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by The Gift

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    The Gift is a band from Washington, DC. See also: thegiftdc.livejournal.com, for light blogging, and amorylucha.org, for label info.

    SHOWS FUTURE:

    Jan 6 Thurs - Washington, DC @ The Black Cat Backstage w/ HEY GIRL, CAT VET
    Jan 8 Sat - Richmond, VA @ Couch Heaven w/ FLETCHETTE, BERMUDA TRIANGLES, CAVES CAVERNS, ASHES VS. LEAVES
    Jan 9 Sun - Knoxville, TN @ Poison Lawn w/ NETWORKS, ARGENTIUM ASTRUM
    Jan 10 Mon - Asheville, NC w/ DISPERSANTS
    Jan 11 Tues - Atlanta, GA @ the Music Room
    Jan 12 Wed - Birmingham, AL @ the Firehouse w/ SMALL BONES, BABY BOY
    Jan 13 Thurs - New Orleans, LA @ the Mudlark w/ NO AGE, SMALL BONES, BABY BOY
    Jan 14 Fri - Baton Rouge, LA @ Perkins Rd Parlor w/ SMALL BONES, BABY BOY
    Jan 15 Sat - New Orleans, LA
    Jan 16 Sun - Tallahassee, FL @ Farside Collective w/ BABY BOY, END TIMES, EX-BREATHERS
    Jan 17 Mon - Gainesville, FL @ 911 w/ BABY BOY, DIET COKEHEADS, EX-BOOGEYMEN
    Jan 18 Tues - Columbia, SC @ New Brooklyn Tavern w/ ZOROASTER, KYLESA, FIGHT AMP
    Jan 19 Wed - Greensboro, NC @ 412 N. Cedar St
    Jan 20 Thurs - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar w/ UNIVERSAL ORDER OF ARMAGEDDON, OAK, REGENTS     ... more
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1.
Corpse Reviver 02:36
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spring is the season of death. eat my heart so i won't be reborn again. i want her back. annihilate myself so she can sleep inside my shell. blown out, rest up, i will never be alone again. sometimes i want her back. i would eviscerate myself so she could sleep inside my shell. i will immortalize your nervous smirk. it slumbers in my armored heart. alas i cannot speak to her: we must suffer apart. blown up, chest out, you will never be alone again. i will be inside that pretty head. you will never be alone again and i will never be your friend.
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Sleep Forever 03:44
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living in a museum to preserve a permanent inhibit. guardian + curator: a legacy of damages deserving nothing. so i supposed, if i could only make myself more scarce. you're aligned with lack, how about that. marked jilted + duped: a reflection of you. mute.
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Mostly in Sickness 05:06
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i am staging a secret sexual protest in your bed while you rest. each morning i dress you and put on your shirt like a reverse birth: hands-and-arms-and-head first. i'd make an excellent mother or an organ donor. some magic has been forgotten, the forests flatten, the only magic that seems real is the magic of confinement. you'd make an excellent father or a serial killer. 3 angels to receive my pain. they up and flew away.
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I Wish You Wouldn't 01:14
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i read your diary. you think i'm crazy, that is just what you make me. i just can't fake it and i'm not gonna make it to 23.
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The Very Great Abyss 02:14
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i return to you and faithless plans. a sinking mass of fat and lapse dying to be true. i'll do anything to keep hallucinating. take poison willfully, sleep on the freeway. it's so appealing: love it to death and make it look like an accident. i was part of this huge romantic gesture. now i'm just doing whatever. crisis to crisis and dust to dust. nothing's coming to save us.

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Recorded by us in the laundry room. 2010. Washington, DC.

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released June 12, 2010

The Gift is: Mikey T (Drums/Chef), Henry "Hank" Mesias (Bass, Safety) Beck Levy (Guitar/Vox, Dark Arts)

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