Trauma Season
Recorded January – March 2003
Tyler Martin – Singing, Keyboards,
Trumpet, Guitar, Bass, Percussion
Conner Martin – Drums, Percussion,
Recording
Vanessa Waring – Flute, Cello
-with-
Grayson Soenke – haunted guitar in
‘Monsoon’
Megan E. – assistant vocals in
‘Spite’
All Dead – backing vocals in
‘Spite’
1. Lost
2. Monsoon
3. Check
4. Weekend
5. Spite
6. Chateau
7. Colombia
8. Solid
9. Combustion
10. Academy
11. Volcano
12. Maniac
Travels down this road, so many
Image problems, I’ve got plenty
Hear me crowding out vapors and
clover
Hear me crowning, no, I won’t go
for
Goes down easy, and through so
quick
Got plans for you straight through
to the sick bay
I hear crowding up roads so tired
And I hate sleeping, am I just shy
or
Lost… I’m clearly
So tight and agonizing
Lost… and fearing
Some sort of retribution
You hear me scream, though I don’t
like it
Got a smoke, but why’d you light
it?
Travels down, baby hits the bottom
Of the streets and such, angry
autumn
Sullen summer and such a spring
Winter, I dare you to even blink
See, dust in my eyes, hardly
caring
Dancing wildly, hardly caring
And I couldn’t, I couldn’t stand
it
Monsoon
Monsoon, the cops are gone
But I don’t know how to face it
So alone for the summer
With the winter with the
springtime
You would relax, relax
And I’ll pour you a cup to go with
that
The sooner you admit
Your a shade of human decency
Is the second I forget
Why I came here in the first place
But, relax, relax
And tell me I’m a decent person
Soon the shutters close
And I’m really quite concerned
about the place I’m in
Rocking like an atmosphere that’s
been provoked to violence
I’ll take it in
Clearly speaking loudly, so I
gather your attention
In this room, it is silent, but my
stance demands attention
Say, relax, relax and I’ll clue
you in a minute
A patronizing side, evokes spirit
like you mean it
But your motion is just sad and
your stance is so broken
Say, relax, relax and tell me I’m
a decent person
But soon the pity’s gone and I’m
nebulous like crazy
About the place I’m in
And representing sadness, like its
even coming close to that
I’ll take it in
Check
Oh what a check when your clear,
and your clear at one point one
When the census shock turns you in
as two people to one
Kind of dragged out, looking kind
of beat up
Kind of freaked out, taken with a
grain of salt and shake
I like it when you
Riot cause I’m not yet spent all
at once
I’ll riot cause the party has not
yet begun
So cheer up challenger, take me
back to twenty-five
Alive because
Align because
Your going so strong
Oh when the bank teller clicks and
the image is in flight
When the Calvary shifts cause the
party’s dressed in white
Cause its star struck, home front
war and act
Prices so deliberate and styles
like you cannot even know
You cannot even
And I cannot redo this tastefully
placed pity
Make caution like its going out of
style
But my consultants say you aren’t
worth it
Oh, its over in a while
When I arrive by chopper at the
great golden gates I’m so amused
Because that sunset style is going
to capture my eyes, but now I’m out
Cause that price is handy and I’m a
horrible man, divide by two
When I run out past that border
I’ll cook in the sun
And so I bruise
Running around heals nothing,
sleep is so spare, I’ll take that bet
Carry me back to the point where I
could not let go and say I’m there
When I am tired and turning to
wake is to break and end up dead
When I’ve crossed the knife
screaming and turning over backwards
Never lose
And despite our better judgment,
we’re loving it
Copy me twice; oh you’ll never let
me know
When your too tired to look, to
send
Repress it this weekend
But how many more do I have to
lose?
When I arrive past sun up at the
old central park I’ll check my coat
Because that pickpocket style is
so city and wild, how could they not?
Unless I’ve missed something
somewhere, I’m a hell of a guy, this much I know
And when I’ve reached the end, I
will have had no regrets
And total health
Yes, its crazy, but I’m right
there
Full of ready, full of spite there
Time off ticking, good-looking
actors
Tear me a minute, some other
practice
While I’m sitting here without you
Time goes slower and I’m getting
older
Zero sanctions and I’m right
But time goes slower, I’m getting
older
Down and crazy, such distraction
Play me out and play me often
Ignore groupthink, you’re the
winner
Think for yourself, so thoughts
may vary
We’re all blessed and we’re all
dressed
For doing better than you think
Zero problems compared to others
Your doing better than you think
Time when I was feeling low
Insane action, full of active
You deserve it, so desert me
I’m no good for forward thinkers
Twist around do it better
Lots of stock in cinder blocks
I’ll punch right through them,
thinking of you
And oh, one day, things are so
clear
That time just stops and I’ll
think it over
Living so happenstance, happen to
be swimming
Vague pools and cheap motels
Won’t you go away?
