Rose from the Rubble EP, by The Fabulous 464s

Rose from the Rubble EP

by The Fabulous 464s

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Benji This is full-on Josh. I absolutely love it. Favorite track: Marshall Northrup Overton.

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1.	1996 05:28	lyrics	buy track
Well we rose from the rubble, took a hard look around the place Through hot, oily air, saw despair cover every face Time chose to stop and consider other avenues Moving in directions to show how much we had to lose So we fly through the future, all the way to 1996 Skidding to a stop and hoping there’s still time to fix Broken bonds of trust, and all the duties we rejected Hoping there’s still time to get our crooked course corrected CHORUS: We gave in to all the allure of division We let all the charlatans make our decisions We took all our knowledge and added lazy revisions To avoid hard choices We’ve been who we are since the world was young And now that it seems that our songs are all sung We feel the words on the tip of the tongue But we lost our voices So we fly through the future all the way to 1996… Well the eaters at the diner say it’s never been like this before Walls are falling down around us, nothing’s stable anymore Then an old battered TV said it’s OK to draw the line The oracle of TV said what’s yours is yours, what’s mine is mine And above, all the scavengers then prepared to dine CHORUS And when we return, maybe what we’ve learned Will have unmade our lives with its merciful knives As the faces swirl through an undone world Of souls that matter and lives that shatter and form again Well the girl giving gifts said “I’m giving up and dropping out. Gonna hit the road, gonna find out what I’m all about.” And the boy with the guitar said “Solutions ain’t my currency. The know-it-alls and Pollyannas never did a thing for me.” And the scavengers watched from the lowest branch of the tree CHORUS Now we rise up against the ways of 1996
2.	Marshall Northrup Overton 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Saw his picture in a book that fell off of a coffee table When I crammed a rock under a leg to try and make it stable So I figured I would write this down as long as I’m still able… Charming and sincere behind that weird moustache Insulting everyone we hate while sweating loads of cash He made us feel OK about larcenous belief As though what he stole couldn’t make someone a thief CHORUS: But when we saw Marshall Northrup Overton’s electric sewage barge We stayed plugged into his socket, even after fully charged When Marshall Northrup Overton floated into town that day All the saviors that were rallied couldn’t chase his words away We got to where we are as slow lane tailgaters Now we’re eating boring breaded food and whining at our waiters So we were easy marks for his self-serving visit But this isn’t really about him, now is it? CHORUS I think I heard he died, or otherwise expired I would’ve learned the history, but thinking ‘bout it makes me tired But listen hard enough, which isn’t hard at all You still hear his bullshit echo off the wall CHORUS And when Marshall Northrup Overton should happen to return I think we’ll see belatedly how much we failed to learn
3.	Zero to the Power of Zero 03:34	lyrics	buy track
I gave all my glory to a guy with a great sob story And I’d gladly do it again I gave all my money to a mud-spattered Easter Bunny ‘cause he looked like he needed a friend Or at least some friendly token To show that the world isn’t completely broken CHORUS: I’m zero to the power of zero With an undefinable soul Zero to the power of zero And I won’t relinquish control To anyone who’d define what makes me whole I paid sky-high prices to a vendor buried by her vices Even as she condemned all of mine Then I took all my new goods and left them lying in the woods And I walked away feeling just fine Or at least entirely unconcerned About where my ashes will someday be urned CHORUS There will always be pressure to renounce the dreams You’ve carried around since birth But you can torture logic ‘til it screams And still not change the orbit of the Earth CHORUS Zero to the power of zero Zero to the power of zero Zero to the power of zero
4.	Dream Logic 03:48	lyrics	buy track
I get up before the dawn I go out and mow the lawn My neighbors complain But I need a way to stay sane Putting my mind to rest Why should it be such a test When all I have to do Is to live a life without you, and Enter another place, enter a state of grace Enter another place, enter a state of grace CHORUS Where I’m waiting for you, always waiting for you Until the end of the world (where dream logic holds sway) And there I clamber over lives in amber Hoping against hope dream logic frees us up To start life again And there I saw a crowd of dancers, sobbing as they spun Trying to forget about loves never quite begun And ignoring escalators and stairways all about Beckoning to be figured out, so to Enter another place, enter a state of grace Enter another place, enter a state of grace CHORUS Many a tear will fall How many my dear are fallout From you and me And not something else entirely? Some will point out the faults And some will point at the fault lines Under our feet Where the future and the past meet, and Enter another place, enter a state of grace Enter another place, enter a state of grace CHORUS To start again To start again
5.	Changing Autumn Leaves 04:15	lyrics	buy track
Wandering off from the path we walk I lose direction But your color guides, and still we talk With warm inflection And on we go… CHORUS: With all the cold of the yet untold Rolling down my sleeves The red and gold make the days unfold In ways this heart believes You’re my changing Autumn leaves Arriving now in a sun-soaked clearing Seems accidental But your color guides, with the sight appearing Fundamental And on we go… CHORUS The fall is confident and sure Every time it starts Leaves a feeling so secure When Autumn, altered, finally departs CHORUS

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released March 1, 2021

Written, Recorded and Mixed by The Fabulous 464s.

Mastered at Stereophonic Mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk.

Copyright 2021 Salty Plow.

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The Fabulous 464s Portland, Oregon

The Fabulous Four Six Fours record on a four track cassette deck in Portland, OR.

They make melody- forward music with probably too many chords.

They sing tart little poems over those chords, and they put the vocal harmonies really high in the mix. And they call it quits after one or two takes.

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