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Can't Make Any Promises

by Radiator Hospital

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1.
If we’re really going through with it, I gotta know right now. I can handle it if we’re not, but I gotta know. If you really wanna prove it, you better do it right now. I can handle it if you don’t, but I gotta know. I keep comin’ in dead last, but I don’t dwell on the past, so if you really wanna make it right, you better make it right now. I can handle it if you won’t, but I gotta know if you really got the time for it. You better tell me right now. I can handle it if you don’t, but I gotta know. Life keeps goin’ by so fast, but I don’t dwell on the past, so if we’re really going through with it I gotta know right now. I can handle it.
2.
Unsettled by the way things ended; they just dulled right down. Slow and boring death by a thousand cuts. Saddest joke in town. Sweet punisher, I know you can tell. Sweet punisher, I’m in hell. I don’t wanna be your burden, it ain’t worth the fight. But somethin’ in my heart is hurtin’ cuz we can’t get it right. Sweet punisher, I know you can tell. Sweet punisher, I’m in hell.
3.
Yr Head 01:29
Everyone will pass along the blame. Consequence to them is all the same. You’ll live to figure it out. They’ll sleep tight in their beds. It’s not all in your head. Anyone can say they’re on the way. You're the one who’ll have to pay, you’ll spend another day. Hours pass, you see red. It’s not all in your head. Nobody owes you a thing and you’re gonna get used to it. You’ll live to figure it out. How to overcome the dread. It’s not all in your head.
4.
Reason 2 B 03:03
Hours fading into weeks. Months and years go by, I don’t find it. Beggin’ for some kind of sign, the sky to open up and give me just one reason to be. Finally time to see this through, finish what I’ve begun, but I don’t got a reason to be.
5.
Nothing you do is gonna make it stop. There’s no escape in a warming world. There ain’t another galaxy or universe for you to run to. There’s no escape from a warming world.
6.
Can’t start movin’ so I try not to think about it. I try to deny any way I feel. It all plays out with a cartoon logic, the mood absurd and the tone surreal. Will the eye that I’ve been opening stop crying so my bird can sing? Nowhere to go and in a rush to get there. Nothing to be, nothing to do. I wanna be more than a wasted nightmare. I wanna be more than the fool you knew. Will the eye that I’ve been opening stop crying so my bird can sing?
7.
Bette (& Me) 02:32
Bette and me, starring in a B movie. Playing the only roles we know, Bette and me. Bette and me, are they ever gonna let us be? Guess we’re gonna wait and see, Bette and me. You ask me if it’s good? I can’t tell anymore. Wake me when you know if we won. The fools are in our court, but who’s keeping score? Didn’t we play the game for fun? February blew right into March and spring. I blinked my eye, now I’m bakin’ in the August heat. Say to me, “Baby, it was worth the wait. I want it bad. I can’t live without it!” You ask me if I’m cool? I can’t tell anymore. Wake me when you know it’s all done. The fools are in your court and they’re banging at your door, on their knees, begging you for more. Bette and me, sing our little melody. Playing the only roles we know, Bette and me.
8.
Spinning 02:01
Neon, smoke, and noise floating through the barroom door. I was looking for an answer. The only thing I found was an endless spirit pour, now I’ll be your private dancer. Told myself that I’d let the music calm me down, then the room starts spinning. This body I live in feels so elegant and strong, I can barely recognize me. Outside energies make it hard to play along, now they’re forcin’ me to run free. Told myself that this was the last place it’d go wrong, then the room starts spinning.
9.
I’ve known fakes and I’ve known clowns. I like to think that I can spot them. But what of the times I can’t even stand myself? What of the times I can’t stand myself?! I can’t stand myself.
10.
Kill 2 Die 02:27
Kill to die. Heads they win, tails you lose. You still gotta pay. Illusion you get to choose. Get to go your way. Kill to die. Empty souls roam the earth waitin’ for the day. Every life doomed since birth. The predator and the prey kill to die.

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released May 25, 2023

Order the LP from Salinas Records, celebrating 20 years in 2023
www.salinasrecords.com Can’t Make Any Promises was written, rehearsed, and recorded in room #19 at Red Planet. All sounds by Radiator Hospital (Jeff Bolt, Sam Cook-Parrott, Jon Rybicki, Cynthia Schemmer). Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Kyle Gilbride (he also played synth at the end of “Sweet Punisher” and played some guitar and synth on “Reason 2 Be”). Art by me. Special thanks to Chris Carreon for helping photograph the art, Marco Reosti for putting out the record. Couldn’t have done it without my Tascam DP-008EX and Roland Rhythm 77.

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