released June 1, 2018

Carl Creighton
Robin Pahlman
Joe Reichel
Michael Seidenfeld

Guest appearance by Jesse Rifkin on the musical saw

Recorded and Mixed at Seaside Lounge by Charles Burst
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

Arrangements by the band

Yoga artist on cover: Dustin Valenta

This album was inspired by the Radiolab episode The Man Behind The Maneuver: www.radiolab.org/story/273532-heimlich/

DELAWARE

Delaware, who’d wanna live there?
Who cares for Delaware?
I’ve been there, drove through it off to somewhere,
Delaware.

It’s hella dulla in Delaware.

Lazy as a cow, have to leave it somehow.
Sooner or later. Or now.

Hollywood, wooden sign shining so fine!
It’d be divine to see my name up in lights.
Have to find a way to make my ambition pay.
If not tonight, then someday.

If I find a purpose, then I’m set forever…

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Piano
Robin Pahlman: Electric Guitar
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Bass


THROWN LIKE A BONE

Thrown like a bone in the night.
A train-wreck, are the alright?
Through my might they may be spared a calamity!

Long before you knew my name,
Before I knew my own, my home’s
All there was to my world,
My freedom yet unfurled.

Before I saved a life,
How trite my own life seemed.
How stupid all my dreams!

Do they want me, I think they do
Do they need me, I think they do
Do they want me, I think they do
Do they need me, I think they do

Before I saved a life,
How trite my own life seemed.
How stupid all my dreams!

I will hold your head, think about you ’til you’re,
I will hold your head, think about you ’til you’re,
I will hold your head, think about you ’til you’re,
I will hold your head, think about you ’til you’re,
I will hold your head, think about you ’til you’re,
I will hold your head, think about you ’til you’re,
Dead!

Before I saved a life, how trite my own life seemed.

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Synth
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums
Joe Reichel: Bass, Vocals

SOMEDAY I’M GONNA DIE

Don’t let me get overwhelmed by myself,
I’ve got no fences facing me, not any I can see.
I am still at the start, cross my heart
Hope to die, you know it isn’t so.
I truly dread the go.

Someday I’m gonna die,
Someday I’m gonna die,
Why? Why? Why? Why?

Don’t let me get overwhelmed by myself,
I’ve got no fences facing me, not any I can see.

Someday I’m gonna die,
Someday I’m gonna die,
Someday I’m gonna die.
Not right now, I better come up with a strategy
To be the best that I can be!

Someday I’m gonna die,
Someday I’m gonna die,
Someday I’m gonna die,
Someday I’m gonna die!

Someday I’m gonna die!
Someday I’m gonna die!
Someday I’m gonna die!
Someday I’m gonna die!

Someday I’m gonna die!
Someday I’m gonna die!
Someday I’m gonna die!
Someday I’m gonna die!

Why? Why? Why? Why?

Why! Why! Why! Why!
Why! Why! Why! Why!

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Soundbites
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Bass, Vocals

I KNOW THE WAY TO YOUR HEART

I know the way to your heart.
The maneuver to play,
You’re a chart.

There’s no doubting how I love you.
There’s no doubting how I love you.

I know the way to save your life.
Put the vacuum away,
Your steak knife.

There’s no doubting how I love you.
There’s no doubting how I love you.
There’s no doubting how I love you.

Only me can save you.

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums
Joe Reichel: Bass

CHOKING THE DOG

Come here fella, let me feed you!
Don’t you know?
The world needs you!

Let my left hand entertain you
While my right slyly restrains you.

It’s like choking the,
Choking the dog.

Joking God,
Choking the dog.

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Soundbites
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Vocals, Bass

I’VE GOT A MANEUVER

I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?
I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?
I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?
I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?

I’m waiting for the world
To stand behind my back
And put its arms around me
I’ve waited my whole life
To find a purpose,
Now a purpose finally found me.

I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?
I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?
I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?
I’ve got a maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?

Won’t you maneuver with me?
Won’t you maneuver with me?
Won’t you maneuver with me?

