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Art of an Ugly Soul

by Kermit Obert

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1.
It's Over 02:32
take some time from me darling you'll be free it's over it's over it's over let's go home think of all you'll do the world won't wait for you it's over it's over it's over let's go home
2.
don't have the time for the things that make you shine don't need the money but i can't say no this time now you're crying on the floor cause you can't take it anymore now you're crying on the floor i can't take it anymore you told me stories of the girl you were before the wound's unopened but the scars don't heal anymore now you're crying on the floor cause you don't love me anymore now you're crying on the floor i can't take it anymore now i'm crying on the floor cause i can't help you anymore now we're crying on the floor i can't take it anymore
3.
love in the mirror i see you clearer it's all behind me please don't remind me and even if i seem to doubt it i can't seem to live without it there's nothing i can do about it it's all the same to me i took a fall i lost it all it's all i have now i think i'm fine now and even if i seem to doubt it i can't seem to live without it there's nothing i can do about it it's all the same to me
4.
the only way you can love yourself is by bringing down somebody else you always try to act like you're so damn happy but you can't even fool yourself you left my life and you shut the door aren't we both better off cause you treat your friends like a fucking punchline till nobody cares anymore now it's time to hit the ground running a race that nobody wins always measuring up to me i don't see how it ends every time my name leaves your mouth it comes knocking at my door no body cares about your fake vendetta so leave your hate at the door
5.
you take the call you don't hate them after all lost track of all the times they said "i'm sorry" you stayed away for as long as you could stand it's okay you don't have to understand make up with the one you love make peace with the stars above make up with the one you love make up with the one you love it's sad to say some things don't ever change you try to stay but this time won't be different every day gets a little harder you drown the pain in your favorite bottle of make up with the one you love make peace with the stars above make up with the one you love make up with the one you love
6.
fourth of july i wanna cry watching the flame burning my pain i don't know what i am no ones to blame it's in my brain nothings the same fourth of july i wanna die no i don't i'm just unsure of myself no ones to blame it's all in my brain nothing's the same
7.
Shine Down 02:39
it doesn't matter what they say you take my breath away all my dreams are of you wake up feeling blue shine down on shine down on shine down on me silver hair and eyes of blue you shine like the moon your voice is ringing in my ears love's not how it appears shine down on shine down on shine down on me
8.
all my friends are leaving home and all my love is growing cold every day now feels the same and i can only dream someday that anyone will listen to the art of an ugly soul drunk on truth that can't be told i'm so bitter i'm so alone isolated and self aware i tricked myself into thinking i cared and would anybody listen to the art of an ugly soul
9.
How It Is 03:19
hope you don't hate me now for leaving you without a sound like every man you've ever known it's not your fault, you're not alone your mother thinks it's for the best i wish i got to see the rest i love you both and that's the truth it's got nothing to do with you it's just how it is just how it is your sisters haunt me in my dreams with whispers of what could have been it started with an empty kiss i wish it hadn't come to this i know someday you'll understand when you grow up into a man that just because life seems unfair it doesn't mean i didn't care it's just how it is just how it is i hope you don't hate me now for leaving when you pushed me out i'm sorry that i caused you pain love's not enough to stop the rain it's just how it is just how it is
10.
Alright Now 04:16
reached the age where you stop getting older and your body starts to die wake up tired every day and no one can tell you why i'm scared to say i miss her she might keep me to my word and every time i try the feeling starts to blur i can't do anything i can't do anything i can't do anything i can't do anything it's alright now backed in a corner licking my wounds theres nothing around that i wanna do i'm a young man wearing a dead mans clothes a head full of air with nowhere to go i'm scared to say i love her she might keep me to my word and every time i try the feeling starts to blur i can't do anything i can't do anything i can't do anything i can't do anything it's alright now it's alright now

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The art of the ugly soul.— Art is confined within too narrow limits if it be required that only the orderly, respectable, well-behaved soul should be allowed to express itself therein. As in the plastic arts, so also in music and poetry: there is an art of the ugly soul side by side with the art of the beautiful soul; and the mightiest effects of art, the crushing of souls, moving of stones and humanising of beasts, have perhaps been best achieved precisely by that art. - Friedrich Nietzsche


Recorded at Big Ego Studios in Long Beach California
and my home studio in Lawndale, California
between October 2018 and December 2019

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released April 4, 2020

Kermit Obert: Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Piano, Electric Piano, Mixing, Engineering
Camilo Cedeno: Co-Production, Engineering, Mixing, Keys
Luis Santoyo: Drums, Enginering
Christian Martinsons: Drums
Alex Strahle: Pedal Steel Guitar on "I Can't Take It Anymore"

Dakota Rose Aguilar Wood: Photography, Artwork, best friend, moral support

Mastered by Doug Van Sloun of Focus Mastering

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Kermit Obert is a 25 year old singer songwriter from Lawndale, CA.

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