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Ashes

by Lost on Purpose

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    8/1/2011 - Ashes is now available as a physical album! This is a limited edition, hand-numbered package featuring some beautiful pictures of Asia and Ohio (if I do say so myself). Only 100 available. Enjoy!

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1.
i put on all my armor bid farewell to my loves give penance at the altar and i ride off for the war the skies are low and cloudy the grass is mud and clay i'm a knight in shining armor with a rusted iron blade i've killed a dozen farmers i've murdered joan of arc i pillaged their cathedrals to soothe my aching heart my horse's hair is matted caked in dust and blood i push him even harder but nowhere hard enough cause i need you in the window i need you in the snow your wait is never ending much like my sorrow i've killed a dozen farmers i've murdered joan of arc i pillaged their cathedrals to soothe my aching heart i burned down all their towers i drank up all their wine took pleasure in their torment so i could feel alive sun is low on my shoulder as we ride on to the west only one man left to die til i complete my quest with your name on my breath and my horse can finally rest
2.
all your eggs are scattered wide in tattered baskets all fit to fry you're spinning webs and casting lines a call for help, lord of the flies so you bend until you break no place to tie yourself to fate there's a dead spider in my bed no self destruction, no self destruction
3.
Costa Rica 02:11
see the mountain capped in clouds i grab my camera and scream out loud there's three back home all safe and sound asleep there's a county on my shirt two girls appear all caked in dirt can't decide to always smile or shoot myself ten days remind me of the fact life's better without love the faces fade into the scenery back and forth the trees below cheating death on a golden rope the only thing on my mind
4.
Villages 02:17
i've seen houses in my dreams villages beneath the leaves see now somehow you are mine all my thoughts and all my fears throw it all away and forget you were ever here but i believe the ____ belongs to me somehow you are mine
5.
i don't want a girl like me i left them all behind back east i want brown eyes and colored skin i want my heart to beat within i turn my back on where i'm from i breathe new air into my lungs no snow to melt our hopes and fears no icicles to freeze our tears one am we hear a sound safe in bed we dream of clouds i see in you a piece of me or what i could have been at least no sense at all no lesson learned just pictures in your memory burned you and me will never die i swore to the ueno night
6.
this is a piece of the puzzle border a frozen lake in minnesota second guess everything you told her an old motel off the beach in florida burn your eyes with a four leaf clover i want to be a better lover the box you bought in the czech republic impossible to be a mother turn your heart into an iron steam away the babies crying calm as a policeman's gun who thinks he left the safety on believing all the things i've done the eighteen year old me would blush turn tail and hide in a white girl's arms i'm not afraid of being wrong lose yourself in other's arms keep the ones you know best far kill a fly til blood runs cold raise your glasses to kyoto utter silence on the mountain broken by tornado sirens leeching through the can tho shade born to lead the dead parade
7.
Dubrovnik 02:07
you see my silhouette on the bridge black and breaking your fall stubborn on how you outta live holding on to what's wrong she's tapping on the glass say yes say yes say yes you see my silhouette on the bridge black and breaking your fall an ocean away
8.
Sails 03:14
it's been a long, long time since you've been alive and i can't complain cause everything's the same i don't care anymore for all the plans we have in store there's a time to forget but not forgive, not yet another time another place another love another face another time another place and i am waiting for you to be until the ships have sailed off safely and i have given up i think i'm getting old i'm scared to be alone all the time in the world all my love for a girl so i lied, you're a friend better now than then and i am waiting for you to be until the ships have sailed off safely and i have given up

about

In the Fall of 2010 I traveled around Asia for two and a half months. This album cover is a picture I took of a 1970's photograph in the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. You can read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng

I've never seen a face so devoid of fear, even though he was killed not long after the photo was taken.

-Will

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released June 23, 2011

Will VanderWyden :: vocals, guitars, drums, etc.
Jacquelyn Thropay :: vocals, keyboards

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Lost on Purpose Tokyo, Japan

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Five song EP out now!

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I live in Japan. I sound like Beethoven conducted by Beethoven the St. Bernard (look it up).
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