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Rest

by Try The Pie

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    "Alu'a" is the Tongan word for goodbye when you are staying and the other person is going. "Rest" is an album dedicated to this sentiment. I wrote the songs over a duration of three years (2005-2008) and recorded it in the last year by myself in my room in San Francisco. Sometimes you can hear someone doing dishes or the beep of a dying smoke-detector. This album is an example of the slow, whispering tempo, slanted harmonies and embellished metaphors that I grew up listening to.

    These recordings would have never been possible be it not for the help and generosity of my friends who lived in that house on Thomas Ave. (Jay, Sandra, Sylvia, Erika, Skip, Mander).

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1.
It would be so nice To wake up with your face in mine. 'Cause I want it for a second time, I want it and I don't know why. All my hours are spent just thinkin That all my hours are a waste It doesn't bother me. 'Cause I know I say a lot of things And I know you say a lot of things about me. It has to be quiet now The neighbors upstairs complained again. I have another month or so Before I'm free to leave Before I can go. Oh, will I hear from you when I get home? And will you be there when I get going again? Because, sometimes, I find it's so hard To be just your friend.
2.
hey, hey why are you acing this way? you let me know you want to be alone but hey, why are you acting this way? why so glum chum, you make me feel so dumb when you don't explain you just push me away. it's been days, it's been days without sayin a word but i heard you were angry. so why on earth wont you speak to me? if anything you can always count on me. and it's true, i've been in love with you since the sky turned blue, started holding up the moon the bird will sing to the flowers in the spring the stars will blink more times than you can even think hey, hey why are you acting this way?
3.
oh it's so cold outside and i just can't stand to be away for so long it's breakin my heart just like it always did oh it's so cold outside and it's making me feel less alive just like the statues in the park crying their eyes out and turning into rust and oh, it's so cold outside and i just can't stand to be away, so far it's breakin my heart to be so far apart even the robins in the sky seem to sulk as they pass me flying by and soon they wont even leave their trees singing "please!please!please! stop the rain for me"
4.
willing 01:08
take it off it's getting so hot and it's getting so hard i like your moves boy it's all up to you boy so if you want it you can take it all. it's so easy to fall it's coming so fast i dont know if this will last but i'm willing to work
5.
bunkbed 02:26
your faith in it was failing dirty thoughts that were impaling our heads, the things you said and didn't mean. i could almost guarantee that you'd forget all about me as soon as i'd decide to leave. bottom bunk is where we hid with all those noisy things we did hoping your mom would never hear a thing it's not that we were lonely or that we loved each other only it's just the only way we knew how to be. and i knew i had to say goodbye to your bunkbed and i wont lie i'll miss it more than i'll miss you sometimes 'cause that thing was super sturdy stayin up until 3:30 making noises we never knew we could
6.
alu'a 03:14
as big as a whale i watched you float out to sea and as you got farther, you got harder to see. was it tectonics that rumbled beneath? built you volcanoes for your big eyes to see? what it the ocean or maybe the clouds that made you think bigger and leave me without? until finally you were gone for good. with a heart as big as a car fit for four i'll miss all the action that i don't see anymore eyes as big as my hands and your fins as tough as the land that you came from and left from, to never see again. as big as your tail that swam on it's own pushed me to shore one day and left me alone until finally you were gone for good.
7.
f.y.i. 01:58
oh darlin wont you come save me from the monsters? they're get scarier by the minute. it's true, i could probably sleep alright without you by my side but i don't wanna risk it. no, i don't wanna risk it. to be quiet honest with you, i've had this feeling all along and it's been eating at my bones. and i know you probably think it's strange that i waited all this time to tell you so. and i'm sorry. but but, the monsters they are comin and they don't look very happy and i'm afraid that they might get me so i really have to hurry. i just wanted you to know that you're only one who can save me from them yeah i just wanted you to know that you're the only one. at least i believe so.
8.
i suggest me take a walk today i hope you don't forget the things i say when i say them to you. you always think that i'm not listening when you're talking to me but i'm listening to you. today is the hottest day of the year so far it's breaking records and it's breaking hearts i gotta get outta the house or i just might burn up with all this talk about fallin in love. i need more time to walk on i need more air to breathe so i will stay right in a summer that's been good to me we'll keep it hot just like we should because we both know too much while everybody's talkin about fallin in love while everybody's thinkin about fallin in love
9.
eight 02:42
oh little spider come crawl up my neck and tell me all your secrets that i should not forget you say two arms are only good for love but eight are much better for getting shit done and though i believe you i still hesitate and i know i am already too late was it you who watched the fall? was it you who ruined it all? and i know the grab is too thick and the nets too sticky and i can't get out of it but still i try. oh little spider see what you've done? life is so much better when you live like you have one when you are using all eight it seems so dull to know that you are superior over all.
10.
seahorse 02:32
i am stuck under water and i am slowly sinking into the sand my love has left me for something new just like i always knew she would do the sea is swarming and it feels so divine just wish this feeling could last all of the time but the tide is turning, pushing me away and i do get farther each and every day the deepest blue isn't deep enough for me and i have found that even underneath the sea life is so lonesome and creatures are cold and all you do when your born is grow old.
11.
legs 02:56
why can't i just stay if you want me to stay? why must i obey such uninformed legs they don't know, they don't know how cold the world can be they don't know, they don't know how warm you were to me. why must i behave in such incongruent ways you'll constantly say that i'm always changing names i don't care if it's wrong i want always to belong to your heart, to your arms magnanimous and strong and though they tire of split desires and though they'll walk for far too long my legs go. why can't i speak when you want me to speak? cause i know that you'll always wanna be between the sheets and i know, i know that you do love me so yes i know, and i know, but somehow my legs go
12.
like trains 03:54
go on and magnify your dreams for us aren't dignified and our hearts could never think up why you let the great thing pass us by hold tight to steady rail bends there's no going back again from anthill to atmosphere our bodies are all pulled down here and the horizon is quiet and clear a good goal for when we lose our ears you wont sit to worry about who's in those passing windows crawling across whole continents and oceans i've learned to just give it all up and if it means never really arriving then well, we'll have to deal with that luck cause we've know oceans, we've known lands we know it's work done with our own hands though your documents say differently. we are men but more like trains though you cannot pronounce our names sturdy arms for our posterity. we can't go back to a home we only half-left we can't return with our languages unlearned. hold tight to steady rail bends there's no going back again.
13.
It started way down at the very bottom Clung tight to the Earth and it's pull And the water ran up, just enough For us the sprout out and spread. And yeah, I am the fruit of ages spent waiting For the dirt to erupt or the sea to rise up And now I've got nowhere To rest my head. Watch our bodies move away Never taught just how to stay. A curse we learned from far away A curse we hope to shake one day.

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"Alu'a" is the Tongan word for goodbye when you are staying and the other person is going. "Rest" is an album dedicated to this sentiment. I wrote the songs over a duration of three years (2005-2008) and recorded it in the last year by myself in my room in San Francisco. Sometimes you can hear someone doing dishes or the beep of a dying smoke-detector. This album is an example of the slow, whispering tempo, slanted harmonies and embellished metaphors that I grew up listening to.

These recordings would have never been possible be it not for the help and generosity of my friends who lived in that house on Thomas Ave. (Jay, Sandra, Sylvia, Erika, Skip, Mander).

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released June 1, 2008

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