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Coping Systems

by Buffalo Buffalo

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1.
Heavy Hair 03:38
I know that our bodies wrapped up would be faulty even though you thought that you knew me. You grab my hand and gently pull me forward. I’ve been waiting for so long my fingerprints combined with yours. Your hair, it clings to my feet wrapping up to my knees. Thick and black as calligrapher’s ink, it tangles inside me. It’s heavy. It knots inside me. I know that our bodies wrapped up would be faulty. We’ve been treading water for weeks now. My body’s failing and you’re no help.
2.
Cavity 03:04
There on your front porch you breathed a black cloud over me. Your idealism, your coping systems threatening. That toothy smile looks too familiar. I would like to rip those teeth from their cozy jaw homes one by one. Or would I rather crack my teeth on your teeth– tongue squeezing violently between the fractured vessels? I’m tasting metal. There on your front porch with that weighty black cloud over me. My tapped synapses, exhausted nerve cells firing. My heart, it races. My body’s bracing. I’m coming clean. I reach the pliers back in my own mouth– restructuring.
3.
Your dog’s been sleeping in your room. On top of your bed he waits for you. And hacked to bits like your mother was– he won’t lay down ‘til you show up. He’ll wait there to lick your fiberglass eyeballs that splinter from blinking. Mom’s been gone since her last birthday. Dad’s been smoking cigarettes since May. Ear to ear, his whiskey bottle skin stretches an awful lot when you walk in.
4.
I can’t lay down to rest until I’ve broken down the piles left of iron at the factory and walk home through the snow for so long There my young son waits for me by the fireplace cracklin’, sucking heat from the farthest rooms where his mother never sleeps. Snapped bones pile up in the middle of the columns there inside the construction site. Some strange and some I’ve known for so long I walk a mile high with a safety line It keeps slipping further up, up my spine.
5.
Melatonin 02:43
I won’t be held down. It’s bed time now. Black swine–they swallow, they bite, and they burrow. Please God wake me now. Let me out. I’m scanning for limbs that hold me to my bed. I may never wake up. It’s too important. I’m taking chances, but nothing’s coming, and I need answers: a sleeping pill every day of the week.
6.
Showerhead 03:52
I wanted to fight but I couldn’t quite ball up my fists or bare my teeth. I’m telling you I tried beating on that door. This has taken its toll on me while you were sitting at home–quiet. With your pet rabbit you lay on the floor while I was out with my friends. The showerhead dripped out icy cold. It ran in the dark while you sat in the tub. I’m telling you I tried beating on that door.
7.
Sunspots 02:39
A leather smile tipped me off. Everyone here smells like salt. Granules sink into my arms. A salty film peels off. I’d live anywhere but this town. Even the dogs evacuated. The dogs evacuated and the fleas took on the town. Blame it on the salt.
8.
Other Drugs 02:43
I found out where you lived without any help from your friends, and came to your house that night. Tossed rocks at your window. You sent phony invitations to everyone You sent phony invitations and they fell for it. You sent phony invitations. Their dripping jowls smile now. You stood behind your screen door and urged me to please go home. But I’ll stand guard all night. I’ll stand guard all night.
9.
Cowboy 02:57
I can’t stay here any longer. All my friends stopped growing older. I can’t stay here. When I was ten years old I was stealing the shoes from all of the neighborhood back doors. I was told I’d live in a house on a hill when I was older and mature. But the light in your eyes showed you bought all the lies that you heard when you were younger. I can’t stay here any longer. All my friends stopped growing older. I can’t stay here.

credits

released July 26, 2014

Recorded
in the back room
June 2014

Engineer:
David Settle

Mastering:
Azimuth Mastering

Artwork:
Steven Sampaio

Gang Vocals:
Jack Vermillion
Mike Jones
Will Linscott

Gear:
Jon Moore

Songs:
Buffalo Buffalo -
Graham Crainshaw - v/g
Paul Chapman - b/v
John Cyr - d

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Buffalo Buffalo Tallahassee, Florida

Over the course of the better part of 3 years and across the better part of Northeast Florida, Buffalo Buffalo found its eventual footing and sound firmly in the rolling hills of Tallahassee.

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Graham Crainshaw
Paul Chapman
John Cyr
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