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Crush

by Jack The Elbow

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TheJayJay The amount of raw emotion in the lyrics and vocal performances in this album is absolutely phenomenal. It's really quite startling! What a brilliant debut! jaypedia.xyz/prog/2024 Favorite track: Crush.
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1.
Lyrics: Set the bar at a standard that only you define Keep me hopelessly aiming at a target not mine Make me feel like the renegade every way I turn I learned my lesson burning out to earn respect from your curse Cause all you seek is what you need to dig the grave to bury me Well you better run quick to the shovel I’ll dig through the rubble and break it to prove you wrong Prolong the agony listening to the hate you sing I should have left you alone Cause you don’t know anything And I’m not the man you made me out to be If we’re to be enemies Then I will crush you down beyond belief Cause I’m not settling The world is mine I don’t need your approval And I’m not questioning myself within your eyes I will not compromise I know where I belong Deeply rooted emotions that you claim to feel Disregarding devotion with a conscience of steel Hypnotizing commotion left within your wake You fake me out take and break my heart then throw me away But you don’t know anything And I’m not the man you made me out to be If we’re to be enemies Then I will crush you down beyond belief Cause I’m not settling The world is mine I don’t need your approval And I’m not questioning myself within your eyes I will not compromise I know where I belong Won’t you show the world who you are if you dare I’m sure you’ve got your bases covered Knowing that you have gone to far, but you don’t care You’re indifferent to all you smother I’m not questioning myself within your eyes The path between your lies will lead me back where I belong Now my peace has been lost Bear the weight of this cross Turn around make amends Or be crushed in the end
2.
Going Under 06:52
Lyrics: Wait like you’re buried underneath the heavy weight Of the choices you were too afraid to make But there’s no paradise to come for those who wait So pick your feet up before Death comes round to take Every chance you never had to waste Oh I can see your road coming to a dead-end Won’t you please believe me All I want is to believe in you Believe me when I say Pain is a purpose if it pushes you away From the brokenness that put it in your way But there’s no ticket out of Hell for those who stay At the feet of Misery locked in loosened chains Torch come down and set it all in flames Oh I can see your feet turned over your head Won’t you please believe me All I want is to believe in you Believe me when I say There’s no use in going under Stare into the past All your wondering will lead you to the brink Of a disaster maybe all the pain of past Could be turned into a future that you make So why wait Would you leave your life to Fate Do you feel it coming after you There’s a purpose underneath that heavy weight So quit your paralyzed belief that Time won’t take Every chance you never took to write your name In the book of losers who won’t play the game Scrape to climb the mountainside but There’s no use you’re going under Staring down the path All your wandering will lead you to a grave Cause it’s a disaster out there Bracing for a crash Are you thinking maybe this was a mistake Well it’s too late Wouldn’t leave your life to Fate Do you feel the pain As you’re coming to the end What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end What can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under I love those who do not know how to live except by going under I love those who do not first seek behind the stars for a reason to go under I love him who lives to know and wants to know thus he wants to go under I love him who loves his virtue for his virtue is the will to go under and an arrow of longing I love him who does not hold back one drop of spirit for himself Thus he strides over the bridge as spirit It’s all over now It’s all over now Is it all over now Are you sleeping again You’re sleeping You’re dreaming Wake up Get up Won’t you take up Control of yourself Find a way Nobody lasts forever Stare into the past Were you thinking maybe this was a mistake Well it’s a disaster back there Shaking off the ash All I want to do is see you take your place So don’t wait You won’t leave your life to Fate When you feel the pain You will be alive again
3.
Fly Away 03:28
