mike ganter

“A Forever Recovery (Acoustic)” from the new acoustic EP “Parting Gifts” released November 15, 2015

Lyrics:

While everyone’s sleeping in their bed I’m wide awake lost in my head.
I’m so fucking tired and out of breath and it’s been like this ever since you left.
I was always more careless than careful. Losing grips on things I cared for.
My body’s tired and these eyes are sore. Forever drifting while you’re safe ashore.

While everyone’s smug with second best, I’ll bandage these wounds inside my chest.
Been carrying the weight of the world and just can’t do it anymore.
It’s impossible to be invincible in a world that’s so deceitful.
But I just keep pretending that never sinking is believable.

Well I’ve been down and I’ve been out but this is something I’ve never felt.
The letters and the promises you’ve sent have only brought me hell.

I’m breaking up the cycle of letting you pull me down.
Can you feel the ground shake it caves from your weight.
Empty promises can’t save you now.
The clarity of your voice has since turned to white noise and static.
It seems my outline and your scant design weren’t meant for this schematic.

I’ve become numb to what’s come undone.
Your secondhand stories like sun before morning.
Lost the shine that lit up your eyes. Your brightest words are your boldest lies.
(Your world is so very small, a silent curtain call. I won’t be around when it all comes crashing down.)

You’ve left me short on breath I’m speechless. Clinging to the only air I still have left.
Avoiding death.
I can feel the room getting smaller and closing in.

Well I’ve been down and I’ve been out but this is something I’ve never felt.
The letters and the promises you’ve sent have only brought me hell.

I’m breaking up the cycle of letting you pull me down.
Can you feel the ground shake it caves from your weight.
Empty promises can’t save you now.
The clarity of your voice has since turned to white noise and static.
It seems my outline and your scant design weren’t meant for this schematic.

What hurts the most isn’t the fact that our lives changed.
It’s how I’ve become so obsolete but I’ll thrive from what remains.
I’ve always been an open book letting you skim through every chapter.
Now the pages are finally closed, a catalyst for your disaster.

Well now your down. The one thats out. And this is something you’ve never felt.
With these words I’ve helped myself grow inside and out of doubt.
And I know this brings you hell.

I finally broke the cycle of letting you pull me down.
Can you feel the ground shake it caves from your weight.
Empty promises can’t save you now.
The clarity of your voice has since turned to white noise and static.
It seems my outline and your scant design weren’t meant for this schematic.

Was I the needle in your arm the reason for your bad habit
Or were those empty words of a withdrawing addict
When the drugs are gone I hope one thing remains
I pray my voice still echoes through your veins.

Day 3 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

“Bury Your Bones” from the new acoustic EP “Parting Gifts” released November 15, 2015

Lyrics:

I hope my absence haunts you like a ghost
Eating away at you from time to time
I know I’m absent from your life and mind but you still haunt mine

There’s a different kind of emptiness you left me with after all of this
And I can’t wrap my head around the fact that you’re not coming back
There’s a chemical imbalance that you left inside my brain
You’re the reason why the alcohol is still rotting in my veins

I’ll be ok this is something I can get through
But I don’t know if I can say the same about you

I know a world of stability is all that you could ever see and when everything falls apart
Dear God I know it’ll fall apart
I hope you buckle at your knees and think of me

I’ll leave you with this emptiness as your parting gift
These heavy words I know you can’t lift
(Between the two of you there’ll be a common rift)
And thats me. The problem you can’t fix
The chemicals have balanced as I’m writing off your name
I hope the thought of us and broken trust stays frozen in his brain

’ll be ok this is something I can get through
But I don’t know if I can say the same about you

Truth be told we are not the same
A future sold that was built on blame
I pray you can’t bear the guilt and shame
I’ll stay a thorn in your side that’s worn with pain
Day in day out it won’t get better
Even your friends say forever fair-weather
Stay stuck. You’re a stormy sky with an idle mind you deserve each other

And I’ve been picking you apart in my head
Trying to see between you and me if there was anything worth keeping

I’m empty handed once again

Constant consent, you lied to him about the time we spent.
Relapse. Repent. Your judgement lapsed, came and went.

