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i've not wanted to know anyone like i want to know your spit
when you do see me defeated, please love me in spite of it
there has been no one i've trusted with the simple sides of me
girl who only wants to see you, that is all i really need

you don't know how bad i need you, it's like air inside my lungs
a pneumonic kind of fever when i'm thinking you're the one
taking coughing fits as signs that we are only meant to be
girl who only wants to see you that is all i really need

spit

album release show on may 30th in chicago: 
https://link.dice.fm/P9e4e3ae41d4?dice_id=P9e4e3ae41d4

music video: https://youtu.be/mu1dBfg4SiE

master by alexander panos in northern illinois
clarinets by zachary alexander in baltimore
backing vocals by oyeme thomas in chicago
horns by padraig greene in kingston

lyrics: 
the problem breeds a novel thief
and you conned it, ironic

you stayed with me, connected seams
and i loved it, i covet

and i needed that, i was catatonic
you carefully returned for me

calligraphic notes, stars would ink the pages
(you called my name with covered eyes)
blooming from the basement

that's like flashing hope to the patient
(you called my name with covered eyes) 
don't give them a reason

your combination i've never seen

but you've given me that, it was catastrophic

you're simply eternity

calligraphic notes, stars would ink the pages
(you called my name with covered eyes)
blooming from the basement

that's like flashing hope to the patient
(you called my name with covered eyes) 
don't give them a reason

your combination i've never seen

Bubba

Pre-order Bubba

your combination

official music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48_1Q8rXfY

horns written and recorded by @clovehitch in kingston
album mastered by @alexanderpanos in northern illinois

---lyrics---
bubba, wait there for me,
i will find you.
wait there for me

i will find you bubba.

when you left me i was scared pup
i still hear you scratching up my 
vinyl door and running in the yard
it's baren, empty, fucked - cause i still love you 
like the last day that i saw you

now that you're gone,
i can't believe that you are.

i am lost,
i'm sorry I left you again.

they would not allow me to be there for you,
but I'll never leave you again.
i'll never leave you again.
i'll never leave you again.

i'll never leave you.

bubba

a song for two very special friends and their special relationship - happy birthday sarah (:

inspired by the ups and downs of canoe trips during my time as a boy scout, the music of kathleen edwards (voyageur)/death cab for cutie, and the turmoil that comes with someone that feels like they were born to write songs

made in collaboration with soundcloud.com/9nasu

mastered by soundcloud.com/liquidaden

thank you to soundcloud.com/charlie-zacks for letting me use his space to record most of this

posting this from Chicago Midway International Airport… feeling very grateful for soundcloud and the beautiful communities it connects so I’m impulsively posting something I started and finished last week

LYRICS:

VERSE 1:
Give me a pen
Give me a shrug
Give me anything but your love
Or you and I will be stuck, gushing forever

If all you aspire
Goes up in a fire
The hydrants out of water
You and I can be stuck, nothing together

CHORUS 1:
All doubts withdrawn, we’re playing it long, we’re gonna follow things through

And if it ever gets hard, the hurt in your heart, oh I’ll heal for you

I’ll heal for you

VERSE 2:
Cut the ivy
We’re trying to find
A dry place to put our tent tonight
Begging, “could you please spare some sunlight?”

We’ll cross the water
In our canoe
And sprint to shore as rain pours down on two
We’ll make a home right here under the spruce

CHORUS 2:
Our maps redrawn, we’re planning for dawn, we’re gonna follow this route

And if the flint doesn’t spark, ember in your heart, oh I’ll blow on it for you

I’ll glow for you

REFRAIN:
(Wick alight forever)
(Wick alight forever)

Wick Alight Forever

New Hope, Chapter V - running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
Recorded 12.13.23

no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt
running through the park
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin home
running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
yeah
home
what is this?
what is this?
(runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin)
about me
about me
about me
cause i'm running through the park yea i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin
oh i'm runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin through the park
yea im runnin home
runnin through the park yea i'm runnin home

New Hope

running through the park, yea im runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin runnin

march 1, 2024

i made this instrumental track a little over a year ago, was gonna be part of a little 4-song ep with https://soundcloud.com/krysalisalis/morningsong-i but was never completed...... wah

noonsong

daea (four strings) capo 3

listen through your own ears
how i kid myself
when we are face to face 

hand right on my chest, it's
how i ground myself
heartbreak through bronchial veins 

lipstick smudges on the inside of my mask
i dress up for you, did you realize that? 

i'll lose my keys outside the bar a million times
that's the thing bout me, i don't know what's right

more songs and i'll bring them to the band
and they're all about you, i was in the palm of your hands 

i saw all the signs
that's the thing bout me
i'm your goddamned kind

your kind

i made this this morning

***JONI FREESTYLE***
V1:
"Is this life worth living?"
Think it's time to ask a friend

So I'll sketch on it like Joni
Draw a line straight through the sand

Cause this brain was built to find the good
In spite of circumstance - is this life worth living?

V2:
"Is this life worth living?"
I’m not asking for a friend

Think I’ll find it where I lost it
Yea it’s just around the bend

When it’s not there think I’ll freak out
Where we go and where we’ve been

I’ve been round this wheel once or twice
I’d do it all again

B:

Again and again and again
I'd do it all

Again and again and again
I'd do it all

Again and again yea
I’ll do it all again

Again and again yea
I’ll do it all again

V3:
"Is this life worth living?"
Think I’ll find it in a friend

Think I’ll find it in a moment
Think I’ll find it in pretend

Think I’ll find it in the headlines
Think I'll find it in this brand

I’ve been round this wheel once or twice
I’d do it all again

JONI FREESTYLE

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drums and additional production/arrangement by @fernanq
cowbell and tambourine by isaac corby