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The split single with Tokyo’s My Way My Love and Chicago’s The Poison Arrows titled by its catalogue number ‘FT90’ is out Friday August 11, 2017 on File 13 Records 

The Poison Arrows and My Way My Love have been label-mates for many years now.  As the two most active bands on the label, they have become very close friends, and have always wanted to work together.  When My Way My Love was releasing their album ‘she sky my heart with blue’ and The Poison Arrows was releasing our new album ‘No Known Note’ around the same time, it was a perfect chance to collaborate. 

Both of the songs are a great introduction to each band.  MWML’s “Honey” is definitely one of their best, as complex, frantic, and intense as it is melodic.   You can read the full lyrics to “Honey” below, and singer and guitarist Yukio Murata explained the lyrics meaning behind Honey:

“Honey” is (a) story when I looked up at the sky...a state of sadness, grief, and mourning after the loss of a loved one.This is " Love Song " for me, for I loved one.”

The Poison Arrows track “Why We Study History” was recorded at the same time as their newest album ‘No Known Note,’ and is the most politically-minded of the recent tracks as singer and guitarist Justin Sinkovich explains:

“The latest social and political climate is baffling to me, it is as if we are devolving.  We should be analyzing the mistakes of the past to learn from our mistakes and move forward as humans. If only those caught up in their backwards agendas would study history… we should have moved past these petty conflicts years ago.” 

Honey

How far is your heaven
When it comes when it goes
Is it a long way?

How high is your sky is…
I’m fallin’… how far is??

 Your smile still remains
Is where I hung tears
Stars burn so bright tonight
Where you’ve gone to

You got me floating low
You got me flying high
Your smile still remains
Is where I hung tears
Stars burn so bright tonight
Where you’ve gone to…
Your shadow still remains

Why We Study History

Trace the time we’ve isolated
Trace the trash we’ve complicated
Trash the time we’ve tried to save us again

Cross the border cross the line
Cross the basis for no time
Cross the stasis of not if but when

That’s the way we stay defeated
That’s the way we’ve lie and cheated
That’s the reason we seem so cross again

Pass the test to bury me
Forget the past to stop the bleeding
Erase the past to set you free again

Pass the test to bury me
Forget the past to stop the bleeding
That’s the reason we study history

Errands run and soon distorted
Errant exports of the soon reported
Lazy accounts of debates on if we have won

Close the past on re-entry burn
Close to last and negative return
Now let’s cash that check and that project’s done

That’s the way we’ve loved and hated
They way we stay negated
That’s the way we finally bit our tongue