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Year of the Panic

by Collin Kravis

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    Immediate download of 5-track E.P. in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Includes "The New American Standard", as heard on Guitar Center's Fresh Cuts Vol. 4. Bundled with the E.P. is a digital booklet including full liner notes. This digital booklet is exclusive to the Bandcamp release of Year of the Panic.
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    UPDATED 2012: The Remix Edition of Year of the Panic is now available! This version includes multitrack files for each song on the EP as well as all the original content. As a result, this edition is now free to download! Please share and enjoy.
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1.
The New American Standard And we’re all enthralled by the television And we gather round for the late edition You’re so understanding What America has been demanding Yeah, you must be God ‘cause you know everything It’s almost positively pornographic When you’re attractive to the right demographic You’re so mild-mannered You’re the new American standard Give us your commandments, ‘cause we’re listening We’ve lost it all So small We crack If they sold us out, well can’t you buy us back? We need your help To take the reins Or I could cut my losses and just Cut my veins. And we’re all enthralled by your publications You almost had us fooled about your reputation You’re so charismatic The epitome of automatic You didn’t think that we would ever turn on you Now we know just how bad we’re bleeding And we’re getting sick of history repeating You’re so mild-mannered And accepting of the double standard Well, if you can be a slut, then I can be one too! If you’re so smart Then you should know Exactly where you’re going to go It’s obvious what you’re going to get It’s just too bad you haven’t got it yet. Let’s drop this bomb And get out now There wasn’t gonna be a savior anyhow And you can be the first By popular poll You’re gonna start the nationwide death toll. You’re the new American standard You’re gonna burn out soon
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Nothing Going Right I’m feelin’ violated With no just cause I’m feeling twice as good But I’m half the man I was I am unrecognizable Don’t you know the type? I let it all collapse And it feels so goddamn nice. Nothing’s going right. How did it all get so big That I couldn’t get it all any more? I’m open to submission. Please feel free to use me like your – I can’t open my eyes ‘Cause then I’ll decide That I’m just running all out of time I’ve got a bad, bad feeling I just can’t shake Scared of your surprise Now that I’m awake Nobody wins When everything rots Hollow on the inside, ready or not I’m sorry for the shouting and the messy display But it’s all in line. You don’t care anyway. I’m loving every minute I’m scared as hell I love your decadence Your philosophy as well If you are very quiet And very still The sky will open up And you deserve to get what you will Ready to kill All of my fears And all of my lies Have all become truth Tucked safely inside You’ve beaten me down And I have decayed No one will clean This mess you made Can I stop the lies? Are you satisfied?
3.
Caffeine 03:14
Caffeine You’ve got an ice-cold stare and a glossy sheen You’ve got a beautiful smile made of plasticine You’ve got a picture of your tits in a magazine You’ve got your arm hooked up to a death machine When you’re feeling down, you can take caffeine But you know that won’t solve everything. Are you feeling strange? Are you lost between? Have you seen what’s better left unseen? Have you beaten it down, but you feel unclean? Nobody’s gonna help you kill the fiend. When you’re feeling down, you can take caffeine But you know that won’t solve everything. Get the girl to a doctor, she’s obscene! And her skin is turning the palest green Aren’t you droll when you fake gangrene? Well, it looks like you’re the punctured queen. When you’re feeling down, you can take caffeine But you know that won’t solve everything.
4.
Remember This Here we lie, here we writhe The policy was not on our side We wanted to feel anything new But we were too apathetic to move I was a glutton Now I cannot breathe Do I suffocate when I do not speak? And I don’t believe anyone cared for me ‘Cause I’m still here And I don’t feel like I’m supposed to Did you think I do? And I could be all night And I could be all day And I could leave you alone Until I’m over this And I could say these things And make it go away Could you stay? I can remember this All my life, all this time Waiting never felt so fine I don’t care if you lied I’m still waiting by your side We lost control of the expanse It grows and swallows all our plans And I can’t believe I ever felt this free With no one here All that I wanted was to be paralyzed And just shut my eyes And I could be all night And I could be all day And I could leave you alone Until I’m over this And I could say these things And make it go away Could you stay? I can remember this Stay inside and watch the drain Swirls of color slipping in I can remember this.
5.
Entropy 05:45
Entropy Did you hear about the outbreak? Yes, it finally came And I’ll see you in the sewer If I see you again Maybe you can ignore The horrible stench When the myriad miracles come to an end. Don’t you love the unexpected? 
The wicked? The ticket To the transport fleeing from the crumbling village When they made you You got innocent eyes And enough of a brain To know that something’s not right We tried To fight To wash it aside But the punishment came Completely justified The storms, the forms, The swells and the calms A black curtain of bombs, Enough to block out the sun I fell face first into a river of blood But I’m a national hero for surviving the flood I could be hailed as a seer, the one who will lead, But it’s not the sort of famous that I wanted to be Looking through glass Broken at last Naked and painted And losing my grasp You can laugh And gasp As I twitch and convulse The veins all expanding to the beat of a pulse I want to start again, but I’m hardly fit The world is going…gone Deal with it I’m an exquisite machine Built specifically to malfunction And I apologize But I don’t quite feel sane I am convinced that I’ve got the plague I feel stupid, but I’m still afraid There has got to be another way I’m amazed at the denial of all that is vile and divine You can sing, you can dance Or put your thumb in your ass and whine We can’t advance when there is no goal Don’t fuck around, I am not in control I’m just a cynical shithead And I’m not committed at all All the things you said All the things you did I would be a rebel if I just knew what it is Is anybody home? Are you stuck in the sky? There is no hope for you And I And I I am the young And the unimpressed Born into your slavery and ready for your death I’m pirating your breath Replacing it instead With all the shit you fed me and implanted in my head The past is meaningless It only sickens us I don’t know why you think I’m blessed This is not a test Get your Sunday best We’re gonna burn it all down till there’s nothing left. Let us open the wound Let the bleeding begin Because you cannot conceive Of all the beauty within Now I understand what they said was true And they’re splitting the world Because they failed to choose The gap is ever wider And it’s too late now Being eaten alive is the only way out I will never reveal the truth I cannot bear to say what happens to you.

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released March 8, 2010

Additional Mixing by Randy Nelsen for Pinegrove Records, Waterford, MI
Mastering by Ryan Thomas for Mixed Signals, Pontiac, MI

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