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The Modern Age

by CITY OF GLASS

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1.
The Forest 02:59
The Forest (Champion, Phu) Though I know who I’ve become Fill you in before I’m gone Tales of lust and tales to come So we do unknowing Don’t look back, move the way you’re moving Hunt in packs, but always looking through it Lone as one along with almost everyone Feel the future coming on Feel your teeth along my gums Send the son out for the hunt Learn the songs of fathers Don’t look back, move the way you’re moving Hunt in packs, but always looking through it Lone as one along with almost everyone Do what your mother wants, but you’ll never ever have enough Change what you feel is wrong and what will come to pass will come Plus where do you think you’d run? You never will be far enough Change what you feel is wrong and what will come to pass will come
2.
Blinding 04:13
Blinding (Champion, Phu) Nowhere to go, no sense in going Cold in this place, but welcome and knowing You wanted love, but you wouldn’t give into want Rats in a cage, trapped but together Free and alone, which fate is better? Pull it apart, take what you need to feel whole This desert road, it leads to the coast This desert road, it leads to the coast This desert road unfolds You wouldn’t know at all I, I need this Under the lights we’re all alone I know I can’t provide all the pieces Building them up when you’re not home Those lights are blinding, blinding Send what you want, I won’t receive it Cruel is the heart with no one to feed it Smoke from the fire guiding the way to the source This desert road, it leads to the coast This desert road, it leads to the coast This desert road unfolds You wouldn’t know at all I, I need this Under the lights we’re all alone I know I can’t provide all the pieces Building them up when you’re not home Those lights are blinding Blinding Blinding
3.
Tourist 03:07
Tourist (Champion, Phu) Numb, plied, tired, nothing is wrong Poised, employed, smiled, getting along Time, age, fines, an hour alone Compromise, strive, the best that you’ve done Every word you’ve always wanted All the ways I need to leave Trying to find that what I had missed or Hoping it’d find me And I promised words I couldn’t And you promised fruitless leads Like a feeling from a childhood Story in my dreams I can’t feel it at all anymore I can’t feel it at all anymore Every word you’ve always wanted All the ways I need to leave Trying to find that what I had missed or Hoping it’d find me And I promised words I couldn’t And you promised fruitless leads Like a feeling from a childhood Story in my dreams
4.
I'm Not Here 03:38
I’m Not Here Where was I? I keep forgetting where I’ve been and why A defensive smile Hide the fear of a normal life, then do it again What’s so wrong with fine? But I can feel the sickness in my bones And tight in my sides 
Where do I go? Because here I stand but I’m not here I feel it in my hand but not my heart Knocking at the door, there’s knocking at the door, there’s all this Cotton in my mouth and in my lungs The panic as the calendar unfolds Knocking down the door, they’re knocking at the door, they’re knocking Fallen again See this mouth tends to empty out There’s pieces stuck inside my head And they’re not getting out 
Where do I go? Because here I stand but I’m not here I feel it in my hand but not my heart Knocking at the door, there’s knocking at the door, there’s all this Cotton in my mouth and in my lungs The panic as the calendar unfolds Knocking down the door, they’re knocking at the door, they’re knocking Where am I and how do I get out? Where am I and how do I get out? Where am I and how do I get out? Where am I and how do I get out?
5.
Wait for Me 03:54
Wait for Me (Champion, Phu) Wait for me All these roads began as one Now we’re at different points in all the races that we run So will you wait for me? Wait for me I know I promised you the sun And all I’ve given are these weights of need And slowly pulled your threads undone So while these gears inside our chests Keep moving us along Down streets that have no end Turns that we keep taking wrong Houses that aren’t homes
And people that aren’t friends These machines are slowly wearing out Yet somehow still together through it all So say to me That all your reasons are for love Because if we wanted we could be alone Knowing comfort’s not enough So while these gears inside our chests Keep moving us along Down streets that have no end Turns that we keep taking wrong Houses that aren’t homes
