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Drum

by Gold Class

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1.
  Here we go  Here I go changing  But now into what?  Tumbling with the seasons  Watch me tie my soul into knots    Body close  You said, Darling, what do you want?  Forgiveness  Everything  To dance like I’m home    In a corner somewhere, the flash of a light there  No turning back  When you think about me, you know that I will be  Twisting     To punish  To wear the mark  Twist in the dark  To let go  To see a spark  Twist in the dark    For a moment the world was so still with you by my side  But we can’t stop twisting   We both fell out of time  When I was a young boy I thought I’d burn bright or burn up  Not both now  Not both now  The stars are all turned up and off and up and off…    Then in a corner somewhere, the flash of a light there  There’s no going back  When you think about me, you know that I will be  Twisting
2.
Rose Blind 03:23
I now, you soon  I rust, you moon  It’s you and me drifting between    I smile to the blurry borders   I bathe in the murky waters   We swim so close together  Reach out and just go with me, float to me     Rose blind, white heat  Barricades and ecstasy  Night calls and I run  Make thick my blood  Flesh raids, fake crimes  I’m yours, you’re mine  You breathe and I breathe  Rose blind   Now I see    We wake at dawn to hear they’ve won  You turn and say, We’re lost, in danger  You curl to resist the tether  I spit to the wind – whatever  We’re easy in any corner  It’s time and it’s ours on the violent breeze    We can throw the gods and our names out with the wind  We can throw the gods and our names out  Go with me, float to me
3.
Get Yours 03:25
Bombs from the blue  BANG like a whip-boy  Battered and loose  Hot with the memory  You’re the wrecking ball I’ve been waiting for    Got my hands to the walls  You can come get yours    Kiss me again  There like you used to  No one else can make me feel better  I’ll beg and I’ll plead  Come back here, you’ll see    I’m on all fours  You can come get yours    Bombs from the blue  Bang like a rough boy  Any excuse to get a little rough joy  Kick me red and raw   I’ll just ask for more    I’m on the floor  Bared out in my reasons  See what you’ve done  Now come and get some  I won’t break in your war for remnants and concessions  I’m down on all fours  You can come get yours    There’s none left here and all I need  You can take what you want  You’ll never end me   
4.
Trouble Fun 04:23
I’m a holy ghost with a golden touch  Good in the belly, not good for much  I’m the best lay when you give me some  Is it trouble?    I’m a last chance, I’m a splitting queen  Dance for my baby in a cutaway scene  Loaded in the west, won’t tell what I’ve done  I want trouble fun    Don’t give me the sun  All I want is trouble fun  Pulled apart – and what?    I’ve been written and read  Don’t want to go to bed  All I want is trouble fun    Let free the riot, I’m a giddy ruin  Dumber than a night on the red balloons  Save all your praying for some other punk  Am I in trouble?    And me a wet rag in the corner left  Used up to nothing on a sailor’s chest  Ragged stowaway on a shipping run  Give me trouble fun    Don’t give me the sun  All I want is trouble fun  Pulled apart in one    I’ve been written and read  Don’t want to go to bed  All I want is trouble fun    The kids round here, they’re all amiss  They won’t catch my kisses, they won’t catch my fists  They won’t catch my kisses, they won’t catch my fists 
5.
Bully 04:25
  You should look away  I’m terrifying  My lips won’t obey  Drunk on the air of being with you  Bully like us    You can mesh with me  Skinnier now  Hungry to be a spark in the night  I’m up on my luck  Bully like us     Bully  Bully    Trying to catch your eye  You’ve been around making elegant strife  The kind that I want  All knowledge and lust  Busting me up    Here you are with me  Clear in the grain of a vague history  A hundred slow days  Wishing to find a bully like us    Bully  Bully   Bully    Like a schoolyard pack, we could run this place  Wage a good battle for our rage and grace  It’s a quiet thought on a wild streak  The living’s tough   So are we    Bully  Bully    Here you are with me  Clear in the grain of a vague history  A hundred old days  Just wishing to find a bully like us
6.
Shot through  I once knew the howl you gave   A right rave     Hold back a minute there  I could be missing it all while I run from the middle  Won’t you hold back a minute there?  I’ve been thinking of strangers round the whole year    Weave the blows  Like a boxer on tiptoe   Scared stiff  Move to live    Hold back a minute there  I could be missing it all while I run from the mirror  Won’t you hold back a minute there?  The colours are falling and it’s all clear  Hold back a minute there  I could be missing it all in the rush from forever  Won’t you hold my familiar stare?  I’ve been thinking of strangers round the whole year    I guess it all goes on  Regrets, be gone  I guess you’ve just moved on to another one    Hold back a minute there  I could be missing it all while I run from the mirror  Won’t you hold back a minute there?  The colours are falling and it’s all clear  Hold back a minute there  I could be missing it all in the rush from forever  Won’t you hold my familiar stare?  I’ve been thinking of strangers round the whole year    I guess it all goes on  Regrets, be gone  I guess I’ll just move on to another one   