Record and shy, won’t you go away?
Go away
Cut up and sleeping bad, standing
in the corner
Shake softly once or twice
Tell them to go away
Your set up in piano bars
Wurlitzers and armored cars
I’m tuning for two now,
Struggling with cheap guitars
Make me an offer and I’ll trade it
all for habit forming
Nothing can get to me like the
sirens off from up the street
Nothing can get to me like the
echoes off of empty streets
A shining stare, hone valances to
deferential shock
This value’s up, but the meaning
is in the cleaning of the mark
Oh cost, you take me to a three
for one plateau
Oh cause, I’ve lost it, you will
never even know
Controlling, my mind is so silent
Colombia, you’ve bought me with
violence
Don’t fi-fi-fire up that second
story
You fi-fi-fire up
And less than full full coverage
of that purgatory scene
You’ve been spotted but your
figure as you know its less than lean
Watch out, we’ll take you to an
icy cold and shake
Watch us, becoming and be leaving
like you may
I’m solid like a rock, but vacant
like a haunted house
Where industry, you go, when your
looking for a cheap plot twist
And when I don’t pay off, you’ll
shake your fist into the sunset
And when I don’t put out, you’ll
look so glum and stare a bit
It doesn’t become you
And I’m looking for a town where
class differences pull you down
So all this bitterness is
justified by something wild
An incredible smile will pull you
in for just a bit
But lady, I’m all lies
I’ll take you out and sink your
ship
It doesn’t phase me
My heart begins breaking procedure
I want you and I may as well need
you
And its fine,
I’m walking
My dreams are so decayed, for you to
come and go away
But lately you’ve been missed, my
image failing isn’t this
A lesson so deserved, you finally
get your ego’s worth
But I just can’t be hurt, I’m
metal liquid stone age god
And nothing escapes me
You cannot fail me
Anymore than you’ve already
Normal til overloaded, cannot get
away, floating on
Washboard by innocents, cannot get
away, lonely citizens
Decide to vilify, no you cannot
make me pay, I’m invincible
Going to double your time with a
fancy hidden promise that I cannot hope to keep
Away
And this one-track mind of mine
keeps me down
City hopping on the train, drunks
and crowds
Let it take me back, I’m drowning
and lost
Won’t you let it take me back?
Lines there so symmetrical,
photographic takes under me
Gravesite so set and mild, there’s
magic in the air, filter free
Ionic combustion, it helps me
breathe at last, this peasant air
Ironic combustion, it helps me to
at last, disconnect
One track slowly
Living boldly
Living only to serve
And fine, stumble out, faces flat,
run on sentence down the street
Looking green, kind of pale with a
flush red running through your cheeks
Played out, but academy’s sweet
How could I sleep for days and
never try?
But my hearts in the right place
Just left of productive
Laid out and accounted for close
Your winking, but you know they’ll
never know
Its just a heartbreak pattern
Production size of vanities
Know it’ll never last
Fun for the canon
Fun, and I’ll walk on by
Fun for the canon
And I’ll buy buy buy
Know your fading into air
Your special but you’ll never even
come to that
Realization- times hotter the
truth’ll even notice it
Oh, just let it pass
And I cannot even start, your on
your own detective
Nothing feels better then when I’m
picking sidewalk out my shoes
And when I find that trophy
You can’t know
And it’s a shame to see you go
Cinema’s academy sweeps
How could I sleep for days and
never try?
But your hearts in the wrong place
Just south of the border
Played out, academy street
Going to crawl for days around
that bed
But your heart’s still set on
break
Just trust me, its nothing
Training on a different track
I’ve killed as such, but keep on
coming back
Why desire what you cannot care
for
I am heartless nobody show for
Training, volcano
But you still can’t shelter, still
can’t shine
Dreaming she’s perfect, but you
still can’t shelter
And still make me sick
Faking a new kind of interest
I thought as much and I thought
you’d like to know
Why bother when your soul is a grave
mistake
I am shameless, nothing to live
for
Trying, a little too desperate
Could have made something, but I
came to my senses
Why desire?
Supermodel crash, vague cash
Going to lash you on to every
other word
And every other one’s a joke
When I’m fighting with the logic
let me talk
I’ll go on
And I’m on
Get back and go, I’m maniac so how
could you leave?
My eyes won’t close, can’t open so
they’re just going to sleep
Designer’s basic flaw, no one saw
Now I’m paying for it
Years of hopeless grace
Loveless waste, couldn’t shake
that smile and nod
Like you know
Like you know what’s going on
And I’m on
You’ve been down that old and
green,
Stars on and on
Say, ‘how could you leave?’
And I’m on
So you go down the road five times,
stand in line
And turn right on ethics
Until you get to the something
where your life reads as a waste
Don’t shine, you are not
And the faithless ones are gone
So I’m on