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we are beautiful, even when we are broken!

by american poetry club

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1.
forklift 02:48
you did back exercises so you could carry heavier loads that's pretty ambitious of you i can carry mine on my own in your apartment downtown i recall my home didn't expect to see your faces but there yours was all alone and you became the forklift that you needed to be to lift yourself out of this place and far away from me
2.
my mother called yesterday she asked if i needed shampoo i probably didn't but i couldn't tell you constantly frustrated but that's nothing new i need a friend who is patient when i'm talking about you remembering 2009 when i first met you you were small and unbroken and impervious to ridicule i couldn't say it well back then but you should know that i miss you yer my very best friend and i can't wait to see you
3.
i took calculus my senior year i did well enough i'm pretty sure it represents some kind of fear a well balanced match between us there's nothing left to say i'm not sure what yer looking for there is nothing left to say i'm not sure what is needed the sum of yer parts is not an equation i can do in my head
4.
will you hold my hand today? i mean it in a friendly way i want to go outside and play the feelings that i can't convey there's no such thing as a dumb cliche there is no such thing as a dumb cliche listen to the words i say i am more than just a dumb cliche
5.
it's getting late i should go to bed and i never felt any existential dread does that mean i can't spend today in my bed there's no one at home and no texts to be read and i hope at the end of the set all of my friends stay and no one's upset i hope we all dance and we all break a sweat and i find a working outlet i've heard what yer thinking of and it tears me to pieces is it yer mom you were thinking of a whole army, small but not giving in i'm feeling safer than i knew i could be with yer arms dragging me straight into the sea
6.
you cannot tell me that I’m not in love and I will fall for everyone just because i am not in high school doesn’t mean that yer not still and won’t always be you will always be my best friend
7.
snbm 02:41
i love who i am you can't take that away from me nobody can it's not going as planned but it never does and if it was it would be a boring program i love who i'll be gonna try to make the best of it no matter how it seems i'm gonna gather up debris and build the best monument to life ever seen no more low self-esteem we're gonna be all we dream we are bursting at the seam we are a brilliant sunbeam
8.
banter, pure as can be

about

it's not perfect but it's ours damnit
just tryna get all the emo out of our system so we can finally go country like we always wanted to
an album of tunes that make me cringe sometimes but are nonetheless unapologetically sincere

dedicated to ethan, my best buddy in the whole wide world

i think there is something truly vital about screaming one’s everyday love in basements with friends

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credits

released August 27, 2018

j. c. weinstock wrote these songs
with a lot of help from friends they became better songs
these friends include but are not limited to:

andy - lead guitar, vocals
kaley - bass, vocals
zoë - bass, vocals
sang-jin - drums
connor - trumpet, vocals
noah - keyboard
nick - vocals
tucker - vocals

thanks a million times over to jack and jake for being patient with us and so willing to help us record and to the brilliant evan m. marré for mixing tracks 1-6 and mastering the whole thing!

when in the flesh apc currently are:
j. c. weinstock, andy, connor, kaley, sang-jin, and zoë

"ba ba ba" melody at the end of "how i felt at parties" blatantly stolen from the song "scott pilgrim vs. my gpa" by mom jeans
samples: buddy thunderstruck, episode 7

single art by sang-jin (photo by isa)
album art by sang-jin (photos by kaley, shane, and meredith)

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