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Monsters

by I Remember 2006

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1.
If You Cared About Me, You Would Have Left A Long Time Ago 04:44
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If you really cared, then you would have left a long time ago I wish you would be way more open than you ever did Somewhere down these hallways an answer lies in a closet But when I open it, everything just slides out And this cyclical nature brings me to me feet On the leash again; what is the meaning of this, anyway? Prisms of light glow under doorways Rainbows cover our eyes every single day Everything seems so different now that time has passed And every time we fight, the rainbows disperse I can't keep them around anymore, and I keep trying But it's a fighting battle I'm going to lose Why can't I ever make things right Everything never aligns in my mind If you really cared about me You would have left a long time ago Clouds suffocate the scenery I'm supposed to be seeing And everyone tells me to get back on my feet But each direction I turn the fog inches closer And I losing the grip on the happy chapters of my life I keep pleading for something that doesn't exist Tiles are falling underneath me constantly Every one I know disappeared one day Yet you were standing behind a window Peering at me; I'm only an exhibit Once I get the match I will set this place ablaze What's the point of saving a crumbling pile of bricks It's a closing door and I'm already too late Why can't I ever make things right Everything never aligns in my mind If you really cared about me You would have left a long time ago
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Concrete 05:39
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3.
Never Name Your Demons 03:29
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(This is the first song Wilbur and I ever recorded, and we had another friend with us, Chase Bundt.)
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Sisters 02:52
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Hate 05:26
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Sculptures 17:43
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It's been months since I've been brought here Trapped inside of this cellar Many have gone; Only a few remain I just wanted to go home Everyone is screaming and whimpering But when he comes down we all go quiet Afraid we'll be next We're all locked up down there I've brainstormed ideas of escape But I'm growing numb every day I'm trying hard to not break I don't want to be dragged up there Or I'll never be heard from again I tried to comfort the others But I don't know how Natalie is a quavering leaf She's about to shatter And Hayden has all but gone quiet While Mary has fallen asleep The days are blurring into each other I'm starving, but I know it won't be until tomorrow That we get to eat again The man upstairs makes sculptures Out of the shapes of his victims And sells them off to art exhibits And I don't understand how he keeps getting away with it I've seen Quinton, Brandi, and Venessa led upstairs And I never heard from them again And there were others, I'm aware But I only got to know them I could hear him moving upstairs Then sirens were approaching from the distance And I heard him running upstairs And a door slamming open and shut Then I could hear cars pulling up Someone starting knocking upstairs Demanding to be let in And then they broke inside I could hear several footfall upstairs There was code being muttered, but I couldn't understand it And then we heard the cellar door slam open Light was shining down the stairwell And we could see people walk down They were dressed in SWAT outfits And when they stared at us I could see they were all in disbelief Seeing four of us were still alive They unshackled us and carried us outside The sunlight was so blinding I had to close my eyes But there it was; warmth at last! But the man couldn't be found He fled from the land The officers brought us to the station And they called up our parents I could see Natalie crying I saw Hayden's parents around, and he broke down Bawling as his parents held him And Mary was just silent the whole time she was at the station And seeing them in distress made me realize Justice has yet been served Then my father arrived at the station All I could do was apologize Apologize for disappearing But it wasn't my fault; I was trying to get home that day When Micah approached me And he lied to me that he would take me home Why did I ever listen? But as Dad and I left the station I vowed to find Micah And bring this world justice After I destroyed him When I saw my mom arrive home from work That's when I broke down We hugged each other and cried Months I disappeared because of Micah Away from my family for so long Thinking every day I would never get to see them again Exhausted from emotional distress I went to my bedroom And I climbed into my bed For months I didn't feel the blanket But it still cradles my body And I drifted off to sleep The next day, the media went to our houses They pestered me for information And I felt obligated to tell them about my experience So that they would leave me alone And I fled back inside Thoughts of the other kids flooded my mind And I sat down on the couch Rocking back and forth as I covered me face And I could see myself on the television As the breaking news stories kept on airing I see the other kids and their houses And I had enough and turned off the TV A couple of days pass The news campaign continues I was going turn off the television But then the news anchor got my attention When she talked about how Micah got caught on security cameras Fleeing past a gas station He was wearing his black coat I know near that gas station is a foundry Where cement and plaster are mixed And knowing how he loved to build sculptures I had an idea of where he could be going He was restocking and relocating And he was trying to avoid detection So I ran to the factory The thoughts of all the kids Micah harmed and killed Made the anger in me grow stronger I have to bring justice to this town By taking Micah down For what he did to me For what he did to everybody I arrive at the foundry late at night And I see a door cracked open So, I sneak inside and look around I climb up to a catwalk And then I see him Siphoning concrete from a mixer "Micah!" I shout out He turned to me and my name "Franklin?! Do you want to die?!" And I yell back "No, I'm ending your reign right now!" And a fight ensues, and I know he stronger than me He grapples on my shoulder I feel intense pressure on my So I jerk my body towards the railing It sends us flying over the railing But I grab ahold of the pipes And Micah falls into the concrete mixer I can hear him screaming as he sinks into the concrete I climb back onto the catwalk and lay down I have to catch my breath from the struggle And then when I breathe alright again I stand back up and walk back home Micah has finally been brought to justice And I can start working on recovering And the others can start working on recovering But we can never forget what he had done
