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Make Light
Little Secrets
Moths Wings
The Reeling
Eyes As Candles
Swimming In The Flood

Folds In Your Hands

To Kingdom Come
Sleepyhead
Let Your Love Grow Tall
Seaweed Song

MAKE LIGHT
so, now we see comes burying my burnt remains
these puddled clouds oh, i, i understand now
but darkness falls likes shattered pieces dangling,
shimmering torn and tattered yet crowned oh,
ill not be told no to no more! you must believe
to hear me sing these messy morsels of my selfassuring love oh, its painful kneading yes, i lie and
i wrangle with prospective angles that glare me
down and face me with all i do wrong why do
they all look like me? so i try and i scream and i
beg and i sigh just to prove im alive and its alright,
cause tonight theres a way ill make light of my
treacherous life make light! if i had hands id hold
up high my lofty dreams and my alibis real name
but ive no strength so i toss and i turn and i spit in
the urn theres a ghost in your eye there is someone
that knows more than i but im quick to deny
LITTLE SECRETS
when i came down the dawn poured into me i
shook em up the walls came crumbling my thin
skin trembling with these salty wounds my stolen
gold inside the emperors tomb now painting
rainbows on my ugly face i built this cardboard
neighborhoods disgrace but i ascend and serve
my feverish need within the confines of such
chemistry its the way i see everything i need its
no way to be let this be our little secret no one
needs to know were feeling higher and higher
and higher but i feel alive, oh, i feel it in me up and
up we keep on climbing higher and higher and
higher my face blew up at such a casual sight the
smattered colors of ecstatic fright the rush above
me to oblivion outlining wet sidewalks in halogen
oh, have you ever felt so goddamned strong?
how come it takes some people so damn long?
he turned to squeeze the lemon juice to rain the
citrus drawing out the scene in stains watch the

basin drain as your lifeline wanes and you cant

explain as your friends complain youve caused all
this pain and you proudly shame your poor familys
name mother, i can tell what youve been thinking
staring at the stars on your ceiling thinking once
there was power that you were wielding but now
ive hit the mark, staring at the dark and i cannot
help but ignore the people staring at my scars

i lie awake and pray to god todays the day oh

no - oh no but here i am oh here i am oh when will
someone understand? oh no - oh no and all at once
i feel this oh, how it clings to me it reels and calls
me towards some confounding destiny and i can
feel the madness inch by inch the more i run the
more i am convinced ive colored all these like the
branches twist just like we settle in the frothy mist

clouds your blanket and my pity song hovering on

your front lawn carry on until its gone what can I
do? the rivers overrun were swimming in a flood,
you know? i thought i felt your touch but the waters
rising up (now all my lovers raise their cups) then i
lie naked in a rampage in the flesh, face to face
with the onset i forget everything thats ever made
me rise again, now slowly leave my memory

MOTHS WINGS
dear friend, as you know your flowers are all
withering your mothers gone missing your leaves
have drifted away but the clouds are clearing up
and ive come reveling burning incandescently like
a bastard on the burning sea but youre just like
your father buried deep under the water youre
resting on your laurels and stepping on my toes
whose side are you on? what side is this anyways?
put down your sword and crown come lay with
me on the ground you come beating like moths
wings. spastic and violently whipping me into a
storm shaking me down to the core but youve
run away from me and youve left me shimmering
like diamond wedding rings spinning dizzily down
on the floor but youre just like your father buried
deep under the water youre resting on your laurels
and stepping on my toes whose side are you on?
what side is this anyways? put down your sword
and crown come lay with me in the ground

