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seawind
02:52
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the bruises on y'r knees
walkin sideways through the trees
and all along the highway i see
signs of an older me
a stronger man than i
scattered on the riverside
and every time i try to see what changed
the memories get rearranged
by the seawind on the range
like spillin coffee on a page
sweepin up the glass on y'r kitchen floor
givin all i can and you deservin more
someone to reassure
be the breeze upon y'r moor
someone to love you right
hold you closer through the night
hold you in their arms and eternal sight
shine on all y'r shadows for eternal light
someone to love you good
like i knew i never could
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sideways
04:09
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i've been seeing it sidways
had my head in a bowl
through every distraction
it's been invisible
well if i had the answers
if i had a clue
i'd stop what i'm doin and i'd call you
i am i am i am
i can i can i can
it's too big to ignore now
like a fig on a floor
and after every decision
what would i die for
and if i fall by the wayside
would you pick me up
or pass me by without lookin up
am i am i am i
can i can i can i
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every sunlight searchin
moonlight never found
holes in holy harbours
love in dusk be drowned
but if it's all just the same
i'd rather be waving on my way to the grave
emptiness a virtue
and happiness a war
sometimes having something
leaves me wanting more
but if it's all one big chore
i'd rather be smilin on my way out the door
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4. |
y'r candor
04:07
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i’m glad to hear y'r cheerful singings - i’m glad to hear that y'r fine
i’m happy to hear that this season is bringing you love for y'r beings divine
i guess i just miss those cheerful songs, so simple and so kind
when y’r singin days are over boy, i’d gladly give you mine
lately i’ve found that y'r patterns of sound were the only things keepin me well
incipient sight said that i’d be alright, although soon i was able to tell
the serpent stopped swirlin about in my personal life while under y'r spell
bereft of y’r candor the serpent meanders and drags me on down to hell
if y’r lord knows the way, would you ask him to show me the rest of it
so i might make the best of it
magnanimous thee, why am i the debris of your providence?
why’ve i been deprived of your prominence?
if y’r dirges decree what it takes to obtain your lords sympathy
mourn my unholy history
if the patterns you breathe be the key to set free my dishonesty
let your lord lay his hand on me
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5. |
ember
02:29
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a red ember - bloomin from the dark
in september - you were fumin ‘neath the arch
i remember, i assumed it was a spark
so you wandered to another
so i sauntered to two spoken lovers
in abstraction - reaching for a limb
in protraction, though i'll screech at every dim lit
refraction - and now each and every hymn
heeds my harrows
mows my weeds
feeds my barrow
knows my needs
reads my tarot
sows my seeds
frees my sparrow
plows my pleas
and i’m fallin
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6. |
carnival
03:28
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i’m the dent in y'r car door, baby
i’m the thorn in y'r side
when you ask what we die for, honey
well who was i to decide
y'r the knick in my windshield, mama
y'r my carnival ride
carnivores on the sidewalk singin
i’ma stick by y'r side
you know i know you care but you don’t mind
i’ll stick with you i won’t leave you behind
i’m the scratch on y'r sunroof, sugar
y'r my harbouring tide
starboard stars on the skyline, sailor
i’ll stay anchored beside
y'r the kick in my mornin coffee
y'r my canadian rye
softly openin doors unspoken
leavin me nowhere to hide
you know i know you care but you don’t mind
i’ll stick with you i won’t leave you behind
you know i know you know i know
you care but you don't mind
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ominous sound
03:52
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there’s an ominous sound
after all of this
it turned around
and when i think back
what would i take back
well,
none of it
for i am the sum of it
every shattered shard & the scattered scars
and the nights when the end didn’t seem so far
well so far i see the forest for the trees
i’ll free my sorest limb
impossibly, improbably
i sought to see and i saw though dimly
there’s a song that i hear
and i call on it
whenever y’r near
and when i look up
what am i scared of
well,
none of it
for i’ll climb the sum of it
every frozen path in the aftermath
well all in all it ain’t so vast
but at last i see the forest for the trees
i’ll free my sorest limb
infathomably every atom i see
is a part of me, it’s a part of me
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mexico
04:10
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she didn't want him to leave
but he had to go
down to the boilin borders
of mexico
to see if he could find himself at all
to see if he could find himself at all
dear i love you dearly
dear i do
i've loved you since i couldn't
tie my own shoes
but i lost my will to love in mexico
gotta tie up my shoes and then i gotta go
i gotta find some god damn time
gotta find my own damn mind
'cause to love someone right
you gotta love y'rself
help me forget that god damn face
the memories i can't erase
'cause to love someone right
you gotta love y'rself
oh and i gotta find some god damn time
gotta find my own damn mind
'cause to love someone right
you gotta love y'rself
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indifferent
02:59
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do i seem different
do ya see me differently now
am i indifferent
look on indifferently now
y'r hands on the back of my neck & i’m through
with dottin my i’s & crossin my t’s for you
guess it’s nothin new
well what’s the difference
‘tween lies and instances now
and what’s persistence
if i reply consistently now
well my hands on the fore of my head & i’m through
with dottin my i’s & crossin my t’s for you
guess it’s nothin new and there’s
nothin much else i can do
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10. |
open-jaw vignette
02:57
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yeah, i reckoned it as such
i’ve been smokin too much
fire at my feet, my world in a whirl
& i’m out of touch
why do i do what i do
when will i do what i don’t
why do i say that i will
when i know i surely won’t
if only i could
quit throwin these fits
all my meaningless longings
might cease to persist
& y’r open jaw vignettes
every word that you said
has moved me in ways
that i reckon i won’t soon forget
why do i do what i do
why do i say what i say
when i know i’ll regret it
at the end of the day
if only i could
clear the mist
maybe i could look more closely
to see what this life really is
why do i say what i says
why do i do what i does
if i know it all will return
to the way that it was
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pomes Toronto, Ontario
blending the naturalistic folk sounds of the east coast of canada with the progressive, industrial sounds of toronto, pomes’ sound is an infusion of country/folk, jazz, and math-rock.
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