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Casualties To Calendars
02:48
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I’ve seen your face in city lights, expelling night. Hooray, hooray for night and day. The city noise becomes our skin. A heart, a home. Hooray, hooray for night and day.
The Casualties (the days) to calendars (the years).
Do people change? Yes, Sir!
Am I one of them? Unknown.
Allegiances to pass the time. A blueish face. Hooray, hooray for night and day. A fitting hand and Chimney Smoke. Enjoy. Repeat. Hooray, hooray for night and day.
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The Last Best West
03:01
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We left that land in search for another. Each 20 years you’re left or you’re leaving. We spread ourselves like chicken feed across a face so wild and free to discover.
I’ve got these hands but what are they good for? To till the earth and pray for a ten-fold. Gambling with Jarilo for life and limb and room to dream of another.
Oh where, oh when, where will I see my love again? A duplicate made from all I remember there. We carved these walls like we were gods and men. A belted earth made up of ties and nails in hands, taming what we discover.
I’ve got these hands but what are they good for?
They raise this drink unto my lips.
Why, Oh, Why? What are you looking for?
These roots to discover.
These routes to discover.
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We'll All Stick Together
02:27
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Family of three at the Royal Hospital waiting to take their Reesey home.
Just recently was pulled out of a scar into the world.
Where three is here there’s room for a few more.
Gimme your hand, gimme your heart. We’ll all stick together.
When you’re off to school your friends might tell you stories about how their family tree is cut. You won’t hear a fight, no you won’t hear a scream. We’ll whisper disagreements in the dark.
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Prairie Girl
02:36
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Where did you come from?
Somewhere past Carlyle, grew up on volleyball games and gas station movies, graduated a year early, high-tailed it to the big city. Got a job selling clothes at the mall. Fell in love with the boy from Orange Julius.
But it made you miss home--- the streets you could count all the names you would know.
Oh, prairie girl. The sunrise is peaking. We stayed here too long, watching the starlight. There’s a lily on your shoulder. Staying is your game but every year I get older.
You spoke in an accent and followed it home. Burned through a B.Ed. then you made it back home to teacher younger yous and raise 2 or 3 on ice hockey games and farmer TV. Fell in love with another who would never leave, fall asleep to the wind blowing through barley fields.
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You Remind Me of A Ghost
02:26
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When this city was a brother I’d stay up all night
‘cause it felt good to be agreed with.
When this river was lover, how my lips would quiver
as she baptized me in her dirty water.
All that excrement that flows from Edmonton.
When this valley was my friend how my teeth would chatter
as the first snow fell as if to pardon our failures.
I parse your post. You remind me of a ghost.
You remind me of a ghost of this land that I love
These prairies have no borders
You remind me of a note I was writing out on Dief Beach all alone and small trying to get some things right. You remind me of the roads I was crossing and the fields I was coming to when walking into Smokey that night. You remind me of my great-grandfather saying, “There’s no land in Poland and no man’s a man with no land.”
You remind me of a ghost.
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Friend Friend Saskatchewan
For their Sophomore release; Not Particularly Dignified or Newsworthy Friend Friend partnered with their band member and producer, Matt Froese to create 5 Indie folk power-pop anthems for the everyman/woman.
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