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Inappropriate On Purpose

by The Extraordinary Contraptions

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1.
Breathe 03:52
Breathe Well I do believe I've waited here Well I've wait here long enough Why don't you just tell me what you've brought me here for I've wasted all my precious time And still your mouth is shut I don't understand these games you play, I'm not playing them anymore I've been holding my breath so long that I'm not even sure I'm still alive I've given you every benefit and still you sit and engineer another lie No I don't believe there's any way There's no reason to stay I've been had and I've had enough of it I'm not holding my breath, why don't you go ahead and give it a try yourself I'm not washing away your sins, I can't even possibly begin to comprehend your filth I'm just a simple man you see, or at least I try to be But maybe I got lost somewhere down the road Oh, please, please just save Save me No, I don't believe it's over yet I'm all covered in sweat Did you say that you loved me, say again I didn't hear I'll keep holding my breath until you tell me what it is you want to hear So they say you'll be my death, but I'm young in love and I don't hear And I don't care Won't you let me breathe? (Breathe for me)
2.
Kiss From A Girl She sits on a stone all by her lonesome The most perilous girl that I've ever known, son I give her my heart while she sits in the dark I wouldn't say evil, but she plays the part well She's not the girl that her parents raised I think that something she's quite proud to say I don't quite know how it is I'll begin But I know for sure it's her heart I'll win Tell me now exactly what it is that I should do Tell me how to win a kiss from you It's not all that obvious, I don't know what to do Tell me how to win a kiss from you How can I win a kiss from you, girl Get straight your facts, son, you don't have a fraction Of what it takes to ride this attraction She smiles and she winks like she thinks she knows me now But I've got a few tricks up my sleeves, oh and how And how I will so soon show her On, in between, above and below her I can't lie, I can't lie, and I won't try I long to hear her cries and her sighs Tell me now exactly what it is that I should do Tell me how to win a kiss from you It's not all that obvious, I don't know what to do Tell me how to win a kiss from you How can I win a kiss from you Tell me exactly, exactly what it is I don't want to rain on your Tell me exactly, exactly what it is I don't want to rain on your parade It's her heart I'm crashin', but I'm all out of fashion She's got curious ways, I've got furious passion Now I'm cashin' in on this painful desire It's consuming my thoughts and it burns like fire Liar, liar with pants in flames I just can't seem to get enough of this dame She's under my skin, and though she pretends Bit by bit my words are sinking in Tell me now exactly what it is that I should do Tell me how to win a kiss from you It's not all that obvious, I don't know what to do Tell me how to win a kiss from you How can I win a kiss from you
3.
Light Feet (Do First Impressions Make) What exactly is it that you want from me I think you make a pitiful joke And you think you’re some sort of celebrity Ah, you talk and talk, it just grows old What’s that I hear you say About the way I am You’re treading on thin ice As thin as you can stand Now you’ve conjured up, oh, the will to smile With all the tact of a cancerous growth And your confusions on themselves do pile Ah, it’s your gall that I loathe What’s that I hear you say About the way I am You’re treading on thin ice As thin as you can stand One of these days you’re gonna break Now it’s plain to see you’ve clearly lost your mind Trying to change the world with wit Gears and politics do slowly grind Man from dust and dust from shit What’s that I hear you say About the way I am You’re treading on thin ice As thin as you can stand One of these days you’re gonna break One of these days you’re gonna break
4.
The Lights 04:52
The Lights Hands are shaking, palms are sweating I can’t get that image off my mind When I think of all the advantages you’ve taken How could I be so painfully blind Well, the lights are on And I’m coming home And it just don’t feel like I belong no more But you’ve taken your time And a piece of my heart Now I’m taking back my life Gonna make a new start Get your greasy hands off of me I’m don’t want you here no more I didn’t come here to discuss your 'facts' To hear any more about that whore Well, the lights are on And I’m coming home And it just don’t feel like I belong no more But you’ve taken your time And a piece of my heart Now I’m taking back my life Gonna make a new start Well, it’s raining outside and I’m feeling like I should All alone and broken, but I know somehow that’s good I just can’t imagine sitting here with your cold, lying face I guess I’ve got to take and make my own chances And some pride that I put you in your place Well, the lights are on And I’m coming home And it just don’t feel like I belong no more But you’ve taken your time And a piece of my heart Now I’m taking back my life Gonna make a new start
5.
Fine 03:44
Fine So you think you're fine And everything's all right But you don't open your eyes And you're so misguided You don't know what's going on And you don't know what to do, oh You don't know what's going on You don't even know you So you think you're going to Figure it all out alone But every turn you turn to It turns out to be wrong You don't know what's going on And you don't know what to do, oh You don't know what's going on You don't even know you I've wasted love on you You are this man that Just won't, just won't, just won't understand So you think you're fine And everything's all right But you don't open your eyes And you're so misguided You don't know what's going on And you don't know what to do, oh You don't know what's going on You don't even know you I've wasted love on you You are this man that Just won't, just won't, just won't understand So you think you're fine...
6.
This Kind Of Love I hate myself And want to die You hang your head And roll your eyes I’ve been this way For so damned long You don't get up Same old damned song I just don’t need This kind of love Of love Love, always… You come right in And dominate You always do I feel prostrate The world it spins All up around I don’t get up I feel so down I just don’t need This kind of love Of love Love, always… Can you be my One and only Can you please try To tear away this pain Can you be my Undying hope Forget this rope It’s just a joke
