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The Exciting New Folk Sounds Of

by J. Solemn

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1.
Waves of concrete under the fog I don't think I need much at all As long as I can feel the sunshine that you bring As long as I can hear your low voice sing Well it's alright Yeah it's okay Look on the bright side You can make it your day She greets me sweetly between the sheets And we walk downtown amidst the fading streets And in your dreams of me we'd never leave the bed And your dreams of me are still inside my head 'Cause there's a road Where nobody goes And it reminds Me of home Dream away, lady day Dream away, lady day
2.
Shanghaied 03:10
I can't believe, that they don't have stars in their eyes Maybe I do, maybe I do, my lady The hope that they'll change, and the limbo that hangs the skies It could have been, it could have been, my lady Because every time I meet a girl and we're both going seperate ways We're two ships in the night and oh you're leading me astray She says that I make her feel pretty without doing anything And I hope she knows she's the one in all the songs I sing I know I love you Like I know that the sun will rise The sun and the moon take turn to look at you With all the time you have You've always got some time to lose Till western skies Blind both my eyes and save me Because every time I meet a girl and we're both going seperate ways We're two ships in the night and oh you're leading me astray She says that I make her feel pretty without doing anything And I hope she knows she's the one in all the songs I sing
3.
Bad Medicine 02:51
No matter what you'll always have a brother in this world I know they love you even if they don't show it, they've got a lot to give Love yourself the way you love your son and the earth, Take a sin and turn it into good again Make a life out of bad medicine You'd never hurt another soul and if you did it would be right We weren't made for this world, I'll see you on the next Love your son the way you love yourself and the sky Taught me to be, to see, and that friendship means the most to me Chat Conversation End
4.
And so the wind picks up, but I'm feeling down On the sunny side, the upside of Down I'm a mile high and I've never felt so low I'm headed to the airport, I'm coming home You love me, and I love you too Feels like I'm dying for a moment or two So hold her softly (softly) Sweetly (sweetly) Because there's no one (no one) Nothing to worry about for a time And so she's leaving home, but she's never gone Because after the end, and on and on I know that she's with me everyday And when your bedroom eyes fade away So goes the love of yesterday I wish that we could stayed there in that cave So hold her softly (softly) Sweetly (sweetly) Because there's no one (no one) Nothing to worry about for a time And so you mesmerized and hypnotized the everyman who fears reprise It seems that our eternity only lasted a day So sit out in the rain And laugh at the sky "Give 'em yer hand, man. And a smile" It's not what you do, but who you become that makes it all worth while So hold her softly (softly) Sweetly (sweetly) Because there's no one (no one) nothing to worry about for a time Because there's no one (no one) Nothing to worry about in this life
5.
Grey Goose 02:29
Homeless man standing outside of the liquor store Trying to scrape together a couple dollars more Dan and Rell came back with enough booze to kill a full grown moose Sitting around drinking grey goose and orange juice Sitting around drinking grey goose and orange juice Josalynn's bra is on the couch and Gideons playing connect four Devins with his clan and Matthias is drunk on the floor Dan and Rell came back with enough booze to kill a full grown moose Sitting around drinking grey goose and orange juice Sitting around drinking grey goose and orange juice Chat Conversation End
6.
Lush 02:43
Everywhere I look I see your eyes Escaping glances from the passers by Now they're looking for strange both in life and in death and they're wasting away with each passing breath And I know that you're love and you're floating away to the light of another day So I go and get lost See what I see I meet a nice woman And I tell her my dreams And if you ask me I'd say I'm doing fine Your room is so lush to the sun that shines Gypsy lady showing me the road It's weirder walking when you're all alone With your gasoline eyes and your pitchfork wings well the ties are cut as they're shriveling Well I know that your love and you're moving away to the light of another day So I go and get lost And I see what I see I meet a nice woman And I tell her my dreams And if you asked me I'd say I'm doing fine Your room is so lush to the sun that shines Ooh
7.
Misery 02:46
So I walk on down the road see a house and peek inside Lovers under neon lights and he says "She'll never be mine" The world stops, an hour drags all along like it's a day So I move out the back after tripping on my way It's so hard to say goodbye when we're laying down in bed 'Cause I go to stand and I end up kissing you instead Feel his heartbeat on the forest floor, the poets paces pause to sore "Will it sell to a poor man?" I'm not sure He's been down this road before She takes his hand, leads to a land where every raindrop tastes of sand He sees her hunger stare into the souls of other men She slips, he falls into a life that he has only spent Every meal is heaven sent and I don't know if I can pay the rent There's a man for goodness sake got his feet in sugar lake His corn cob pipe in waving wake, when his big bag did turn to shake She freezes over suddenly with his ankles trapped inside Misery did hold her breath but to me she did confide Let's soar, get sore, c'mon baby give me some more Reduced to a grim statistic and I heard hammering on the floor And every baby bird has got to fly out from the nest Doesn't know which way he heads 'cause he knows nowhere is best And like his wings into the sky I got my feet down on the ground And as he's flying up ahead I'll be rambling all around Half the lands on fire man, and the other half is aflood I got my head up in the clouds and my boots down in the mud
8.
The Pact 02:58
We made a pact not to kill ourselves And the letters I have hold me well Love yourself and others will soon come If you died I'd be so gone Like a sun without a dawn Everything would rush back memories You could hold the Earthly stone I learned you were flesh and bone You know you are never alone You were naked as a girl A whisper in a lonely world Soft as skies and wide as desperate eyes I dreamt we were back together It was torture to wake up Rising to the feeling of being shot Wedding bells rang through the park I stood there with my old man Gazing to the Shuswaps old command "All those vows seem meaningless And I feel my guts in knots" He clasped my back and said "You're all I've got" In silence we could speak the world And often we would walk the lands My eyes thirst for those hills again And this feeling comes and goes Like shadows of my first few friends Each beginning comes from a harder end
9.
Overmorrow 02:22
Every word is like a window to the past The wanderlust that rusts inside your veins In the dying days of summer The sun still shines bright You can't really miss it, Shining off of the moon at night Oh tomorrow, Yes or no the wind still carries on Overmorrow, Sonder thoughts that lead me to the dawn He'll leave you in tears again And you'll wake up blessed You're a perfect mess in a short dress Oh tomorrow, Listen to the wind sing through the trees Overmorrow, Everything that's leading you to me
10.
Underground Chinatown, feels like I'm lost for days Woke up an hour south of Valhalla, outside the rains have sunk to grey And now your folks are gone, and you know you've got to carry on Look up at the stars sailing in the sky and you know they've seen them with younger eyes Oh one day I will say goodbye And I'll never see you again Somewhere Between Timid and Timbuktu I will find you Amen Ra comes up in the trees, laze around in the dandelion breeze We wrestle in fear of the guards, and fall asleep in each others arms So you ride on the heel of the wind, and you're dreams say I'm at the end And if I wait I'm ill at ease, as Amen Ra slinks down the trees Oh one day I will say goodbye And I'll never see you again Somewhere Between Timid and Timbuktu I will find you
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For all my friends and family who helped me become the man I am, and to all the strangers I have yet to call friend.

Recorded in the Fall/Winter 2015, at Dead West Recording

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released January 3, 2016

J. Solemn (Jim Lagerquist) - Instruments, Vocals. Songwriting

Connor Whiskin - Producer, Recording Engineer
Alexa Harwood-Jones - Cover Design

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