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ear to the ground

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1.
untitled 04:48
every, everyone is dressed up waiting patiently in line to tell you they're so sorry “she was the life of every party” they cling on you too tight all their words are trite try to make you feel alright my father told a story about you, from way before you knew me and a song that we all know but no one sings along sounds bounce hard from wall to wall someone asked “how are you holding up kid?” someone said “it is probably for the best” "well, the best for who?", I ask we fought, we lost, that is it no good can come from this home, sleeps in the heart I never wanted anything more at all and now, wherever I go just shows me where I’m, where I’m from it is not in the cards, it is not in the stars you just have to try and take what’s yours There’s nothing that’s not connected to anything
2.
elbows 03:58
a chemical dust - to bring a chemical hope into my blood and into my bones a new found confidence - I bought myself came in through my nose a day well spent - a day on the road drove back to the city where I was born I slowly convinced myself It not so bad, it is not so bad at all and now I’m lost in conversation elbows on the table bright eyes and ocean wide smiles the finest one a secret touch a movement of a morning comes a golden door and all is possible it’s a secret deal between you and me you slowly made your way to my home went up the stairs, sat down in my room and i tried to convince myself it’s not so bad you’re not bad news at all and now I’m lost in conversation elbows on the table bright eyes and ocean wide smiles the finest one a secret touch a movement of a morning comes a golden door and all is possible it’s a secret deal between you and me
3.
time 02:44
all is fair in love and war here is love, and we're certainly at war and all those lengths, those lengths that you have gone fighting battles you know that can't be won all that time we sat beside your bed 7 days and 6 nights we held your hand begging down on my knees - begging 'please lord, put some of that weight on me' you stood beside the piano - waved your fingers through the air I moved my hands over the keys, like rain beating on the land you hummed along so loud - I was happy like a child I made something that you liked
4.
one pill to calm you down one more to pick you up from the ground one more you'll feel alive a young starlet's threat - to take her seriously but you're from the wrong part of town, darling one open door one more window oh, opportunity - oh, what lives we could lead one more ordinary love I’ll wait one day to call her up you know, you could be anyone - you know, I could be anyone like a song that reminds us of the dreams we used to have now gets eaten up like it was even ours did you see us, did you dream us some parts of you I love some parts of you I love some parts of you I love some parts I do not trust what our parents did to us like our parents before us but that is not what you are it is not who you are
5.
patience 03:01
love would you come if I would call you up or leave me sprawling on the floor I’ve been so much younger than I am you gave so much more than I have you know me better than... love would you lover you I thought I was patient but I was just being lazy I apologize for that I’ve been chasing rainbows ends barely hoping that... barely hoping that... days just move so fast I’m wildly grasping at anything that moves love would you lover you love would you lover you
6.
salt 03:09
When that morning finally comes and the sun, it brings to life all the shapes we couldn't see in the darkness of the night and it will wash away mistakes you never meant to make now easily forgotten like a childhood sin or a trivial thing when my day of judgement comes the salt of the earth I never was when august ends I’ll start all over again when august ends I’ll start all over again when my day of judgement comes we will be the wind that blows across that lavender field like you always said we would be we will be the wind just like you said that we would be sleep it off, take the summer I figured out what my father meant don’t ever wait out for something, it never comes when my day of judgement comes the salt of the earth I never was when august ends I’ll start all over again when august ends I’ll start all over again

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ear to the ground EP 2014

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released June 10, 2014

all songs by: frank hurkmans-matulessy
some recording&mixing by: erik van der horst, some by: frank hurkmans-matulessy
piano, organs, synths: friso schmid
drums: mischa porte
bass: eveline ypma

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