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True South

by Dead Frets

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1.
BROKE & HEARTED I guess it's true what they say about the broken hearted and from my window I can see a light in darkness They speak in cliches like 'better days are coming,' but I know better so when I hit the ground I'm running We don't have to spend the rest of our lives living in shells of a former life Our days are counting down, let's try to get it right I've made my way town to town across the endless seas I've searched for nothing proud, nothing discovered me But back here in the claws of family and friends I found a resting place and never left again We don't have to spend the rest of our time living in shells of a former life We don't have to fight on no one's side or turn away love when the moment strikes Our days are counting down, let's try to get it right Our days are counting down, so let's light up the night Our days are counting down, we're gonna be alright
2.
Curtain Call 02:46
CURTAIN CALL Lay me down by the river in a cold Cascadian town let me shake off the shivers as the night comes racing down because the man in the mirror's got a plan behind his frown and the hand of the Giver's got another on the trigger of the gun it's wrapped around So when the curtains come to call let 'em come and let 'em fall I hold this moment above all Lay me down in the city as the moon crosses the sky I'm only here for the pity lest the blood catches your eye And does it number the guilty in the passers passing by? It's your delusion of a city, boy it ain't fucking pretty and in the light neither am I So when your life becomes your wall let it build and let it fall And when the darkness takes us all let it come and let it fall So when the curtains come to call let 'em come and let 'em fall I hold this moment above all
3.
I'm Not Mad 02:27
I'M NOT MAD So what if it's a love song, so what if it's mellow soft, passive and slow Violence is a virtue, but anger took my soul as it tends to do I'm told I got old But I'm not mad anymore I've got plans I'm planning for and if the whole world abandons me I wouldn't fault them for anything This guitar gave me a falling, and Jessie you were right it's painted my hindsight So when you're fighting and you're stalling just remember you've got time but not enough to waste your time like I did mine But I'm not mad anymore I've got plans I'm planning for and if the whole world blames me I wouldn't fault them
4.
Come Home 02:42
COME HOME Baby, I know you've filled up your days and lately I've been chasing a flame, and baiting, and biting, too much to take but love is for fighting and finding a place So come home when you want to know that you've got a place in these arms you can go come home Baby, it seems like there's no road to take and I am an island. But you are the waves beating upon my shores every day. Love is for fighters, and finding a way So come home when you want to know that you've got a place in these arms you can go come home
5.
THE GREENEST GRASS We lay our weapons down surrendering voluntarily to passion and belief and kiss the stable ground we finally have the chance to breathe free We see it now, the steady hand of us was you, was me It's turning out the greenest grass was right under our feet We searched for eager eyes desperately needing some belief and we found em in our reach at all of the wrong times apparently we searched but couldn't see the moments our eyes would meet We see it now, the steady hand of us was you, was me It's turning out the greenest grass was right under our feet
6.
Maybe 02:00
MAYBE I've been watching the clouds as they're gathering and the sky starts falling down I've been wearing a loud, shit-eating grin as the silence fills this town I gotta believe that no one should be alone at seventeen but life in a cage isn't how my life will be, she said Maybe, just maybe I won't go home tonight I'll chase a days worth of dying light and settle down where I can feel alive Been vapid and frayed for a lifetime now and a bit more every day They call it a plague of mistaken vows but absolve of any blame I gotta believe they both could up and leave but convince themselves to stay, 'cuz life in a cage ain't as bad as it could be but maybe, just maybe they don't make it home tonight and years of finding ways to disconnect cone to a sad and uneventful end
7.
Pain 03:31
PAIN Stay where you started when the simple starts getting tough and everything you do never amounts to enough unless you're waiting for the world to fill your cup, then give it up Call it torture of the art or call it what you will when gazing through the haze requires a drink and a pill and buying into despair is the worst endearment to feel, but still This pain, it's more of the same When your world only tries to break does it try in vain? This pain, it's more of the same I thought I'd grown out of my mistakes but I never change If they aren't waving you goodbye inside a rear view mirror when you go or waiting patiently when you get home then all the in between (the ghosts and demons that grow) won't be alone when you dive into the deep and through the looking glass and you find all the things you thought you'd shared have passed from your mind, like a love that was supposed to keep you alive, thrown aside This pain, it's more of the same When your world only tries to break does it try in vain? This pain, it's more of the same I thought I'd grown out of my mistakes but I never change
8.
MARGINS AND NOTES It's lonely in this head without you and I can't even call you, I can't even think I'm sorry I drove you into leavin' I drove you to believin' that you ruined everything Maybe we'll find ourselves, or find the best parts of how we felt, but the words that I wrote in the margins and notes I'm keeping to myself It was lonely in this bed beside you where I could never find you fighting for anything I'm sorry you lied about the waitin' and I lied about the savin' and we ruined everything Maybe we'll find ourselves, or find the best parts of how we felt, but the words that I wrote in the margins and notes I'm keeping to myself

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Jared Stinson's efforts beyond his punk band SIC WAITING see him deliver a new take on the timeless American folk style with Dead Frets.
Honest, traditionally-rooted songs that explore common themes from loss and sacrifice to love and letting it go, Stinson's new effort True South still rings fresh and true. (JB)

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released March 10, 2017

Recorded at Pizza Cake Productions, Orange, CA, July/August 2016
Produced by Daniel Bubert and Anthony Ciandella
Mixed by Daniel Bubert at Pizza Cake Productions
Mastered by Mike Mulet at Alley Cat Studios, Yauco, Puerto Rico
All Songs Written and Performed by Jared Stinson
Additional Guitars and Vocals by Daniel Bubert
Additional Guitars by Anthony Ciandella
Bass by Daniel and Jared
Drums by Nic Morreale
Accordion on Come Home by Art Kardashian
Back Cover Photo by JB Jakubek
Album Art Design by Chris Shearer
All Songs (c) 2017 Suck In The Smog (ASCAP)

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