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Take A Hike (2024 Remaster)

by Thin Swimmer

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I'll hide the corners and sweep the house Yeah we'll get partied out, and I'll fall asleep These times are dark my head is green All these colors that I've seen, man it ain't like this You crack the stone, I'll gouge the knife This is the violent city life, yeah I'm cut out for it Ba-By- We aren't sleazy World-Class white trash city I enjoy free time, I'll take my time with you I'll stand in all these lines with you and shake those building blues Tape up your sneakers, cuff you pants Calloused fingers, sweaty hands, and a heart like glue Ba-By- We aren't sleazy World class white trash city
2.
Meridian 03:06
We'll seep into our present thought and keep each other warm for the calming The white outsides and glide out slides will anti-lock the freeze and kick the torment The harder things refine my life I'm happy when my bones are warm and melting The stand outside and the quiet sighs make me wonder how we'll all survive the insects The planes still land The warm glow sky with strangers hands We'll glide on by We'll pick the sand from worn out boots We'll freeze our glands
3.
4:20 04:30
Holidays a lot like the waves in my brain You're free to stay the cabin awaits my shade Home is a place I've always been I pretend The sky is a blaze, my eyes are as red as she said The lone wolf cries for no one Divorced dads spending time with kids This is a shit storm supernova and the bottle's crashin' Skills are a set, I'm better wet in her head Timing is lame, I'lll to bed when I'm fed The tincture caught the buzz on and if these nightmares quit I'll fit the lid This is my shitstorm Casanova and the serpent's lashing Poor storms flipped the band the other way Poor form, set the tone for good decay Holidays a lot like your phases these days Your free to stay, my cabin awaits my fade Home is a place I'll always be I feel free This guy is a mess, he's all in his head she said The fracture pushed my bone out Still night just evens vandalist Poor storms flipped the band the other way Poor form, set the tone for good decay
4.
Coasted 03:15
Sun mixed with rain, we don't bother Air mixed with pain blurs my colors Hike through the fields, feel the splendor One never bothers, air blurs my colors Bent on the stains of your fashion Spent on the threads of your passion One never bothers sons and their fathers
5.
Away we get, anywhere but there Drive through the night and we'll taste the air It's bright, the stars align and we'll be just fine, pull the pulp from the rind A slave to these days full of timely hits Crashing their waves on my beneficts Sleek is the shine of your old sedan As dark as a knife in the robber's hand Free is the night when I sleep Calm is the dawn when I read with my coffee I know these trails, don't speed They'll track our scent in time We are the ones who beat the ground home
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Vivid Trails 03:24
Time to chase some storms Work on our form, and get away for a while These trails in my hometown wind away Unwind my inner child I have dreams of mountain songs and pretty girls with midwest charm It's gonna put me in harm's way Things are getting old now I am growing old now Rainy days don't pay my wage and what I do rubs off on all of you I love you and I hope you love me too but my dreams show different skies and latitudes I don't like what most of these people do
8.
Salt Mask 02:21
I lost a day in the fog, I felt insane To dry the salt in the bay I climb to the top to look all around The colors match the sounds We blink, we're free Stand up, squeeze the mandarines for a day in the sun The sky violet I find it lights up the trees like neon gods I breathe in a mask of aqua shades and interstellar fades A coma to crack the coarse concrete A bed of sand in the sheets We think we're free Band up, seize the specimens and study hard everyone We don't have fits Our way is what the world brings That's our day in the sun
9.
Thinker 05:33
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Freeze-dried on the way home He shakes One case in his righthand He takes One smoke in his pocket Two breaks He's tried to quit three times He shakes He knows what's wrong I know just let it out Two miles to the sunset He drinks Sunshine on the west coast She thinks It'll make him better He thinks Nothing makes him better He drinks He knows what's wrong I know just let it out
11.
