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Jeremy / HI54LOFI I had already purchased this album directly from Max's website awhile back… but I see it is now up on Bandcamp, and he did send me more copies than I paid for, so… Favorite track: the start of fables.
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1.
keep us all 03:57
keep us all mama I have known you keep us all gathering the jasmine keep us all laughing at the new church keep us all living in this house you rented an apartment keep us all the dog's first winter keep us all he don't know why he's shaking keep us all living in this house father look around you keep us all the animals are restless keep us all wild roses laughing keep us all living in this house I know what you wanted there were rooms we didn't use I know what you wanted still, quiet rooms
2.
home 04:07
home I returned with nothing to say we were walking on sumac laid bare by the rain to be heard is the fear of a child there is no one out here there is no one for miles so show me the shattercane weeds the great silos that stay empty summer storms that will rock you to sleep that have rocked you to sleep show me my country I came back with nothing to say we were walking on sumac laid bare by the rain and beyond the thickening trees the clicking of claws on the rocks of the creek the night sky that lay out like the sea summer fields hunting rosemary leaves where'd you go when you turned seventeen where were you what'd you see show me my country you dreamt of walls made of stone and beneath the floorboards were coyote bones you'll be wherever you go but the wind is persistent which carries you home so show me some towering oak with gray branches that start way down low you said there were times you were full where were you where'd you go my love she said to me you can't just move anything the wind only takes dead leaves show me my country
3.
say that you know me you and I wrote songs together I remember your question why don't you sing that way when people are paying attention we joined the county choir and you asked if it was alright if you shouted lines from In The Pines over top the Hammersteins and at night we climbed the silos at elm farm you said i'm still here I said I know that you are but if you leave I need something regardless please say say that you know me I got lost in the trees in the takeover weeds in the nightsongs of the birds I'd holler out loud then hope that nobody heard you and I went to the county fair and danced and didn't speak and I took your hand and for a moment you held on to me and the dark was thick and lined with dogwoods in bloom I said you're the only one I ever wanted to sing to so as you leave I need something regardless please say say that you know me I haven't seen it but I know it's up a little bit ahead and when I get there honey won't I get a little bit of rest I get so quiet there is so much I left unsaid and when I say it honey won't I get a little bit of rest and as the dark that stays beneath the widest pines the tallest trees is where I go where I need to be before you leave I need one thing regardless of what you think please say that you know me
4.
wildfires outside laramie, wy I bought a box chockablock of tangerines and I keep it on the floor behind the passenger seat find me at the wildfire way too late with a watering can and a roll of ticker tape find me in your college shirt tapping my feet find me on the road when you need something sweet sighing when the sound gets low sending songs up to god I don't singing to the burning leaves sing until the fireweed grows on wyoming roads passing piles of coal when our only hope is to let it be i'm for you you're for me in the last days of August the birds flew slow in the rippling skies in the herbicide smoke and the county helicopters dropped quarter mile rope it was moving too fast it was too hard to hold find me outside of laramie shouting at the freeway and chopping down trees sighing when the sound gets low... on wyoming roads... rained 3 days it was all white noise state officials over credited and overjoyed you said the rain never fell back in laramie and it's burning still and they're chopping down trees next summer I'll be back with something more sweet next summer I'll be back with whatever you need sighing when the sound gets low... on wyoming roads...
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amapolas, part one adelaida came from mayaguez to east la bringing yuca root and flowers too and adelaida moved ever toward somebody new when they shot luis she brought flowers east and her nieces cried how'd it get so dark round your eyes she said baby don't you know where them flowers go adelaida please you took such good care of me I’ve been looking for you and those flowers too
6.
