"You're Not Gone" is our second full-length album (released on 7/14/17).
Since trimming down to a duo as our old bandmates moved on to new projects, we've found our new sound in the lush textures of analog synths, including a Vermona drum synth, Moog Sub 37, Dave Smith Mopho, and Access Virus B (if you're being technical, the latter isn't a true analog synth, but who cares? it sounds good.). We worked and reworked our sound over the course of 15 months, and this album is the result of that 15-month endeavor.
See below for lyrics to "You're Not Gone".
Tyler DeVos - guitars, vocals
Patia Maule - synths, vocals, programming, percussion
All songs by Forget, Forget
All lyrics by Tyler DeVos except "Seashells" by Patia Maule
Recorded by Patia Maule at home and at The Lab
Produced by Patia Maule & Tyler DeVos
Additional vocal recording by James Curwood at The Studio
Mixed by Nathan Sabatino at Loveland Studio, Joshua Tree, CA
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New Windsor, NY
Cover art: "Carré," by Don Voisine. Courtesy of the artist and McKenzie Fine Art, NY, NY.
Album layout by Richard Fortin
1. City
Oh, I’m prepared for an interval of time
Oh, I’m prepared to believe in mankind
Oh, what a wondrous design
We all become birds the moment we die
I am lost in a city I do not know
Your hands, they are water and though
Your disappearance will break my bones
Still ripple just the same
Gone in the rain
I'll wait in this city I do not know
Oh, the pillow told me you’d been crying
Oh, your face told me you’re still trying
Oh, I’m prepared to save your life
Oh, I’m prepared for you to save mine
I am lost in a city I do not know
Your hands, they are water and though
Your disappearance will break my bones
Still ripple just the same
Gone in the rain
I'll wait in this city I do not know
2. Public Places
You keep leaving your keys in public places hoping someone will steal them
And you stare out at a sea of unknown faces hoping someday to meet one
And it’s just like when you lay in the grass and the day had come undone
You had forgot how you'd felt in the past and you knew it would not come
Back...
And it feels heavy in my hands
I couldn't breath a word to my friends
And I'm coming up with new ways
To view myself
Is it a curse, or is it a story without an end?
And when you wake and take your place in the morning, the day resets
The sun and light and all their embraces lay out a path
And you go out stealing your keys back from public places knowing no one can bring them
Back...
3. Back to Me
When you come back to me
You’re a little scared
You wonder if it’s still there
But those are crazy thoughts ‘cuz if I'm being honest
I spend every moment hoping one day you rejoin us
And tell me you need to kiss me
And tell me you’re ready to believe in things again
When you come back to me
When you live on an island
And one of your own moves away
Life thrown into disarray
And the night can’t kill my memory
Or erase the time you said to me
That sometimes you are all in
And sometimes you could even begin to
Come back to me
To come back to me
I stayed as late as I could that night until I had to go home
Prepared for another season chilled to the bone
Close my eyes and wait and see
Will you come back to me?
Broke another promise I made to myself
Threw it on the pile that's been building up
Now I'm saying something I don't mean
Funny how my teeth still gleam
Words could not describe this cold and it is not leaving
I have a dream I cannot keep and I am not sleeping
Close my eyes and wait and see
Will you come back to me?
Will you come back to me?
4. Parades
Don't look away that thought, away that thought you had
Is a new day that shot across the sea and land
Is a cascade that caught a ray of sun and sand
Is a parade that taught an empty street a dance
Now you and I are clapping feet and skipping hands
Don't you know, I breathe a different breath in when you laugh
There is no way to be sure of where we stand
But you can say, yes you can say where you can't
A three act play turns a boy into a man
And all the turns and all the twists have been planned
Now you and I are taking cars out for a crash
Don't you know...
Don’t you know / We're running away we're scraping our knees now
Don’t you know / We're staying up late we're stepping on bees now
Don’t you know / We're writing a note we're kissing a friend now
Don’t you know / We're digging a hole we're missing that friend now
I feel the lines, I feel the lines upon my face
I know what I want and what I don't want from this place
But I imagine most people feel the same
And I imagine most people can feel okay
Beautiful, and tired in the same day
Don’t you know...