If it stays on the fresh line Catch it and miss the summer shimmer You are the scent of a fresh lime Spraying it's mist through the colors Reacting to some drunken mutters From a friend Seasons make her feel alive When nobody can It's freezing in this tent with a cheap sleeping bag I'm pleasing to the wild sounds of a coyote den It's freezing I'm sawing logs up at this walk-in I hear the pines just buckle under pressure I hear cars at the county line Buzzing like insects in the forest I'm crawling like a creature in the forest, back home Seasons make her feel alive When nobody can It's freezing in this tent with a cheap sleeping bag I'm pleasing to the wild sounds of a coyote den It's freezing
12.
You're interrupting our weekend man, just leave Thanks for calling the shots it kept us clean This world is ugly perfect and serene My luck is a mysterious flawed machine I think ahead yeah I'm falling back on time These creatures crawl just to sob bitch and wine I sink into my chair these trees keep growing The skies a shimmering mess and my matchsticks glowing and as I'm lock down and hunched yeah I keep thinking about a quiet life and my small world opened I think ahead yeah I'm falling back on time These creatures crawl just to sob bitch and wine I cover my tracks yeah I read the warning signs We're taking hits and getting fucked all the time I play along, white lies and common sense kick in A queasy calm, white lights and futuristic stares behind glares near the back of the site They're sitting pretty and swallowed by night I think ahead
13.
This is different air, I spot a drifter pair and their dog Just sitting there with a simple stare in the fog The afternoon brings warmth to the mission at dusk The morning gray calms the sleepers who lurk in the dark Hey man, yeah this town, it feels like home again Where the clouds sift out sunbeams and all these people just dream With bare feet buried in leaves Their souls in beautiful trees Their sockets lose in the breeze Hey man, yeah your sound, it hums like a mannequin Don't you want to look just like one of them Watch you reconstruct your surgical face Move the eyes, shape your nose, change your pace You were drawn to the west coast Some are just happy where they stand
14.
Dark 03:38
Centered, they're all around me In my best kept secret ritualistic desires Elders hold a seance shrouded in silence A hundred miles from nowhere A thousand miles from out there Wherever I am they don't care A thousand miles from somewhere A thousands miles from out there Wherever I am they don't care Face down in your blood stream If there were friends around maybe I could scream but right now there is nothing for them to hear A thousand miles from out there Wherever I am they don't care A thousand miles from somewhere A thousand miles from out there Wherever I am they don't care
15.
Your emerald eyes romanticize and keep me dreaming I took to you like the night takes to the morning We could break the waves as we set sail on the soft sound Dig up the graves, lift the bodies from the soft ground We'll explore the outdoors Keep our scores, and be good to each other We'll cut through the brush, there is no rush It's our clock, I won't follow another You set me straight yeah I'll earn my wage and promise to keep us covered We'll radiate love to the heavens above and make the spirits haunt each other Ahhhhh..... We've learned so much with your touch there is no need to worry When I walk these old streets yeah the trees seem to weep out my stories In our heads this place was the same from different perspectives We took different classes but chose the same electives Yeah we could seize the day in the laziest way and be good to our brothers You're the cutest little thing and I'm a worn out string but we're good for each other Yeah you free my mind oh I've been so behind Let's explode into this future We'll meet from a far, then we'll map out the stars In a sky as bright as our mothers
16.
Dawn 04:23
You know we're gone Far from the sound I wake up cool Stretch all the rules I'm calm as dirt I wear your shirt It's who I am I'm loose as sand

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Take a Hike was recorded over the course of two years between Jared's two studios in Chicago. Influences for this project include 80's Fantasy/ Horror, nature, solitude, and general disconnects. Released in 2017 and remastered in 2024, this is a very personal collection of songs recorded in a time long forgotten.

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released February 24, 2017

Written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jared Olson
Additional vocals provided by Emmy May

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Hello I am Jared Olson from Chicago bands such as Nite Smoke, Elephant Gun, and Post Child. I continue my lack of consideration with Thin Swimmer

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