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Another Year

by Boardroom Heroes

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Another Year, the second full length from Boardroom Heroes, was originally released on June 5, 2012. We’re extremely excited to bring this to vinyl for the first time (10 years later).

    For me, this album holds up incredibly well - maybe because even in 2012, Another Year still felt like a throw-back to a different era. When I listen to “Pieces” or “Elephant” - I’m transported back to the places I got to see the band play like the Trash Bar or the Velvet Lounge… but also back to my neighbor’s driveway skatepark in the late-90s.

    I remember feeling an immediate kinship with Gu and Dre (and subsequently, Stephen, Drew and Nick) - just based on their music alone - because it’s so clear that they also grew up on a steady diet of the Epitaph and Fat Wreck catalogs. Another Year sees those influences adequately honored but also sees their own sound sharpened.

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1.
Acceptance 02:41
These days aren’t getting any shorter And I’m getting tired of living at the border Between what I should’ve said and what I said, between what I really did and did inside my head I’m running out of time to get over it (over it) This isn’t where I want to go (waking up) This isn’t where I want to be (I’m tired of giving up) This isn’t where I thought you and me would end up back when we were in our teens (if I don’t show up I won’t let myself down) This isn’t what I want to say (if I’m making up) I didn’t even think it’d be this way (for all the things I once fucked up) We’re not gone, something’s just gone wrong (it won’t matter) Now I’m stuck here singing this stupid song If you believe it, then that’s called acceptance And the way you live is not making it much easier I swear that I didn’t know what else to say to her And if you accept it, then you’ve been defeated And the way you feel doesn’t really matter now because you’ll end up putting all this behind you somehow And the worst part is I think we’ve already begun The process of forgetting how to make amends Tie me down face down in the dirt and I won’t bother you again with all these stupid words In a way I think that you could say that the reason that we’re singing this is we’re okay We’re all okay Waking up, I’m almost tired of always giving up One thing’s for certain: if I don’t show up I won’t let myself down And if I’m making up for all the small things that I once fucked up It won’t matter because I’ll still see myself through this cracked lens that makes up these eyes of mine
2.
Paradise 01:46
The America of Theodore Dreiser was a tragedy, not far removed from the West Egg home of Gatsby In the ring, in one corner was Jack Dempsey, but other than the heavyweight champ the ring was empty We are all ghosts, we are all fiction And I will never be a part of it In a nation of characters of every sort what vision can we have To better carry on? The America of Holden Caulfield was a phony, and Sal Paradise wasn’t only fleeing acrimony The rebel never found his cause and the Lost Generation is still lost We are prisoners, we are all children And I can never get away from it In a nation of stereotype and phenotype and look-alikes we’re lost There’s nothing left to say
3.
Elephant 03:03
Don’t chase your better dreams away I know there’s nothing I could say to make you change your mind It’s not like you’d listen anyway You’ve had your good times but you’ve taken mine Tomorrow’s better when it’s in the past It happens so fast that you’ve got nothing to show for it, you never really thought much about it I remember bottles, I remember glass And exactly where we were when our intentions got lit Don’t leave me alone here tonight I’m scared to death that I might finally get it right I remember everything, what was done and what it meant to me Just like an elephant And in my head these thoughts are still intact, what was said I take all of it back Just like an elephant I’m leaving this all behind now It took forgetting to remember how
4.
City Song 03:32
I feel like someone’s following me as I walk down these dim streets and find that Nothing even looks the same to me I was up where the road meets the rut, where all of the cars get stuck and wondered If I’d get left behind there myself All of these sounds berate me from all around and only serve to confound the way I feel about myself and this spoiled world Start to panic as everything turns to static, is the world so erratic that concrete Dreams are the only ones that can last? Because this city doesn’t look like paradise Yeah, the bright lights just seem hazy to these eyes When the skyscrapers collapse, the avenues no longer flat Maybe then we’ll cast aside our shared disguise Buildings of crystal don’t hide a lack of a soul as they plot how to dispose of all of Us one and all Make this city bleed, it’s best for you and me Expose the travesty of penthouse inequity This kind of shit calls out for our own reply
5.
Empty Men 03:06
