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These Are The Giants We Know

by Andross

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1.
you lie to get what you want from the people you know you can try but it won't work you can try but it won't work you would like to remain the victim of some tragedy you cause it's your own fault don't forget that when you talk well it's hard not to break when you're fragile not to break character and act casual (try not to be lonely, try not to be lonely) well it's all in your mind when you think it's real free yourself from yourself when you laugh it off I still hold the gun I think it's smoking for you... I don't know why you've been trying to get under my skin you can try but it won't work you can try but it won't work I've grown impervious to your rouse and your childishness so be fruitful, you bastard, and mulitply
2.
Oh my, the moon is on fire Up, up a little bit higher Take it away, take it away Whenever you feel like I've given you too much power Let me take it away There are nights when the wolves are silent and the moon howls I can hear it now... Oh my, look what I see Come, Josephine, in my flying machine Leading the way, leading the way Whenever you feel like letting it go Hold it closer Don't throw it away I can hear it now
3.
this is a clarion call for muscles, teeth, and failing eyes an arising mental market to misapply and anesthetize through the eyes of the one true maker you would vow to see things clearer you would love to expose the truth and let the cloak keep wearing you it's wearing you... well c'mon, c'mon, c'mon you know you gotta give me a name known to verbalize or write this down on paper c'mon, c'mon, c'mon I know you know exactly who you blame it's makeshift remorse at least make yourself suspect this is the final frame a capping on the all-seeing eye through the eyes of the one true maker you would vow to see things clearer you would dare to make things safer let go on good behavior I hope you remember the secret handshake don't forget the secret handshake It's here, the zero hour time to order the new world
4.
I'm already stepping off the ledge of circumstance and now I'm dying to know will there ever be a place to mend this severance in here or down and below? I fear the worst to come I'd hang here to stay close to the precipice where I'll lay the weapons down a tightrope of loose ends I tangle I tangle, it tangles me up I've come to spin a new web and when it catches you, you'll feel loved it tangles me up Falling to the bottom, at the end towards the black a home within the shadows if we're never coming back and that's where I'll find you The margins closed in on me they crept up on me they compromise on my composure and that's where I could wait for you
5.
I just can't believe what I just can't see I'd hate to trouble you but I'd love to trouble you There's an uncertainty in the air that we breathe There's one big question with no answer yet But I'd love to ask you it... (I'd love to ask you it) When your train left town when you wanted to go, was it a silent sound? I just wanted to know who you put your hands together for when you pray for me I'd just like to thank you all for the kind words you send for your forgiveness and the ear that you lend I'll put my hands together for... you made it safe for me when it seemed too far I'd hate to trouble you but I'd love to trouble you I hope you know I hold you in the highest regard you gave me everything when I had nothing to return Now, I just wonder how you are wherever you are I'd love to ask you this I'd love to ask you this (how you are, how you are, how you are...) I'd love to ask you this I'd love to...
6.
self incendiary dead-space why and how the window breaks on her horses riding onward like needles through her grace if by demons I be driven, this would lose all meaning the murderer is alive in here no exceptions needing nothing seems to work... selling fingers to the bone so let's cut through the unknown without the image of ourselves on the horizon of a human we've obscured what we live for the hope of spring is overflowing the hope of spring is over upon our monument, our birthright see where the cells implode if it were me, the parts would be immortal in a sea of sadness (the beast of our war machine will stampede on the color they hide, the whites in their eyes, the whites...) If I'm supposed to read what's written underneath the soul then a soul is all I need Narrate me down from here if you follow to where I lead
7.
a step outside, I think you're first courage like a lion's mane these idle hands will stain the keys I wonder how and when the creature strikes Jesus uncrowned, torture's lament plays the song that's in my head where do I stand? and how tall? and who are you to complete my solitude? The marriage of cause and effect truth means truth and consequence when the planet dulls, a hero shines graphic depiction division swollen from the ranks stolen from the military the bombs and tanks a simple complex a complex simple I'm two at once... You have the clear upper hand here and I'm still holding fire You should have kissed me to death instead you shoot shoot shoot I wanna jump in the way are they waiting? or is it just black? are they waiting?
8.
for all we care, we've known for quite a while something borrowed, something's missing in here for all we are concerned for one another the ruling class rules out the tower's tier well Ticonderoga! I'm the narrow mind well Ticonderoga! I've been narrow-minded I'm the narrow mind... I've been dying to reach you, to meet you one time I've been watching you walk on the walls in a straight line I know hundreds of names, epithets to describe you I've been dying to meet you one time There goes the ghost of common law... there goes the one we cannot speak for... Are you at all ready to welcome in the greatest mind of our time? He shook the hands, he pleads the oath and wears the finest suit we could find Distribute the wealth
9.
the far-off hum in the distance is calm and it's coming it must have struck a nerve within I think we both had time and time again before the baphomats say twofold and poison the cup I'd rather hear it from you I'd really rather hear it from you I can't say we ever have met I can't say we ever have laid eyes I'd hate to be so forgetful I've never forgotten it... It got me runnin', man It got me runnin' south It taught me nothing at all when early comes the winter's bite To be impervious to a proposed second-coming is to swim alone at sea thank heavens that's not for me (things could worsen up) You were right to disconnect in the short time you were here what was there really to profit? did you feel the blame on top of your old skin? were you grateful?
10.
and there will be no justice for us if we keep stepping on our dreams if we leave the summer in good condition and there will be a right time and I will get there first and I'm still determined in a narcissistic way flood walls fill the room I hope they're washing you away just don't wander off don't go wandering away two years later he returned with the law and said that he was looking for the man who shot his paw I found myself saying "who would stay here?" but you made it clear it's the sight of living angels dying secret deaths in the corner and why hold up the heavens if they're just meant to be taken by storm? burn it down take it by storm finding little answers in the questions you neglect
11.
I could elope with distaste for a fruitless demigod wronged by the world in the short sense emboldened by the long of it I could annul how the blood dries and justify it all burn with a fire to tell man the ramparts how we loved you now I'm haunted... trembling slight of hand you're a shrieking heart of gold stretched out your wrinkled smile you're a tailor-made of honor "here's to the coin that fit through I feel it being placed face-down at a view just more silver and gold to lie in the ground" I wouldn't shake your hand and you know I wouldn't miss it you've been so abusive but no one needs to know "His judgement cometh and that right soon" walk among us when you raise the dead where is your ruthlessness? (hold your head until it's comfortable, hold your rituals accountable) creatures in decay no predators and no prey we may not be anything

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These Are The Giants We Know is the first official full-length album from Philadelphia-based rock band Andross.

With a few exceptions, Tim Balch is the only performer on the album, who at the time was auditioning new band members after several previous members left the band in 2013 for other pursuits. He enlisted a new lineup (feat. members of A06 and The Jantones) to play shows throughout 2014-2015 before dissolving the band completely due to internal dysfunction. The band would regroup again with another new lineup the following year.

Watch the music video for "It's Midnight and We're Home"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEG8w_X9VBA

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released August 12, 2014

All lyrics by Tim Balch
All songs written by Tim Balch, except for:
Track #6 written by Balch/Birkhead/Hart

All instruments/vocals performed by Tim Balch, except for:
2nd guitar on Track #6 by Joshua Hart
Additional vocals on Track #6 by Jill Hartman

Produced by Carson Slovak & Tim Balch
Engineered/Mastered by Carson Slovak @AtriumAudio in Lancaster, PA during the months of January thru June of 2014

Cover Art by Robert W. Walker

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Andross Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tim - vox/guitar
Chris - guitar/vox
Drew - bass
Tom - drums

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