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The Goods

by Governing Dynamics

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1.
Three Places (I-80) 03:49
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Retracing black tar and white lines To the scenes of ancient crimes Worn mixtapes and old mistakes Were they yours or were they mine We didn’t know who we’d become Couldn’t have known what was at stake Dark glasses to shut out the western sun And a pack of cigarettes for old time’s sake But I quit them like I quit you The longing lingers, making it hard to breathe So I put this engine through its paces Through towns we tore apart Can’t shake myself awake from this stasis You broke my heart in at least three places Past deceptive lights of Lincoln Interstate 80s desolate plains Midwest wasteland of radio I am singing your refrain The transmission slips in Kearney Still I’m transmitting my love Limping towards Mt. Rushmore And that Nebraska college town no one’s heard of When the fog finally lifts, and my chest aches Routes long abandoned, they are calling me So I put this engine through its paces Through towns we tore apart Can’t shake myself awake from this stasis You broke my heart in at least three places And if you put your on mine I would drive all night Until we got this right I’m only traveling through space I’d need to travel through time Through time So I put this engine through its paces Through towns we tore apart Can’t shake myself awake from this stasis And my gasoline-pumping heart The rearview mirror holds old disgraces My body shakes and my mind races The only truth I’ll never face is You broke my heart in at least three places So I put this engine through its paces Through towns we tore apart Can’t shake myself awake from this stasis You broke my heart in at least three places You broke my heart And I know broke yours too You broke my heart I’ll never forget you
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To A Stubborn Young Man In The Year 1998 (red mix) 03:42
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Final Flight of the Electra 03:24
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19 hours is a while for the whole world to hold it’s breath You rolled the dice a thousand times hadn’t stared down snake eyes yet You could’ve been a castaway sleeping on a distant shore Could’ve gone from safe and sound to a prisoner of war Goodbye, Electra A calculated risk, a monumental task Failure was a question that no one thought to ask Your talent for laughing off the impossible Your ease for coming off as unstoppable Could’ve been a castaway sleeping on a distant shore Could’ve gone from safe and sound to a prisoner of war Could have fell a thousand miles from blue above to blue below The search party won’t stop until we know Goodbye… Burn the lights and break the clouds Watch the skies, north to south Send the signals burn the oil Set down on the Howland soil Could’ve been a castaway sleeping on a distant shore Could’ve gone from safe and sound to a prisoner of war Could have fell a thousand miles from blue above to blue below The search party won’t stop until we know You could’ve quit while you were ahead, beloved and slowly fading star But if that was who you were you’d not have gone so far Could have fell a thousand miles from blue above to blue below The search party won’t stop until we know Goodbye, Electra, goodbye Burn the lights and break the clouds Watch the skies, north to south Burn the lights and break the clouds Watch the skies
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Concessions 03:37
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That didn’t go like I expected And nothing like we’d dreamed It may feel bad to miss the mark But good to have a team Your trust has given me courage And your hope has given me drive If tomorrow brings us darkness We’ve shown we can shine a light So here’s to the losers You can laugh, there’s plenty of us here tonight Here’s to healing hearts and clever minds Finding another way to fight Now’s not the time to rest But to plot our moving on To stand and make it know that We’re defeated but not gone It would be so easy To become the things we hate Let our righteous fire Consume us from within Keep your eyes ahead So here’s to the losers You can laugh, there’s plenty of us here tonight Here’s to healing hearts and clever minds Finding another way to fight Here’s to the fighters Down but not quite out just yet To keeping faith, refusing hate And changing what you can’t accept
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Stars Over Avalon (free) 04:17
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driving past the sign i've just got to laugh "population 50" there couldn't be half that many souls who have a home within these so called city limits it doesn't take a minute to drive from one side to the other but you can't judge a place by the ground that it covers if the news is a battle we are soliders far from the fight at least we can look up and see stars at night drifting past the place i wrote songs with my band i remember things i learned i still don't understand steetlights shining off the gravel of quiet streets where no car travels empty buildings, the cemetary forgotten founders and secrets buried this town has lived longer than I ever will with all of it's people come and gone somehow no matter where I've been, what I've seen I still miss the stars over Avalon and it's quiet but for sounds that we make ourselves, you see it's not so bad as long as you can stand your own company for what we might lack in artificial light at least we can look up and see stars at night, see the stars at night sometimes i still miss the stars
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Los Alamos (free) 04:41
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The sun rises in the east I never thought I'd hear a prophecy in that When I settled down, in this desert town The future rang no doorbells But to provide a frame of reference Nobody here much looks me in the eye It's like a pass backstage, this name badge Just the junior lab assistant guy Yet sometimes I feel like a ghost In the shadow of a sleeping god I feel a little sicker everyday But I really need this job Everyone here is so smart and so quiet But I guess in science that's not so odd Proper care and handling of this team Might be a task to which I'm not equal One of them just said he has become death I wonder what he'll do for a sequel To turn so many people to shadows And dust clouds that flow like a flood I guess when you wake a sleeping giant It's no surprise that he looks for a club I suspect that I aid and abet The greatest crime in human history I don't really wanna know, because tell me Who doesn't love a good mystery? Who doesn't love a good mystery? And I wash my hands As I piece things together Can't even say how careful I need to be And I wash my hands You can't take a chance When this world can be so, so dirtying I feel a little sicker everyday But I really need this job Everyone here is so smart and so quiet But I guess in scienece that's not so odd Should I suspect I aid and abet The biggest crime in human history I don't really wanna know, because tell me Who doesn't love a good mystery? Who doesn't love a good mystery? I can stand to leave a little mystery I wash my hands, and wash my hands I wash them while I look the other way
