flood the well

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1.
Cautious All This Time 04:31
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They want to love you They want to stare They want to do just about everything My old nothing Is built on looks Make it work for me Through all nothing’s pleas Dream of an anchor Hold ‘til it hooks Watch up through the surface As the surface flees Perhaps we’ve been too cautious all this time Build myself a shack in the woods Home is where the heart cries slow and alone It’s never really a good time to roam Affable fascists Do they spell out flowers? Will we find out what our hearts Are fading for? They tell us nightmares Where we take back hours, So go on, good soldier There’s only this one war
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All Life Long 03:34
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I would call any night or day, if you Needed me in the worst way, all you Have to do is to let me know, that you Just want this to be so I can breathe In your heat I'm calling out Falling in time Retracting doubt Falling in line Masses lift up your faded brow Out of the vine Gift me your heart Gift me your heart All life long I would come any night or day, if you Wanted me in the best way, all you Have to do is to let me know, that you Just want this to be so
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Home is Half The Hope 04:01
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You've been swept by an avalanche You've been lifted through a razor wire I'll be everything good about a rainy day Laughing, soaked from the sweet storms Bullied thorough through a thankless sweep Keep your charms, love, or let your charms keep you Singing; My own loss to wear. Have I Drifted through the eye? Moaning softly, "Let it cope." Oh.. Home is half the hope Humming long for a tear Glazed up in fear Spendthrift with the summer dawn Sprout leaves like a thistle-weed Overgrown lawn singing with the greenest calm Dry caps past the last light Broad dreams in plastic as they say Break sleep with an eye for a long way in I left you on the mezzanine Looking down on your fragile dreams All my organs spread out in a display Some laugh caught in amber Dug out from a rough slope Trapped breath whispering home is half the hope Home is half the hope
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Too Long To Realize 06:43
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I took a light from the fire, Let it lift me out through the whispers. These soft hands held embers Hotter than any memory’s eyes. I am falling asleep Up in the air, where the claims run wide, And time ticks on through me; Ripples fresh with the sky. Vibrating long and wistful, Turning eyes toward the clearest why. Human hope survives Like a cockroach in nuclear tide. But after all this, You turned to me and lied, You felt all history is truth Then you turned around and my short history died. May they play our last favorite song Until the sun winds down. We'll dream of ghost sheep While the ship leaves the slip and runs aground. And all these desires took Too long to realize. Nothing ever made sense when I held sense back with a knife. And all we conspired to took Too long to realize. Everything should make sense when I push sense up to the light. But it’s full and far from truth. Thoughts swirl around As I emerge up the hill Bearing my broken heart on hunched shoulders Time weighs heavy Holds me down Like gravity’s fingers dragging through solid ground I took a sign from the height Let it realize I was the dream. Wrapped up in yarn, Where I couldn’t harm the gleam. Sip from the cup of the day Hot like a memory’s eyes. But all these quiet, short days take Too long to realize.
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Inopportune Mood 05:04
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breeze through a vow throws me a dream listing on a crave fell through the wave distracted aches warped by time come to see me as you drift along light half blood harm held back by a flight last thing to soothe drowning and nude in inopportune mood tragedies play on magnet strips burnt that heavenly song on drunk litany’s tongue parrot of a chime doubt all sore polish rubs off reveals bitter gleams orange with rust all not what it seems
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All You Like 04:28
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One to burn, Two to learn, So many rocks you can turn Promise lines, Get on the mind All of these thoughts for the blind Soft to seem, so hard to gleam Somebody said it was a dream Hold the claim, bury all the shame Break it down and blame Very fine, drifting wild, heavenly wine Catch them under the sheet Set the loop with a treat You can hope all you like Trip them up as they roam Drag them back home You can hope all you like All you like One all fine, but these two are mine Put up a hand, make a sign Aw Such a state, carry all that weight Another helping for your plate Aw But it’s no use, you gone too abstruse Lay downwind and set it loose and the Ghosts surround the fevered ground Clamp your ear and wait for sound

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fun collaborative recording project from the summer of 2022. This time we took a bit of an alt country approach to things, and I was delighted to rope Chris into playing drums on several tracks.

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released October 22, 2022

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