Here's a new song.  The band backing me up here is Bernice, my main-squeeze touring and recording buddies from Toronto.  You've probably heard me gush about them.  They were on my last record, Colours, and have been helping me with The Gold String, too.  This recording is from a show at the Confidence Lodge on the south shore of Nova Scotia.  We spent the day drinking beer and eating blueberries on the beach.  It was such a sunny and satisfying one that I didn't even mind when the dryer broke and I had to bring a suitcase full of wet clothes to England the next day.  The title describes sticks underfoot, Skype not doing it, bodies and minds holding up (or not) under strain.  How to aim your sigh away from nostalgia & toward the future… 

Snap Shudder (live)

												
Hello, Clover,
Tiny tether,
Bedspread blesser.
Why not come and be my friend?

Flirty Clover,
Turning over,
Showing off your soft below,
Daring me to have a go.

I'm going nowhere.
Go nowhere with me.
There's nowhere to be.
We'll be like clover and the honeybee, mutually.

Out in the back yard, 
Clover & the mockingbird.
Who had the last word?
And who had the broken neck?

Cat on the concrete,
Black on a dark street,
Feet only glancing,
Up on the back porch,
Runnin' like a rocking horse,
The moon is too bright
To even see its face tonight.

I'm going nowhere.
Go nowhere with me.
There's nowhere to be.
We'll be like clover and the honeybee, mutually.	

Clover (demo)

Girl U Want

Hey girl
I wish you weren’t so far away
Damn seem like another planet
You so pregnant and nasty
with my childrens
Make a man feel he got a bucket o money
Get your stuff.  Get on home and get you some.

Happy 34th to Devon

Demo recording, Fishers Island, NY, December 2012

FLIES IN THE TX GROTTO

This morning there's flies in the Texas grotto.
A zombie whacking through the fog with an issue of MOJO.
A rump of dumb strategy, a dented laptop.
Wings in a ring of a white wine bottle.

Destroying sounds good if you clip the ending,
But there's fly guts on a young Public Enemy.

Last night's bar was a big banana.
We shouted down drinks till at last we could stand it.
No one left room for a bustling sadness,
What with up to our necks in a love-your-music.

The summer sun heavy with its back into it.
The sky so high it's essentially useless.
A neighbor small talking about the garden planter,
But it's all so boring that you cannot answer.

Tonight two new friends are gonna call each other,
Criss-cross amends for what's been done to the other,
Then strip it down for speed and single purpose.
Neither one will say it, but both'll have heard it.

Looking better already, it was feeling unsteady, but with you…
Couple people get together and the echo sounding better, yeah with you…
Take a man a little troubled make his point of view doubled, here with you…


Flies In The TX Grotto (demo)

Lyrics by Robert Wray.  Music by Devon & Paul.  From Robert's upcoming play Bullet For Unaccompanied Heart, opening in October as part of the Four County Players' 44th season.   https://www.patreon.com/posts/ballad-for-heart-5485459

Ballad Of Unaccompanied Heart

Music by Matt LeGroulx
Vocals by Devon Sproule
Originally performed by Klaatu
Recorded by Matt LeGroulx and Paul Curreri
from the film "Calling Occupants" by Mitch Fillion
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Dicx1Oejs&feature=youtu.be

DevonandPaul

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