in tribute to my father Kenneth Cassis

1939 -2023
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everybody's talkin' (hard times version)

originally by John's Cottage (the greatest fucking band in the world)
johnscottage.bandcamp.com

Sometimes I dream you’ve come back from the dead
When I wake up I try to call you
Then it becomes clear that you’re still underground
So I shut my eyes and try dreaming again

Alone

Sometimes I dream that I’m still living there
I wake up and I start to cry
Then it becomes clear this new place isn’t better
So I close my eyes and try dreaming one more time

Alone

Sometimes I feel like I can’t yell much louder
So how come no one can hear me
Well I’ve been calling out but they just think I’m funny
Well it’s probably cause I just said that I was kidding

Alone

Sometimes I dream I've come back from the dead
And I wake up, you try to call me
But when it becomes clear that I'm still underground
I'm sorry this is where I need to be.

sometimes. (hard times version)

new single from the upcoming Go Big or Go Home

Temptress

This has somehow come to feel all but deflowering;
on these nights that I'm wild eyed, and restless.
My head's hollowed out, you can hear the echoes.
Always feeling like I'm trying to get low
with the sweetest disease.

Give it up.
Please don't ask if I'm okay;
and I won't ever ask you to stay.

The seeds of my dreams; never watered,
all hot and bothered.
This lights too bright, it burns my eyes.
My head's screaming so loud, you can hear the echoes.
Always feeling like I'm trying to get low
with the sweetest disease.

Give it up.
Please, don't ask if I'm okay;
and I won't ever ask you to stay.

Get low with the sweetest disease
lost in the fog
and never really free
it's all a dream.

Sad Magique (The Sweetest Disease) [Demo]

First song from the forthcoming "Home, and How to Know You've Found Them"

Hang The Moon (Phil Spina Mix)

Written and arranged by Alec Lorentz
Performed by common cycles.

Hey, you know; tonight, I really miss you
and mutuality is not the issue
because I'm stuck in London, you're in Montreal;
and I don't have much money or some that I could borrow
but I get to see you every now and then
so tonight, it looks like I'm missing you again.

So I'll smoke some cigarettes to fill my room with haze;
and every day I'm getting caught up in this daze
because I'm not there, and you're not here
So, I'll spend my last 20 dollars on liquor and beer.
When will this vicious cycle end because
tonight, it looks like I'm missing you again.

You know I miss you every day but the busses are just too much to pay
and I don't have a car or gas money anyway.
So tonight it looks like I'm gonna be missing you again.

I'm missing you again.

Tonight, I'm Missing You (feat. Alec Lorentz)

An apartment where no one stays
awaits me in my wake
the air is stale as hell
and I've rung myself like a bell
more than I could ever tell

A home that no one makes
is where I'll be raised
in my lonely later days
hating the feeling of having it
all to myself

I hate this stupid place
I miss all of your faces

Oh so wasted
and so faded
I am

I'm not stuck here
but I'm stuck here...
I don't wanna be alone
but just please leave me alone

I hate this stupid place
I miss all of your faces

I only see one way out of here
and soon I'll face it
I only see one way out of here
and that's to keep getting wasted
I only see one way out of here
and maybe I'll take it
I only see one way out of here
and oh, I can almost taste it

I hate this stupid place
I miss all of your faces
I hate this stupid place
but I'll only leave it like this

Oh, so wasted
and so faded
I am alone
I'm so alone.

wreck loose.

bedroom demo of something new.
raw and rough, like a storm.

storm. (hard times version)

You filled my cracks with gold
I felt okay with growing
Hand in hand in sand and snow
Beauty, never let me go
It's been many long weeks
Since the days have turned this bleak
but, you're behind my eyes, still bringing relief
and I'm right where you left me

I guess I shouldn't
but I do miss you

See everything we could've been
Torn from us in crumbling disease
I was templed in your body like a god
and then tossed away like the black spit in your cough
It's been a couple of long years
Since I've been choking back these tears
and, you're behind my eyes, still bringing me grief
and I'm still right where you left me

I guess I shouldn't
but I do miss you
La Lune

I miss you, La Lune

(I Guess) I Shouldn't, But I Do [hard times version]

This song meant the world to my friend Tristan.
This is him at the beginning, being fucking hilarious as always.
I miss you so much, man.
Love you forever.
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The days seem longer now
since the day heaven came down
and I'll never forget the sound
or the words you said to pull me out
you were singing it's alright it's alright
I'll be with you tonight

So don't you be feeling down
'cuz it's harder when you're not around
and I'll wipe all these tears from your eyes
'cuz it's time for you to realize I sing this for you

It's alright, It's alright
I'll be with you tonight

Your angel wings are tied down no more
I'll set you free, you're not trapped here anymore

Yeah-eh-eh