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Vicious Circle

by Four Point Restraints

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1.
Bastard Town 03:45
2.
Haydn's Head 04:28
Doldrum days drift away, but the hurt remains, Like cleft roots and the plucked rose, brood in repose, Longing to someday meet again And this I swear: If it takes me centuries, I’ll come back to you and ever after rest in peace Destiny beckons me home for I refuse to be A grim spectacle for fools, like relics tooled From some long-dead saint’s dulled bones And I don’t care if it takes me centuries, I’ll come back to you and ever after rest in peace To perfumed dark at last returned, though it’s been so long I feel a stranger here with you, but we’ll pull through And face the sweet abyss head-on For I did swear: If it takes me centuries, I’ll come back to you and ever after...rest in...peace
3.
Blood Feud 06:44
4.
Strung-out and cold on the crosstown bus My clothes still reek of you, The cheap perfume in the motel room, The burnt sulfur, and red columbines You know I wear my Catholic guilt like a hand-me-down quilt That keeps me comfy, cozy, and warm As the fires of hell, oh they surely will When it is that my time has come Waiting to take a chance on secondhand romance, Ready to take a chance, oh but you’re gone, long gone . . . I remember it well, that roach motel On the outskirts of this bastard town With the curtains drawn on a cold gray dawn, We drank pink champagne from paper cups And then you left a lipstick-kiss on a napkin with A phone number and a phony name Said, “It’s been a pleasure,” took the money on the dresser, And you walked on out that door It’s then I saw the Virgin Mary in a water-stain buried In the ceiling weeping graywater tears And made a full confession to my nickel 57, Spun a bullet in the chamber and fired Waiting to take a chance on secondhand romance, Russian roulette’s true test, oh but you’re gone, long gone When I saw you that day beneath the overpass, baby, On the arm of another man, I’ll admit I saw red, maybe lost my head When I drew thunder from the clear blue sky, And left a bloody crater with the bullet from the chamber Of the gun that wouldn’t kill me, Like a kiss from Cupid’s arrow, then watched you spasm in the shadows As the light left your upturned eyes Waiting to take a chance on secondhand romance, Requiescat In Pace ‘cause you’re gone, long gone You’re gone, oh you’re gone, gone, you’re gone, and the rain’s gonna come, You’re gone...
5.
6.
Happy End 04:36
The way she spoke of the Left-Hand path in her sequin dress The will to power might as well Have been tattooed across her breast All sentiments bereft of pity, we watch this burning city With stone enmity, with jaundiced eyes, we cast aside The torch of pride that has left us...blind, that has left us blind The man on the television demands that the harlequins repent Another man boasts not to care or give thought to consequence A flicker of ash in the immense space, dark matter all around The vacuum is agape, devouring all light and all sound The firmament is open wide, heaven torn asunder The vast expanse reflected in those pearly eyes of...wonder Those pearly eyes of wonder Secure in your self-importance, your ego is a lie The West will crumble into the sea, the weak will bend and die The tears they are a-flowing for all things must collapse Just when we thought we had all in our grasp Don’t hold another breath, now don’t hold another breath For it could be your...last, it could be your last! Now a nightmare of memories comes galloping back, There’s no refuge from the past Now a ceremony of memories comes racing back, There’s no refuge from the past Oh happy end, oh happy end, oh happy end, oh happy end
7.
Green Shores 05:17
Over the wind-harrowed hills, through the weltering mist Hunted by the moon’s absinthe eye I’m standing amidst the wheat and the alien corn Scraps of past hopes and desires Die like stars in their courses and I’m knockin’ on rotten wood I saw the green shores in my dreams The green shores, take me home I saw the green shores, take me home Haunted by the ghost of her smile A garden of mysteries before me beguiles I miss the cruel comfort of her lies The green shores, take me home I saw the green shores, take me home With my skewered heart and my battered brain I’m drawn to the green shores once again A mess of pottage in my head I am the dead, I’m the better left unsaid I am the dead, I’m the better left unsaid The green shores, take me home I saw the green shores, take me home Green shores, take me home I saw the green shores, take me home

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released July 14, 2017

Evan Gadowski - lead vocals, guitar, piano
Meagan Day - bass, backing vocals
Mike Cashin - drums, percussion
Will Barry - lead guitar, mandolin, harmonica

Featuring:
Mei Ohara - violin
Ryan Coomey - accordion

Recorded & mixed by Elio DeLuca at The Soul Shop in Medford, MA
Produced by Four Point Restraints & Elio DeLuca
Mastered by Mark Donahue at Soundmirror, Inc. in Jamaica Plain, MA

All music & lyrics by Evan Gadowski and Will Barry
*except for the bridge melody of "Haydn's Head," from Symphony No. 94 ("The Surprise Symphony"), second movement, composed by Joseph Haydn

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Four Point Restraints Boston, Massachusetts

We are Four Point Restraints, a Boston-based indie rock group formed in June 2010. We gig extensively all over the Boston and greater-Boston area, broadening our fan-base, making a name for ourselves, and honing a distinctly eclectic borderline-schizophrenic musical style.

Come check us out at a bar, club, or basement near you.
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