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Basic Cable

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When I was a young boy My mama said to me "There's only one girl in the world for you And she probably lives in Tahiti." I'd go the whole wide world Go the whole wide world just to find her Or maybe she's in the Bahamas Where the Caribbean Sea is blue Weeping in the tropical moonlit night Because nobody's talking about you I'd go the whole wide world Go the whole wide world just to find her I'd go the whole wide world Go the whole wide world To find out where they hide her Or maybe my mama grew up engulfed In a fantasy of love supreme Riding on a coal train out of town As a heroine in a dream When the world started cracking my daddy split My mama stayed in her dreams just to ground her As reality crumbled she was lost within The world she was forming around her I'd go the whole wide world Go the whole wide world just to find her I'd go the whole wide world Go the whole wide world To find out where they hide her
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Parts 02:17
Someday our paths will tangle On a night without an end A chance and not a gamble As unannounced as it began Our eyes begin the painting Our voices bend the truth No words to change their meaning The paint begins to move There is not a logic to it Some things are just starts And even though we crave completion Sometimes life’s just parts Your past in deep vermillion My jokes in black and blue A bruised amalgamation Mixing rhythms into hues The goal is not completion But rather to have done The painting drips and glistens In the pale and rising sun Our clothes are strewn around us As emptied as our minds Still lost in carnal pleasures Leave nothing left behind There is not a logic to it Some things are just starts And even though we crave completion Sometimes life’s just parts
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all the plans you make all the things you’ve done all the ways you think that you are they don’t mean you will they don’t hold you still they don’t make you real they just are all your thoughts break down all the cars break down all your thoughts need parts just like cars and they take up time and they make more time and they waste your time just like bars all the lives you dream all the songs you sing all the hopes you still keep alive they won’t hold you tight they won’t make things right they won’t still be there when you’ve died so the plans you make and the things you’ve done all the ways you think that you are they are all just maps they are all just words but they still define all you know
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There’s too much bramble in the road There’s a man getting young as his brain gets old And when the space of his time corrodes The man doesn’t notice at all As the memories fade and blur What’s worth of all the life they were But if these stories that are shared endure It’s worth it like an echoed call When you call my name Cold like the ice in your veins I can feel the friction baby Feel just a little shakey There’s too much bramble in the road There’s a man getting young as his brain gets old And when the space of his time corrodes The man doesn’t notice at all As the memories fade and blur What’s worth of all the life they were But if these stories that are shared endure It’s worth it like an echoed call When you call my name Cold like the ice in your veins I can feel the friction baby Feel just a little shakey
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Words 02:39
Everyone’s a genius When no one else is talking Thoughts electrifying Like fingers in a socket And then your mouth starts moving And everyone sound stupid Cause all your thoughts are lonely as The mouth that lets them loose is I wonder when you’re only a thought away from dying Is there an urge to share it or just take it to the grave Cause I think that thoughts are only as good as they can be shared It’s not what your thinking but who you’re thinking with If your only speak in answers and quote regurgitations Your actively ignoring the thoughts of who you’re facing Or maybe thoughts aren’t verbal and to exist they need a casing But even the most descriptive words are just approximations I wonder how much faith you can really put in words If they never can express the way they exist inside your head Or maybe thoughts are only a way to process living And words are just the byproducts that need to be expelled Words are just like symbols the fun is in the speaking Words hold on to meaning like a cup that always leaking Understanding only exist within a context Maybe conversations are just reflections of responses But words can hit your heart like a bullet ripping through it Words can hold your thoughts like a prisoner of war Words can live forever in your head and never leave you People come and go but words just stick around
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Screams 03:48
The first thing I remember was her scream Like she was to full of life to keep it in Overjoyed and bursting at the seams Her thoughts and reasons mixed up with her dreams I’ve never met a girl so lost and so direct The second thing I noticed were her stories and her neck Both were soft and quivering and running through my head I’ve never been so lost and so direct You will always be my girl Even in different worlds And I will always break your heart But I’m sorry for that part She said here life was like La Jetée A handful of pictures with a thousand things to say But no one understood her so they thought she was insane They couldn’t see the beauty past her brain They pumped her full of drugs till she couldn’t feel her thoughts The world she used to love was a world she’d just forgot She started to get shy and her stares replaced her screams Her eyes now tinted windows to her dreams You will always be my girl Even in different worlds And I will always break your heart But I’m sorry for that part Her parents call and blamed me for the way she used to cry And the screams and the laughter and the sparks inside her eyes They told me I’d possessed her and I’d strayed her from her path And hopefully the drugs would bring her back But to me it was their daughter who had put me in a spell She took me to a precipice and smiled as she fell To her it wasn’t falling it was flying to the ground I never had the guts to watch you drown You will always be my girl Even in different worlds And I will always break your heart But I’m sorry for that part
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She explains, reeducates and reasons but He don’t hear her over his own voice He tries to drown her in his confidence But she says water it won’t hold me No your water it won’t hold me She picks apart his didactic stance Her erudition leaves him stranded out at sea As she swims to shore she can hear he scream This water it can’t hold me No this water it can’t hold me I see it all coming down like a water snake I see it all coming down like a water main break I see it all coming down like a water snake I see it all coming down like a water main break When you’ve lived so long in a world you own It’s hard to see the fear within a smile Or the nuances of an empty stare When there’s nothing to hold or hold you back Oh there’s nothing to hold or hold him back When the system fails and erodes all trust The rotten pipes just buckle bend and bust As the water pours and the rafters shake The deluge leaves heaven in it’s wake The deluge leaves heaven in it’s wake I see it all coming down like a water snake I see it all coming down like a water main break I see it all coming down like a water snake I see it all coming down like a water main break
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Ohio 03:25

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released September 21, 2021

Sharon Ettinger - Vocals
Sei Smith - Guitars, Vocals
Vlad Svyrydenko - Bass
Sasha Altskan - Drums

Recorded and Mixed by George Stroud

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Casper Television was raised by a couple dogs and a kind mailman. They began playing music at a young age bonding one their mutual love of hair. Soon they were writing songs, learning words, and living in a house.

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