Produced & engineered by Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount
with additional production by Daniel Castady and Keith Mochel
Mixed by Zack Odom and Kennth Mount
Recorded and mixed at Tree Sound Studios, Norcross, GA
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio NYC
Guest Vocals on "These Are My Dreams" and "Head Held High" by Hannah Clarke
Additional backups on "Red Wine" by Mike Emmons
Management: David Karon and Izvor Zivkovic for Split Media, LLC
Legal: Mike McKoy for Serling, Rooks & Ferrara, LLP
All photography by Gil Perez (gilperez.com)
Art direction & design by Daniel Castady for Uniglory Studio, Chicago (uniglorystudio.com)
The Fold logo by Asterik Studio, Seattle
All Songs written by The Fold © 2009 Truck Treatment Music Co. (ASCAP)
The Fold:
The Fold plays Dean Markley strings, Vater, Framus, Gallen Krueger, Remo and all sorts of other free stuff.
Suggested baby names: Lauren Castady, Tamea Mochel, Steve Davis, John Feldmann, Zack Odom, Kenneth Mount, Thos Goodwin, Elaine Goodwin, Greg Hammer, David Karon, Izvor Zivkovic, Tom Higgenson, Matt Thiessen, Kyle Lewis, Emily Musci, George Castady, Becky Castady.
Cool band names: Plain White T's, Relient K, Sherwood, Spill Canvas, Empires, Plunket, Michaelane, Cavashawn, American Taxi, Verb The Noun, etc.
I have got a colorful past written on my wall, but it doesn't really matter at all. Such a strange game to play I go out of my way just to stamp it out. I wanna live in a way that I dread the grave that my bones will wed as little as my own bed. A smarter man than me told me "there is no bravery, just degrees of fear" but I fear that we're incapable. Take me into your arms, it's amazing here where you are, but don't wake me. Make me melt into your arms again tonight. Take me into your arms send me baby higher & higher don't wake me, make me melt into your arms again tonight. I have seen a paradox of people walk out that door, where's the kid who went out of his way just to know your name? I never shoulda bothered. I'm taking a deep hard look at the bald-faced crook, too rich to last (too famous too fast, oh). A wiser man than me told me "son you gotta be who you wanna be, the rest is just a spectacle." If all we are is stepping stones, cast them all away. No one here will follow you down, throw it all away. Maybe we can start over and maybe this could be possible baby. You'll never have to go anywhere alone.
I had that stupid dream again where I meet my end on the top of a car on the 90. In my hands I hold all of my favorite things, 1 by 1 they fall behind me. Is this some kinda cheap metaphor for the way I live? I haven't had a chance to process it. So I hold on, for dear life, hold on tonight. Bah bah bah bah, Hold on, Hold On. I sway and shove to the meter of one thousand cars at full speed. I know deep within me that I'm still asleep but my brain won't tell my body. It feels like a subconscious revenge for the the way I've lived, I haven't had a chance to process it. So I hold on, to my sheets, hold on tonight. To say I already knew the way to get my mind off of you anyway. In a way I don't want to. In a way it's all that I needed to say. You best believe it's happening before you know it. Just hold on tonight.
It's a drag I thought I'd get to know you well. I deny ever declaring this was what I wanted, or what I set out to do. They rip my heart out and they beat it on the floor. It's the only thing I know. This must be what I set out for so many years ago. I see it written on the wall with all my half written songs. And the red red wine couldn't change my mind. Two worlds collide, look out that way I see it now. Yeah the red red wine couldn't change my mind. Everytime I try, two worlds collide. Is there a place for us? Look out that way I see it now. It's a rush, I'm seeing all stars align. I defy ever believing that I couldn't get there. I wax semi-okay. It's just the way things go sometimes, when you know what you want but you just can't seem to make it happen. We've been here before (but here we go)
Memories they haunt me, yeah they trickle in like rain. I have no choice these things effect me cast their shadow on the day. Yet through the haze I stand completed. Yeah, as spotless as can be. I do believe this choice I've taken, so today is a beautiful day. So we rewind back to the times when life's not making any sense... you would hold me, you'd understand. My lonely nights are over, you know the type, here's to getting out alive. Dear future, come get me. I'm ready now, for anything. Here I lay in wait for better days to smile on me. I have no strength this world is freezing, cast away my apathy. It's time I bid farewell to discord, those are years I won't get back. Say so long to yesterday, today is a beautiful day. Dear future, come get me. I'm ready now, for anything. These lonely walls surrounding me. The past has taught me everything, Dear future, come get me. Stay on my side, here's to getting out alive. Scratch a letter on my hand and it will say: "Dear future, come get me"
Things have changed my chemicals have shifted, I'm a different person every time we meet. I'm caught in a trap like a rabbit on a track. It's an angry attack, left a scar on my back. Here is my real sad story... He was 5'6 with a sentimental crucifix hanging down his neck. She was sweet sixteen in her first limousine with his hand slipped around her back. They arrived on the scene like the king & queen of the prom that couldn't last, did they ever really have a chance? We are midnight, on a fast ride. Held a ticket in our hands for anywhere. Out of our minds, thought we could fly. As the morning comes we start to disappear. Why are we so quick to let our innocence go? Nobody told me til it's only the lonely, a classic case, yeah a sorry story. And my story etches on... She's a smart talking girl with a chip on her shoulder, yeah she's got a little game to play. Meets a shell of a man in a rock n roll band and he can't let her slip away. The only time they're satisfied is when they're on the chase. Will we ever really get away? We are midnight, we are last night. Got a ticket out of town with no return. We're on no time, we can't rewind. As the morning comes we start to disappear. We won't keep up with this pace another year. We are midnight, in a fist fight. We got a taste of what it's like to be alive. All alone now, don't wanna come down. But as the morning comes we start to disappear. Let it all ride. We are midnight.
