HIGHS / LOWS, by Monkier

HIGHS / LOWS

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1.	Cold Open / Closure 08:51	lyrics
COLD OPEN, I'm hoping to hit you in your soul That moment, the minute you know you're on your own Be broken, surrender your sense of self-control Still holding, but maybe it's time to let you go Or maybe it's time to let you know That pretty soon the Earth is gonna overflow Vibration, it sinks down deeper than the soil And I'll take it, the chance to give you everything That I am, revealing what is left I'll give you all I've got. I'll give you my last breath Show you the meaning of living that's revealed in death But I've got no answers. It's only what I've heard No, it's never enough Some people run around, others look above I think the question stands between fear and love If the latter resonates then reach and raise your hands up ------- COLD OPEN, glad I got your attention See, my ego is in need of a mention And I've been missing for a minute Tell me how did you spend it? Cause I tend to waste a lot of time You're on my mind And I don't know what to do about it And I don't know what to do without you You're withholding the things that used to seem so plain And I'm scared by the idea of perpetual change But instead of doing nothing Gonna linger while I'm young I've got my finger on the button I'm a singer on a Sunday I'm a college grad and a half Rapped to watch you laugh Lied to state a fact, called to take it back But it's never enough Be the chair behind you when your feet are giving up I know that time's are tough. I know that life is loud But I'll take it how I get it as long as you will allow, yeah ----- COLD OPEN, I need you to listen further Cause even beginnings all have an end Even the negative sky shines again Even enemies fall, the ground embraces them Replacing the men with energy Dark matter's visibility, freeing the demon in me Seeing the need in your stare So take my eyes and turn them into glasses So when our gazes meet maybe you can see past I've got one more month of living in this house You said one more year, now you're trying to get out Give me one reason not to give this up You said one last time, and despite that I'll always be Never enough Some people lack faith, I don't got trust The only thing that I wanted was to offer my help Close the distance with you And to try to see something beyond myself ---- (sampled voice) "The beginning of a journey. When you begin the process of CLOSURE, and accept the change that follows... the end is always the same."
2.	Esper / 80 Watts 06:26	lyrics
Bad thoughts on a blacktop Kids, written word with the white chalk That message that you left, I read it, no response I don't want to talk Dead city with the dim lights Cool, red ink for the re-write Forget yourself, don't call for help I got the white eyes with the black fur Monkier, we'll reoccur This time it's a blur Worthless purpose Don't worship the thought of what you were When you're stuck inbetween The birth and the death of all things Better burn your soul for blind control Bring back the monkey king I've been away too long without a song To prolong the feeling that everybody's wrong I need that restart A little shock for my still heart Government with drop a bomb when I depart Build a city with my dead art Better get smart if you want to stay alive Do you want to die Do you want to fly Signal the youth and sound the alarm And show me my proof and sing the war song Cause no one lives long and no one lives here No life inside fear No love if you're near So why's it so far My limbs of rebar My fur is on fire No day for my doubt Just show me the way out --------------- Cameras on the catwalk Kids, little ears for your big talk Hear everything, encrypt your screen, decoder ring Senses that you unlock Psychics in the hallway Pills, medicine for the bad days Kinetic thought, just take the shot Waste a warp drive in the archive History, a little .exe Ghost in that machine Surge the circuits The surface of seven unforseen Seven highs they may rise See the ESPER, the you realize That the city's about to explode See that signal in the sky I wake up to the sound of sirens Seeing the flooding They're running back into each others arms Everybody stop That's war You've got a lot but you still need more I'd take it back, but it's got no core You can feel the void in my voice when you feel victorious You need more of this, hard drive storage Just help me find the way outside Make the path wide The day that you died Last time you sighed Streets will collide Day she relapsed Why did you ask Just had to know Just had this hope That she'd read your mind Can I hear inside Can I say it loud Can I say aloud Tell me where you want me to go
3.	Buddha Beads / Plena 05:37	lyrics
One day I will return, maybe with lessons learned And I'll stop asking what I did to earn These stones on top of me I call them BUDDHA BEADS Meditative states never seem to fufill your needs I've got to feed the starving heart Gotta read to get to you smart Jump in the basket and surf the shopping cart Paint the parking lot red with anything you got Convey it long enough to make the stop That's a solution, a sound to keep you moving Brain trash the contusion, refuse the resolution Or leave it unresolved on top of y'all Cause cash don't fix the failure when feeling can get involved I'm an ambiguous amateur ventriloquist The words never mean what they mean So I detach my identity, ape what I'd rather be Become like chemistry and the energies unseen Wait, my generation is caught When everybody's waiting for the news of who is next to get shot I'm a reluctant robot Automate the action just so I can process the thought Cause all I've got is twenty something years To be an influence I can use it to prolong or put down the fear It's god-given, I'm afraid it's a lot Fulfill your finances, your future, then you flaunt your career Nah, what would it take to be realer than real Conceal your real persona Leave your spirit dead in the field What will you wield I heard the word is a a weapon So second-guess your instinct If you're really feeling too wreckless And roll them credits on my sleepless self Suffer that or call for help 4 AM, focusing, it's not right The ghost and the flesh, they reunite I've got a nervous system Can't relax Find yourself in a monkey mask ------- One day I will return And I won't be concerned Stand in the distance and watch the world burn You see the ghost To bear my BUDDHA BEADS Active attachment's the only way I can excede The individual, physical principal Invisible ritual Digital damage is critical, fictional The thought that you can't fix yourself Not typical, close your lids No visual Do something that's never been done And I'll rewatch the rerun I've got no loved one I tell myself that I'm fun I'm tired of progress for the sake of the sun I'm running from being content Time spent, I haven't begun To even tell you My little plans they fell through I can't stand the thought of more miles So I'd ask you not to move away The selfish thought from yesterday I'm missing the moments And trying to make it up in meanwhiles One day I'll be ready You'll see
