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A Novel Approach

by A Trivial Hero

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1.
______ 03:55
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Just give me some time to come up With the answers to the questions Because we don’t have to learn our lessons The hard way With a written history to record Every possible mistake And map out all our escapes We’ll carve our own way But the teenage heart dances in wonder Where the open mind finds solid ground So we sing “Hey-ey” But do we even hear the words? Because we weren’t meant to be alone We were not meant to wander blind We weren’t meant to make the same mistakes again I spend my time inside of Minds you’d call complicated I’ll tell you that is understated A long way With the ups and downs and in-betweens Rendering hopes and doubtings I find myself in new surroundings Along my own way Still the teenage heart dances in wonder Where those who’ve sought have often found So you sing “Hey-ey” But do you even hear the words? Because we aren’t meant to be alone We are not meant to wander blind We aren’t meant to make the same mistakes as them Don’t be so sure That you know it all When you haven’t been there And there’s those that have So all I want Is you to take my errors As your own Because you aren’t meant to be alone You are not meant to wander blind You aren’t meant to make the same mistakes as me
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Perfect on Paper 04:50
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She's after a world so fleeting She wants it all She's tried every bed but found them all Too big or too small Still it's her persistence redeeming Committed to the cause If only she'd learn to appreciate The beauty of flaws Please tell me you're open to change Please say that you're not grown up yet She lives in a dream utopic Proprietarily Lone architect and foreman Commissioned voluntarily So waking seems catastrophic To untrained, open eyes But the dreams will manifest themselves To the patient and wise Just make sure you're open to suggestions But don't fool yourself It's only perfect on paper Turns out the pictures we've drawn became the life we lead We'll all learn sooner or later To cope with the dissatisfaction of having our dreams come true So this is the road not taken? Traveled by many Journeyed for gain This is the path I've forsaken Badge upon my own chest To my father's dismay It's only perfect on paper Turns out the stories we write get imitated by our lives We'll all learn sooner or later To cope with dissatisfaction when all of our dreams come true Is it that we never dreamed big enough? Or that we expected once we got here all the work could just stop? We created this present with past thought So let's think the future that we want That's not only perfect on paper Turns out the songs we all sing shape our reality We all learn sooner or later To accept the satisfaction of all of our dreams come true It's not only perfect on paper Turns out the songs we all sing shape our reality We all learn sooner or later To accept the satisfaction of all of our dreams come true Not only perfect on paper It's not only perfect on paper
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22 03:32
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I hear the engines roaring overhead And watch my scheme crash and burn I'm feeling irony, I'm seeing red No, I'm not ready for the urn So don't count me out I am still on the ground Don't send a letter home I'm trapped by all my lies I never took to the skies Let me out of this catch But don't let me go You'd think it'd break her to hear I'm gone But she's got a different plan She's getting done up and moving on Finding herself a new man Baby, don't count me out I was still on the ground Don't believe that letter, oh no I was trying to lie You know I hate to fly This is part of that catch Please don't let me go This doesn't make any sense I shouldn't be in this fight I'm a healer A man dedicated to life Mostly my own Admittedly How could she move on Forgetting about me? I guess just count me out I'm as good as in the ground Maybe if that letter says so I'm trapped by all my lies I'll never take to the skies I created this catch She let me go
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Scout's Honor 02:51
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Another summer romance Pretty girl across the street I’ve got my eyes on you Have you got your eyes on me? Show me the ropes of this place Mischief will be our game Tell me another story You do well to entertain So take me on another adventure Can’t stop laughing, can’t stop smiling We carry on and on I swear the angels sent her Just ‘til the summer’s over Then with it she’s gone Let’s run this small town ragged Pardoned by innocence Let’s find where limits lie Somewhere beyond this fence Return for sunny seasons A year well worth the wait Whenever you’re around It speeds up my heart rate So take me on another adventure Can’t stop laughing, can’t stop smiling We carry on and on I swear the angels sent her Just ‘til the summer’s over Then with it she’s gone Come on let’s lure him out You should thank me when this saves your life No please don’t wear me out Feels like I’m fading with time Another summer romance Pretty girl across the street I’ve got my eyes on you Have you got your eyes on me? Show me the ropes of this place Our game will be mischief Don’t let this season end Without a summer’s kiss So take me on another adventure Can’t stop laughing, can’t stop smiling We carry on and on I swear the angels sent her Just ‘til the summer’s over Then with it she’s gone Take me on another adventure (Take me away) Don’t stop laughing, don’t stop smiling (To this Maycomb County) Just carry on and on (And teach me everything you know) I swear the angels sent her (Take me away) Don’t let this summer end (To this Maycomb County) ‘Cause with it she’s gone (I want to go)
