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Magnetic North (our old demos)

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1.
Let Me Keep (free) 02:00
I was sad I didn't have my own songs to sing, So I summoned up my sparrows to help me write my own. This is how we eternalise-- we break hearts and sing about Old candles, new flames. I think I've ruined it all again. I'll hang your flowers on braided calico. But soon they all will dry and then our love will die. I pretend it didn't end the way it did, I pretend. I pretend I broke your heart, just so my pride survives. Please let me keep my fiction, just so my pride survives.
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We Are Not Waiting (free) 02:08
We Are Not Waiting We are not waiting for an elevator that won’t come. We are on the mountain and in love. We are getting old but not old enough so let’s not jump. Drop the needle on some Joni Mitchell! Climb into the catapult. Pull the lever and we’ll go soaring into space like a holy smoke! You are like a lucid dream where we careen through poplar trees and trees and trees and trees and trees and trees... We are not waiting for an elevator that won’t come. We are going home back where we’re from. We are not falling, we’re being tossed so let’s get flung. Drop the needle on some Joni Mitchell! Climb into the catapult. Pull the lever and we’ll go soaring into space like a holy smoke!
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Magnetic North (free) 02:03
When I came upon the pallid meadow at the top, magnetic north, of our windy whirling world, you were cloaked with pearly fur, you were twirling, arms out-stretched. I sat down inside the snow and watched you reel our quiet globe. I saw the sound that God could make with human motion concentrate. You didn't notice I was there (your eyes were given up to prayer) and I just sat and shined my compass as the needle twirled along.
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Empire of Opiates (free) 02:08
Empire of Opiates Buoyant in my palms, poppy buds— the coursing quick empire of opiates to the cornea, to the tapestry of skin, to the tensile arch in my feet. Only you know what’s happening to me. Only you know what’s happening to me. When you hold my life in your hands I’m born again and die again! I disappear. I unexist, I re-exist, I’m a smoke in your mouth. I cannot speak, I will not speak till you breathe me out. Only you know what’s happening to me. Only you know what’s happening to me. (this stanza is not part of the song but part of the poem) As well, as deep and quenching as a well, as geyser sunk and building pressure when you take me in your hands and soak me up — administrate the surge of blood and philtre.
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Goodbye Earth (free) 02:09
Goodbye Earth (Parfois je parle en francais mais tu ne comprends pas) I've lost my mind, you've lost your heart. I loved you right from the start. We throw our daisies to the sharks Our love is hot springs, cold snow. One day we die, one day we glow. I don't know what you've done to me. You've locked my heart, yet set me free. You hide the keys under your tongue but I hold the fire in my lungs. You can hide the moon but you can't stop the sun. Our world is heating up. How long will it last? How long will it last? We will melt. We will disappear into clouds like methane. The clouds will light on fire.

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just some old demos by franny & joey. better stuff to come.

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released July 19, 2012

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Quality Time Edmonton, Alberta

This is Franny & Joe Gurba's way of keeping their marriage off/on the rocks.

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