Landing Project

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• Landing Project is...
  
  Abeer Khalique // vox + guitar
  Jenna Craig // guitar
  Rob Blair // bass
  Jon Weiss // drums
  
  
  Contact/Booking/Merch/Love Letters/Hate Mail:
  landingproject@gmail.com
  
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  19th

  9pm

  The Player's Lounge Sayreville, NJ →

  
  
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• "Here Goes Everything" EP (2009)

  • Landing Project – Keep Going
    4:39
  • Landing Project – I've Gotta Do What I Want
    3:44
  • Landing Project – Butterscotch
    3:19
  • Landing Project – Yea, Exactly
    2:41
  • Landing Project – Turn Up Your Stereo
    4:01
  • Landing Project – Sticks & Stones
    3:02
  • Landing Project – The Joy of Life
    6:02

• Here Goes Everything [Lyrics]
  
  
  Keep Going
  I remember how I felt in my teens: full of anger, full of rage, ready to put this whole world in its place. Self-doubt and disdain kept me in bed on sunny days.
  And moments like that tend to beg the question: if nothing lost is nothing gained...why wonder why things stay the same?
  I’ve got no right to complain unless I try to make a change.
  Because it seems like every single night I go to sleep...and in-between the dreams I dream...there’s a hope I hold and keep to never let things end up the way they used to be.
  They’ve seen me fail a thousand times, but it seems like I swear that I am gonna try.
  Oh, Jon we’re the results of the decisions that we make, and we decided back one day that we’d learn to decide our fate; we were awkward, ugly boys - but that was then and now is our choice.
  Because it seems like every single night I go to sleep...and in-between the dreams I dream...there’s a hope I hold and keep to never let things end up the way they used to be.
  
  I don’t wanna fail another time, and I can’t because I...no I won’t because (I am gonna try).
  
  
  I’ve Gotta Do (What I Want)
  If you look close at me, I bet you’d truly see the vacancy in my eyes; either anxious or bored, I just cannot ignore those feelings telling me that something’s just not right...
  
  I’ve gotta do what I want. I’ve got a love affair with saying I don’t care.
  
  You are a friend of mine, I’ve known you for sometime - so I can’t understand why there’s a space between the things you say and mean it all makes me wonder what you’re saying about me...
  
  I’ve gotta do what I want. I’ve found a love affair with saying I don’t care.
  
  I know a girl who thinks she thinks that she’s right about EVERYTHING and if you disagree at all - you’re wrong. But the way you see things through those eyes are not the same way I see things through mine; we’re the same but just not the same, sometimes.
  
  
  Butterscotch
  I’ve been holding onto pieces of a broken memory and failed attempts to restore the image of the way things used to be; I’ve been holding on and holding tight...but is it any use to me?
  
  I know things tend to change around from time to time, and despite our promises we all tend to change our mind, and that’s fine - you walk your own way, I’ll walk mine...but you left so quietly without saying much - and that said it all.
  
  I remember music and conversation filling up our summer days, and summer nights we’d spark to life in our sweet youthful decay. Sometimes before things start to bloom there’s a chance it will rot away...
  
  Every end is a new begin, and I’ve begun to finally understand the state I’m in; it’s a place I don’t like to go, but some things you’ve gotta learn to face alone.
  
  I’ve been assured a place where nothing is sure, and no - today is not the same as it was before...there’s a perfect world right here for me with possibilities! I’ve been assured a place where nothing is sure... and how can your fate be sealed if it still unfolds? there’s a perfect world right here for me.
  
  
  Yea, Exactly
  It’s okay if you’re kind of scared - trust you’ve got good company, it’s alright if you’re confused - I know exactly what you mean; we’re either headed for a life of pain, or a life that’s painfully mundane -and if you don’t want things to end this way - let’s start planning our escape from here.
  
  Every morning I wake up I know there’s debts left to be paid It makes me wonder: what’s the point of living when it feels like the world has already made your grave? Even Jesus can’t be saved because divine grace won’t help the rent get paid, and if we met I’d like to think he’d say, “Start planning your escape”.
  
  Destiny is calling - let’s not put this on hold anymore. Opportunity, when it’s knocking - let’s not hide behind the door anymore.
  
  I would say more but what’s the point because I think you know exactly what I mean.
  
  
  Turn Up Your Stereo
  When all your friends are busy with their girlfriends, and all your nights are feeling colder and alone, I was waiting by the phone, shackled to my bed at home, heaven knows if I will make it out tonight.
  
  Jesse never met me but he let me know the truth, and he sang so clear it rang in the ears of a disillusioned youth. We’d sit and sing about things that no one else would sing about. We we’re both young and confused,but at least we had one thing figured out: Soundsystem gonna bring me back up.
  
  When all your friends are busy working hours slaving away, cool and composed in the nicest clothes and their self-imposed decay. I know we haven’t spoken much but all I really want to say is that I miss you and the way things used to be...I fucking miss you and the way WE used to be.
  
  Ian screamed when I was sixteen,he screamed to me the truth he screamed so loud it cut through the fears of my disillusioned youth. I ain’t X to death, but I’m Out of Step until my last dying breath.
  