7.
Left out in the rain  Washed of you again  We burned until our weather gave up  Heaven knows we were never too much    Too young to pretend  Swallow, keep it in  Counted with a heaven-less touch  Heaven knows we were never too much    Chased our days to a radiant close   Now I can’t go back to whatever I was  We played out like an echoing drum  We were beaten, but I still feel a thump  Childhood games and their menacing ends   When the streets go cold and the neighbourhood bends   You found me in the deafening hush  We were something   We were never too much    Thunder when you came  Scared myself again  Shelter was my heart in your trust  I need you to know it was always enough    Little one in the world  It was love that you had  There’s a knock at the door  Don’t forget what you came for 
8.
Mercurian 02:57
 You’re a crush and a whir  Take your shirt off and turn  What a racket it makes  The explosion of your heart    You’ve been losing days  In search of something to keep  Wrapped in air close and amber  Scoop it up with your fingers    Busy drawing the line   From intention to aim  You like them in control  And playing with pain    You’ve been losing days  In search of something to keep  See the air swift and reason  Pouring out from within you
9.
Place We Go 05:02
They’re all talking again  About the way you’ve been acting  I can tell by your face again  You’re so tired of the trying    They don’t know the place we go  They don’t know the place we go    Grab all your things  The camera and the rent  We’ll get on out of here  We’ll put it to the test  Your hurry to replace your picture of the past  I don’t know what they took  I don’t know how to ask    Your lipstick trace in the din  We don’t own any daytime  The poorest love is the deepest pin  I’ll go deep as you need to    Grab all your things  The camera and the rest  We’ll get on out of here  We’ll put it to the test  Your hurry to replace your picture of the past  I don’t know what they took  I don’t know how to ask    Dismantle the sky  Hide it from your friends  Search the tarot cards  For ways to make amends  If I could take it all  I’d carry any weight  I can be your ride  I won’t let you suffocate    They don’t know the place we go  They don’t know the place we go   
10.
Lux 04:47
And up I come, a flare of fate  A fever high to devastate   On wasted rest you are the ground and I your revelry  A wasting runt, I shut my eyes  It opens up to me    Take me in on rivers of you  I’m pulling skin to make myself new    In every first and any end  We split apart and we extend  To lonely hours when I was yours and only ever dreamed  I could be yours and mine as well  Now I’m tearing at the seams     Take me in on rivers of you  I’m pulling skin to make myself new  Take me in on rivers of you  I’ve come so far so I can be new    If a penance from the lips of a petulant son  Is the comfort you need, you’ll be gagging on your tongue  Because I have only just begun  Let the dogs to their fight and their fuckery done  We’re all down on our knees  Scratching our way through the mud  And crawling comes easy to us  I remember your every whisper  How you told me to be patient  Fortune favours those who wait  I remember  I remember  Well, I’m sorry to misbehave  Your fortune’s not going to save me    I’m through with wondering what will happen  I’ll still be up when the morning comes    I’m through with wondering what will happen  I no longer answer to the past    Take me in on rivers of you  I’m pulling skin to make myself new  Take me in on rivers of you  I’m pulling skin to make myself new  Take me in on rivers of you  I’m pulling skin to make myself new  Take me in on rivers of you  I’ve come so far so I can be new     

about

Drum is the bold second album from Gold Class. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios / Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and co-produced by Gareth Liddiard of The Drones, Drum sees Gold Class explore new territory in both songwriting and sonics.

Commenting on the album title, Adam Curley (lead singer) says “Drum is primitive. It’s physical. It’s the beat of your heart. It’s immediate. It comes from the past, but it also beckons to something in the future.” It holds other dualities, too – submission and authority; repetition and propulsion. And yet at its core, it’s just something you can dance to.

The follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You, Drum is a brasher, vivid widescreen account of a band hitting its stride while betraying the complex signs and scars of a life since lived.

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released August 18, 2017

Drum was recorded at Head Gap Recording Studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios in Victoria, Australia.
Produced by Gareth Liddiard.
Engineered by Rohan Sforcina and Finn Keane.
Mixed By Aaron Cupples.
Mastered by John Ruberto at Mastersound Studios.
All songs written and performed by Evan James Purdey, Adam Curley, Jonathan Shub and Mark Hewitt.
Album Artwork and design by Jules Christie and Gold Class.

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