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Consternation
04:37
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Break the light a shining storm
Little babe my baby born
Holding on to give you life
Holding on to calm respite
And building fires to keep you warm
Palisades a palace home
Lay your boards on shifting sands
Mercy to the tides command
Call on consternation
All eyes to my kingdom come
Already ashes around me
Lord see my will undone
There’s only nothing behind me
And nothing can bring new life
So when she’s rushing to see me
Please cover both her eyes
She needs him for her still abode
But born to watch his walls erode
All we are is just a dream
Pull apart a memory
And every man must walk alone
Motel room or borrowed throne
Vanish with the ground you laid
All you called your own reclaimed
Call on consternation
All eyes to my kingdom come
Already ashes around me
Lord see my will undone
There’s only nothing behind me
And nothing can bring new life
So when she’s rushing to see me
Please cover both her eyes
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2. |
Oh Boy
03:14
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Oh boy
What can be done?
For a while now
You’ve had your time in the sun
Oh boy
What a blast
It’s been 25 years
And your best’s a half decade past
Time to grow up
It’s not so bad
But maybe that’s the problem
But maybe that’s the problem
You should be shouting out in the streets
Instead of shouting out against the wall
You left the person that you wanted to be
Behind while he was puking in a bathroom stall
What have I become?
One of the fortunate ones
What have I become?
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3. |
Half Light
06:00
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Falling asleep in the snow
Warm in the this winter’s coat
Swaddle surrender and
Cover me in white
Falling away in the drift
Cold sleet on freezing lids
Peace be to sorrow
And lay my body down
In the half light
Almost pure
All white in the earth
You’ll waltz bright
Sway drifting down
Dance on soon hallowed ground
Just give up your tired eyes
Falling asleep in the snow
Warm in the this winter’s coat
Swaddle surrender and
Cover me in white
Falling away in the drift
Cold sleet on freezing lids
Peace be to sorrow
And lay my body down
Please give me something to hold onto amidst this rushing water’s tide
Consecrate a memory and free yourself in ice
My own teacher my protector see you crumble see you fall
See your sunken shoulders crawling to me naked baring all
And it’s a memory I wouldn’t dare to let die
Heavy weight too great to wait for coming warming skies
See you begging my forgiveness for this weakness ringing out
The same weakness I will love and hate and promise to shut out
Hold me close to the light I want the calm of the night
Envelop me in rolling hills of soft descending white
Please just swaddle me in peaceful dreams until the morning comes
I am running with the life of my father’s father’s half light blood
Blood run
Beating still
An ancient rill
Run into rivers bright
Freedom must
Return to dust
Pray you remember dusk
Freedom when
Oh you’ll sing again
Just lay down your tired eyes
Peace be found
In blessed ground
Oh save the son of seth
Oh god inhale your breath
And reclaim the life
From your lips I drew mine
Oh god inhale your breath
Oh god inhale your breath
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Melisma
05:17
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Blue above you
Slow sighing sky
Rich sea soaking through wide brown eyes
Swing-set ship ark
Your retta park
Boy remember
Steal from a dream
Your father’s eyes mourning everything you see
The world’s wake will dawn
You will grow up
Wait
Still
Strain forever
Don’t leave
Stay sleeping
Your father’s eyes in you
Stay close
Please stay close to me
Your ghost
A shadow in the sea
Boy surrender
Give up your plea
The world turns steadily
The world turns from me
You’ll watch through quick streams
All pass between
Tired melisma
Repeated key
Old chords set into cold melody
When did new songs
Leave you so long
Wait
Still
Strain forever
Don’t leave
Me empty
You are all I’ve got
Stay close
Please stay close to me
Your ghost
A shadow in the sea
Stay close
Please stay close to me
Your palms
A worn out nursery
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Boonie Toronto, Ontario
From the hearty landscape of the north, to the sun dried shores of the south, Boonie have collected in the Big Smoke to bring you the stories from the sticks. Influenced by their love of mid-90s indie rock and the lush and expansive sounds of modern pop-rock, this groovy group of outtatown rockers invite you to indulge their ennui and to laugh at their lame jokes. All in the name of rock n’ roll. ... more
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