Modern Life, by The New Division

Modern Life

by The New Division

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1.	Modern Life 04:43	buy track
2.	Stateside 04:29	buy track
3.	Circles 05:01	buy track
4.	Soft Sell 03:50	buy track
5.	Silent Films 05:08	buy track
6.	Southside 04:11	buy track
7.	System Shock 04:25	buy track
8.	Sequence 03:19	buy track
9.	Nosedive 04:06	buy track
10.	Zenith 05:41	buy track

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released March 22, 2023

Tracklisting:
1. Modern Life
2. Stateside
3. Circles
4. Soft Sell
5. Silent Films
6. Southside
7. System Shock
8. Sequence
9. Nosedive
10. Zenith

Modern Life
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

You've taken us way too far
To stop this train
We won't be on the road for long
So pour us a drink again

We'll be there before the dawn
So hold on tight
While the midnight chokes the skies
Our dreams ignite

We've ridden this wave too long
To change the tides
Your silence is where your secrets hide
Your darkest side

And why couldn't you kept your will disguised
Unadvertised
Bring on the age of compromise
A half past life

Still coming back to modern life
Still coming back to....
Still coming back to modern life
Still coming back to it

Stateside
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

I won't let you run me down
I won't leave anything over
As long as I'm away from you

Living a double life
These days I'm looking a bit older
A price for the sins I pay

This isn't what you want
But I don't matter
Cause all the things I need are in my hands

To hold you over
I hold you

Runnin round just like your head cut off

The smilin' that your sportin' just says it all
So I won't let you try to win this
Before you know, before you know it all

I lead a simple life by myself
How could you add anything to it
Without breaking up?

This isn't what you want
But I don't matter
Cause all the things I need are in my hands

Circles
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel
Bass Guitar by Charles M. Labarbara

All these things I draw into my circle
Drain me, pain me, feed my isolation

All these things I lock into my circle
Strain me, stain me, ask for deprivation

All things must die
You got two lives to go
Come down, to my way
Feel my isolation

Waiting all night for some kinda hope
Waiting all night

Soft Sell
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

I took your 9mm gun
Buried it under the morning sun
I grabbed the bullets that would’ve become
Another loss

And all our worries now are gone
Don't hurry down you'll find its better this way
The past ain't looking back
For words to set you back
You'll lose it all the same

Got here in time, stopped a violent run
Somethings just never can be undone
I know your eyes when getting they're spun
So take the loss

And all our worries now are gone
Don't hurry down you'll find its better this way
The past ain't looking back
For words to set you back
You'll lose it all the same

Silent Films
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

Don't act surprised
You've always known where we were going
And now's not the time
To be caught up, in a silent film

You're talking while you write
But your mouth stays still
Saying something 'bout the weather
We've done this many times
But I can't rewind
And watch the world re-wither

Don't write my story coming down
I've got my problems
This ain't a plot line for your film
And I've seen it all

And all things end
But I've found that we go on, and on, and on
I will not pretend
That our hearts - they go on, and on, and on

Don't write my story coming down
I've got my problems
This ain't a plot line for your film
And I've seen it all

Southside
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

The memories spin out of control upon your watch
Back at the bar you left your change, but I picked it up
And I know you don't recall the times you lived a double life
And I know this cause I'm always trying to keep you by my side

So come home
So come home

Lost in the daze of drunken souls, our misery
Caught in the heat of songs we've sung put on repeat
And I know you wish to cast aside the structures of your life
And I know this cause I'm always here to drink right by your side

So come home
So come home

System Shock
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

I'm coming out of hiding
I'm dreamin' on, dreamin' on
Whatever lies you're hidin'
Keep movin' on, keep moving on

Been watching as the time stands to forget
All your bets, your main regrets
Let's take it up a notch to contemplate
All the hate, you left my way

Can we just to stop to listen
What's on your mind? Can we define...
The hundred ways you still ignore
This state of war, this stare of horror

You're lookin' like you could use something else
Your mental Health, your state of wealth
You're lookin like you locked your heart away
Into a maze of selfish ways

Our systems are in shock
We're stumblin' 'round the block
We're falling into our old ways

No matter what we try
We're living in a lie
Still holdin' on to better days

Sequence
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel
Guitars by Michael Venezia

I could try to bring you home
Back to life where you belong

You're wandering all alone
You're wandering on your own

Wait to find another chance
Wait to find a better man

You're wandering all alone
You're wandering on your own

In the night I'll let you down
Come tomorrow I'll be around

Nosedive
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel

I took a nosedive down to wake up
I couldn't come back to life
I grabbed the furniture to wash out
All of the blood that you bled out

Running again away from the lies
Thought I'd come back home to a place I belonged
Gambling away, I'm fictionalized
I empathize with you broken down traumatized

When will you call me?
When are you calling?

I took a nose dive down to wakeup
I couldn't come back to life
I grabbed the money off the counter
I blew it all on the markets

Zenith
Music & Lyrics by John Glenn Kunkel
Guitars by Brock Woolsey
Bass Guitar by F.J. DeSanto

You stole the curtains from my eyes
No room for torture no room to hide
Put me down and finish my soul won't be diminished, my friend
If something isn't violent the melody ain't silent, my friend

'Cause when I go down I rise back up again
'Cause when I go down I rise back up again
'Cause when I go...

You stole the secrets, my real lies
Took no time to break me, no time to die
So put me down and finish, my memories won't vanish again
When everything turns violent the song I sing ain't silenced my friend

Credits:
D87066: A DIVISION 87 RECORDING
Produced, performed, sequenced, mixed & mastered by John Glenn Kunkel
Co-produced by F.J. DeSanto
“Circles” bass guitar by Charles M. Labarbara
"Sequence," guitars by Michael Venezia
“Zenith” guitars by Brock Woolsey
Artwork by Emily Poulin
2023 Division 87 Records | Published by Division 87 Music Publishing (BMI)

Thank you to Elena Kunkel, F.J. DeSanto, Frankie & Julien, Colin Wood, Brock Woolsey, Charles M. Labarbara, Suraj Teppara, & all of you who made this record possible.

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