all to lose and you’ve built every wall just to break them down and fall and if no one else there i will be there not that past time just this last time i won’t let you down one last time
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Savor your soaring, momentum as you sew the line Attach yourself to the grind Gravity and speed, they always miss They always miss. And then one day they didn’t. Twist. Destroy. Take cover. Fold. Shatter. Oh, your prism empire Take this all away Take your time
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How do we show up? All I want is to show up good for you You can't argue with a sick mind and you've been sick this whole time I came out for you but I chickened out in the end anyway
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Don't you cry right now, Or the sweetness will overwhelm you, like biting down onto the coldest ice, from del taco I could lie right now, and tell you that it doesn't count, my heart says yes, my mind says no, i guess we'll see tomorrow I'm overreacting to the simplest things, did you turn off the water? I can't swim, i can't make breakfast, how did you manage to make it? If i told you, how i'm feeling, would you listen to the way. That my voice cracks, and my heart stings, my throat is tense and stiff. but it's always like that, when i think of home, yeah it's always like that. im overreacting to the simplest things, did i turn off the water, i can't think, i can't find exits, how did i manage to make it? im swear i'm trying to make it.
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Veins hang down like optic wire Tilting candles just to feel house fires fade Rails save the limbs that want to quake Smoke in the lungs that used to choir Tongue kiss through our made-up veil Woke up holding teeth I used to know Trauma repeats itself. Bones bend just to break. Surround stare. At night’s youth. It’s taken you years to tell me the truth. (Flow, reverse) Digital missive (Slow, disperse) Physical sicknesses 
Lights that catch you Ghosts that phase Through the lens of your ultra wide Soaring breathless through the needle’s eye Landing on an image you can’t describe. I’m sick and I’m tired of all of our whispers We sit and we listen for familiar footsteps And if we do hear them, we sort for our rifles And whisper again about which way to fire When a tree falls and no one is there to hear it… When proof is burdened and no one can film it… Then truth is denied and then left with no option. It’s taken you years just to tell me the truth The tides flow, reverse. The light slows, disperse Flow. Reverse. 
Slow. Disperse. I saw you. (Flow, reverse) Digital missive (Slow, disperse) Physical sicknesses 
Lights that catch you Ghosts that phase through (Flow, reverse) It’s taken you years (Slow, disperse) to tell me the truth Dark that scares you Angels look away. Blood and videotape It wanders through decades We cough on wasted ink Pick apart all the remains Your selves kaleidoscope Read. Write. Solidstate Drive. Decay for all time.
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darling, i can't move my legs i don't really mind that you left me rotting in place you must have missed my point wouldn't it be easier if you just fixed it and got it over with? you must have missed my point
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forever forever
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I just wanna leave it in the past But my mind begins to wander And I just wanna say what I mean There are lines we can’t read between So if we wanna say it Come out and say it unsaid words are devastating If we leave them in the past they’ll be certain to amass and Baby that’s not what we need And I wanna be on Good standing Wanna empathize with what you’re going through How I made you feel misunderstood It’s good standing I want nothing more than a touch from you Loving you is more than the small disputes It’s good standing I can’t let you feel unconvinced By a measured apology Need let you know that I’m here With you is where I wanna be So if I wanna say, I’ll come out and say it Can’t leave with my uncertainty If we wanna make it work then the words can’t be reserved And we’re left with pure honesty And we could be on Good standing Wanna empathize with what you’re going through How I made you feel misunderstood It’s good standing I want nothing more than a touch from you Loving you is more than the small disputes It’s good standing

about

At the start of 2022, Tim and I decided to shut Pop Spirit down. Our time was far too split to put the focus into the label that we knew it deserved, and for reasons that are both complicated and frustratingly simple, the financials weren't working in our favor either. 22 releases, almost 5 years since we started planning to launch in the first place, it just felt like the right time. And it was around that time we agreed to do one more compilation record. We wanted to make it our best, most complete record. A true culmination of the past five years of growth as artists and as people.

Then nine months passed. It should have been pretty obvious that nine months would pass the way they did. Nine months passed between the label's last release and when we decided to wrap it up, after all. We, as a group of musicians, just simply weren't in the same position we were in as early 20somethings, and it started to make less and less sense to focus our energy wholly into something old and, truthfully, already half-dead when we could put that toward looking ahead. That's not to say we didn't make any progress, however.

What you see here is a document of, more or less, the exact moment we decided to say "let's just call it here". You Are Something True's track was a polished-up outtake from a future release that was sent to us as an mp3. Burned In's track has temp vocals recorded on a blue yeti mic. Living Room Ghost isn't even a band anymore! My own song doesn't even have vocals, save for the very end (just couldn't come up with anything I was into).

Furthermore, it's a testament to the factors that lead us to close Pop Spirit. For as much as that sounds like an anticlimax, or a compromise, it's left us with a tremendous sense of peace with the project, and a sense of rejuvenation; exactly what we looked for in all this.

Thank you to everyone who ever gave our work a listen. Thank you to everyone Pop Spirit ever worked with. Thank you to friends, new and old. Just, thank you.

Pop Spirit forever.
- hazel

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released October 25, 2022

Support the artists here:
Petalfold: petalfold.bandcamp.com
ThorHighHeels: thorhighheels.bandcamp.com
You Are Something True: youaresomethingtrue.bandcamp.com
Nice World: niceworldband.bandcamp.com
Tornamesa: tornamesamusic.bandcamp.com
Burned In: twitter.com/burnedinmemory (bandcamp forthcoming)
Salem's Corydalis: salemscorydalis.bandcamp.com
Twinkle Park: twinklepark.bandcamp.com
Tim Lindsay: timlindsay.bandcamp.com

Individual track credits can be found in the info section of each song.

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hazel m, timothy lindsay, & best friends. 2018-2022

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