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Echoes Of The Future With MAT ROBINS From CICADASTONE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Cut me last, Wendom down cover the Cask the Crown, but it's so
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  call you from the rout of town, Agree from the crowd, wet.
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  This is Matt from Circada Stone. We have a new single coming out called
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  in the Crossfire. We're pretty pretty excited to finally get it out there,
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  and it's out through X Music and take it away. Christ Thanks for join
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  us this afternoon. Brother, Thanks for having me my pleasure. I say
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  as you say. Circada Stone premiere your latest single, in the Crossfire by
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  Heavy this Friday. So tell us a bit about the song. It's just,
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  you know, it's one of these riffs that I had lined around for
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  a long time. I couldn't really do anything with it, and then and
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  then one day it just sort of all happened in like, you know,
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  half an hour. I just I just bashed this song together and and jotted
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  out of these lyrics and I was just I just was I just sort of
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  found my focus, you know, and it all came together really really fast,
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  and uh, and we demoed the song and it was it was like
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  the last song that we wrote for the record, But it's probably the most
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  sort of radio friendly rock single we've got, so it worked out pretty good.
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  Well, now I'm usually coming out with a film mate, but I
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  haven't had a chance to watch it yet. So how does it tie in
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  with the song? Yeah, the video it's a hard one. You know,
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  when you're trying to make videos, you're always you're always trying to think
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  of the next fucking thing. You're sorry, the next thing you can do,
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  the next idea, and and and I really didn't have an idea.
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  So we were just looking at the concept of conflict being you know, taking
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  the title of the song rather than going into rather than delving into the lyrics,
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  just just sort of keeping it pretty broad, you know. And we
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  found this this awesome old school like World War One movie and we just we
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  just kind of use footage from that, and it looks fantastic, just being
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  being caught in some sort of conflict, directly straight conflict, basically life and
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  death stuff. And you know, we'll just cut between scenes of the band
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  and scenes of that, and it's it brushed up really great. Cool and
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  Uh. In the cross far as the lead single from your new album,
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  Future Echoes, So why choose that song to represent the album? I just
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  think it's the most obvious Forefront song to push. You know, it's it's
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  got the it's got the pace, and you know, we're predominantly band that
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  generally doesn't push pace. We love our sludgy, slow riffs, so you
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  know, the label we're very eager to push the faster bas song. So
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  I think it was it was a pretty obvious choice. Yeah, I'm happy.
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  I'm happy it's gonna be the first song. Yeah, Well, tell
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  us a bit more about future echoes and brow and what you're going for musically
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  over the whole album. Well, yeah, look, it's it's a different
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  album to our first two records. Anyone who's heard our stuff, each record
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  kind of takes on a bit of its own form, you know, and
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  I think, you know, the first record did its thing, The second
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  record was a little it was a little darker and slower, and this record's
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  sort of borrowed a bit of both. I've purposely tried to put a bit
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  more pace into it because I think we really lacked that, which was which
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  was a good good thing for us, because something new. But the songs
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  that are, you know, they just intertwined really nicely, and it's a
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  bit of a journey. This record. Overall, I think it's it's probably
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  sonically our best sounding record. I think it's probably pushing boundaries like the last
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  record did, probably even a bit further. There's some really angry stuff,
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  there's some really light stuff, and it's it's what you do expect from us
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  if you first before. But you know, I think just a bit more
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  so that next step, Yeah cool? Can we elaborate on that a bit
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  more? Mane go a bit deeper? Like you said, pushing the boundaries,
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  like what you in what way? Just riffs, just bigger riffs,
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  bigger rifts. I've tried to push my vocal a little bit more in spots
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  I always I'm always I always try to. I always genuinely sing in my
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  comfort zone. So to try and get out of that was quite hard for
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  me. You leave yourself pretty vulnerable, but it's it's you know, when
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  you do it, it's great because you can look back and you grow as
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  you do these things. So yeah, I think it, you know,
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  we've pushed boundaries. As far as sonics, I think I think that the
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  album itself sounds fantastic. It's it's brushed up really great. The riffs are
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  there's some really big riffs. There's a couple of really big sludgie rifts which
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  kind of leans on the second record, and then and the and some of
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  the maladies of that we've borrowed from the first record is just touch tapping back
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  into that, just some of the color of the first record, I think.
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  So it really is a blend of these records, but it's its own
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  thing as well. You know, it definitely takes on a few There's a
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  couple of songs. It's a song called h Fear Within Fear within our Grasp,
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  which is probably the heaviest song we've ever sort of heaviest and slowest and
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  sludgiest song we've ever had. So I'm really I'm really excited to come with
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  people to hear it. Yeah, well, when is it actually coming out?
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  Broight, It's coming out at the end of May May thirty first,
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  I think it is, so get ready for it. Get ready on the
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  fucker. The press release alludes to it being a new chapter in the band's
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  history, like how so, oh, you know, the next just the
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  next phase, the next My son's drumming with us now, which is really
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  awesome. He he came on board kind of in a bit of a we're
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  in a bit of a die spot, you know. Our last drummer it
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  just wasn't working out for him. And we were literally set up to record,
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  like we were in the studio and had a drum kit set up,
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  and he pulled the pin and you know, and it's okay. He needed
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  to do that. The timing wasn't great, but he needed to do that.
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  And my son, you know, he's grown up listening to all my
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  stuff. He's listened to the bands I've listened to growing up as well,
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  and so he just kind of like we just tried him out for one night.
