2020

Moss was one of those songs that poured out over the span of twenty minutes via a sudden rush of inspiration, and then was recorded on the same day. During our time spent living on Vancouver Island, Sara was visiting home in Toronto for a week but I decided to stay back and write. I was alone on the other side of the country in the middle of the pandemic and had absolutely nobody I knew there (we moved there during the pandemic, so naturally we had zero friends). Just me, my instruments, and two cats. I quickly realized how uncomfortable it was to spend time in complete solitude without the distraction of the internet or some other digital convenience of the modern world. I wrote and recorded Moss on the second day of that week, and spent the rest of the week trying to meditate and appreciate the solitude rather than distract myself from it. 

Drums performed by Gudino Miranda.
Gudino: https://www.instagram.com/gudinomiranda/
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Take a long hard look at everything you’re feeling alone
Like the moss on wood, maybe we just need it to grow

Set your focus on the wind
The sunset and stillness within

Do you feel it now, rushing on
Do you hear the luscious tones
Of the moment’s song
And the morning’s calm

Then the somber glow returns as you’re reading the phone
You hold the blue midnight sun in your room
Fool your circadian [rhythm], the morning has come

Though it’s dark outside, your racing mind
Thinks that it’s time to get up and go

Can you feel it now, there’s nothing on
You’re caught in the dial tone 
Waiting to be rung
But the moment’s gone
You missed the moment, gone
Yeah the moment’s gone

Moss (Single)

Moss

today we're putting out "long as i need it" as a little gift from us to all of you for making it through this historically insane year, and especially to our roommates dan, mimmo, and lauren for being the bedrock of our support systems through all of it. hope the lyrics speak to you as much as they do to us! <3

long as i need it

Daybreak

Every so often I wake
My brief mistake
This while out on the highway
Oh, for goodness sake!
I peer out on to the landscape
And I hang in there for a while
As I trust my pilot

I wish I could go down to that lake
Grand acres
And the winter, it would coat it white and I would
Grab my skates
I think I oughta move out to that lake
(I think I oughta move out)
La dada dada dada dada...oooh, oooh

2020

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