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Governing Dynamics (ft. Joe 'Covenant' Lamb) - Melt in the Sun (So Many Pretty Ways) (free) 03:50
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i couldn't be what you wanted but what you want is always subject to such change and i know that you're so tired cos you've got a new apartment to decorate you left the man to keep your pride, synthetic plants and earth, but once you were outside they all just melted in the sun. they all just melted in the sun. give me a sign when the heat is rising and i will shelter you from ultraviolet rays give me a moment to collect myself we fall apart is so many pretty ways so many pretty ways I guess I can't judge by sight or taste but smell and sound are saying you're real as anything If we don't touch again I might explode ever upward, defying gravity i wrote you such pretty words tried to make them real with a melody but our love, it just melts in the sun our love always melts in the sun give me a sign when the heat is rising and i will shelter you from ultraviolet rays give me a moment to collect myself we fall apart is so many pretty ways so many pretty ways and you're melting through my fingers again i try to sculpt you back together you'd think i should have learned my lesson back when we couldn't stand up to extreme weather dead of exposure, should have known better give me a sign when the heat is rising and i will shelter you from ultraviolet rays give me a moment to collect myself we fall apart is so many pretty ways give me a sign, a shout or whisper i can no longer see through haze turns out i'm plastic too yeah i'm just as fake as you
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Forward 04:39
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Lean into the wind Thought that the air Would carry the wreckage And cover the earth again All our best intentions Reduced to their dimmest Their grey and least No excuse for giving in Stop stalling and straighten up The future is not yet arranged Maybe in a minute or two it won't Feel so damn strange This is not done We are not lost This story is not complete Atfer all that we've won And all that it cost Now's not the time To accept defeat No surrender No retreat Just forward Stop thinking your sliding down The egde is further than you thought If you only saw the distance down You just might jump off This is not done We are not lost This story is not complete Atfer all that we've won And all that it cost Now's not the time To accept defeat No surrender No retreat No conditions, no concessions No defeat, no direction But forward Forward, forward Move forward, move forward This is not done We are not lost This story is not complete Atfer all that we've won And all that it cost Now's not the time To accept defeat The road is ahead And the lights are all on The fire grows high And the doubt is all gone There's nothing behind That we want or we need Deceptions and lies We no longer believe No surrender, no retreat No conditions, no concessions No defeat Just forward
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Dark Places (ft. Rebecca Brickley) 04:09
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Lost downtown in the burning summer Wasted so many things all that year Oh oh But I guess that you'd know After all that we've been through Do you still feel the need to drag me down with you? Oh oh Well I guess so But I told you (and I heard you) This is the last time This is the last time That I call after midnight Headlights on an empty street Smile like you never knew me Like you don't see right through this charade I'm not gonna pull you out this time I'm not gonna be around To see your bleeding heart on parade I guess I'll just go missing I can see it all shattered Stained glas, got dirty And then got swept away I'm not playing this game I was getting along fine I wish you'd just leave When I know you won't stay Remember we were afraid of nothing If you'd like some aid in deconstructing Well keep looking Keep looking And the sirens And the stars we can never see And the silence That follows us down the busy street There's no hiding From the sliding back into day What do you like so much About the night anyway? Sunrise on an empty street Smile like you never knew me Like you don't see right through this charade I'm not gonna pull you out this time I'm not gonna be around To see your bleeding heart on parade So tell me why the light takes you apart The patterns I knew are only traces For all the world, I swear I'd love to make a new start Where I don't always find truth in dark places And I heard you This is the last time I call Call after midnight
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Broken Boy 02:42
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you take a look at him across the room when just the right song is playing turn and talk to your friends just to make him wonder what you're saying he could probably use a drink or two but that's really not an absolute the post modern man can destroy himself with little more than time add in a smile like you know a secret to drive him out of his mind add in desired time of give and take some sincerity if you can't fake these are just instructions no need to worry anyone'll judge twist in to a shape you like depending on how much use you got from the original you don't need to worry he'll always thank you when you're done he'll be shaking like a junkie and saying you're the only one Maybe it's something that must be done But maybe you shouldn't so enjoy you put this all together you've got yourself a broken boy you put this all together you've got yourself a broken boy you put this all together you've got yourself a broken boy
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Introvert Asks To Spend The Night 02:44
