“Liars” comes out October 19th!

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Justin

Our upcoming record “Liars” comes out October 19th digitally and we think you’ll all be pretty pleased with the “how” we’re releasing it.  To provide a little more info about the project, here goes:

In June of 2009, Ryan joined our humble little band and we holed ourselves up in an abandoned historic house in the fertile countryside of western NY to begin writing material.  After the first 2-3 song ideas, our ship was headed in a direction that demanded a theme of sorts…something that had meaning, depth, purpose and contrasted to the way most albums have been written/released these days.  That theme centers around a failed relationship/divorce.  Our story starts with the happy (albeit naive) couple who enters an unknown world together in a state of bliss.  Communication failures, selfishness and an unguarded, overconfident heart steers the relationship down a doomed path where each side, and the third side of a child, handles the devastation in a different way.  The end may leave the listener to draw their own conclusion of the story based on the events that occurred.

Our goal is to bring to light some potential reasons as to why families and relationships are crumbling all around us every day.  3 out of 4 embers of Careo come from broken homes and have many close friends/family members that are in the midst of a dissolving relational situation.  This record is brutal, honest, and devastating all at once.  The good news is that every place of darkness is within reach of light.

Thanks so much for waiting this long year for the release of “Liars”, an album which is meant to be listened to as a whole, from track 1 to track 13 consecutively.  We encourage those purchasing the record to grab the entire project rather than those tracks found to be “catchiest” and if you cannot afford the entire album, we’re releasing a free digital version through Noise Trade.  Yes, its that important to us…

Take care everyone, we think about you often.

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Liars Lyrics

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Justin

The Suspect

I think it’s safe to say,
We’re all a little bit lonely here
And something inside
Makes it hard for us to give love away

Bliss

Well here we are, a little nervous I know
I’ve never given my heart to another
I’ve only kept it close

Everything I’ve ever wanted has come knocking at my front door
But the sacred and profane are in the arms of war

I’ve been a ticking bomb
A tired song
And you are the right in this world of wrong

This life
Black and white
And it’s amazing how
You can bring the colors out
Tonight
I’m lying awake, but it feels like I’m just
Dreaming in color

Little white lies, could never hurt us I know
It’s bliss and I’ve no reason not to say so

Towers

You are the sun shining my way
I am the rain on your parade
It’s been hard to see what’s right before me
And easy to be wrong

And I feel sorry when I’m alone
Angry that I ever let you go
I never meant what I said
The terrible things I said…

Wait, I don’t really want to wait
But I’m good at taking my time, taking my taking, throwing it all away

Do you believe that our first glances
Brought us here for second chances?

I took the long way
Back to the home where my heart should have stayed
Thought I was sunk but I saw the light
Your tower guides me home tonight

Wait, I don’t really want to wait
But I’m good at taking my time, taking my taking, throwing it all away
Stay, you never left but I was already gone
I’m so good at taking my time, taking my taking, throwing it all away

This Can’t Leave the Room

I’m on your side
It’s only when seasons change that I
Start my slow decline into the dark for a while

I’ll stay by your side
Even when jealous eyes cloud mine
And seeing the pain through the tears and the hate
Makes it hurt so much more…

Don’t say a thing
Just let your eyes give your secrets away
Hoping to find some sort of reason

Here’s to the love we began
Falling like sand through me hands
If only the love in my heart
Would break you apart like it once did

Don’t say a thing
Just let your eyes give your secrets away
Hoping to find some sort of reason

Don’t say a thing
Caught in the moment that we gave away
Hoping to find some sort of reason

All this time spent on the surface of things
The spoils of war in our hands
All this time spent on the surface again

Years of Denial

I saw it all from the 40th floor
It was a long way down
From the top…
Where it was clear I was headed south

I saw the things that I tried to be
Never quite enough, never really me
She knows the feelings I have, I don’t have to say anything

But in the end
When everything around us dies
Will you remember what it felt like
(Remember what it felt like)
To be alive?
Like a song you’re stuck inside of me
I guess we’re all a little lonely

There’s evidence of a side of me
That used to see the forest for the trees
You know I’ve loved you all along
Loved you in spite of me

Another starting point?
I’ve had enough of all the lies and the motel keys
I’ve swallowed every pill and I have drank my fill
Do you still love me?

Dream Over

Surprise surprise
The world changes
So did you and I
Oh my word what have we done?

We’re alive
But honey we stopped living years ago
This house we bought together, faded in the weather
I thought we’d rise above

The writing fades
This feels like a freight train heading south
For the winter, I’m in the backseat head in my hands
What do you see?
What do you feel?
For the first time, we chose different roads, it’s the same old thing

I’m losing touch
I’m fighting the cold war
I’m sorry love, so sorry

Dream over, Dream over
Feels like I’m falling off the edge
Dream over, Dream over
If you could only see they way I see us now

Heaven sheds a tear on us
Aftershocks that bury us
And we’re the ones that died
We sleep alone tonight

Wide Awake

Take back all the things you said tonight
Everything I ever thought was real, sank within sight
Blurry eyes and an earthquake in my heart
God I know you hear me
But do you hear me anymore?

