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More of the World

by Summersett

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1.
IF WE GO BACK Our feet soaked among the reeds Gentle slope can’t see our knees In the current we might belong Shoes on the bank old tongues from a day now gone We are in Time up to our hips
Around us he climbs shape of us slips
Into his river uncareful and sure
Clothes on the rocks warm from an age that we were If we go back to how it was All of this is just because Follow me into the drift We won’t get another chance like this What now love what next the future will give For now just held breath between these aching ribs And the hour probably wrong World above us is a stranger from a day now gone If we go back to how it was All of this is just because Follow me into the drift We won’t get another chance like this We won’t get another chance like this If we go back to how it was All of this is just because Follow me into the drift We won’t get another chance like this
2.
Father plays music with friends at the end of the house They’re high on cake and the quartets of Schubert and Strauss They miss some notes but they all meet up at the end When they’ve finished laughing they nod and they play it again Auntie Nell sees a picture a square of red floating in black She turns to her husband says Hell Dave I could paint that On to the next one Blue divided by Blue But Dave he can’t move he is trembling hard in his shoes He’s in the land of sandless hours Last seen a moment ago Not sure of the world he is more of the world And as old as the world is old Mum sees a play where the lovers make the wrong choice She’s pinned to her seat by a note in the actress’ voice She walks home three miles and doesn’t notice the rain She can’t afford it but next day she goes again This time she knows from the start it’s a fight to the death She’s pinned to her seat by the sound of the audience’s breath She walks home three miles and doesn’t notice the cold She coughs for a week as the city around her turns gold She’s in the land of sandless hours Last seen a moment ago Not sure of the world she is more of the world And as old as the world is old Brother reads Tolstoy aloud in cell A-82 He’s in for crimes that I cannot repeat in this room He likes the Russians everything else is a blur Lights out at eleven he lies in the dark with the words The family has gathered to say their goodbyes to Aunt Nell She was hiding an easter egg under the couch when she fell Father plays music with friends at the back of the church They’re missing some notes but we all join in on the search We’re in the land of sandless hours Last seen a moment ago Not sure of the world we are more of the world And as old as the world is old
3.
Father plays music with friends at the end of the house They’re high on cake and the quartets of Schubert and Strauss They miss some notes but they all meet up at the end When they’ve finished laughing they nod and they play it again Auntie Nell sees a picture a square of red floating in black She turns to her husband says Hell Dave I could paint that On to the next one Blue divided by Blue But Dave he can’t move he is trembling hard in his shoes He’s in the land of sandless hours Last seen a moment ago Not sure of the world he is more of the world And as old as the world is old Mum sees a play where the lovers make the wrong choice She’s pinned to her seat by a note in the actress’ voice She walks home three miles and doesn’t notice the rain She can’t afford it but next day she goes again This time she knows from the start it’s a fight to the death She’s pinned to her seat by the sound of the audience’s breath She walks home three miles and doesn’t notice the cold She coughs for a week as the city around her turns gold She’s in the land of sandless hours Last seen a moment ago Not sure of the world she is more of the world And as old as the world is old Brother reads Tolstoy aloud in cell A-82 He’s in for crimes that I cannot repeat in this room He likes the Russians everything else is a blur Lights out at eleven he lies in the dark with the words The family has gathered to say their goodbyes to Aunt Nell She was hiding an easter egg under the couch when she fell Father plays music with friends at the back of the church They’re missing some notes but we all join in on the search We’re in the land of sandless hours Last seen a moment ago Not sure of the world we are more of the world And as old as the world is old
4.
I Accept 03:27
Snow is on the ground I accept My new truck broke down I accept Ain’t no jobs in town I accept I can’t make ends meet I accept Nighttime I can’t sleep I accept Spiders in the sheets I accept Maybe it’s just you that I don’t get You showed me our ending in the stars You poured me wine and said that’s all you are Locusts in the corn I accept Morrow comes the storm I accept Sorrow brings the dawn I accept Sky rolls up I accept Rolls up like a scroll I accept Can’t say we weren’t told I accept Maybe it’s just you that I don’t get You showed me our ending in the stars You poured me wine and said that’s all you are There’s still a shape in the grass where we lay I’ll go back there on the last day Yes I’ll go back where we once slept You won’t be there but I accept You showed me our ending in the stars You poured me wine and said that’s all you are
5.
GOODBYE LONDON The juggler who drops his knives He stops and he tells us why An American starts to cry The English just walk on by A speaker shouts in the park An empire in her bark An old lion in her heart The pigeons fly home it’s dark They fly home to Saint Martin They fly home to find England They know another sky Where the myth has not died Goodbye London I’m not far I’m in a sky where I can hear the lark Soldiers in hats of fur Who are they asks a girl The tour guide is not so sure Still us or just who we were The palace has drawn a crowd Maybe the Queen’s about The taxis go round and round The pigeons fly home it’s loud They fly home to Saint Martin They fly home to find England They know another sky Where the myth has not died Goodbye London I’m not far I’m in a sky where I can hear the lark They know another sky Where the myth has not died Goodbye London I’m not far I’m in a sky where I can hear the lark
