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Alright With You
04:05
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Today I’m swell thanks for asking
I’m running low on coffee and sleep
Oh what a view outside my window
What a time to be alive
My best friends getting married in the summertime
I’m much too young for that, but I've still got your back
I’m just trying to get back to you
Back to the place we were from
It’s been a long cold winter
And all I want is to sit by the fire with you
Now where have you been?
Haven’t seen you since way back when
Oh look how you have changed
Your skins so thin, your hairs so grey
So put your jacket on
And try to catch our last song
Who knows how long we’ll be here
Or when we’ll be here again
I’m just trying to get back to you
Back to the place we were from
It’s been a long cold winter
All I want is to sit by the fire with you
I hope it’s alright with you
I’d spend my whole life with you
We could go home and be together again
And if you need me to
I’d give my life for you
No one could say I was never your friend
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2. |
Put It On
03:24
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Ricky called, Jenny’s coming home
You left her in the backseat, she left you on the phone
One more night, and you could’ve had that dance
But you left to chase degrees, so you never got that chance
And you said aren’t you the girl from that song,
She shook her head, And she said put it on, put it on
Show me how to dance
So I can get into your
Head start, two left feet
Oh wont you put it on for me
Tonight's the night, you look around the room
She’s looking like she did in the 90s when you both first heard in bloom
You gotta change her mind, you’re running out of time
Jenny and her best friend are lookin’ outta sight
You catch her eye, and she waves you goodbye
But someone dropped the needle and it made her change her mind
Its been so long, is this so wrong?
The song comes through the speakers, it’s been you all along
And Jenny said I was never a good dancer
She asked me to put it on and I gave her an answer
It goes like this
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3. |
Chasing Alaska
03:26
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You bought your plane ticket
You flew away from me
You headed west, and I headed to the deep blue sea
I always said I would never write about airplanes
But its been done, and now the songs are all the same
We said goodbye to what we used to do
Your fold out couch is broken, and there’s no one else to turn to
I can see us holding onto nothing when a
Tree falls and no ones there to hear about it
We’ll think nothing of the weather till we
Come back home and no we’re not together
The stain from the rain, was bigger today
Reminds the farmer, of the days work
But the farmer couldn’t get out of bed
Live life like a fish on a hook
I haven’t seen this much rain in years
I’d rather be chasing Alaska than drowning here
Come back home to me, friendship isn’t free
The farmer never left his bed, the seasons change again
I can see us holding onto nothing when a
Tree falls and no ones there to hear about it
We’ll think nothing of the weather till we
Leave our homes and go to chase Alaska
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4. |
90s Kids
04:51
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Boys and girls turn off your cell phones, whatcha doing where did you go
At the show with all the punk bands, up in arms, up in smoke
Only nineties kids remember
Mary Jane won’t you hold my hand, read comic books in my parents’ van
Go to school and come back home, in my room I’m not alone
Got to do the things, I gotta be somebody I don’t to want to be somebody always getting sucked into your parents couch
Parent’s try to drag me down, sick and tired of hand me downs, also petrified of clowns, and getting up to get passed out
It may seem strange, life’s all rearranged
Go see bobby down the block, he’ll sell you dreams, you’ll skip some rocks
I remember way back when, ghosts of us in the sand
I was once like you are now, but I grew up somehow
Had to get away, I gotta leave you and this place behind closed doors where you would always, sit and think about the future
Every time I come around, you say lets go smoke downtown, right behind the china gate, you’re so hungry I just ate
I remember, sitting in the sandbox
Playing with our dumptrucks
Watching clouds go by
And I remember, walking home from school
To sit back on the couch, and watch some street sharks
Its been so long now, since I’ve had to use the phone
And asked my mom if my friends could come over
But now we’re all here,
The past is looking quite clear
And we can legally enjoy a beer
Only nineties kids remember
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5. |
Warm Coffee
04:08
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I once got a letter sent to me
I checked the address, it said number seventeen
I wrote them back the very next day
Return to sender said they all moved away
And I say
I poured out my heart on my sleeve
Wrote about you in the morning, then I saw you in my dreams
Some days I’m staring at the books on my shelf
Some days I Feel like fitting in is standing out
A canary at a carnival in the fall
Spinning like a drunk girl on a carousel
Just one thing from a memory
A few words from a book and a warm cup of coffee
Remember the time I was stuck in your head
Now I’m sleeping alone in my bed
And I can’t wait to get up in the morning
I’ve never seen northern lights at this time of the year
Walking around wondering what they’re doing here
I’ve seen your face ever since they’ve been around
Dizzy from the carousel I fall and hit the ground
I packed up my things and I left you behind
Got another letter, now you’re back on my mind
Got some new keys, changed the lock on my door
Set fire to my mailbox I don’t need it anymore
A robin at the circus in the spring
Falling like a young boy at the fair tonight
Mary go round, go back to where you came from
Go round, go back to where you came from
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6. |
Stoco Lake
05:39
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Take me back to the house on Colborne street
This is where I grew up
Late night strolls with the road under our feet
Down to the dock at the park
Whisky barrels down the street
It’s the town that sleeps
On the shore of stocco lake
At the pallet plant, where the dust settles at dawn
Nights spent staring at the stars
Standing on top, the whole town is in view
When will feel this way again?
