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4 o'clock in the afternoon

by Chase Petra

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1.
Keanu Reeves 03:56
4 o’clock in the afternoons no place to be the sun mocks me in the sky, all I ask to do is sleep but no one can hear me its too loud on this backstreet the telephone wires drown me out, my ears are bleeding and all that I, is all that I, is all that I am is locked in a drawer at home, god damn lost the key, can’t ever leave, I am going home to my bedroom to pass the time alone inundation, informations holding me down simulation, I’m on the run from Keanu now but who cares if its not real because I can still feel and I hurt like a child with an unreconciled need to carve out a smile on a face I revile and all that I, is all that I, is all that I am is locked in a drawer at home, god damn lost the key, can’t ever leave, I am going home to my bedroom to pass the time alone alone x2 and all that I, is all that I, is all that I am is locked in a drawer at home, god damn lost the key, can’t ever leave, I am going home to my bedroom to pass the time alone alone x4
2.
Josslyn 03:12
Josslyn you’re really in for it now cause your blood has lit your head aflame, no wonder how those that have come before you burn bright with a hope and a truth too Josslyn you’re really in for it now baby, don’t you see this is what you’re gonna be look at me, your ma, and Mary there’s no such thing as destiny, you choose what you wanna be but this ain’t a bad start, believe me the kind of kid the world doesn’t know what to do with but look here in the mirror and just so that I am clear Josslyn you’re really in for it now cause your blood has lit your head aflame, no wonder how Josslyn x4 don’t fret, don’t be scared but at least be self-aware only take what you can carry be better than us, loving, kind, and ferocious take all that is necessary the kind of girl that makes the stomachs of weaker men curl best believe your legacy is that of women in the ring Josslyn x4 (people are never as good or as bad as you can imagine so just take a step back love where you can but don’t ever forget that kindness is all you can give in the grand scheme but don’t you negate the power of angry you are a force to be reckoned with, baby) x2 Josslyn you’re really in for it now cause your blood has lit your head aflame, no wonder how those that have come before you burn bright with a hope and a truth too Josslyn you’re really in for it now Josslyn you’re in
3.
nature versus nurture how can I know what’s true, what’s me, what’s you mother, maybe father which words are mine, are you, am I they crumbled right in front of me I wasn't ready to see all of their humanity I was too young to play all of their grown-up games played a pawn anyways weren’t you the ones who said I had to get over it I did my best, check my progress I am an adult now black and white can’t hurt me how it did back then so back down weren’t you both the ones who said I had to get over it nature versus nurture how can I know what is real, what’s true mother, father you are flawed and you can falter I forgive you now I have perspective and can see you I don’t have to hide from myself from the parts that resemble you mother and father just follow suit, forgive each other they crumbled right in front of me I wasn't ready to see all of their humanity I was too young to play all of their grown-up games played a pawn anyways weren’t you the ones who said I had to get over it I did my best, check my progress I am an adult now black and white can’t hurt me how it did back then so back down x3 (years spent waiting just surviving til I could reach autonomy) x2 alone, eighteen angry, twenty forgiving, I’m twenty-three they crumbled right in front of me I wasn't ready to see all of their humanity I was too young to play all of their grown-up games played a pawn anyways weren’t you the ones who said I had to get over it I did my best, check my progress I am an adult now black and white can’t hurt me how it did back then so back down I had to grow up too fast you know those effects, they last but I put it in the past I had to grow up too fast and if I could do that you can do this, its all I ask
4.