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  We just got him in there and said he had the song and have
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  a go, and he just instantly nailed it. You know, he just
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  knew exactly what to do and and it was great. So we did a
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  whole record with him and he stuck around and he's just added a real new
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  what could I say, there's a real youthful sort of push again with this
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  band, which is great, and it is it's a new chapter because it's
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  a new album straight up, you know, it's another it's another part of
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  the legacy. I guess for any band when they when they commit to a
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  record and release it. It's part of their part of their history. So
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  yeah, that's kind of that's kind of it. Really well, Its Echoes
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  is your first album with your new label ex music mate, So how how
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  has that relationship been developing. Yeah, it's great. I mean, you
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  know Tim, We've known Tim for quite a few years, and we put
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  our last record out to another label, and Tim was just always just kind
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  of keeping an eye on us, uh, and when and when that kind
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  of when we went out separate ways from that label, I just I just
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  shot them a message and said, hey, would you be interested in putting
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  out our record? And he was like, absolutely, I'll be interested in
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  putting out your record. So it just kind of happened real easily, and
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  it was. It's been very cohesive and we've been working together. It's been
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  great. He seems fantastic. The whole label's great. Now. We sort
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  of touched on this briefly made, but I want to go and dive into
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  it a bit deeper here, Like, how would you say Sakada Stone's sound
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  has changed musically from their debut Chance Collide in twenty sixteen Food Future Echoes.
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  Yeah, Look, I just think the rifts have gotten a bit heavier.
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  The production has gotten better, that's for sure. But you know, you
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  can tell it's the same band. You know, it's like there's differences,
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  but there's not like we're not like changing, We're not trying a different genre
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  or anything like where we're sticking to what we do because we do it quite
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  naturally, you know, it's not like we're it's not like we try to
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  write songs and to deliver something. They just come out very naturally. So,
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  I mean, how does it differ to the first record. I think
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  the riffs are bigger, and the production is better, and probably the vocal
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  the vocal melodies kind of explore just a bit further overall. But I really
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  love that first record. It was a big moment in my life. I'm
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  supposed to like whether your son coming into band because you mentioned that injection of
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  youth, like these days music music trends, I guess, and the fashions
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  in music changing daily. Like having having someone young there that's sort of got
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  their thing on the pulse with that a bit too, it sort of it'll
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  help you moving forward totally. Yeah, totally. You know, he's always
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  showing me new bands that i've never heard of, you know, and because
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  I'm stuck in my ways, I'm still stuck in nineteen ninety five. But
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  he'll always, you know, he'll he'll show me some new band and and
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  and there's so much cool stuff out there, and he incorporates a lot of
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  that, a lot of this this stuff into the way drums and and it's
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  it's great. It's just you know, on the when we were recording,
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  you know, he would, you know, because I was producing the record,
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  he would he would obviously do the things I was asking him, but
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  then he'd throw in stuff and go what about this and what about that?
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  And I'd be like, that's fucking great. Do more of that. I
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  didn't even think of that, you know. So you know, that's the
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  beauty of someone fresh coming in with fresh ideas, and I guess a whole
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  different perspective. I listened to you and your gee's coming up. Bro,
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  you've got one that stay gold in Melbourne on July eighth with with the Midnight
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  Devil's Shotgun Mistress and label Masix Galiba like it. That sounds like she's going
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  to be a cracker of an eye. Yeah, that's that's I was a
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  July eighth. Yeah, yeah, July eight eighth is that one. We
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  actually have our album launch before that in May. We're having an album launch
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  on May thirty first, the day of the album release. Well, let's
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  talk about that one person make because that one's more important. Well that one
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  is more important, but actually more important than that one is this this Saturday
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  night. We're actually playing at the at the Toe upstairs for the single release
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  of in the Crosswire. So that's the most important. But the album launch
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  will be important because we're going to put a lot of effort into that.
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  It's going to be a big gig at the lead Beatter Hotel in Melbourne.
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  That sounds like you've got a big coming up live mate, So we can
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  keep up to date with it. Where's the best place to The best place
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  to keep up with us probably on the on the socials these days is and
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  how it works it is, but yeah, I'm not a very social person,
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  so I got no fucking idea. We've got one of those link trees
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  link tree circatastone you can find us. You can find everything about us on
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  there, anything to do with videos, social media, video, I said
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  videos in the YouTube. It's the actual website people have websites anymore. I
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  don't know how you use it. So it's on the link tree, cicadastone
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  link tree. Find it on the web somewhere you got it, brother,
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  all right, well, thanks very much for your time today, mad absolutely
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  can't wait for all that. Thanks so much for your time. Got mere
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  town from the crowd was mean and tread for a crown selling how it is
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  in the nile's didn't see you as a sun setting down, turning on the
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  old carousel around instant shouldn't be called of fim crossfire, should have a thought
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  outside the thought Huldren Because of Fim the crosfi litle thought to fly like truth.
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  So tell me how to just settle down? Only far a chance to
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  be found to just to hard to celebrate all around read another turn on the
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  crowd to save Jill, to keep us all getting out fairly unknown where to
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  town there is so far shouldn't be caught up filling the crossbi shouldn't have thought
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  outside the us. Shouldn't be caught fill the crossbodron the truth, so all
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  else chrimsa coming now I sleep. Listen to tell me now someone out to
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  fe is having a now speech. Listen to tell me now someone out to
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  Jama sensus a crying a hot mesus to tell me that someone about to out
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  calling me a y town the cover of the cospit of the frown, that
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  he so couldn't because of filing a crispi. Shouldn't have thought outside that by
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  stand couldn't because of filling a crispi. I wouldn't have thought to decline the
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  truth, so could it? Because the cross wouldn't thoughts it find the truth like this