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Tensus

by Water Monster

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1.
The Beds We've Fallen In 03:49
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This is a call To leave alone The crowded den Make our descent The river flows Our bodies groan Within the beds We’ve fallen in We breath out and in We fill up again Freezing thawing Rushing crawling Drowning quenching Held up by tension
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Lavish Life 03:39
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You sit in your misery Buried by treasury Well-lit but stumbling No slap on your heavy wrist Storing up heaviness Transforming to lead so quick Longing for the day You fade away No fortune living up this lavish life Exhaustion tossing & turning in the night Hallucination while you lose your sight Fumbling what you held so tight Been spoiled by this lavish life Open your cabinet try to retaliate Short term, you medicate Long term... termination Pulled day upon dimming day Windows won’t radiate Joy for your low estate Longing for the day You fade away No fortune living up this lavish life Exhaustion tossing & turning in the night Hallucination while you lose your sight Fumbling what you held so tight Been spoiled by this lavish life This was none of my business But I had to step foward Through the window I witnessed You were sprawled on the floor Pawing illumination Shouting back to your skin Were you searching for somthing Or just stuck in the din Deny the free trial, indulgent indigence Into this waterfall—deep calling deep again Return the weak earnings interest enlivining I believe you could be ivory when you get More than the company of walls More than the anger of having it all Less of a prison and more of a home Mortality breaking the best of us all No fortune living up this lavish life Exhaustion tossing & turning in the night Hallucination while you lose your sight Fumbling what you held so tight Been spoiled by this lavish life
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The Back and Forth of The Pendulum 05:00
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You can feel The latch of the material Catch a breeze And swing through the invisible And you wait And you brace for collision with the unknown But you’re here Floating weightless with a heavy heart This isn’t nurture No, not human nature The back and forth of the pendulum It’s out of reach It’s written off the pages You’re everything that you pretend you’re not In between The mountain high and valley low There’s a stream Both solid and intangible It will push and pull you Parading up and down your halls Still you’re here Being driven by a heavy heart This isn’t nurture No, not human nature The back and forth of the pendulum It’s out of reach It’s written off the pages You’re everything you pretend you’re not You know you must commit The sins of loved ones held you back You wait for your reward Like a passive player on the board Love is the only thing that keeps us together But loving myself is what has torn us apart
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A Little Talk 04:53
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Why you still up? Why you still up? You always sing about sleep And how you can’t get enough So why you still up? I can see you man with the window wide open So rich, but you feel so poor You’ve got that white sedan in the halo of a street lamp Rust is eating up the ceiling and the floor You got a lot of anger But you wear it like a smile Been walking like a stress dream For a long long while And while you worry through the night Dot your T’s and cross your eyes There’ll be no rest for your weariness And no wake behind your life Why you so why you so Why you why you so mad? Why you so why you so Why you why you so mad? You always get what you want You alwyas keep what you have So tell me why you so why you so why you so mad? You’ve got to hold your face to the struggle and the fighting Turn away from your blue-eyed pearl Lock gaze with the flashing of the lightning Throwing torch to this shadowed world No need to take it lightly No way to pass it by Take scicorss to the kite string Let go of that line Cause while you worry through the night Dot your T’s and cross your eyes There’ll be no rest for your wickedness And no wake behind your life Why you so why you so Why you why you so down? Why you so why you so Why you why you so dow? You got a roof for your head You’ve got a head for your crown So tell me why you so why you so why you so down?
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Wolf Cry 04:32
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I’ve heard that wolf cry One too many times I’m sick and tired The howling stretched falsetto Jolting me False prophecy I’m done believing Ward off the awl of the demon All out of moonlight Sweet abyss of night Safe from the sky Threadbare and wheezing Tranformational Sensational I’m done believing Ward off the awl of the demon Yes, before you throw in the towel You’ll need to brush off the howl I lost my smooth skin I lost my regular teeth I lost my cool and Let loose the cowardly beast Wrapped up in screaming Bodies and bleeding Wake from the night Eye to eye with a demon
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Animalistic 01:26
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Tasting pulse In the pale of the moon Making ghosts That you don’t know what to do with Face the facts you’ve got (Animalistic tendancies) Sink your daggers in and out (Animalistic tendancies) Son, relax it’s an (Animalistic tendancy) Take a breath and let your nature unwind Animalistic Animalistic Animalistic Animalistic Let’s illuminate...
