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GRADES

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1.
The Melting 04:54
Those hands of acid ruin everything you touch capable of burning holes in my eyes if i look too much your hair disintegrates but you still look wonderful with me underneath your finger prints burning everything you hold close to you, its not as it seemed from the start im melting around you, yet so glad i found you wait 'til you burn through my heart, burn through my heart without my skin you tear through my muscles using your tongue to create a new beat you remove all of my organs leaving the sound of this love beating from my disappearing body, you know its fucked up your embrace couldn't be more like the surface of the sun just because my body won't make doesn't mean you're not the one your methods constructed of sex and charm as the drip of my bones melts in the sheen of hemoglobin, this fire is home the depth of this hell presents new corrosive tastes from the bubbled surface of this delightfully blistered face on to the carpet with the rhythmic pumping of blood and skin melting feelings i can't deny but i know that i should
2.
tonight we'll trade lips to forget about the walls we've already built and torn down, we'll forget about them all you had my full attention my eyes have come apart my pupils study your highfalutin art as i remove your wrapping, it seems so wrong but feels so right webbing spiders down this wall understating our position i won you under this red flooding light, not who eats who, I'm eating you tonight lets not speak, lets not think lets just lie down. hello my dear in bedlights won't you unzip that dainty mouth of yours and let me crawl inside
3.
In My Hands 04:05
blood rushes from my arms I drag them out from underneath our past ideas how could we pull away from this dysfunctional pattern of love a little space would do if both of our shadows weren't so fucking tall but they've grown shouting loud as snow with verbose language crushing my skull with a weight I'm not ready for, with what we pretend is right Im convinced i need you tonight In my hands, I'd like to see your thighs and undulating torso swinging weight from hallowed private parts when you were mine I bet ill fold first - lets call it off and reapply our skin I'm sure this only gets - exposing nerves has wilted out grins
4.
you dove off just to catch your breath before it hit the ground the city springs back on your way down but the streets they open wide find your breath as they swallow the roads digesting you you might be gone forever the asphalt is at fault for this duress you might be gone forever I will wait for you who knows if you'll be back, but I'll take my chances and wait for you girl
5.
In a room you and I become the same sentence without subject or punctuation to hold the delicacies of obtuse relation we haven't yet subjugated shaking clothes off this page out bodies aligned in the right margin "we're in love just because" is a sentence fragment baby exploration without carnal bodies grammatically gramatical its hard to comprehend the rules when your head is full of me i can't even complete a sentence when my mouth is full of you as we paraphrase this paragraph a plot unfolds i turn to you with you words spread open, hopin' to make sense of a sentense we wrote under the pretense it would be the last but baby thats all in the past full of A, E, I, O, you
6.
BTW DKIT GFY 04:38
Im not sure what to do to make this feel better you still cling to my bones, just underneath my skin its not a competition but if it were, you know you'd win i tried to feel nothing, i tried to say nothing i tried to develop the confidence to pull out the stitches where I'd sewn you in if i could drown your memory in my blood you'd find a way to clot the veins as your teeth sever my nerves from my brain I've tried so hard I've tried but now the cuts are out without these bandages our love is strewn about BTW DKIT GFY

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released December 20, 2012

GRADES is Kortland Chase Hetzel

all music/lyrics written by Kortland Chase Hetzel (except 4&5 music by Kortland Chase Hetzel & Josh Smith)

produced by JoshSmith & Kortland Chase Hetzel

mixed by JoshSmith

hand collage by Tracy Timmins; layout/design Kortland Chase Hetzel

contact & booking: kortland.chase@gmail.com

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*This EP is a musical documentation of the life and demise of a relationship. To listen in chronological order, arrange playlist as such:

1) Dear In Bedlights
2) Grammatically Grammatical
3) The Melting
4) The Taste Of Leaving Something Losing Flavor
5) In My Hands
6) BTW DKIT GFY

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GRADES Chicago, Illinois

GRADES is an electronic-love-pop act created by Kortland Chase in the early winter months of 2011.

This self-titled debut EP was released on December 20, 2012.

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