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Cringe EP

by Hales Corner

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Lovely one, put a bit of your warmth in me My cold cup is empty But I don’t want your sympathy Straight-laced, want me to cut to the chase But the pattern's hard to trace And you’ve got me stumbling There’s a rip in my cup Spilling more than blood There’s a rip in my cup Oh it didn’t take much Hardly now, do I find that I’m as well As when you are not around I’ve felt you draining me Warned me, you did, you told it true From the start my affection grew Into a mystery There’s a rip in my cup Spilling more than blood There’s a rip in my cup Oh it didn’t take much
2.
Cringe 03:35
Walked down the aisle Faced a hundred fake smiles And it was all right, all right Met up for lunch, ya said that work had been tough I thought oh my Hold on tight Frenching in the fog while being watched by your dog At the pool side, poolside And that’s all right And you know that there’s a part of me That cringes with your touch And you say that I’ve no sympathy For you or your friends at the bar Woke up this morning in a puddle of shame But it’s all right cause I sleep alone at night You might have time to regret your lies But mine are far behind, out of my mind I wanna take the train until it cakes with rust At the end of the line Where my dreams go to die But I’ll feel alive And you know that there’s a part of me That cringes with your touch And you say that I’ve no sympathy For you or your friends at the bar
3.
Pauly 02:22
Just another light skinned boy on a telephone Choking on his own ego Trying to fill the fresh grown hole in his heart with old Pictures of a girlfriend Pauly Why’d you save the crust on the pie for when I got home? It’s sweet you’d think I’d like it Said she was a cold-eyed girl trying to find her own Waiting for to leave me Pauly There was so much worse that had been done to her I have told you she’s through with... All of these tight lipped boys with their eyes closed Clawing at whatever feels warm Desperate not to crawl back home and be all alone Caught between love and abuse Pauly Pauly There was so much worse that had been done to her I have told you she’s through with...
4.
Gos & ii's 03:05
I cannot be all you want me for I have to say That you can go, and I’ll stay You go and I’ll stay We did not go far Before you saw that I was made to watch My heart turn blue My world run through. Once you wore me around like nail polish I’d start to wish that you would go And I’ll stay You go and I’ll stay Ah you gotta lot to say My heart has... Oops my eyes have strayed And girl you’ve gone away Girl, you’ve gone away Oops my eyes have strayed And girl you’ve gone away Girl, you’ve gone away Girl

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'Cringe EP' is a collection of four new Hales Corner songs, out October 18th, but it's so much more than a between-albums placeholder. On these tracks the band returns to their initial approach: recording at home with whatever instruments they had lying around and with their friends as backup vocalists.

Hales Corner produced a refreshingly simple group of songs, stripped down and straight-forward. The tracks themselves are lighthearted and lethargic, even when alluding to broken romances ("Cringe") or the emotional vacuum of dolling out unrequited love ("Rip in my Cup").

Simultaneously, the EP captures a moment in time when Hales Corner as a band was undergoing some internal turmoil. In fact, the release of 'Cringe EP' represents the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. For a band that formed organically through the songwriting process, it only seems right that it would dissolve and be reborn just as organically through the recording of their new EP.

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released October 18, 2019

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Hales Corner Indianapolis, Indiana

A lot has changed for Hales Corner since their 2016 debut album 'Garden View'. Wes and Caleb, the band's founding members, left Bloomington, Indiana, to begin playing and writing songs with a new drummer and bassist in a shared house on the south side of Indianapolis. ... more

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