  Lately I’ve been feeling low, at least somewhere there’s a place for me to go.
  
  Last night she left me a mess. I walked the city in the rain. Took the F train to the last stop in Jamaica, Queens. Now I know our love is gone - but there’s a love inside these songs that’s gonna help me carry on. There’s a love inside these songs that’s gonna help me to carry on.
  
  When all your friends are busy with their new friends, and all your nights, they’re feeling colder and alone...and if you’re lonely or you’re bored, feeling frustrated or ignored just close your eyes and turn up your stereo.
  
  
  Sticks and Stones
  Sticks and stones never broke my bones words always seemed to hurt the most. I try to put it all away I can’t believe all the shit that you say.
  
  I see it...I know it...I’ve only got one chance to be me.
  
  One day I went to school, mommy they all make fun of me. I don’t wanna go back again mommy they all make fun of me.
  
  I see it...I know it...I’ve only got one chance to be me.
  
  Kindness for weakness mistaken these days, sun never shines when I’m feeling this way. I’ve tried to put it all away. I can’t believe all the shit that you say.
  
  The Joy of Life
  My mechanic called me up, says it will be two-hundred bucks to fix the leaky set of calipers on my car.
  
  In bed awake with thoughts of things that I can’t change and when regret sets in, it ferments like self-defeat. And sometimes I just want to push it all aside.
  
  It’s gone away; the confidence I had to say that I could face today with integrity and grace. Because they told me “Son, celebrate today - ‘cause the battles just begun.”
  
  Hey Rob, heard your parents are getting divorced? My parents did and now my father can’t afford to live; his SSI still leaves him poor, while L3 is making money off the war. Tell me something that I haven’t heard before...
  
  Today just sucked the life from me. Today just sucked the life from me.Today just sucked the life from me, but it’s not said and done for me...because the joy of life is learning how to keep afloat in a sinking world.
  

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• rough acoustic demos (2009)

  • Landing Project – I Was Wrong
    4:35
  • Landing Project – Rich Kids from Manhattan
    3:26
  • Landing Project – I Know That You're There
    4:14

• [Lyrics]
  
  I Was Wrong
  Shake off
  bad thoughts
  lesson learned, i've had enough
  lesson learned, case closed and shut for good
  
  I was mad at the facts
  prayed to god to turn time back
  cause i wasn't yours
  you weren't mine
  we were different people, in a different place and time in our lives.
  
  
  Who am I to judge you for the things you did?
  Who the hell am I to be so hard on myself for the things I missed?
  We only do what we think makes sense.
  
  Here I was busy thinking I was not the kind of guy for you.
  
  Or so I thought.
  
  ...but I was wrong.
  
  
  
  Rich Kids from Manhattan
  Swim with the sharks or sing with the sparrows? Drink with the kings or hang in the gallows? Feeling odd and left out is a fate much worse than death.
  
  I felt the pressure of nagging questions like "are they friend or foe?" and "why do I look up to people who are looking down on me?"
  
  The words they said stung into my bones,
  and kept me lying awake filled with hate and scorn.
  But you and I couldn't leave well enough alone, like we were born to prove them wrong.
  
  Tiptoed the meek, the straight and the narrow
  yet dealt with the barbs, slings and the arrows that made us think inadequate and feel inferior
  but we faced the dawn with our faith still burning - took sometime but we learned: why should we look up to people who are looking down on us?
  
  The words they said stung into my bones,
  and kept me lying awake filled with hate and scorn.
  But you and I couldn't leave well enough alone, like we were born to prove them wrong.
  
  Never say never, never say forever...cause everything is subject to change.
  
  
  I Know That You're There
  What a shame the way I always play the victim when I'm down on my luck. When I get wrapped up in these vivid images - my worry becomes such a crutch.
  
  Lord, it seems the way that I've been going about things as of lately only serves to dissapoint, distress or aggravate me. What an ugly way to start the day, but that's okay - I know that you're there.
  
  I see the signs, I see the signals, I see all of the symptoms very clear. There's no doubt when you're around, 'cause I feel you're presence when you're near...like when I see the look in her eyes when she gets the feeling that I analyze her words to scan for double meanings...when I can't keep calm, with racing thoughts and sweaty palms - I know that you're there.
  
  Oh my god - I've been making a mess in a failed attempt to keep from ever making one. And it wears me out...and all this shame and doubt don't make it easier.
  
  I want a life that's bold and grand like a parade in the city...but all my focus scurries around like roaches on the floor.
  When I get sad I lose perspective and it keeps me from seeing how an ugly situation can breed such pretty feelings. What an ugly way to start the day, but that's okay...cause if I ever need you - I know that you're there.

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• early self-titled demo (2006/2007)

  • Landing Project – Something More
    3:28
  • Landing Project – The Big Picture
    3:41

• This was a small demo we recorded with the help of various friends. They were hand-made, and massive amounts of blank CDs were stolen from FYE in order to create them.
  
  We handed these out at sooooo many shows. You probably have one and don't even realize.
  
  
  

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