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Holding Patterns

by Parallel Lions

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1.
from a taxi on an overpass in the mist-up of the windscreen glass and the dull streaks of rain and I recognise something like pain I keep on waiting on the turbulence to pass I've got no means of knowing anything will last I don't know much just the taste of your heart in the quickstep of the evening rush in the swelter of the human crush and the madness transpires all my thoughts of you are simple desires I keep on waiting on the turbulence to pass I've got no means of knowing anything will last I don't know much just the taste of your heart one day I'm gonna wake up and find you one day I'm gonna sit up and see you home one day I'm gonna wake up and find you one day I'm gonna sit up and see you gone I keep on waiting on the turbulence to pass I've got no means of knowing anything will last I don't know much just the taste of your heart
2.
Separated 04:57
people almost everywhere chaos in the thoroughfare celebration in the street everything bewilders me fireworks fly crossing the sky exploding in the middle will you please just tell me why confetti concrete under my feet clutter in the gutter will you please just be discreet separated we got separated separated in the crowd weaving through the multitudes trying to keep a hold on you but I lose sight of you again I've lost sight of everything close my eyes open my eyes you're still missing and I don't know why going insane calling your name somewhere in the middle of a street parade separated we got separated in the crowd leave me here further behind find what happens to the rest of your life babe that's fine never to mind I'll go missing myself in time separated separated
3.
I remember waking in the infancy of light captured in the morning like an escapee of night didn't hear you leaving not even the door I was dying in a dream that I'd been living in before where did you finally ever so finely where did you finally go? say I should not worry say it is not so settling out there someplace you don't know I keep the diamond side of you it's always in my mind the shine upon my ring is like a memory refined I don't pretend to understand the language of your ways I guess someone does the damage and someone always pays where did you finally ever so finely where did you finally go? say I should not worry say it is not so settling out there someplace you don't know don't know why but I don't know much don't know why you don't keep in touch day by day and I'm losing sleep every night and feel so weak somewhere over the telephone line calling out for the fifteenth time looks like you are way too far gone gone gone forever in a song it is that you aren't coming home tell me I'm responsible for why it is you roam they say there is a science in the creases of the hands but I don't believe in anything that I don't understand where did you finally ever so finely where did you finally go? say I should not worry say it is not so settling out there someplace you don't know don't know why but I don't know much don't know why you don't keep in touch day by day and I'm losing sleep every night and feel so weak somewhere over the telephone line calling out for the fifteenth time looks like you are way too far gone gone gone
4.
Ever 04:17
shadowed silence along the walls of every street I know and I know I miss you something’s growing now and I know it's time for you goodbye forever goodbye it seems oh oh oh come clean with me sarah it's not like people ever get a chance to know you better they pick you up and take you home and you don't have to be alone ever the television is a fuzzy frame a moving picture of indifference just smooth faces talking and I have this fiery feeling something's separated everything we ever had is going under oh oh oh come clean with me sarah it's not like people ever get a chance to know you better they pick you up and take you home and you don't have to be alone ever come clean with me sarah it's not like people ever get a chance to know you better they pick you up and take you home and you don't have to be alone ever ever ever they pick you up and take you home and you don't have to be alone ever
5.
For You 03:53
sometimes we say goodnight and everything goes black where's the easy life? babe, my other life it's going out of control but I wont go tonight I'm taking it slow for you for you for you anything for you where do I take myself when everything goes black? to the city lights where my other life is going out of control but I wont go tonight I'm taking it slow for you for you for you anything for you
6.
out the door and down the street running with the moon beneath her feet hair in tow a blaze of gold shining like a river through the cold telegraphs communiqués phone calls in the dawning of the days she's had them all breaking her dreams she had enough and now she's free and I know how it really feels know what she really needs a song with an ending please first of all she realised at last that nothing good can ever come to pass if you bray and beat on its door hoping for commitment evermore so through each long description of night sleepless in the ever coming light promises of pictures in frames containing only unfamiliar names and I know how it really feels know what she really needs a song with an ending please they say that it's the truth in you they say that it’s the truth in you that makes you worry I say that it’s the truth in you I say that it's the truth in you that gives you courage it's all courage it’s courage so she comes around to close me down pulls my collar out and throws me to the ground shakes it loose the tiresome truth throws me from a second storey roof broken nose across my face bruises coming taking their place and she goes and leaves me that way a stranger in the early morning grey and I know how it really feels she knows what I really need a song with an ending please
7.
Hereafter 03:49
long day into long night some way through my life found you on a cold street cold hands cold feet you were so pale so lost and lonely you said some day someone is gonna want me I try to save your life but you're always on the edge of it and every little comfort I find in you I'm becoming less of myself it's true I don't want to stumble in your hereafter I ask about the places that you have been we tumble into silence silence silence and you talking isn't something you do long day into long night some way through your life you say no way no one could ever want me I try to save your life but you're always on the edge of it and every little comfort I find in you I'm becoming less of myself it's true I don't want to stumble in your hereafter I ask about the people that you've been seeing we tumble into silence silence silence and you talking isn't something you do we’re becoming less of ourselves it’s true we tumble into silence silence silence with you talking isn't something we do
8.
your words on a postcard of a sunset on a bay what you've written to me says it all in uncomplicated ways 'the further you are from the things that you need the quicker they tend to destroy you it seems' and I know what you mean living on the edges of the world living on the edges of the world the damage and the excess too the dereliction of my love for you your voice is fragmented I have to reach out for what you say 'I miss you like time misses something to keep when the children of moments are falling asleep' and I'm hearing you speak and I'm holding out just the same the same we're the same living on the edges of the world living on the edges of the world the damage and the excess too the dereliction of my love for you living on the edges of the world living on the edges of the world the damage and the excess too the dereliction of my love for you and there's never been a better time to make minds one of us is moving to the other side for good no there's never been a better time to make minds one of us is moving to the other side for good
9.
I found myself in a barren field and the grass was dry and the trees didn't yield I kicked up some dust where the earth wasn't sealed all was revealed used to be a temperature for rain water wrangling down the drain tell me why we don't have much now tell me why we don't have much to say oh oh oh oh oh oh oh down and far we go this could be the ending we don’t wanna know we don't wanna think about it no no no no no no no no I found myself a deserted town all the denizens left there was no-one around all of the silver was gone from the ground melted back down just to make a necklace shining bright catching moments in the light tell me why we don't have much now tell me why we don't have much to say oh oh oh oh oh oh oh down and far we go this could be the ending we don’t wanna know we don't wanna think about it no no no no no no no no down and far down and far I found myself in a season of debt I'd taken it all everything I could get all I had left was the taste of regret still I forget you give me riches I don't own I cast them into the unknown tell me why we don't have much now tell me why we don't have much to say oh oh oh oh oh oh oh down and far we go this could be the ending we don’t wanna know we don't wanna think about it no no no no no no no no
10.
Black Clouds 05:02
in my mind I still wake up to see you lying long on the bed still asleep with your head on one side breathing in sighs in a morning as close to gone anyone who has tried to forget you or for as long as they suffered to get you we all share your name strangers the same in the way that we fell away hey come on now wait I need to say these final words but no-one's listening from above no-one's listening from above and I still haven't found no I still haven't found what you've become in my mind I will wake up to be you I can feel all the torture you've been through all of that pain years on the wane and I live through it all again hey come on now wait I need to say these final words but no-one's listening from above no-one's listening from above and I still haven't found no I still haven't found what you've become what you've become
11.
I am calling from the grave don't be startled there are things I couldn't say before I departed mercy on you mostly for the blunders mistakes I many made along the way to where I lie there are apples in the trees and a swollen river and I move along the breeze thinking backwards how could I have left you such a question hanging like a cumulus that will not shed its rain the ghost of me is manifest and I am now bound to a final test to prove to you forever I was yours alone a chance to clear it up! all that I am asking is my word you're fairly taking that's my final undertaking as I lie here woven in time in the cool dark ground I am calling from the grave don't be shaken there are things I couldn't say before I was taken halted on edge of my confession the room became a wave and I was swept up in its wake the ghost of me is manifest and I am now bound to a final test to prove to you forever I was yours alone a chance to clear it up! all that I am asking is forgiveness for the taking that's my final undertaking as I lie here woven in time in the cool dark ground

