In Relief

by Been Better

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1.
Standing at the Map's End 03:59
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Do you have the time Late for what, I’m not quite sure yet Do you have the time Late for what would you suggest I do A tall amnestic composed and photogenic Repeating objectives Ear to ear A modus sycophantic And your type was never cleared In every way unfocused But still held accountable The state of the young, the state of the young convincing The parts and the sum of industry I’m telling you now that there is no danger I'm promising you there is no danger The state of the young, state of the young convincing The parts and the sum of industry Do you have the time I’m not sure it was mine to begin with Debased the whole design Well If we're all in flux, let’s grow dizzy listening To the sigh of the seas The siren unmuted The waves never touched A building’s demand For wasting a man And a woman never hushed Refining the role Opposing best interest But who has control When you’re made the subject In every way unfocused But still held accountable The state of the young, state of the young convincing The parts and the sum of industry I'm telling you now that there is no danger I'm promising you there is no danger The state of the young, state of the young convincing The parts and the sum of industry And I’m telling you We’re at the map’s end And I’m telling you We’re at the map's end And there is no mystery left We’ve partaken our fill to the brim And the returns we’ve provided would be laughable if not so sick We’ve partaken our fill to the brim And become catalysts for lethargists We’ve partaken our fill to the brim And what do we have, what do we have to show for it
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Lantern (feat. Jeremy Schaeffer) 03:38
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Grown restless to the thinking I have become so attached to Still living, still living in the dark Relentless all the thinking subjugating our intents through Still living, still living in the dark Lights up, lights on Illuminate the meaning that I’ve been searching for Lights up, lights on Illuminate the meaning that I’ve been searching for The weight within ourselves extinguished everything The life it has befell exasperated and unmoved The likeness grounded with such unrequited spite Who is the beneficiary in this situation? The greatest negligence The weight within persists Untamed your panic stance With anxious arrogance Learn to diagnose your crazy Before you get too old and lazy Consider trusting a better something The wise and proud never stick around Consider trusting a better something The vengeful won’t and are more careful still The weight within ourselves extinguished everything The life it has befell exasperated and unmoved Over time a vicious statement will catapult itself within No hall of burning lanterns glow will light up any hopeful lift In spite of all the progress one word will crawl into your skin No halls of burning lanterns glow will light up any hopeful lift Will light up any hopeful lift I can’t recall the feeling Pull my full measure until the light is gone I am appalled of meaning No sense in sense if it does no good I can’t recall the feeling Pull my full measure until the light is gone
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Big Talk 03:50
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Wired to make it make sense To uncomfortably circumvent Any and all potential repercussions That we have been threatened with The harder to make a stand The greater the reprimand With our spines all aligned in a twisted design By an artist with no voice or hands So wave hello to all those waiting For a prescribed conviction of self-insulating And pity those who never found it The courage to fall in line I’m reminded It’s the lesser medicine That will make you whole again All the pragmatists no pacifists Waiting for it all to end And it’s the best addressed question We’ve now choreographed a side-step then Well there’s a lot of big talk Not a big shock from a chorus of the proudest men A litany of weirdoes and saints Somehow calling all of the shots Selling what they ain’t got Some highbrow love Such rarified taste can’t be touched While these simpler things for simpler minds Serving only to confine Some highbrow love Such rarified taste can’t be touched While simpler things for simpler minds Serving only to confine So wave goodbye to all still wading To all of those drowning in self-deprecation in self-insulating And pity those who never had the courage to make a move Fallen in line, and I have confided I’m daily reminded It’s the lesser medicine That will make you whole again All the pragmatists no pacifists Waiting for it all to end It’s the lesser medicine That will bring us together again Cause there’s a lot of big talk Not a big shock from a chorus of the proudest men A chorus of the proudest men It will make you whole again And it will make you whole again And it will make you whole again Blank stares carved Into blank slate hearts The chemistry of apathy Never figured to be all that hard Blank stares carved Into blank slate hearts The chemistry of apathy Never figured to be all that hard It can make you whole again It can make you whole again
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Create the New Last 03:14
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Lay out the path that will carry me Convention with the shivers in modesty Convention with a sliver of all the pains in place Where all the lights are staining The gated crux Laid out the path that will challenge me Convention with the shivers in modesty Moving through the lines with a grace and ease Disregarding cover, precipitous in state Taste, so critical A waste and infantile Performance of performers love And reforming cynics act above Taste, so critical A waste and infantile Performance of performers love And reforming cynics act above With vintage trust The crux and the brush Show me you can care that much Laid out the path that will challenge me Convention with the shivers in modesty Inventing civil concepts through lunacy Savoring the heights among dirty scenery With vintage trust Through vintage trust And show me that you can care that much Show me that you can truly care that much With all at stake Convention with the shivers in modesty Convention with the shivers in modesty I’m racing the path And bracing for impact The dye on the past Rejecting the likeness Wits collide and crash As reserves collapse Our clutched hands at clasp Create the new last
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Turning Down 02:31
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Embroidered details deemed inane Resigned to repeat all the same Let’s do this thing again Let’s do this thing again Rhythmic remembrance Austere and customary And I’ll speak so clear Audacious in demeanor I’m not turning down Won't waste the chords inside my neck And fully endowed, and fully aware No I’m not turning down Won’t waste the chords inside my neck Pricing out the deficits That I’ve made on my own Seem to have grown The deficits that I made All best efforts down the drain Resigned to repeat all the same Let’s do this thing again Let’s do this thing again Rhythmic remembrance Complicit in all senses My place is relevant Selfish without intent My place is relevant Selfish without intent And I’ll speak so clear, audacious in demeanor I’m not turning down Won't waste the chords inside my neck And fully endowed And fully aware No I’m not turning down Won’t waste the chords inside my neck Rhythmic remembrance Selfish without intent My place is relevant
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Despite or in Hope Of 03:49
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Boarded up all too eagerly With a sound contained to distorted whispers The wear and tear of seasons gone The shingles barely hanging on A dilapidated frame in stress That's if we're being generous still Desire meet burn out Desire meet burn out Desire meet burn out Permit my inquiry, how can you fall asleep now There's nothing left protecting the world from shaking you down Still lost in reverie, I can't even say aloud Repressed but furthest from safe, aging and mired in shame Aging and mired, mired in shame Aging and mired, mired in shame It's played out, but I wish we could relive it still It's played out, but I wish we could relive it still To this day, with all the blemishes intact and all of the failed remains To this day, with all the chemicals structured inciting a wild refrain Rented a look, for a separate ill logic sense God forbid I mistook, your praise, your praise for indifference Rented a look, for a separate ill logic sense God forbid I mistook, your praise, your praise was born It's played out, but I wish we could relive it still It's played out The way that we are still dragging it out Rebuild or refund, displaced or devout Ignoring the end, reform the divide Aging the heart, cleansing the mind It's played out, it's played out We're not unique, we're not unique We’ve grown to believe, desire is fleeting burning out the weak We’ve grown to believe, desire is fleeting burning out the weak We’ve grown to believe

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Been Better's debut EP In Relief

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released November 5, 2018

All songs written by Been Better
Engineered and produced by Jeremy Schaeffer at All Poetic Audio
Mastered by Doug Van Sloan at Focus Mastering

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