You said that life was built on compromise
A statement laced with fraying ties on borrowed time you’ll never find
So in the end you took what was yours and stole what was mine.

The Final Day of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

“Reprieve” from the new acoustic EP “Parting Gifts” released November 15, 2015

Lyrics:

Is there a place up in heaven, where they store the worlds debris?
I swear I’m not a wicked person. Is there a wasteland for me?
Am I scared? I’m fucking terrified. These thoughts eat me alive from the inside.

Is there a church down in hell where the addicts go to meet?
Seeking shelter from their demons, trading shame for amnesty
Am I scared? I’m fucking terrified. These thoughts eat me alive from the inside.

I am a liar, I am a sinner, I am the furthest from the grace that my parents made
I’m reminded of it every single day

(I am the snake, I am the snare who’s beats of my own heart’s what kept me marching with no legs to get me there.)

We’re all liars, living sinners, now the furthest from the grace that our parents made
It won’t define me in any way.

(Are you awake, are you aware? We’re all walking cadavers with faith that’s faulted to despair)

Our first handful of days on tour.
Special Thanks to everyone that has put us up for a night thus far!

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Shot & Chopped - Logan Long

Day 5 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

“Closing Cost” from the new acoustic EP “Parting Gifts” released November 15, 2015

Lyrics:

I heard everything you said through that white wooden door.
Crying over him falling apart on the bathroom floor.
Your words spun excuses but were sold out by your eyes.
I’m nothing more to you than a consolation prize.


And I’ve sensed revenge though the plot in me tends to steer clear of tying up loose ends.
I refuse to remain your mess.
I’ve been buried six feet deep alive in my own unrest.


Filled with emptiness. I’m penniless. Over-drafted trying to impress.
I guess I’ll just always stay second best.
You took my breath away and I don’t ever want it back again.
I’ve always had a cheap heart your bank account could always spend.

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. I scream at yours and still stay unheard.
Maybe I’m just blind and your just deaf.
Or this is all just wasted breath.

Day 1 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

Wax Poetic Acoustic version off the "Haunted" EP

Tracked, Mixed, and Engineered by James Paul Wisner
Mastered by Andy VanDette

Lyrics:

She always seems to color me the only shade she couldn't see. I am transparent I am a ghost. A grain of sand on the Sunshine Coast.

And I woke up today and figured I'd burn everything that made me think of you. And the saddest part is I was left with nothing by the time that I was through.

You had me like the first breath of a Midwest autumn evening. As the sunset fades to cold air to freeze the evergreens. So can we take some time to redefine what it is you thought you'd find. Because when you left that night, you left me behind.

I woke up today and figured I'd burn everything that made me think of you. And the saddest part is I was left with nothing. You were fibers in the thread that stitched demons in my head. The reason I'll drink on my own tonight instead. I never thought three beautiful words would have a grip so tight. You crippled my throat.

She always seems to color me the only shade she couldn't see. I am transparent. Transparent as a ghost.

BURY YOUR BONES Full Band from the 'Haunted' EP

Tracked, Produced and Engineered by James Paul Wisner
Mastered by Andy VanDette

Video Filmed, Edited, and Created by Sean Maple

Lyrics:

I hope my absence haunts you like a ghost
Eating away at you from time to time
I know I’m absent from your life and mind but you still haunt mine

There’s a different kind of emptiness you left me with after all of this
And I can’t wrap my head around the fact that you’re not coming back
There’s a chemical imbalance that you left inside my brain
You’re the reason why the alcohol is still rotting in my veins

I’ll be ok this is something I can get through
But I don’t know if I can say the same about you

