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  • Limited Edition Blackbird Flashdrive

    USB enabled Flashdive with 4 GB storage capacity includes:

    Meal Ticket To Purgatory (LP)
    Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug (LP)
    Vancouver And All The Reasons Why (EP)
    Songs (EP)
    Heaven On A Branch (LP)
    Let It Goddam Be (LP)

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"'1997' has a shrillness that could give Florence Welch a run for her money"
- Christopher Nosnibor, Whisperin and Hollerin

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This drunken night
And the shock it brings
I said some stuff
And you said some things
You believe in things
That you cannot see
Well, add one to that list
Go ahead and believe in me
Logically
I’m so sorry it had to end
But I'm a better stranger than a friend
We’re no longer a you and me
I guess we felt the wrath of destiny
You command the light
Every night and that’s fine
I enjoyed the height
Of the grayest remnant of a line
It’s for me to know
That your tears taste like blow
It’s for you to find out
That life is writing you off the show
And I must go
I really don’t mean no offense
But you gotta see we didn’t make no sense
There can only be one way
That I can stand to live another day
I haven’t seen you since that night
But I really hope that someday you will write
But you probably won’t, I guess
Seeing as how I never gave my new address

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from Superpowerfragilis: Or How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love The Drug, released January 20, 2010

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