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I'd Rather Be Driving; Skyscrapers

from Eunoia by Invalids

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    Remixed and remastered, packaged in nice cardboard cases and released by Friend of Mine Records in Japan.

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    Finally pressed these songs into HOT WAX; songs are too dumb long to fit on one record so it's a DOUBLE LP BRUH

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about

This (these) song(s) is an arrangement of two songs written many years ago by my friend Stephen Navarrete, appropriately named "I'd Rather Be Driving" and "Skyscrapers." I've been a member of an online songwriting community for about ten years, and these songs have always stood out as my favorites. Steve never did anything with them beyond their tablature-driven MIDI-sequenced origins, so I decided to arrange them for Invalids and record them for real.

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lyrics

Come downstairs
Your dad won’t be there
Drive by her house
Emptied out the back

All the times you ran your mouth
Now suddenly you’re quiet
The broken yellow lines
Swallowed by the headlights


Done pushing around
Talking behind (y)our back

Dug up the ground
Asked you to lay down
No other sound
Asked you to lay down

Whatever it was, whatever I’ve done
I swear I take it all back
When it was done, when it was done
It never really went back

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Showed up early for the train
Jerking into motion
And you jumped across the cars
Rushing towards the back
And you can’t work it out
On your own

And now you've got to work so hard
To stay in the same place
The engine and the iron rails
Will win it either way
All that’s left behind
Its only saving grace
There’s nothing close enough to tell
Just how fast you really go

Take the early evening flight
Packed your bags so long ago
You don’t know if you got it right
What you need and what you left behind

How bad is it?
How bad can it get?

You wash your hands
In holy water
They’re stained with blood

Done with digging holes
To just burry your shovel
Done with tying rope
So high that you can’t reach it

How bad is it?
How bad can it get?

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from Eunoia, released January 31, 2012
Music written by Stephen Navarrete
Arranged by Pete Davis
Lyrics written by Pete Davis

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Invalids started as the bedroom project of Pete Davis (with remote internet-based collaboration with other musicians). As of March 2015, it has grown to a proper four-piece band with the addition of Joe Scala, Raymond Bonanno, and Blair Benzel.

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