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Hillbilly Wit

by Longface

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1.
Crescent moon where have you gone? Recline in my backyard again Crescent moon where have you been? Recline in my orchard again There you are, slamming beers Here we are lying on crescent, watching our fire floating past by and by
2.
3 a.m. here we go cuttin’ holes in my cranium Diggin’ nails out my skull Here we go all alone patty melt Well tell me what you’re thinkin’ Deep Fried American Dreamin’ I love it when you sing them sweet melodies like La la la di da La la la di da ah And when there’s fire in your eyes The billowing smoke comes through your nose And my consciences is gone I don’t know where I’ll end up Who cares I don’t need life in cuffs Who cares I don’t need no lovin’ fuck Oh Susi when you coming home? I can hear you on the microphone Screamin’ sweet melodies like La la la di da La la la di da ah And when there’s fire in your eyes The billowing smoke comes through nose like a smile Deep-fried American dreams Yeah! 4 a.m. diggin’ holes findin’ bones in my skull
3.
Candy store robbers I’m writing you from jail I did my part at the heist when you decide to turn and bail So that’s when I took off on foot and tripped on a curb and fell 15 stitches and a night and jail 15 Stitches and a night in jail They twisted my arms and made me scream But it wasn’t enough to scream your name Because I would never give you up like that Never in a million years I would So don’t you stop running and don’t you look back I’ll see you on the other side of the tracks I’ll see you on the other side of the track Don’t you ever look For lollipops and goopy eyes Licorice and gummy fries Truffle trouble cocoa kites Corn mash wheels and syrup slides Unravel sugar Unravel liver Sweet daffodil Unravel sugar Candy store robbers I’m writing you from jail I did my part at the heist when you decide to turn and bail
4.
Crime Jazz 04:30
Slouched over on a bench tapping my foot and doing my work Twirling umbrellas under eye brows I’m always burnt When the church bells ring and the birds chirp I black out Just another boozy day just another boozy day Shake my fist at the sky and ask, “Why even try?” The mirror keeps punching me in the mouth at night Skipping rocks skipping rocks on muh muh muh muh muh muh mind Slouched over on a bench tapping my foot in the dirt Who’s that person on the bed? Who’s that knocking on the bench at night? Who’s that woozy boozy man with a cane falling off the bench at night? In the morning when I wake up I will talk to my liver about it But for now I will numb every bone in my body In the morning when I wake up I will talk to my liver about it But for now I will find every soulless moan in my body Oh it’s easier When I die in the rhine with my hands in pockets all night Wondering how I’ll talk to anyone who cares about it As for now the hell with it I’m rolling the stone I’m gamblin’ Meet my ghost my friendly ghost Oh it’s easier When I Die Woozy Boozy In the Mirror Oh it’s easier So much breezier Oh it’s easier So much breezier To Die Who’s that woozy boozy man with a cane falling of a bench at night?
5.
My hillbilly wit ain’t acting so quick But I will think of something To chap the bottoms of our hearts And the past is just a stack of clothes piled in the corner Reminding us of stories that we loathed Oh why the long face? It’s so pathetic In the sticks when life was simple Burnin’ ticks in heavy laughter Hittin’ heads on kitchen cabinets Stage blood makes the belly batter So double over dirty teeth Snaggn’ flies for chili meat Shootin’ cans in the afternoon With uncle Jackie pullin’ the moon So why the long face? It’s so pathetic Why can’t I have a horseshoe up my ass? Oh my! My horseshoe toss ain’t riggin’ your thoughts But I will keep on talkin’ To mash the taters in your heart And the past is just a stack of jokes piled in a folder Reminding us of ringers that we told So why the long face? It’s so pathetic Every time I hear my heartbeat I think I might be dying Every time I hear your heartbeat I think I might be killing you
6.
Ozone 03:53
Swimming through an ozone sinking through a layer of existence Sewing our emotions glued by the virtues that we break Stroking further from our instincts Floating towers baking our brains Carried by the forces that carry out the murders They’re carrying our coffins swimming through the ozone Carried by the forces that carry out the murders They’re carrying your flowers swimming through the ozone And they face the sun propel yourself to the crest until it’s gone And we hide behind our family stones to block the trash that flies at them And we glide swimming in the ozone And we hide swimming through the ozone And we ride swimming through the ozone
7.
Howdy 02:13
Open your eyes and see the open hand This land is the best you’re standing in And the hardest part of it all is when you open up and you Build a bridge to mend a broken heart You swerve to hard and never make it far The hardest part of it all is when you open up And see the light of day Hola, Nǐ hǎo, Marhabaan, Ciao Ciao The hardest part of it all is when you open up And you hear your own voice inside screaming for that line to Relax, open up your heart and say hello Open your eyes to see the open hand
8.
Pace 02:35
Pacing in doubt with you I cannot Pacing around in love I can’t deny your sadness Pacing around so lost I will not Pace around with lost intentions Like dust bunnies ruining our lungs
9.
They peeped at us through spaces in the leaves Humming hymns and chopping limbs from our frail bodies hanging in the wind Haunted by our families for good And we do what we gotta do when we gotta do what we gotta do for food And we do what we gotta do when we gotta Hear from the angels In a heart of mold you know that you are dead and gone When you raise your hands and the ceiling is on your palms And you hear from the angels I wanna give but I need to take more I wanna live but I need to break more Silent children savage ways Beggin’ for another day Beggin’ for a good meal Beggin’ for a real home In your heart of mold you know that you are dead and gone When you raise your hands and the ceiling is on your palms I wanna give but I’m gonna take more I wanna live but I’m gonna break more And you do what you gotta do when ya gotta do what ya gotta do for food Do what ya gotta do when ya gotta do what ya gotta do to kill you
10.
Hornswoggled 07:29
We have lost our way as the people We have logged our last day in the sun As they will market you They will target you Open up your wounds and do what they choose for you In your mind you’re free But in your soul you know it ain’t so easy baby No empathy they will break you tear you down easily They will loot you they will defeat you easily Freedom means they will market you they will target you easily freely We can decide our fate if we want to destroy ourselves We can decide our fate if we want to run for cover now Fake my own death to get out of debt Sitting in jail cell Now what? Now what? Now what am I supposed to do with all of my ambition? Farewell to my outlet Goodbye to our contact Hello ozone Goodbye to my home Why do you feel the need to cut the wrist of your own planet? I don’t understand it Why do you think your more special than your neighbor? Your neighbor knows how fucked up your love is Your love is real bad Hello ozone Goodbye to our home