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I Am the Underground Man 02:53
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This tank keeps running dry These words are useless Label me useless So full of hot air Still unable to fly Confined to this cranial cell In solitary silence sits the cynic This mental state Magnifies mistakes And loathing Please tell me that there’s something left Please tell me I can be more than this I feel all the gears grind These notes are fleeting Tick-tock keeps beating And every last drop of sand Is ingrained in my mind Constructed this cranial hell In solitary silence suffering is cyclic These carnal stakes Border on insane A thin line Don’t tell me that there’s nothing left Because I know that I should be more than this
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Some of Us Watch the Sunset Too 03:44
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The screen is so bright down at the drive-in Dark nights have seen some big crowds It’s a nice escape into a different type of hell Where the flames are in the forms of turn downs We pass the time watching the sunset Distant worlds connected by a thread It’s my escape from otherwise endless hell But when it rises I descend So it’s nice to know that you can see me Though it means you always could Don’t get your hopes up, kid, you’re too nice I’ll just cut my losses and my feelings I guess it’d be too good ‘Cause the kindest guys with the brightest minds ain’t her type So save us from social degradation It’s not up to you Still we’ll take out all of our frustrations Not taught what else to do And ignorance breeds violence As seen in you and I And it festers in the silence Of those who ignore and choose to close their eyes So it’s nice to know that you can see me Though it means you always could Don’t get your hopes up, kid, you’re too nice I’ll just cut my losses and my feelings I guess it’d be too good ‘Cause the kindest guys with the brightest minds ain’t her type So it’s nice to know that you have feelings Though it means you always could Don’t get your hopes up kids of east side So just cut your losses and start healing Maybe go do some good ‘Cause the kindest guys with the brightest minds can’t waste time
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Je Suis J. Alfred Prufrock 02:56
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I’m walking through the city Surrounded by the lifeless This world is not meant for me L’amour c’est pas pour moi The same old subjects of art and overwhelmed And overdone Such loyal subjects to those up at the helm I’m not their son Detachment is my claim A resignation to the effects of age Forfeited chances But only one-time dances And I don’t dare to try [In the room, the women come and go talking of Michelangelo] But now the talk is of JT And I cannot measure up Despondent eyes fall on me Je connais les yeux trop bien Detachment is my claim A resignation to the effects of age I know just what they’ll say They see my every flaw Is that even what they see? Or do I pin myself to the wall? Detachment is my claim A resignation to the effects of age Forfeited chances But only one-time dances And I don’t dare to try
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Call Me Caterpillar 04:52
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You’ve got your medication Is that all you need? Is an excuse? Your liquid inspiration Has an expiration Sooner than mine So get your mad-hat on I know you want to It’s all you have left But when the last grain of sand is gone Just remember You once lived on a beach This world grows to addiction It’s all you think Until you use Live in that place, it’s fiction Written by prescriptions For the lack of mind So dive down that hole And see how long it takes To reach the rocks Replace the sound of your soul With hallucinations Well I’ve got news for you I’ve got no use for you This body doesn’t match the mind Yeah, I’ve got news for you I’ve got no use for you I’m not that stagnant kind You can’t give me reason And that’s all I’d need It’s my abuse Constructed this condition Loss of all ambition While I’m always short on time “Off with this head” You made the call yourself Relinquished all thought You’ll be interested instead But not interesting Well I’ve got news for you I’ve got no use for you This body doesn’t match the mind Yeah, I’ve got news for you I’ve got no use for you I’m not that stagnant kind And the looking glass reveals The unbecoming form That you’ve become So you can claim that this heals But it’s no solution It just makes you numb So get your mad-hat on I know you’ve got to It’s all you have left But when the last grain of sand is gone You’ll remember Me Well I’ve got news for you I’ve got no use for you This body doesn’t match the mind Yeah, I’ve got news for you I’ve got no use for you I’m not that stagnant kind