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Window (feat T.S The Solution) 03:05
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Around the corner laughing Fire fireworking me Like a hired hand of seasons You’ll be gone before the flag comes down Crushing valleys with my countenance Plastered to the walls like a shot of redemtion Listen to the sound Listen to the sound of the crumbling bastards My new name repaired my stained glass Slag has seperated under heat Teeth exposed, imposing joyful noise Reflecting of my window (T.S The Solution) Staring at the window of your soul I see confusion And I’m in need of answers Well good thing I’m the solution Photo memories with tendancies to store the footage I’ll probably overload if I hold onto all this good shit Purify my water brutalize and conquer As I try to father utilize my daughter like How is daddy doing? What attributes need imporving Don’t wait until public viewing To tell me my show is ruined My new name repaired my stained glass Slag has seperated under heat Teeth exposed, imposing joyful noise Reflecting of my window Illuminated by the light of the sun Illuminated by the light of the sun Window Window
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On The Line 04:38
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Call me my seventh day Drape you’re veil over me Slow through the light we’ll lay Like a ship on the sea I’ll escape artiface as the sun sinks in sand God, on my seventh day Take this gun from my hand Quiet my divided soul You’re expression of ache Fierce as a winter strom Unattended we break Bending your back again At the mercy of man God, on my seventh day Take this gun from my hand Take me past the veil Slow fade, mute the bell Hold it to my eyes Taken out of time You hit me like a rocket So I held my hands in sight I squinted in the silence It was as loud as any fight Though my world is troubled Though my sand and soil’s In so much pain I’m leaving what I cling to Trying to let it fly away Diamond mines To the Heaven’s curve All wait for the great escape While the lifted look to earth Know one here seems to care We are faceless, tiresome Marching up the stairs Diamond mines To the Heaven’s curve Black beards and the holy ones At a table on the earth No one here Takes the air We are breathless, comatose Watching you prepare God, on my seventh day Take this gun from my hand I shake awake I’m on the stage The light is called Another day But in the end extend your hand To cut the rope and make amends
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Diamond Mines 07:18
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It was a Saturday When the sun caved in The grass was dry Where the stardust dripped I took a long walk Beneath the pillowed pillars I saw a hydrant raining On a Saab of silver Alone and in ruin The power’s out and the moon is bright The stars are all swaying in the dying light It’s silent It’s the end and I’m alright with it Stone wall Or fabric The mundane The magic Will crumble Unravel, fall, and fade Oh, why does it always have to be like this? I hear what you’re saying But I know that I don’t Feel it as much as I wish You tell me to let my body drop Into this copper pot I’m dangling above Cause kicking the walls won’t do you good Sooner or later the line will fall Stone wall Or fabric The mundane The magic Will crumble Unravel, fall, and fade The line will fall
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Normal Life 05:03
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Just look at how the colors shine Against the heavy harvest sky Slip through your fingers and it’s gone You ask her if the game Was rigged all along She just smiles at your innocence There’s a hop in the song Of the patient and dilligent And there’s a magic in the normal life You won’t believe So if you’re asked to live a normal life You wait and see And don’t despise it even when you’re tired As sequences repeat It’s a nusance somedays But the nuance will pay You hide inside a gang of legs Their limbs will straighten any crooked arrays Your language falls out in a line The words escape And leave your consious behind And it’s good to be rid of them Now they’re off of your mind She remembers to you again That there’s a magic in the normal life You won’t believe So if you’re asked to live a normal life You wait and see And don’t despise it even when you’re tired As sequences repeat It’s a nusance somedays But the nuance will pay If you give it some time You will probably find It’s good for you

about

Tensus, an ambitious full length effort written, performed, engineered and mixed almost solely by Harnishfeger with electric guitar by
Scott Ryan. Tensus shows personal growth for Water Monster as much as it shows a continued musical resolve to focus on captivating grooves, compelling vocal performance and a mastery of nearly every instrument at Max’s fingertips. Tensus is the latin word for tension, which is an apparent theme of the writing.

He describes this batch of songs as “a hymnal in my times of trouble” which have helped him embrace tension in life as a propelling force. “Moments of anxiety and discomfort have pushed me into some of the most blissful experiences of satisfaction I’ve ever known.”
The push and pull of life’s dynamics have now become a tangible landscape intertwined within these songs, the sounds and the human experience behind it all. Threaded inseparably together into a personal, meaningful journey of energetic songs that can move your body as much as your soul.

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released August 24, 2018

Written, produced, recorded, and mixed by Max Harnishfeger

Guitar by Scott Ingersoll

Mastered by Caleb Ingersoll

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