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Detention Span

by The Strait A's

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1.
Best Defense 02:28
I know it probably seems like the world makes no sense You did everything and it made no difference You still got your heart broken into pieces Now it's time to stop all of your bloodletting And try to decide on a brand new heading You deserve a lot of things you're not getting now It's killing me seeing you like this Dying on the inside, trying not to fight it It's killing me seeing you like this On your own I know that it seems like it's all unwinding Slipping through your hands even as they tighten But you're still alive and the sun's still shining You're too strong to let a thing like this beat you You've got too much heart to let a broke one keep you From not giving up on a world that needs you now It's killing me seeing you like this Sinking with the ship 'cause you don't know how to right it It's killing me seeing you like this On your own, but you're not alone If you could only see what I do then you'd agree There's a lot more promise here than you might think There will come a day when you honestly can say That you're better off this way although it stinks Take it as it comes and don't let yourself get numb There's no need to bang your head against the wall I know you've been burned but in time you're gonna learn That the best defense is no defense at all
2.
Hard Korean 01:24
I remember meeting her As cute as she was short with rockin' tattoos everywhere You know I was in awe of her How could 80 pounds of girl hold 90 pounds of "I don't care?" Little Tijuana's is where we wound up together But little did I know it had moved south of the equator East of the meridian and later by a day Because I'd just fallen for a girl the southeast asian way And she's my little porcelain sweetie Straight from the south China sea If she ever left she'd be disorienting me She's my jade eyed cutie She's got so much Seoul you see She's a hardkorean and she's all I'll ever need
3.
The fuse is lit and burning It's time to start the running But I'm so sick of running My friend you know it's true I'm so sick of running from you
4.
Anatomy 01:45
You've got two of nearly everything including eyes and ears and arms Feet and legs and hands and lungs, but just a single heart You know that mine is beating just for you and all your parts Be they one or two or thirty six like your teeth are Split right down the middle you've got perfect symmetry And inverted mitochondria that take my energy Baby, don't you know we're going down in history Well it's gonna be anato-you and anatomy Oh it's pretty clever whoever put you together did it just for me I wanna be with your anatomy I love you from the inside out, yeah I wanna be with your anatomy I finally got the nerve to tell you
5.
Kittens and unicorns? Don't fucking push me ever PROTEIN MILKSHAKE! When I'm sitting here at home I wonder where you are When I go out to a show I know you won't be there When I'm calling people names You know it's not the same Without you to call them fag I'm wasting time again Just wasting time 'cause it makes a good story I'm wasting time til I can see you again You may think I'm I little out of line By saying nothing really seems to matter But it's all just a waste of time til I get to waste some time on you When I'm drinking every night When I'm getting into fights That's when I know you're not around When I pass out in the yard You know it's not the same When someone else calls me retarded And maybe I should try just a little bit harder And maybe moving on would feel a little better But baby you already heard me say that I don't want to And I won't move on unless I'm moving on to you Don't call people fag
6.
Kiddie Pool 00:54
Slap a smile on your face, a swimming suit on your waist We're having fun today We'll be soaking from noon until our fingers are pruned And we've shown you a new way While you're out making plans and starting terrible bands And drowning in the deep end We'll be having fun in the kiddie pool

about

We recorded this in a day and a half. 2 if you count re-doing some of the vocals.
Both drummers had never played with us before.
We had fun. A lot of fun.

Best Defense: Holy hell. Even though it's just Canon In D spit through some powerchords with harmonies added, kinda still kicks you in the nuts.

Hardkorean: Not about Kat. She's not even Korean, you goddamn racist. She's Filipino. Garbage Island represent, son! I will say, though, you'll be hard pressed to find another pop punk song that mentions the prime meridian. High brow, that's our jam.

Teenage Bottle Rocket War: Written as a dare. A fucking DARE. We received said dare the night before our second show. The dare was to write a song before the show. We did, and this was it. Oh, it's about a bottle rocket war to end all bottle rocket wars. We were in the shit that night, my friend. Kat was walking wounded. I fragged a general. I don't like talking about it even today.

Anatomy: Okay, I like puns, do you get that? Chock full of 'em, this one. I took some heat for the line "I love you from the inside out, yeah" more than once. But, come ON you guys! The whole song is about anatomy, not deep dickin'. So let's all be civilized and just enjoy a sappy love song with science all over it. For once.

Don't (Call People Fag): Kat swears I told her the parenthesis would be funny. Now, I DO think they are funny, but I don't remember saying that. The song itself is pretty badass. Reconstituted from a song she wrote for a lucky fella's birthday, as I recall. Good stuff. Storytellers shit right there. I always liked it because of the beginning. Kat thinks she can scream better, but I think it's aces.

Kiddie Pool: Fuck you, lead singer of another band that wasn't very good to start with! How dare you mock the best show happening in Minneapolis in 2006. Know what? You just earned yourself a nasty song. Gonna call it Kiddie Pool. See how you feel about THAT.
Originally released on Johann's Face Records out of Chicago by our pal Marc Ruvolo, who decided to put out our record after seeing us get into a cake fight during a show.
True visionary, that one, and we sure do appreciate it.

credits

released May 1, 2007

Chris Johnson: Guitar/Vocals
Kat Naden: Bass/Vocals
Nate Collis: Drums/Shouting
Dave Brockschmidt: Drums

Recorded by Chad Weis at Devil's Workshop.

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