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Blue Star
03:48
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If there was a way that all this came down
To the day I saw you first
Would you let me or forget
We ever vowed to break this curse?
On the day now don’t you let me
Roll away boxed in a hearse.
Just remember it was November
We flew away on mockingbirds.
Hey little blue star stay where you are
There’s no one else who can do what you came for,
What you’re made for
You had the softest heart I ever knew.
So I painted pictures, strung beads for my sisters
You drew and wrote your heart away
We made a pile of our desires
And danced around our empty room.
Fate came down slowly “wait”, you told me
“The sun always follows the moon”
Our love was true, you always knew
But the work I made it was for you
It’s hard to leave so baby grieve
Roll your tears down into one big
Pool to swim in where I could live in
I’ll wade your waters to no shore.
Hey little blue star don’t go to far
I had I dream that you flew from me into thin air
Hey little blue star what’s out in the dark?
I drove all night just to prove I stayed within your sight.
To be your ghost, and you’d be my star
Stay where you are.
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Phone Lines
03:44
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Waiting on phone lines
I am one of your kind
Her voice in muted chrome
She sounds young like me.
I’m the next great thing.
How can it be that
You don’t see what I see?
Moving through photographs
Steely fixed greying past
I’ll fix you a straight eye
So go tell another lie.
I’m the next great thing.
Like Elvis or Jean Genet
You just have no faith in me
So I got no faith in you.
Come one believers
Show me you still believe
Does He still hold your hand
And pull you silently?
Teach me your soul craft
Sing me your secret songs
They say that God only-
But He don’t know me at all.
You just have no faith in me
So I’ve got no faith in you.
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Adrian
03:24
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Adrian I fear the timing it ain’t ever right.
I’m always so tired and you don’t ever sleep at night.
All I need is one thing not to feel so lonely
All I need is something to fill up this slow leak out.
There’s no way to know if you’re missing out on all the good
You keep your head up high but you’re tripping over all the tree roots.
All I need is something to pull on my heart strings and
All I need is someone to blame all my mistakes
But wait you should know
That I was lying all along
But wait, why did you
Pretend, you never knew the truth
Oh Adrian, where are you?
Adrian I know the timing it ain’t ever right
You’re never tired and I sleep right through the night.
All I need is someone not to feel so lonely and
All I need is something to pull on my heart strings
But wait you should
That I’m a liar all along
But wait why did you
Pretend, you never knew the truth
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Towing Line
03:47
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I’m just a body and mind
I fill up space I pass my time
And how you doing?
I'm doing fine.
It’s strange how lamp lights window pane
Illuminates darknesss in your name
What are you doing towing the line?
What are you doing wasting time?
What gets in your way?
What big eyes hold for you.
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Panic and Pride
04:03
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Stopped counting my steps and fell off the edge of the world
I was caught by the angels of the under world.
You dived down in the ocean, pressed your knees to the floor
But my voice don’t sound like me no more.
A free man doesn’t think to escape
He’s tied down to the clouds beyond the pearly gate
You can read on his lips that he’s faking
His heart is longing to be taken.
I tuck my love into small spaces and wait
By the graces of gods who built me a stable I don’t know how to ride.
And from your shooting star, you’ll be looking down on love.
I’ve given up my panic and my pride.
There ain’t no use to plead with us now, we’d die again before we came back out
Believe I’d bleed for you if it meant something now
I’d cry for you in all your lonely hours
I tuck my love into small spaces and wait
By the graces of gods who built me a stable I don’t know how to ride.
And from your shooting star, you’ll be looking down on love.
I’ve given up my panic and my pride.
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Tell Me
04:14
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When did we get so sore,
Why do I look at you for?
I’d tell you I need you
But would that please you,
Is it to far to go?
These winged words fly around my heart
I can’t hear you call out the stars
I could name all the far and the bright ones
Now I know only lonely and light ones.
One of us will be alright
When our tears dry with the fast coming ice
You would have been my darling if you were never my dear
But you can’t stop the years.
Tell me you love me and I won’t ask for more
You can lock up your secrets beneath the floorboards.
And I’ll pretend I don’t know what they were for
Tell me you love me and I won’t ask for more.
Tell me you want me and I won’t ask you why
Won’t ask what you meant by your heavy sighs
So keep all your secrets and keep all your lies
One of us will be alright
When our tears dry with the fast coming ice
My body will love you forever
But my mind is an arrow stuck straight through the heart
Straight through the heart.
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Alex P. Whyte Calgary, Alberta
Alex P. Whyte: guitar, vocals
Sheena Hozsko: bass
Anne Gauthier: drums
"i know there
is an ocean", available SOON!
Recorded and mixed by Heather Kirby
At Lincoln County Social Club, Toronto, 2012.
CD art by Sara Glaberson
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