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I have had a long day and I bet that you have too That doesn't mean They get our later hours When status quo it grows And we can't take Being half dead and half awake A sweet escape is in our power And why should the morning sun Mean the night is really through When I most value time is when I Waste it all with you Though I tend to whisper What I'm sure that I should scream Tonight is for real life And not for dreams why stay uncomfortable when there's Nothing much to prove I always make you laugh When I'm trying to make a move Shadows on the wall Twisting in the night the steady rise and fall I try to read it right you can find me where our joys and fears laid bare lead each other through the dark I was never all that clever At asking for what I want So I hope that this is better late than never If you'll meet me in the bedroom I will be your broken boy I like the way you put me back together
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Governing Dynamics (ft. Jenny Katz) - The Dream Is Winding Down (Lucid) 04:04
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This is the room no longer closing in This is the ceiling giving way to the sky The flowers in bloom and then retreating again Grasping for the feeling right before the feeling dies The gears and the cogs. the plans we set in motion Just follow the sinking sun into the ocean You're so long away (I can see you) Don’t you think you’ve went far enough? (But I can't reach you) It's time to close your eyes, (Won't you come and catch me?) Just let go, and count down, and wake up This is the road from your half-drawn maps Our city dying growing smaller over you shoulder The ciphers and codes keep the landscape from collapse But if you're trying you can feel your bed growing colder And the street lamps offer no answers You're so long away Haven't you went far enough? It's time to close your eyes, Just let go and count down, and wake up
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Houses (free) 03:40
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From the time of our births 'Til we return to the earth All that arrives will depart 'Til you defeat your innate Will to destroy and not create Passing shadows is all that we are Rearranged grains of sand And displaced air The tide rolls in and We're without a prayer You won't find me and old man Staring out to sea Waiting for the sand in the glass To run out If you can ignore the siren's call Long enough to put up four walls And a roof that keeps the elements at bay You might leave the world a bit Better than it was when you found it Before you slip back into the gray When you put down your hammer When your day is done Someone was watching They'll pick it back up You won't find me an old man Staring out sea Waiting for the fires I brought to life To be doused If you wanna take a run at slipping one Past mortality Stop leaving footprints And start building houses It's not you against me Not even us against them We're on the same shore When the tall waves crash in We can build together But won't stand apart for long From the time of our births Til heaven crashes to earth All that arrives will depart Indentations erased By the water and wind Time and time And time again You won't find me an old man Staring out sea Waiting for the fires I brought to life To be doused If you wanna take a run at slipping one Past mortality Stop leaving footprints Start building houses Start building houses If you wanna take a run at slipping one Past mortality Stop leaving footprints Start building houses
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Sound on Sound 04:30
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Golden hour on a rocky shore Fleeting feeling there was something more Than what I’d captured in the frame Old mathematics, fortune plus blame Satisfied, in that anxious way Of a place you love but know you can’t stay Feel it deep, the sun and the sea But deeper still is your vacancy Slow build piecing together the day Peaks and crests arrest the mess of what I meant to say Sound on sound Regrets and fury unbound My truth surrounds, hide in the air If you don’t care, then they’ll never be found In this sound on sound Can’t relax in this dawning sun This symphony doesn’t want to be done This photograph, that dress you wore Bleeding colors forming towering chords The same old dance we’ve been sitting out for years The song is rising, crying like a siren, but never in your ears Sound on sound Regrets and fury unbound My truths surround, hide in the air If you don’t care, then they’ll never be found In this sound on.. The tension twists and shifts and grows But you’ll never hear enough to know In blinding light where I see the least I spread my ash on Folly Beach Sound on sound Regrets and fury unbound My truths surround, hide in the air If you don’t care, then they’ll never be found In this sound on sound Sound on sound Cacophony welling up from the ground My straining voice, come push or shove Can never quite be heard above This sound on sound
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Rise 04:18
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(Rise) 2x We felt it taking shape Hint of lightning in our bloodstreams The truth is ringing like a mortar above your street Fell to our knees In the church we all saw in that same dream Sang with the choir and our voices rang out so sweet Home was a warzone in that story But hey at least we know the territory Trying to sift the virtue from the sin We just can’t say when we’ll begin to Rise Up through the killing floor Rise Out of the blood and gore I lit a candle and I held my ground The change was rolling like a storm And not a second too soon A thousand cuts revealing faces You wouldn’t believe were underneath I offer thoughts and prayers, never treat the wound And who among wouldn’t tire Not knowing heroes from crucifiers Could join the chorus of lamenters But will we ever slip the center And Rise Out of the ruined and condemned Rise Not be so poisoned again Rise (4x)

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released April 9, 2018

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Governing Dynamics Kansas City, Missouri

Governing Dynamics is an alternative rock band captained by guitarist and singer-songwriter Travis Norris. The band regularly takes part in Spintunes (spintown.bandcamp.com) and has attracted literally dozens of international fans via layered guitars, immaculate solos, and thoughtful lyrics.

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