I won’t mess you up oh I’ll get mine from the cold winter sea and i won’t give you nothing cause I think you need it I won’t mess you up and I won’t make you down just marry me in portlandtown you avoided the praise and you hated the shine you said they got their beauty and I have got mine hey I won’t dress you up in no white wedding gown just marry me in portlandtown the birds prehistoric the winter a bear honey we built this here we could go anywhere we will not be romantics we’ll live on the ground just marry me in portlandtown so far we haven’t walked anybody’s line so this will just be yours an it will just be mine and we’ll bring it home this time I’ll get mine from the cold winter sea and I won’t give you nothing cause I think you need it I won’t mess you up and I won’t make you down just marry me in portlandtown
7.
the start of fables charlie what do you think you outlived the frost bite and followed every beast bring it all back and be kind tell a story say how foxes ate the caraway seeds follow, follow me all I got's the start of fables maybe that's all we need bring it all back and be kind and be easy babe I know I never finish anything honey we've been trying honey we've been trying honey we've been trying like a barn swallow tries piling sticks so high the pastor shot the sheep held up his hands and he cried oh the wolves were coming to eat bring it all back and be kind and be gentle say the ever wild sentimental geese the blue eyed dog called your name said I’ve seen the longing flashing right across your face bring it all back and be kind stay for supper babe a bed will cost you just a dime a day honey… charlie what do you think you outlived the frostbite and followed every beast bring it all back and be kind tell a story say how foxes ate the caraway seeds follow, follow me all I got's the start of fables maybe that's all we need bring it all back and be kind and I love you babe I love the whole goddamn thing honey...
8.
you’re the farthest I go you have a weather in yourself riot comes the cricket dusk an army an orchestra and everybody wishes well and burns we built a house with seven walls the winter dawn the thickest cold the waiting by the catching stove and everybody wishes well and burns you're the farthest I go call it god what they don't know she calls it the wild geese and holds her necklace in her teeth and every time a shadow comes it's a crow we built a house with seven walls and painted them to match the birds that live beyond the death of words and every unfamiliar one was a crow you're the farthest I go when this house was a field we were in some other kind of death still the rye clover grows still the deer come bending their necks
9.
evelyn o. 03:09
evelyn o. wherever you go the northern sea is there too snow belly crows every afternoon laughing at you evelyn o. I moved back to maine again nickel and dime commander lunatic kind whatever company I was in so find my body light shining fire full and evelyn o. keep me still the mean undertow the northern sea on your breath evelyn o. we were swimmers then when we met evelyn o. I moved back to maine again nickel and dime commander lunatic kind whatever company I was in so find my body light shining fire full and evelyn o. keep me still
10.
the songs 03:31
the songs she sang the songs that buckled knees charcoal silhouettes of the waking geese the music man's waistcoat is frail disguise they don't want truth, just tell better lies the blockbuster faces in magazines the seamstress for bed sheets on halloween the lukewarm applause the failed perjuries they don't want truth, they just want to believe go now to rest she said at dawn her wet summer dress on the compressed lawn I said it has not been enough to try they don't want truth, just tell better lies gathered the hillside was clean and shone we hit the dry drums with coyote bones psalm 23 in the eulogy they don't want truth, they just want to believe time busted engines that barked and choked forgotten for useless as wedding coats the towers of men the starving ford he don't want truth, he wants something more subcontracted gardeners for cul de sacs slow moving parades of white cadillacs the national mascot the savior sighs they don't want truth, just tell better lies feed still the fire it looms the night the laughterful dinner the table white they gave their longing to flickering screens they don't want truth, they just want to believe
11.
kill the brink man kill the brink man he has done nothing he said I'll burn it down for that kill the brink man we had our champagne he said you know me babe I'm glass kill the brink man you go for miles you aren't just one thing you are vast kill the brink man we had our champagne he was not ashamed he was glad kill the brink man

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released September 12, 2014

produced by ben cosgrove
arranged, accompanied, recorded & mixed by ben cosgrove*
introduction to "kill the brink man" by ben cosgrove
additional vocals by sophie nelson
mastered by jeff lipton at peerless mastering in boston, ma
assistant mastering engineer: maria rice

*ben cosgrove played the following instruments on the record: piano, keyboards, accordion, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, electric and upright basses, trombone, euphonium, trumpet, fluglehorn, violin, drums and percussion, backing vocals

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