about

Hillbilly Wit is the first full-length record from Chicago rock band Longface.

credits

released October 27, 2017

Released by Sooper Records

Written, Arranged, and Performed by Longface
Lyrics by Anthony Focareto
Engineered and Mixed by Brian Sulpizio
Mastered by Carl Saff

Longface is:

Glennon Curran (guitar)
Anthony Focareto (Vocals, guitar)
Dillon Kelley (bass)
Kain Marzalado (drums, percussion)

Brian Sulpizio plays percussion and pump organ on Track 1 and Guitar on 5 and 8
Annie Burns sings on track 5
Dillon Kelley sings on track 7
Mark Falk plays flute on tracks 1 and 10

Photography by Natalie Escobedo
Artwork by Jennifer Cronin
Layout and Design by Dillon Kelley

Hillbilly Wit Tour
11/2 Kalamazoo MI, Shakespeares
11/3 Saginaw MI, Counter Culture
11/4 Cleveland OH, The Happy Dog
11/5 Rochester NY, Bug Jar
11/6 HELP longfacetheband@gmail.com
11/7 Burlington VT, Big Heavy World **
11/8 Cambridge MA, Massasoit Elks Lodge **
11/9 Portland ME, Apohadion Theater **
11/10 Hamden CT, Counterweight Brewing **
11/11 Brooklyn NY, Alphaville
11/12 New Brunswick, NJ **
11/13 Philadelphia PA, Kung FU Necktie **
11/14 Washington D.C., 453
11/15 HELP longfacetheband@gmail.com
11/16 Cincinnati OH, The Comet
11/17 HELP longfacetheband@gmail.com
11/18 Champaign IL, The Cowboy Monkey
11/27 Chicago IL, The Empty Bottle (RELEASE SHOW)
11/29 Milwaukee WI, The Cactus Club **
11/30 Madison WI, Williamson Magnetic **
12/16 Chicago IL, Health & Beauty, Spencer Radcliffe, The Falbonauts

Longface (solo) aka Broken Pony Land
w/ Bad History Month

01/05 - Chicago, IL @ Ian's Party *
01/06 - Urbana, IL @ Flynn's Arcade *
01/07 - Springfield, MO @ U.School *
01/08 - Tulsa, OK @ Spinster Records *
01/10 - Albequerque, NM @ Gold House *
01/11 - Flagstaff, AZ @ The Hive *
01/12 - Yuma, AZ *
01/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Non Plus Ultra *
01/14 - Oakland, CA *
01/15 - Sacramento, CA @ Press Club w/ Pregnant and Yawza *
01/16 - Davis, CA @ Armadillo Records (5:30pm) *
01/17 - Chico, CA @ Exhibition Dungeon *
01/18 - Eugene, OR *
01/19 - Portland, OR @ Reed College *
01/20 - Bellingham, WA @ Alternative Library *
01/21 - Vancouver, BC @ Stylus Records *
01/22 - Abbotsford, BC @ The Car Port *
01/23 - Olympia, WA @ Le Voyeur (7 pm) *
01/24 - Seattle, WA @ Grumblezone *
01/25 - Tacoma, WA @ Real Art Tacoma
01/26 - Portland, OR @ House Show w/ Binary Marketing Show *
01/27 - Corvallis, OR @ Mona's Place *
01/28 - Eugene OR @ Sam Bonds Garage
01/29 - San Francisco, CA *
01/30 - San Luis Obispo, CA *
01/31 - Santa Barbara, CA *
02/01 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar *
02/02 - Los Angeles, CA *
02/03 - Phoenix, AZ *
02/04 - Tuscon, AZ *
02/05 - El Paso, TX *
02/06 - Austin, TX @ Beerland *
02/07 - Houston, TX *
02/08 - Baton Rouge, LA *
02/09 - New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar w/ Pope & Shame *
02/10 - Birmingham, AL / Macon, GA *
02/11 - Atlanta, GA *
02/12 - Athens, GA *
02/13 - Nashville, TN *
02/14 - St. Louis, MO *
02/15 - Murray, KY @ Terrapin Station *
02/16 - Chicago, IL *
02/17 - Cincinnati, OH *

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