4.	Basically Good / Terminus 07:01	lyrics
At the corner of sight and sound Another night Another need for anything to ignite I get a message My fingers type, "maybe I might" But my mood is really set to solitude I hang a right out the door Feet move, no respect to my thoughts Guess I'm caught The head is negative I want to get off Twelve blocks down Momentum's all that I got The only motive is motion There's not a reason to stop So I walked till the clock froze Time is the tension There's a wrench in the plans But notice I never mentioned the fact Cause when you passed Two week to react Another four to fake a feeling A day to bounce back She said, see your problem's that you think to much If I had to be honest I still don't try hard enough Don't wonder where I wander The future's coming fast Forget the rest of the zodiac Cause how long will it last How long will it last How long will it last How long will it last I'm holding on I'm BASICALLY GOOD --------- Morning after The rafters of the church are creaking Sunday morning makes a fool of the evening The sounds from the steeple Will attack the veranda And the path to my people Leads me back to Atlanta Not a panda, the issues grey Everybody gets saved When this rhythm lays Dogmatic radio days Lady's amazed She said son, can I get your name I said no, step aside Cause I'll be on my way Wanna relay what the witness would say But I haven't seen enough of the world Lately I haven't seen enough of my girl What would you say Your eyes betray the inner feeling When I'm stuck like a stranger Tell me what's the new danger The cage burns, we can watch the page turn Put precedence on the past Things fall apart The state of my mind is still the state of my heart The state of my heart The state of my heart The state of my heart Yeah I'm holding on I'm BASICALLY GOOD --------- Primate in a black cape No white tape and you can't relate New math and a bo staff The metaphysics super cryptic Cascade when the winds change It's man-made, better get saved No meaning in my words I'm unsure when my hurts I've been secluded for too long With too much, am I losing touch I regress, become less My missteps lead me to the west I needed you, to be with you To redo what I've misused As above, so below As it was, so it goes
5.	No Hands / Data 05:43	lyrics
NO HANDS, I don't need em So no palms, you can't read em Remain calm cause I'm feeling The future fading fast, take it back Do the math, I'm losing you too fast That's memories I have They'll never last Watch me like an atom bomb No alarm Cold fire, make me into a liar I'll conspire to cut the wire beneath your feet When we meet that's body heat I'll take the blow We all got highs and lows Levitation, break that code I'm under gravity's load I've got another mode And I'm still hoping Cold open, regain my focus Every soul thinks they are chosen But I mean it, you see it, you feel it This time it's different Knowingly, cause I meant it I'll send that to the stratosphere Blow it up with my fear Stand clear Just my rough draft, stuck on hesitating But I want to Guess I'm bound to backtrack, need another relapse But I want to The question lingers, can you take a second You said I want to The less we get, the more they're gonna expect But I want to --------- So how can we outlast, you've never been low And how you get past, you've never been low And how do we get high, you've never been low So how do we get by You've never been let go So how does it feel to be confronted There's still hope, but how do you deal About to jump, want to be real With nothing to grasp No hands, Imma slip past --------- Yeah, that's NO HANDS, you can't hold me Got no plan, can't control me My wide eyes watching boldly Observing space and time I'm in my prime So watch the sky And see that ape with a staff You're just a way to distract And don't tell me what went wrong Y'all sing it like a battle song The question lingers, can you take a second You said I want to The less we get, the more they're gonna expect But I want to --------- So how can we outlast, you've never been low And how you get past, you've never been low And how do we get high, you've never been low So how do we get by You've never been let go So how does it feel to be confronted There's still hope, but how do you deal About to jump, want to be real With nothing to grasp No hands, Imma slip past
6.	Place of My Own 06:46	lyrics
I want to be in your arms I didn't mean any harm But what would I lose, closer to you I need a PLACE OF MY OWN Where'd you go Feels like I just stepped in a hole Feels like I just left, but it's already messed up Live like you never grow old Some love like you never been told Some thoughts that you shouldn't withhold And some people got reasons To depict these changes in seasons I'm tired of waiting on time 24 years that I'll rewind Can't account for the the thing that I wasted Moments arrived she's gone and now I can't decide Write a note when I leave I'll be the ghost up your sleeve Jump just to break the routine Yeah, and I'll fall in-between So should I make my exit Or take another chance, that's reckless To rediscover, reminisce, and rebuild I know what I want, and and I know that she will You know I'm characteristic I'm so low key that it's cryptic Girl if you sneeze you might miss it Gotta keep my mind on that mystic Give me solace, give me sunday Give me meaning, keep me running And though it may not mean a lot Can I give you all that I've got Take the shot Reminisce, rediscover, reconstruct Re-embark to new places Redefine good luck If you don't know the feeling Then I don't know what to say If you missed all my meaning Then don't look this way I want to be in your arms I didn't mean any harm But what would I lose, closer to you I need a PLACE OF MY OWN breathing room Yeah, but the high can't save you from the low Take that hit if you'll take control Acceptance, regret this Dumb and restless, so no I can't go slow I can't let go of that energy And I'll take it all back if she's into me No gravity, no wait and see If I'm hung up on you can't call for free So I jump without taking the fall Tell them I'm twenty feet tall Reminisce over you Living life beyond the wall See how I'm over it all I can't talk about Can't convey, you're holding still Hold back the years, release the will To try and make it right, cause I need to know Before the world ends, how far we go I want to be in your arms I didn't mean any harm But what would I lose, closer to you I need a place of my... And you don't want to be alone And I know you're tired of waiting so long And when will you be closer to me I just want a place of our own