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Finding Hope 08:34
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Airwaves 02:23
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Lagan 05:27
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10.
Agreement 01:26
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The agreement between two people is important One does not simply know what the outcomes going to be Only they can think about what it could be But they're never always correct because nobody knows
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Forward: 08:48
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The lighthouse is in the distance But it's really far away And the longer I walk The more it looks the same I'm sorry, I jumped to the finite solution Wish I was still there, but it's too late Please tell the rest I'm sorry Is Amelia doing alright? Let me know when you find me Sailing to the lighthouse Because I need closure Somewhere in the sky A star will shine Giving the solution To the question Somewhere in the sky A star will shine Giving the solution To the question Too much happened I didn't know what to do I wish I didn't sink Where I am now I don't understand I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon (Instrumental Interlude) I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon I’m sailing this ship Beyond the horizon
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Monsters on the Other Side 11:40
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A small creature came out of the wall Stumbling right onto the floor The wall behind him looked all warped I could see inside a beastly figure Reaching out to grab this creature So I dragged him away from the wall And the warp had dissapated They clung onto me and held me tight I could feel them shaking and hear them crying It's weird having four arms wrapped around me I awkwardly hug them back I can feel the eyes of colleagues peering at us There's murmuring filling the air People are freaking out Every sound of clanking keyboards Has all but stopped at the sight of this being I could tell he was young The high pitch of his voice His breathing was uneasy as he's still upset I asked him what had happened He covers his face, still crying And he says: "Please, sir! Don't put me back in! There are monsters on the other side!" People glaring from their cubicles "What kind of hell spawn is that?!" they yell "Get that monster out of here!" they shout I bellow back; "Do you have anything better to do Than belittle a child who's clearly been through Something traumatic in a different world?! I don't care if he's unnatural to our world! Can you not see the bigger picture here?! Or are you too blind in your mind to realize That just because something is different from us Doesn't make them evil?! Do you understand?!" "Now, explain to me what happened, kid." He looks up at me with his teary, orange eyes And he starts to speak "Please! I don't want to go back! I just had to run away from my last friend! Everybody has been turning into these monsters! They keep growing limbs, tendrils, and claws. They've been attacking anyone they can. Caused by some infection, I guess. My friend got attacked and started to act strange. He kept laughing at me and threatening me. Then I saw he was changing. I saw the tendrils break through his skin. That's when he started to chase me, so I ran away." A few colleagues stand by my side But many have sheer disdain in their eyes For this grieving kid who has lost everything And it disgusts to my very core How have we failed so hard as people To want the worst for such a little creature Well, I'm not like them. I'll protect you He asked for some water So, I agreed to get him some But something in the back of my mind Kept on screaming out "Something bad's about to happen Can you feel the air? It's so heavy it's about to break. Can't you sense the energy?" Devin is the closest to me So I ask him to keep the kid safe I turn to everyone else and declare: "If I come back and you put him back I'm going to tear all of you apart." As I retrieve a cup of water I hear a scream break through the silence I run back to see what happened So much noise is going on at once Devin's on the floor; someone has attacked him A few coworkers has grappled the kid They are trying to throw him out a six-story window I tackle them, and with the help of another coworker I'm able to get the kid away from those savages' grasps I pick up Devin and stare at the attackers, and I growl "You're the monsters on the other side!" Us three flee the building Devin is hunched over, bleeding from his abdomen As he pulls out his phone and prepares to call a paramedic But he turns to face me first and says; "You gotta go into hiding, Landon. You know they're going to try to find that kid. Whatever you do, don't let them get to him. And, don't worry about me, I'll make it through. I always do." So, the kid and I fled to the woods Where a hidden lake resides There's a small cottage I know that was abandoned I would sometimes go here on secret vacations But it's really small, it's only a few rooms. "How are we going to be safe here?" he asks. "I can handle nature," I reply. "I like to go outside all the time." "But people will try to find us," he points out. "And if they do, I'll die protecting you. I won't let them hurt you if it's the last thing I do." He looks up at me, trying not to cry. "Thank you, sir," his voice cracks as he replies. And I respond; "I'll keep you safe from the monsters on every side."
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Benches in the City 05:40
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Rafe's Note:

So, this spawned from me noticing how much output we had this year. I saw we only needed thirteen more tracks to reach a one-hundred song benchmark, so we worked to do just that before the year ended. We ended up taking it down to the wire, as you can see the release date is the day we got this finished.

I was getting back into Crywank before this album spawned, which you can see the lyrical inspiration in the first track, "If You Cared About Me, You Would Have Left A Long Time Ago". We wanted to go back to that acoustic rock style we started out with. Under the decision Wilbur made, we tried to not use any electronic instruments on this album, which we did for the most part. Then I got a telecaster, and I slipped electric guitar into two of the songs, but I still kept it to a minimum by only using them in the last parts of "Sculptures" and "Monsters on the Other Side" which is where the album gets its name from.

I was also getting back into Electric President, which is one of Wilbur's favorite bands, which he showed me early in our friendship. "Monsters", "Nightmare No.5 of 6", and "All the Distant Ships" inspired the story behind "Monsters on the Other Side". When I was outside, listening to those songs for the first time in over a year, I imagined a story about a kid fleeing from the Cronenberg apocalypse, when he ends up in a different world. The first person he meets cares about him, but a majority of the people around end up being really antagonistic to him because he is completely different from them

The reason we called this album Monsters is because I think it fits this album perfectly. A lot of these songs here tell stories about people being monsters. "If You Cared" shows someone turning on another person. "Concrete" tells the tale of someone tearing their world apart and being abandoned at the end. It also foreshadows a later song. "Never Name Your Demons" is a cautionary message of not characterizing mental illness. "Sisters" is the only song here that is fully biographical, because my aunt Lisa was going through an awful relationship, and was being stalked by a bastard named "Tom". "Hate" is a hold-over from the Out of the Void sessions, and it's about not wanting to hold a grudge on someone anymore. "Lagan" is about someone being fed up from being used as property, and it ends with a full-on breakdown. Then there's "Sculptures", which is our darkest song yet. Sculptures is about a child getting revenge on a kidnapper who would make sculptures out of their victims.

"Agreement" is from a weird abandoned project. It's about communication, and how there's so many nuances in speech. "Forward:" continues the Flotsam and Stuxnet story, resuming from the song "To Flotsam". "Finding Hope" is one of only two songs that are positive on the album, and it is exactly about what the title entails. And the album ends with "Benches in the City". It's a sweet song about Xariné, who is the kid in "Monsters on the Other Side" and Landen, who is the narrator for both tracks, sitting on a bench in a nearby city to the cabin, as the sunsets. For such a disturbing album, ending it with something positive was really needed. It shows that there is still good around amongst all the terrible things.



Will's Note:

We kind of threw this together at the last second. Without meaning to, we're pulling a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and that's mostly my fault, I think. I'd been in a creative rut until maybe yesterday (the 30th of December, 2022) as I was also in a bit of a depression. This album has a lot of influence from two specific artists/bands on both of our parts, Ben Cooper and Crywank. There were also some other inspirations on my part, like the bands American Football and Duster. A lot of these stories are apocalyptic in nature, and sinister. We wanted to go for an anti-folk sound, and I think we encapsulated that pretty well.

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released December 31, 2022

Rafe LaNore: Vocals. Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, (Unplugged) Bass Guitar, Ukulele, Kalimba, Steel Drum, Producing Writing, Photography,

Wilbur Bullara: Vocals, Drums/Percussion, Acoustic Guitar. Ukulele, Steel Drum, Kalimba

Chase Bundt: Drums (song 3)

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I Remember 2006 Muskegon, Michigan

I Remember 2006 is a previously solo Indie Folk Rock project of Rafe LaNore, that now consists of Rafe and his friend, Wilbur Bullara. Both are multi-instrumentalists that met back in 2021, and have been making music with each other ever since.

Rafe's (mostly) solo stuff
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