EYES AS CANDLES
my world astir and sickly spits out our voices singing
tra la la la on high now to kingdom come so
slightly herein a void in your place i twitch and
tweak in allusion to sit and stare so blankly until all
hope is used up why do i always need to need you
when youre fleeting? where do you go when im
around? what have i done, what have i lost thats so
defeating? and have the nerve to wear a crown?
in some dark room a smoky figure fills me full makes
my head swell in ruin my family kneels at their pew
they nod, we believe in what youre doing i feel
it rise above me the western landscapes towering
and from my shell of a body the flowers blossom
for picking ive waited and waited for someone to
take it dont fight it dont bother, an inch for another
dont listen, dont hear them theyre in this together
ive learned well, now hear me, theres much to
be fearing im used to your absence, your faceless
distractions ive painted your patterns but found
them attractive now ive been leaning towards a life
far more candid though lead through the dark with
your eyes as my candles where your life and my lifes
directions can wrangle and all of a sudden youve
left me to handle the reasons that never forbid me
to stand tall and somehow or somewhere i found out
the secret to staying alive without actually breathing

FOLDS IN YOUR HANDS

leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone,
im fine ill be fine until the morning comes then
unmask me in the blistering sun oh, let me go, just let
me go, just let me go or ill burst in front of your eyes
then collect myself from the ground and when i go
and when i go just let me go like a light flickering
out in the skies lost as fast as was found everything
is easy when youve never had to choose but the
balance has shifted and were forced to lose like
the sun and the moon i will circle you till you bloom
i will crush i will maul i will burn until i get to you
lay low dont let me know when its real will they
quietly follow me here? take me as their own? now
I will hold you, I will keep you, ill control my love
until it folds in my hands but ill build it back to the
top feel it rain feel it rain were alive feel it rain

THE REELING
we dug these holes we crawled into now theyre
my home now here i cannot feel the wind cant feel
the rain or cold and i believe in gentle harmony how
i loathe all this obscenity is this the way my life has
got to be? have i a single opportunity? look at me
oh, look at me is this the way ill always be? oh no
- oh no and now i dream that somebody will swiftly
come and kidnap me oh no - oh no and everyday

SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD

my eyes have once again been proven wrong your

TO KINGDOM COME
thats a frosty way to speak to tell me how to live
next to your potpourri all this talking pulls my teeth
i believed in you so youd believe in . . . me, I cried
out God! you dared me in the dark I felt a hush
fall quietly from my spark so now I hide in piles of
princely orange peels it feels the way you told me
how itd always feel once i had a name to claim i
scraped on all the walls like an orthodox saint i wish
for the same old things that turned me inside out,
keeling in such pain its a game never have i ever
been clutching at your hair to cure you of some

sin but thats the kind of state im in swimming in a

pool of godly medicine come, come hear it calling
me, yelling like if ever there was someone who
could make things heavenly again feel alright
SLEEPYHEAD
and you said it was like fire around the brim
burning solid burning thin the burning rim like stars
burning holes right through the dark flicking fire
like salt water into my eyes you were one inch
from the edge of this bed i dragged you back
a sleepyhead they couldnt think of something
to say the day you burst those hungry lions with
all their might and all their thirst they crowd your
bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin against
the walls against your rules against your skin my
beard grew down to the floor and out through the
doors of your eyes begonia skies like a sleepyhead
LET YOUR LOVE GROW TALL
in pastures blue and green ill follow you and youll
follow me my fabrics mystery ill wave your loyalty in
the freezing breeze so desperately oh, and another
one comes down i think i see my life he bows all
slyly and gentle-like hes never had the right but
ive never lived without his sad and jealous eyes oh,
and another one comes down but its the thought
that counts no, quiet minds dont know their worth
they know not what to do so ill pray for them
and ill pray for you till my face turns blue oh, and
another one comes down theyd say, let your love
grow tall tall as the grass in the meadow? or the
dunes on the shore? like the buildings in the city?
and your children on the floor? like the darkness
in the forest? like my frightened worried eyes? or
the roots in the soil? are these skies telling lies?
SEAWEED SONG
someday youll see surrounded by angels floating
atop of the sea on bended knee dont go where
6they go dont sing all the songs that they sing

nobody knows you the way you know you but i

think i do well, i thought i knew yeah, i thought i
knew between these walls her bark-stripped limbs
cast shadows frighteningly tall i slow to a crawl i
jump and i yell and she hears nothing at all stay,
stay the same because everything else will change
and ill always be to blame so, please just stay
the same the current has pulled me in the tide
has reached my chin my seaweed tickled skin just
let the water win and freezing to the bone youll
never feel at home just watch your body go