7.	Giving Up / Dunkz 07:09	lyrics
Yeah I wonder how all of this is gonna go down Closer, but it's cool now So let me know if it's real And we hurt to heal And there's some appeal To GIVING UP on things Yeah, still we feel the pull The gravity of knowing in full That I'm responsible for making sure that it's real And we hurt to heal And there's some appeal To GIVING UP on -------- Static for a second, need to hear it Straight from the future, do you fear it Doom's in bloom at high noon An ape moves through the room like a spirit But it's only to pass through I was hoping you'd come too See I got a clear view We can sit on my roof top I needed you like a good talk I missed you like a whole lot But I'm not getting caught in the same way And it's a good thing that things change Tell me what are scared of Is it fake or real love No doubt, I'm distrust I'm giving up But don't you know that I'm susceptible to you So don't do that dear I know that you need Something more than I can give Give me that And I will tell you what you want to hear Give me that And I will give you everything you want ------- Yeah I wonder how all of this is gonna go down Closer, but it's cool now So let me know if it's real And we hurt to heal And there's some appeal To GIVING UP on things Yeah, still we feel the pull The gravity of knowing in full That I'm responsible for making sure that it's real I know I concealed that we tried to deal With GIVING UP But I'm trying to fix the conflict A moment meant to relive A menace making faces And it's telling me what happened, now Color my view with shades of doubt A repeat phrase remembered plain It wasn't me it was about But I'm collateral And you love the ones you hurt And I linger when I leave Tell me which one was it worth What I'm trying to ask is who's better Together or not, it won't let up The feeling's that I'm just stuck So I'm giving up But don't you know that I'm susceptible to you So don't do that dear I know that you need Something more than I can give Give me that And I will tell you what you want to hear Give me that And I will give you everything you want -------- Primate catching cold lightning Reciting ancient text with no regrets I'm summoning something to equip me with abilities Cumulonimbus Got the sickness Killing business, no witness Filling kitchens Devouring souls, I'm out of control Maniacally cold Mechanically old Systems shutting down Circuits rotten now Operation not allowed Riding on my cloud Whipping with my staff I just turn around and laugh Counting cars Write some bars Hey I've just gotta tell you something...
8.	Highs 04:24	lyrics
I said the HIGH can't save you from the low I said the HIGH can't save you from the low Crown me, let the planets sing Coming from the west, return of the monkey king Kill the clouds and behold Immortal manifestation of never growing old I sold souls for profit Getting of it often Watch it turning rotten But you listen like he's a prophet Am I your blessing or curse Be the best of the worst But I'm your final and first -------- Return my feet to the ground Insert my soul in this sound Ride the wind like a pair of wings Glued to my shirt I'm overworked Unaware about status I've about had it Guess I'm gonna pour it out like black magic I can see your energy Black hole physically Night burn visibly Fire lean into me Seen your industry Place I'd rather be Repeat memories Learn your history At the height of my depths Do you still regret never taking that step It's like I'm looking over the edge So why is it not happening yet It's like the first time we met Yeah, red sun with pale moon Watch an earthquake turn to typhoon It's always too late or too soon That's the point where I lose you
9.	Lows 04:23	lyrics
I've had highs and LOWS; you have highs and LOWS. You see, we've all spent time in the wilderness. Great days- only adventure, And tough days when it feels like we don't know where to go. There are days when living with no reservations is so fulfilling, and then there are other days when we regret not having more reservations. I've had highs and LOWS; you have highs and LOWS. ------- Am I your high or your low Am I your high or your low Can I let you down without letting go The kind of thing that you can't control Are we in motion or lost Are we in motion or lost Can we pretend that we never stopped The kind of thing that comes with a cost ------- I've had highs and LOWS; you have highs and LOWS. He's tempted by the need for affirmation and love, And he's looking at his ability and being tempted to just jump. Sometimes we're tempted by the same thing, Or things get desperate enough we're temped to jump just to end it all, We become so self centered. I've had highs and LOWS; you have highs and LOWS. ------- Yeah, one day always come too late One more try to recreate Pragmatic, back at it Make the most of what's on your plate Take it back, unburn that bridge Take it home, set fire to the fridge It's too cold, where's your home Need a place of your own Cause I've got highs and LOWS And I've got mind and soul And we've got places to be But we've got nowhere to go And we've got time to grow But there's just nothing to hold So tell me is that high Ever gonna be worth that low Am I your high or your low Am I your high or your low Can I let you down without letting go The kind of thing that you can't control So tell me is that high ever gonna be worth that low Am I your high or your low Am I your high or your low The kind of thing that you can't control Am I your high or your low -------- And still, he's in the midst of a battle. He's engaged in a battle. His inner doubts, his demons (they're a part of his human experience) Are forcing him to ask difficult questions. Too often our story includes trying to be like everyone else, Trying to be cool and accepted. Being tempted to just jump. We all have places in our lives that are lonely, where we feel cut off. we feel isolated, We feel like there's no one there. It's a part of what keep us alive- to do something different. I've had highs and LOWS. I've had highs and LOWS. Highs. LOWS. Highs. LOWS. Highs. LOWS. Highs. LOWS. Highs. LOWS. Highs. LOWS.