And people that aren’t friends These machines are slowly wearing out Yet somehow still together through it all
6.
Sticks and Stones (Champion, Phu) It finds you, silent, and laughs at you while it is eating through your bones But you’re sad to see it go Tonight you, you slipped through, and found me when I needed most to be alone But I guess that’s how it goes Sticks and stones, far from home Trail of breadcrumbs Death by love, crushed the skull Head forgets the soul Lied and, confided, enough to fill me with the fear when I was young Convinced me I was wrong Uptight, misguided, scared of visits from the ghosts of fiscal ruin Play the system strong Sticks and stones, far from home Trail of breadcrumbs Death by love, crushed the skull Head forgets the soul Sticks and stones, far from home Trail of breadcrumbs Death by love, crushed the skull Head forgives the soul
7.
An Island 03:40
An Island (Champion, Phu) Darkened rooms, night with no moon Keeping eyes on the corners Foolish are the villains we choose Giving life to shadows we can Fight for fine
 You’re safe here with me You’re safe here with me We were young when this was brand new Rust and age eat direction Lost within the forest that grew Kind of sad, but not unhappy Strive for fine
 You’re safe here with me You’re safe here with me On an island To a light, on an island On an island You’re a light, on an island You’re a light, on an island You’re safe here with me You’re safe here with me
8.
The Modern Age (Champion, Phu) Time, measurement of knowns Lust to feel controlled Oceans held by stone Calm and counting Belief in ours and ours alone Kings upon their thrones Etched into the loam Looking down When the cracks begin to spider And blood spurts out like water The specialness of knowing Dissolves with all our bodies and our souls Faith, statues holding crowns Glass and steel towns Sand when broken down Losing sight When the steam that pushed us forward And set the wheels in motion Pulled cities over oceans Sterilized the dangers of The risk of being human Entitlement of doing Crusades with nothing proven And never see the exit signs ahead The quiet of the silence Not absence but enlivened A long goodnight to violence Built upon illusion of control
9.
Youth 03:10
Youth (Champion, Phu) Oh I wish I’d found you at a later time Wish I’d met you when my eyes were dry Muffled words through folded ears of mine 
I knew I’d let you down And prove that all us lonely only do find hope wanting but not having Down the well with a rope
And I trust that when I find the bottom I will come back home Once when I was a younger boy I felt sublime Thinking those that kept a watchful eye Would reveal their secrets over time I knew I’d let you down And prove that all us lonely only do find hope wanting but not having Down the well with a rope
And I trust that when I find the bottom I will come back home So we find ourselves not exactly eye to eye Question how I know inside I’m right Built upon my memories of life I knew I’d let you down And prove that all us lonely only do find hope wanting but not having Down the well with a rope
And I trust that when I find the bottom I will come back home I knew I’d let you down But I’ll come back home I knew I’d let you down But I will come back home
10.
The End 05:00
The End (Champion, Phu) You rely on light Even though the night is young Even though the blinds are drawn Tied to a dead idea The cycle will go on Leaving as a tired lion And through the trees back to the sky and done You can cling to the right Believe that nothing’s done A practice life, just for fun? Tied to a dead idea The cycle will go on Leaving as a tired lion And through the trees back to the sky and done Tied to a dead idea The cycle will go on Leaving as a tired lion And through the trees back to the sky and done

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First full length album by Canadian indie rock band City of Glass. Featuring Sticks and Stones, Tourist, and The Modern Age.

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released October 19, 2013

PRODUCED || CITY OF GLASS / WINSTON
WRITTEN / PERFORMED || MICHAEL CHAMPION / DAVID PHU
DRUMS || ALEXANDER CUMMING
ADDITIONAL VOCALS || AUDE GL ("AN ISLAND")
ADDITIONAL DRUMS || COLE GODFREY ("THE MODERN AGE")
MIXED || SHAWN COLE / MARK ANGLY (FADER MOUNTAIN)
ENGINEERED || PAUL BOECHLER / TOM PRILESKY / WINSTON
RECORDED || FADERMASTER / SPIRIT VEGETABLE / THE BUNKER
MASTERED || BROCK McFARLANE (CPS MASTERING)
EDITED || DAVID PHU
ARTWORK || MICHAEL CHAMPION / CHRISTOPH PREVOST
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