7.
Policy of Honesty You walk in with that abominable look all across your face This policy of frustrating me is getting us no place A warm look here, a cold smile there, manipulate with ease Another one of your little outbursts and I've lost control of my faculties I've been wasted, love's been squandered, that's just how I feel And this ramshackle sort of love you bring is nothing but purest evil You've got your ways to bend, and to break And I'm going through withdrawal so bad I start to, I start to, I start to shake This policy of honesty is killing me It's killing, killing me I'm wasting away... This policy of honesty is killing me It's killing me
8.
Ms. Intangible Wake up, she says Rub my eyes and roll out of bed It's time to go Where and why she don't know She's just a fraction of herself There's too many factors for me to tell Cold hands, wet eyes Problems just multiply Too late to change Endlessly rearrange She thinks it's all summed up but Things just don't seem to quite add up You carry it over Every feeling enumerated If it doesn't fit, she gets frustrated You call me your lover But you always seek emancipation I don't factor into your equation Don't touch me there Kisses like gems, all too rare Please don't leave yet Her conclusions contrived and repressed She thinks she's got it all figured out But her rambling theories leave me in doubt You carry it over Even the way you walk is measured Are you even able to feel pleasure I don't even know her I'm circumscribed inside a cage now Information only that you'll allow Okay, fix me Reach to infinity Please don't give in Answers here deep within And so I enter into this maze To solve the puzzle of the part she plays You carry it over To get the answer that's meant to be I've had enough of your philosophy We love one another I don't understand the things you say I only know it's better this way
9.
Burn 04:15
Burn Mrs. Meek and Mr. Wimpleton Have a little house up on the sun The sun, the sun, the sun, the sun They keep it oh so clean and neat It’s the neatest place you’ll never see In their house they have no need of sight It’s never day, it’s never night No night, no night, no night, no night They chase away pain, hatred and fear In a little while they’ll disappear I- Cry- Try- Why- BURN! Mrs. Meek sees us all as a plague Mr. Wimpleton will now erase Erase, erase, erase, erase The likes of me and you and our kind A more heinous pair you’ll never find I- Cry- Try- Why- BURN! I try so hard to show, to demonstrate That we are worthy of the right to live He only smiles, she only gets irate They have no sympathy to give If she, if she only knew If she, if she only knew They comprise the sum of all pain From their evil deeds there’s no refrain Refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain I wrap my covers around me so tight And take my solace in the night In the night, in the night I- Cry- Try- Why- BURN!
10.
Smote 05:41
Smote Pleading with my senses to dismiss this myth It's open-handedly strangling me and avails me to no end Since the close of summer's come, and leaves begin to fall Sounds of sin ring upon the wind, and you never, ever call Underhanded love You've throttled and you've jaded me My mind's bent thinking of your lovers yet to be I can hear you laughing, and I can't believe my lot The emptiness is sinking in, and you're filling up my thoughts My logic has abandoned me, and in its place, regret I can only think of holding you, but I should surely wish you dead And though I swear it seems I've realized my worst fears I should spurn your name, still, I only want you near Won't you come and help me, rid me of this pain Tie her up and doctor her under subtle veil of rain Oh brew a brew, concoct a brew, and put her hate to sleep And put her somewhere deep below where my secrets surely keep Underhanded love You've throttled and you've jaded me My mind's bent thinking of your lovers yet to be
11.
Never Halfway Only It's been a while since I've seen you You haven't changed much If I could only find a way to be with you But we've grown so out of touch So out of touch, yeah I hear you've got a new man And he makes you oh so glad I'll just be sitting right here, right here waiting If that's just what you'd have If that's what you'd have That's what I'd do for you That's what I'd do for you, she said Until the end of time you see That's the way I'll always be I have never been about these things so halfway And I will be there for you 'til my dying day I will be there for you 'til my Dying day I hear things are changing now In your life and mine I'm so sorry to hear all about All your pain and all your strife I've been giving my love away now Don't know what to say You just smile as if you knew, knew somehow And say it's just your turn to wait Your turn to wait That's what I'd do for you That's what I'd do for you, she said Until the end of time, that's right Until the day turns into night I have never been about these things so halfway And I will be there for you 'til my dying day Until the end of time you see That's the way I'll always be And I have never been about these things so halfway And I will be there for you 'til my dying day I will be there for you 'til my Dying day

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Inappropriate on Purpose, our self-produced debut album, touches on universal themes of love, passion and betrayal before careening into pieces about malevolent alien invasions and failed mathematical romances. As the steampunk movement grows, we offer our quirky, guitar-driven vision of this alternate reality.

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released December 20, 2008

Alex Stadler as Aelus von Stadberg: guitars, vocals, and mad songwriting skills
David Tyberg as Dmitri von Stadberg: basses, vocals, and The Funk
Sharon Burdick as Ms. Sephora Bostwick: keyboards, vocals, and personal growth
Kevin Guthrie as Corbin Abel Welch: percussion, good beer, and enough calm for all of us

Recording, mixing, and mastering by Alex Stadler.
Yes, we are a fully DIY outfit.

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Part lover's caress, part pugilist’s fist, songs of THE EXTRAORDINARY CONTRAPTIONS are sonic space-time adventures. This patent-medicine man, time-traveler, gentleman explorer, and madman advance the steampunk rock movement with 2012 album The Time Traveler's Constant, employing danceable prog rock and Victorian aesthetics in genre-bending, aggressive-waltzing stories of steam and strife. ... more

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