I’m forming questions at the speed of light
All this fumbling in the darkness pushes you aside

One thing I want
Is to know that I don’t have to lie here wide-awake
In the dark
I don’t want to live this way anymore
I don’t want to live this way anymore

I was born of an accidental night
Promise me it’s all behind, all behind your brand new set of eyes

Forty days and nights I sat just waiting for it all to end
God I know you’re with me
Some days I just don’t feel it, and I don’t understand

I’m forming questions at the speed of light
All this fumbling in the darkness pushes you aside

I’m turning pages again
I’m turning into the very thing I hated all these years
I’m risking all that I am
I’m shedding all of the skin I never felt at home in

Imagination?

Gone, I’m gone
It’s been 24 hours and I can’t see the sun
Where’s the sun?
All my rivers flow into the ocean and get swallowed up

Just give me some time
And I can disappear without a memory
I’m like an apple picked before it ripens and I want to hear…

That you could (make it better)
I know, I know it’s hard to change

What has already been thrown away…

Call it what you want, call me a sinner or a saint that’s fallen
Everywhere I turn these looks and stares remind why I’m crawling

And you could (make it better)
I know, I know it’s hard to face

I’m waiting on you to lead me on
Is it my imagination?
I’m just calling out
My walls are burning down
Is it my imagination?

I’m waiting, waiting
Only you can save me

Liars

I’m quite scared of letting go
But I’m more tired of holding on
I have seen the way we were and could be

If giving up is the best way out
Then why does fear and medication always win out?
I’ll miss the memories we made and ones that never saw the light of day

They say the pain will go away on it’s own
I say they’ve never been here before
They say that time heals the deepest of scars
Well time’s never been on my side

I’m still reeling from the blow to my heart
I wanted everything or nothing at all and it’s wake up call
Ringing louder in my ears, make it, make it stop now

I felt alive
(Don’t want to wake up alone)
When it was you and I until our last breath
(Don’t want to wake up alone)
This doesn’t feel like it should
This can’t be real, I want to know
Are you scared like I am scared tonight?

Apathy (Look at Me)

We took it too far
We drove off the canyons edge and rode it all the way down

We were the building
Crumbling from the inside out

You were the right one
You were the wrong one to let go
You were the angel for the angel shaped hole

Same old thing
Different time
I’ll give up reason for the rhyme

Look at me
Whatever happened, I was wrong
I never should have waited so
I never should have waited so long
I always waited for the right time
But all of them are gone
I never should have waited so
I never should have waited so long

We can cover it and bury it under
Ten years of solitude and it’s a fine line we’ve been walking
It’s so hard to hear when we’re not talking

Same old thing
Different time
I’ll give up reason for the rhyme

Same old page
Different line
I’ll say it now for the last time

All the Time in the World

Do you remember when the road would never shake us?
Do you suppose we fell asleep at the wheel?
Without us knowing, without that momentary flicker in our eyes
10 miles to go, so close, but too far

Do you believe that one conversation might have saved,
Every year that went by without one?
Well it’s true and it’s sad
But coming clean was not an option you had
Maybe, maybe, maybe?

It never hurts, never hurts so bad
That I can’t try to love you more
It never lasts, never lasts so long
Cause we’ve had all the time
We’ve had all the time in the world

Am I a stranger?
Am I a myth that could have been?
Well I’ve spent too much time holding my hands in my aching head
Well maybe some autumn afternoon I’ll drive to where you live
And I’ll hold on, hold onto the future instead
And maybe we’ll laugh about it now, maybe?

You Can Always Find Me

I gave it up, gave it all cause I knew it was love
I was like a ship on an angry sea
And you were like a tidal wave that capsized me

Every minute every hour every passing day
I watch the faces we could have been
Strangers without a name
Reminding me that somewhere your heart beats apart from mine

Oh life
Oh time
Oh love
Cross the bridge to my side

You, out of sight
And I’m waiting where you can always find me
You can always find me
Honey these troubled times
Look up and you will see my light
You can always find me
You can always find me

I know it aches and never goes away on it’s own
You were just a child in an empty home
And you can’t love if you don’t let love in

The hardest part of loving you is wondering when you will come back
It’s crazy and it’s everything the world will try to take away
Never again, never again, never again

The Verdict

I think it’s safe to say,
We’re all a little bit lonely here
And something inside
Makes it hard for us to give love away

We’ve chosen from the tree
And still cross our fingers behind our backs
Looking for an escape
Makes it hard for us to mean what we say

Wave goodbye
(Just a little longer)
We’re holding on and our grip is getting weaker
It’s so strange, the way we fight ourselves to the end

The sun will rise
(Just a little longer)
We’re far behind but we’re ready for the love in your heart

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