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Contenders

by The Lightweight Champs

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    The first full-length release from Tacoma Power Pop trio The Lightweight Champs.

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1.
Crack Greg Jesus 02:17
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Last chance man fuck the nine to five The door is swinging and I’m working on my stride The engine’s revving and I’m waiting on your green light I might lose my mind tonight They say I ain’t got direction man I couldn’t steer you wrong They say I’m just a follower I’m not here to lead you Be my misery or be my company Come and get it now while we’re still Be my misery or be my company Come and get it now whele we’re still free Gotta be your slave five days a week Thank god for this double life I lead They say I ain’t got direction man I couldn’t steer you wrong They say I’m just a follower I’m not here to lead you Be my misery or be my company Come and get it now while we’re still Be my misery or be my company Come and get it now whele we’re still free Ties are corporate nooses Ties are corporate nooses Ties are corporate nooses What the hell are we doing
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Red Flag Girl 03:35
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Red flag girl You make me come unfurled You’re so damn sour it’s sweet, I never thought I’d be With a red flag girl Kissing your neck tattoos Kick off your combat boots Everything wrong with you Making me come unglued My red flag girl You say I’m not enough, and girl it turns me on You say you’ll break me down, and I don’t think that you’re wrong I can’t believe my luck, never thought we’d correspond I do your taxes, that fact is that I look good in glasses And that’s all I got going for me Red flag girl, Whether it’s leathers or furs She knows my heart is hers I’ve never fallen worse For a red flag girl Alright! (guitar solo) You say I’m not enough, and girl it turns me on You say you’ll break me down, and I don’t think that you’re wrong I can’t believe my luck, never thought we’d correspond I do your taxes, that fact is that I look good in glasses And that’s all I got going for me Abuse me Red Flag Girl Please use me Red Flag Girl I’m not a masochist but I’m so into this Brass knuckles on her fist Girl I just want to be with you
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The Arsonist 03:08
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Lips of Cinnamon They approach me as a friend, woahoh Set the trap I’m falling in A maze of twisted hair Caught completely unaware woahoh It was more than I could bear Such a subtlety The stilettos on her feet woahoh Heights that I helped her to reach 32nd floor and a greeting at the door woahoh Only blind men can afford Now the joke is done, You’ve won, The punch line’s come and gone You climbed another rung, My name, The list goes on and on Your men are trends, you’re an arsonist, And you burned my bridge When there’s nothing left on the other side, I’ll be dry, And I won’t have tears left to cry Now I smile and laugh As the victim of attack, woahoh, Lying wounded on my back In disbelief amazed That she set my heart ablaze woahoh And stole the ashes from the grave Now the joke is done, You’ve won, The punch line’s come and gone You climbed another rung, My name, The list goes on and on Your men are trends, you’re an arsonist, And you burned my bridge When there’s nothing left on the other side, I’ll be dry, And I won’t have tears left to cry
4.
Going Mad 03:24
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Don’t you say a word I can see it in your eyes You think I’ll fill your head With excrement and lies But before you write me off as a lower form of life Give me a chance to explain to you my plight You see this man you’re talking with really isn’t me Unfortunately that’s someone that you’ll never get to meet Cuz that man sold everything that made him free He thought it a small price to serve his greed But the things that they’d enticed him with came with a hefty price And the fortunes he’d been promised he would pay for with his life They took his personality , his thoughts, and his rights And he was too damn dumb to see they’d crossed the line I’m too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad They wiped my brain clean, As far as I could tell They took my happy memories and burned them on the shelf They said that to survive this fresher form of hell I’d have to forget all of my old self But as they made this hollow man somewhere inside I knew And the bitterness inside my heart ever slowly grew But by the time I realized my head was split in two So I sink this drink cuz it’s all that I can do And I’m too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad Going mad Going mad If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad They’ll throw me in the looney bin I swear Tie me up and cut off all my hair Rip the blindfold off and realize that I’m already there This freak show act has finally left the fair I guess that I’ll just stew and do my time Muscles twitch and struggle against the binds And the walls are painted seafoam green so I don’t lose my mind It seems to be impossible to find. And I’m too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad In the end we’re the sum of sins and experience we’ve had Don’t mind me it’s plain to see that I’m just going mad.
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Undying Love 02:20
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Been waiting sixty-two minutes for you to reply It’s getting kind of awkward staring into your eyes I can’t blame you for your current state It’s getting so damn hard to wait I can sense the understanding in your unseeing eyes In your unseeing eyes I can’t help but wonder what you think about me Can’t help but wonder, can’t help but ask Last time we spoke it didn’t go so well I think you might hate me Oh please don’t hate me I wonder what you’d write if you had a will Hope that if you wake up you will love me still I’m glad we don’t know your wishes I could never pull the plug On our unresponsive But undying love Wish that I could know if you can dream It fills my heart with joy to hear you breathe I hope you know I never left your side Hope you’re not dreaming of other guys I want to be the only one I want to be the only one I want to be the only one In your unseeing eyes I remember when we first met you looked so damn sexy On that stretcher
