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Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns

by Dirt Bikes

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1.
I’m in the running, I think for something I don’t know what it is or what I’m supposed to be. I tell you one thing I tell you anything I’ll fill your mind up and I will set you free. I’ll take your money, I’ll take your mind, then I’ll let you go uh oh oh oh. I’m in the running, I should know one thing we rising uuuuup early with the sun, I’m in the running, If I knew just one thing I’ll send them early off, I send your baby sons. I’m a lie, you knew this time, so give it up uh oh oh oh. I’m decided to keep on moving, all the eeeeyes they all can’t roll at once, I’m in the running, If we stop moving all these wolves will tear us all apart. I’ll tell you anything, I’ll sell you everything I do it for you who ew who we who. you ain’t no voter, you ain’t no one, got no money you got nothing that I want.
2.
I talk in my sleep, And I know you hear me. And I am not that sound asleep, And I am not trying to be mean. oh that’s right. Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns yeah they do. Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns yeah they do. I see you in my dreams And I know that you see me there with you. And I hate these stupid dreams, The ones that wake you and you hate yourself oh no, Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns yeah they do. Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns yeah they do. Isn’t what you know that will make you, You tend to only grow when you’re on your own. I think you think you know all there is to, but that now you need to know that you’re on your own. X2 Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns yeah they do. Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns Mistakes Make Pretty Patterns yeah they do.
3.
Hold your breath, Don’t explode, Time’s have changed, and it’s time you know Hold you tongue, Don’t speak out, The words you speak are the words we shout Spoken like fool, these forces that rule Breaking my hopeless attitude Shining like a shower on this forces this hour bringing the bad news down to you. We’ll take you down, We’ll take you down, Baby we won’t even make a sound. We’ll take you down, We’ll take you down, Baby we won’t even make a sound. a sound. What you see, it it’s in me, the bargains we make, is the shit we breathe On this road, we must do, the passing of a better me to you. Spoken like fool, these forces that rule Breaking my hopeless attitude Shining like a shower on this forces this hour bringing the bad news down to you. We’ll take you down, We’ll take you down, Baby we won’t even make a sound. We’ll take you down, We’ll take you down, Baby we won’t even make a sound. a sound.
4.
All my life, All that I want to be, is with you and good looking family, I could haven out West forever, instead I stuck it out in the brutal weather. All my life, I say to my enemies, thanks to you, thanks for the memories. These times were tough, these times were tough, but you made me stronger. Oh what a silly life, Oh what a silly life. I could have made you up, I could have made you in my mind Oh what a silly life, Oh what a silly life. Are you real enough or are you in my mind? I’m divided in the way I walk I’m divided in the way I talk Don’t you tell me that’s it’s going to be easier It’ll only make it tens times harder All my life, All that I want to do, Is to be here be here singing for you, I’ll sing for you, I’ll sing for you, I’ll sing forever…
5.
Oh my love is a burning thing, I live on pins and needles, I live on the burning love of you-o-o-hh oh my love oh hoooo my love oh hoooo my love oh hoooo is all my own Oh my love is turning so. you never know no you never know, I wear a coat of chains it looo-ooove. oh my love woohooo hoooo my love woohooo hooooo my love o-o-o-hh o-o-o-hh is all my own The ways of a famous soul, he never love no he’ll never love the tabloids will tell us so he’s all alone. oh their love oh hoooo their love oh hoooo their love oh hoooo is all their own together we’ll go hi—igh together we’ll go l-o-ow together we’ll go hi—igh is all our own Oh my love is a burning thing, I live on pins and needles, I live on the burning love of you-o-o-hh oh my love oh hoooo my love oh hoooo my love oh hoooo is all my own.
6.
Honey 04:30
I could have been a lot, I could have been more, But I’m tired of keeping score. I think about the waves, I think about the sky, I think about the mountains in our lives. I didn’t mean to haunt you, I didn’t mean to haunt you, but I did. Hide your money in your bed, Keep it in a box as long as your fed. Keep it in the stars inside your brain, Keep it in the sounds that keep you sane. I didn’t mean to haunt you, I didn’t mean to haunt you, but I did. I’ll go to Hell for what I’ll do, I’ll go to Hell, and there’s nothing you can do. you think can save me, you think you can save me, why don’t you. All these cars are making me mad, take them aways I swear on that. I want to see what we have done, I want you to see so you don’t run. If you need something, If you need something, I’ve got more. Oh this foolish side of me, My mistakes I blame on thee. Never meant for it to go wrong, Never meant to cause you harm. If you need something, If you need something, I’ve got more. I’ll go to Hell for what I’ll do, I’ll go to Hell, and there’s nothing you can do.
7.
Steamroller 03:32
What it take to make a mountain, on this road, on this road? Our lives are like a moment carved in stone, carved in stone. All my life it wakes me up, it wakes me up All my life, you never know where to run to, you never know, you never know. That’s the steam roller. How many times have I told you lately, I think were caving in, caving in. I have to admit that I think it made me what I am, made me what I am. All my life it wakes me up, it wakes me up All my life, you never know where to run to, you never know, you never know. Guess it’s time run… All my life it wakes me up, it wakes me up All my life, you never know where to run to, you never know, you never know. That’s the steamroller. That’s the steamroller. That’s the steamroller.
8.
I can protect you, like you’re my son. They would arrest you, but I would never tell no one. I’ll take it my gra——aaa-ve, What you did is amazing. I’ll take it my gra——aaa-ve, You will be a hero some day. Don’t call us helpless, We got what we need. If Dying is something, We can try to fix these things, The truth can be ba——aa-ad, Give it to us nice and slow, The truth can be ba——aa-ad, Everyone deserves to know That’s information person to person My hand to yours, and then back to my mine. That’s information, mass incarceration, the state of world is resting on a dime. We’ll take it our my grave, What you did is amazing. We’ll take it our my grave, You will be a hero some day. All with my heart and my soul Everything I have to catch you, All with my heart and my soul How’d you get the world to hate you. You’re not evil (repeat)

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Richard Lehmann - guitar, vocals, piano
Sergio Perez - drums
Meike Wagner - bass, vocals
pedal steel on Ten Times Harder performed by Jonny Taylor

In memory of Dr. Klaus Wagner, 1939 - 2015.

Thank you:
Lauren Adelman, Sebastian Bach, Ben Cole, Harold Lehmann, Kristin Lum, Scarlett Lum-Mott, Ryan Montgomery, Lane Mott, Atticus Wolf Perez, and Clare Wiseman

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released April 21, 2017

Recorded and mixed by Jonny Taylor at Beacon AV Lab.
Mastered by Matthew Agoglia at The Ranch.
Cover photo by Kristin Lum.
Back cover art by Ryan Montgomery.

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Dirt Bikes Brooklyn, New York

New York stalwarts Dirt Bikes draw listeners in with compact songs that blend garage energy, college rock jangle, and a bit of pop shimmer. Running the gamut from frank intimacy to furious energy, they take us from back porch reminiscences to the front lines of protests, visiting ghosts of the past and tackling anxieties of our shared present. ... more

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