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Synth, Soundbites
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Bass, Bass Synth, Vocals

KEEP THE WAVE GOING

Gotta keep the wave going!
It don’t matter where I’ve been,
I gotta keep the wave going.
Where I’ve been I’ll never be again
And there’s no way of knowing
All the shit that I knew then
I gotta keep the wave going.

Enigmaticalness behind every progress.
Secret to my success,
I’m a fool for you, yes.
I’m a fool for me too.

Gotta keep myself open
To the chances that may come,
I gotta keep myself open.
You may lose but then you win some
And there’s no way of knowing
What you did until you’re done.
You gotta keep yourself open…

Enigmaticalness behind every progress.
Secret to my success,
I’m a fool for you, yes.
I’m a fool for me too.

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Slide Whistle, Synth, Soundbites
Robin Pahlman: Rhythm Guitar, E-bow, Slide Whistle
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums
Joe Reichel: Bass
Jesse Rifkin: Musical Saw

THERE GOES MY DELUSIONAL THINKING AGAIN

There goes my delusional thinking again.
When will I learn that it serves no one to
Let myself down when unreal expectations
Aren’t met, they haven’t been yet.

There goes my delusional thinking again.
There goes my delusional thinking again.

When will I finally find that something that
Makes me feel like I’ve got a good thing going?
Knowing me it won’t happen.
Knowing me, it can’t happen.
Knowing me…

There goes my delusional thinking again.
There goes my delusional thinking again.
There goes my delusional thinking again.
There goes my delusional thinking again.

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar, Ambient Guitar
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Vocals
Joe Reichel: Bass, Vocals

MALARIATHERAPY

(Instrumental)

Carl Creighton: Soundbites, Synth
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums
Joe Reichel: Bass

SPITE (I DO IT OUTTA)

I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.
I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.

I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.
I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.

I’ve already got you at most
Vulnerable, you’re under my fingertips
Nobody’s got you quite like this!

I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.
I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.

I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.
I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.

I’ve already got you at most
Vulnerable, you’re under my fingertips
Nobody’s got you quite like this!

I’ve already got you at most
Vulnerable, you’re under my fingertips
Nobody’s got you quite like this!

I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.
I do it outta spite, spite
I do it outta spite.

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Farfisa Organ
Robin Pahlman: Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Bass, Vocals, Bass Synth

LET YOUR WHEEL GO

If you focus on it, it gets much worse.
Try and do the reverse!
There is a light, a blinding guiding light.
Don’t deny it, just try it.
Let your wheel go!

How do you know that what you do
Has any bearing on what you go through?

Your tunnelvision will compromise the mission.
Focus but not too much!
There is a touch, a holy golden touch.
Don’t deny it, rely on it
Let your wheel go!

How do you know that what you do
Has any bearing on what you go through?

There is a light, a blinding guiding light!
There is a light, a blinding guiding light!
There is a light, a blinding guiding light!
There is a light, a blinding guiding light!

How do you know that what you do
Has any bearing on what you go through?

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Robin Pahlman: Lead Guitar, Vocals
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Bass, Vocals

YOU CAN CALL ON ME

Carefree people rule the world,
Let’s make sure that they feel healthy and safe.
Take great pains to see they
Have all that they need,
Survive and succeed.

How I’d like to be carefree
Wouldn’t we all?
You can call on me.

The USA is great,
You can make a mistake
And you’ll maybe not die.

Eat your fill ’til you’re full
Smoke weed ’til you’re dull
A free animal

How I’d like to be carefree
Wouldn’t we all?
You can call on me.

How I’d like to be carefree
Wouldn’t we all?
You can call on me.

You can call on me babe!
Woah, woah-oh.
You can call on me babe!
Woah, woah-oh.
You can call on me babe!
Woah, woah-oh.

(Do they want me, I think they do)

(I’ve got a maneuver, honey!
Won’t you maneuver,
Won’t you maneuver with me?)

Carl Creighton: Vocals, Piano, Soundbites
Robin Pahlman: Electric Guitar
Michael Seidenfeld: Drums, Percussion
Joe Reichel: Bass, Vocals