5. Seashells
Remember when it seemed like the summer would never end
We followed a sun-baked path to the sand
We gathered together all the seashells that we could find
Under the vast blue sky, your fingers warm against mine
Remember when it seemed like June was just a state of mind
That we could conjure up anytime
The nights so warm, the days so long, the breeze so soft in our hair
We had nowhere to be, in no hurry to get there
Remember. Oh, do you remember?
The first snow came early and snuffed out the light in your eyes
You said you just weren’t ready to stay cold
We put on our long johns, you looked out at the sky
It’s out of our hands now you sighed
Remember. Oh, do you remember?
The weeks went by and I saw you smile again
But as the light waned I felt an icicle grow inside
On the day it froze my fingertips you held me in your arms
But inside your apartment
I buried myself in all of your blankets
Got used to the heat of a bourbon fire
The days went by, the night with no end
This constant dusk may never die
Remember when I asked you if there was anyplace else we could go
We make peanuts, we feel cut off, and then there’s the cold
I’ll make it I promise let’s get takeout and go see a show
And remember there are seashells and they are are buried underneath the snow
6. A Week or So
Going back a few years ago I lay in bed for a week or so
Microphones lined in the walls, only safe to talk in the shopping malls
They were calling up my phone then hanging up just to fuck with me
Clipboard hanging at my feet I lay in bed for a week or so
You knew every thought that was in my head
You knew every dream that was in my bed
When we we were young and our kids were born we baptized them for our parents
Water washed down their cheeks, we moved them across the country
Now I'm my father in a frozen house covered in blankets with the lights cut off
I don't have much use for god but I don't feel so bad that you are gone
You knew every thought that was in my head
You knew every dream that was in my bed
They came to my room when I lay in bed for a week or so
Clipboard hanging at my feet they read the pages as I lay asleep
7. Every Stone
I am turning over every stone
Sometimes I need to have people close
Cuz we observe everything in sight
We are lost and it's nearly night
Looked out the window, saw a black cloud rolling in
Felt the prison of my own skin
One of my friends moved out west (she told me)
They got clouds out there just like us
I am turning over every stone
Sometimes I need to be alone
Spent the whole day inside
Let's call our friends and go out tonight
Peered down the stairway, saw a black cloud rolling in
It's always good to see an old friend
One of my friends disappeared
Just when the skies looked so clear
8. Statues
What have I been telling you since day one?
It's natural, it's a burning sun
My favorite records have shaped my sound
And you have shaped it too
All my songs haunted by your eyes
Are statues
Statues
We have gazed at these buildings. we have walked by the lake
I watched your hair change color at daybreak
Now we sit in a restaurant and I know this mood
You look at me so nervously when they bring your food
All my dreams still haunted by your eyes are statues
I wanted to stand by my heroine fighting magazine covers every lonely waking night
I wanted to stand by my heroine fighting monsters eating her from deep inside
I wanted to stand by you until you saw yourself the way I do
9. Year of Transition
Every day the sun comes up
I stand under the falling water
Time gets to start again
Never where I would want it to
You ride your bike to the radio tower
During the calm between the storming
And send me secret messages
In the dimmest light of the morning
And you no you don't pick up
But you hope I never stop calling
You're not gone
You are standing beside me and you're singing along
You want to show me the dove you saved
The dove you saved with the broken wing
You want to show me, you want to say
"I saved him from the storming"
You ride your bike to the radio tower
During the calm between the storming
And leave a drawing that you made for me
Cuz you know it's a year of transition
And that, no that can't be easy
But you hope I never stop calling
You're not gone
You are standing beside me and you're singing along
10. Your Kid Sister
7am time to run
7am time to run
Last night was a scandalous one
Vicious cycle got your chewing gum
Vicious cycle got your chewing gum
Last night was a recurring one
Last night sure was a dangerous one
Sometimes, sometimes your body fails you
Sometimes, sometimes your heart fails you
Sometimes, sometimes a friend finds you
They pull you to the surface
For a moment you can breathe
And everyone you’ve ever known
Are the rolling waves on the sea
Your kid sister isn’t answering her phone
But she’s always out there, you know she’s always out there