Gates Motel

from gates motel b/w put your shoulders on by Mail the Horse

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2 song blue cassette
Side A: Gates Motel
Side B: Put Your Shoulders On

Photo by Cara Benge
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Recorded at The Fort in Bushwick, Brooklyn in May 2011.
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by James Bentley
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, Chicago,IL

Mail the Horse is:
Brendan Smith
Michael Amidon
Michael Hesslein
William T. Lawrence

Photograph by Cara Benge

lyrics

Yeah, I knew that we could fight it,
not drink tonight and write about it,
but we'll never be alone in that--
can we not make this about us anymore?

When I left you I was sober,
You were drinking wine that I paid for,
You said your rent was goin' up,
You said your mom was giving up on the store
and moving down south again--

Cos she won't give up any of her ghosts
all we do is watch each other
you're painting yourself again, I write more ballads
about whores and my Jersey friends

Are we too old to keep on giving up?
Invite old friends to come get drunk?
Am I asking for my voice to crack?
For my grandpa to die?
For my girl to find her purse?
Or puke tonight at Gates?
We talk like kids who just make noise and wait...

Cos she won't give up any of her ghosts
all we do is watch each other
you're painting yourself again, I write more ballads
about whores and my Jersey friends

Cos she won't make it up to Queens tonight
I'm sorry, but I love to hurt her like this
She waits like I'm not there, I watch TV
She dyes her hair, and that's it.

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from gates motel b/w put your shoulders on, track released August 28, 2011

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Mail the Horse Brooklyn, New York

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