Where will you run to where will you go
When there’s nowhere left to roam?
Where will you run to where will you go
When all else fails you can come home
Five bells ring on Sunday morning
Church is at the top of the hill
Fathers hear, and hold their mothers near
While other fathers wake up at the smuir
Whisky barrels down the street
In the town that never sleeps
On the shore of stocco lake
Off the green bridge, we may have lost a life or two
We pay respects to our youth
Back to my house, a young family’s dining there
I don’t live here anymore
In the house where I was born
I don’t live here anymore
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House
03:05
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The streets don’t stay the same
But people never change
You said you’d build this city up
But its losing its foundation
You counted all the bricks
And counted welfare slips
one slip in the brick work
Will compromise us
Cant find a way to make this right
Youll compromise the
The place that we all know
Our new houses grow
Putting money into our streets
Wont put the people back on their feet
Developed properties
Spoil memories
Sleeping in a minivan
And robbing taxis
Behind the Laundromat
Scavenging for scraps
Shit went forever who knows where I’m at
shit went on forever
Who knows where I’m at
Yeah I’ve got ties to sever
Don’t compromise the
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8. |
Sidewalk
03:47
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My words are frozen
Waiting this long hurts like frostbite
Perpetuating sitting outside next to you
Under storm clouds
I would offer you my sweater
But you’d decline
And run away to brighter weather
I pick you up
Will you let me down?
I beg the heavens for you not to
Woah oah
I know you’re out there
But I can’t seem to find myself
Initials in the sidewalk
26 letters but U and I together
U and I together
I’m caught in the moment,
I’d wage a war to see you
It’s a mix of fear and nervousness
That makes us put our guns down
I remember when you left
A lipstick smear on my forehead
You let me down like I said
So much for our old apartment
I keep telling you concretes forever
But concrete doesn’t mix well in this nasty weather
You say its nothing more than words in the pavement
And sidewalks get replaced, our names they cant erase
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9. |
Pedestrian
04:15
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Jacks father was a barber
But he wished he had a daughter
And he would remind Jack of that
While Jack’s mother tried to stay back
Mary was Jack’s old neighbour
Eventually he learned to love her
But in time he grew weary
And showed love just like his dad did
Mary will never forget it
When Jack called her a disappointment
Said the words just like his dad did
Accompanied with a strong fist
The cycle is never ending
A passerby, a pedestrian
Jacks parents are long gone now
But through him they live on somehow
And to his son he replays scenes
From his own childhood memories
Jacks son John will never know
Why his mother loves Jack so
Or how Jack got this way
But him and Jack are just the same
When he grows up, John will run away
But Jack and Mary find him the next day
And Jack will love as he always does
Beneath closed doors and a light beer buzz
What’s done is done its over
Hiding the marks again
This ain’t a home it’s a prison
I don’t know where to begin
Jacks father was a barber
And he’s buried in the backyard
And Jack will go the same way
When John comes back home one day
Johns grown he has a family
Son James and daughter Emily
And John will break the cycle
From back before he was a child
Jacks father was a barber
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Work today, but home tomorrow
Returning to the life we borrowed
The cedar trees and the bridges look the same
Here today, gone tomorrow
Saw an old friend, he said to me
“This worn out life has got the best of me”
The ghost of homeless past
Is Circling at last
Banking on the fact
You’re gonna have a blast
Home to me, is an identity
Living down the street you see everybody
If memory serves me right
We can live in harmony
With broken down schools and power lines
The baby stroller, pushing itself
Compromised my mental health
Where is that kids mom? I don’t know
The ghost of homeless past
Is leaving here at last
Rolling down the tracks
Never coming back
Brother on the balcony,
Living here is killing me
I’m so bored can’t you see
Fade away from this city
This is not the first time, I’ve felt this way before
Snapping at the seams it’s putrid to the core
Its broken windows, broken homes
Broken families, no one knows
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11. |
Bookends
05:22
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You’re not sure why you came here
The open seas just aren’t for you
Give it time and you may find that
Your heart belongs here, through and through
Others go to plant their trees there
You have gone to grow new roots
So it seems that you got nowhere
Now you’ve left with muddy boots
What’s yours is yours, to control
You did your time here, leave behind that soul
Its complicated, I should know
My map will guide me, guide me home
I wont be, home tonight, underneath, these northern lights
Spent three days, on a bus, as Alaska fades, behind us
Three days I’ll wait for you, give me a reason to
Not lose my head, to try to make it back to you
A ghost without a home, into this world we’re thrown
Like rock without the roll, I’m on this bus alone
I wont be, home tonight, underneath, these northern lights
Spent three days, on a bus, as Alaska fades, behind us
When I think about it, I don’t even doubt that
You were honest, I can’t help but
Feel the way I do, coming home to you
I hope its alright with you
I’d spend my whole life with you
Knowing we won’t be together again
Just like I said to you
I gave my life for you
No one will know, just how this book ends
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Rabid Flowers Belleville, Ontario
Later Days was written in April 2017.
The album focuses and expands on themes of togetherness and separation, and comes
to terms with the reality of not always being able to do what one wants to do.
Later Days is an expansion of the band's musical reach and style, and it's their hope that you'll find something in it that resonates with you.
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