Management Richard Cohen

Team 8 Management
Artwork By Robert Seidel robertseidel.com
Art Direction: Anita Marisa Boriboon
Design: Frank Napolski

MANNERS

All songs performed by Michael Angelakos

Except Dreams, performed by Michael
Angelakos with drums & percussion by Chris Zane

Michael Angelakos: Vocals, Piano,

Keyboards, Guitars, Bass, Misc.
Nathan Donmoyer: Programming and Drums
All songs written by Michael Angelakos
Except Sleepyhead, written by Michael Angelakos
with Additional Writing by Mary OHara
All songs performed by Michael
Angelakos and Nathan Donmoyer
Except Sleepyhead, performed
by Michael Angelakos
Guitar on Make Light and Moths
Wings performed by Ian Hultquist
Recorded By Alex Aldi at
Gigantic Studios, NYC Nov-Dec 2008
Except Sleepyhead
Music Recorded By Michael Angelakos
Vocals Recorded By Ian Hultquist
& Michael Angelakos
Mixed By Chris Zane & Alex Aldi
at Gigantic Studios, NYC Jan 2009
Produced By Chris Zane
at Gigantic Studios, NYC Nov-Dec 2008
Mastered By Greg Calbi
at Sterling Sound, NYC Jan 2009

BONUS TRACKS
All songs written by Michael Angelakos
Except Sleepyhead, written by Michael Angelakos
with additional writing by Mary OHara,
and Dreams, written by Noel
Hogan & Dolores ORiordan

Recorded By Chris Zane

at Gigantic Studios, NYC February 2010
Mixed By Chris Zane & Alex Aldi
at Gigantic Studios, NYC February 2010
Produced By Chris Zane
at Gigantic Studios, NYC February 2010
Mastered By Steve Fallon
at Sterling Sound, NYC February 2010
All songs published by Boatbuilder Publishing,
admin. by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) except
Sleepyhead, published by Boatbuilder Publishing,
admin. by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) / Burlington
Music Co. Ltd., admin. by Chappell & Co. (ASCAP),
and Dreams, published by Universal-Songs of
PolyGram Intl, Inc. and Island Music Ltd. (BMI)
PS 22 Chorus provided background vocals
on Little Secrets, Let Your Love Grow Tall,
and The Reeling. Julia Tepper Of Frances
provided background vocals on Make Light.
Courtesy of Gigantic Records. Sofia Degli
Alessandri provided background vocals on
The Reeling, Moths Wings, Folds In
Your Hands, and Swimming In The Flood.

Stuart Bogie & Eric Beyondo Of Antibalas

performed horns on Little Secrets,
The Reeling, To Kingdom Come, and Make
Light. appear courtesy of Anti -. Paul Hogan of
frances provided string arrangements on Swimming
In The Flood. Courtesy Of Gigantic Records.
Cale Parks performed vibraphone on Swimming
In The Flood, Let Your Love Grow Tall, and
Seaweed Song. courtesy of polyvinyl records.
Seth Jabour Of Les Savy Fav performed guitar
on Little Secrets. courtesy Of Frenchkiss Records.
Matthew Young & Grant Wheeler provided
additional programming on Moths Wings &
Make Light. courtesy of landau audio design
george pagonis played drums on Make Light.
Sleepyhead contains elements of Oro Mo
Bhaidin (M. OHara), published by Burlington
Music Co. Ltd. (PRS). All rights admin. by
Chappell & Co. (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
Featuring samples from the Mary OHara
recording r Mo Bhidin (r My Little
Boat). Produced under License From Rykodisc,
Inc. By arrangement with Rhino Entertainment
Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Many thanks to our families, friends, and all who
contributed in the making of this record.
Passion Pit is Michael Angelakos, Nathan Donmoyer,
Ian Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, and Jeff Apruzzese
passionpitmusic.com
myspace.com/passionpitjams

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