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If We Go Back
02:56
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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
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2. |
More of the World
05:46
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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
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Mount Royal Rag
02:41
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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
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4. |
I Accept
03:27
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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
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5. |
Goodbye London
03:37
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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
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6. |
Video Game Symphony
04:59
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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
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7. |
Asleep
02:32
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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
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8. |
Reindeer Dilettante
02:41
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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
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9. |
In The Throes
04:04
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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
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10. |
Montreal River
03:29
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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
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11. |
Old Prayer
02:54
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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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Summersett Montreal, Québec
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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