I know a world of stability is all that you could ever see and when everything falls apart
Dear God I know it’ll fall apart
I hope you buckle at your knees and think of me

I’ll leave you with this emptiness as your parting gift
These heavy words I know you can’t lift
(Between the two of you there’ll be a common rift)
And thats me. The problem you can’t fix
The chemicals have balanced as I’m writing off your name
I hope the thought of us and broken trust stays frozen in his brain

’ll be ok this is something I can get through
But I don’t know if I can say the same about you

Truth be told we are not the same
A future sold that was built on blame
I pray you can’t bear the guilt and shame
I’ll stay a thorn in your side that’s worn with pain
Day in day out it won’t get better
Even your friends say forever fair-weather
Stay stuck. You’re a stormy sky with an idle mind you deserve each other

And I’ve been picking you apart in my head
Trying to see between you and me if there was anything worth keeping

I’m empty handed once again

Constant consent. You lied to him about the time we spent.
Relapse. Repent. Your judgement lapse came and went.

You said that life was built on compromise
A statement laced with fraying ties on borrowed time you’ll never find
So in the end you took what was yours and stole what was mine.

A few weeks back music lost another one of its legends. Tom Petty is an artist we all admired, as he changed the music industry by doing things his own way.

We've been laying low the last few weeks in preparation for some of the biggest opportunities this band has had. This downtime, coupled with his loss, inspired us to do something a little different.

Tracked, mixed, and engineered by our own Harrison Bormann, here's our take on "American Girl". Enjoy.

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“American Girl” – originally by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Cover Written by: Capstan Band

Our first handful of days on tour.
Special Thanks to everyone that has put us up for a night thus far!

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https://twitter.com/capstan_band
https://capstan.bandcamp.com/
http://capstanband.storenvy.com/

Shot & Chopped - Logan Long

"Elysian Fields" from "In The Wake of Our Discord" out now via Adventure Cat Records!

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Capstan

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Produced, Shot, and Edited by Sean Maple

Day 5 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

“Closing Cost” from the new acoustic EP “Parting Gifts” released November 15, 2015

Lyrics:

I heard everything you said through that white wooden door.
Crying over him falling apart on the bathroom floor.
Your words spun excuses but were sold out by your eyes.
I’m nothing more to you than a consolation prize.


And I’ve sensed revenge though the plot in me tends to steer clear of tying up loose ends.
I refuse to remain your mess.
I’ve been buried six feet deep alive in my own unrest.


Filled with emptiness. I’m penniless. Over-drafted trying to impress.
I guess I’ll just always stay second best.
You took my breath away and I don’t ever want it back again.
I’ve always had a cheap heart your bank account could always spend.

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. I scream at yours and still stay unheard.
Maybe I’m just blind and your just deaf.
Or this is all just wasted breath.

Day 4 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

Day 1 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale, and Sleep On It

Day 2 of our run on the OkayUSA tour with As It Is, ROAM, Grayscale and Sleep On It

Wax Poetic Acoustic version off the "Haunted" EP

Tracked, Mixed, and Engineered by James Paul Wisner
Mastered by Andy VanDette

Lyrics:

She always seems to color me the only shade she couldn't see. I am transparent I am a ghost. A grain of sand on the Sunshine Coast.

And I woke up today and figured I'd burn everything that made me think of you. And the saddest part is I was left with nothing by the time that I was through.

You had me like the first breath of a Midwest autumn evening. As the sunset fades to cold air to freeze the evergreens. So can we take some time to redefine what it is you thought you'd find. Because when you left that night, you left me behind.

I woke up today and figured I'd burn everything that made me think of you. And the saddest part is I was left with nothing. You were fibers in the thread that stitched demons in my head. The reason I'll drink on my own tonight instead. I never thought three beautiful words would have a grip so tight. You crippled my throat.

She always seems to color me the only shade she couldn't see. I am transparent. Transparent as a ghost.