couldn’t keep the flowers alive so I had no choice but to find the beauty in their demise, cracking off leaves after they’d dried couldn’t keep the flowers alive and well you know how hard I try to laugh at absurdity and death is the most absurd thing, well with melancholy and a little grief we might find peace nothing is rose-colored in the fall and it had become my new favorite season cause we don’t have to hide Between pretty lies nothing is rose, nothing is rose-colored in the fall its time to make a call in this October windfall wearing black on a daily basis, mourning becomes homeostasis if we focus on what we’ve lost every second looks like a cost so go dig up your brightest sweater, laugh loudly and dress for the weather just because the Summer is done doesn’t mean we can;t embrace the sun for what its done with melancholy and a little grief we might find peace nothing is rose-colored in the fall and it had become my new favorite season cause we don’t have to hide Between pretty lies nothing is rose, nothing is rose-colored in the fall its time to make a call in this October windfall to have loved and lost how lucky for us its been cried a million times, still how lucky for us nothing is rose-colored in the fall and it had become my new favorite season cause we don’t have to hide Between pretty lies nothing is rose, nothing is rose-colored in the fall its time to make a call in this October windfall (I am lucky to have lost you, I am lucky, I am lucky, I am I am lucky to have loved you, I am lucky, I am lucky, I am) people become the pictures we keep, we only recall that which we can still see in our periphery, neither fiction nor actuality always stuck somewhere just in between (I am lucky, I am lucky, I am)
5.
Sightseer 03:30
consciousness is a phase, a fleeting turn sideways I think therefore I am even though I don’t understand if I am where I am supposed to be can I free myself from this quandary thats endless I just wanna rest (sure I’ll leave my ego right at the door waiting for me on the ground floor but don’t know if I am me anymore) x2 do you think its ok if I don’t know who I am today is it quite alright if I’m just a little off tonight even though none of this means anything in the end I’m grateful to be here so call the sightseer the sightseer (sure I’ll leave my ego right at the door waiting for me on the ground floor but don’t know if I am me anymore) x2 every time I look in the mirror its that one little word, that great big fear is it dissociate or disassociate could somebody get back to me on that, please (sure I’ll leave my ego right at the door waiting for me on the ground floor but don’t know if I am me anymore) x2
6.
Pacific 03:16
I hate gambling but I was handed a full house the swords on the cards sliced open my palms and all I could do was bleed on the money I’d won and everyone was confused didn’t know why I was blue couldn’t show them my wounds had to bluff after the game knowing it wasn’t the same I put a smile on my face cause I looked like I owned the ocean after twenty years of staring at the sea and all I could think about was the sand at the bottom and how I wished that it would bury me and how the speed of light is far too fast to barrel into a tidal wave, last night I cried enough to make the Pacific blush now hear me say I hate gambling but I was handed a full house lost an ace in the deck don’t know how I’ll get around this and everyone was confused didn’t know why I was blue couldn’t show them my wounds had to bluff after the game knowing it wasn’t the same I put a smile on my face cause I looked like I owned the ocean after twenty years of staring at the sea and all I could think about was the sand at the bottom and how I wished that it would bury me and how the speed of light is far too fast to barrel into a tidal wave, last night I cried enough to make the Pacific blush now hear me say I’m sorry x8 cause I looked like I owned the ocean after twenty years of staring at the sea and all I could think about was the sand at the bottom and how I wished that it would bury me and how the speed of light is far too fast to barrel into a tidal wave, last night I cried enough to make the Pacific blush now hear me say I’m sorry x4

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“4 o’clock in the afternoon is no place to be/The sun mocks me in the sky, all I ask to do is sleep.”

This is the opening line and namesake of 4 O’Clock in the Afternoon, the new EP from Long Beach, California trio Chase Petra. It comes from the lead single and first track, “Keanu Reeves,” a tense, bubbling pop-punk churn over which vocalist and guitarist Hunter Allen sings about an existential malaise that somehow always hits at 4 P.M. That’s where Reeves comes in: Allen is on the run from the actor’s Matrix assertions that all that we experience isn’t real. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the late sun is beating down and the day is slipping away while you’re stuck inside, the thought is dangerously convincing.

4 O’Clock in the Afternoon establishes Chase Petra as a force to watch in contemporary alternative, but also as some of the sharpest sociocultural analysts of the moment. Put the record on, and bash your sorrow away with them.

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released April 8, 2022

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