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Movies with Min 03:35
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So close close close I'm out I spent this day all wrong 'Cause without you So far away from you It should be easy not to think But that's all I do I could've stayed in bed For hours on end Enveloped in you But I locked up in my head I'll lie in lyrics instead And wish it was truth So close close close I'm out I spent this day all wrong 'Cause without you So far away from you It should be easy not to think But that's all I do This is just like that scene from that one film Where she turns to walk away slowly And he buries his head in his hands Meanwhile we're all left to wonder If he had spoken up at all Might she have turned around and stayed? So close close close I'm out I spent this day all wrong 'Cause without you So far away from you It should be easy not to think But that's all I do So close close close I'm out I spent this day all wrong 'Cause without you So far away from you It should be easy not to think But that's all I do So close close close I'm out I spent this day all wrong 'Cause without you So far away from you It should be easy not to think But that's all I do
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My People Shooting Hat 03:14
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I’d ride the bomb all the way down And watch destruction on their faces I’ll ride this wave until it crashes And the beach is my mental state There is a gun in my mouth Yet you’re the one in danger It’s not pointed in, it’s aiming out Don’t give me a reason to pull the trigger Just tell me I’m fine Yeah, act like I’m fine I’ll push you away Cut you down I don’t need you around I’ve got a talent to affront No more to say Just read the signs I haven’t got the time I’ve got people to hunt You say I’m headed for a fall And I won’t be there to catch me But once I’ve reached the bottom I’ll catch all the youth who fall after And tell them they’re fine I’ll help them stay fine But I’ll push you away Cut you down I don’t need you around I’ve got a talent to affront No more to say Just read the signs I haven’t got the time I’ve got people to hunt ‘Round and ‘round she goes Keeps reaching for that golden ring But don’t try and stop her You know that’s not right I’d ride the bomb all the way down And see the judgments on their faces I’ll ride this wave until it crashes And the beach is my mental state
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Becoming the Wind 03:35
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Will you miss me when I am god? Will you cry out? And when they ask Will you tell them we danced? Would you brag? I was once your pawn I was once your piece Just an arm That you could choose to link I was once a hole Where you'd pour yourself into And I feel no shame I feel no pain no more Will they search for me when I am god? Asking questions About what they thought and for the things they've sought They look to me I was once like them Looking out from me Body was a fence Sky was out of reach But dug in my soul And found the whole world waiting And I became The hand that wrote the same before Baby, you've got the answers It's just if you choose to know How your mind was once captured And how they tried to subdue your soul So shake it off, I swear I'll be back Send your kisses on the wind until then I've got to pursue my legend So please don't miss me while I am god
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Conceptualist Life Support 03:56
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I’m back on top And it feels so good The words flow freely Just like they should And I’m fine It was all in my mind And you can’t take this from me It’s all that’s left The concepts and theories In what I’ve said I have to find meaning And I’ll be fine When it’s all in my mind But that’s not where it will stay So don’t take my words They’re all I have They’re all I have Dependant on their every meaning And these songs get me my fix You held me down But the muzzle’s off So I take my mission And I’ll never stop You’ve taken everything else I have to ration logic to survive These notes are the only things that help Definitions keeping me alive No don’t take my words They’re all I have They’re all I have Dependant on their every meaning And these songs get me my fix Don’t take my words They’re all I have They’re all I have Dependant on their every meaning And these songs get me my fix

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The follow-up to the debut acoustic album by A Trivial Hero takes nerd-rock to a whole new level. A Novel Approach features songs covering various literary works. Sporting more of the melodic, lyric driven style as the previous effort, this album shows more of what makes A Trivial Hero creatively unique.

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released December 3, 2013

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