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I Want a Warning

by Marathon States

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1.
Igniter 01:57
I burned all through these streets Every block it seems I didn't notice all the warnings Who crossed the lines, crossed the boundaries Some would say it's all we do It's not worth a thing I'm starting the fire til sirens sound Whispered to spread this to the ground Send help An audience disaster A crowd What were they waiting for It's out on the wire hanging now Whispered through everyone in town Save your breath Your lungs have no answers and no eyes on any open doors Is this what this is We're yelling at walls we're sharing now It's been since I was just a mess When what I said didn't count I'll wait til these ashes clear my name
2.
Audiometry 01:36
It was a sound Sensories Broken bottles on the ground All around you Our words collide Like two freight trains crashing on time Out of our mouths Out of line I'm sticking to my story I'll end up in circles where they always lead me Only if I can do what I'm saying now Cause it's that easy I'm fine I haven't had the time Here I go again making issues Then again what's new Sorry for echoes that you're hearing I'm sewn up Nothing out of this mouth would be worth repeating All this was a noise of mistakes but I'm quiet now Wait what's that ringing? It's ear-splitting knives We communicate too late to excise It's another joke It's another drink to how we're sinking
3.
I ripped a tear in between these coasts Mistaken to faces I didn't know Away from roads where these haunts all end Slit through before those words were heard again I've worn this fiction to long Backwards all through this marathon I ran until I broke my knees Stumbled to start apologies Could I say what I can't talk about Or feed kingdoms instead of this great big mouth Or just leave homes, leave these empty beds Wake to street signs that hang over my head Could all these clocks have been wrong and stopped at warnings Now I'm done with all these landmines my steps have left behind I quit crimes I quit keeping regrets that stretched every mile of this leaving No more choking my breath with this phrase No more breaking necks looking back It's all been told What's left to say Just let it go
4.
Belasco 02:21
You're safe from these homes But through these walls I'm hearing 'bout you I sunk with these stones that my pockets filled with I'm drowning for you No one else would disapprove Let's speak in secrecy nobody has to know I'll walk from here Not breathe, or scream, or be followed There's smoke in your mirrors Now for your next trick where I disappear You saw through my bones Broke off the parts that were holding you dear All was left was dust to clear For goodness sake You're saving yourself on your own If there's a reason we'd still be here I should know Dead and gone Nothing's left of what's lost What would you have me do You shot out your last words Out loud to no answers I woke when I should've been sleeping Can't you hear alarms screaming through these melodies For goodness sake You're letting everybody know All these mistakes You couldn't ever let them go Dead and gone What would you have me do Where would you have me go
5.
Stuck in the sheets again Called off the late nights we all came to know Like old friends I'm cutting off those years that led to all the threads Negatives that show off those utmost positive regrets That won't just die out Always guilty before the trial Always the smoking gun I left the past in the scene that you remembered so damn easily Start at the end to get back to the beginning but who was listening Embarrassing histories aren't forgiving now I tried nothing and it was the worst that I could still do It's not my place to say but I spit those last words anyway I found my substance I went back to the walls I came from To where I ran these circles That caught back to where it went wrong Chasing these distances on and on Tried to forget what it was Where you were for so long Waiting for the here and now to die out Sentencing after the trial Stitched up the seams but still somehow I'm undone
6.
Out with the old feelings Taking a month extended residency All spent looking from the corner of the room Sat though these days through low lights Answered the door to another thankless invite No wolves No poisons No promises for free ohhh Is this how you felt oh well Through electrostatic signals Our rhythms We lost them all to hell At worst, hours worked reminders Through the cracks of a life that wasn't felt No notes addressed to you No notes were sung without a tune Why walk the shortest distance again Stood in the way The same place Fractured the windows Went down every hallway Reruns replayed Throughout every room Dozens of months to the day Counting the bullets dodged or at least ricocheted To where we've gone and where we haven't been I went all the wrong ways of getting to it It's itched at my lungs like those cigarettes No dreams No sleep Repeating all the scenes of reckless and old routines Buried this trust These ghosts fell out of love Much faster than we could speak Another room The guests went home A new place for . . .
7.
Theodore 02:26
Get up and cut those anchors from you now And all the ways you’ve been kept down Those sorry’s and goodbye’s everyone knows Are just a poorly attended show That we call you now The glory days of a captive crowd It’s old Can you tell us something else that we don’t already know Exhausted all your rooms And lost the voice that no one took from you Oh Countless chances you’ve spent Like someone with wasted winnings Admired all those liars like yourself Stretched all the charm that you could sell Torn through all your solutions paper thin Resigned that this would be the end If no one called you out What would you say when no one’s around You spoke but what’s the message Could you depend on who you can’t even throw Everyone knows your name What else to say when there’s someone to blame Used up identities Already moved to the next thing Stories you’ve left behind That spread the truth about a mile wide Take it out on your friends Will history stop repeating Exhausted all your rooms It’s serious how much you’ve gained to lose Oh Oh no, not this again It’s just the same story Acting confused Acting like there’s no problem now
8.
Combat Heart 02:08
When did this story end Were there words left unsaid Words whispering, “Get over it” Stopped time from stopping you And what else I couldn't do I left to breathe Breathe anywhere else It's all over now The lights went out I sunk below the ground With no symphonies No minor keys Soundtracked without this feeling Memorized lines enough Broke tables, broke the cup And waited through years Always went back to heart attacks What else could you want from me And again from a friend to a friend Cars are crashing Are we saving enemies It's all I ever wrote and seen, ever distortingly Can we lay down arms Call off wars already won It's been over now Since no lights were found Catastrophes kept working out I crawled, I slept, I woke Mirrors that never spoke to what was going on Echoes I'll always see Revisions that won't leave these ghosts to sleep

about

Jason Thinh made a small but distinct mark on the Bay Area punk scene in the early 2000′s as the driving force behind the introspective yet vibrant pop-punk band Short Round, and as a member of the socially-conscious. ska band The Chinkees. He relocated to Athens, GA searching for a new perspective on life and struggled with issues of identity and separation, losing the impulse for songwriting before eventually embracing it again as a mechanism to make sense of said issues.
Written and recorded over a 4-year period from 2012-2016, Thinh’s first album under the MARATHON STATES moniker is a deeply personal affair, one that confronts questions of change and anxiety, but still occasionally references his favorite comics, television, and music. And while there may be some discrete lyrical shout-outs on I Want A Warning to Thinh’s favorite bands and records, the instrumentation not so discretely takes cues from the big, angular guitars of Sleater Kinney and the heart-on-sleeve desperation of Jawbreaker. Old California friends Max Feshbach and Morgan Herrell (Hard Girls) provide the record’s dynamic rhythm section, with additional contributions from Georgia friends Sam Paulsen (Man or Astroman?, We Versus The Shark) and engineer Joel Hatstat (Bomb The Music Industry, Cinemechanica)

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released September 6, 2016

Jason Thinh - Guitar/Vocals
Morgan Herrell - Bass
Max Feshbach - Drums

Sam Paulsen - Vocals on "Belasco" & "Wine & Vinegar"
Joel Hatstat - Keys on "All These Landmines"

Drums and Bass recorded by Bob Vielma in San Jose, CA
Vocals and Guitar recorded by Joel Hatstat in Athens, GA

Mixed and Mastered by Joel Hatstat

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Musical project by California native, Jason Thinh, who now resides in Tokyo, Japan.

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