Collide, by The Toy Garden

Collide

by The Toy Garden

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1.	Blood Letting 11:03	lyrics
Blood Letting These halls go on forever.  They fade into the distance. I’m crawling towards the exit.  My hands are bleeding rivers. Descend into the empty.  My Blood my only weapon. Crawling.  Falling.  Bleeding.  Healing. Scope it out. It’s in me now.  I’m crawling for the exit. Bleed me out and drown me now.  I’m crawling for the exit.
2.	Is It Happiness; or Just Relief 11:45
3.	Pieces (Lessons in Lost Sleep) 09:51	lyrics
looking back / watching the way our paths have / crossed & changed broken lines / patterns of light like fingers / spread over eyes so far away / from what we were so far away / from what we want - sometimes i crawl / out of my head to catch a glimpse / only to return again the morning's hard & cold / levels me clean against pillows / and sheets all i saw of you / were fragments of light fractured yet still whole / my hands & your bones at the end of this / long & lonesome road sick of promising / everything's fine left with pieces / lessons learned in lost sleep - so far away / from what we were so far away / from what we want i'm waving goodbye i'm waiting, goodbye closed fist / open plam my hands / your bones
4.	You Drown Me 05:54	lyrics
I’m living on the ceiling and I’m wondering where you are.  I’ve got these little feelings, but they’re never very smart.  We’ve all these ways to medicate, but none to bring you home.  I’m sitting on the ceiling feeling very much alone. I guess it’s time to dress my best and wander through this town.  Forget the mess and fuck the rest, it won’t be me that drowns.  I’ll climb the heap, the highest peak, just to look around.  I’ll look for days through broken teeth and never hear a sound. We fall apart these days. You found me. You drowned me.
5.	Release; Relinquish 04:38
6.	Being & Nothingness 07:15	lyrics
I caught a glimpse in the mirror today.  Reddish streaks and a foggy haze.  I scraped bare hands to see my face.  I was not the same. I splashed water on my face today.  Cold shock to wake my sense.  These knuckles will never be clean.  I cannot see your face.
7.	Hope is a Vessel 06:37
8.	There Will Be Nothing Capable of Seperate Existence 03:45
9.	We All Dissolve 11:18	lyrics
We’ve dropped in the sea.  It overtakes me. The salt. It fills up my lungs.  We all dissolve. Venus. Venus.  Why do you burn in the sea? I’m the one that burns.
10.	Why Do You Burn in the Sea? 03:13

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Collide is the first full length album I've written and recorded without a band. It has been a very long process. This is by far the heaviest album I have ever written, and I will most likely never write anything like it again. Many of these songs were written for old albums and thrown out or cut because they did not fit the sound I was going for at that time. It felt like the right time to release them along with some newer, louder, and more powerful songs I wrote during the recording process. I could not have done this without the support of my wife or close friends who inspire me daily.

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released February 29, 2016

All instruments were written and recorded by William Alan. Danny Lopez of Table Top Joe wrote and recorded vocals on Blood Letting, You Drown Me, Being & Nothingness, and We All Dissolve. Alex Boston of Losing Skin wrote and performed the vocals on Pieces.

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