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released May 31, 2016

Zac Evans // Vocals, Keyboards, Synths, Woodwinds, Production
Andrew Lastrapes // Guitar
Brandon Boone // Bass, Moog Bass
Robert Boone // Drums (tracks 2-9)
Umcolisi Terrell //Alto Saxophone (Terminus Horns)
Justin Powell // Trumpet (Terminus Horns)
Richard Sherrington // Trombone (Terminus Horns)
Will Hollifield // Tenor Saxophone

Justin Chesarek // Drums (track 1)
Tereska Grynia // Lead Vocal (track 6)
Katelyn King // Vibraphone (track 2)
Caroline Watson // Backup Vocal (track 2)

Zeke Levine // Photography

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Recorded in and around Atlanta, GA.

Mixing and Mastering at Marlon's House
Engineer, Marlon Patton

Drums, bass, guitar, and horns recorded at The Shed
Engineer, Umcolisi Terrell

Rhodes keyboard recorded at Fireplace Studios
Engineer, Tyrone Jackson

Female vocals on track 6 recorded at Dead Rat Recordings
Engineer, Thomas Barton

Female vocals on track 2 recorded at Lowry Studios
Engineer, Marshall Lowry

Music and lyrics by Zac Evans (ASCAP).
Track 5 co-written by Andrew Lastrapes (BMI).
All songs self-published by Monkier.
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