Don’t believe me when I say I’ve got enough Because I don’t know what that means This one is for country, for god and love of money They’re the same thing, there’s no wrong it seems, and I’m wondering if what it means Is that I was never like you and it’s because of what you do You won’t hesitate, no, to isolate, isn’t this great? Let’s call it fate, yeah I’m not like them, with their bulletproof hearts These empty men will tear you and I apart End over end, and as the world spins so Do we all end up just like them? Hollywood contagion, it happens all backstage and I want to be so much more than me but more than just celebrity Isn’t this confusing? Is hardship so amusing? We trivialize, live in disguise, and accept ever greater lies They’re making us feel pain for their gain, with their bulletproof and leaden hearts Sometimes I can’t help but feel shame that they’ve gotten everything from the start But their dreams aren’t made, they’re bought and sold by me and you Their dreams are unfounded Don’t say I’ve got enough
6.
I’m feeling selfish, I forgot your name I’m feeling so bad knowing that you even came To this place when I didn’t want you to Where I can’t tell apart who’s who Where who knows what I might not do But it’s all been for nothing, I’m not hesitating I hate exposure, I don’t mean in photographs There’s something insincere about every time you laugh Won’t you wipe that smile off your face You’re really stinking up this place Relationships are not a race But you’ve lost, because I’m not hesitating
7.
Believe Me 02:44
Believe me I still care, you’re the one who’s not there You never cared at all, you were so ungrateful So needy, so jaded, I pressed on This time next year believe me I’ll be gone The sun is setting on our innocence We are the children of our medicine Secrets don’t ring true when you shout them out We’ve heard this already before Don’t make me say this, I don’t think I can Stuck between what I was and what I am I know for sure that what I said was true It’s too bad it bounced right off you
8.
Pieces 02:08
So pick me up I can't afford dementia now, I think I've lost faith in this town Lost my faith in this direction, I hope it all comes crashing down And there's a lot that wasn't said, and even more that wasn't felt I think we're losing our momentum, I don't think we're doing too well Here we are, wearing thin There's something broken deep within This is our weakness now, the silence has gotten too loud Regain composure or just fall to pieces Inside these horrible mistakes resides a consciousness that breaks Sit back and watch as it just falls to pieces                    This is a promise that we've made, promised all that we ever gave Is is possible to offer more than this? This is an opportunity to fight a common enemy Or just let all of it just fall to pieces We're here now, a sight to see This is what we're supposed to be
9.
These illusions of myself on my best days Aren’t exactly what I want to be remembered for What do I get for my patience and my take on adulthood? Just a picture of a million times regret These days I’m missing everything, so close it can make you go insane Try now, it might work better this time, I wanted to not have to wait I might die tomorrow, tomorrow came early Time moves so slow, please don’t remind me These convictions don’t mean shit when they no longer work for you A little less time spent on others while you indulge and choose to self-absorb No I won’t, I don’t think that’s the best way to spend what little time I have Oh well, who knows? I don’t get it, my ability to reason is moot These are the days
10.
Tell me it’s not all just noise heard backwards I feel the need to reconnect This always looked so good in retrospect We’re finally here now, in this position Where I can lay down on your couch with your permission I want to make up for the lost time that we never had And with you realize that all that wasted time it wasn’t so bad So what I’m saying, if you can hear me, I want to get this right and hope that he’s forgiving Because I can see the end and it looks pretty good from here The only thing I hope is that the start is really quite this near Don’t make this a non-starter Make me feel like it’s worth trying harder History and memory Come together here almost completely Tell me it’s not all just noise heard backwards Remember when we had so much to say? I’m tired of being stuck at words today We’re finally here now, getting older And I can feel the years between us on my shoulders I want to say this clear but I can never find the words The only choice I have is to write it all up inside a verse
11.
Today I’m making all this go away Because I’ve found you’ve got nothing left to say We’ve always run just from ourselves but now I’m running from this place Because it’s not getting worse, it’s getting better at too slow a pace I don’t care if I lose myself along the way, as long as I’m leading myself Don’t think I need a hanger-on facilitator I’ll always be the navigator Today I’m making all this go my way Because assholes talk and then they fade away Everyone else has carried on (so have they all?) You ever feel just like you’ve stalled?
12.
Another Year 03:21
No, don’t make me the bad guy here I’m just trying to be sincere, I only wish that didn’t mean killing your dream Teen, teenagers get old so fast Pretty soon everything is past, all you want is another year (another show, another summer drive) The back of my mind is a fucking gold mine For memories I have now frozen in time I can see your face now, I can hear you say a million things Say you wanted this but we couldn’t fight the changes Breaking Texas, I hope it hasn’t broken us I could feel you fall apart Breaking habits, I never said I could be perfect And I don’t think you could either We’re not the same Wake up after all of these years, hope these lyrics don’t come off insincere This is the closest I’ll get to saying sorry

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released June 5, 2012

Sinking Ship Records

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