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Mexico City Midnight EP

by Fossil

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1.
Night Drive (free) 03:41
mom told me everything that dies someday comes back dad used to sing it to her in her sleep so i got drunk and carved it on my chest when i found out he died last week it's the memory not the pain that'll make you weep 3am highway bliss first night drive with tess she's a midnight blue goth chick pitch black lipstick she writes poems for sid viscous she's sweet 16 rocking diamond blue candy rings and the broken radio plays an old song frankie used to sing everything that dies someday comes back but you already knew that took tess to see my daddy's grave on south elm i remember these streets by all the mistakes we made on em we break bread with my daddy's ghost and thats the only time i ever get to talk to him i tell tess how me and frankie skinned our knees on company  hill while my old man was dodging bullets outside a fifth street cheap hotel didn't even know he was around didn't know he was my dad till they put him in the ground tess said she cried when her brother came back from the middle east one arm a jaw full of broken teeth said they dropped a bomb on school children dancing in the street how can that ever let him be On st. patty's day mom said dad kissed her after he landed that job all night long they ran victory laps around the city of god 30 days of heaven then sun went out and dad was back on the streets begging for another chance to make his life count so now i talk to god on pay phone's on the way home ask him where he's been and why he left us all alone and if he can see everything then he should take a look at my mom he should give us back our dad and i never would've written this song. mom said daddy died of a broken heart  but i heard he died over 20 dollars in the back of midnight luke's shop three bullets in the chest one to the brain some shrapnel in his ribcage nothing here'll ever change dad had a taste for bad luck and black rain mom said from the start him and i were the same i took a picture of her scattering his ashes in the rain his body burnt to dust but you cant burn away the pain now all this bad blood runs black and blue my mom don't smile like she used to its ok bloodshot eyes are what i'm used to  and i promise i wont leave her cause thats what she's used to she said daddy was half angel half devil and when he drank he got mean he didn't care for her he didn't care for me but at night i still close my eyes and pray to the darkness that he might come save me
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Fourth of July (free) 03:11
fourth of july high as the midnight sky tess shining reflections of fireworks exploding in her eye "i love you" she says "i'm glad your here" and that's all i ever wanted to hear tess takes my hand we go out back frankie's in the driveway sitting in his truck dead drunk how'd we let it get this fucked frankie looks at me then looks at tees and starts to cry these last days have just been a long good bye "you don't know him like i do" tess says "he's got a good heart" she's never seen his violent part and there's no stopping him once he starts "someday i'll miss you" i wanna tell frankie but i love tess too much to give this up tess walks out to frankie's truck frankie looks at her then i hear the glass break frankie swings the bottle at tess just missing her face then he's outta the car running out to the lake pure bad blood heartbreak there's only so much a man can take i wish i could give it all away make this ok but this how it is tess makes me wanna live i walk tess downtown we smoke a joint she starts to frown she says "i wanna burn this town down" i tell her there's nothing wrong and give her a kiss blue gloss smeared across my lips i tell her she makes me wanna live she says she just wants to forget i walk her to her daddy's house her stepmom's drinking on the porch she gives me a look asks tess "what did you bring him round here for" we sit out back listening to fireworks color sky i tell her it's ok she starts to cry "i love you" she says "and i got no idea why" i wish i could just go back live the life we never had meet my daddy make it alright with frankie rewind every sound and take tess so far from this town
3.
left san marcos for the coast days and nights passing out the window in a blur and every song reminding me of her stole tess from frankie the week I lost my dad everything was good for a while then it went bad got tess pregnant in frankie's bed he caught us in there told me I was good as dead see frankie taught me how to walk and talk taught me how to pick up the pieces when you break law we'd known each other since we were kids rolled around in the dirt no cares pure bliss frankie knew cinnamon girls with sunburned hair he talked to them in rhymes and they gave him those million mile stares but tess was the only one that could cut me to ribbons she left me with blood stains she painted pictures of my pain and when we lost our baby i fled to cali didn't stop crying till i got to uncle benny's alley 84 weeks of backstreet brawls broken jaws benny told me i was one of the best fighters he ever saw i saved enough money to drive back in that new car cadillac and chrome showed it to my mom she just cried and asked where i'd been for so long she showed me the letters tess wrote said she missed me and asked why i left her alone so i found tess on dover street on the fifth