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Corn Palace

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1.
Sarah 04:12
Sarah Around this yard I'm keeping time to her tough mouth and your tough lines. There's no law here that can stop you. Our damp histories press on us, all our mouths get filled with dust. How could I learn to deny you? Sarah But your tune was tasting green I kept it close to keep it clean We were sweet then you and me. I will know you by your teeth And every word will make us sing And on my skin I'll write your record. Sarah Your branch was in my hair Your mud was on my face Your night was on my sill And it filled Our hungry place Every cinder that you keep Burns a hole into your sleep Leaves a space for us to find you So when we whisper telephone Will we name you with our bones? Will we echo through the hallway, Praying Sarah
2.
All Around 05:08
All Around My thoughts dry up in the summer air and I don't know where you've been I lay my pencil down and stand and stare Out the kitchen window as you saunter up the drive and I wait All for nothing, because you're in no mood for conversation I'll just wait When we get around to talking once you're rested up and caffeinated I tell you my worries, but nothing gets communicated Chorus: You only listen to my words, you don't hear the sound You wanna know the point, but it's all around It's all around There's a feeling in this house now nettles stinging on my neck Because even when you're home you're not really here I can tell your mind is elsewhere Down the stairs around the corner where she waits All my moves are wasted Just when I think I've got you there she waits She's on your face when I look at you She's in your eyes when you look me through I wanna talk it out But there's nothing to talk about Chorus There is no point, it all around It's all around
3.
Voice Like a Wig Winter went straight to our bones Spring was just an awful joke Someone didn't make it to the thawing end I dropped my keys on the long walk home Read your letter over the phone You didn't say, I didn't know I wouldn't see you again And all I can do is wear your voice like a wig Any way I turn it, it still doesn't fit And all I can say is that I wish You had gotten used to it And once I moved to hear the night speak I felt you distant and so closely And I was so ashamed, I didn't see you again When it fell across my chest I wrote your name in the dust When you see this, let me hear you Like a warning, like a welcome Chorus Just give me a sign
4.
Any Man Who Finds a Home Tell me young sister When you coming home? Lifetime of running Gonna leave you all alone And when you see us on the street Don't forget to wash our feet And we bow to you sister We swear it won't take long And we sing to you sister You're our favorite song Tell me young sister Did you see the light? At the drive-in movie On our beggars night Because any man who finds a home Still finds himself alone And we bow to you sister We swear it won't take long And we sing to you sister You're our favorite song And oh young sister did he touch your neck? And was it harder then you knew to expect? It used to be we spoke your name Now we press our lips in shame And we bow to you sister We swear it won't take long But we can't sing to you sister though you're our favorite song No we can't sing to you sister, though you're our favorite song
5.
Break Me 04:17
Break Me You shook me awake at midnight Did I have a dollar or at least a light? The old boys are playing down at the old pavilion stage And nothing calls you out like old songs overplayed Chorus: You can't break me I'm already broke You can't take me I've already been took You can't frame me There's nothing to see here You crying when they play that Steve Earle tune So much feeling, that's just like you But you've got feeling where the rest of us are tired You just keep on feeling till' you're black and blue Chorus You're free now, you're making your own way As for me, I can't say Something final, something to sum you up You just keep on being, I guess that's enough Chorus
6.
Wild Has a Name Now I know you've got some stories that you can't lose and I know the only safe place for us to be is your back room If touching you is a landmine then I'd be sure to lose So I'll lay on your floor and let our voices burn away the blues Chorus: But wild has a name that drives you down Low as the bones beneath this town Every broken body must hear that sound And every tongue must confess In my dream I see you Sitting in the front pew There's a hole in your dress you keep worrying your finger through You keep looking at your mama But she won't look at you You swear you'll never do it again if it's the last thing you do Chorus So lay your head where the water runs deep Lay it low to hide your sorrow In the thicket stands the dark horse of your dreams He won't be there to ride tomorrow
7.
Dennis 04:24
Dennis Got a good job on the highway Doing construction at the summer's end A good job gone, that same month When the boss caught me drinking again One position open, you threw your name in the well And when your luck turned up, I can't say I didn't wish you hell Dennis the white line gleams unbroken by your fall You came to this world on 70 West And tonight it'll bring you home There ain't nothing I wouldn't do To take that night away from you Break the pavement that crushed your wild heart Carry you through these small streets To the bed where our mother sleeps And lay me down on the highway in the dark While you were sailing on through Did it ever cross your mind That you were always the perfect one and I was always trailing behind? Every time you made our mama laugh I was sure to make her cry And nobody said but I knew they picked the wrong one to die Chorus Keeping that picture of you with your fingers in my hair Leaning on dad's Sonoma when your glasses caught the glare There ain't nothing I wouldn't do To take that night away from you Break the pavement that crushed your wild heart
8.
Black and Grey Walking the line between black and grey Maybe I'll just fade away Or break new ground and see what comes I ain't fond of moving dirt Shoveling makes my back hurt So I'll just sit here and wait it out Chorus: I don't wanna lay it down I don't wanna draw a spade I don't wanna lay it down Break a new trail or make a new path Maybe I'll just take a bath And then just sit here and wait it out But I ain't fond of moving dirt Shoveling makes my back hurt So I'll just sit here and wait it out Chorus

about

Bloomington sweethearts sporting a reversible jacket with country on the outside and Bruce Springsteen on the inside.

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released July 18, 2016

Chris Clements--electric guitar, vocals, bass
Lindsay Welsch Sveen--acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals, bells
Leah Cover--violin, bells, vocals
Zach Anno--organ, guitar, bass, vocals
Joe Crawford--drums
Jess Waggoner--acoustic guitar, vocals, banjo

All songs by Clements, Waggoner, and Welsch Sveen

Recorded in Bloomington, Indiana by John Dawson at Magnetic South, June 18th-19th, 2016

Mastered by Joe Crawford

Booklet by Tio Savich

Love and thanks to Heather Love

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