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The Inquirer

by Well Kept

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    Artwork designed by our own Elijah Johnston
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1.
Personality 04:01
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I wasn’t made for this Chew on my fingertips I always had a bad habit of it Oh but what’s another one? You don’t say too much And neither do I so I’ll keep my mouth shut I guess that’s all for me Degree in psychology Now I know I don’t know anything We’ll spend all our time together Grow old or kill each other We’ll never take action We’ll wait for things to happen I just don’t know myself anymore Anymore I got a personality Yeah, I took that test for free Now I know everything A number or some letters Whatever looks better Tell me which is more compatible with yours And we’ll spend all our time together Grow old or kill each other I just need to get outside Your friends were probably right I just don’t know myself anymore We’ll spend all our time together We’ll surely kill each other But we’ll go out laughing Nothing ever happens I just don’t know anymore You said we lost it I’m not sure (We’ll go out laughing) I just know anymore Anymore
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Hammerhead Corvette 02:55
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Tripwire 02:27
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Yeah I’ll be fine I’m only tired Don’t wanna set you off But I’m tripwire Placing all your bets on old machinery Lucky number nineteen again I hope that all the in-betweens in front of you Play out like how you want them to Cause I know you want them too Elevator schemes Are you as sweet as you seem? I’m chewing on another painted pin I did my best to count you in I know that I’m the one to blame Wore us out, don’t spin the same I’ll just wait here for your call The thought of us all along Kept me coming back to you All I’ll ever wanna do So i’ll just wait here for your call How could I have moved on I care about how you think of me But do I even want it after all? (I know you want them too) After all
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Punches 03:59
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Pelican smile Won’t you stay awhile? Sleep with the dogs I’ll dream in and out I don’t recall getting a call Or knowing where you were on saturday night I never left I just stayed in bed Cause I didn’t feel like fighting with you You’d come to town and we’d play nice Put on our best faces and show everyone I still recall getting a call Where neither of us could tell the truth I eventually left and I went to bed Cause I didn’t feel like crying with you What we don’t say piles up everyday Biting your tongue it’s out of my hands We could fix it if we tried But Is it really right To waste all the water on old dead plants Is what you really want to be in love? Or just someone to talk to when your plane lands We could fix it if we tried But is it really right To waste all the water on old dead plants And if you can’t take the fall I’ll take all the punches If you still don’t understand why then use your assumptions Like you’d do anyway Now we’re just left with a put in our stomach You could call it a truce I’ll leave that up to you I just hope that you see That I’m not what you need
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Settling 04:10
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This house is settling All the doors won’t close If they did, who knows I can’t hide from all that we’ve left behind us Can’t look it in the eyes cause it's staring back at me Settling I’m working on forgiving, and forgetting I just don’t know what comes first Or what I deserve I'm tracing new beginnings just to throw them all away It's not what you said But the way you did It's still settling Sometimes I still think I know you like I did before Sometimes I guess the songs that you might like on new records It's lonely even though we made the right call And after all We're still settling I hope your moms doing better I never said thank you for that piano She fucking hates me for that How strange it felt when we tried to give it back The ghost in my room, The ghost of you Look, it's finally settling I could paint these walls a hundred kinds of green But I’d still know what's behind them But a change might be nice Cause all my blues are gray That sounds like something that you’d say Your words will take you anywhere you wanna go I hope you're never settling (You come around, I'll get out of town You were right to paint me out Paint me out) (You come around, i’ll get out of town I guess we’re not so different now Paint me out)
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Red Light 04:42
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How would you like to Take a drive with me? We're both not doing anything I'll watch as you sing the words To your favorite songs under your breath Cause you think you can't sing You think you can't sing Our summer ends When our remember whens run dry On the way home I'll hope for every red light Every red light I guess this is why I'm scared of getting close I know when to leave But I'll never go This cyclical life of cutting ties with all the Ones i care about When they mean everything to me You mean everything to me And our summer ends When our remember whens run dry I had my chance But I ran Every red light Every red light We don't talk like we used to Don't you feel the same? All those times we spent we're never meant To be thrown away I just want to hear about What you did today If you change your mind I'm only A few red lights A few red lights away
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No Signal 03:55