of may her black hair was blonde i told her i missed her every day she said frankie was in galveston working with one eye ray other than that the town was the same i kissed her cheek told her i'd never leave again she looked at the ground started to cry and took my hand she told me that she called my mom every day i was gone and she was worried life was just too long we sat in her car and listened to bob dylan as it rained she said if dylan were alive today he'd write a song called The Times They Never Change wish you could've seen my eyes when i found out you didn't say goodbye called your mom she said you were gone i felt like i was back in that foster home spent days sitting on company hill writing letters to you looking out over our town thinking i might see you then frankie came around and said you weren't comin back he'd sit outside my house some nights singing johnny cash i wish you knew i just wanted you had nightmares that you left this town and left me too woke up and you were still gone only bad dreams come true but you had to do what you had to do i love you too much to not forgive you but some nights it was easier to just forget you but you aren't the only one who lost someone my mom died when i was young no one ever braided my hair told me how much they cared maybe we can be better somehow build a life raft sail off to some ghost town but you can't leave me alone again you can't let go of my hand you have to help me build this island maybe you need me more than i need you see these times they never change but we do and even when it all ends i'll still love you
4.
Mexico City Midnight (free) 04:00
dear dad, today mom and i climbed company hill in the rain you should've seen it it was beautiful we looked out over the whole town and shouted your name we've been doin it for three years now like its some sort of game but mom tells me to just look in the mirror and i'll see your face sometimes i have this dream where you're alive and well you're cleaning my knees telling mom your dreams tossing gold coins in a wishing well but mom says you died and went to hell and if that's the only way i get to see you then ill be as bad as you so i can to be with you as well i met a girl down here named tess  she's got deep sea eyes and her raven hair's a mess she's pretty as mom in that sun dress and you'd love the way she sings along to the radio cause mom said music was only thing that meant a thing to you but thats about all she says about you mostly she just stares off true blue maybe dreaming of what life could've been with or without you and mostly i just stare off too pretending you're out there and this life isn't the only one we ever knew me and tess we were gonna have a baby but we lost it like we lost you and sometimes i think its just meant to be this way long nights and short days rain falling through the sunlight night dreams of running away but i went through a box in the attic last night and found something that made me think things were once alright it was a photo of you and mom taken down south far from these burned out texas lights in the picture you're holding her close the two of u are dancing in the street faded blacks bright whites dancing in that mexico city midnight so if i could go back i wouldn't let you get in that car i'd tell luke you were home sick take your bad luck and burn it in the back yard you'd tell mom you'd stay home you'd listen to a record dream of a better life new days bright nights kiss her forehead and tell us its gonna be alright and if i had known you dad i would've loved you it doesn't matter that you left me that's the way it was i still got these dreams and fake memories and that's the way it's gonna be cause without you there'd be no me but theres a song comin on the radio now that tess and frankie used to sing so im gonna shut up turn it up ill say goodbye see you soon ps i love u

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"i stole tess from frankie the week after my dad died. i actually didn't even know he was my dad. my mom told me who he was after i read his obituary in the paper. pure bad blood heartbreak. over the next few months she told me a little more, but most of it i had to piece together. found some dust and ash here, maybe an old foto, or a word from a stranger. i wandered the streets he might've haunted, picked up some pieces of his life from the gutter and from the men he owed money to, and he owed a lot of money.

things with tess went good for a little, then it all unravelled, and i split out west to the gold coast. broke my jaw fightin in uncle benny's alley. stayed away long enough to miss tess so much it hurt...but trouble always finds you. so you keep runnin."

here are some love letters to all the lost soulzzz - the ones dreaming of 3am highway bliss. here's to the bright nights and better days. i had to say this. i had to paint this broken picture of a life. thanx for listenin. i love u. if i don't c u again...xoxo fozzil

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released March 28, 2013

words & voice by Fossil

all the beats, loops, and samples that were twisted and cut up and burnt down to ash in order to make this wounded recording were found. some were buried in the dirt, others were found on half-broken machines, some were hiding in heartbreak alley's, lying like dead things on the side of the road, or howling from those old records that won't stop spinning in my brain.

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