75 outgoing calls, each one of them to you. Sometimes I wish I could turn off my mind detach my brain, and hand it to a strange passing me by. I had to learn the hard way that friends like these come but once in a lifetime. 75 outgoing calls, each one of them to you. Sometimes I wonder if you're out there still waiting on me, these days I sit alone thinking only of you. I had to learn the hard way that absense made your faint heart wander. I ran beyond the sidewalk's end then sent this transmission. Sometimes it seems as though you're tracking me but I don't mind the boy who's left here now thinking only of you. I see you driving southbound the midwest sun eats you up in the distance. Could it be in the search for clarity we've gone nowhere, but it comes the moment I find you? Overshadow me, take me from this place you found me in. This shooting star will burn out bright. Disappoint me, do what you must do to get through me (surprise me). Your call is deeper than my fall. Song inside my mind, I have traveled far too long to find you are not at home, how does this end? Song inside my mind, I have traveled far too long to find. If you're make believe, let's play pretend.
How could something so lost catapult back into my life? You were just right, not a day had passed in our eyes. I was strong on the outside, a calming stare and a head held up high. At night I turn and I toss underneath these sheets til sunrise. I thought about getting up and going to you, but here you are living out of my spare bedroom. You were honest (you were bold). You were fragile (you were cold). Maybe now we both can smile a little wider while we hold the one we chose who chose us back at the moment of attack. The one we need who needs us back no matter what the aftermath. No matter what comes after that. Did you get your wings clipped? Did you keep your head held high?
Some say our destiny lies in our history, that's never been true for you. Follow your hands keep your heart in your pocket, you always have something to prove. Picture the people who loved you completely, we only want good things for you. Mind racing, tracing the minute you lost it, you'll do what you do what you do. Sink Or Swim. Stop Look Listen. Woah-oh (Woah-oh) Noone lets you down, the rest is just breathing out. Some believe love should play out like the movies, that's never been true for you. Swallow your tongue hold your heartache for ransom, you always have something to prove. Wishing away those that you hold most dearly, we only want good things for you. Mind racing, tracing the minute you lost it, you'll do what you do what you do. Now that you're out on your own, you've got a lot to consider. I know it's getting you down that the ocean is wide. You're hitting your stride once again, don't let the tide take you in.
Look at me and my brave face, I cannot help but contemplate that what I do for money may not be good for my career. I keep a close eye on this heart of mine, like an artifact preserved in time. I'll sacrifice the money to show who I am. Please don't believe me when I tell you selfish things. I hope you'll stay on my side. I know where I'm going with you. I know that we swore that we were through. Get ready to go, just me and you. Look at you such proud design, like a prestige of the deepest kind. It's not that funny when you've got so much on the line. I keep my chemicals in perfect sight, but you always seem to see me fine. How'd you figure it out this time, who I am? Darling let me go but keep these memories that we've been making, they'll keep you comfort for a holiday alone. Darling let me know if all this gets too much for you to handle. We'll scream our lungs out for an hour on the phone.
What you need is gravity to take this giant down and set you free. It's a world out there of flattery, subtle ties and fake handshakes and you only trust yourself. What do you see in security, it ties you up and hangs you out of time. It's a classic case, a tragedy, it chews you up and spits you out and you have only got one chance. These are my dreams, feeble as they are. I'm learning a thing or two, it's in the way you (go get what you want). These are my dreams, selfish as they seem. I'm ripping apart the seams. It's all about how you go get what you want. So tell me who you want to be, I think it's time I heard it straight from you. It's been a winding road, a slippery slope. You're all mixed and turned around and you don't even know yourself. So we're stuck inside a day dream (day dream) but we don't wanna wake up (wake up).
I've got a sentimental set of excuses, I'm gonna use 'em alright. It takes a certain kind of social recluse to stay in bed on a friday night. But I won't lie down, I'll take the pain and I'll set it free. I won't lie down, not trying to be who you see in me. Better odds await the faint of heart. I've got a new disaster to start. I'm gonna make my day. Way too deep to cash out now. Upside down & inside out. I never knew it was not okay. It's a neverender. It takes a certain kind of burning contention to make you listen to me. It takes believing that you really can get there, to justify what you cannot see. I took a year of pain and I hid it away from you. What's a kid with a broken heart and a fistful of dreams to do? It's a neverender with constant reminders of why I could never move on. Looking back it's like I never saw the signs...