about

Holding Patterns the debut album from Melbourne band Parallel Lions, released in Australia in late 2009.

Here's what some have said:

"One of the best Australian releases of the year" - Beat Magazine

"A plethora of incredible songs" - Mess+Noise

"Irresistible rhythmic and melodic hooks... beautifully crafted imagery" ★★★★ - The Brag

"Parallel Lions is a good move" - JMag

"A moody, private and intense debut" - The Drum Media

"A propulsive yet still vividly romantic affair" - The Vine

"Predictably spectacular" - Time Off Magazine

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released October 30, 2009

All recordings (P) & (C) Parallel Lions 2009 except "Song With an Ending" (P) & (C) Ollie Browne 2009

Parallel Lions is Ollie Browne, Hamish Michael and Sam Bates

Ollie Browne: Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar

Hamish Michael: Electric Guitar, Backing Vocal, Piano, Programming, Samples, Synths, Glock, Bass, Music Boxes, Squeezebox

Sam Bates: Drums and Percussion

Produced by Parallel Lions and Tim Whitten

Engineered by Tim Whitten
Assisted by Rob Long (Birdland Studios) and Patrick Ryan (Newmarket Studios)
Additional Engineering by Rob Long

Recorded at Birdland Studios, Prahran, and Newmarket Studios, North Melbourne, in May 2009
Extra bits and pieces recorded above a laundromat in Brunswick by Ollie, Hamish and Sam

Mixed by Tim Whitten at BJB Studios, Sydney, in June and September 2009

Mastered by Don Bartley at Benchmark Mastering, Sydney, in September 2009

Strings on Taste of Your Heart, For You & Season of Debt arranged by Eugene Ball
Recorded by Joe Talia at NMIT, Fairfield, in June 2009
Played by Silo String Quartet
Aaron Barnden: Violin
Alison Rayner: Violin
Ceridwen Davies: Viola
Caerwen Martin: Cello

Mick Meagher played bass guitar on Separated & Ever

Artwork design and illustration by Ollie Browne
Layout and assistance by Carl Breitkreuz

Photography by Hayley Miro

Manufactured and distributed exclusively in Australia by Shock Records

Marketed in Australia by Bird Music under exclusive license

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Parallel Lions Melbourne, Australia

Parallel Lions is the result of a collaboration between Art of Fighting front man Ollie Browne, composer/sound designer Hamish Michael, and jazz drummer Sam Bates.

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