Lyrics: You’re searching for a way to ease the pain you feel You’re hiding from the day nursing wounds that you conceal If you’re willing to obey the scars you couldn’t heal Then take their words to heart sip that poison till it kills you The relief that you crave you may never find it in this world So who could blame you for lashing out against us But that doesn’t make it right To bite the hand that feeds you Or disregard the part you play So if you want to fly then fly away Into to the ether you will fade Cause if you stay here You will have to face the truth Of the matter is that this is not a game And the souls you break will not just automatically regenerate And if they ever even do luck will be on your side But it’s you they will come to despise It doesn’t make it right To bite the hand that feeds you Or disregard the part you play So if you want to fly fly away Into the ether you will fade Cause if you stay here you will have to face the truth So fly away Like it is nothing you will break Any remaining faith I ever had in you Go on and spread your wings of cowardice and take your flight, Oh if you want to fly Fly away Into the ether you will fade Cause if you stay here you will have to face the truth So fly away Like it is nothing, you will break Any remaining faith I ever had in you
4.
Off And On 05:15
Lyrics: Stare out into your emptiness How could you let your circumstances come to this You once were bright and true, but now all that you do Is sit around and spew madness no one wants to hear I think it’s just about time that I made it clear I’m sick of your charade Your pitiful parade comes to an end this day My friend, arise and make a sound Will you reignite or slowly smolder out Don’t let this be the death of you Stand tall and radiate just like you’d always do There’s more than meets the eye There’s power deep inside that no one can deny My friend, arise and make a sound Will you reignite or slowly smolder out And when you give your curtain call Will you be able to say you gave your all Get off your ass and get on your feet Get out the shade and into the heat Get off your ass and get on your feet Get out the shade and into the heat My friend, arise and make a sound Will you reignite or slowly smolder out And when you give your curtain call Will you be able to say you gave your all, or not Off and on
5.
Lyrics: Summer vacation New girl in town Infatuation is spreading around She’s so far out my league, how could I stand a chance But something tells me I need to ask her to dance Cause I’ve got a feeling we could go all the way Hide out under the bleachers, take a roll in the hay And I’ve got a feeling that she could be the one Take my hand, oh darling, let’s go have some fun I’m all in tonight and this feels so right We’ve nowhere to be but lying underneath the stars in each others’ arms Three years go by much faster than you’d think So deeply in love or so it seemed to me But now I’m beginning to question my belief Cause I heard a rumor you’ve been messing around After all this time how could you let me down Cause I had a feeling we could go all the way To be so broken down never thought I’d see the day I’m dying tonight and you had no right To treat me that way To hell with it all, time to walk away But I guess that’s just the way it goes Too young to know the difference I guess that’s just the way it goes So deeply insignificant But I still see you in my dreams Haunted by your memory I see the truth now before me Falsehoods that I believed have only led me To walk away from the only one I love So wait for me, I’m coming back for you I’m sorry that I let myself go blind To all the good you’ve done for me and all the love we shared I let their poison seep into my mind There you stand right before my eyes Peacefulness flows through my soul as the fear within me dies I’m all in tonight So let’s make this right Never again will I break the heart of the one I dearly adore Forever we’ll be in your company We’ll live out our days defying the odds that stand in our way And so the story goes Two flames conjoin to burn as one I guess that’s just the way it goes A tale as old as the moon and the sun
6.
Shame 03:52
Lyrics: Time and time again we’ve stepped over the line Complicating matters with no reason or rhyme But I don’t want to be the one to carry on the trend Or live a life consumed with fright so au revoir I’ll see you ‘round the bend Such a shame it has to be this way It seems we feel the same so why can’t we get along I wonder if we’ll ever meet again before our time on earth reaches an end I surely hope we do, but if we don’t then I’ll catch up with you within the land of everlasting day And lest you think I’m callous and deprived of a shred of remorse for our demise I promise that I’ll love you ‘till the end of time Such a shame it has to be this way Such a shame you’ve nothing more to say Such a shame to throw it all away Such a shame to throw it all away Even though I already forgive you And malice won’t be in the words I say I cannot stick around and watch this madness for even one more day Such a shame it has to be this way
7.
Lyrics: Move in a strange and unusual manner
8.
Phoenix 05:40
