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Something That Connects Us

by Turn South

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    In March 2023 Turn South put out the lovely Something That Connects Us. We're stoked to be releasing it now on cassette for you the people.
    Written by Turn South
    Produced/Mixed/Mastered by Jack Newlyn
    Album cover by Buzz Ciccotelli

    ID: Four cassettes stacked on a wooden coffee table leaning against a green and white ceramic pot. There is a single, fluro-green cassette outside of its case on the left and three cassettes in their covers on the right. The cassette cover shows an Adelaide beach on a sunny day. There are people swimming in the water and in the foreground is a person standing and running to the water. The words "Turn South something that connects us" are written on the cassette.

    The second image is identical but has been taken from the right, revealing a slightly different angle.

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1.
Outside 03:10
It's been too long chopping off the mornings Squeezing out the last of the toothpaste, it outlast the good days Raining, but i think that's OK, cause I'm friends with outside and it could use a wet day. If its self awareness that separates us from the rest Then why's it always feel that's where we're most inept? Old ways, never ending heat waves Huge blaze, fight the fire with tax breaks Growth rates, growing for its own sake This seems pretty hard to sustain It's been too long chopping off the mornings Squeezing out the last of the toothpaste, it outlast the good days Raining, but i think that's OK, cause I'm friends with outside If its self awareness that separates us from the rest Then why's it always feel that's where we're most inept? Unfazed, we push the rock till pay day Next day, we start again as always It's been too long chopping off the mornings Squeezing out the last of the toothpaste, it outlast the good days Sun ray, sneaking through the cold pane, so I'll take a short walk, seeking out a good day If its self awareness that separates us from the rest Then why's it always feel that's where we're most inept?
2.
Denouement 03:19
I wanna run away Drive for a couple of days Towards a promising horizon But ideals never were surviving You can't escape what's within you My own organic matter got the better Frayed and slipping loose, indifferent to anything that's outside your short-sighted view We're all ostensibly isolated threads And nothing connects you to your friends Just wanna slip away, just to see who would ask me to stay You know lately I've been pining, to live like we know that we're all dying I remember the last occasion I figured out I was just delaying You can't escape what's within you My own organic matter got the better Frayed and slipping loose, indifferent to anything that's outside your short-sighted view We're all ostensibly isolated threads And nothing connects you to your friends Frayed and slipping loose, indifferent to anything that's outside your short-sighted view We're all ostensibly isolating everything And nothing connects you to your friends
3.
Exploited 03:36
There's no value intrinsically In anything I hear or see In anything I think about You or me I keep slippin' to the same conclusion The one that drops me into dead-end nothing Just because we're existing That doesn't mean we have a right to be. Just because we're existing That doesn't mean we have a right to be. There's sanctity in nothing but a dream We're simply here as progeny I've got no will to think about you and me Progress has no direction, just manifests intention Our ends are meaningless, outside their means Just because we're existing That doesn't mean we have a right to be. Just because we're existing That doesn't mean we have a right to be. Over enlisting in how we think that all of this should be
4.
Margins 03:18
“Take out the trash” “Don't forget to take out the trash” Buried in the margins, sticking close to all the walls, as small as you can afford Feeling like an afterthought at the end of a day of deep philosophical reasoning There's a limit to how much that I can think But it's relatively higher than the limit to how much that I can speak Glasgow, would you make up your mind about where I fit into your milieu, I'm having trouble doing it for you, I know that I'm responsible for the way in which I choose to perceive you, But sometimes I feel it's not me, it's you, In spite of that, I'll miss you. I ate breakfast at 2pm, again My laziness a side-effect of apathy, a side-effect of you, or more accurately a lack thereof, I've found I'm no better off Alone in a studio apartment In an unfamiliar city, There's a limit to how much that I can read But it's relatively higher than the limit to how much that I can speak Glasgow, would you make up your mind about where I fit into your milieu, I'm sick of doing it for you, I know that I'm responsible for the way in which I choose to perceive you, But sometimes I feel it's not me, it's you, In spite of that, I'll miss you. And I fuck every effort I make to make any new friends, I told them my name but then gave too much away And I scared them all away Buried in the margins, sticking close to all the walls, as small as you can afford Feeling like an afterthought at the end of the day
5.
Worlds away 02:55
Inside out, I work to nurture my nature View so tight, it's easy to lose sight of that broader perspective So I try to find some meaning to chase, but there’s something in the way And I try to find a connection to place, but it's comforting to stay… Drawn to being worlds away, sick of staying up to date Obligations make me anxious and afraid, but I'm unsure if its just my brain News radio makes me feel powerless and depressed. I'll keep listening if it helps me hold your interest. I’ll close my eyes and I’ll recede inside, let it pass me by again. Drawn to being worlds away, sick of staying up to date Obligations make me anxious and afraid, I'm unsure if its just my brain
6.
Throw-aways 02:41
Got a few mates as disillusioned as me That's how they want you to feel The powers that be All the corporate elites in control of what you see on your TV The systematic oppression This manic depression is killing me As they stifle reflection They're selling elections and they brutalise the unfree We're kept satisfied cause we're given just enough to keep getting by And there's wedges they're driving between you and I Divide us and conquer until we die "As much and as good as" is disappearing down the sink While the house on the hill monopolises all the scenery They can't erase all the throw-aways, that connect us all every day All these patterns of reciprocal kindness It's more than self-righteousness The bureaucratic deflections undermining connections to country Eroding protections, arbitrary detention, They commercialise the unfree We're kept satisfied cause we're given just enough to keep getting by And there's wedges they're driving between you and I Divide us and conquer until we die
7.
Assumptions 03:04
Assumptions keep me feeling safe at night Assumptions let me formulate at least a vague idea of wrong and right Assumptions help to simplify our lives, Assumptions miss the nuances, distinguishing existences behind all our eyes I know I shouldn't presume to know you I know I shouldn't assume you care I know I shouldn't presume to know you I know I shouldn't assume you care Assumptions keep me calm just like the rest Assumptions stop the anxious fears from growing sentient and bursting out of my chest I know I shouldn't presume to know you I know I shouldn't assume you care I know I shouldn't presume to know you I know I shouldn't assume you care But If I'm to retain a hope i need to assume we're all the same beneath the facades we craft Something that connects us Something that connects us

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released March 30, 2023

Written by Turn South
Produced/Mixed/Mastered by Jack Newlyn
Album cover by Buzz Ciccotelli

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