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Stay Champion

by Stay Champion

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1.
I Won't Tell 02:28
Dry your fears stow your tears, spend them somewhere else my dear We'll find a basement to flood, and I won't tell anyone Wash your hands of your own plans, leave the trees and join a band Amber waves at the grain, she's free but she ain't dumb It's a good life it ain't bad, sure beats others that I've had I was a dog I was a cat, I never told anyone It ain't bad it ain't bad it ain't bad it's so good It ain't bad it ain't bad it ain't bad and I won't tell Anyone anything about the starships and the dreams A universe in your eyes and I won't tell anyone
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You're so big I'm so small I'll climb all over you A giant game of leap frog I hope you're not a hopper too Come out and play Come out and play You have trees for your hair and big boulders for your eyes Do you have legs under there hella thunder thighs Come out and play Come out and play Sun is rising I'm awake, you're still sleeping aren't you Misty sheets cloudy pillow case, cock-a-doodle-doo Come out and play Come out and play
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Little Seeds 03:15
If I want to go make me stay If I want to run make me wait and if I should find within no reason to believe then put a few of the faiths you found in me back into me They paint a tear on every clown but they can't can't keep the big top down and I should find within no smile to retrieve then put a few of the smirks you got from me back into me Baby plant it like a seed oh plant them like some little seeds easy come and easy leave we'll see the beauty for the trees and if I'm the unlucky one whose hour glass has more sand to run and if I should find within no rest in sleep then put a few of your ghosts into me come haunt my dreams Baby plant it like a seed oh plant them like some little seeds easy come and easy leave we'll see the beauty for the trees
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They're lining up, and they're settling down cause sometimes in order to buy in you gotta be willing to camp out no, no not me Investments are made, we sleep in whatever beds we lay in we're saving up just enough to buy off every rainy day no more clouds for me Buy buy baby, B-U-Y buy baby when these hymns are making heaven feel a hell of a lot like stealing and I'm no theif So I bought me a car, fill it up with dinosaur the drones keep replacing their bones with the ones from those desert folks dame más gasolina Buy buy baby, B-U-Y buy baby when these hymns are making heaven feel a hell of a lot like stealing This part is the bridge, I know it doesn't sound like it is but it is and your complaint ain't valid we let you put your ballot on the two-party alter
5.
Popemobile 02:12
The pope is coming to town get yourself cleaned up We're gonna go see him in his big glass truck Originality and the original sin Are two things that they tell me to live without within Let me be the one to take you home Let me be the one to take you home Wash your water watch your daughter, I got a date With the captains father pick him up at eight Red white and blue rover send them right over seas from sand to glowing sand we'll plant them dogwood trees from sand to glowing sand we'll plant them dogwood trees Let me be the one to take you home Let me be the one to take you home Let me be the one to take you home I'll make sure that you're never ever alone Unless you just want to be alone then ok.
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Oh my sisters, oh my brothers Oh my misseses my misters and my brave others We will ascend, we will ascend, sing it again, sing it again And we will ride horses, horses made of light horses, horses made of light It do believe we will all see the light Whether from a cross or a star or five uprights Or from within, or from within, sing it again, sing it again Love is a tree, hate 's just a weed, beauty's the seed, and love is a tree Love is a tree, hate 's just a weed, beauty's the seed, we'll be the trees Trees who ride horses, horses made of light we will ride horses, horses made of light We'll cut a hole straight through the night Riding our horses, horses made of light
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You've got a love like, ain't written nothing in the daylight Dream comes to me in the middle of the night, and I can't find a pen So get your head square, if you get me high on what you can spare Then soothe me down from the nightmare The only way you know how So come on, come on, and love me The only way you know how You are a kingdom, an evil empire like the other ones Built on the backs of the millions The only way you know how So come on, come on, and love me The only way you know how And it's a spotlight, you're the man with the stage fright No more curtain for you to hide behind The only way you know how So come on, come on, and love me The only way you know how So come on, come on, and love me, love me, love me, love me
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Costumes 02:15
Standing out there and you're trying to get me Wouldn't even know it if you met me I wouldn't even know it if we lost you Happy Halloween we're all wearing our costumes Once I lost it and then I found it But it was never the same ain't no way around it Everything is changing except the change Some days I don't even know my own name I wish would be I know I should be Half as happy as I could be Some days I don't even want to wake up And I dream I'm asleep and I dream I'm asleep
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Mitsubishi 03:46
The moon has fazes, and it shows all of those different faces and me i'm not so different from that old man, I go from full to half to empty and then back again and though the sun remains the same, burning hot and bright and yellow day after day You can bet that old man will be around, long after that gasbag has burned herself out and I might dim, might dim but I won't ever shut off on you Juliette she told romeo, don't you swear by the moon cause he changes so but one thing that old beauty never knew, is they don't call the moon dim they just call him new and I might dim, might dim but I won't ever shut off on you Don't ever let it go out, don't ever let it go out Keep your foot on the gas and give it choke when in doubt but don't ever let it go out
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Saw that ancient monument that they parked out by the sea and theres a poem written at the foot of it in a language we can no longer read One thing we know from the New Sea scrolls is she was sacred to her citizens They claimed the fire that she holds cleansed the promised land for them You're standing on a valley that was once a mountain strip mined strip malled but that old man so tall gonna stand some day again Our loved ones dear all draw near every 40th of July to celebrate interdependence day as the drones light up the sky and history might repeat but that's okay by us cause it's recorded and sorted by systems exported by the World Union Trust You're standing on a valley that was once a mountain strip mined strip malled but that old man so tall gonna stand some day again You're standing on a mountain that was once a valley filled up built up but that old gal so tough is digging herself free

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released April 20, 2018

Stay Champion is Carl Stovner, Tim Askerov, and Tom Shorey.

Recorded by Keegan Zema and Stay Champion at Gravesend Recording and Tim's apartment. Mixed by Keegan Zema at Spaceman Sound. Mastered by Tom Tierney at Spaceman Sound.

Cover art by Chris Schwartz. Cover photo by Danna Stovner.

Thanks to, Ruben Sindo Acosta, Sweet Lou, Meg Lemieur, Lina Moysis, and Sri Rao.

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Stay Champion New York, New York

Carl Stovner, Tim Askerov, and Tom Shorey live in New York and play energetic rock songs about mountains, japanese cars, the moon, america, trees, circus clowns, halloween, capitalism, and the like. 🏆

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