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Well you call again,
as if I don't know what you're going to say...
So let it ring,
I can count the cracks in the ceiling all day long.

I guess the birds they just went south,
but I've got no where to go,
it's 31 and falling,

Suicidal sunrise and the tears upon your face
it seems all that keeps you existing in this place
are the powders and tonics after all the guests are gone
listening to the empty telephone

and if you thought she'd listen
you would tell her one more time
how you'd bargain with the devil

How I Learned to See in the Dark (2010)

August 28th and the rain slid in, like a brooding lullaby
The barn behind the school burned down and the cat got the bird
the whole town watched a man jump from the fifth story roof,
I think the whole world needs a shoeshine,
I think we're all a living proof (so the story goes)

Ты думала, что это будет парадная поездка с цветами, не так ли?
С каруселью и торжественной встречей.
Можешь попытать счастья, но слишком мало шансов, дорогая.
Лучше люби, что имеешь, пока кто-нибудь не перерезал провод…

Я забрела туда, где уже нет телефонных линий.
Только турникет и куча времени для себя.
Я покинула, оставила, и ничего кроме меня самой уже много миль.

You thought it'd be, you thought it'd be, a rose-ride did you?
With a carousel and a ticker-tape parade.
You can try your luck, but everything's a long shot honey.
You better love what you've got before someone cuts the wire...

Well I wandered off 'til there were no more telephone lines.
Just a tourniquet, and a whole lot of time to myself.
Well I gave it up, I gave it up, nothing but me for miles and miles.

This is a story of burning bridges
and allowing time to pass
this is a story of forgiveness
and breaking things in my hands
this is a story of understanding
you can't choose who you love
and this is a story of soft skin
and rats in the walls

Chimera (2009 EP)

Sun comes through the shade,
lands on the ceiling,
it ends down the wall,
where you're sleeping.

And I'm trying to memorize

I've got skin like birch bark
you can peel me off and lose me to the wind
I guess it's too late, to protect myself from this

it feels like I've been driving north
it's getting colder by the mile
and at this rate I'll be buried in snow in no time at all
but you've been building these walls for a long time

Chimera (EP 2009)

Looking in the wrong direction
so I'm getting myself lost
yes, desperation has its cost
and I thought I knew better, oh
the things I thought
the things I wanted to be

How I Learned to See in the Dark (2010)

It's about that time we start unwinding, any hope we wrapped around
the distant light in the silent conversation that never blossomed into sound
Cause we were hard weather, we were broken hearted, we were always forget-me-nots
We were flash bulbs, we were constellations, and we tried to connect the dots

But all this and all that and everything in between never did amount to a damn thing

"Dryland" (2006)

Well I never won you over,
I just caught you on a good day...
We were laughing in the back
of an old city taxi,
with no mention of my borrowed time,
just the glow of the whiskey

It's a warm stone, that I carry along
You know I, you know that I
I've been saving quarters, for the toll roads
We can pack the car tonight, we can leave town tomorrow
Put me on a porch swing out in Portland
Put me on an F train, roll me back into Brooklyn
Well we closed the bars, like we were cowboys
And then we wrote our names in the dirt by the side of the road

Pulled my jacket tight around
and watched the grass turn to straw
March came like an avalanche
and I watched it all come down

you came a long way, didn't you?
just to say you're going back
now I'm standing by the car alone

Remind me how I forgot to be brave
How I forget where the blood goes
when it's tired and spent
Cause after that shipwreck
The coward in me
rowed straight back to shore
put my feet on solid ground
and wrote a love song for the sea

You pack your sweaters for the fall
and the flowers die in their garden rows
and the warm words can't help at all,
everybody knows...

You're trying to find a compromise
between remembering and learning to forget,
so now just pouring a glass of water

How I Learned to See in the Dark (2010)

Dry the flowers, file the sheet-music,
save me for the fire
I spent the day forgetting
the dream that woke me up

The garden is empty

"Dryland" (2006)

SWANN SONG: Yeah, I could tell you lots of things. I grew up on the bay. I used to race my sisters up the fence-side to Mr. Medley's place. Papa ran the general store and mama did everything and the waves and the waves and the sea. Time brought me here like a fishing boat at the whim of the Atlantic breeze. It was a good life, yeah it was a good life, I'd do it all again. I joined the Navy Nurses Corp., it was 1941 and I met my sailor in that fated harbor in the days before the bombs came...Hail Mary, I made it home, 'til I was laughing as my ship went down, singing and bailing water right back to the shores of San Francisco town. It was a good life, yeah it was a good life, I'd do it all again. I was hitched out in Reno, I stayed at home and he went out to sweep the mines. I'll never forget the day we heard it on the radio, it was the end of the war...and we laughed and cried and cheered and laughed again... yeah we cried and cheered like it would be the last one. Yeah sure, yeah sure I've wished for things, I wish I had been there the day that Nancy drowned. I wish I hadn't seen them build a highway, a highway right through my backyard. But you just learn to love the little things, I've lived long enough to know. And I'm still waving from this front porch and this is still my swan song. It was a good life, it was a good life, I'd do it all again, I'd do it all again. ...
For my grandmother, Margaret Swann Dye.
Chris Pureka - acoustic guitar, vocals
Reed Chambers - drums
Andy Rice - upright bass
David Goodrich - acoustic guitars, electric guitar

"Driving North" (2004)

They come in like the rain
They come in like the rain
Unwelcome, like the water flooding its way
Through the underground
Seeping in and tugging at the corners of my mouth
And I pack my umbrella for another day

I pushed it hard,
that goddamn wrecking ball,
and I waited for the weight to swing around but it never did.
And the crows they fell
around my eyes and still
no sign of that ball and chain.

I pushed it hard,