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1.
In City Light (free) 04:30
I been perched at high rise windows Since I took concrete for the field I been staring out these windows At the hungry city wheel And I hear we’ve been wasting our time Talking windfalls and flooding our minds But we got hollows full of wild hope Might look like fear in city light So I been slapping cowskins now Stretched tight across a drum And I been bopping my knees up and down Keeping time to no one And I been dancing in hallways But I play it down when someone comes So for each and every long day I get ten, I get ten forgotten ones And I hear we’ve been wasting our time Talking windfalls and flooding our minds But we got hollows full of wild hope Might look like fear in city light Oh I been just a whale in the waves I been showing my head but I don’t stay Oh I been writing I been writing my days down Been writing so much writing’s all I write about And I hear we’ve been wasting our time And I’m terrified of wasting my time But we all got things beneath our bedframes babe That find us in the day they find us in the day sometimes So I will stare out of these windows And I will see the city now And as I turn the wheel and feed the flow I will find the open spaces in the crowd And I hear we’ve been wasting our time And I’m terrified of wasting my time But I got hollows full of wild hope May it show in city light May it show, may it shine
2.
Took a thousand years Took a thousand years For the weeds to bend And the windows shake I’m always running and I’m always late I don’t want to say the sun rose for me But I move, I move, I move, I move And every time she stands up I do too Took a dying house Took a dying house To lean its way into the lake While the heron bends and the heron waits Lake weeds grow from the muck to the sky In time, in time, in time, in time So every time they go I stay behind In the wind, in the weeds, I know I know she falls in the wind, in the weeds, I know, I know she falls in the Wind in the weeds and a tickle my knees And a dry my shirt on a line in the breeze I don’t want to say the sun burns for me But I see, I see, I see, I see And everything she falls on I believe Took a wink of her eye Took a wink of her eye To send me back to the overgrown shore Give my boat to the weeds I don’t need it anymore I’m gonna sit with books that I read before But didn’t get, didn’t get, didn’t get, didn’t get So every time they ask I’m not ready yet Took a thousand years Took a thousand years To plant my feet in the knee high grass For the wind to come but it too shall pass So I try to pay attention when I got the time And the mind, and the mind, and the mind, and the mind But she comes and goes and with her goes the light In the wind, in the weeds, I know I know she falls in the wind, in the weeds, I know, I know she falls in the Wind in the weeds and a tickle my knees And a dry my shirt on a line in the breeze I don’t want to say the sun burns for me But I see, I see, I see, I see And everything she falls on I believe I wanna see myself turning into Something like the weeds in the wind Like the weeds in the wind And the wind in the weeds and a tickle my knees And a dry my shirt on a line in the breeze I don’t want to say the sun burns for me But I see, I see, I see, I see And everything she falls on Everything she falls on I believe
3.
Sitting in the snow now is half of a chain And his steps are like sticks Birds place on their nests As he runs like hell And the other half hangs On her neck where she sleeps With the swan where it sings Know I won’t wither and When you’re running watch where your feet land Where your feet land Wild rang the bells with the ribbons she held In her hands while she danced With drummers all around Slapping cowskins and Staring at her hips In a broke café In the busy part of day And as the way it goes, goes Scientists were scratching at her windows At her windows Catch him in the winter cause he’ll never stop Running in his white shirt his thin rubber soles Catch him in the winter cause he’ll never stop Running and he won’t see the swan for the snow He won’t see the swan for the snow He was a wrestler on the wires A runner in the thick And he felt freedom like smoke feels a flue The way her chest heaved He said he never noticed it But looked up like a dog Like the sky don’t know blue And everything he stood, stood For was well-regarded by everyone By everyone She said it on the corner of Daga Lake Drive In the windfall the lake froze Over and the geese were gone “I think that you’re tired of life” And his sky crashed down Yeah his sky crashed down And I won’t wither and When you’re running watch where your feet land Where your feet land Catch him in the winter cause he’ll never stop Running in his white shirt his thin rubber soles Catch him in the winter cause he’ll never stop Running and he won’t see the swan for the snow He won’t see the swan for the snow I tried to say our hearts were always in our heads There’s no apple where our love goes Apple where our love goes now I tried to say my dance is a simple scientist Got no roses where it comes from Roses where it comes from now
4.
Lightning (free) 04:51
Policeman came asking me where Katy is I said she left awhile back with the Frisco Bay Circus She might’ve spent her summer nights in the whiskey tent as a clown Living off her fans and five-finger discounts She probably grew out the hair on her legs and her underarms Said if you want to be her lover all you need is a humble heart Thunder in the west she had us begging to be struck like trees My crazy baby she was right about some things She left me for a girl who swung on trapeze swings Swam naked in the bay setting fire to the willows and the weeds She told the cops she grew up between the devil and the wide pacific But at least with the devil what’s right ain’t so specific When she got out she started riots at the Frisco Family Court Said if you want to be her lover all you need is a humble heart He said she’s accused of arson and perjury I said she’s not a liar but she sets fire to things Thunder in the west she had us begging to be struck like trees My crazy baby she was right about some things I heard last night her latest lover laid her down to rest In the black funeral gown that she wore as a nightdress Policeman said you should’ve told me that in the first place, now She ain’t causing any fuss if she’s lying alone in the grave, in the ground I guess he don’t know there’s like a thousand of her now Moving round the west coast burning things up and down He said she’s accused of arson and perjury I said she’s not a liar but she set fire to me Thunder in the west she had us begging to be struck like trees My crazy baby she was right about some things
5.
Gone (free) 02:54
The creek swells in August now Years after the bridge fell down We wrote our names on the debris Cops called it graffiti A rug-burned boy let minnows chew Dead white skin that clung onto The soles of his feet He fell in love as fast as flies With trees and suns and big green eyes And apologized but said some things are staggering Oh my god he whispered in Her ear her dress lay on the rocks At the creek she screamed she said You swore at me Gone awhile, gone awhile, gone awhile, I’ll be gone He kissed her and away she ran Blue sky behind her dress in hand Oh my god he said aloud he dove into the creek His body scraped across the stones The crayfish stirred the creek-bed moaned Oh so many things he thought are staggering She came back down and brought the night The cool smoke smell the fireflies And apologized You, she said, you startled me The creek swells in August now Years after the bridge fell down He wades in to his waist The current takes him in

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This is my first EP and I'm really proud of it. I'd like for as many people to hear it as possible, so please don't be shy about downloading it.

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released July 13, 2011

All tracks recorded, mixed, and mastered at Red Vault Recording in Portland, ME by Pete Morse.

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