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Taking Shortcuts
04:01
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Sending signals and there’s no reply
Messages into the void
Are you receiving? Are you even there at all?
What is built is soon destroyed
I can see you any time I like
Images upon a screen
I can turn you off and walk away
But what is seen can’t be unseen
You’re too nervous now
To walk home in the dark
Not like when you were young
And taking shortcuts through the park
I hardly ever think about it now
Except for all the times I do
Moving pictures in a masquerade
Some that looked a lot like you
Funny how the feeling dies away
Was it ever even there?
If I could I would delete it all
Every confidence we shared
You’re too nervous now
To walk home in the dark
Not like when you were young
And taking shortcuts through the park
So you take another drink
To calm your disposition
I’ve been watching you all night
From various positions
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Ghostling
05:43
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We walked the hotel hall
Past empty swimming pools
“I swam there once,” you told me
“Seems so long ago”
You fly over the mountain
To the big sky you race
Running or returning
It’s you you can’t escape
Who broke your brittle heart?
The one who swore to love
Ghostling, you’re a sad dream
You haunt this waking life
You fly over the mountain
(The mountain)
To the big sky you race
Running or returning
(Returning to me?)
It’s you you can’t escape
You fly over the mountain
(The mountain)
To the big sky you race
Running or returning
(Returning to me?)
It’s you you won’t escape
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3. |
Tree Museum
05:09
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4. |
Drive It All Over Me
03:52
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Farmhouse
06:25
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I had a dream one night
We lived in a little farmhouse
And as a city grew up around us
Our children dug our graves
And in that house we’d built
A space beneath the floorboards
And there we kept our secrets
Until that house burned down
Fields are fallow now
Roof is all caved in
No coincidence
Doused in kerosene
Burned the whole thing down
Like our innocence
When that dream was over
I woke in a hotel bed
I turned to look beside me
And you were still asleep
Fields are fallow now
Roof is all caved in
No coincidence
Doused in kerosene
Burned the whole thing down
Like our innocence
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The Starling Effect Vancouver, British Columbia
We are a four-piece indie rock band from Vancouver, BC, with a tendency to gaze at our shoes.
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Stride Elementary EP
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We contributed a cover of "Old Man Kensey" to this R.E.M. tribute.
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