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thatwasthen Rocks and Sand Live at The Dragonfly

Here’s “Rocks and Sand” from our album Q.E.D. live from The Dragonfly in Hollywood CA, August 22, 2010.

Get out of your head Live at The Freakin Frog, Las Vegas, NV

On May 22nd, thatwasthen played their first show in Las Vegas. Here is our encore performance of “Get out of your head” from Q.E.D.

Here are some shots from the rest of the set.

: thatwasthen live at The Freakin Frog

UCLA Mighty Mic 2010 Places to End

Here is the third video from our performance at UCLA’s annual Mighty Mic 2010. This is the track “Places to End” from Q.E.D. Thank you to everyone who came out to support this great cause.

Mighty Mic is a student-run group that organizes a benefit concert every spring at UCLA. Our goal is to use music and other forms of artistic expression as a medium for raising awareness about human rights violations and helping people take action. Two years ago, with OK Go as our headlining band, we raised over $20, 000 to help refugees of the genocide in Darfur. Last year, Blackalicious and Daphne Loves Derby along with many other musical acts joined together to highlight the struggle for human rights in Burma. This year’s concert will focus on the issues of violence and displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

thatwasthen at UCLA Mighty Mic 2010 performing "Places to End" from Q.E.D.

DVD Teaser 2 57 Miles feat. Raymond Woods

Here is the second cut from our DVD, 57 Miles featuring Raymond Woods on piano. This was filmed at Dana Hills High School during a fund raiser for SOSCA, one of the school’s many student programs.

Video Credits:

Editing: Benny Dacks

Photography: Elko Weaver, Ryan Belenzon

Places To End lyrics

This song was written in the time just before we hit the studio to record “QED” in July 2008.

Nicky and Nate hammered this out, and when it was done we knew it was a keeper. We made it about the contrast between viewpoints regarding the violence in the middle east.

Places to End

Locking pop cans on the fencepost
just like the oil, you’re boring
Obviously lacking modesty, you’ve got a policy too foreign

Like Stormin’ Norman you’re combing the sand
Screwing, ruining the lives you hold in your hand
People begging, dying, crying
saying, “Open up your eyes!”
But you’re not seeing.

Oh Hell!
I am home still
if we don’t kill each and every last one
Brother, grab you a gun

I’m in line with the sky’s design
I’m disguised behind the ancient cloth.
The hatred makes it hot.
There’s children crying at rounds in the air.
It’s everywhere.
We scatter, scared.
Erect our necks,
“Oh, who is next?”
We’re so perplexed,
the Holy Text couldn’t ever have prepared us for this.

Oh Hell!
I am home still
if we don’t kill each and every last one
Brother, grab you a gun
And go fill
the window sill
We’ll get those devil people running.
No, they’ll never see it coming.
Desert hummers humming, coming to kill.

Children, walk around it.
Let’s not talk about it.
We won’t have to see their faces again.

Lying bleeding, beaten
In the trees of Eden.
O, of all the places to end.

O, of all the places to end.
We won’t see their faces again.
O, of all the places to end.
This is the place it will end.

live at the coach house – get out of your head

shot by adam young

The Long Count Lyrics

today, this song has particular significance…

(UNTIL) THE LONG COUNT (ENDS)

All along,
You
Waited for the right time
Orbiting the moon,
Without you… without you

She waves at me
She waved at me
Its wave by pounding wave you see
I can’t lie
To those blue skies (eyes)

Ashamed of me
The blame’s with me
I’ve tamed the lame
Inside of me
I could cry
Or gouge my eyes

The night you put your hand inside my chest
Was the first time I’ve been touched without the mess
I confess, it was the best,
The hardest test
I had to guess
So hold me in your loving arms
And let me rest

UNTIL THE LONG COUNT ENDS

She plays with me, for days you see
It’s day by playful day with me
Turned around and upside down

Engaged to me
Enabled me
The space she layed
It stables me
I know how
To stay here now

the night you grabbed onto my soul and squeezed
it turns out that’s exactly what I need
so pleased and teased
I’ve pleaded bleeding
Cheating seeing
What was simply a part of me
So pardon me again

UNTIL THE LONG COUNT ENDS

I can’t change, except maybe for her
I won’t change, except when I’m with her

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Listen to Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2009)

Quod Erat Demonstrandum by thatwasthen

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The Long Count

All along,
You
Waited for the right time
Orbiting the moon,
Without you… without you

She waves at me
She waved at me
Its wave by pounding wave you see
I can’t lie
To those blue skies (eyes)

Ashamed of me
The blame’s with me
I’ve tamed the lame
Inside of me
I could cry
Or gouge my eyes

UNTIL THE LONG COUNT ENDS

She plays with me, for days you see
It’s day by playful day with me
Turned around and upside down

Engaged to me
Enabled me
The space she layed
It stables me
I know how
To stay here now

the night you grabbed onto my soul and squeezed
it turns out that’s exactly what I need
so pleased and teased
I’ve pleaded bleeding
Cheating seeing
What was simply a part of me
So pardon me again

UNTIL THE LONG COUNT ENDS

I can’t change, except maybe for her
I won’t change, except when I’m with her

Get out of your head

That girl
She don’t mean shit
I can’t bothered by it
If I’ve told you once, it’s been a million times
That girl’s
A book of lies,
Why’d you look into her eyes?
Just run away…that’s a million and one!

GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
You’ve got to let these things happen
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
And it’s time that you got yourself a bit of control
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
They were all trouble from the start
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD
GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD

It’s done
Just shut it down
You don’t need anybody else around
Everything you need to move on is here
Know this,
She’s playing you
They talk in circles just to see what you will do
It’s their way of faking that they’re loved

I know why you’ve got all these things mixed up
Take the time to feel the planet spin
It’s the power of suggestion
You never questioned
A thing
About who they were
What they wanted
Or why they were there
Even, why they’re worth your time?!
It’s a dangerous business
The lesson is this:
There are more rough times ahead
So let yourself enjoy the moment while it lasts AND PLEASE

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