Love Songs for the Terminally Haunted (5 Years)

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1.	That Which Is Safe 03:20	buy track
2.	Tender Green 04:37	buy track
3.	Understanding Healing 02:15	buy track
4.	All the Things I Was Too Scared To Say 02:53	buy track
5.	We Build Our Castles In the Air 04:12	buy track
6.	Du Sang 06:37	buy track
7.	Road To Himeji 03:00	buy track
8.	But A Sound 01:31	buy track
9.	An Amputation 04:22	buy track
10.	The Hand That Rests On My Shoulder 04:52	buy track
11.	One Day We Will No Longer Hurt 04:56	buy track
12.	To Be Gentle 02:48	buy track
13.	Flesh and Blood, Bone and Dream 04:19	buy track
14.	If You Are Reading This 07:15	buy track
15.	Insurmountable 03:33	buy track
16.	7/14/19 04:41	buy track
17.	The Thought of Losing You Terrifies Me 10:00	buy track
18.	Every Day 02:00	buy track
19.	An Ardent Light 05:12	buy track
20.	Ephemeral and Endless 05:17	buy track
21.	Aftermath 04:03	buy track
22.	You Have Left Us, But Shades of Blonde Still Remind Me of You Like Wisps of Love 06:57	buy track
23.	I Was Brought To the Water By Bleak and Shimmering Bursts of Light 02:46	buy track
24.	If You Don't Like What You See When You Look In the Mirror, Don't Look / I Don't Care 03:24	buy track
25.	And I Conceded To the Incessant Noise of Flies and Insects Swarming My Body 02:50	buy track
26.	I Love You and I Am Sorry 05:55	buy track
27.	To Break the Thought Preemptively 07:09	buy track
28.	My Skull-Sized Kingdom Closes Its Eyes To You 03:26	buy track
29.	Callow and Joyous / Repurposed 03:13	buy track
30.	Practicing Self-Love / Concepts in Newfound Motion 04:26	buy track
31.	What Keeps Me Here When I Don't Feel Like I Am Enough To Stay 01:48	buy track
32.	Static In My Head / Contributions To A Marred Mental Health 03:28	buy track
33.	I Will Not Forgive You 05:38	buy track
34.	Looming 04:59	buy track
35.	Spiritual Pruning 05:12	buy track
36.	As Long As I Am With You When It Ends 05:42	buy track
37.	I Fear of Your Death and It Rips Me Apart 09:07	buy track
38.	A Thousand Words 02:58	buy track
39.	Anesthetize 03:34	buy track
40.	I Think of You Every Day 03:20	buy track
41.	Ghosts Lingering Within the Confines of My Head 02:34	buy track
42.	The Letter "I" 12:05	buy track
43.	For Claire 04:30	buy track
44.	Hyperextension 02:32	buy track
45.	The Depths of Our Trauma Is The Well From Which We Draw Our Compassion 07:12	buy track
46.	We Will Eventually Let Go 20:10	buy track
47.	Exhale 04:03	buy track
48.	Splintered 03:30	buy track
49.	Inseperable 02:17	buy track
50.	Absence 04:00	buy track
51.	Inner Child 08:31	buy track
52.	a moment that passes through us 04:09	buy track
53.	i want to go back to where the only things that mattered were you 04:52	buy track
54.	swollen memories 05:40	buy track
55.	433 04:33	buy track
56.	desperately trying to be heard 04:54	buy track
57.	the sky is pink and i am dying 06:36	buy track
58.	broken chords / miasma 08:08	buy track
59.	Attachment 04:40	buy track
60.	I Am What I Always Was 03:45	buy track
61.	Bellwether 03:28	buy track
62.	Deterred Route 04:32	buy track
63.	Gleaming and Gone 04:16	buy track
64.	In the Middle of Everything 01:48	buy track
65.	Greenhug 05:14	buy track
66.	Lingering In My Dreams 02:15	buy track
67.	Cryptic Last Words of an Old Man 05:12	buy track
68.	I Am Unafraid 04:30	buy track
69.	A Thousand Words 02:56	buy track
70.	Radiator Tubes 00:38	buy track
71.	Impulses 04:26	buy track
72.	Miasma 05:32	buy track
73.	Hell Is Real and It Rots In My Brain 07:18	buy track
74.	Wounded 05:49	buy track
75.	I Will Not Go 02:04	buy track
76.	I Love You and I Will Not Let Them Hurt You Anymore 03:02	buy track