6.
Goldfish 02:55
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I remember when you found me I tried to give you ecstasy But it seems that now The effect is wearing thin Down into this roundabout A thought of you, I drown it out And train my brain to prevent from feeling pain I'm in a toilet bowl My fins can't climb these walls I hope the otherside's a little more my type I'm in a toilet bowl My fins can't climb these walls I hope the otherside's a little more my type In a second I'm gonna know Where it is our thoughts will go And it seems that it's a halfway decent place Through the pipes they spit me out Amongst the slime and a mutant trout But I think that there's that blonde regretful face I'm in a toilet bowl My fins can't climb these walls I hope the otherside's a little more my type I'm in a toilet bowl My fins can't climb these walls I hope the otherside's a little more my type
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Jambalaya 03:48
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All the leaves, on the ground That’s where you’ll find me I’ll cover my body with your rake I fell in love with the thing Don’t want your company, leave me alone I’ve got a stew going, it’s sitting by the phone It’s Jamablaya, all the odds and ends I want my spring back, I need this fall to end Some people say, it’s romantic All the death, all around I might think it’s pedantic Don’t know what that means, but I like the sound Don’t want your company, leave me alone I’ve got a stew going, it’s sitting by the phone It’s Jambalaya, all the odds and ends I want my spring back, I need this fall to end *Guitar Solo* Don’t want your company, leave me alone I’ve got a stew going, it’s sitting by the phone It’s Jambalaya, all the odds and ends I want my spring back, I need this fall to end
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I'll Get By 03:31
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I’m surrounded by broken things I could fix if I gave a shit But if it’s not an emergency I’ll get by I’ll get by They say that you and I are falling apart But you’re just duct tape on my broken heart And if you rip I’ll get over it I’ll get by I’ll get by I’m not your pawn and you can’t be my queen Cuz someone came along and took her from me For now I’ll use you and you can do the same I didn’t mean to hurt you I’m just tryin to get through this game I never wanted to play You’re not the first and you won’t be the last And if you want you can hate my ass Cuz when the next one comes I’ll tell my past I got by I got by I’m not your pawn and you can’t be my queen Cuz someone came along and took her from me For now I’ll use you and you can do the same I didn’t mean to hurt you I’m just gonna have to say I’ll get by I’ll get by I’ll get by You know I’ll get by
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H.A.L.O. 02:56
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I wish When I was young That my mother would have told me I was from mars Cuz then I wouldn’t feel so dumb When no one seemed to want a piece of my heart Because I’m not like you, you don’t like me No one likes me how I am I’m not important, I’m not different And I don’t have any friends I don’t stand out from the crowd The first one in, that last one out High Altitude, Low Orbit observation High Altitude, Low Orbit observation In my studies Of human kind I’ve found that kind is not the right word to describe This species To which I was born But just don’t seem to fit in with anymore Maybe someday I’ll find myself among the stars Searching far and wide for where my own people are But for now I’m on my own Because I’m not like you, you don’t like me No one likes me how I am I’m not important, I’m not different And I don’t have any friends I don’t stand out from the crowd The first one in, that last one out High Altitude, Low Orbit observation High Altitude, Low Orbit observation
10.
Yeah E. Yeah Esquire 03:36
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All the happy drones walk down the street Dig in deep I set my feet The power of a stronger will Try and fill, not empty out my brain, yeah yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Whoa oh Whoa oh They've all bought in, they've made their beds Getting fat on what they're fed All their taste is based on recycled waste Go out and make it you It's all I wanted you to do Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Whoa oh Whoa oh Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Whoa oh Whoa oh
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Good Times 02:09
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Never thought we’d die, Never thought We’d get older We had good times but the good times are over Ran out of luck in our four leaf clover We had good times but the good times are over Never could escape this inevitable fate no We had good times but the good times are over Dealing with the consequence of every mistake yeah We had good times but the good times are over And all this responsibility is welling up and killing me I don’t know how I’ll make it through, At least I’ll still have you (guitar solo) And all this responsibility is welling up and killing me I don’t know how I’ll make it through, At least I’ll still have you We had good times but the good times are over We had good times but the good times are over We had good times but the good times are over We had good times but the good times are over So times are low and they’re gonna get lower Already faced them drunk now it’s time to see them sober Ran out of luck in our four leaf clover We had good times but the good times are over now

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released June 16, 2018

All songs written and performed by The Lightweight Champs
Recorded and Mixed by Mountainhouse Productions, Tacoma, WA
Mastered by Black Belt Mastering
Album Art by Levi Gostelli
Photography by Heidi Jones

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We’re just a fun-loving Power Pop trio from Tacoma, WA. Our mission is to produce genuine songs to lift all of us through the tough times, and celebrate the good ones.

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