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Rumspringa

by Milkweed

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1.
You will never be a better person until you figure out your drinking problem no, you'll never have a child in earnest you won't hear em when they're crying on the ground My old lady's pregnant I can't stop thinking about murder and I dont know why the seasons circle by workin in the Garden got one hand in the soil the other in the handle on her side theres not a fire in my heart its just a few sparks and I dont think I could believe You will never be a better person until you figure out your drinking problem no, you'll never have a child in earnest you won't hear em when they're crying on the ground I think myself irreverent I have to kill my child but I dont know how I aint figured it out and sure as my name's Arden I gotta let you go but I dont think you can dig that so call me John theres not a fire in my heart its just a few sparks and I dont think I could ever see Yeah you never had a drinkin problem so now its time to turn that gun around
2.
154 main avenue in Wynantskill, New York 154 aint that the truth in Wynantskill, New York 154 main, USA made, running solar and propane 150 in the shade, watching the parade off red wine and cocaine and no, you can't help and I can't say I like that attitude I'm talking to YOU boy! 154 main avenue in Wynantskill, New York 154 aint that the truth in Wynantskill, New York walkin thru the sage, I wanna burna away all night and all day you cant be saved and yeah you should be very afraid cuz no, you cannot help them 154 main avenue in Wynantskill, New York 154 aint that the truth in Wynantskill, New York cuz no, you cannot help them and I can't say I like your attitude I'm talking to YOU boy! 154 main avenue in Wynantskill, New York 154 aint I'lLL FOLLOW YOU to Wynantskill, New York I live on main
3.
the pale blue night horizon the pale blue night horizon it was the milk, the fuzz I'll tell you what it was It was that pale blue night horizon I think I ought to kill someone then my life can begin not for business, but for fun it was pale blue the pale blue night horizon the pale blue night horizon it was the milk, the fuzz I'll tell you just what it was It was that pale blue night horizon I think I ought to kill someone then my life can begin not for wussy, but for real with a knife, or a gun I'm chosen, I'm the one it was pale blue
4.
Them Bells 05:06
5.
Cajun Queen 03:54
"I wanna kiss you really bad" but I don't think you realize theres black mold growing inside my lungs and i don't have time for the doctor - or for you the eyeball on a stick coming out of the ocean - the cliffside straw-hat hut but I wanna know what makes a fox like that. oh, I wanna be rollin with my cajun queen whining like a dog you put me out of commission you really did me in when you bit me ooh theres a parasite growing under my car in the wheel well I didn't mean to start but i couldn't really stop it I'm starting to feel trapped but I wanna know what makes a fox like that is it Xanax?
6.
I dont love you or anyone else in this world thats the truth youre not my girl its just me I dont write poems or anything of the sort its the truth I pull it from the lord its just me I'm a superhuman adventure warrior you place weights on my ankles and on my shoulders I'm the abstract. the river-wet storier I get closer. it gets colder I don't get sad its just the pork is aging its the fat, its the truth who know what is worth saving its so free I saw the beaver on the bubblegum machine oh its the tears its the truth who knows what they all mean? I do and I'll tell you. its just me I'm a superhuman adventure warrior you place weights on my ankles and on my shoulders I'm the abstract - the river-wet storier I get closer... it gets colder... I don't bleed its just the blood is flowing its the seed its the truth you know where this is going its just YOU I dont die its just the river rockin oh, its the size its the truth I got you in my pocket its just YOU You're a superhuman adventure warrior I place weights on your ankles and on your shoulders You're the abstract, the river-wet storier I get closer - it gets colder
7.
Happiness 11:39
What is happiness about? What is happiness about? How bout scratchin every itch, come on? What is happiness about? what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout pleasin everyone around? what is happiness about? (what is?) what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout making everyone around face their happiness lying down? (milkweed guitar solo) what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout you go and kill yourself, come on? thats when happiness abounds (MDL guitar solo) xD what is happiness about? what is happiness really about? how bout killing every bug in the house? see his happiness in guts! (what is?) what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout feeling something wet? you can make it through the drought (josh burgess EWI section) what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout screamin down the gun? come on why is happiness a frog? (milkweed guitar solo) what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout squeaking like a mouse on alcohol like when your neighbor is a moth what is happiness about? what is happiness about? how bout you make a couple stars collide? that gooey happiness inside what is happiness about? what is happiness about? when youre demons come to roost whack em off and watch your happiness drip down
8.
I'd sing more about more of this land but all gods children aint free I'd open up every door I can but all gods children aint free I'd sing along to a silly song all gods children aint free I'm gonna sing a blues for the man they done wrong but all gods children aint free hey mister: how bout the man you condemned to die by taking everything that he's living by? and reject him from society? (all gods children aint free) Now I'd be happy walking any streent but all God's children aint free I'd have a smile for all that I meet but all God's children ain't free I'd whistle down the road but it wouldnt feel right I'd hear somebody crying out at night from a sharecropper's shack or penitentiary all gods children aint free

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released December 1, 2023

Jacob Smolinski - Recording, bass on "happiness"

Oliver Beardsley - drums, bongos on "Superhuman Adventure Warrior" and "Cajun Queen"

Dan Keegan - bass on "drinkin problem," tambourine on "happiness," electric guitar on "154 main"

Matthew Danger Lippman - electric guitar on "happiness," bass on "All God's Children Ain't Free"

Mike Slo-Mo Brenner - pedal steel guitar on "Superhuman Adventure Warrior" and "Cajun Queen"

Brianne Peterson - vocals on "Pale Blue Night Horizon" and "Happiness"

Ron Knittle - Saxophone on "drinkin problem"

Jay Davidson - baritone saxophone on "154 Main"

Stevie Boyar - tenor saxophone on "happiness"

Josh Burgess - EWI and alto saxophone on "happiness"

Harrison Graser - Piano on "happiness"

John Cunningham - Piano on "drinkin Problem"

Simone Reisman - Vocals on "drinkin problem"

Mastered by Will Chason

Cover photos by Daniel Dickerman

Cover layout and lettering by Max Weiss

All else by Arden Yonkers

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