6.
VIDEO GAME SYMPHONY Talk it out at dinner make a plan eat less sugar And a pact to love you better suitcase packed once again Will your words reassure me to see a kind of circle Dancing three round a kitchen spinning somehow in control of it I’m falling into symphony dreamt about Japan Something that it told me is coming for us bold as hell Weeks apart and I’m unsteady windy mountain I will need a heart when my feet are on the ground- -ed now in Phoenix Arizona you’re the phoenix in Cologne We are burning we are busy missing breakfast missing nothing And we’re falling into symphony dreamt about Japan Something that it told me is coming for us bold as hell Ohhh Fragile in their mirrors they could drown in shallow waters This is but a puzzle it will hold them in the past She will raise her voice to him and hopes it will be singing He will face the monster stronger at the ending In the air I see ground’s another fear Gathering the world it’s perfect from up here You’ll remind me it’s for playing not rushing to the end You are coming for me courage I’ve been waiting for a hundred years Falling into symphony dreamt about a man Something that he told me is coming for us boldly in this video game symphony roustabout Japan Spinning in a vision we are somehow in control of it A video game symphony roustabout Japan Oh I’m falling I’m falling and it feels like Ohhh
7.
Asleep 02:32
ASLEEP How long my friend have I been asleep Funny how near you were to my ear But I didn’t hear a peep How long have I been asleep How long my friend have I not been here Or was that me I passed in the street Smiling from my hemisphere How long have I not been here The answer’s in the asker is this freedom or disaster Walking through folly a forest of fall leaves That fell where we felt it once maybe twice How long my friend have I lived in fear But I like being alone I like being alone A duet for one drum through the years How long have I lived in fear The answer’s in the asker is this freedom or disaster Walking through folly a forest of fall leaves That fell where we felt it once maybe twice How long my friend have I been asleep I think last year the truth found my ear But I didn’t hear a peep How long have I been asleep I think it must have been deep
8.
REINDEER DILETTANTE There she is Artist of the hour At a counter in the café A one-grey-haired sage Half my age Scrolling Ulysses Chewing on vegan cheese Here in my old haunt What a dilettante She’s off to the corner For an avocado smoothie Wearing what I wore in 1993 What’s she thinking she’s so groovy She’s the cast of her own movie Indie drama dark but funny How does she make money I want you want you to think that I have something That I have something too How do I make money Determine who’s my honey The book says keep it up ol' Mac You’re obsolete unless you’re up and running Give me airport bar downers Slide that cock’n’tail down the counter Gonna fly to Alaska to melt my cold heart With the reindeer and my dilettantitis I want you want you to think that I have something That I have something too
9.
IN THE THROES   Strong performance                           Your hand is on my knee                   Strange confession                            Take your hand off my knee                         Oblivion you look at your phone    World moves slow Me in tow Oh  I’m in the throes I’m in the throes in a throe In the throes I’m in the throes I’ve been thrown  Cyan sayonara cyanide Or cayenne pepper take out stay inside I’m in the throes I’m in the throes in a throe In the throes I’m in the throes I’ve been thrown  And if I could change you Will you let me know And if I could change me I will let me go  World moves slow Me in tow Oh
10.
MONTREAL RIVER From the Montreal River where the grey beast waits To embrace in its mouth our decay and I know In this place there is nothing we can do or say That would make as much sense as a harbour of snow And the eagle thrives here they say And the crow brings night across the bay We will all fall here one day So we fly anyway I know it’s you and I know I knew I can see from the water where the rocks lay years Layered sand layered time colored cakes in a cliff You in the agate your reflection shines Pour open more rub me hard make us smooth In my wrinkles you will find all things And the tree makes time a ring Tell me without saying And we'll fly anyway I know it’s you and I know I knew I know it’s you and I know I'm Home
11.
Old Prayer 02:54
OLD PRAYER I used to pray when I was a child Please god don't take them yet Now he sings when the day is done Now she stands in the setting sun They find a way to say goodbye One word at a time Now he sings when the sun is low Now she says I know what I know I'm learning how to keep them here Two rooms in my mind There he sings when the fire is low There she says I’ll go when I go I used to pray when I was a child Please god don't take them yet One day you'll sing when the day is done And I will stand in the setting sun

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More of the World is a setting free of fantasies, griefs, whimsy and myth; each piece a character unto itself, channeled by Patricia’s dark burgundy voice. The album builds upon the band’s signature earthy intimacy, reflecting — in a rapture of voice, keys and strings — a world coming to terms with its own sublime delusions.

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released May 16, 2023

MORE OF THE WORLD
produced by Summersett & Ryan Battistuzzi
recorded and mixed by Ryan Battistuzzi at
Le Stuzzio and Breakglass Studios
additional recording by Sarah Shin and Ryan Battistuzzi at Salle Joseph-Rouleau mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market
in Montreal, Quebec
artwork: sculpture & images by Julia Agnes
design by Lou Rigoudy
Summersett © 2023

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Summersett is the outcome of a creative duality. Intimate piano and earthy voice give way to ecstatic orchestral rock. Nick Carpenter and Patricia Summersett are joined by classical and jazz musicians to create Summersett. Art/folk with elements of cabaret and new chanson. ... more

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