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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Specially priced Grand Hotel Paradox 'goodie bag' for the release of the new album "Rust":


    - Grand Hotel Paradox - "Rust" (2012) professionally replicated CD & digi-pak case with lyrics booklet.


    - One black 1" pin-back button with the logo on a black background.


    - One brown 1" pin-back button with the "Hilbert Punk" design.


    - One 4" x 4" (10cm x 10cm) vinyl sticker (Matte)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Rust via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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playground bullies; its a mafioso industry shake down artists & venues for lunch money victims to harass and sue, it's tantamount to cruel major label thugs run the school playground bullies; its a mafioso industry but who is benefiting? not the makers of the art, just the picture framers and those who own the wall: playground bullies. it’s a mafioso industry copyright is your 'protection' from a masked enemy but the mob makes the violence speakeasies pay up for permission unknown out of fear of retribution age-old cartels dictate the rules "stand in line and shut up" just ignore the bullies, like your parents said exist outside of their confines
2.
you’re breaking hearts that can’t be mended by purple these thoughts are common sense - they’re simple how can you devalue a life because of a lie you were sold by holy books laced in gold? we’ve got to learn to break the mould: kids have got to be taught, not told this hypocritical thinking is creating victims showing symptoms of ignorance and bewildering allegiance to nothing but a flag and a border on a map and it’s this ‘enemy’ that takes the rap in the form of a gun or bomb attack and you know that they’ll fight back and when their kids grow up they’ll forever believe that their daddies died for something, and that he achieved more than corpses, death and hatred; prejudice, fear and misled values from any holy book that never told truth and never gave you, or me, or her, or them or the masses of youth anything more than false hope but there are those that profit off the pain and misery and we can see the amount of jobs contracted privately as a result of invading and then 'restoring peace' in a country it doesn't take much intellect to see the positive effect on the economy that the fight for 'freedom' brings; these are not things to be taken lightly and consumed nightly like the nine o' clock news you're unlikely to be brought truth. i've said it once and i’ll say it again: the history books are bound to berate the men who’ve lost the battle between sword and pen because the winner’s taken both of them but it’s clear to me that one can see that there’s no real victory yet the cycle starts again - big battles between small men
3.
isn’t it a bit too soon to be talking about salad days? try paddling in some deeper waters then you can tell me about making waves this ‘big fish in a small pond’ syndrome deprives you of the oxygen of truth asphyxiate on the words spread hook, line & sinker: believe your own propaganda hook, line & sinker: no urgency and desperation
4.
Home 02:51
you wander the desert but you're not sure if you're wise because there are no leading stars left in the sky the gifts you could bring, abandoned like hope sand washes clean, glassy eyes cope still can't find my way from here i hope that this concourse informs me where to go i think i’ve got time but how do i know? tradition aborts you and justice fails every time culture imported, residence is not crime
5.
the only bars that we're behind are those of 4/4 signature time and we are able to find the key much more easily we are just the commentators - we're not in the boxing ring we are just the war reporters, we've got to keep our hands clean but dictators won't step down and economies won't shape up if you just sing actions speak louder than lyrics
6.
Wake-Up Call 01:56
you've got to see the grass on the other side and watch it turn from green to yellow and then die in order to see in a new light, this place that we call home this 'eden' of our own. we need a wake-up call. not just once a lifetime - you'll find out that we need it every day if you travel to see how the have-nots live, you get humbled but it doesn't last you swallow the pill to see past the window sill, but it wears off fast
7.
a relaying back of my own words is no sign of a thought process but if my words can be agreed on due to consideration this implies consciousness if my words are contradicted with a flimsy & unsubstantial foundation then no note or care is given but if my words are shown to be a farce, with reasons behind the premise this is a true display of consciousness never get caught short without a thought - use your brain if the plan of the oppressed is not to come to a compromise but to overthrow and in turn persecute their oppressors then true equality cannot be obtained “viva la revolution”, “let the people lead” is what they say but this is simply a table turned and another unfair tipping of the scale the only thing we have jurisdiction over in this life is our brains and our thoughts if we allow the bliss of ignorance to overtake our minds, we will have nothing left there is nothing worse than a premise decided on by pure regurgitation not from thought and consideration but someone else’s opinion
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Rust 04:44
it seems like everybody is a singer-songwriter I guess its not hard, i'm not gonna lie to you: you just need a guitar and a story, some chords with a melody a little power and money, rhythm and harmony and its not a bad thing but it sucks when the songs they sing make you feel cheated after actually conversing with the author of that song that used to mean something it just goes to show that you should probably never meet your heroes, not that i have any anyway idols just seem to get in the way of your own thoughts and opinions as you adopt their gospel as truth and i don't think that will fade with youth. youth seems to me to be an excuse and a reason to explain why you don't know what they say you'll learn as a 'man' that 'one day' upon realising maturity when you can talk down to those of a lesser age when actually you've really only found how to gauge your control over those who are on the same page as you once were, back in your own day "way back in the hey day" may this be last i hear about someone who wants to stay in the past a place that always looks better in hindsight a place where you don't need to make light of situations that just might have been a lot worse and never actually worked out alright

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released June 2, 2012

lyrics by chris ryan
music by grand hotel paradox

recorded & mixed by chris ryan in dubai/belfast april 2012
mastered by bob weston at chicago mastering service in may 2012

cover photo by samar alkhudhairi
artwork design by gyula deak

Released through abbreviatedrecords.com for CD and digital download release.

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Nomadic DIY punk band elected into power in 2010.

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