77.	Cinders 00:56	buy track
78.	Void of Joy 05:20	buy track
79.	Paralyzed 01:44	buy track
80.	Confronting Defeatism 02:53	buy track
81.	I Love You and I Will Never Forgive Myself 04:10	buy track
82.	First Movement 02:33	buy track
83.	Second Movement 03:34	buy track
84.	Third Movement 04:06	buy track
85.	Fourth Movement 03:44	buy track
86.	Fifth Movement 02:59	buy track
87.	Sixth Movement 05:20	buy track
88.	Seventh Movement 01:48	buy track
89.	Eighth Movement 06:46	buy track
90.	Callow and Joyous 01:50	buy track
91.	Losing Sight of What Keeps Me Here 03:32	buy track
92.	Peace Be Still 03:05	buy track
93.	I Miss You 09:23	buy track
94.	Without You, I Am Nothing 04:57	buy track
95.	Sometimes 01:24	buy track
96.	Without 01:04	buy track
97.	Citrus Trees 01:47	buy track
98.	Matylda 02:32	buy track
99.	You Sound Throughout Everything 00:59	buy track
100.	Love Is The Only Way Out 00:35	buy track
101.	Aching 00:23	buy track
102.	Ineffable 02:38	buy track
103.	All the Things I Was Too Scared To Say - Live 02:51	buy track
104.	Aftermath - Live 02:38	buy track
105.	I Am Unafraid - Live 04:25	buy track
106.	If You Are Reading This - Live 07:15	buy track
107.	One Day We Will No Longer Hurt - Live 04:58	buy track
108.	That Which Is Safe - Live 02:57	buy track
109.	The Thought of Losing You Terrifies Me - Live 10:06	buy track
110.	Trauma Generation Machines 05:22	buy track
111.	Life Finds A Way 01:23	buy track
112.	Depths 01:28	buy track
113.	Webs 02:47	buy track
114.	Let Go of the Illusion That It Could Be Any Different 04:19	buy track
115.	143 01:57	buy track
116.	I Must Transform My Pain or I Will Only Transmit It 02:18	buy track
117.	May Your Magic Comfort Me 07:58	buy track
118.	Unbroken Wisps of Perseverance 06:38	buy track
119.	the crevices in my head are filling with black water 03:00	buy track
120.	i worship what will kill me 01:34	buy track
121.	it always hurts and one day it will win 01:04	buy track
122.	we are all connected and we all love you 01:08	buy track
123.	greenhug 05:11	buy track
124.	peace be still 03:03	buy track
125.	the willow tree in our backyard 02:15	buy track
126.	every time 02:40	buy track
127.	i have seen you and i 01:16	buy track
128.	the love i have to give will not die with me 02:10	buy track
129.	How Bright You Shine 04:32	buy track
130.	A Love Song for the Terminally Haunted 33:30	buy track
131.	Song of Myself 06:56	buy track
132.	Wisps of Love (For Nikko) - Live Bonus Track 21:27	buy track

about

To Be Gentle has always been a collective more so than a band; a group of people from all different walks of life and backgrounds coming together to make music and share a message.
This is an offering from the numerous people who have been a part of To Be Gentle. We would like to celebrate the 5 years of To Be Gentle with a fairly concise and in somewhat-chronological-order archive of the official tracks released throughout 2017-2022.
Thank you and much love to all of you.

credits

released November 4, 2022

Special thanks to Derek Frazier, Will Killingsworth, and Jack Shirley.

Much love to Gwen Oudomphanh, Emily Demsetz, Logan Rivera, Becca Salcedo, Piper Ferrari, Nina Palumbo, Damian Ojeda, Austin Armijo.

Thank you Larry Jablon and the Larry Records crew, Douglas Coleman and Missed Out Records, Robert and Alex and Chillwavve Records, David Norman and Zegema Beach Records, Edie Decker and Middle-Man Records, Alex Grigutsch and Miss The Stars Records.

Cover by Piper Ferrari.

To Be Gentle was formed in 2017 by Eve Beeker and Pat Fisher.

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