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Cabin Sessions: Sunshine Cottage

by The Wife And Kids

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1.
Identity 01:39
2.
Panic 02:55
Do you know what it’s like To always feel like you’re about to die? I’m nauseous. I’m having a heart attack. My head hurts. I’m exhausted This feeling will never end This feeling will never end I’m exhausted Repetitive thoughts screaming at me Over and over and over and over again They’re not real, but they’re Screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and Now I’m burning up and my head is floating away Its a brain tumor. It’s an aneurism Now I’m freezing and it’s making me shiver My muscles are weak. I have a degenerative disease This feeling will never end This feeling will never end I’m exhausted My heart is racing and pounding and skipping and racing and pounding and My skin is hot as a flame And I’m dying, dying, dying, dying, dying and Do you know what it’s like To always feel like you’re about to die? I’m nauseous. I’m having a heart attack. My head hurts. I’m exhausted This feeling will never end This feeling will never end I’m exhausted I wake up on the floor, so cold Cold, cold, cold, cold as ice And try to recover until It happens again and again and again and again and This feeling will never end This feeling will never end I’m exhausted X3
3.
O.C.D. 03:31
It’s not always about cleaning floors and counting tiles Perfect organization and alphabetized files It’s thinking that if you don’t blink six times Everyone you love will get sick and die It’s knowing it’s irrational but not being able to stop It’s physically exhausting and it’s never enough Just tap this wall eight more times and you’ll be fine Eight more later and I still might die Are you sure you locked the door? Maybe you should check once more I know ten isn’t excessive But maybe it’s obsessive Time to check that text again to make sure you’re still my friend I am certain I said something wrong, yet again I reread every message as if it’s in secret code ‘Cuz if I dig enough, you’ve hated me all along Are you sure you locked the door? Maybe you should check once more I know ten isn’t excessive But maybe it’s obsessive Blinking more as each and every lamppost passes by High beams blind me as they catch me right in the eye I blink and blink and blink despite the pain After all, what’s just one more headache? Are you sure you locked the door? Maybe you should check once more I know ten isn’t excessive But maybe it’s obsessive Are you sure you locked the door? Maybe you should check once more I know ten isn’t excessive But maybe it’s obsessive Well it may be obsessive I guess I’m just obsessive
4.
Sadness 02:51
As I lie in filthy sheets No longer room for you and me Streaks of blue of fractured you The me I wish I could amount to The warm embrace of being alone Wrapped around me like my favorite coat Tread the halls like some kind of ghost Are you deafened by the sound? I wish I could be someone’s dream Instead I’m ripped at the seams Instead I’m not what I seem I wish I could be someone’s dream Instead there’s more to write Instead I’m never right Oh why? Half the time I’m not aware Of who is here and what strikes where Tell me am I supposed to care When there’s no more getting down I wish I could be someone’s dream Instead I’m ripped at the seams Instead I’m not what I seem I wish I could be someone’s dream Instead there’s more to write Instead I’m never right Oh why? I wish I could be someone’s dream Instead I’m ripped at the seams Instead I’m not what I seem I wish I could be someone’s dream Instead there’s more to write Instead I’m never right Maybe next time
5.
Loneliness 05:24
I could disappear entirely Fuse with this couch Vanish into it’s tight tan weave Melt into linoleum floors And no one would notice Or they just wouldn’t care Until they realized they need my help And I did this to myself So I shouldn’t be so upset But I just want one thing that’s not on me And I feel like a stranger In my own body, in my own head And they all know I don’t belong here anymore So they treat me like a stranger In my old friendships, my old haunts And I can hardly blame them because it’s not their fault So what’s the point if it’s not up to me? When it all depends on what I can’t control Might as well just not at all And I did this to myself So I shouldn’t be so upset But I just want one thing that’s not on me
6.
Dysphoria 02:24
7.
Anxiety 03:07
You miss so much of life When you’re trapped inside your house When you’re lost in your own mind And you’ll never make it out Oh, why won’t you leave me? Who knew anxiety could be so sad? You miss so much of life When you’re too scared to come out All your thoughts are locked inside And they’ll never make it out Oh, why won’t you leave me? Who knew anxiety could be so sad? You lose so many things When there’s too much in your way Might as well live with it Anxiety’s here to stay Oh, why won’t you leave me? Who knew anxiety could be so sad?
8.
Isolation 03:56
Hour by hour, I swear I could wait all afternoon My only friend in my head saying “no one will miss you” Focused, I notice the notes on my wall begin to fall Worried, don’t hurry, I don’t want to see you at all So please don’t make this about you I know it’s hard for you not to Days come and go, you don’t call anymore, I don’t miss you You were my friend in my head telling me it’s all my fault Isn’t it most sad for me? I can’t breathe but no one cares Falling, I’m calling to you, you can’t hear me, you’re not there So please don’t make this about you I know it’s hard for you not to And I don’t know where to go from here How do I get back on track? Or do I want to derail? And I don’t know where to go from here Do I get on track? Or should I just derail? Should I just derail? Oh, don’t let me derail Just don’t make this about you (don’t worry, no one would miss you) Although I know you’re going to (you don’t call and I don’t miss you) Just don’t make this about you (don’t worry, no one would miss you) Although I know you’re going to (you don’t call and I don’t miss you) Hour by hour by hour by… Day after day after day… No one would miss you, no one would miss you, would miss you, would miss you, would...
9.
Mania 03:00
Running out of time Ruining my second chances Second guessing, misdirection When will I begin again? Another day to keep pretending Another day to bleed myself dry I love you, I miss you, I can’t live without you Where are you going? I’m sorry, who the fuck are you? I talk so fast yet, I don’t say a thing Acquire tastes I don’t really have Make best friends I’ll never see again Plunge myself into crippling debt Running out of time Ruining my second chances Second guessing, misdirection When will I begin again? Running out of time Ruining my second chances Second guessing, misdirection When will I begin again? Just as soon as comfort settles in A sink in feeling’s creeping down my spine C’mon girl, it’s time to face the facts Counting down until those moments when I’m crying on the bathroom floor I’m late for work, I’m skipping school I’m telling you I hate your guts I’m sleeping the whole day away And it’s no one’s fault, but this will happen again It’s just a matter of when I reset Promise me you’ll still be my friend When all of this is over But it’s never over, over Running out of time Ruining my second chances Second guessing, misdirection When will I begin again? Running out of time Ruining my second chances Second guessing, misdirection When will I begin again? Running out of time Ruining my second chances Second guessing, misdirection When will I begin again?
10.
Tranquility 01:11

about

Dear Friend,

The Sunshine Cottage was anything but.

We started from nothing. We set our bags down, exhausted, and started writing. Our goal was to lock ourselves away in a cabin upstate for a week and write an album about mental health; the real side of mental illness.

One of the bigger challenges, besides the time limit we put on ourselves, was approaching the topic of mental illness with honesty.

When writing these songs, we each drew from our own personal experiences with mental illness, in the process finding many similarities and even more differences between them.

This album wound up different than any of us expected, and different from anything we've ever written before.

We hope you like it.

Love,

The Wife And Kids

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released January 15, 2018

All music and lyrics: Ben Bond, Katie Fasulo, Hilary Davies. Produced by Ben Bond. Copyright 2018.

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