Lyrics: I got nothing but the clock to prove you wrong Let the hand hit the top, I’m moving on But Time comes along with a robe and scythe To cut down the ladders I devise He said I’m mostly the lead never turned to gold And the thoughts I mistake for the sacred stone Were stolen without settling the price They’re falling to pieces before my eyes Hey, won’t you stay But this call to adventure is calling my name As I wake up again With my hands to my face And the colors all screaming I’ll keep my hands up, keep my shadow sharpened Keep my wits even if the ax is falling I got nothing but a mask I thought I owned Now I can’t seem to figure out who’s the mold The Maker’s the top of my altar space He’s closing the lock of this coffin-cage singing Hey, won’t you stay But this call to adventure is calling my name As I wake up again With my hands to my face And the colors all screaming I’ll keep my hands up, keep my shadow sharpened Keep my wits even if the ax is falling The ax is falling I’m not afraid to be the monster that I know I could be You can call it destiny, but I cut my own trail between the trees Tell you my little secret You won’t be my weakness And regret only brews resentment So drink the last full glassful You ate the apple, that’s cool But now it’s time to take out the trash you collected here I got nothing but the clock to prove you wrong Let the hand hit the top, I’ll be moving on When the time strikes again will I burst in flames Dust off all the ashes and fly away To keep my hands up, keep my shadow sharpened Keep my wings out when the sky is falling The sky is falling I’m not afraid to be the bastard that I know I can be You can call it destiny, but I cut my own trail between the trees Tell you my little secret You won’t be my weakness And regret only brews resentment So drink the last full glassful You ate the apple, that’s cool But now it’s time to take out the trash you collected here Keep my hands up, keep my shadow sharpened Keep my wings out when the sky is falling Keep my hands up, keep my shadow sharpened Keep my wings out when the sky is falling
9.
Crush 08:27
Lyrics: Consider this your come to Jesus moment Take it all to heart cause you’re only getting one More opportunity to make amends And then you will be cast into the fire and consumed All your grievances are piling up upon our shoulders And it makes me wonder if you ever cared at all Thinking you can play us all for fools and walk away unscathed Well let me give you some advice, a word to the wise, I will not say it twice If you think that I won’t crush both your little grapes to wine You’ve got a rude awakening coming down the line I can’t believe I watched the one I called my friend bastardize themselves in such a manner You’re hardly recognizable from who you used to be Every time I try to reconcile, it feels as though you’ve spit into my eyes Now the camel’s back is broken and my patience has demised Why oh why, tell me why it has to end this way But since you’ve chosen this path for yourself, there’s nothing more to say So let me give you some advice, a word to the wise, I will not say it twice If you think that I won’t crush both you’re little grapes to wine You’ve got a rude awakening coming down the line So so long, you won’t be missed Our time has reached its end And I know you probably never thought this day would come But you have turned your back on me for the very last time Never should have come to this But there’s no way to justify the way you’ve overstepped your boundaries again Distraught and burdened once more With the overwhelming task of picking up my shattered psyche off the floor What a sight to see to look down and see your body lying on the ground What you stole from me I’ll steal back right out of your cold and mangled hands I’m more adrenalized than I have ever been before I can hardly accept this new reality that’s bearing down on me But you were warned over and over again And the consequences crushed you down, dealt to you the fate that you deserved What a sight to see to look down and see your body lying on the ground What you stole from me I’ll steal back right out of your cold and mangled hands And I’ll never forgive you for this pain you’ve laid upon my soul To the void I’ll scream one last time so I can make my peace and carry on Rest in pain you fiend Rest in peace my friend All at once the world relieved Cured forever more of your disease Cause I’m not settling The world is mine I don’t need your approval And I’m not questioning myself within your eyes I will not compromise I know where I belong Now my piece has been said You can call my love dead Never made your amends Now lie crushed in the end

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Based off of a painting by guitarist Caleb Wilemon, Crush is the debut album of Birmingham, Al based progressive rock band Jack The Elbow. Featuring nine tracks, Crush explores themes of rejecting conformity, creating one's own destiny, and moving on from that which no longer serves you well, no matter the cost.

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released January 5, 2024

Music:
Madison Langham: Vocals, bass, keys
Caleb Wilemon: Guitar, vocals, keys
Michael Tucker: Drums, percussion

Mixing:
Madison Langham and Caleb Wilemon

Mastering:
John Douglass
Vorticist Studios

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Jack The Elbow Birmingham, Alabama

Jack The Elbow is a three piece prog rock band out of Birmingham, AL.

Band members include: Madison Langham, Caleb Wilemon, and Michael Tucker.

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