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The Palace Ballroom

by The Palace Ballroom

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1.
Brass Tacks 03:34
You best be on your way when the action starts Along with everyone inside this seedy bar There’s no telling Just when I might decide to let things go too far I’m always in the center when the action starts This reminds me of some of my darkest days It reminds me of promises that I made They don't mean anything I’d give a hundred dollars for a better heart As long as it could work with all my faulty parts Maybe then I’d get the blood I need to help control the heart That always seems to follow once the action starts This reminds me of when I said that I would change It reminds me I’m living in this hurricane It reminds me I’m burning all my years away Sobriety, you're the one I blame You are to blame for all those nights I strayed You are to blame for every time I stayed You are to blame for all these broken chains You are to blame for how I got this way Is that your best emotion? Yeah this reminds me of when I said that I would change It reminds me I’m living in this hurricane Yeah it reminds me I’m burning all my years away Sobriety, you’re the one I blame You are to blame
2.
Let It Ride 03:38
Hello you I can’t get enough So I grab ahold and I try to break it off Hello you I want to shake you up When you turn me on and I don't want it to stop So I’ll just keep it on the side keep on the slide Get time to build it up Every time we try maybe it’s just right where we want it And you know that keeps me honest Just waiting for a moment Gonna let it ride, gonna let it ride You’re a million dollar bet and I can’t take you yet Gonna let it ride gonna let it ride Hard or soft could you let me know If were going fast or are gonna take it slow Hard or soft could you let me know If you wanna see just what could be the potential So I’ll just keep it on the slide keep it to the side No one needs to know Every time we’ve tried maybe its just right where we want it And you know it keeps me honest Just waiting for a moment Gonna let it ride, gonna let it ride You’re a million dollar bet but I can’t take you yet Gonna let it ride gonna let it ride And all this tension strains What little strength remains Gonna make it mine gonna make it mine And every step I take the longer that we wait Gonna let it ride, gonna let it ride
3.
Don’t turn around Give me time to get adjusted to these traumatizing sounds As you say to me That almost everything I’ve done just leaves you weak behind the knees Call off tonight You’re not listening anyway and I’m just standing here in spite Of my cemetery bride So I’ll have to wait Until this conversation turns into another big mistake And you know the deal Cuz this is only the beginning of the changes that we’ll feel So about tonight I’m just looking for a weakness you’re just sharpening a knife I’m still holding at a distance you’re still keeping this alive You’re my Cemetery Bride (Guitar Solo) So I’ll have to wait And it’s only cuz we need to keep on keeping up this pace We’ve been wearing our excuses out of season anyway And it all comes down to when we drown our sorrows in our shame You’re my Cemetery Bride
4.
Descender 04:01
Crawl away you're getting out from underneath the building doubt that complicates our time Crawl away from everything that keeps you choking on the dreams of some better life You're getting farther back and farther back you're waiting for me to attack you. I have no designs. Farther Back and farther back until we're nothing but a speck inside our minds So keep it safe until I'm gone The memories will all give way To another life when summer comes As the other life disintegrates And it goes on and on and on So much for penitence Like a pin thrown off a cliff you don't plummet but gently drift descending with a glide And all around you feel the grip of currents like some steady wrists pushing from behind Farther back and farther back and looking up from where you're at It seems like such a climb And all the days you tried to save yourself from ending up this way are now just wasted time. So keep it safe until I'm gone The memories will all give way To another life when summer comes As the other life disintegrates Can you believe in something still? Can I repair what's been undone? As I live and breathe you know I will But it all depends when summer comes And it goes on and on and on and on So much for penitence
5.
The Catalyst 03:28
Well this attraction It’s getting at me all kinds of ways inside Yeah it's a statement That I can stand up straight after all of this time Oh Well you look like one to tell but I know that isn’t right Amends So it's a trade off One and then the other so we don't compete And yeah it shows when we bend cuz we hardly can stand all the weight that our promises keep Whoa Well you look like one to tell I might be one to lie If we fall upon that knife its never gonna heal Could wait until we know but we know that isn’t right Amends Whoa Well you look like one to tell I might be one to lie If we fall upon that knife it’s never gonna heal Could wait until we know but we know that isn’t right And now these crumpled lives they occupy our nights Amends
6.
P's & Q's 04:19
I can’t wait to get you home You know it’s likely that I’ll beg until you come I’m like the jealous son You’re like the chosen one You got me rattled like a broken drum Just the sight of you won’t get me by It doesn’t take too much to keep me gratified You got an open mind and that’s the perfect sign I got this thing inside you can set it right The things you do to me you do them all so easily You know you’re just my kind I'll make the case you take your time Aww you got a dirty mind, you got a dirty mind Don’t be worried about me managing our time Cuz if I take a swing I’m finishing the fight It started out a run I’m like a smoking gun It must be a sign you don’t seem to mind The things you do to me you do them all so easily You know you’re just my kind I'll make the case you take your time Aww you got a dirty mind I can’t wait to get you home You know it’s not like me to beg like this so long It started out a run I’m like a smoking gun I got these things inside you can set ‘em right, yeah The things you do to me you do them all so easily Yeah yeah yeah yeah You know you’re just my kind I'll make the case you take your time You got a dirty mind
7.
Here we are again making friends just like we’re used to And we’ve taking this as far as we think we’ll ever need to Though we don't like to say it we’re domesticated aren’t we We breathe like we’re worried we scream like we’re little kids So get me out it’s pulling at me still Just pull me out cuz I have had my fill Down in the thick of it I’m breaking with my best intentions And we’ve taken this as far as we think we’ll ever need And this life bound for glory just keeps discouraging me The reasons all weighted down by superlatives Though we don't like to say it we’re domesticated aren’t we This slow separation it works like a sedative So get me out it’s pulling at me still Just pull me out cuz I’m about to spill Though we don't like to say it we’re domesticated aren’t we We breathe like we’re worried we scream like we’re little kids And this life bound for glory just keeps discouraging me The slow separation it works just like a sedative Now we’re way past mistaking but we’re still waiting Just a consolation prize in the making Rain and confusion false resolution Impossible to decide what were doing This life you believe it love it or leave it You say you want it I say I need it And now here we are again So get me out it’s pulling at me still Just pour me out cuz I have had my fill Just get me out this constant static kills Just pull me out cuz I’m about to spill
8.
Valve 04:03
It might mean destruction the longer you try When every mistake seems to put you behind Awaiting a comeback the world in your eyes All these instructions tell beautiful lies My time and my silence Come with a price it would seem And pride just like a blindness Keeps me long for company And dreams… Always another obsession for me Pulling for trouble the night in my eyes Hoping to make this work one of these times It’s all interchangeable hard to decide When all these reflections tell beautiful lies My time and my silence Come with a price it would seem And pride just like a blindness Keeps me long for company So I lay in the brightness And I try to fall asleep And dream… Always another obsession for me There’s always another obsession for me Always another

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released May 15, 2015

Written and Produced by Timothy Joseph
© 2015 Palace Ballroom Music (ASCAP)
Recorded live at Phaser Control Recording Studio, San Diego, CA
Engineered by Patrick Heaney
Mixed by Sean O’Donnell
Mastered by Dave McNair Mastering, Houston, Texas
Artwork/Layout by Mark Sgarbossa

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The Palace Ballroom San Diego, California

Maintaining a DIY work ethic and forgoing the search for formal management or label representation, The Palace Ballroom has managed to circumnavigate the traditional pathways of the music business and still garner the attention of commercial radio, network TV, local rags and glossy mags, while tapping into an ever growing fan base thirsty for music that's refreshingly new yet familiar. ... more

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