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Stay in tonight, stay out of sight Say all the things that you wanted to say to her Nervous unsure, you went quiet A blood moon soaked night A shot front porch light No signal on the TV I don’t know why but that blue always reminds me of you I hope I don’t scare you away I hope I at least have something to say A coffee stained smile Won’t you stay awhile What’s your first memory? I split my chin on those rocks and I still have the scar to prove it A blood moon soaked night A shot front porch light No signal on the TV I don’t know why but that green Always reminds you of me A good friend says goodbye If the world ends tonight May your particles settle Down next time Oh I’d lay here forever I’d lay here forever
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Rendezvous (Elephant Graveyard) 03:49
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Your wood song is empty And the trees won’t forget A modest plenty of bones in my head I’ll settle down when I’m okay I’ll wait when I got time I’ll find my way home through the vines Through the vine I’ll lay down at your temple WHile they throw stones at my walls If loving you was simple They’d have broken through by now I’m an elephant graveyard And you’re the moon I’m holding onto your axis, love Bring me back to you You’re my Rendezvous I can’t get enough I won’t sleep this off for you Forget any other touch And I’m coming home You’re my Rendezvous
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You in Yellow 03:06
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Talking backwards You’re shouting in your sleep again So absurd But you say it with such confidence Won’t you draw me in gray Pencil me in Then try it again with your left hand You said feeling tired is the same as feeling sad The bones of both are all we’ve All we’ve left to hold It’s you in yellow You in yellow Singing with your mouth closed An educated guess In your favorite dress It’ so absurd cause you say it with such confidence I’ll never know, I’ll never try I’ll never know, I’ll never try I’ll never know. I’ll never try I’ll never know, I’ll never The bones of both are all we’ll All we’ll ever know Cause it’s you in yellow You in yellow It’s always you (What’s that you gotta say? Whatcha wanna do today? What’s that you gotta say?) It’s always
10.
Heart Attack 04:47
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With good intention Lost my religion Took my prescriptions Where is my mind? I took a photograph To make the moment last I wish we could go back Where is the time? I feel you coming down I’ll catch your fall Tell me what happens next Three kids, a heart attack I’ll take whatever I can get Just give me time I feel you coming down I’ll catch your fall I feel you all around Give me your all And sometimes when we touch I can’t even feel your love I feel you coming down I caught your fall I feel you all around Gave me your all I feel you coming now I’ll catch your fall I felt you all around Now not at all Not at all
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Winter Clothes (ft. Holyn Trautwein) 03:50
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I remember the first time I saw you Quiet you kept to yourself Never thought I’d be one to know you Never thought you’d be anything else Now it’s winter and I wanna tell you All of the things you already know I don’t know you enough to miss you But when you’re gone it hurts like hell And it’s quiet in the city I’ll follow your lead close behind You say we’re so small aren’t we Whatever we are is fine I love how you always remember What you wore in every memory we made up together I’d kill for one more Cause it's your smell on my shirt that keeps you Stuck in my head, alone And each time my breath strays from me Cause I’ve never seen you in winter clothes And it’s quiet in the city I’ll follow your lead close behind You say we’re so small aren’t we Whatever we are is fine And you’re scared of the water Don’t wanna lose control But I won’t let you go under You can stand on a pile of my bones And stay afloat I just wanna make you a coffee And hear what you’re on about Watch your eyes light up as you tell me All of the things that freak you out And I swear I’ve known you forever It's strange, I think you can tell A life of before and after Never want to know anything else
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The Inquirer 04:34
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This town feels like a novel Did you ever get that tattoo? Life feels like a movie That I’m sleeping through Big lizard in the backseat Kind of looks like you I’m the inquirer of the worst best news You’re the cold I can’t kick All the sleep that I miss An aquarium full of every word I let slip You could write them all down or Say them aloud Or use them to start another fire For the Inquirer Oh, Charise I wish you saw the snow last night Surrounding you in flood lights I heard there’s better bowling on the west side That bar was the last place we saw you alive You’re the cold I can’t kick All my lost words An aquarium full of every song you’ve ever heard You could write them all down or Sing them aloud Lift it up then cut the wire For the Inquirer The Inquirer Good morning, I miss you I won’t start a fight Good morning, I love you No I can’t get this write Good morning, I hate you But how’d you sleep last night? Good morning, I missed you This is what you wanted, right?

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released April 1, 2022

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Well Kept Athens, Georgia

emo/alternative rock group from Athens, GA

Tommy Trautwein
Elijah Johnston
Ian White
Hampton Peay
Blake Kole

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